WTF Bites
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My Nespresso machine has a little rubbish bin where it collects used pods, so I only have to dispose of them periodically.
The only way to tell when the bin is full is it jams up when I insert a new pod (sometimes destroying the pod in the process).
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
without being a dick about it and making them defensive.
That last part is where I usually struggle.Quelle surprise!
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My Nespresso machine has a little rubbish bin where it collects used pods, so I only have to dispose of them periodically.
The only way to tell when the bin is full is it jams up when I insert a new pod (sometimes destroying the pod in the process).
I actually put down the money for a fully automatic coffee machine from Philips - I now can freely choose the type of coffee to use, the coffee is ground immediately before brewing and the whole machine is rather easy to clean.
Since it was downmarked due to being a "returned item" (the description said: "Two scratches on the casing" which I was unable to locate) I didn't pay too much for it.
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I actually put down the money for a fully automatic coffee machine from Philips - I now can freely choose the type of coffee to use, the coffee is ground immediately before brewing and the whole machine is rather easy to clean.
Does it make espresso?
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I actually put down the money for a fully automatic coffee machine from Philips - I now can freely choose the type of coffee to use, the coffee is ground immediately before brewing and the whole machine is rather easy to clean.
Does it make espresso?
I thought it would be cool if a coffee machine had an integrated bean grinder, but I've never seen that.
Mine does coffee, americano, espresso, cappucino and latte macchiato. Both the milk container and the brewing unit are easy to remove and clean. It also warns you if the used coffee container becomes full.
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@error We've got such a machine at the office. Does both coffee and espresso, and I understand at the main office they've got the advanced version which can also make cream.
Refuse goes into a collection bin, and the machine indicates when it is full (based on number of cups made).
It does take 5 minutes to turn itself on in the morning, and has a mandatory daily automated cleaning cycle.
I can look up the make and model when I'm at the office tomorrow.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 If that is a real dog and it's really dead I'd break that person's neck, not window.
Don't forget to replace "dog" on the sign with "person".
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Mine does coffee, americano, espresso, cappucino and latte macchiato. Both the milk container and the brewing unit are easy to remove and clean. It also warns you if the used coffee container becomes full.
I was content, but now I know something exists and I need to have it.
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@error We've got such a machine at the office. Does both coffee and espresso, and I understand at the main office they've got the advanced version which can also make cream.
Milk separation centrifuge? Careful, µC controlled cetrifuges have been known to get stuxnetted as of
leitelate
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they've got the advanced version which can also make cream.
I hear @Tsaukpaetra has such a module.
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Discover sent me a letter saying, basically: "we see you haven't used your card in a long time. To encourage you to start using your card again, for the next year, we're giving you a promotional 0% APR on all purchases and balance transfers!"
I think, "awesome, I'll start by transferring all my balances to this no-interest card!"
Except, the limit on this card is less than a tenth of the limit for all my other cards. Oh, well, when I opened this card, my credit rating was substantially worse, so they gave me a low limit. Now that my credit score is almost 800, it should be easy to get a credit line limit increase...
Denied. We'll snail mail you a letter with the reasons for your denial.
** two weeks lateur **
Your credit limit increase was denied for the following reason(s):
low/insufficient account usageYes, that's the reason you gave me this promotion and the reason I asked for a limit increase. So I could use the damn account more.
"Company gives me a promotional offer. I immediately think of a way to abuse it. Company says 'no, sorry, the system is not set up in such a way that would allow such abuse, because we've seen it before.' I decide this is the company's fault."
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
"Company gives me a promotional offer. I immediately think of a way to abuse it. Company says 'no, sorry, the system is not set up in such a way that would allow such abuse, because we've seen it before.' I decide this is the company's fault."
Erm,
Clearly their intention is that I would load up a huge balance on their no-interest card, and keep paying interest on said balance once the promotion expires. I intended to do exactly what they wanted me to do. As I mentioned, my credit score is now Excellent; a card with the limit this one has is a joke, something you would give a college student (which I was, when I opened this account, last decade).
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@error We've got such a machine at the office. Does both coffee and espresso, and I understand at the main office they've got the advanced version which can also make cream.
Milk separation centrifuge? Careful, µC controlled cetrifuges have been known to get stuxnetted as of
leitelatelatteFTFY
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2 WTFs of my day: So, we have this laptop charging trolley (basically a moving cabinet with power sockets) wherein we connected the laptops' chargers to the sockets in the back. On each tray we provided two charger cables.
Of course, with the charger cables being almost two meters long and our colleagues always whining about pupils' orderliness while not being able to provide that themselves, this created an unholy tangle of cables. Said tangle also resulted in colleagues simply stuffing the laptops into somewhere with a space, not connecting them (and thus not charging the laptops).
So I printed some cable arresters, that's the red stuff you're seeing. The top one was a prototype which simply took too long to print (relative to the sheer number I had to print - as a single unit it was fine).
Today I promptly found someone had stuffed a laptop back into the middle without connecting the charger. If that keeps happening we'll have to resort to other means.
Second WTF So, I've created this custom ticket app where colleagues can tell us IT guys about IT problems. I included a "miscellaneous" category because y'know, you cannot think of every case that may be applicable and colleages tend to stuff their tickets into random categories if they don't immediately see the proper one.
And what do I see today: "There's still a bit of packaging lying around from when you guys setup the [30 - addendum mine] computers for us. Who's making that go away?"
After a bit of discussion with my fellow IT guys, we decided on: "Whoever's feeling troubled by that. Us IT guys currently don't."
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I actually put down the money for a fully automatic coffee machine from Philips - I now can freely choose the type of coffee to use, the coffee is ground immediately before brewing and the whole machine is rather easy to clean.
Since it was downmarked due to being a "returned item" (the description said: "Two scratches on the casing" which I was unable to locate) I didn't pay too much for it.You must have gotten an exceptional deal. Friends of ours have one. Theirs is built-in to the cabinets in their kitchen. It's even plumbed in with its own water filter. I recall looking it up and thinking that I've bought cars that cost less than that thing did.
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@Polygeekery Yeah, those are the professional heavy-duty ones you'll find at actual cafés. That's not what I bought - it's more on the level of a VW Polo instead of a Volvo FH16.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
Discover sent me a letter saying, basically: "we see you haven't used your card in a long time. To encourage you to start using your card again, for the next year, we're giving you a promotional 0% APR on all purchases and balance transfers!"
I think, "awesome, I'll start by transferring all my balances to this no-interest card!"
Except, the limit on this card is less than a tenth of the limit for all my other cards. Oh, well, when I opened this card, my credit rating was substantially worse, so they gave me a low limit. Now that my credit score is almost 800, it should be easy to get a credit line limit increase...
Denied. We'll snail mail you a letter with the reasons for your denial.
** two weeks lateur **
Your credit limit increase was denied for the following reason(s):
low/insufficient account usageYes, that's the reason you gave me this promotion and the reason I asked for a limit increase. So I could use the damn account more.
"Company invites me to transfer my balances to their credit card, but then refuses to give me enough credit to accept their offer, despite having an outstanding credit rating. I decide this is the company's fault."
FTFY
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I recall looking it up and thinking that I've bought cars that cost less than that thing did.
All that effort and money, and it still makes coffee.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
All that effort and money, and it still makes coffee.
They may be marketed for tea as well, but usually the water's not hot enough.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Theirs is built-in to the cabinets in their kitchen.
Makes it a PITA to maintain/upgrade/replace.
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Microsoft is bragging that they closed a bunch of issues. Not necessarily fixed or resolved, just closed.
Across all of our VS Code repositories, we closed (either triaged or fixed) 4622 issues, which is even more than during our last housekeeping iteration in September 2018, where we closed 3918 issues. While we closed issues, you created 2195 new issues. This resulted in a net reduction of 2427 issues.
I think that metric encourages Jeffism.
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@error Not necessarily. Sometimes the appropriate course of action is to just close it.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Not necessarily. Sometimes the appropriate course of action is to just close it.
I agree, but if you tell your employees "close as many issues as you can," and presumably incentivize them based on that, the inevitable result is that more issues get closed than maybe should be.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Not necessarily. Sometimes the appropriate course of action is to just close it.
I agree, but if you tell your employees "close as many issues as you can," and presumably incentivize them based on that, the inevitable result is that more issues get closed than maybe should be.
Possibly.
The other way of looking at it is that if you had that many issues that should have been closed, maybe you weren't managing your issues properly.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
All that effort and money, and it still makes coffee.
They may be marketed for tea as well, but usually the water's not hot enough.
I have seen an awesome tea making machine long ago (at my local public library). It looked like the plumber had been in the throes of a very bad trip when making it, but I'm told it made great tea. (I believe it was able to make the teapots properly hot with superheated steam before filling them with with just sub-boiling water, and using it looked like a really skilled job, at least to 3-year-old me.) Long gone now...
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Not necessarily. Sometimes the appropriate course of action is to just close it.
I agree, but if you tell your employees "close as many issues as you can," and presumably incentivize them based on that, the inevitable result is that more issues get closed than maybe should be.
We can use the Wally approach: open lots of blank issues that can then be closed immediately, inflating the Issues Closed metric with next to no effort.
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superheated steam ... just sub-boiling water ... Long gone now...
Can't have that. Somebody might burn themselves.
Filed under: This is why we can't have nice things.
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We have "boiling" water taps at work.
They weren't fitted as part of the last refurbishment but shortly after when someone complained that when they made tea for their entire team they had to boil the kettle twice.
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@Polygeekery Maybe if you ask him nicely, he can hook you up with a discount?
Fuck if he applies he's eating for free!
Edit: snotty autocorrect.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Maybe if you ask him nicely, he can hook you up with a discount?
Fuck if he apples he's eating for free!
Wat.
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they've got the advanced version which can also make cream.
I hear @Tsaukpaetra has such a module.
Dedicated Armature Detachable Shaker. It includes several subroutines for autonomous unmanaged operation!
Filed under: Works better if you can't feel it directly
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Fuck if he apples he's eating for free!
Wat.
*deep sigh*
Reboots @Tsaukpaetra again, and starts looking for the memtest86 USB stick
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Reboots @Tsaukpaetra again, and starts looking for the memtest86 USB stick
Maybe we should create an ITAPPMONROBOT
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Reboots @Tsaukpaetra again, and starts looking for the memtest86 USB stick
Maybe we should create an ITAPPMONROBOT
Is that what that pinging noise is from? Well damn don't I feel speci
esalEdit: fuck!
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People are like "tumblr users are awful" "reddit is just a circlejerk" "youtube comments are garbage" "twitter is a dumpster fire"
But trust me, it could be much worse. Have you ever taken a look at this other social network? One of the most popular in the world.
Oh god the pain. The pain.
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@anonymous234 I've seen various clips from it, of people doing things that would've been considered stupid on Vine.
Also, yesterday I heard someone talking about it in real life
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Have you ever taken a look at this other social network? One of the most popular in the world.
It's basically just Vine 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I've seen that video before. I don't hate it.
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@Gąska
: Did you mean:httpspopularity
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@levicki Google basically just fits your query to the nearest popular topic at the time nowadays.
Some day they'll remove all results for "France" and just redirect to "Fortnite" and no one will be shocked.
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@topspin Not even that; it just returned results on sites that use that security protocol.
It might be interesting to see what one might get with
-https
.Edit: It does nothing much. Or, well, nothing at all. It's as if one simply searched for
popularity
. I get a bunch of dictionary links (and one from Wikipedia) to the definition of the word.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@error We've got such a machine at the office. Does both coffee and espresso, and I understand at the main office they've got the advanced version which can also make cream.
Milk separation centrifuge? Careful, µC controlled cetrifuges have been known to get stuxnetted as of
leitelatelatteFTFY
I my priming typos, not
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I actually put down the money for a fully automatic coffee machine from Philips - I now can freely choose the type of coffee to use, the coffee is ground immediately before brewing and the whole machine is rather easy to clean.
Since it was downmarked due to being a "returned item" (the description said: "Two scratches on the casing" which I was unable to locate) I didn't pay too much for it.You must have gotten an exceptional deal. Friends of ours have one. Theirs is built-in to the cabinets in their kitchen. It's even plumbed in with its own water filter. I recall looking it up and thinking that I've bought cars that cost less than that thing did.
Actually, I bought a car 15 years ago that cost less than my current coffee maker. That coffee maker is a 20yo stainless-steel french press from Starbucks. For some reason Starbucks can't make good coffee but they sure can make coffee makers. That thing would probably make a nice pipe bomb if you packed it with the other black powder.
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I my priming typos
Hey!
Yeah, alright. The language is yours at this point.
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It's the natural next step after removing "https" from the URL bar in Chrome.