WTF Bites
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Say what you will about the tenets of libertarianism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
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Say what you will about the tenets of libertarianism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
I just realized it was direct address and not a colloqialism here. It sounds much more formal now.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit Nice, though usually at Kroger you don't have to buy that quantity to get that price (with a few exceptions). It's just $5÷4=$1.25 ea. etc
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@TimeBandit Can you group-buy? (That's assuming you can find 3 other people who want to have foam for bread...)
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is wanting to move to Denmark in the first place.
I can't emphasize enough how right you are.
> nrow(housing.options) [1] 123 > nrow(subset(housing.options, rent < stipend)) [1] 18 > nrow(subset(housing.options, rent < stipend * .9)) [1] 3 > nrow(subset(housing.options, rent < stipend * .6)) [1] 0
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I have a keyboard (the musical instrument kind) that I bought a long time ago. At the time, it was quite expensive and their "top of the line" model. A few days ago I started having problems so I contacted the manufacturer to see if there was any chance of repairing one of their instruments from 1997.
I very quickly got a reply, and they gave me the name and contact information for a company that is an "authorized service center". They're only about an hour away, so I figure it's worth a try.
I send off an e-mail and it bounces back. I try their website and it's dead -- the domain doesn't seem to exist any more. Some Googling turns up the name of the guy who runs the company, so I do a search for him.
He died in August 2019.
Well, that sucks. Especially for him.
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What kind of keyboard is it? What's the problem?
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Status: Pondering on why Intel HD Graphics Control Panel still uses .Net 3.5...
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Why shouldn't it? What improvement would be achieved by switching to a later version of the .NET framework?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Why shouldn't it? What improvement would be achieved by switching to a later version of the .NET framework?
Not needing to download an unnecessary framework package just to change certain settings not available in the
Windows Control PanelSettings App.
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I was thinking "must be yet another thing that only occurs on @Tsaukpaetra's machines", but I checked. Windows 7 had .NET 3.5 built-in. Windows 10 no longer does. Good job, MS!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Good job, MS!
Also, Good job Intel! It should be relatively simple to update the project to .Net 4, unless they're using undocumented API calls or someshit.
It's actually funny how many applets I've "converted" simply by using DotPeek to generate the solution, retarget, and fix a few auto-stupidities.
I'm just not interested in attempting to do that to a signed application.
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Let me repeat that:
a piece of Steve Jobs' turtleneck in the logo
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@Applied-Mediocrity Having reliquaries is hardly surprising given how some people are devoted to Apple...
This is another bit of prime marketing though:
"classic" and "innovation"?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Let me repeat that:
a piece of Steve Jobs' turtleneck in the logo
Good deal. Whereas a genuine Catholic indulgence already wasn't cheap, they usually charged you extra to see the shroud or a piece of the cross or whatever relic your parson happened to have on display. Now you get to own a piece of His Holy Garment and a phone on top.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Also, Good job Intel! It should be relatively simple to update the project to .Net 4, unless they're using undocumented API calls or someshit.
Nope, not gonna take that bet...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Also, Good job Intel! It should be relatively simple to update the project to .Net 4, unless they're using undocumented API calls or someshit.
Nope, not gonna take that bet...
Darn, waiting for a gullible to come...
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@sloosecannon That's an oxymoron. If it was so perfect, it wouldn't need much maintenance.
Inb4
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... "example of someone designing a system while cranked on drugs."
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Maybe they meant
perfect andperfectly, and that JS needs continuous maintenance.
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My fault. I got the link from the front-end guy and didn't verify the info. I guess you can't trust front-end guys like that
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Website asks for a "password reminder". There's a helpful little link "What is a password reminder?". Well:
Your password reminder should be different to your password. For security reasons we don't email you your password if you forget it. Instead, we'll email a password reminder to help you remember it - just click 'password reminder' on the Log on page.
Password reminder: "You're using randomly generated passwords, so if you're seeing this ... well, sucks to be you."
Filed under: A message to future-me.
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Not only does Microsoft Teams won't let you choose the folder where to download a file, but you can't even name the file, so an image is named "MicrosoftTeams-image.png"
I guess the next one will have "Copy(1)" appended to it
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@TimeBandit I presume it will also keep downloading the same file over and over again, piling up the folder with copies, like Skype does.
Checksums, how do they work!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Checksums, how do they work!
Letting you choose the download folder and set the filename is about 3 lines of code. If they can't figure out how to do that, I wouldn't expect them to be able to use checksums
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Letting you choose
Choices are bad; they confuse the user. Just click the magic button, and everything will be fine.
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@TimeBandit No. Gnomes are ok, I guess, but I tend to prefer High Elves, myself.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit No. Gnomes are ok, I guess, but I tend to prefer High Elves, myself.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I tend to prefer High Elves, myself.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Canadian Elves
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Not only does Microsoft Teams won't let you choose the folder where to download a file, but you can't even name the file, so an image is named "MicrosoftTeams-image.png"
I guess the next one will have "Copy(1)" appended to it
Look at this horror. Not just because it's a photo of the screen (as it's from my work laptop).
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit No. Gnomes are ok, I guess, but I tend to prefer High Elves, myself.
TIL. But only in Tolkien. The depiction of gnomes varies widely from author to author, but traditionally, they're small, live underground, and are often ugly.
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@loopback0 They save having to calculate the file's hash by including it in the filename
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@hungrier They're both the same file.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Not only does Microsoft Teams won't let you choose the folder where to download a file, but you can't even name the file, so an image is named "MicrosoftTeams-image.png"
I guess the next one will have "Copy(1)" appended to it
Look at this horror. Not just because it's a photo of the screen (as it's from my work laptop).
It turns out if you tell MacOS that Teams isn't allowed access to the Downloads folder, then Teams finds a way to put the file there anyway but with the stupidly long names.
If you grant it access then it saves it with the shorter filename.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
It turns out if you tell MacOS that Teams isn't allowed access to the Downloads folder, then Teams finds a way to put the file there anyway
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Not only does Microsoft Teams won't let you choose the folder where to download a file
Soon™
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Speaking of things that won't let you choose destination or rename, what's browsers' excuse? They used to have that functionality.
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Speaking of things that won't let you choose destination or rename, what's browsers' excuse? They used to have that functionality.
Firefox still does.
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They used to have that functionality.
They still do. At least FF (latest, as of a few days ago) and Chrome (not latest, but recent) do.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
They used to have that functionality.
They still do. At least FF (latest, as of a few days ago) and Chrome (not latest, but recent) do.
Even on mobile!
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@loopback0 It does have it available as a permanent option, but I'd prefer to have an in-between option: save normally by default, but also have an option to save as. Something like this:
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit I presume it will also keep downloading the same file over and over again, piling up the folder with copies, like Skype does.
Most browsers are guilty of exactly the same thing. Well, in combination with hiding the fact a download to permanent location is happening.
See, if you click on something the browser can't open in Chrome, it will download, by default without asking where, and the file appears on the bottom of the screen, and clicking it opens it. Which is what the user wanted, right. But the bottom bar disappears then, so does Blunt Fred the User know he still has the file? So when Blunt Fred the User realizes half an hour later he needed something more from that document, does he go hunting for the file in the file manager? No, he clicks the link again. And Chrome dully downloads the file again with a
(1)
appended to the name. And ten minutes later it happens again, this time with(2)
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