WTF Bites
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
thinking that Excel is a proper tool for the job
Excel is a proper tool for every job
To be honest, every office rat can use Excel, often even for moderately complex analysis, while anything closer to database that might be more suited to large datasets requires considerable expertise to use.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare To be fair, though, he's using it to monitor needful-doers in India. It's still a terrible idea, but maybe kinda necessary in this case.
The work ethic is not the same everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQOoN6GM-Aw
...But I really shouldn't point fingers, since I'm posting this on company time.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare To be fair, though, he's using it to monitor needful-doers in India. It's still a terrible idea, but maybe kinda necessary in this case.
I wish I could do all my typing using only the WASD keys.
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Uhaul, you're confusing
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
You can say that again! I turned off a bunch of that stuff to try to stop my Pixel 3a (with Android 10) from killing my podcast player while it was playing, sometimes immediately after I'd interacted with it. The phone still killed it sometimes anyway, but it happened less. Never happened on my previous phone; the notification would sit there for days unless I closed it and battery life didn't seem to change either way.
That happens to me too. Not while a podcast episode is playing (it can't), but at the end of an episode it had to be about 50/50 whether it'd go on to play the next episode or if Android would nuke the app in that fraction of a second.
And I have battery optimizations turned off for my podcast app; as you said, it still happens but less often. I keep meaning to see what's going on in logcat. I'll hardcode the name of the app in my Android build to stop it if I have to. My battery life is about 45 hours. It doesn't need this kind of babying.
I have my podcast app "optimized" but with unrestricted background usage, and I've found that occasionally if I have it and Waze going, after pausing to give me directions the podcast notification disappears and I have no way to get back to my podcast without manually fiddling with it
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every office rat can use Excel,
No, every office rat uses Excel, whether or not they are able to…
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One of the genuises from one of our vendors included a sample HTTP request in an email. The request included some credentials, and rather than redacting them they simply set the text background for that bit of the request to black.
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I have my podcast app "optimized" but with unrestricted background usage, and I've found that occasionally if I have it and Waze going, after pausing to give me directions the podcast notification disappears and I have no way to get back to my podcast without manually fiddling with it
Yep, same problem.
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Received in an email ( in original; it’s just an image then the sender’s signature):
Just include the actual link for god’s sake!
Bonus fun: this email, sent 26 hours before the relevant event, says the meeting code will be sent 2 days before it begins.
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Then I head to /recent, and…
Seems this topic belongs to both the sidebar and megatopics category? But is shown as sidebar each time? @apapadimoulis?
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@kazitor I suppose this might be the thread to mention that, I believe nodebb does a whole lot more than just change the topic's CategoryId. Perhaps, even from the client side. In fact, the move topic dialogue never closed, despite after waiting almost 30 minutes, and causing my fan to engage jet engine mode. then I got a email that the Forum automatically restarted.
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@apapadimoulis moving the 10 largest of the largest forum threads, tens of thousands posts each. What could go wrong
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@Gąska If the forum used an RDBMS with a sensible schema, absolutely nothing. But we're talking about NodeBB here…
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@dfdub at least the devs don't yell at us for having them so long!
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@Gąska Instead, they look at their code and get their ready because they know we'll have a lot of "fun".
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If the forum used an RDBMS with a sensible schema, absolutely nothing.
Schemaless FTW!!!
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@dkf I read that as "shemales".
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Received in an email ( in original; it’s just an image then the sender’s signature):
Just include the actual link for god’s sake!
Oh great. Spam filters need to support scanning QR codes now?
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Spam filters need to support scanning QR codes now?
: There is a QR code in this, so it must be spam.
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Spam filters need to support scanning QR codes now?
: There is a QR code in this, so it must be spam.
Just trick all the spam filters into participating in NHS Track & Trace.
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WTFs of a network setup:
I was given a subcontracting job for this large corporate customer. To get to their network, I connect to a VPN router, which has a HTTP proxy and I connect to most other things through that proxy (including things like SSH; using socat to send appropriate CONNECT request). Now for every service I need to be given access on the service, and additionally get connecting to that service permitted on the proxy.
Getting the proxy opened is significantly more bureaucratic process than getting permissions on the service. But since I already have access to:
- Citrix to a computer in their intranet (and mapping local home directory works fine)
- Ssh to the build server, with standard capabilities server-side.
I can already get anywhere into the network. So the proxy filtering does not actually add any security, just gets in the way of doing work: because I already had access to the source code repository yesterday, but not the proxy, I put this in the
.ssh/config
:Host buildserver.corporate.com # This is the normal proxy-command: ProxyCommand socat - proxy:10.11.12.13:%h:%p,proxyport=8080,proxyauth=me:strongPassword ServerAliveInterval 15 Host sourcecode.corporate.com ProxyCommand ssh buildserver.corporate.com socat - tcp:%h:%p
When it's proxies all the way down, another level does not make any difference.
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Another WTF of a network setup:
The VPN to the proxy to this large corporate customer is set up so that:
- When I am connecting to it from our internal network, including when I am connecting with VPN, the VPN server only requests routing of relevant ranges to it.
- But when I am connecting from outside, it requests the default route, so I get cut off from internet, because I can't connect to internet through the customer network.
This logic is implemented by having two alternate servers in the OpenVPN config. Ok, so now working from home, I must connect to our VPN first and then to the customer VPN. Fine…
… except our VPN is now configured to disconnect after 12 hours. Which will make the customer VPN reconnect, reach the outside server, and cut off internet. And because it still sees the outside server, connecting back to our VPN does not fix anything; I have to restart the customer VPN too.
Now because I knew this back when I set this convoluted thing up for previous project, I configured it so that I don't connect to the customer network with the whole computer, but only with a container (paravirtual) running on it, so it does not actually cut me off from the internet completely, it only cuts off the browser and build process running inside the container.
… of course yesterday I started a long build that needs to fetch a bunch of components (bitbake bootstrapping a system image; it's embedded linux development), and it failed to get many of the dependencies, because the network switched over midway and broke getting them.
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@Gąska If the forum used an RDBMS with a sensible schema, absolutely nothing. But we're talking about NodeBB here…
It's not just NodeBB, but our custom Frankenstein turducken amalgamation of Postgres and MongoDB.
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@Gąska If the forum used an RDBMS with a sensible schema, absolutely nothing. But we're talking about NodeBB here…
It's not just NodeBB, but our custom Frankenstein turducken amalgamation of Postgres and MongoDB.
Oh, God, I completely forgot about that. Why did you have to remind me?
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Step 1: Open any YouTube channel page that has autoplaying intro.
Step 2: Before the autoplaying intro loads, switch to any other tab on the channel page (e.g. videos).Come on, try it.
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@Gąska This is especially bad when, just as a random example that may or may not have happened to anyone who may or may not be me at a time that may or may not have been yesterday, you find a music artist's channel and keep some song open in one tab while you look at the other videos uploaded by said channel.
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Step 1: Open any YouTube channel page that has autoplaying intro.
Step 2: Before the autoplaying intro loads, switch to any other tab on the channel page (e.g. videos).Come on, try it.
What's supposed to happen?
I tried on several channels, and even when I managed to change tab before the intro loaded (which is pretty quick) it just changed tab and nothing obvious happened.
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@loopback0 For me the audio from the channel trailer continues playing, which is what I assume @Gąska was talking about.
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@loopback0 for me, it starts playing the intro video. AFTER it's already gone. And then when you navigate further, it's STILL playing. So when you click on some video you want to watch, THE AUDIO FROM THE INTRO OVERLAPS. EVEN WHEN YOU GO THROUGH SUGGESTIONS AND PLAY A VIDEO FROM ANOTHER CHANNEL.
Goddamn I hate SPAs.
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@loopback0 and when you don't switch away, does the intro autoplay?
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@Gąska Yes, I had to keep finding new channels as if you visit a channel you've visited before it doesn't autoplay.
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@loopback0 looks like I've lost the A/B testing lottery again or something
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
if you visit a channel you've visited before it doesn't autoplay
This must be a recent change (or another A/B test that came up tails for me)
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@loopback0 looks like I've lost the A/B testing lottery again or something
I just tried it on my Windows desktop (rather than my Mac laptop) and it happened as you described on the first go. Several subsequent attempts didn't though.
Bloody Youtube.
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On Sep 8th 2020 Pakistan's Supreme Court instructed Pakistan's AAIB to submit the final investigation report by Oct 15th 2020 at the latest.
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On Oct 6th 2020 Pakistan's Supreme Court issued another ruling in writing, that Pakistan's government has to release the final report within 45 days (editorial note: this suggests the final report might be published until Nov 20th 2020).does supreme court have to order government agency to do its effing job? Investigating accidents and publishing the findings is the purpose of the investigation board.
On Sep 11th 2020 Pakistan's Parliament was informed that the accident was caused by technical factors and was not caused by human error.
Earlier (some preliminary reports were published) they said that that the blade that failed was due for change in previous maintenance, which sounds like one error. And the aircraft should still be flyable with one engine out, so there must have been at least one another factor.
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Today's from our JIRA:
So I am starting on this project. I got some introductory documents, which links to four stories we should do. So I crack open the first one and there is a beautiful Definitono of Ready checklist. With this legend:
Legend:
(-) To check, (✓) Yes/Done, (-) No/Failed/Not Applicable (add a comment if needed)So how do I know whether the (-)s mean the task is not acceptable, or that it's ready and the items are just irrelevant?
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Today's from our JIRA:
So I am starting on this project. I got some introductory documents, which links to four stories we should do. So I crack open the first one and there is a beautiful Definitono of Ready checklist. With this legend:
Legend:
(-) To check, (✓) Yes/Done, (-) No/Failed/Not Applicable (add a comment if needed)So how do I know whether the (-)s mean the task is not acceptable, or that it's ready and the items are just irrelevant?
Is that legend a plaintext? Are you expected to draw these checkboxes as ascii-art (or Markdown)?
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@Kamil-Podlesak It is jiramoji, so you can pick them from menu or type their ascii-equivalents in the jiramark. I just couldn't find similar-looking emoji here.
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WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
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WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
@apapadimoulis has moved some furniture.
Wait, no, it was some cheese.
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WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
@apapadimoulis has moved some furniture.
Wait, no, it was some cheese.
That doesn't seem right, do I need to give special permissions to guest or something?
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@apapadimoulis said in WTF Bites:
WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
@apapadimoulis has moved some furniture.
Wait, no, it was some cheese.
That doesn't seem right, do I need to give special permissions to guest or something?
You need to give them some permissions:
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@apapadimoulis said in WTF Bites:
WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
@apapadimoulis has moved some furniture.
Wait, no, it was some cheese.
That doesn't seem right, do I need to give special permissions to guest or something?
You need to give them some permissions:
People who
tell the truth aboutpoint out shortcomings of our Glorious Dictator should invest in a life insurance plan that doesn't exclude Clintoncide.
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@izzion Hey hey hey! I'm just training my replacement here.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@apapadimoulis said in WTF Bites:
WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
@apapadimoulis has moved some furniture.
Wait, no, it was some cheese.
That doesn't seem right, do I need to give special permissions to guest or something?
You need to give them some permissions:
Sooo "Find Category", "Access Category" and "Access Topics"?
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@apapadimoulis said in WTF Bites:
WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
@apapadimoulis has moved some furniture.
Wait, no, it was some cheese.
That doesn't seem right, do I need to give special permissions to guest or something?
You need to give them some permissions:
Can't downvote here either apparently.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@apapadimoulis said in WTF Bites:
WTF of my day: I can no longer read this thread without creating an account and logging in.
@apapadimoulis has moved some furniture.
Wait, no, it was some cheese.
That doesn't seem right, do I need to give special permissions to guest or something?
You need to give them some permissions:
Can't downvote here either apparently.
@boomzilla still could, but he can now only do so once.