WTF Bites
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@Zecc Arkanoid.
One hell of a long loading screen.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Zecc Arkanoid.
One hell of a long loading screen.yeah you couldn't just break through the loading
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@pie_flavor @Luhmann You probably missed my edit to the post above.
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@Zecc Given that it was way after my post, yes.
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@Zecc
Probably because I replied before your edit
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@Zecc I actually had a game on the Amiga 500 (which was installable to a hard disc) where the installer let you play Pong while doing its thing.
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@Zecc
No you just wanted to ruin my joke
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Status: Looking for a way to be able to call OCaml code from C#. I found this obscure wrapper generator from 2016 that stopped being maintained a week after initial upload - but it seems to be feature-complete, or to have been at one point in time, at least. It uses makefiles for all examples and doesn't explain how to hook up anything to Visual Studio. Also, it uses OCaml 4.03 features - which is problematic because the only official-ish OCaml distribution for Windows is stuck at 4.01, and was also abandoned in 2016. So I've downloaded Cygwin-based port instead. The manual says that it can be configured to be callable from outside Cygwin, but it doesn't explain how, so I'm stuck inside Cygwin. Copy-pasting from their page to Cygwin terminal also doesn't work (did you know ANSI escape codes aren't valid command name? I hate HTML-enabled clipboards), so I have to write all the magic commands for switching toolchains by hand. And there's no magic command for checking what's the newest toolchain available, so I have to hope 4.07.1 is the one. On the plus side, it found my VS 2017 installation without any problem. And I could add a reference to the DLL it produced from my Visual Studio instance, and it all just worked (right after I changed the project to x64 platform, because "Any CPU" apparently means x86).
All in all, I'm optimistic of this project. It's better than all the alternatives, at least.
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Looks very JNI-esqe.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Looks very JNI-esqe.
OCaml<->hand-written C bindings<->C# sounds worse than OCaml<->autogenerated C bindings<->autogenerated C# bindings<->C#. I'll only get to it when the latter turns out to not work.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Pie is pretty good.
You would say that.
My experience of pie is that it broke my smart TV remote control app, the new volume control is annoying if you want to change anything except media volume and there aren't any noticeable improvements compared to oreo
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@Gąska Doesn't have to be C bindings, does it? C# has low-level facilities.
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@pie_flavor What you linked is OCaml's way to expose C-compatible ABI for some functions. I'd have to write a bunch of those, then write a bunch of those on the C# side using P/Invoke, and then most likely write some glue C code that massages data in OCaml-friendly form into C#-friendly form. And then to worry about how to package the OCaml runtime together with my C# application.
Or I could use a tool that does all of that for me.
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@Gąska Right. And I was saying that you probably don't have to write some glue C code because C# has low-level facilities.
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@pie_flavor C#'s facilities are not perfect. OCaml's facilities are not perfect. The probability of needing glue C code is still high. BTDT (with other languages, but still.)
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@pie_flavor I knew you'd link that sooner or later.
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@DCoder Strange thing is there does seem to be a character inbetween those fields - the code just isn't using it. So it's not completely the glory of cobol data formats.
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Strange thing is there does seem to be a character inbetween those fields
Probably space, or comma. Maybe some other separator that they should've tokenized on instead of hardcoding positions.
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@Gąska Right back to asking how to return a string between two delimiters.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
. Do you go to the effort of producing
fivesix additional images of ambiguous gender for every single relevant emojiOCD > , so yes, I would.
And exactly how is it supposed to look like if it’s neither going to look male nor female, and also not supposed to garner mocking about “Apache helicopter make believe genders” by making it ambiguous?
I’d say there’s rather too many emojis already (not counting TDWTF ones), no need to make more gender specific ones.
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and also not supposed to garner mocking
I think you're on the wrong forum.
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Usually, the fake conferences at least put some effort into tricking you into paying the exorbitant pay-to-publish and/or registration fees. So, this was somehow new and refreshing:
Conference invitation regarding [PaperTitle]
Dear cvi,
This is Joy Cai, the conference secretary of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks and Signal Processing ... <snip />We have got to know that you have published paper with title"[PaperTitle]"
[PaperAbstract],
<more snip />
it is quite inspiring, I cordially invite you to present your newest research.Yeah. I remember that paper. The work we did on [research subject] was quite inspiring indeed.
Are you saying this is the worst / least effort conference spam you get?
I should really publish a few gems in the “best of spam emails” thread.Dear <Co-author, initial>; <Co-author, initial>; <Topspin’s name, cut off in the middle>...
American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (AJSEA) is a peer-reviewed academic journal, providing a sound platform to all academicians, practicing managers, consultants, researchers and those who are engaged in emerging trends and issues in software engineering and applications.
Having been deeply impressed by your article entitled "<title>", we cordially welcome you to submit papers and join the Editorial Board/Reviewer Team.Here attached the details of your research which has left us a deep impression:
...
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@topspin Double points when they pick a paper of yours to put in there that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with their declared topic.
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@topspin Double points when they pick a paper of yours to put in there that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with their declared topic.
If they have a topic, you mean.
Sometimes, it’s just “international conference on latest advances in science, economics, medicine, yada yada” with suggested topics in everything from cryptocurrency to geology.Makes you wonder if impact factor can be negative.
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Makes you wonder if impact factor can be negative.
In so far as it has a lower impact than writing up your topic on tumblr and then whining on twitter that nobody is reading it, yes.
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@dkf
takes notes
starts ditching arXiv for Tumblr
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Are you saying this is the worst / least effort conference spam you get?
Normally, the conference spam that gets past the spam filter contains actual paper titles (or abstracts) and not just placeholder strings. Even the ones that are for the International Conference on Conferences, Registration Fees and Stuff.
starts ditching arXiv for
TumblrTwitter.Quote: "If your research isn't on Twitter, it might as well not exist." I think they were referring to links, not full papers, though. (FWIW, the other take-away from that discussion was that if your stuff is behind a paywall, it might triply not-exist.)
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Your manuscript "Don't Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free" has also been rejected, but nice try.
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Yes, Microsoft, this is definitely a feature most Office 365 administrators want…
Source: /r/sysadmin
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@DCoder Wow, the battery drain is so bad it lost a whole percent in between screenshots!
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@Tsaukpaetra And it apparently took five minutes to load the map!
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@Tsaukpaetra And it apparently took five minutes to load the map!
They're not on 5G, after all...
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Are you saying this is the worst / least effort conference spam you get?
Normally, the conference spam that gets past the spam filter contains actual paper titles (or abstracts) and not just placeholder strings. Even the ones that are for the International Conference on Conferences, Registration Fees and Stuff.
I... assumed that was part of your anonymization, not actual placeholders.
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@topspin Maybe I should have made that part more clear in the OP. I tried to indicate that by replacing my name with my username here, and using a different style for the snipped parts, but in hindsight, that was maybe a bit too subtle.
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If your Android device's security patch level is dated February 2019, then you're up to date. If not, then check for updates and install them – some may be available. And if your device is more than 3 years old, you're pretty well boned.
Ah, those iDiots that can install latest iOS on all phones starting from 2013 (5s). Oh, don't forget, Apple does that on purpose to slow down old phones, so that those iDiots have to go and buy a new one.
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Why TF is it looking for binaries in ProgramData of all places!?!?!??!?!?!
Everybody does that these days. Even the dog.
See, while Windows now have a store that can even update things, it only works for the Universal™ applications, but most applications still ain't that. But nobody wants to rely on the user remembering to update these days, so they want to update behind the scenes. But since Program Files is admin-writable-only, they can't do it when the application is started by normal user, so they instead install to ProgramData, which does not have such restriction. Security goes out of the Window(s). Who cares.
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@Bulb explains why I haven't seen Java spawn UAC dialog in quite a while...
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See, while Windows now have a store that can even update things, it only works for the Universal™ applications, but most applications still ain't that.
One day, Windows Update will be able to update all applications.
Like Linux has been doing for decades
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
See, while Windows now have a store that can even update things, it only works for the Universal™ applications, but most applications still ain't that.
One day, Windows Update will be able to update all applications.
Like Linux has been doing for decades
Well, considering the quality of WU, it's gonna be the end of windows
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See, while Windows now have a store that can even update things, it only works for the Universal™ applications
Not true. Our Win32 application is in the store.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Like Linux has been doing for decades
And how many different package managers does Linux have?
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And how many different package managers does Linux have?
They all do it, what's your point?
Also, the only true one is DPKG
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I present to you: the Steam Self Updater
Similar thing just happened to me, except it showed as a Windows 7 titlebar, including program icon, title, minimize, restore, and close buttons. Clicking the restore or program icons did nothing, but right-clicking brought the context menu, from which I was able to restore the window to its normal state.
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@Zecc very relevant signature.
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I loaded a single page on a current project where the customer wants eyecandy photos and ignores technical constraints:
This is why we can't have nice things. It's a goddamn promotional page, why does it need to preload this much garbage?