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@levicki Yes they literally can. Every program I know of does. Why is everything you say wrong? All the installer has to do is register the program as that default program in HKCR.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Vixen You must really hate correct typesetting.
Correctness is in the eye of the holdbeyer.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@levicki Yes they literally can. Every program I know of does. Why is everything you say wrong?
Because he's on Windows 10 where they literally cannot. One of many great improvements over Windows 7 that are completely overshadowed by all the dumbfuckery it brings as well.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Vixen You must really hate correct typesetting.
Correctness is in the eye of the holdbeyer.
This could make the start of a wonderful garage topic.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
So I am right because I did write installers and I know how to register file types and you are
wrong as usualon an older Windows version.Seriously guys, a bit of consideration would go a long way for both of you.
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@levicki When I installed Irfan, there was a part in the installer where I registered the file associations. I checked all the interesting boxes and hit OK. After that, all of those image types automatically opened with Irfan. No system program-picker dialog was ever involved. This is on Windows 10. So you are definitely stupid.
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@pie_flavor your Windows 10 is broken. It's supposed to suggest opening with IrfanView or let you keep using whatever you used before, via "Open with" dialog.
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@Gąska works for every other program too. Maybe it's actually your install that's borken.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska works for every other program too. Maybe it's actually your install that's borken.
10 defends its defaults for stuff like links very strongly. Mayhaps that's what they're being confused about?
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getting popcorn together to eat while imagining @pie_flavor and @levicki wrestling nude in a tub of jello.... I don't know what they really look like so i'm imagining one looks like Dwayne, The Rock, Johnson when he was super buff, but before he started getting the tats, and the other looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but you know... in his younger days when he ate punks like the Rock for breakfast.
No, i'm not telling you which one is which. that would ruin the fun of he imagining.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Another reason is to be able to load another scene in a second instance to export an asset for loading into first instance without having to save and later reload the whole scene you are working on to accomplish the same.
One of these days it would be great of the UE4 level editor allowed you to have more than one persistent level open at a time. I know why it doesn't, but just because it's a pipe dream doesn't mean I can't dream it!
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@levicki When I installed Irfan, there was a part in the installer where I registered the file associations. I checked all the interesting boxes and hit OK. After that, all of those image types automatically opened with Irfan. No system program-picker dialog was ever involved. This is on Windows 10. So you are definitely stupid.
I just tried it in a VM, Windows 1511 with UAC on second highest (default). I told it to associate in the installer, and then the first time I opened a JPG and PNG file it asked me to pick, with Irfanview (New) being the first option. After that it was associated, and it opened GIF without the dialog.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@LaoC Are you nitpicking because I said "text document" instead of "Microsoft's specific encoding of a page-based rich-text word processing document"? Because I used "xml" in the example extension?
whynothboth
Or are you saying that file types don't exist independently of the application they are opened with?
No, that would be stupid.
As I mentioned, your problem seems to be Microsoft, not generic filetypes-or-something.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Vixen You must really hate correct typesetting.
Correct typesetting? With MS Word?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Fair enough, though that "file type registration" dumbfuckery is more a Windows problem than anything else. Ask the user when first opening a hitherto unknown file type, problem solved.
No, you see for non-Microsoft programs Windows will ask users the first time, but for Microsoft's own programs it won't. In other words, Word can hijack .XML extension while Levicki's Awesome XML Editor (if such a thing ever existed) could not do that.
Srsly? Special privileged MS dumbfuckery then. I seem to be lucky enough not to know the gory details.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
What a way to shoot yourself in the foot.
That's not the foot. That's the head.
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This button?
It doesn't.
Several times now I've given up after waiting minutes for Steam while it says it's connecting, killed the process, and restarted it; after which it connects in mere seconds.
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Secondary :
I wonder if it's my adblocker working against me.
Reuploaded the file with a new name and now it appears, so this theory has some value.
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getting popcorn together to eat while imagining @pie_flavor and @levicki wrestling nude in a tub of
'Fraid it'd be more like this:
Except one of them is an old fuck. Like C++-before-Stroustrup-invented-it old (not really), but I'm not telling you which one. No jello, ofc. Whatever flummox your fox, though...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
an old fuck.
Normally I'd say age roughly equates to experience (in theory), but in this case, I doubt the old fuck fucks well.
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getting popcorn together to eat while imagining @pie_flavor and @levicki wrestling nude in a tub of jello...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I doubt the old fuck fucks well.
I generally find what they lack in stamina they make up for in skill.
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getting popcorn together to eat while imagining @pie_flavor and @levicki wrestling nude in a tub of jello...
/shrug your loss. :-)
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@levicki When I installed Irfan, there was a part in the installer where I registered the file associations. I checked all the interesting boxes and hit OK. After that, all of those image types automatically opened with Irfan. No system program-picker dialog was ever involved. This is on Windows 10. So you are definitely stupid.
Just to have another data point from people on actual Earth-47: each time I upgrade IrfanView using Chocolatey it will try to silently associate IrfanView with image types. However, it seems to silently fail because all images will be associated with the default Photos app again.
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However, it seems to silently fail because all images will be associated with the default Photos app again.
probably because under windows 10 the registry hacking it tries no longer works the same way (unless you're @levicki apparently?) and Windows detects the corrupted registry entries and fixes them by restoring the default associations, though according to The Old New Thing it is supposed to mark those registrations as "confirm on first launch" so when you open the image the next time it is supposed to ask you if you want a different association.....
At least according to this blog article what I read ages ago and am too lazy to look up again to cite. YMMV.
Also I need more tea. Are you my tea?
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/shrug your loss. :-)
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Are you my tea?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Except one of them is an old fuck. Like C++-before-Stroustrup-invented-it old (not really), but I'm not telling you which one.
And the other is college student, but I'm not telling you which one.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Except one of them is an old fuck. Like C++-before-Stroustrup-invented-it old (not really), but I'm not telling you which one.
And the other is college student, but I'm not telling you which one.
IIRC, one of them looks decent too, but I'm not telling you which one.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Except one of them is an old fuck. Like C++-before-Stroustrup-invented-it old (not really), but I'm not telling you which one.
And the other is
college studentliterally 12, but I'm not telling you which one.FTF
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getting popcorn together to eat while imagining @pie_flavor and @levicki wrestling nude in a tub of jello...
I was about to post that, but you already did. Thanks, I guess.
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TIL OCaml cannot have mutually dependent modules. Not even C has this problem, for fuck's sake! Goddamn I hate the OCaml build system so much. It has so many stupid limitations it's an absolute deal breaker for any larger project. And it's real shame, because otherwise it's a very nice language, especially with all the new features they've added in the last couple years.
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A C project that has a
.h
file that's full of C++ code (code as in real classes and function implementations, not just normal header stuff)... It compiles but has all kinds of weird runtime exceptions and stack corruption going on and so doesn't actually work anymore, but older builds do work and I don't know how or why. The project's only code comments are along the lines of, "WTF is this crap?"
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Status: The fuck is this listing?!
This configuration is literally impossible at least six different ways...
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VMs and Numlock. An eternal war. I've had similar issues with VMWare and VirtualBox. Windows or Linux hosts. Host and guess just can't get along and I'm constantly finding numlock turned off. I never turn it off you bastards!
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@boomzilla I wish there was an option to somehow hardwire the entire PC to always have it on regardless of how much you mash NumLock key. In fact, I'd like this for all three locks.
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@boomzilla I wish there was an option to somehow hardwire the entire PC to always have it on regardless of how much you mash NumLock key. In fact, I'd like this for all three locks.
YOU WANT TO HAVE CAPS LOCK ALWAYS ON? INFIDEL! HERETIC!
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@PleegWat how's your pinky after writing that?
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@Gąska Letters don't become capitaler by pressing shift harder.
I actually do have caps lock disabled by remapping it to compose (linux: native, windows: wincompose).
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@Gąska Letters don't become capitaler by pressing shift harder.
Technically they do, up to a point.
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@Gąska You mean a capital letter in 16pt can become a 17pt capital letter if you hold shift?
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@Zecc sure it can, with the right font-variant property.
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I actually do have caps lock disabled by remapping it to compose (linux: native, windows: wincompose).
I have it remapped to escape. Which led to the following exchange recently:
: [...] you can use caps lock to perform ${some_action}.
: I can't.
: Huh?
: I remapped my caps lock to escape. What do you use caps lock for anyway?!
: Of course you have.However, a much more interesting question: why do we have a emoji of a person cartwheeling, but (as far as I could tell), no emoji of a person at a desk or using a computer?
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@cvi They've already mapped out the most common office task:
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However, a much more interesting question: why do we have a emoji of a person cartwheeling, but (as far as I could tell), no emoji of a person at a desk or using a computer?
Because
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In fact, I'd like this for all three locks.
Caps Lock is the one that at least has potentially positive value (no idea what for, shouting on the internet maybe, or writing SQL, but at least it's conceivable), whereas Scroll Lock is by definition "true neutral" (nobody knows what it does), and Num Lock has negative value (the only time you use it is when googling HowTF to tell Linux/BIOS/whatever to turn in on by default).
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In fact, I'd like this for all three locks.
Scroll Lock is by definition "true neutral" (nobody knows what it does)
It's for if a hacker gets into your system who's also a wizard, they can't get access to your secret spells unless they are physically at the keyboard to unlock them.
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In fact, I'd like this for all three locks.
Caps Lock is the one that at least has potentially positive value (no idea what for, shouting on the internet maybe, or writing SQL, but at least it's conceivable), whereas Scroll Lock is by definition "true neutral" (nobody knows what it does), and Num Lock has negative value (the only time you use it is when googling HowTF to tell Linux/BIOS/whatever to turn in on by default).
Scroll lock is kind of redundant since text-mode terminal interfaces fell out of fashion (modern terminal aficionados use terminal emulators with scrollback support).
Num lock I guess mostly still exist for people stuck in the habit of using that set of arrows - it's redundant since the 101-key keyboard introduced a dedicated set of arrows and navigational buttons.