WTF Bites
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
You shouldn't encourage his self-harm behavior, you know.
His disdain for non-audiophiles justifies it, believe me.
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chances that he'll buy this crap are non-zero.
Well, you’d hardly want one of those cheapo switches that buffers and decodes all throughput, identifies and decompresses all types of audio stream, adds some random noise, then recompresses the whole thing and makes a whole new bytestream and packets for the connection, would you?
You mean the ones injecting a subliminal track for the illuminati?
We didn't think of that. We need new blood and by that, I don't mean the blood of newborn babies. We have enough of that.
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Did you know?
If you collected all the daily blood lost to menstruation throughout the world and put it inside a football stadium, it would be disgusting.
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Did you know?
If you collected all the daily blood lost to menstruation throughout the world and put it inside a football stadium, it would be disgusting.
What in fucks name prompted you to tell us that?
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What in fucks name prompted you to tell us that?
Oh, I see my mistake. You were talking about the blood of newborn babies, not unborn babies. Sorry about that.
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so sometimes it seems like this Kate payed me a hefty lump for unspecified services ...
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@Gąska
Also: I want to change the colo[u]r
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I was briefly considering creating a new thread, "Big list of software that cannot handle parentheses in paths", but I wouldn't want us to run out of threads.
"Hey! Stop complaining - we heard about Bobby Tables!"
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
they just display zero
I didn't catch that at first. I initially thought there was a "every thing is a desktop" brainworm here (as opposed to the usual everything is a phone).
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and a long file name
Mr. Swamp approves.
(I now set my captions to "FileBasename.ext - SoftwareName n.m.x" where n.m.x is the version)
I did just discover (ah, discoverability!) that if I hover the mouse over the caption, it expands over the toolbar.
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I was briefly considering creating a new thread, "Big list of software that cannot handle parentheses in paths", but I wouldn't want us to run out of threads.
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I was briefly considering creating a new thread, "Big list of software that cannot handle parentheses in paths", but I wouldn't want us to run out of threads.
Then it would be, "Please to be uploading" etc.
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I was briefly considering creating a new thread, "Big list of software that cannot handle parentheses in paths", but I wouldn't want us to run out of threads.
"Hey! Stop complaining - we heard about Bobby
TablesJNDI!"Get with the times, man.
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I need to have a talk with my guys. I checked in on a random server earlier. We had implemented a basic "time to completion" status for some tasks. As we all know, those are a best guess sort of thing. When I checked it had, properly formatted, a time to completion of "22,287 years, 7 months, 1 week, 4 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes".
Come on guys, there is no need for that much precision on a timeline that is obviously a transitive glitch.
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@Polygeekery "what an oddly specific number..."
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@Tsaukpaetra That was my first thought, but I fail to turn 7x10^11 into anything.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
When I checked it had, properly formatted, a time to completion of "22,287 years, 7 months, 1 week, 4 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes".
Did you wait for it to finish, or did you get a cup of coffee first?
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and a long file name
Mr. Swamp approves.
(I now set my captions to "FileBasename.ext - SoftwareName n.m.x" where n.m.x is the version)
I did just discover (ah, discoverability!) that if I hover the mouse over the caption, it expands over the toolbar.
Well in a way, it does save on screen real estate... For the next time they decide to unilaterally ramp up font size, I guess.
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and a long file name
Mr. Swamp approves.
(I now set my captions to "FileBasename.ext - SoftwareName n.m.x" where n.m.x is the version)
I did just discover (ah, discoverability!) that if I hover the mouse over the caption, it expands over the toolbar.
Well in a way, it does save on screen real estate... For the next time they decide to unilaterally ramp up font size, I guess.
Font size? We need moar whitespace!
</web designer>
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@nerd4sale said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
When I checked it had, properly formatted, a time to completion of "22,287 years, 7 months, 1 week, 4 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes".
Did you wait for it to finish, or did you get a cup of coffee first?
You're talking to @Polygeekery.
Wrong drink.
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@topspin the current fashion appears to be “ did you want some content with your white space?”
Fuck the current fashion.
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@Tsaukpaetra That was my first thought, but I fail to turn 7x10^11 into anything.
I was getting close with days as a signed int but it fell apart shortly thereafter...
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@Tsaukpaetra I hadn't even considered days since minute resolution is given. Minutes exceeds 2^32, seconds likewise mentioned above, and it is easy™ to see milliseconds, microseconds, and nanoseconds won't line up with 2^64 or similar either.
On further inspection I thought for a moment 2^48 milliseconds might line up but it's significantly too low.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra That was my first thought, but I fail to turn 7x10^11 into anything.
I was getting close with days as a signed int
There's also the question of how to translate into days... (I tried too)
I did:
years * 365.25
months * 30
(the rest has direct translations)but it fell apart shortly thereafter...
Yeah. Even for other year/month things...
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And ... you wouldn't want your music to sound like a Windows DLL or Word document, now would you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZgCVG_Bzk
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A friend sent me a photo, that a friend of his sent from his workplace.
Supposedly it comes about because of a policy that all loads shall be secured with straps or chains. No exceptions.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Supposedly it comes about because of a policy that all loads shall be secured with straps or chains. No exceptions.
Secured? That ratchet strap isn't even tight.
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@Polygeekery But they do not also have a policy against twisted or knotted straps?
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@PleegWat if they do that would be grounds for quitting. If you can't twist the straps they buzz and hum.
As for the knot, it looks like the knot is on the unloaded side and is to secure the excess strap.
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@Polygeekery Somehow this reminds me of our IT department.
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did you want some content with your white space?
Not that you could read the content, if there was any, because what is contrast?
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Somehow this reminds me of our IT department.
Yeah, it looks every bit as useful as the kind of antivirus IT force people to use.
Except for the analogy to be completely accurate, it would have to also slow down the vehicle to 5 mph or so, and cause the engine to stall randomly.
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When you buy a cheap Chinese stepper motor and try to figure out what the time between steps should be:
Which one would you trust?
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Neither ; I'd measure it myself to be sure.
But since I'm , I wouldn't disassemble the motor. Instead, I'd just make it rotate by a carefully chosen number of steps, and see if the rotor ends up in the same position it started from.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Except for the analogy to be completely accurate, it would have to also slow down the vehicle to 5 mph or so, and cause the engine to stall randomly.
Well, let's say that our IT department has a special request form to ask to opt out of the AV they install due to performance issues.
I suspect a trap, because that seems way too uncharacteristically end-user friendly and useful to be true.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Neither ; I'd measure it myself to be sure.
But since I'm , I wouldn't disassemble the motor. Instead, I'd just make it rotate by a carefully chosen number of steps, and see if the rotor ends up in the same position it started from.
Well, and multiply your steps by some multiple to be sure. After all, it can be really difficult to see a 0.317-blahblah step difference...
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Both the issue and the proposed fix are
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Both the issue and the proposed fix are
Sounds like they're at least trying to avoid the workaround
However, as you may notice in the flag’s description, this solution is considered a “backup plan.” The current solution is for Google to contact individual developers about the upcoming problem with Chrome 100.
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@Benjamin-Hall you know this is why Windows went from 8.1 to 10, right? Stupid sniffing version strings behaviour.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Both the issue and the proposed fix are
Sounds like they're at least trying to avoid the workaround
However, as you may notice in the flag’s description, this solution is considered a “backup plan.” The current solution is for Google to contact individual developers about the upcoming problem with Chrome 100.
Yeah. But <cynicism alert>I doubt that will work.</cynicism alert> and we'll end up with the same kind of hodge-podge mess we've got right now, just ramped up to the next level.
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@Benjamin-Hall you know this is why Windows went from 8.1 to 10, right? Stupid sniffing version strings behaviour.
I've heard that, but never seen confirmation.
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@Benjamin-Hall I would also note that Chrome has been trying to deprecate the UA string for a while, with their Client Hints.
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@Benjamin-Hall I would also note that Chrome has been trying to deprecate the UA string for a while, with their Client Hints.
Yeah. But we have people who insist on never upgrading anything...which absolutely doesn't include the company I work for. No, we're absolutely not using old crufty mysql 5.5 that's been deprecated for a decade...certainly not. Nor old versions of jquery in callback hell, mixed with outdated versions of Vue.js...
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@Benjamin-Hall Java certainly pulls this stunt with os.name returning “Windows 95” etc. rather than the Windows actual version number.
Other environments may also do this.
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@Arantor Or user agents. All common browser user agents start with "I'm using Netscape's rendering engine".
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We need to take defensive coding to the next step. Each time a number is formatted as text, it should randomly be in decimal, hex, binary or some other base. Also, it should be padded with a random number of leading zeroes and/or whitespace.
Alas, I'm sure some moron would find a creative way to get around that, but I imagine it would cause them to overexert their two brain cells in the process, so they'd at least have to pay with a headache.
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way too uncharacteristically end-user friendly and useful to be true
Oh that's easy. The request form is there, but It'll be semi-automatically rejected.
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@Benjamin-Hall Hey,
blocks any version of Chrome below version 40
Just set the version number to 400 then
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@Applied-Mediocrity that’s not a million miles away from the suggested workaround - they’re just going to call it Chrome 99.100.numbers rather than Chrome 100.0.numbers.
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@pcooper That's better than some of the stuff on the radio!