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MS Word content controls.
I meticulously type in my lovely hand-crafted ISO 8601, only to have it immediately replaced by a different format.
Now I could have just removed the content control, but that feels like a hack. So the "proper" method is go in to settings, customise ribbon, check "developer", close. Select the content control, click the "properties" button that now appears in the ribbon, then select the format I actually typed (which I think was the next one down in the list).
I appreciate the value of a consistent format, but this wasn't some standard document that there are a dozen copies of. Why couldn't I just type the date however I wanted?
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
The official Razor Pages tutorial
What is that, gaming RGB lights for websites?
Well, since you asked...
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I've just written a large Class Library as .NET Core so I could use the fancy new C# 8 language features.
I've just tried to consume it in my .NET Framework application and I can
add reference
but it can't see the namespace.It turns out after looking in the MSDN forums that they aren't compatible, in spite of Microsoft outright suggesting they were:
Current .NET Framework applications
In most cases, you don’t need to migrate your existing applications to .NET Core. Instead, a recommended approach is to use .NET Core as you extend an existing application
So I guess I've now got to re-write it all in .NET Framework. Fuck you Microsoft
Edit: Converted to 4.7 and used a hack someone posted on SO to enable C# 8 language features, I should rewrite it instead but
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@Cursorkeys I have no idea what .NET Core is, but I accidentally selected it once while writing a little utility app to do something simple and stupid. I ended up with a bare-bones console app that had about 10 lines of code and wouldn't even compile. Whatever .NET Core is supposed to do, it doesn't. (EDIT: It may have been .NET Standard instead of Core. I don't know why Microsoft is branching .NET Framework out into multiple things that don't play nicely.)
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@mott555 .NET Core is the cross-platform version of .NET that's broken and doesn't have most of the features, and will be completely replacing .NET standard soon For Your Convenience™
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For Your Convenience™
And there is .NET Core 3 (new thing), there is .NET Framework 4 (old thing), but there won't be Core 4 or Framework 5, but there will be .NET 5. To avoid confusion, you know.
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@hungrier I find myself wishing I had a time machine and could go back to around 2011, and simply freeze all technological "progress" to that year. I run into more and more new issues these days that were a completely-solved problem back then, but the new stuff is buggier and less feature-complete than the old stuff.
I hate computers.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
For Your Convenience™
And there is .NET Core 3 (new thing), there is .NET Framework 4 (old thing), but there won't be Core 4 or Framework 5, but there will be .NET 5. To avoid confusion, you know.
You're forgetting .NET Standard, which is some weird mash-up of both Core and Framework. As far as I can tell, it exists because of reasons.
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@Vault_Dweller said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
3.6
Uhhm, 3.3 would be more accurate (3.281 if you want to be really accurate)
So where the hell did I get the idea that a meter is 3.62'?
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Hmmmmmm, maybe we found the answer.
Either way, I am
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And UK:
While those data caps are ridiculously tiny nowadays, the prices -- both for the tariff and for the overages -- are even tinier still, relative to the US.
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
As far as I can tell, it exists because of reasons.
Building a class library targeting .NET Standard lets it be consumed by both (some version of) the .NET Framework and (some version of) .NET Core. Allegedly. But not Silverlight, Universal Apps. Xamarin, Unity, or the Compact or Micro Frameworks.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
For Your Convenience™
And there is .NET Core 3 (new thing), there is .NET Framework 4 (old thing), but there won't be Core 4 or Framework 5, but there will be .NET 5. To avoid confusion, you know.
Well, at least they have better justification to skip 4 than Winamp.
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@mott555
Welcome back Blakekates!
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@izzion Question: Is it possible to get Firefox 22 running on Mac Classic?
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@mott555 You just need to port it to Hypercard.
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@hungrier I find myself wishing I had a time machine and could go back to around 2011, and simply freeze all technological "progress" to that year. I run into more and more new issues these days that were a completely-solved problem back then, but the new stuff is buggier and less feature-complete than the old stuff.
I hate computers.
May I interrest you in Java, good Sir?
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My mom explained to me that swinging the ketchup bottle would make it pour and it works because "it's something to do with science."
Yes, mom, literally all physical phenomena can be described as having something to do with science.
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She says this to me as if I should be impressed.
I have no doubt she saw it on a TV show or blog where they explained the science, but all she can recall is that it was something vaguely sciencey.
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@error "Non-Newtonian fluid". But yeah, "I can do science, me!"
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@error: at least, her statement is not factually wrong. It could have been way worse.
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Well, at least they have better justification to skip 4 than Winamp.
You still mad about not being able to download Winamp four skins?
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What would be fun is if it's 2/3 by content viewed by each user. "Before you can view a pussy being pounded for 10 min, you must watch 20 min of pussy being petted."
I'd be down for that. Well, the petting. Animal abuse is not so good tea...
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check "developer",
Brave man. You're going to be fired for hacking, Shirley!
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
And unlike the Sculpt ergonomic mice (I may have mentioned this a few times recently) the keyboards seem to be rock-solid reliable.
Also, unlike the Sculpt ergonomic mice, the Sculpt keyboard is actually ergonomic.
FWIW when the mouse worked it was pretty good.
Mine's been behaving so far (about 5 yrs). Oh $deity, I've just doomed it...
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It's German too, aren't Germans supposed to be competent? They just shut down their system for months!
I thought all of Europe goes on vacation for the entire summer...
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It's German too, aren't Germans supposed to be competent? They just shut down their system for months!
I thought all of Europe goes on vacation for the entire summer...
No. Just August.
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It's German too, aren't Germans supposed to be competent? They just shut down their system for months!
I thought all of Europe goes on vacation for the entire summer...
Sometimes whole years.
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The price for a Spiderman action figure according to the scanner in this German department store is NULL. I got weird looks when I offered to buy it for NaN Euros.
Luckily they had other articles on sale for only json Parse error though.
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May I interrest you in Java, good Sir?
You mean like projects for version 8 still build just fine for version 11, or projects for version 6 in version 8 for that matter?
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You mean like projects for version 8 still build just fine for version 11, or projects for version 6 in version 8 for that matter?
I've never had a problem going from 6 to 8, and I'm stuck on 8 on every project I've been on the last years so haven't had the opportunity to enjoy breaking all the things going to 11 yet.
But yeah, that was kindof what I meant with . Also, Java has been stagnant for a decade, so it used to be that old thing that did what it always had. And people hated it for it.
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I've never had a problem going from 6 to 8
It's just that last summer I was tasked with updating some small service for a different customer. It was about three years old, originally written in Java 6 using NetBeans 7. When I loaded it in current NetBeans, the compiler barfed on one of the
.jar
s included.Usually the problem is rather than you are stuck with Java 6, because you need or want the code to work on Android (which is when you hopefully learn of Kotlin, which has features matching those in newer Java like closures, but can compile them down to bytecode understood by version 6).
I'm stuck on 8 on every project I've been on the last years so haven't had the opportunity to enjoy breaking all the things going to 11 yet
So am I, but I know it is because the projects shatter to pieces if you try build them with newer Java. Because the projects need updates due to splitting of the libraries and nobody ain't got time to do it.
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So am I, but I know it is because the projects shatter to pieces if you try build them with newer Java. Because the projects need updates due to splitting of the libraries and nobody ain't got time to do it.
Actually, that has nothing to do with why the projects I've been on was stuck at 8. The last one was because the other devs were afraid of anything mildly complex, and the current one has a mandated platform of weblogic. But yah, I bet there will be some fun times moving large, old code bases with ancient horrors lurking in the deepest bowels of the system.
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other devs were afraid of anything mildly complex
…reason worthy of this thread…
mandated platform of weblogic
WAT? It's an Oracle thing, using Oracle Java. So if anything, I would expect that to move forward fast (of course if you run on a rarely updated instance, it is more understandable).
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Oracle thing
… which, additionally, makes me wonder, does Oracle make some SIX JEE application servers
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Oracle thing
… which, additionally, makes me wonder,
doesdid Oraclemakeacquire some SIX JEE application serversvendors over the years
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Corporate proxy is blocking the jargon file as "Potential Criminal Activities, Information Security", I'm guessing because it uses the word hacker.
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… which, additionally, makes me wonder, did Oracle acquire some SIX JEE application servers vendors over the years
Hm. New business plan:
- write JEE application server (it doesn't need to work very well)
- get acquired by Oracle
- profit
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write JEE application server (it doesn't need to work very well)
Is there one that does?
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A supplier has annoyed me. Once again we were shipped the wrong item and they want us to pay return shipping. I refused and explained that it was their screw up so they should pay shipping for the return (seriously, when did this trend start? In the past couple of years everyone has started this crap, wanting us to pay to help fix their mistakes.). So they finally agree to send a shipping label.
Just because I am pissed off about it I might pack a tiny item in the largest box possible just so it costs them more. It may be multiple boxes. Like a Matroska doll meant to express annoyance. With lots of packing tape. I think I have some bags of styrofoam pellets around here.
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@Polygeekery Yeah, that'll make them send a return shipping label without fuss next time.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I think I have some bags of styrofoam pellets around here.
Just smelt yourself some large ingots of lead.
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@mott555 hey!! I happen to have some of those around here!! ~400lbs worth.
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@Polygeekery I figured you might.
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@Polygeekery Yeah, that'll make them send a return shipping label without fuss next time.
If they send them without fuss they don't get problems like this.
I probably won't do it anyway. My usually overrules my
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Packaging seems to be pretty much random anyway.
There are the people who essentially slap a label onto whatever the product is in from the get go, which typically ends up being a bit too flimsy to get through the various shipping- and postal services, so you end up with a mush of disintegrated cardboard mostly surrounding whatever thing. On the plus-side, unpacking is easy - you just shake the mess a bit, and everything falls out. Then there's the opposite school, where the product box goes into a shipping box that is packed into two layers of plastic stuff (the one with the small bubbles), completely wrapped in packaging tape (the plastic one), tied together with those annoying plastic bands, and finished off with an enormous plastic folder for shipping documents. Unpacking essentially leaves whatever room you do it in looking like a small natural disaster occurred. Finally, there's the worst - the Amazon school of packaging and shipping, where items are randomly grouped together, put into a number of different boxes and envelopes, all of which you end up receiving randomly distributed over across like a week. (My last Amazon order of five items arrived in 4 different shipments, on 4 different days, using 3 different shipping services, left in 4 different locations for me to pick up.)
</unplanned rant>
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Finally, there's the worst - the Amazon school of packaging and shipping, where items are randomly grouped together, put into a number of different boxes and envelopes, all of which you end up receiving randomly distributed over across like a week. (My last Amazon order of five items arrived in 4 different shipments, on 4 different days, using 3 different shipping services, left in 4 different locations for me to pick up.)
Also, delicate items are shipped in a slightly padded envelope and arrive demolished, while durable items that could withstand a nuclear blast are packaged in 83 layers of protective packaging.
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@Polygeekery I ordered a thing of dryer sheets the other day from Amazon, and the shipping box was huge, in order to accommodate all the air cushions they packed it with.