WTF Bites
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: fucking Sharepoint.
Coming from you, I'd lean towards reading that as a verb rather than an adjective.
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I'm writing this sentence mostly as an excuse to use a long scary-looking Polish word.
Yeah, as if you needed any excuse to expose us to random Polish words.
low effort anything was banned. Censorship was just as much about the right politics as it was about upholding quality standards. And as much as it pains me to say, it worked.
...which is why communist Poland is still associated with high-quality craftsmanship in everyone's mind
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Translating is hard. Don't even ask why English needs two different words for bezpieczeństwo.
It puzzles me more why so many languages conflate such obviously different concepts .
For more , while in French there is usually a single word used for both, there are cases (mostly administrative-level ry. France in particular is very good at that!) where two different words are used.
When it's done, the one that looks almost like "security" actually means "safety" and the one that does not look much like "security" (nor "safety") means "security."
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Translating is hard. Don't even ask why English needs two different words for bezpieczeństwo.
It puzzles me more why so many languages conflate such obviously different concepts .
Concepts like 'free' and 'gratis'?
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@PleegWat libre, as in LibreOffice?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
low effort anything was banned. Censorship was just as much about the right politics as it was about upholding quality standards. And as much as it pains me to say, it worked.
...which is why communist Poland is still associated with high-quality craftsmanship in everyone's mind
Yeah, see, the crafts actually fall under a different department, and the Office for Control of Press, Publications and Productions cannot speak to the matter of quality, effort, or lack thereof in that sphere.
If, however, you would wish to publicly imply that Polish craftsmanship is not high-quality or high-effort, we do, in fact, have some very important things to say about that.
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Translating is hard. Don't even ask why English needs two different words for bezpieczeństwo.
It puzzles me more why so many languages conflate such obviously different concepts .
Concepts like '
freefri' and 'gratis'?If your language is so poor that you have to nick words all the time, feel free to grab some more.
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If, however, you would wish to publicly imply that Polish craftsmanship is not high-quality or high-effort, we do, in fact, have some very important things to say about that.
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Logged back in to Fallout 76 last night just to see what a shitshow it
has becomealways has been.I spent 15 minutes claiming a power plant for my own, another 15 building its defenses and resource collectors... then got disconnected. When I reconnected, everything I'd built had vanished and I no longer had control of the power plant.
That was enough for me, I deleted the game again.
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Logged back in to Fallout 76 last night just to see what a shitshow it
has becomealways has been.I spent 15 minutes claiming a power plant for my own, another 15 building its defenses and resource collectors... then got disconnected. When I reconnected, everything I'd built had vanished and I no longer had control of the power plant.
That was enough for me, I deleted the game again.
At least your game du jour hasn't completely suspended new account sales and refunded everyone 3 weeks worth of subscription time.
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if (strConn.Contains("\\")) { @strConn = @strConn.Replace("\\", @"\"); }
For those who don't speak dotnet
this is basically a NOP. (except it will throw a NullReferenceException if strConn is null)
strConn
and@strConn
are the same variable, except the second one is being unnecessarily escaped and"\\"
and@"\"
are two ways of referring to the same string.
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Yeah, see, the crafts actually fall under a different department, and the Office for Control of Press, Publications and Productions cannot speak to the matter of quality, effort, or lack thereof in that sphere.
If, however, you would wish to publicly imply that Polish craftsmanship is not high-quality or high-effort, we do, in fact, have some very important things to say about that.
It's a cheap joke. Don't overthink it.
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@Zerosquare YMBNH
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When stepping through code, usually Visual Studio will just go to the next line right away. But occasionally, it gets into the state where it pops up that dialog and spins for like half a minute.
Between.
Every.
Single.
Line.
Of.
Code.
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@hungrier edit & continue.
I've changed all my projects to specifically disable that. It's never helped. It's always said "I can't do that Dave". (While debugging, I frequently am updating the code at the same time - not necessarily saving it. E&C is never happy.)
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It's always said "I can't do that Dave".
Kill it! Kill it before it kills you!
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@Zerosquare depends if it’s HAL or Holly.
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Watching movies on Netflix. Original language is English, but as they often do they leave in some Spanish when the villains talk to each other. Usually, it somehow defaults to subtitling the Spanish parts.
However, when I go to the language/subtitle options, there’s no choice for that. I can turn English subs on or off. I can also turn to German dubs, which also has the English parts dubbed but leaves in the Spanish. Which should then be subtitled. But once you’ve changed anything there’s no way to get there.
So I now have options for:- English audio, no subs
- English audio, everything subtitled
- German audio, no subs
- German audio, everything subtitled.
I don’t speak Spanish, FFS. I also don’t want to read subtitles for German audio, especially not considering there’s not been a single movie ever where either the English or German subs actually match the audio!
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@topspin Not netflix, but I generally prefer English with English subs to compensate for not being able to hear the actors well enough half the time.
Even there the audio and subs often don't match.
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not being able to hear the actors well enough half the time.
Headphones.
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It doesn't help! All those young people mutter under their breath, and you can't hear them over the background music!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It doesn't help! All those young people mutter under their breath, and you can't hear them over the background music!
It's called "hip-hop", it's not music and it's better to not hear what they are saying.
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Nah, you must be mistaken. In hip-hop, the curse words are clearly audible (unless you're listening to a censored version).
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@PleegWat I often do that, but only when I watch in English instead of the German dub.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Nah, you must be mistaken. In hip-hop, the curse words are clearly audible (unless you're listening to a censored version).
I wouldn't know, too deep knowledge of the "phenomenon" for me.
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WTF of my day: This trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g
Seems they leaned into the multiverse shtick and dialed it up to 11.
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@Rhywden No Jason Statham or Jet Li, I'm out
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WTF of my day: This trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g
Seems they leaned into the multiverse shtick and dialed it up to 11.
Looks better than the new matrix movie.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
German dub
@MrL and you thought hop-hip was bad. Try this one!
We tried it from '39 to '45. No, thank you.
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Clearly, it's not designed to make the experience of Apple users more convenient.
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You mean it offers them a taste of their own medicine?
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Well, they are developed by Apple, and you know what the medical fraternity is like around those.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Clearly, it's not designed to make the experience of Apple users more convenient.
An Apple a day makes it harder to pay.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It doesn't help! All those young people mutter under their breath, and you can't hear them over the background music!
It's a recognised style.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Clearly, it's not designed to make the experience of Apple users more convenient.
I wonder what sort of bug it is that they're unable to work around it?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Clearly, it's not designed to make the experience of Apple users more convenient.
I wonder what sort of bug it is that they're unable to work around it?
Probably nothing to do with macOS. Everything to do with Safari. It's just that no one runs Safari on any platform other than Apple.
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@dcon And safari is the new ie6. Seriously, working with safari and supporting it is painful.
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@dcon technically just about everyone using Safari on Windows was in violation of the licence, even though Apple distributed it themselves, because the only people who could legally use it according to the licence were people on a Mac using a Windows VM... gotta be running it on 'Apple branded equipment'.
But in answer to the question, Apple does not support Safari on Windows any more.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@dcon And safari is the new ie6.
Not really. IE6 was incompatible with everything and did everything wrong. Safari is just slow to catch up with the six dozen new features Google unilaterally declares as standard every week. Like being able to use Bluetooth to control your internet of shit oven trough your browser, or whatever else they’re doing to make the browser an OS with hardware access. Being slow to catch up with that is a feature, not a bug.
Also, that payment portal should be able to run with IE6 unless they’re using WebGL to verify the form entries on the GPU. There’s no excuse for this.
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just about everyone using Safari on Windows was in violation of the licence
: But none of them read the license, so they weren't bound by it.
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@HardwareGeek Is that actually true in a court of law? Obviously Apple left that clause in the licence and just forgot about it - I don't know of them ever going after a Safari-on-Windows user (even if they have gone after Hackintosh people)
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Is that actually true in a court of law?
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@Arantor you weren’t around during the Great Didn’t Read It Wars.
(Although he probably did have a point somewhere that bullshit shrink wrap licenses are not enforceable.)
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@topspin I feel glad to have missed that.
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@Arantor it was actually pretty funny, at least at first.
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@Arantor it was actually pretty funny, at least at first.
After that, it was just very sad. We humoured him.