WTF Bites
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That's what you get for hosting on GoDaddy
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@TimeBandit See also, asshole ISP whitelisting their own domain so they can run scripts on any site you visit:
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Seems normal, something crash, here's a report. Even a location of the error (and, unshown a callstack)!
What does Epic Games do with such useful bug reports?
Yup. Fatal errors that crash the engine are, in fact, a non-issue. Good jorb, Epic Games!
I also made a
StackOverflowAnswerhub post about it in the hopes attention may be brought to this odd practice:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How many people know about Ctrl+click? I didn't until last year.
Just wait until I tell you about shift-click!
Just wait until I tell you about shift-right-click!
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How many people know about Ctrl+click? I didn't until last year.
Just wait until I tell you about shift-click!
Just wait until I tell you about shift-right-click!
Alt + F4 is a really cool one!
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
If you use an open source product, and it turns out to be faulty, there isn't anyone to sue.
Did you ever read a software license?
"By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How many people know about Ctrl+click? I didn't until last year.
Just wait until I tell you about shift-click!
Just wait until I tell you about shift-right-click!
Alt + F4 is a really cool one!
Ctrl-W is easier to reach though.
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Status: I love when Master Server has trouble talking to itself.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I also made a
StackOverflowAnswerhub post about it in the hopes attention may be brought to this odd practice:Testing a little fix. It looks like this:
Bam. Did in two minutes what Epic Games couldn't find the time to in five months.
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@Tsaukpaetra
This is an abomination.
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@Tsaukpaetra
This is an abomination.That's how angry I was when I wrote it. :P
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
How?
Well, for an example on how those guys think, our corporate IT dinged a guy for having a 1998-era game on his travel laptop to pass the time in airports, not because you shouldn't have games on company-owned PCs, but because they had no way of auditing its license with their automated systems.
I'm not gonna say there aren't IT departments like that, but my experience is different. When I worked for a giant company whose name you'd all recognize, I was contacted by IT regarding software on my computer: We found X, Y and Z, which are not covered by our site licenses, on your computer. Do you have valid licenses for them?
I replied, Yes. X is open-source, licensed under GPL (or whatever). I wrote Y myself. I have a personal license for Z, and the license explicitly allows installation on both a home and work machine, as long as I don't use both at the same time.
That was it. I never had any other license questions from them.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
X is open-source, licensed under GPL (or whatever)
Another one I have the joy of dealing with is "You can't use CentOS for that! You have to pay for a RHEL license!"
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Status: Why_would_you_do_that.jpg
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@Tsaukpaetra
So ... it's not lupus?
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@Tsaukpaetra
It's Amsterdam! It's all hookers and dope!
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@Tsaukpaetra
So ... it's not lupus?It's never lupus.
@Tsaukpaetra
It's Amsterdam! It's all hookers and dope!Not in that video...
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How many people know about Ctrl+click? I didn't until last year.
I assume you mean in a browser.
In WindowsÂŤ file manager you can ctrl+drag to force copying a file, shift+drag to force moving, alt+drag to create a shortcut. If you can't remember which is which, you can drag with your right mouse button instead and it will show you a context menu at the end of the drag.
Alt+double clicking or Alt+Enter will open a file's properties rather than the file.
HTH someone.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
That's how angry I was when I wrote it. :P
You were head over heels?
>:(
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
That's how angry I was when I wrote it. :P
You were head over heels?
>:(
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
That's how angry I was when I wrote it.
Seeing OpenVR/SteamVR code makes me angry. Their documentation is terrible.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
That's how angry I was when I wrote it.
Seeing OpenVR/SteamVR code makes me angry. Their documentation is terrible.
Oh, you program for VR too?
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@Tsaukpaetra On occasion. I'm (co-)supervising a project that does some VR stuff, and there are a few ideas for VR rendering that ought to be tried.
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A browser thing I was using a couple minutes ago responded to the numbers along the top of my keyboard but not the keypad. This is probably far from uncommon, but whatever.
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@kazitor Numlock?
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WTF of my day: So, in our neverending quest to Make Stuff Work we decided to use NextCloud in our school environment to enable such things as "Being able to download/upload files from home" without having to use VPN or similar.
That part worked fine (and still does, by the way) in our small test environment with 10 users. We also enabled the calendar module (which means that now everyone can sync their calendars on their phones to the school provided one). And the mail plugin also works. So, that's 3 of 4 things we really wanted working just fine.
Well, they also have two different chat/messenger modules. The first one (enabled by default) doesn't have an app (or so we thought) and only works through the browser. Which is a bit of a nonstarter, considering our pupils.
But they also have a second one with an app! That one also works fine - save for the little problem of only doing text (i.e. no photos, files), you cannot add people to groups after you have created a group, you don't have moderator tools, ...
Okay, that one's out, too.Then I saw that the first module is actually an XMPP/Jabber module which only enables all possible features if you provide an XMPP server. Alright. Since we don't have such a server yet, we thus re-enabled the first module. And then we imported all the users.
Aaaaaaand now we have a 60+ second pause at the start after login where all the browsers complain about a long-running script locking up the window.
Why, you might ask? Yeah, well... I profiled what happened after login.
Basically, what happens is that it tries to create a pane to the right where you can see your contacts. The default is to show all the contacts. Which are 1800+ at my school.
That would be problematic but at least O(n). But no! The profiler tells me that for some Godforsaken reason this pane then does something for each entry. And from the time it takes to do this, I'd hazard a guess that it tries to find interconnections or something, i.e. scanning each entry's contacts in the whole list.
Thus making it O(n²).
This algorithm is then run thrice for good measure.
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Apple is a , specifically their wifi connectivity.
My new Macbook Air has this problem when the screensaver kicks in and the system goes to sleep. Specifically, it drops wifi connections and then doesn't reconnect automatically. So if the system sleeps, I have to manually disable the wifi and re-enable it to have connectivity. All while it lies and says it's connected.
Turns out this is a long-running (ie 4+ versions) issue and the work-around (because there isn't a fix) is to use a shell command to lock the screen instead of using a screensaver. Or just not have it sleep. Or close the lid every time--that works. But since the default is to sleep after 1 minute and I'm often on a slide for more than 1 minute when teaching...
Morons. Uncaring morons.
I'm a little salty today because I found out exactly how poor the preparation of my students was. Like seriously--17/2 should not require a calculator. Solving x = m/y for y by multiplying by m is just WRONG, especially for a junior in high school.
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@Benjamin-Hall you're holding it wrong
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Considering I'm still waiting on a replacement SSD that I RMA'd half a month ago, I'm not going to say positive things...
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@Tsaukpaetra Considering the survey is from 2017, it wont change a thing
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How many people know about Ctrl+click? I didn't until last year.
I assume you mean in a browser.
In WindowsÂŤ file manager you can ctrl+drag to force copying a file, shift+drag to force moving, alt+drag to create a shortcut. If you can't remember which is which, you can drag with your right mouse button instead and it will show you a context menu at the end of the drag.
Alt+double clicking or Alt+Enter will open a file's properties rather than the file.
HTH someone.
I think he was referring to Ctrl+click selecting multiple files. And the subsequent reply about Shift+click selecting a range of files.
Also if you can't remember which drag option is which, you can just start dragging and then try the different modifier keys. A tooltip will appear to tell what they do, and once you find the right one you can drop it and that will happen. If you change your mind just hit Esc to cancel.
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Well, they also have two different chat/messenger modules. The first one (enabled by default) doesn't have an app (or so we thought) and only works through the browser. Which is a bit of a nonstarter, considering our pupils.
Since âappsâ basically just mean an embedded web view, there really shouldnât be any devices where an app works but a website doesnât?!
That would be problematic but at least O(n). But no! The profiler tells me that for some Godforsaken reason this pane then does something for each entry. And from the time it takes to do this, I'd hazard a guess that it tries to find interconnections or something, i.e. scanning each entry's contacts in the whole list.
Thus making it O(n²).
Even for O(n²) and JS, n=1800 isnât very large.
But yeah, doing that in O(n²) is stupid anyway.
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Good jorb.
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Well, they also have two different chat/messenger modules. The first one (enabled by default) doesn't have an app (or so we thought) and only works through the browser. Which is a bit of a nonstarter, considering our pupils.
Since âappsâ basically just mean an embedded web view, there really shouldnât be any devices where an app works but a website doesnât?!
No, I actually meant a mobile, standalone app connecting to our server.
That would be problematic but at least O(n). But no! The profiler tells me that for some Godforsaken reason this pane then does something for each entry. And from the time it takes to do this, I'd hazard a guess that it tries to find interconnections or something, i.e. scanning each entry's contacts in the whole list.
Thus making it O(n²).
Even for O(n²) and JS, n=1800 isnât very large.
But yeah, doing that in O(n²) is stupid anyway.I dare say that everyone of those scans also does a single database request or something equally expensive (instead of a bulk request). I really can't see why it would take so long otherwise. I did try to wait for the thread to run its course and finally threw in the towel after five minutes.
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I really can't see why it would take so long otherwise.
SELECT * FROM Users; foreach(users) { // search for the right user }
FileUnder: you know it's possible
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1998-era game on his travel laptop to pass the time in airports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_Goes_Looking_for_Love_(in_Several_Wrong_Places)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
I really can't see why it would take so long otherwise.
SELECT * FROM Users; foreach(users) { // search for the right user }
FileUnder: you know it's possible
Better:
foreach(users as _child) { foreach(users as _parent) { // do something that compares _child with _parent } }
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So I've been looking at a new monitor. Yesterday, it looked like this:
Notice in the lower right how it says 50+ in stock? Also, offer valid until january 19th or while supplies last. Well, today it looked like this:
The message at the top says: "This product is no longer in our selection. Use the search."
So... How the fuck did it go from 50+ in stock to being completely removed from the store overnight?
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@Atazhaia somebody bought them?
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@loopback0 and yet, they apparently got a previous PR merged.
This doesn't appear to be the same user though. In fact, I can't find anything.
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@Atazhaia
In the latest driver Nvidia enabled (a rather shaky, but nevertheless) support of VRR yesterday for Pascal and up, so everybody went and bought the cheapest Freesync 4K they could find.
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// do something that compares _child with _parent
But only when they're equal do you do the action that you're interested in, of courseâŚ
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But only when they're equal do you do the action that you're interested in, of courseâŚ
But that's too close to O(n) - you need to do something if they're not equal to reach O(n2)
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How many people know about Ctrl+click? I didn't until last year.
Just wait until I tell you about shift-click!
Just wait until I tell you about shift-right-click!
Just wait until you learn about pulling the keys off your keyboard one by one, coating them in KY, and sliding them slooooowly up your butt.
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The default is to show all the contacts. Which are 1800+ at my school
wat is paging?
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