WTF Bites
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
I swear Google is now doing searches like [...] "[...] Let's go shopping instead!"
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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.
As long as that metric gets applied to the workers. If they made an honest triage and are bragging about it after the fact it is OK.
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@Bulb note how they downplay the fact they've had over 2000 new issues reported IN JUST A SINGLE MONTH.
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@Bulb note how they downplay the fact they've had over 2000 new issues reported IN JUST A SINGLE MONTH.
The churn in that project is totally insane. They currently have 3,840 open and 74,294 closed issues on the main repository.
I am just not sure what it signifies.
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For some reason Starbucks can't make good coffee but they sure can make coffee makers.
I can believe that. Working in lots of offices and with lots of different people I somewhat frequently have this conversation:
"I'm going to Starbucks. Do you want anything?"
"No, thank you though."
"Do you not like coffee?"
"I love coffee. I don't like Starbucks."That thing would probably make a nice pipe bomb if you packed it with the other black powder.
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We need 40 PoE cameras for an upcoming install. I've come to like the Reolink RL-420s and the price is right. I can usually get them for ~$48/per off Amazon. But I notice they have the two packs for $96 and there is a 25% off "coupon". Nifty. That will save me about $480.
I "clip" their stupid digital coupons (it's like a Skinner Box savings deal, just give me the discount you morons), add 20 two packs to my cart and when I go to check out it only takes off $24.
Those fuckers. It's only good off of one item.
So.....being the sort of guy I am.....what happens if I place 20 separate orders?
I save $480 bucks. That's what happens. I ran them through as fast as I could in case there was some race condition I had to beat. But it all worked.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I save $480 bucks. That's what happens.
Anyone want to run a betting pool on whether or not I get an email from Amazon customer service today? I had to trip all the alarms. It kept asking me if I wanted to place a duplicate order that I had just placed a few minutes ago. If that doesn't flag for manual review when you override that 19 times then Amazon has some holes in their programming.
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Ha!
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So, the ESXi 6.7 web client doesn't crash every six seconds1 like the 6.5 one does. I file this under WTF Bites because someone at a large company actually fixed something.
1: For once, I am not exaggerating for humorous effect. It really does crash that often.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
The best part would be if they automatically coalesced your orders into one shipment without realizing what you did.
They will. I used to coalesce them myself by letting stuff stack up in my shopping cart but now I just order shit as I need it. If I place multiple orders in a day (not uncommon) they usually coalesce them as it makes sense for them.
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@levicki That's the old desktop client which actually worked very well. Around version 5.5, they deprecated it in favor of a web client that is worse than Discourse running on a 486 while rats chew on the network cabling and someone's blasting the server's RAM sticks with an X-ray generator. Lots and lots of people complained about how unstable and unusable the web client is, and VMware's response was always "LOL deal with it, the desktop client is never coming back."
Most of the problems I had were things like the VM settings dialogs loading with totally invalid negative values, blowing out the JavaScript validators and then putting the page into an unusable state. The other big one is every event had a 25% chance of popping an "An unexpected error has occurred, you need to reload the web page" dialog. Even logging in could trip that error, and sometimes I'd have to log in/reload several times and hope I'd get past that dialog by accident.
So far, in 6.7, nothing bad has happened at all.
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@mott555
You’d better go find an entire freaking forest to knock on, STAT!
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So far, in 6.7, nothing bad has happened at all.
When something catches fire I just want it known that I am nowhere near your state at the time.
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You have encountered YouTube's Bar of Lies
The bar represents the maximum downloaded portion. Usually that's the audio track.
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@Tsaukpaetra Which would be a double because the video I was watching was a song with a (nearly) static background image.
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@Tsaukpaetra Which would be a double because the video I was watching was a song with a (nearly) static background image.
Were you watching it at 240p then? Little known fact: there are at most maybe two versions of the audio in a YouTube video, usually only one, so if you're listening to songs or otherwise don't care about the video portion there's no point wasting bandwidth on higher video resolutions because the audio is the same regardless.
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@Tsaukpaetra I had it on high res to get the highest quality version of the audio, whatever the cutoff or however many audio encodes were available. The problem is very unlikely to have been my bandwidth anyway; I think Youtube was just shitting itself or mining cryptocoins or whatever.
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@LoudHoward said in WTF Bites:
Never let security get in the way of getting things done!
BUT WHAT IF THE THINGS THAT GET DONE HAVE ISSUES THAT THE SECURITY COULD HAVE FOUND?
Well, at least things are getting done. What, do you expect the programmers to sit around testing and fixing bugs all day?
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My phone hasn't been lasting long on a charge as of late. This all started after a recent software update. I decide to investigate.
Hmmmmm, I might have found the problem. Some apps are using 368% of the power that is consumed!
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
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i should make a site entirely server side, like classic Web 1.0 (but using CSS3 because why not) that uses only exactly enough JS to put a message in the console that says "Why are you looking here? there's no javascript in this site!" and then obfuscate the thing to the point where it's 1.44 megabytes in size.
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No-one's still using this, Shirley?
Ok. Good start.
Uh oh.
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I had it on high res to get the highest quality version of the audio, whatever the cutoff or however many audio encodes were available.
Oh heck, looks like they're doing more for certain videos now.
Just in case I guess...
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Little known fact: there are at most maybe two versions of the audio in a YouTube video,
My Youtube Downloader calls bullshit on your statement (there is also AAC 96K version in addition to the four shown):
I checked a few clips and to me it seems there are at least 4-5 versions on each.
Yeah yeah whatever.
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@Vixen seems like a tits and pickles personal project, and it's only being used be two other equally dumb ones.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
that sign makes it significantly more likely that someone will break the window with no intent to get anything out of the car
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@ben_lubar clearly you don't live in a country where saving overheated dogs is all the rage now (well, in summer).
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@Gąska Would you say that people are really on the lookout for hot dogs there?
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I can smell another @levicki v. @pie_flavor fight coming.
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I can smell another @levicki v. @pie_flavor fight coming.
uuuuuuuuuuugh........
why do people keep doing tha....
no.... scratch that.... nope.
i didn't ask any question.
I am not here to ask a question
you did not hear me ask a question.
:thesearenotthedroids.gif:
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@levicki Dude. Purple window colour scheme? The graphics driver probably thought: "The guy is blind so it doesn't matter anyway if I update."
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Open source software (via Browsershots)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Browsershots
Young people have no shame...
there's nothing shameful about genetalia! they're natural! and beautiful! and neat! not shameful!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Browsershots
Young people have no shame...
there's nothing shameful about genetalia! they're natural! and beautiful! and neat! not shameful!
Just be very careful photographing any of it before you're (13/16/18/21)(cross out what does not apply in your jurisdiction) and censor what you do photograph in accordance with local law.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Browsershots
Young people have no shame...
there's nothing shameful about genetalia! they're natural! and beautiful! and neat! not shameful!
Just be very careful photographing any of it before you're (13/16/18/21)(cross out what does not apply in your jurisdiction) and censor what you do photograph in accordance with local law.
bah! laws requiring censoring of the body just reinforce unhealthy and bad body shaming habits.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Browsershots
Young people have no shame...
there's nothing shameful about genetalia! they're natural! and beautiful! and neat! not shameful!
Just be very careful photographing any of it before you're (13/16/18/21)(cross out what does not apply in your jurisdiction) and censor what you do photograph in accordance with local law.
bah! laws requiring censoring of the body just reinforce unhealthy and bad body shaming habits.
That must be why they make all the weird porn.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Browsershots
Young people have no shame...
there's nothing shameful about genetalia! they're natural! and beautiful! and neat! not shameful!
Just be very careful photographing any of it before you're (13/16/18/21)(cross out what does not apply in your jurisdiction) and censor what you do photograph in accordance with local law.
bah! laws requiring censoring of the body just reinforce unhealthy and bad body shaming habits.
Such as square vaginas.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Browsershots
Young people have no shame...
there's nothing shameful about genetalia! they're natural! and beautiful! and neat! not shameful!
Just be very careful photographing any of it before you're (13/16/18/21)(cross out what does not apply in your jurisdiction) and censor what you do photograph in accordance with local law.
bah! laws requiring censoring of the body just reinforce unhealthy and bad body shaming habits.
That must be why they make all the weird porn.
Yes actually. Tentacle porn appeared as a way to have porn without showing penetration, which is forbidden.
Japan is the worst. At least those islamic countries that ban porn, actually ban porn. They know what they want. Japan is "it's banned kind of but not really because no one wants that".
Also look at YouTube. Boobs? Banned. Feet? Millions of fetish vids.
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@anonymous234 yeah, Japan has this weird shit with pixelated genitalia in porn, yet they have the craziest perversions anyone could think of. And all those you couldn’t even think of.
I mean, tentacle porn? Come on. That’s like Poe’s law for porn.
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@Gąska Would you say that people are really on the lookout for hot dogs there?
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Japan has this weird
You could have just stopped there and been correct.
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@pie_flavor I got that too. Fucking advertisements.
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@levicki. Gentleman, engineer, tentacle porn conneisseur.
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@levicki. Gentleman, engineer, tentacle porn conneisseur.
Challenge: how many of these statements are false?
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Japan is the
worstbest.
*Cough*
Exhibit A:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Tentacle porn appeared...
Nope.
It first appeared way back in 1814, long before porn became a concern for modern society.
Exhibit #1
Tako to ama (蛸と海女) -- The Dream of Fisherman's Wife: