WTF Bites
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@hungrier The photos on their site have icons too.
There's also a different picture where someone got it right...
I think they just have one layout image with the words they keep reusing even though the keyboard itself has icons.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
the keyboard itself has icons
For this keyboard, I would use this icon
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Is this suggesting that people deliberately get keyboards without numpads and then add external numpads?
I sometimes use such a setup: it gives the possibility of putting the mouse very close for most common use, then pulling out the numpad for when you're working with lots of numbers.
And even if you're not working with numbers, the grid layout of a numpad makes it ideal to remap the keys if you want a convenient bunch of shortcut keys, I've got a script where Numpad + and - presses are actually turned into mouse wheel scrolling events to save my wrists from excessive strain.
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I brought a relative to the ER this morning, and diligently recorded all the info the doctor spewed at me in my Samsung Notes app on my phone... all of which the app has decided, helpfully, to forget.
Also a good case study on how a bug in a seemingly unimportant app could potentially have life affecting consequences. (If I'd been recording something like medications and dosages.)
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It's also a good introduction to what constitutes a "life-critical system", and why using consumer-grade gear in this context should be done with extreme care.
(Not that I blame you, I'd probably not have thought about it either. Hopefully, those who design medical systems are more careful/paranoid...)
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@Zerosquare Not that forgetting all the notes you took is acceptable behaviour outside of life-critical situations, of course.
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My junior dev is going from muddy clarity to muddy clarity. He's been working on a piece of code that is about 1 hour of work (move method X into class Y where it belongs) including building and running regression tests on his own weblogic server.
He's been at it for a week or two now. And he somehow managed to make weblogic shit itself profoundly, and the code is really trivial, so I can't see any way to do that.
Since he's "free" from the consultant company that delivered the team, we're not getting rid of him.On the bright side, he's gonna become a junior tester soon, if the PL holds true to his word and that means he's the problem of someone else.
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Also a good case study on how a bug in a seemingly unimportant app could potentially have life affecting consequences.
A couple of incidents like that is why I carry around an actual A6 paper notebook to doodle important things in. Like my first scientific advisor used to say, a laptop may stop working when splashed with acid once, even if the amount is small; a paper lab journal keeps going even after losing lots of pages.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Hopefully, those who design medical systems are more careful/paranoid...)
Meanwhile hospitals are running all their machines on pirated copies of Windows XP with the free version of Norton Antivirus running in the background "for safety".
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It's also a good introduction to what constitutes a "life-critical system", and why using consumer-grade gear in this context should be done with extreme care.
(Not that I blame you, I'd probably not have thought about it either. Hopefully, those who design medical systems are more careful/paranoid...)
In this case it just seems like bad design on Samsung's part. The non-electronic analogue would be a "consumer grade" notebook that would sometimes erase entire pages while you weren't looking.
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Fuck websites that disable mobile zoom.
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Fuck websites that disable mobile zoom.
And bless browsers that force-re-enable it?
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Status: Looking into integrating Google Maps api to ease form-filling.
I can only use the API ONCE PER DAY?!?!?!? How (as a developer) am I going to test this?
What kind of bullshit...
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@Tsaukpaetra But you can have 5,000 requests per 100 seconds.
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@Tsaukpaetra But you can have 5,000 requests per 100 seconds.
Yeah. Google, amirite?
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@Tsaukpaetra But you can have 5,000 requests per 100 seconds.
And unlimited requests per user per 100 seconds.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra But you can have 5,000 requests per 100 seconds.
Yeah. Google, amirite?
Ah. If I "enable billing" I can have unlimited daily requests. How much do these requests costs, you may ask?
Half a pfennig per. So if I look up my own address twice I already owe a penny to Google.
We'll see how this pans out...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
We'll see how this pans out...
And done! and....
Ahhh!!! Holy fuck, all I did was type my own address!
This is going to be expensive, isn't it?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Hopefully, those who design medical systems are more careful/paranoid...
I was when I did some, but the regulations were only really concerned with electrical isolation and leakage. The firmware and hardware-architecture in general weren't mentioned! Hopefully if it's more medical-y you start getting forced to use a SIL compliant design, or DO-254 or something.
Then, of course, maybe not, as the THERAC-25 incidents happened.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
We'll see how this pans out...
And done! and....
Ahhh!!! Holy fuck, all I did was type my own address!
This is going to be expensive, isn't it?
Search suggestions considered harmful, more at 10
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
This is going to be expensive, isn't it?
No, it's going to be profitable. For google.
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This just popped-up at me after rebooting, it's also left an icon on my Desktop, no other Office applications, just one for Teams.
I have Slack, I don't want Microsoft Messenger 2.0.
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@Cursorkeys I still find it ridiculous that programs can't request their own repair. They're the ones that registered with the Add/RemovePrograms list with the command on how to fix itself, why is there no "pop a dialog to ask the user to fix myself" function?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I still find it ridiculous that programs can't request their own repair.
I find it even more ridiculous that you need to repair a program. Did the bits have a collision or something?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Ahhh!!! Holy fuck, all I did was type my own address!
That's how they get you. "Half a penny per request. Hmm, ok..."
๏ : Oh, we didn't mean per "request" as you think of it, but a single site visit triggers 20 API requests. Pay up.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I still find it ridiculous that programs can't request their own repair.
I find it even more ridiculous that you need to repair a program. Did the bits have a collision or something?
I've no-idea what it's complaining about either. The program is clearly started, and didn't vanish after closing the dialog.
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That's how they get you. "Half a penny per request. Hmm, ok..."
๏ : Oh, we didn't mean per "request" as you think of it, but a single site visit triggers 20 API requests. Pay up.Also, the first one is free. Apparently.
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Also: Why the fuck does it fuck up the ๏ when you try to quote it?
vs
Edit: If I press "Quote" without a selection, it uses
:fa_google:
. If I select some text and then press "Quote", it fucks it up. (I can guess at what's going on, but for the sake of expediency I'm just going assume that some javascripty framework is to blame, and move on.)
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@cvi Because the ๏ uses FontAwesome, which is a font that uses characters that don't exist to represent brands. Since you can't set fonts in your posts, it uses the regular theme font, which rightfully goes "what the fuck character is this?"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys I still find it ridiculous that programs can't request their own repair. They're the ones that registered with the Add/RemovePrograms list with the command on how to fix itself, why is there no "pop a dialog to ask the user to fix myself" function?
Not really. It's the MSI that registered. The program doesn't know who installed it.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
it is not that terrible but boy does it use resources...
IOW, it's a typical Microsoft product
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Not really. It's the MSI that registered. The program doesn't know who installed it.
And that's if setup actually uses MSI.
Ok, fine. It's whatever installer was run (MSI, Inno, etcetcetc). The program still doesn't know who installed it.
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After signing in to my mouse drivers[1] I was told "authentication failed." It then presented me with a page prepopulated with all my personal data. I hope that means authentication didn't fail or else they're just giving that info out to anybody.
[1] Side-wtf brought to you by Razer.
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@discobot add onebox "there's your problem" https://what.thedailywtf.com/assets/uploads/files/1566413321612-theres-your-problem.jpg
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@error Added
there's your problem
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@error Now I'm tempted to delete this file to break your bot
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Please, be my guest.
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@Zerosquare
Robot lives matter
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@error Now I'm tempted to delete this file to break your bot
@discobot edit onebox "there's your problem" https://i.imgur.com/Iy677Nc.jpg
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@pie_flavor Updated
there's your problem
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@pie_flavor You're afraid I would delete it?
You don't know me
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Who decided to name Kubernetes
K8s
? And how did it gain traction?Should we call Docker
D4r
and WindowsW5s
too?
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@_P_ and i18n
i2n
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
This is going to be expensive, isn't it?
And wouldn't you know it, BY DEFAULT Google will happily assume you want to do the most expensive thing. I.e.:
Do I need contact details? No, this is a home address lookup. Somehow that came up twice. What about atmospheric data? Nope! What the fuck is that even?
So in theory this will be used by every attendee during registration. If there are 2k registrations, that means as minimum of 2k requests, which means some odd $30 or so.
I must now ponder if $30 is worth the convenience of adding this feature to the registration form...