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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin And Starbucks with their sizing.
Where the sizes are large, larger, largest and venti.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Security researchers (the ones working on malware, state-level surveillance tools, etc.) have it even worse, because there's a real and constant risk someone/something is actually trying to hurt them. I don't think I could do that job without turning completely paranoid.
As the saying goes, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you!
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@aitap That is a very odd mix of crazy and sane. He's convinced there's a phantom OS that "works through other dimensions than ordinal people can watch", but the rest of his, er, "analysis" is still mostly coherent.
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Nice try at a mobile site, Thai Airways. Yes, "human readable" has been cited as an advantage of JSON sometimes. No, that does not mean what you think it means.
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Coincidentally, that was exactly my face back at my last place where, in summer with the windows open, I got woken up by crows instead of singing birds.
In the last year or so, I've learned the following about birds and other animals making noises in the night:
- Pigeon noises are not nice, but perhaps the least offensive around here
- Ducks can fuck right off
- Geese too
- Swans can also fuck off
- Drunk students ditto
- That cat that gets into a nightly fight with one of the aforementioned birds and then cries after falling into a canal...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Oh, you're from Germany?
One of the reasons I stopped saying I'm half-Japanese...
Because Irish people kept assuming you were German?
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@pie_flavor
Soo ... your pussy is too big?
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WTF of my day: So, today our chief of administration approached me and asked me if I could have a look at his printer. Said printer is a fast, expensive colour laser printer used for various important stuff like printing certificates; it's also a slightly older model but still working fine.
Some time ago he had to replace the fusing unit (easy to do) and the manual told him that he'd need to reset the fuser counter afterwards - otherwise the printer would only print one page at the most and then complain about the need to replace the fuser.
Okay, just go into settings and select "Reset fuser counter", right?
Well, since this is a printer for Administrative StuffTM, it's connected to a specially secured network and was also configured by our city's department for Secure Administrative StuffTM. Which resulted in the settings being password protected.
Okay, then we simply need the password? But, oh no! It's Secure Stuff, thus we plebes are not allowed to know this magical password!
Alright, our chief opened a ticket asking for a technician from this department to come by and do the needful.
Said technician did indeed swing by, only to tell him: "You're not allowed to know the password!" - "Yes. That's why I asked you to do this." - "I don't know the password either." - "Then why the fuck did you even come by?"
To shorten the rest a bit: Apparently this password is a Big Deal and their proposal was to actually scrap the printer (no, not sell or give away - it's Secure Stuff, remember?) and buy a new one. This whole endeavour took three months to reach this conclusion.
That's the point where he approached me and asked for my help. Two minutes with Google, one minute with a screwdriver and 2 seconds switching around a jumper yielded a password-less printer.
I'm now officially a Hero.
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That's the point where he approached me and asked for my help. Two minutes with Google, one minute with a screwdriver and 2 seconds switching around a jumper yielded a password-less printer.
"You put a password-less printer on the network! You hacked the Secure Administrative Stuff™ Network!! We need to report this!!!" (Obviously in German)
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
A few days ago I heard a man order a Whopper at Burger King. The employee asked him if he wanted a single, double or triple whopper. The man said "just a normal one". The employee repeated that it could be single, double or triple. This went on for about a minute as the man refused to say "single" and the woman refused to accept "normal". She had to call her superior to settle the situation.
It's entirely possible she had other clients in the past that also were ordering "normal", but some actually meant single and others actually meant double, and were seriously pissed when they found out the cashier didn't read their mind properly.
In what world would "normal" mean a double Whopper?
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@topspin in a world where people normally eat double Whoppers?
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@topspin in a world where people normally eat double Whoppers?
You mean they actually assume people can read their minds and normal is specific to their personal habits?
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
A few days ago I heard a man order a Whopper at Burger King. The employee asked him if he wanted a single, double or triple whopper. The man said "just a normal one". The employee repeated that it could be single, double or triple. This went on for about a minute as the man refused to say "single" and the woman refused to accept "normal". She had to call her superior to settle the situation.
It's entirely possible she had other clients in the past that also were ordering "normal", but some actually meant single and others actually meant double, and were seriously pissed when they found out the cashier didn't read their mind properly.
It's far more likely that the employee is just too inexperienced to make the translation... she was trained in matching orders to buttons, and there's no button for "Normal" Whoppers, just Single, Double, and Triple.
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SQL Server (the large RDBMS) installed without needing a reboot.
SQL Server Management Studio (the client)? Reboot.
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@error
Installing SSMS on your SQL server is
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@izzion They're both on a development machine.
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@izzion But what if you want to share knowledge in a way that nobo-- Oh, SSMS.
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@izzion But what if you want to share knowledge in a way that nobo-- Oh, SSMS.
The first SQL server where you just video it in.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I need to request local admin access to my Windows desktop.
Apparently this comes with a $66 charge for licensing.
I haven't found out what this is for yet.Licensing? Support cost would be rather usual—the administrator billing more for a computer where the principal user has administrator permissions, so he's not in complete control of it, makes sense.
It's not a support cost, it's an unexplained licensing cost. That support is an internal function so no-one bills anyone else.
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@topspin in a world where people normally eat double Whoppers?
Did anybody else read this in Movie Trailer Voice?
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@Jaloopa no, but now I did. I both love and hate you right now.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I checked the app store to see what amazing things I should be enjoying.
1 - The current version of the Facebook iOS app is 213.0. TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN.
2 - The app store description on the update is the same as the last 10 versions.We update the app regularly so we can make it better for you. Get the latest version for all of the available Facebook features. This version includes several bug fixes and performance improvements. Thanks for using Facebook!
3 - The App Store page shows the app as 450MB. That's larger than the macOS version of Eclipse with all the J2EE stuff installed.
4 - According to my iPhone it's 264MB.I recently discovered that there are "Lite" versions of both Facebook and Messenger. Yes, official ones, even.
The only thing not to like is that the icons are different.
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@topspin in a world where people normally eat double Whoppers?
You mean they actually assume people can read their minds and normal is specific to their personal habits?
Yes, that's what a lot of customers do. Source: I worked as a shop clerk.
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Looks like you now need to be logged in to view page source on TV Tropes. Why?
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But does it have ELECTROLYTES?!
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tech bros who are too cool for alcohol
I thought that the whole point of staying in tech industry is to have money for booze.
Or is it like, you need booze to survive in tech industry? Or to forget that you're in it?
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But does it have ELECTROLYTES?!
a product designed to resonate with “extreme” teetotaling crowds that eschew alcohol and drugs.
What's extreme about that? Sounds like the definition of teetotal to me
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@anonymous234 I've been told that the ideas caused by certain mental illnesses are impossible to disprove by logic or evidence. "Here you are, your anesthesia should be wearing off soon. We removed the frog from your stomach (see? in this jar, still alive), it shouldn't bother you by its loud croaking anymore." - "Doctor, I think it left an egg in me, and it grew into a second frog now. Oh shit, now the second frog is croaking! Do you hear it?"
But this one particular idea aside, the rest of the ability to reason may stay mostly same. So you may get a fairly reasonable person, just with a deeply held belief that all world governments want to leave for the Moon (and have been lulling their peoples into complacency by speaking about various kinds of apocalypse threatening us or colonizing Mars). Or extremely certain that they accidentally ate a snake egg and said egg had developed into a snake that lives in the stomach but sometimes visits the airway to teach its owner some wisdom.
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I thought that the whole point of staying in tech industry is to have money for booze.
Or is it like, you need booze to survive in tech industry?Both.
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@aitap Reminds me of certain people with crosses or half-moons.
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@topspin And even POLITICAL VIEWPOINTS!
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Or obsessions about file searching.
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@kazitor Human brains have an innate ability to rationalize anything - subconsiously generate an explanation "on the fly" to combine any beliefs with any observations. That's a scientifically validated fact.
To argue with a fanatic, you just have to be careful to not touch the main issue so that you don't trigger this. Just try to agree on everything around until you can close in on the thing.
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@error
looks like his post history is on fire
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@error I'm guessing you are not a garage mechanic
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@hungrier No, I have no interest in that category.
So either he's never posted outside the garage, or NodeBB is too stupid to filter before paginating.
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@error NodeBB also does something strange when fetching posts sorted by anything other than timestamp. I've tried to look at my highest voted posts, and there are randomly ordered duplicates everywhere.
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@error NodeBB also does something strange when fetching posts sorted by anything other than timestamp. I've tried to look at my highest voted posts, and there are randomly ordered duplicates everywhere.
Yes, I've noticed that too
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That's the point where he approached me and asked for my help. Two minutes with Google, one minute with a screwdriver and 2 seconds switching around a jumper yielded a password-less printer.
"You put a password-less printer on the network! You hacked the Secure Administrative Stuff™ Network!! We need to report this!!!" (Obviously in German)
I can only imagine the interrogation.
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"I don't know the password either." - "Then why the fuck did you even come by?"
Good lord, I can only hope you said that instead of thinking it!
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I recently discovered that there are "Lite" versions of both Facebook and Messenger. Yes, official ones, even.
The only thing not to like is that the icons are different.
You mean apart from being Facebook, right?
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