WTF Bites
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Side note: of course that's fake, you can't actually wget the file because they implemented some garbage that checks referrer.
wget --header="Referer: ...
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Side note: of course that's fake, you can't actually wget the file because they implemented some garbage that checks referrer.
wget --header="Referer: ...
Thanks. I knew that works (as implied by "garbage"), but looking it up exceeded the threshold I was already hitting with that post.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?
Have you forgotten what forum you're on?
The one where I'm mad at everyone for everything and people make fun of it, of course!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?
Have you forgotten what forum you're on?
The one where I'm mad at everyone for everything and people make fun of it, of course!
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@error have I ever mentioned how much I love how the expression "yelling at cloud" got a new meaning this last decade?
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@error have I ever mentioned how much I love how the expression "yelling at clouds" got a new meaning this last decade?
It really is much shorter than saying "yelling at other people's mainframes".
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Bonus, I just noticed those checkboxen are not mutually exclusive. "Black beans with extra no beans, please."
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item is lacto-ovo, allowing for dairy & egg consumption
I didn't think there were any beans that could prevent egg or dairy consumption
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Bonus, I just noticed those checkboxen are not mutually exclusive. "Black beans with extra no beans, please."
*gives you nothing* That'll be $1.97.
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Bonus, I just noticed those checkboxen are not mutually exclusive. "Black beans with extra no beans, please."
*gives you nothing* That'll be $1.97.
Ha! I sure showed you!
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And now for something completely different:
I wonder if he spent even one second thinking over the name of his channel.
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And now for something completely different:
I wonder if he spent even one second thinking over the name of his channel.
He should go to penisland.com or expertsexchange.com.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
However, a / 8 = .
Therefore = ±∞, which checks out…
0 is also a valid solution.
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penisland.
comnetYes, I googled.
I like that Penis Land sounds like some kind of adult themepark and Expert Sex Change could plausibly be a gender reassignment clinic.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
However, a / 8 = .
Therefore = ±∞, which checks out…
0 is also a valid solution.
As is NaN.
Filed under: FILE_NOT_FOUND
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
However, a / 8 = .
Therefore = ±∞, which checks out…
0 is also a valid solution.
As is NaN.
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I was horrified but also impressed.
I was impressed too, until something went wrong and a tail-recursion did not get optimized out and stack overflow happened in nowhere-near-my-code-landia.
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Status: I love it when random shit breaks for no reason.
Suddenly unable to build. Woohoo.
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"yelling at cloud" got a new meaning
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No, actually, I don’t believe it does.
Erm…
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It's a bit more involved.
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What kind of mess is this? Physics needs a refactoring.
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@Rhywden …okay? That diagram doesn’t make either statement seem simplistic, nor does it support the idea of negative temperatures and carbon concentrations.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
What kind of mess is this? Physics needs a refactoring.
Phase diagrams are involved. Water, for example, is not merely three phases:
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@Rhywden and the phases themselves aren't neatly defined, at least in areas near the borders. Especially liquids vs gases.
But you still on the original . Their notation was rather not standard, using plus or minus to mean approximately (as best I can tell). Because saying that the melting point is +1800 or -1800 is ill-formed.
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@Benjamin-Hall I completely missed that too before you pointed this out. I blame it on that the words "plus minus" are frequently used in Polish to say "approximately", so when I read the ± it didn't occur to me something is wrong. Maybe German is similar.
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@Benjamin-Hall I completely missed that too before you pointed this out. I blame it on that the words "plus minus" are frequently used in Polish to say "approximately", so when I read the ± it didn't occur to me something is wrong. Maybe German is similar.
I've used the words that way, but never the written symbol by itself. I'd expect it to be used as a qualifier of error bars: 1800 C ± 15 C, but stand-alone like that says (to me at least) [+1800 C | -1800 C], without any of the points in between.
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@Rhywden I don't see memory water there
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It's a bit more involved.
It's also in moon language. Or deutsche Sprache, but that'd be even worse.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
What kind of mess is this? Physics needs a refactoring.
Phase diagrams are involved. Water, for example, is not merely three phases:
I can never see that without being reminded of a science fiction story from the 1970s (?), probably (maybe) by Kurt Vonnegut, in which a scientist discovers/creates a solid phase of water, called ice IX (or 9; I don't remember), that is thermodynamically stable at room temperature. Despite extreme precautions, a tiny crystal gets out of the lab into the wild; IIRC, it may have been a deliberate act by a bad person. Liquid water, it seems, is only metastable; all it needs is a seed crystal to begin the transformation into the more stable solid state, and all liquid water on earth quickly solidifies. For added fun, IIRC ice IX is stable a bit above room temperature, like >37°C.
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@HardwareGeek This would be related to my one nitpick with this diagram - it should be "melting point at 1 atm" and not "freezing point" and similarly "condensation point" and not "boiling point" as you can get metastable liquid water at <0 °C and >100 °C (@1 atm, of course)
I.e. freezing and boiling is not guaranteed at those temperatures, whereas condensation and melting is. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, though.
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boiling is not guaranteed at those temperatures
Yeah, metastability is interesting. I've experienced it once (or only once did it last long enough to be noticeable), heating a cup of water in a microwave. Due to a set of somewhat unusual circumstances — water that was purer than ordinary tap water (mountain cabin), a container that was apparently completely free of any foreign material or tiny scratches to provide a site for vapor bubbles to form, and (may or may not be relevant) slightly below 1 atm pressure (mountain cabin) — the water did not start to actually boil until I reached into the oven to remove the cup, at which point it suddenly started boiling very vigorously.
I've also experienced a very different sort of metastability in digital electronic circuits, which can be to debug.
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@HardwareGeek My parents' microwave actually has a warning label for this very event (they also tell you to put a wooden or plastic spoon into the cup to prevent this). Also, a friend of mine suffered from 2nd degree burns because when he did this, the "vigorous boil" rather resembled an explosion with the water going everywhere.
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@Rhywden IIRC, in my experience, the water very much overflowed the cup, and some probably splashed onto my hand, but the burn was of the "'Ow, that hurts"; run cold tap water on it for a minute, and move on" variety. Interesting memory, but no significant injury.
I don't generally worry much about it. When I heat water in the microwave (which I very seldom do; I have an electric kettle that heats it much more quickly), it's generally in my favorite, old, far from pristine mug which provides plenty of nucleation sites for boiling to start and avoid superheating.
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So I yesterday I received a bug report:
Why doesn't the search-o-autocomplete box expand the prefix when I type 'zam'? Shorter and longer prefixes work fine.
Found the culprit, a polish dictionary published by a certain big e-commerce company:
Turns out, somebody thought tokenizing abbreviations like that was a great idea.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
What kind of mess is this? Physics needs a refactoring.
Phase diagrams are involved. Water, for example, is not merely three phases:
I can never see that without being reminded of a science fiction story from the 1970s (?), probably (maybe) by Kurt Vonnegut, in which a scientist discovers/creates a solid phase of water, called ice IX (or 9; I don't remember), that is thermodynamically stable at room temperature. Despite extreme precautions, a tiny crystal gets out of the lab into the wild; IIRC, it may have been a deliberate act by a bad person. Liquid water, it seems, is only metastable; all it needs is a seed crystal to begin the transformation into the more stable solid state, and all liquid water on earth quickly solidifies. For added fun, IIRC ice IX is stable a bit above room temperature, like >37°C.
1963, actually:
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
1963, actually
Ah. I would have read it sometime in the mid-70s, probably. While I might possibly have had sufficient reading skill to have read the words in the book when it was first published, I doubt my young-child brain would have gotten much out of it. Tom Swift was more my speed at about that age, and I probably didn't even discover those books until a year or two after that.
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I want to buy some stuff from Lowes. I want to buy it from Lowes rather than Home Depot because BofA will give me 10% cash back on an online purchase from lowes.com for a limited time if I use my debit card. So I'm buying a bunch of stuff I probably would have bought onesy-twosy over the next couple of months — maximize that 10% saving — including a bunch of lumber. Home delivery, because social distancing, and the delivery fee doesn't seem to increase, no matter how much stuff I'm having delivered. (At least I haven't hit any fee increase since I changed the first item to "delivery.")
So I have $1500 worth of stuff in my cart, and I'm figuratively waving a fistful of cash yelling "Shut up and take my money!" Checkout. Enter name and address. CONTINUE is still grayed-out. Click it anyway. Nothing happens. Maybe it didn't like the fact that FireFox automatically filled in the form fields; it wants to detect a keypress in each field. Nope; still disabled.
F12 Console. Lots of red. Apparently, the form depends on some non-lowes.com JS that is blocked by CORS policy. Or maybe it's one of the 2651635420182 scripts blocked by ABP and/or Ghostery.
If Lowes really doesn't want my money, I'm happy to give my business to Home Depot. (Some stuff I wanted to order I didn't order from Lowes, because their quality/selection of those particular items is .) The 10% rebate would be nice, though.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
will give me 10% cash back on an online purchase from lowes.com for a limited time if I use my debit card
I would ask more than 10% for putting my card details in their Magecart
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
1963, actually
Ah. I would have read it sometime in the mid-70s, probably. While I might possibly have had sufficient reading skill to have read the words in the book when it was first published, I doubt my young-child brain would have gotten much out of it. Tom Swift was more my speed at about that age, and I probably didn't even discover those books until a year or two after that.
"I remember those books," Mason said nostalgically.
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I started Disk Cleanup half an hour ago, and it still hasn't finished removing 13GB of unneeded update files. And it's taking 50% CPU on all 4 cores all this time. I can't express how much I hate Windows Update.
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Another 30 minutes and... The progress bar has reversed by like 20%?
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Another 30 minutes and... The progress bar has reversed by like 20%?
I decided to undelete those files.
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@Tsaukpaetra over 2 hours in, and it's un-undeleted them. But still not done.
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I started Disk Cleanup half an hour ago, and it still hasn't finished removing 13GB of unneeded update files. And it's taking 50% CPU on all 4 cores all this time. I can't express how much I hate Windows Update.
Even when it finishes, it won't have deleted 13GB of files.
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WTF Status: Taking Linkedin "skill quizzes" to pretend I'm doing something useful. Just took a .NET one. Passed "above the 70th percentile". Considering that I totally guessed on about half of them (usually could narrow it down to 2 answers out of 4), I'm not sure I like what that says about the competition. Hence why it's in this thread.
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@loopback0 I don't even care at this point. I just hope it doesn't accidentally any of the important files.