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@kazitor Yes. The turning of byte sequences into something drawable is called 'rendering'.
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@pie_flavor Are you deliberately being obtuse? While everything else is part of a text node, that becomes an
img
.What world do you live in where fonts are drawn from a PNG image anyway? Oh, right, Earth-73. Pardon me, I forgot.
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@kazitor Yes, because I totally care what HTML node contains it. And, you know, it's funny but I could swear there's some software I use every so often that renders emoji from a PNG image. Very often, possibly. Multiple times a day, even.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
because I totally care what HTML node contains it.
You do if it influences rendering in an unwanted way.
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@Zecc It renders the same no matter what format the glyph is stored in.
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@pie_flavor I have no idea because I don't have WhatsApp. But if @kazitor is to be believed, it renders
about three times the size and not even superscript
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@kazitor Yes. The turning of byte sequences into something drawable is called 'rendering'.
Oh god, not this conversation again! Fuckin' necro the old topic.
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Pasting a table into Excel. Yes, that was a column of dates, sure...
Also fun is that Excel parsed those as US dates (month/day) despite Sweden writing it the other way around, but didn't convert the column using fractional numbers properly because of Sweden using , rather than . for that, so it treated 99.9 as being normal text. Consistency!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@kazitor Yes. The turning of byte sequences into something drawable is called 'rendering'.
Oh god, not this conversation again! Fuckin' necro the old topic.
Huh? I don't remember that discussion.
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@Gąska I know the topic. Suffice to say it's vaguely related so @Tsaukpaetra immediately gets triggered by off topicness.
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@Atazhaia As a followup, I can't set it back to normal text and have it display properly either. Because even if the raw value of the cell before import was
8 / 16
, Excel has decided that it is43693
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@Atazhaia
If you set the target cell range to the "Text" format (or some other specific and appropriate format) first, then paste, Excel won't "help" by converting the data that it thinks is a date.But yes, once it's helped, it changed the representation and changing the format afterwards won't clean up the mess.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
it's vaguely related so @Tsaukpaetra immediately gets triggered by off topicness.
I don't get triggered by off-topic-ness.
I get triggered when a topic becomes deliberately polluted despite threads being free and existing topics already exist. For example, if someone were to, say, evangelize the virtues of the Civilized Discourse Construction Kit in as many topics as possible. Even Jeff would not approve!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
it's vaguely related so @Tsaukpaetra immediately gets triggered by off topicness.
I don't get triggered by off-topic-ness.
I get triggered
when a topic becomes deliberately polluted despite threads being free and existing topics already exist.by off-topic-ness For example, if someone were to, say, evangelize the virtues of the Civilized Discourse Construction Kit in as many topics as possible. Even Jeff would not approve!Why? It is, after all, the superior forum software.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
it's vaguely related so @Tsaukpaetra immediately gets triggered by off topicness.
I don't get triggered by off-topic-ness.
I get triggered
when a topic becomes deliberately polluted despite threads being free and existing topics already exist.by off-topic-ness For example, if someone were to, say, evangelize the virtues of the Civilized Discourse Construction Kit in as many topics as possible. Even Jeff would not approve!Why? It is, after all, the superior forum software.
You're right. That is a WTF Bite.
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker changelog:
I guess it's good that devlopers are at least scrambling to fix, but... damn.
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@Applied-Mediocrity
I see they used the Discourse definition of ready for 1.0
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Romances with two companions simultaneously may cause an issue
What issues could possibly arise from romancing two people at the same time?
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Pretty much. Perhaps @cvi can attest whether the fixes have helped, but basically it's either still rubbish or not quite. In either case I won't even consider it unless it goes for a tenner in the next year's summer sale or something, for I have exceeded my budget by throwing it at AAA's again, fawning over vast dotted and detailed landscapes, puddles as shallow and populated with fake reflections as the gameplay itself, dense fields of grass and assorted vegetation gently moving in Havok®, godrays shining among creations of SpeedTree™, pretty hills, pretty rendered valleys, Lara Croft and... So-o *ahem* I was saying -
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@Applied-Mediocrity
Perfectly rendered Lara Crofts are the best use of video game funding
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Perhaps @cvi can attest whether the fixes have helped, but basically it's either still rubbish or not quite.
I got it after the initial patches (i.e., a few weeks after launch). I wasn't going to go for it initially, but saw a friend playing, and asked about the game. The response I got was positive enough. I didn't encounter any game-breaking bugs (but there have been a few minor ones). There was definitively a lack of polish, to the point where I felt I had to do some reading online to understand some of the stuff that was going on.
On the upside, there are actually challenging parts in the game, so it's not all bad.
In either case I won't even consider it unless it goes for a tenner in the next year's summer sale or something
Probably a good idea. Consider it if you're really into the Baldur's Gate style RPGs, and only if you've already played stuff like PoE etc that have been out recently.
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@cvi I got a fitbit a while ago, and while the hardware is OK the software is hot garbage. I think polar makes plain old heart rate trackers, if you're into that. There's also the Wahoo Tickr, which is chest mounted (so it doesn't lose accuracy during movement like the fitbit) however I don't know if you need to sign up with them.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Pathfinder: Kingmaker changelog:
I guess it's good that devlopers are at least scrambling to fix, but... damn.
Holy fuck and I thought our policy of releasing major updates every two weeks was insane...
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Wahoo Tickr,
I read that as the name of a sex toy.
I think i need to wake up a bit more before browsing the forums...
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@Tsaukpaetra same. I mean it's one letter. Who names those things?
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I think polar makes plain old heart rate trackers, if you're into that.
Not yet sure if I'm into that. I got the Alta HR, which has a hart rate tracker, not quite sure what to do with it though (looking at bar graphs is nice...).
There's also the Wahoo Tickr, which is chest mounted (so it doesn't lose accuracy during movement like the fitbit)
Definitively not enough into it to go full Tony Stark yet.
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go full Tony Stark
You know, I'm rather surprised nobody's modded the Hololense to be an Iron Man helmet.
It would be fricken heavy though...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It would be fricken heavy though...
I mean, you could paint plastic, or modify an existing Ironman mask, but where is the fun in that?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It would be fricken heavy though...
I mean, you could paint plastic, or modify an existing Ironman mask, but where is the fun in that?
Right! Any purist knows it must be made of the correct materials. Iron it is!
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@Tsaukpaetra Funny how iron has the colloquial reputation for being strong and tough.
I'd watch tungsten-carbide man (WC man for short).
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WC man
I tried googling it to find something funny, but all I get is Linux manpages.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Solution: add a reCAPTCHA to Google Speech2Text.
i kno i kno it says api. let me have my joke
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
let me have my joke
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Randomly generated password (
haew1ash;ooSh'i
) rejected because of password rules:Either
;
&'
aren't special enough ... or maybe they are a bit too special. Also, apparently the password is too long, but that's fine.WhoTF comes up with this shit? And what's up with the hate for leading/trailing spaces? How badly does their system actually suck?
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And what's up with the hate for leading/trailing spaces?
strip
is good practice! You should always do it with any data!But then some intern forgot to add
strip
to the registration code, so you get the wrong hash if you have spaces.
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strip is good practice! You should always do it with any data!
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@Applied-Mediocrity But.. but... but whitespace! I read in a comment on a low-ranking answer to an SO question, if you don't strip whitespace a velociraptor attacks you or something!
And here's a WTF Bite:
Admittedly this dictionary seems to be horribly incomplete, but I'll be damned if I ever have "vise" as a recommended spelling.
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@pie_flavor Huh. I got the exact same suggestion. (It's not that strange but shush)
Oh, did you think I meant "vise" was a suggestion for "velociraptor"? My bad. It was just one of the more egregious examples I could think of.
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The leaked camera cluster that will supposedly be featured on the next iphone:
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https://i.imgur.com/8oT5kxQ.png
Good shit.
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@Tsaukpaetra Funny how iron has the colloquial reputation for being strong and tough.
I'd watch tungsten-carbide man (WC man for short).
In the movies they specifically indicate it's not iron. Gold-iridium alloy IIRC? No clue on the status in the comics.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
why does it take more than 145 hours to configure it?
They're attempting to delete SYSTEM32.
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@TimeBandit Gotta make sure all the files are deleted, I guess.