WTF Bites
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Oh, and I love the 'Is the backup still there?' question. What do you fucking think? We're only driving 10mph in a 65 zone!
Yeah, for all their mar-ke-ting-speak about AI, some of the most simplest things to make intelligent just... Aren't.
They don’t do expert systems. That’d require modeling instead of just throwing graphics hardware at the problem.
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I'm a particular fan of "traffic on your route" about 30 seconds after coming to a stop in the traffic jam
I rather liked "there is a speed trap ahead" after I'd already seen it in my rear-view mirror.
No problem, as I wasn't going any faster than the average flow of traffic; still, thanks for the advance warning, Google.
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I love the 'Is the backup still there?' question. What do you fucking think? We're only driving 10mph in a 65 zone!
On 101? That's free-flowing traffic.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity I wrote it for hexchat, I can write it for Launchy too.
e: Oh good, not just C++ interop but virtual functions. Yeah, no, never mind.There's a plugin for it that'll let you write plugins in C# (limited to .net 3.5). That's better right?
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Status: you told me to do this, stupid piece of fuck!
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity I wrote it for hexchat, I can write it for Launchy too.
e: Oh good, not just C++ interop but virtual functions. Yeah, no, never mind.You could always write your own Launchy equivalent. It's not like anyone's maintaining it. Here, I'll get you started:
command = InputBox("What should I do?", "VBScript Launchy") If command <> "" Then Call CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run(command) End If
The best part is that this one doesn't even attempt to take over a system-wide shortcut that goes back to the start of Windows!
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@Tsaukpaetra Windows you stupid shit!
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You could always write your own Launchy equivalent. It's not like anyone's maintaining it.
I choose to interpret this as "It's finished and perfect, and does not need any more development", like Winamp.
The best part is that this one doesn't even attempt to take over a system-wide shortcut that goes back to the start of Windows!
You can change it to something else, although you unfortunately can't change it to just the windows key. And anyway if you really want to, you can hit alt and space separately to get the window menu.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Windows you stupid shit!
Reminds me of my tech support days. We'd always delete all the partitions, then reboot to make sure it wasn't keeping the old layout on disk or in RAM and was seeing the drive properly, then do the setup.
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@Parody said in WTF Bites:
You could always write your own Launchy equivalent. It's not like anyone's maintaining it.
I choose to interpret this as "It's finished and perfect, and does not need any more development", like Winamp.
The only thing I'm somewhat missing is UWP app support because those cannot be found using Launchy 2.5 (looking at you, Calculator).
I thought that I installed a forked version which had a plugin for it, I'll check tomorrow if I get a round tuit (it's on my laptop which I don't have with me ATM).
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The only thing I'm somewhat missing is UWP app support because those cannot be found using Launchy 2.5 (looking at you, Calculator).
calc.exe opens the new Calculator, so you'd think you could get there that way. (It works with VBScript Launchy, anyway. :)
Otherwise you'd probably need to know the right fake URL scheme, like "microsoft-edge:".
FWIW, I've never felt the need for this type of utility. I don't use the Windows Search/Start Menu Typing either.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Windows you stupid shit!
Reminds me of my tech support days. We'd always delete all the partitions, then reboot to make sure it wasn't keeping the old layout on disk or in RAM and was seeing the drive properly, then do the setup.
Actually in progress right now, well, trying without the reboot first.
diskpart select disk 0 clean
boom.
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Sites where you need JavaScript to follow a link.
Fucking
href
, how does that work??
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
boom.
Oh criminey, forgot to keep the backup image as a single file, and Windows doesn't recognize it as a partition properly.
Whelp, time to restore the image! Good time to check your backups, right?
I'm not impressed with the amount of hoops I had to jump through to stop it from restoring over the main drive.
Why is it so inconceivable that I would want to restore onto a disk other than the first one?!?
And apparently it's been brought up a few times in the CloneZilla bug tracker.
Le Sigh...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Windows you stupid shit!
I'd wager a guess the stupid shit here is whoever was last to touch BIOS boot settings.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Windows you stupid shit!
I'd wager a guess the stupid shit here is whoever was last to touch BIOS boot settings.
My personal bet is that the EFI records indicated there was supposed to be a partition and it didn't exist (not pictured, the 7th partition that I wanted to keep), and instead of offering to create it (as it would normally) it freaked out since the next partition it could create was partition 8, which is not the correct partition index expected.
Or something.
Dunno, don't care, wiped disk let me continue, and now I'm just fixin' to restore the backup so I can get the files from that partition I wanted by hand instead of, like, not having to delete them...
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@Tsaukpaetra actually, most likely you have legacy BIOS mode enabled. Windows can only install on GPT disk when running in UEFI mode.
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@Tsaukpaetra actually, most likely you have legacy BIOS mode enabled. Windows can only install on GPT disk when running in UEFI mode.
It might be likely, but in fact, it was not. UEFI mode all the way through.
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@Tsaukpaetra you sure? And the after-wipe install is GPT too? Because, you know, Windows cannot install on MBR disk if it runs in UEFI.
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@Tsaukpaetra you sure? And the after-wipe install is GPT too? Because, you know, Windows cannot install on MBR disk if it runs in UEFI.
Yep. Positive. Disk isn't MBR, EFI is set to UEFI boot only, no legacy.
In fact, I know this because the stupid firmware would rapidly boot loop after deleting the partitions because the CDROM drive wasn't ready and couldn't boot, so just rebooted instantly, and I had to tell it to STFU in the boot settings.
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@Tsaukpaetra okay, then I take back my implied insults and join you in -ing at Windows.
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@Tsaukpaetra okay, then I take back my implied insults and join you in -ing at Windows.
I Windows!
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Status: My father has 299 items on his desktop. I sincerely doubt he uses it like a desktop...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: My father has 299 items on his desktop. I sincerely doubt he uses it like a desktop...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: My father has 299 items on his desktop. I sincerely doubt he uses it like a desktop...
Just don’t look inside the
Recycle Binpriority saved file location.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: My father has 299 items on his desktop. I sincerely doubt he uses it like a desktop...
?Close!
Excuse the pony, she's restoring his files back into the laptop.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: My father has 299 items on his desktop. I sincerely doubt he uses it like a desktop...
?Close!
Excuse the pony, she's restoring his files back into the laptop.
My mother and father has a rather large house now that all four kids left, with 5 rooms for my mom to store stuff in, mostly papers and disused training equipment with the odd visitors bed squeezed in.
So, it looks more organized than your fathers desk, but that's not really the case. Apart from that, its 5 rooms worth of that desk. :D Or it used to be until my brother helped her clean it out.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: My father has 299 items on his desktop. I sincerely doubt he uses it like a desktop...
?Close!
Excuse the pony, she's restoring his files back into the laptop.
My mother and father has a rather large house now that all four kids left, with 5 rooms for my mom to store stuff in, mostly papers and disused training equipment with the odd visitors bed squeezed in.
So, it looks more organized than your fathers desk, but that's not really the case. Apart from that, its 5 rooms wirht of that desk. :D Or it used to be until my brother helped her clean it out.It's taken a decade, but I've managed to corral his internal things to this "desk", and a wall on the other side of the room. Won't talk about the "shed"s outside....
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Nobody's suggesting that hoarding physical and/or digital objects is a problem, right?
...right?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Nobody's suggesting that hoarding physical and/or digital objects is a problem, right?
...right?
Perish the thought!
Filed under: Don't take a look at B:\temp or B:\temp4...
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@Tsaukpaetra temporary folders on floppies? Haven't seen that one before.
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@Tsaukpaetra temporary folders on floppies? Haven't seen that one before.
It used to be a RAM drive, but I ran out of RAM and trying to download more caused.... problems.
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@hungrier at .net 3.5? doubt.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity I wrote it for hexchat, I can write it for Launchy too.
e: Oh good, not just C++ interop but virtual functions. Yeah, no, never mind.2007, and MSVC 2005. That stuff is really old.
The interface is only a single function, though, seems pretty trivial to interop with.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I rather liked "there is a speed trap ahead"
That's also a good one when we're all driving 50mph below the limit...
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I rather liked "there is a speed trap ahead"
That's also a good one when we're all driving 50mph below the limit...
My car has a speed trap warning, but it only comes on when I'm at (or above) 10mph under the speed limit on that piece of road. If things are very slow, no warning.
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@topspin if it's C++, then it's immediately non-trivial to work with.
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my account was getting locked out every hour on the hour due to some service using cached credentials.
I've had similar problem. Windows have a ‘Credential Manager’ in the control panel that allows you to clear all remembered credentials, and I did that. Except somehow Windows Explorer (of all things; you'd think Windows use their own infrastructure, wouldn't you?) remembered the credentials somewhere else still, and I never found where, so I had to be careful to always starting access to the affected shares by giving the password explicitly with
net use
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@mott555 Maybe just reopen.
Nope, not fixed yet
I think that counts worse for statistics in some places...That's why these shady places never have a button to reopen a ticket in the first place!
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin if it's C++, then it's immediately non-trivial to work with.
You just need a single file that calls your function in whatever language (that has a C FFI) you prefer. That's like 10 lines. And there's supposedly even examples.
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me@workstation:~/some-project$ du -sh eclipse-workspace/.* eclipse-workspace/* 361M eclipse-workspace/.metadata 356M eclipse-workspace/some-project
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me@workstation:~/some-project$ du -sh eclipse-workspace/.* eclipse-workspace/* 361M eclipse-workspace/.metadata 356M eclipse-workspace/some-project
WAT
Hmmm, this reminds me that I might need to clean out the
.metadata
folder more often... It's now at 385 MB while my source dir is at just 24 MB. Then again, I do tend to keep using it when I upgraded Eclipse version so who knows if there's caches for 10 different versions in there.
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@Tsaukpaetra temporary folders on floppies? Haven't seen that one before.
Not a bad idea, when you're done, just throw the floppies into the paper shredder.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin if it's C++, then it's immediately non-trivial to work with.
You just need a single file that calls your function in whatever language (that has a C FFI) you prefer. That's like 10 lines. And there's supposedly even examples.
But if I'm able to write it without actually writing any C++, then people who develop using the crate won't need a C++ compiler installed to do so.
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@pie_flavor True. On the flip side, you anticipate a lot of people:
- writing plugins for a decade old launcher app
- in Rust
- using your template
- only to be stopped by having to install a C++ compiler?
More than zero?
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@Tsaukpaetra temporary folders on floppies? Haven't seen that one before.
Not a bad idea, when you're done, just throw the floppies into the paper shredder.
I don't think a paper shredder would have enough strength. At the very least I'd go for one with metal teeth.