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@HardwareGeek depends. How many other people are doing it and on how good terms are you with them? You don't want anyone to commit your suicide, do you?
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Oh my god, this "news" site.
I disabled adblock so you could see the horribleness in all its glory. But what takes the cake is it has not one, but TWO autoplaying videos with unrelated stories. And they both have ads before they play!
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
But what takes the cake is it has not one, but TWO autoplaying videos with unrelated stories. And they both have ads before they play!
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@loopback0
Porn is blocked for ecological reasons
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@dkf ...nope, I don't get it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
What if the definition of 1 changes?
I love the fact that this was actually a real concern in some old languages.
Isn't it possible in Java too? I'm sure I've seen some horrible abuse of reflection that lets you assert that 4+2==7
Yes, you can change the values of low integers by some abuse. Seems it's gotten harder to find how you do it, but it's based on that values up to 127 (i think) are all stored and created for you to save memory for all allocations of them. But you can change the values for those integers, so that 2 means something else, like MAX_INT.
It's been a while since I poked around with those bits of Java so I am probably wrong on something (or everything) there.
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Our friend's parents are building a new house.
In Fort Lauderdale.
It will have no mechanical locks. Only magnetic ones tied to the access control.
Fort Lauderdale has hurricanes.
I am sure there will be battery backups and such, but if they fail the house will be unable to be locked.
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Yes, you can change the values of low integers by some abuse.
You can change it for
Integer
s (though only with deep shenanigans), but notint
s. You need to know the difference when you're programming in Java.
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Yes, you can change the values of low integers by some abuse.
You can change it for
Integer
s (though only with deep shenanigans), but notint
s. You need to know the difference when you're programming in Java.Having been exposed to enough other people's code, I can say it's not strictly necessary.
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Yes, you can change the values of low integers by some abuse.
You can change it for
Integer
s (though only with deep shenanigans), but notint
s. You need to know the difference when you're programming in Java.Yeah, that is a really important distinction to make.
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Having been exposed to enough other people's code, I can say it's not strictly necessary.
OK, yes. It's only necessary for making code that doesn't run like ass.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
there are agencies booking all the slots available in advance and selling them to people at 10-20€ a pop.
That should not be allowed. The system is designed incorrectly. Sounds like I (as a citizen) could write a bit bot to snipe slots eBay style with no consequence. Only challenge is properly timing the reservation requests to come in before the fraud agency does.
it's South-East Europe. There's a second, much harder challenge: obtain a promise from local politicians that the police won't pursue you for it.
Once I figure out how the agencies can get away with booking a not-person...
Yeah that's the part of all this that really makes me go all "Excuse me what the fuck"
How on Earth are they able to book a reservation as an agency? Why the fuck is that legal? And how has someone not looked at this and gone "wait this is corrupt and broken as fuck, we need to fix this". Like, that's unfathomably bad...
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
And how has someone not looked at this and gone "wait this is corrupt and broken as fuck, we need to
fix thisget in on the action".FTF, um, bureaucrats in the sorts of places that have that kind of corruption, I guess.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
there are agencies booking all the slots available in advance and selling them to people at 10-20€ a pop.
That should not be allowed. The system is designed incorrectly. Sounds like I (as a citizen) could write a bit bot to snipe slots eBay style with no consequence. Only challenge is properly timing the reservation requests to come in before the fraud agency does.
it's South-East Europe. There's a second, much harder challenge: obtain a promise from local politicians that the police won't pursue you for it.
Once I figure out how the agencies can get away with booking a not-person...
Yeah that's the part of all this that really makes me go all "Excuse me what the fuck"
How on Earth are they able to book a reservation as an agency? Why the fuck is that legal? And how has someone not looked at this and gone "wait this is corrupt and broken as fuck, we need to fix this". Like, that's unfathomably bad...It probably is illegal already, and why trying to beat that agency and steal their idea from under them will get you arrested immediately.
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Looking over eBay for something, this shows up in the feed:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264048350335
Who the hell is buying a SSD box? As a collector's item?
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@Polygeekery
“No, Mr EBay, this is totally not a scam listing to get people who think they’re getting a new SSD for half off. We’re selling a collectors item, see?”
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@izzion either that, or it contains drugs.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Looking over eBay for something, this shows up in the feed:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264048350335
Who the hell is buying a SSD box? As a collector's item?
That's nothing. Allegro, Polish counterpart of eBay, was plagued some time ago with people trying to sell a photo of a smartphone. The item description had full spec of the phone, of course.
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Having been exposed to enough other people's code, I can say it's not strictly necessary.
OK, yes. It's only necessary for making code that doesn't run like ass.
Or if you need something to be nullable.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Who the hell is buying a SSD box? As a collector's item?
Same people who buy iPhone and iPad boxes.
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@Polygeekery at least that one is below $10.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
girl killing case
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
driving father's SUV at over 70 km/h in a place where there is 40 or 50 km/h speed limit
I have a gut feeling it was WAY over 70km/h.
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Ever since the latest Windows update, each time I resume my computer from hibernation Calculator is launched.
This is, I assume, because it is the Start Menu entry which aligns below the Hibernate menu item in the shutdown popup menu.
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Last night I scroll down the start menu a bit before I selected Hibernate, to test a theory and see if it would start a different program.
On the one hand, when it woke up from hibernation the start menu position was reset. On the other hand, as if to prove me wrong, this time no program was started.
I'm still not sure what the point of keeping the start menu open is...
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@Zecc You can right click the start button and select hibernate with less risk of click bleedthru.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
there are agencies booking all the slots available in advance and selling them to people at 10-20€ a pop.
That should not be allowed. The system is designed incorrectly. Sounds like I (as a citizen) could write a bit bot to snipe slots eBay style with no consequence. Only challenge is properly timing the reservation requests to come in before the fraud agency does.
it's South-East Europe. There's a second, much harder challenge: obtain a promise from local politicians that the police won't pursue you for it.
Once I figure out how the agencies can get away with booking a not-person...
Yeah that's the part of all this that really makes me go all "Excuse me what the fuck"
How on Earth are they able to book a reservation as an agency? Why the fuck is that legal? And how has someone not looked at this and gone "wait this is corrupt and broken as fuck, we need to fix this". Like, that's unfathomably bad...Our government created some program to make it easier to get visa for Ukrainian gastarbeiters. It involves reservation for appointment at the embassy which is reported to be similarly fucked. It's been so for years. Politicians have on several occasions talked about fixing it, but as far as I know didn't get around to actually doing a iota.
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My energy company has an online portal that allows you to check a bunch of things - make sure that your bills are all paid, change your tariffs, that kind of thing. It's pretty useful.
Or was, because I just went there and login is disabled. All you can do is get links to PDFs to a couple of commonly used forms, and there's a note explaining that the portal is currently unavailable because they're deploying a new version, and "they'll be back in September". It's the 15th of July. TWO MONTHS TO DEPLOY A NEW VERSION?!
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@blek They're developing directly on the live server. Two months to develop a new version is optimistic.
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@topspin
hmmm ... maybe try if domain/newversion gives you access
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Usually electronic locks default to locked, and have a mechanical override for unlocking in case of power loss
How would you stop that override from being used by just anyone? Some sort of key?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Usually electronic locks default to locked, and have a mechanical override for unlocking in case of power loss
How would you stop that override from being used by just anyone? Some sort of key?
Ours are break-glass boxes, on the controlled side. Exterior doors have conventional locks too so that they can be secured out-of-hours (you can shoulder-rush
aour type of maglocked door, I've done it).
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
you can shoulder-rush a maglocked door, I've done it
Depends on the structure of the maglock. If the magnet is effectively lifting a deadbolt into place (as in the lock on the door on our office building), no, you can't shoulder-rush it.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
you can shoulder-rush a maglocked door, I've done it
Depends on the structure of the maglock.
We've got this kind:
If the magnet is effectively lifting a deadbolt into place (as in the lock on the door on our office building) no, you can't shoulder-rush it.
Well...you could, but the thing giving way would be the door itself (or you)
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God I hate users. Friday we deployed three new machines for a client (this client is the source of 95% of my "clients are a pain in the ass" posts) and this morning the users are bitching. I would bet dollars to donuts that almost all of the bitching is because they moved from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Or that they are retarded.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
God I hate users.
Amen!
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
all of the bitching is because they moved from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Or that they are retarded.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Usually electronic locks default to locked, and have a mechanical override for unlocking in case of power loss.
These are going to be maglocks. No power, no lock.
As I said, there will be battery backups (which run out), and the house will have a generator backup (that is fueled by natural gas, which could be interrupted by a hurricane).
I get them using maglocks. This will not be a "house" in the traditional sense. It will be more of a mansion. Well, their current Florida home is a mansion, and this one is planned to be near twice the size. Which blows my mind even more because if power and natural gas are interrupted for long enough the entire home will be open to the world with no way to lock it short of screwing the doors shut with deck screws and lumber.
A I was just reminded of: The daycare my oldest went to had maglocks on the doors to the ECE hallway. The doors were controlled via keyfobs on the outside, and you only had to touch the inside door handle to unlock them. There was a ~1/4" gap between the doors. I said something once about how they were vulnerable to bypass and was questioned about it. I grabbed a coat hanger from by the door, bent it in to a rough "U" shape, stuck it through the door and touched the inside handle at which point the door popped and unlocked.
They never did do anything about that. All it needed was some sort of overlap on the double doors so that you couldn't just stick something through and pop the lock.
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Good call. You just got moved down the list of house burnings for that. You're still on it, but others moved ahead of you.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
You just got moved down the list of house burnings for that.
dammit!
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It's a long list, so the effect is probably negligible.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
You just got moved down the list of house burnings for that.
dammit!
Are you insured?
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I'm pretty sure that "acts of @Polygeekery" are explicitly excluded from coverage.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Looking over eBay for something, this shows up in the feed:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264048350335
Who the hell is buying a SSD box? As a collector's item?
That's nothing. Allegro, Polish counterpart of eBay, was plagued some time ago with people trying to sell a photo of a smartphone. The item description had full spec of the phone, of course.
IIRC there was a Judge Judy case exactly like that. I hope this isn't too much of a spoiler, but Judge Judy was not impressed.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
We were asked to monitor an employee's internet and machine usage. So far today, 98 minutes spent on Reddit, about 3.5 hours of the machine sitting idle. The owner is about to blow a gasket.
It is 10:44am. He logged on at 7:58am. He has spent over two hours on Reddit.
His last day is on Friday, but he does not know this yet.
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@Polygeekery I'm very curious about the legality of your surveillance action. Was the employee informed at all that some kind of monitoring will be performed?
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@Gąska they are on company time, on a company machine, on the company network. Perfectly legal. They signed off on it when they signed their recognition of the employee handbook.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska they are on company time, on a company machine, on the company network. Perfectly legal.
Oh, right. USA and their famous labor laws...
They signed off on it when they signed their recognition of the employee handbook.
Now, this changes everything. Tell me - are these "we're going to monitor everything you do" rules a standard thing for these employee handbooks, or is this particular employer just more paranoid than average?
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@Gąska It varies from company-to-company. My company is more of a "We have the capability of monitoring you" type with not much detail. My understanding is they don't look into it unless there's a problem. A very productive employee who spends a couple hours on Reddit or whatever but otherwise gets stuff done and is valuable to the company has nothing to worry about. Someone who's always missing deadlines or never seems to get anything done might arouse suspicion, and if they find out he's doing the same thing, is probably going to find themselves in trouble.
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Office 365 Video, after you upload a file
Doing some REST API call to refresh the status was too hard?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I would bet dollars to donuts that almost all of the bitching is because they moved from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
You bastard.