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@error Yeah, well, they basically don't understand that you might want to have a buffer not associated with the current project.
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If they called it 'open project' then it would be fine and everyone would understand that that cleared context.
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
If they called it 'open project' then it would be fine and everyone would understand that that cleared context.
Also no. If they called it “open session”, then yeah. I can have multiple folders open or multiple projects.
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
If they called it 'open project' then it would be fine and everyone would understand that that cleared context.
Also no. If they called it “open session”, then yeah. I can have multiple folders open or multiple projects.
How about they make it work the way that is useful to the user rather than explain why it sucks?
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How about they make it work the way that is useful to the user rather than explain why it sucks?
Are you new to this IT thing?
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@error As a Javascript developer, and realizing that VSCode is just a bog standard Electron app at heart, why not add a custom task pane to act as your notepad? Those usually persist from workspace to workspace.
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@error As a Javascript developer, and realizing that VSCode is just a bog standard Electron app at heart, why not add a custom task pane to act as your notepad? Those usually persist from workspace to workspace.
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@error As a Javascript developer, and realizing that VSCode is just a bog standard Electron app at heart, why not add a custom task pane to act as your notepad? Those usually persist from workspace to workspace.
I have added a custom task pane, multi-project view, cloud sync, remote API, and runs TDWTF plays Picross on my VSCode instance now. Must remember not to close it tho
$CARRIER_LOST
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I was looking at my purchase history on eBay. Definitely logged in, as you obviously can't see purchase history otherwise. I tried to add a seller to my "saved sellers" list.
eBay suddenly decided not only that I wasn't logged in but that I needed redirecting from ebay.co.uk to ebay.fr before being shown the login screen.
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@loopback0 The other day I added some auctions to my watch list. Then I went to look at the watch list, and Ebay helpfully informed me that I would have to login to do that. what watch list did it add the items to, then? So I clicked on "my ebay", and it happily showed me my (logged in) account. But, if I tried to use the watch list dropdown in the menu, it wouldn't let me. So, ok, I logged in there. Then it asked me to confirm my phone number, which was fine, and asked me to setup some security questions, which I skipped. After all that, I got the same login screen asking for my username (except in en-CA; it somehow never got confused about my language despite forgetting that I had just been twice logged in)
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I needed redirecting from ebay.co.uk to ebay.fr before being shown the login screen.
You just got Brexited
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eBay's UI/UX is a complete mess. It makes even Windows 10 look good in comparison.
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I love the streamlined patches these days.
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Yesterday, I updated XCode on our dev Mac since it told me there was an update available (though we have been behind on updates for awhile, I'm sure).
Today, I get on the Mac and see there's an update for XCode available, marked as "3 days ago".
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@ChaosTheEternal said in WTF Bites:
Yesterday, I updated XCode on our dev Mac since it told me there was an update available (though we have been behind on updates for awhile, I'm sure).
Today, I get on the Mac and see there's an update for XCode available, marked as "3 days ago".
Sounds about right. Every time I turn on my Mac that's another 6G (or bigger) update.
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
If they called it 'open project' then it would be fine and everyone would understand that that cleared context.
Also no. If they called it “open session”, then yeah. I can have multiple folders open or multiple projects.
How about they make it work the way that is useful to the user rather than explain why it sucks?
You might have noticed that "they" have done neither.
But yeah...after using it for a bit I understand "Open Folder" to mean "Open a new Workspace in a particular folder."
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@ChaosTheEternal The first update package included an update to the update system so that it could receive the second update package. Alternately, as soon as it detects there's an update available, it doesn't bother checking for future updates. Alternately, for some bizarre reason Apple hosts their update CDN on Milwaukee PC, and while the update was released 3 days ago, this was the first time your computer was eligible for it so they don't get (more) thundering herded.
Pick your poison.
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
Pick your poison.
It's Apple. That itself is poisonous enough. (Just ask Snow White.)
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
You might have noticed that "they" have done neither.
Did I use the wrong pronoun for Microsoft?
Yes, there is an interpretation that explains why this feature is not as convenient as it could be. No, that is not a good reason to keep the user experience poor.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
You might have noticed that "they" have done neither.
Did I use the wrong pronoun for Microsoft?
I'm saying that I didn't see Microsoft in this thread explaining why it sucks.
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And Blakeyrat is unavailable for comment...
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I've started playing Into The Breach this weekend.
It's a game about time travel.
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For some people, it's apparently easier to manage your own browser than port some web forms from Flash to HTML.
Well, yes, very much so.
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I don't know much about Flash, but hasn't the IDE been able to generate HTML5 for several years now?
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For some people, it's apparently easier to manage your own browser than port some web forms from Flash to HTML.
Well, yes, very much so.
Step 1: download source code of latest Chrome which still supports Flash
Step 2: change logo
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit
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Weather status: hot℃
(sauce)
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@kazitor I have an idea for a joke but I don't know how to multiply every component of every pixel by 1.8.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=g6T8tjhSGro
Frankly surprised nothing happened.
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@Tsaukpaetra Don't see why anything could have happened. The slot is not even powered after POST, when SPD failed.
Now, removing stuff is more of a . I once absent-mindedly did that. Suprisingly, the fucker kept running (in that I could move the mouse pointer) for some 5 seconds or so.
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I don't know how to multiply every component of every pixel by 1.8.
HTH
to save you the effort,
linear (i.e., properly):
nonlinear (probably your intention):
I’ll be honest… it’s hiląrious.
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@kazitor I have an idea for a joke but I don't know how to multiply every component of every pixel by 1.8.
temperature scales are affine, not linear.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
I find it entertaining that the abbreviation of their tax agency is a deadly disease.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Don't see why anything could have happened. The slot is not even powered after POST, when SPD failed.
Now, removing stuff is more of a . I once absent-mindedly did that. Suprisingly, the fucker kept running (in that I could move the mouse pointer) for some 5 seconds or so.
At my school we had some Apple ][ for the computer club and a friend of mine, who was the current leader of said club, wanted to demonstrate to newcomers as to what they were doing there.
He showed them the innards of the Apple computers, how they were consisting of several cards slotted in ... and then pulled out one of the cards while the computer was running. The computer promptly crashed.
So he did the only sensible thing: He immediately put the card back into its slot.
Which, as the computer still was under power, immediately released the magic smoke.
Later on the same guy programmed a C64 virus just for shits'n'giggles. He then forgot to label the disc with the virus properly and also kind of threw away his documentation. Four month later he then had to reverse-engineer his own virus because he had infected all his discs...
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Seriously, Java doesn't have a primitive base-10 fractional type (like C#
decimal
)?I'm sure it's fine if I put monetary values in a
double
. Who cares about a few thousandths of a cent anyway?
Filed under: Actually I'm going to move them from the DB to the WS endpoint as Strings.
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Seriously, Java doesn't have a primitive base-10 fractional type (like C#
decimal
)?There's
BigDecimal
, that's been in there since ages ago.
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Seriously, Java doesn't have a primitive base-10 fractional type (like C#
decimal
)?There's
BigDecimal
, that's been in there since ages ago.I'll try it. Hopefully both Spring Boot and MyBatis understand it.
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I'll try it. Hopefully both Spring Boot and MyBatis understand it.
IIRC, it's got a constructor that takes a string so it's handled by default, at least by Spring Boot. No idea what MyBatis will do as I've never used it, but the simplest of searching leaves me hopeful.
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Seriously, Java doesn't have a primitive base-10 fractional type (like C#
decimal
)?There's
BigDecimal
It's too big!
Of course, @error is going to try it anyway
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Later on the same guy
And he's now the senior architect on some vast world spanning security system?
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Seriously, Java doesn't have a primitive base-10 fractional type (like C#
decimal
)?I'm sure it's fine if I put monetary values in a
double
. Who cares about a few thousandths of a cent anyway?
Filed under: Actually I'm going to move them from the DB to the WS endpoint as Strings.
JSR-354 is coming, there are already implementations of it I think.
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We'd like this value to be configurable from the control panel, not hard-coded. Luckily, you can just decorate the code properties with an attribute to load values from the configuration!
OK, but how will the configuration get set in each environment? Easy, it gets packaged as XML and pushed along with the code package!
OK, but how does the XML for the configuration get generated? Easy, it gets generated from the attributes decorating the properties in the code!
tl;dr: You can't put the values in the code. You have to put the values in the configuration (which gets the values from the XML (which gets the values from the code))).
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tl;dr: You can't put the values in the code. You have to put the values in the configuration (which gets the values from the XML (which gets the values from the code))).
Yeah, I put sensible defaults or "humans reading this should instinctively know this needs to be changed" values in code, which become the config file defaults.
It's easy to spot someone who hasn't followed the install procedure when they launch it and it says "couldn't connect to 'purple peanut butter everything else' database".
No curse words though, wouldn't want them catching on...
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@Tsaukpaetra You can, in theory, change the values from default, except it will get reset to the default values on the next deployment.
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@Tsaukpaetra You can, in theory, change the values from default, except it will get reset to the default values on the next deployment.
Hence the beauty of everything!
Sadly, doesn't help the monkeys, but what can you do?
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except it will get reset to the default values on the next deployment
Such joy lies in wait for the next person to discover why none of their changes seem to persist!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
"humans reading this should instinctively know this needs to be changed"
I don't trust people to have enough instinct to know it. And I trust the developers even less to correctly assess what is and what isn't known instinctively by the users.