WTF Bites
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF Bites:
cut down a binary tree
But what if the tree identifies as non-binary?
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Package tracking:
The only problem with that is that it is currently only May 25, 2023 3:24 pm. I guess it departed 2 hours and 10 minutes in the future?
Edit: Yes, I am in the same time zone as Austin. Even if I wasn't, there is no time zone in the US that 5:34pm is in the past.
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Just don't be tempted to use a time machine to get your parcel. Your delivery distortion field is already bad enough, you don't need to add time paradoxes to it.
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@HardwareGeek Carrier scanner set to GMT, perhaps?
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AI has conquered our captchas, surely world domination is next
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HowTF does it increase "security" to disable pasting into an email address field?
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You said it yourself. It increases "security", with quotes. As opposed to actually increasing security.
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AI has conquered our captchas, surely world domination is next
The article said:
The first is that the AI systems require an enormous amount of human input to not be terrible. Typically image labeling is outsourced to foreign workers who do it for pennies on the dollar.
That is wrong. The image labelling is outsourced to hCaptcha. That's the whole point of it (and reCaptcha; hCaptcha is a copycat). It is asking people to identify a ‘Yoko’ to learn what it should be drawing when someone asks it to draw a ‘yoko’. They started training the recognition models, but those work quite well now, so they are trying to advance to the generative models.
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That is wrong. The image labelling is outsourced to hCaptcha. That's the whole point of it (and reCaptcha; hCaptcha is a copycat). It is asking people to identify a ‘Yoko’ to learn what it should be drawing when someone asks it to draw a ‘yoko’. They started training the recognition models, but those work quite well now, so they are trying to advance to the generative models.
It was easier to recognise Yoko when John was with her.
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...why would I need to set my privacy options in California while in Sweden, Microsoft?
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@Polygeekery this sounds a lot like the mess produced by Apache’s mod_security, except with more nonsense.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF Bites:
cut down a binary tree
But what if the tree identifies as non-binary?
that's most of them. Special where individual trees are either male or female are a distinct minority. Basically just willow and (as google shows) Holly.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Just don't be tempted to use a time machine to get your parcel. Your delivery distortion field is already bad enough, you don't need to add time paradoxes to it.
The distortion continues:
It is now 09:57. I guess it went out for delivery back to the regional facility, which will have sent it out again this afternoon.Note that yesterday's 17:34 departure has disappeared. It was replaced by the 23:36 departure some time around 22:00 last night. Also, the 09:53 departure was still in the future when this was last updated.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF Bites:
cut down a binary tree
But what if the tree identifies as non-binary?
that's most of them. Special where individual trees are either male or female are a distinct minority. Basically just willow and (as google shows) Holly.
There's a fairly long list of them, including box elder, mulberry, persimmon, ash, holly, juniper, dogwood, poplar, willow, yew, and others. Roughly 30% of trees are dioecious.
A plurality, a little over 40%, are monoecious, meaning they have separate male and female flowers, but on the same individual tree. Pine and similar conifers are a common example; they have separate pollen and seed cones on the same tree.
The remainder are hermaphroditic, with each flower having both male and female parts. This is also typical of most common garden flowers — roses, tulips, daisies, etc.
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...why would I need to set my privacy options in California while in Sweden, Microsoft?
To avoid cancer, obviously
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@TimeBandit Rather the other way round. Setting your privacy options in California may cause cancer!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in WTF Bites:
cut down a binary tree
But what if the tree identifies as non-binary?
that's most of them. Special where individual trees are either male or female are a distinct minority. Basically just willow and (as google shows) Holly.
There's a fairly long list of them, including box elder, mulberry, persimmon, ash, holly, juniper, dogwood, poplar, willow, yew, and others. Roughly 30% of trees are dioecious.
A plurality, a little over 40%, are monoecious, meaning they have separate male and female flowers, but on the same individual tree. Pine and similar conifers are a common example; they have separate pollen and seed cones on the same tree.
The remainder are hermaphroditic, with each flower having both male and female parts. This is also typical of most common garden flowers — roses, tulips, daisies, etc.
Fucking flowers! 💐
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
A plurality, a little over 40%, are monoecious, meaning they have separate male and female flowers, but on the same individual tree.
That sounds so much like a backwards compatibility hack.
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Contrary to the clickbait title, it's actually not that unbelievable.
Spoiler
Steep & deep crater creates an input that is deemed to be unrealistic by the lander's processing systerms. Consequently, the system starts to disregard the data from that sensor (which was the altitude radar system). Height is instead estimated by integrating data from other sensors (acceleration etc), which leads to a large error, esp. when combined with the "bad" input before. Lander believes it's arrived at the surface 5km too early; lander ties to touch down in mid air, runs out of fuel, and subsequently pancakes on the moon.
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@cvi IIRC Scott Manley writes software for apple, so he has some knowledge in that field.
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IIRC Scott Manley writes software for apple
Huh, really? Because from his videos I kinda got the impression that he knew what he was doing.
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Reading some news article on the phone, in the car, when briefly the mobile data connection gets lost. Immediately the site, which was already fully loaded with text and pictures, goes blank, showing just the background elements.
Why? What the fuck?!Everything is broken beyond belief. Putting executable code in documents was a gigantic mistake to begin with.
Fuck web devs.
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Why? What the fuck?!
while (true) { var stuff = getCurrentContent(); $('#mainContainer').html(stuff); }
Obviously.
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@MrL if they had the decency to put in a
sleep(1)
, at least the battery would last for more than 10 minutes.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
HowTF does it increase "security" to disable pasting into an email address field?
They didn't say it increases your security. It increased the programmers job security.
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@topspin we can blame Netscape for that particular misstep, in their race to out-compete Microsoft. But LiveScript as was then dubbed was never, ever meant for anything other than little animation effects, because CSS was years away at that point...
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WhatsTheFuckApp
Where do I tell it that the new "app" is utter crock of shit?
Well, at least it was back when it was first shat out, and it was a massive pain in the ass to install the old one again, so I haven't checked. Something tells me the situation hasn't changed much, at least not for the better.Rant coming in 27 days.
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Status: Feels.
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@Tsaukpaetra Damn matrix
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Feels.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I.e. you added another glitch which will happen after the first glitch, in order to revert the effects of the first glitch, while introducing some side effects, which could be dealt with by adding a 3th glitch...
A slippy .
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The devloper will not receive their next paycheck.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity I.e. you added another glitch which will happen after the first glitch, in order to revert the effects of the first glitch, while introducing some side effects, which could be dealt with by adding a 3th glitch...
A slippy .:newton's-cradle.mpg:
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
The devloper will not receive their next paycheck.
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Status: I don't think... what? Someone play "spot the wrong assumptions" with me...
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VS Code can't rename the file because it is locked. OK, let's see what's locking it. Oh, it's VS Code.
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VS Code can't rename the file because it is locked. OK, let's see what's locking it. Oh, it's VS Code.
Happens to quite a few Windows programs and they are not even written in Electron.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: I don't think... what? Someone play "spot the wrong assumptions" with me...
Wat?
I don't think Windows defined environment variables
stdin
andstdout
by default, so someone had to define them … in a rather weird way.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: I don't think... what? Someone play "spot the wrong assumptions" with me...
Wat?
I don't think Windows defined environment variables
stdin
andstdout
by default, so someone had to define them … in a rather weird way.Indeed.
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@Tsaukpaetra stdin.log?
Fake edit: Just took a look at your original post. Yeah, that's not what stdin does. Also, that's not stdout, that's stderr. Somebody is very confused about some very fundamental things.
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@Tsaukpaetra Writing files to the root of C.
What year is this, 1989?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Writing files to the root of C.
What year is this, 1989?Apparently this script is intended to configure a Windows XP Server *cough* I mean 2003 Server.
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@TimeBandit Python in the year 2032?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Writing files to the root of C.
What year is this, 1989?Who the hell should remember all those magic environment variables, and beyond those, C:\ is the only path that is guaranteed to exist …
Also, histerical raisins.
Filed under: why are the raisins always so histerical?
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Stop it! I want off this stupid train!
Yes, let's pass fucktons of current through mainboard traces now.
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C:\ is the only path that is guaranteed to exist …
Only if you have a harddrive.
(Ah, dammit, according to Wikipedia, Windows 2.1 released in 1988 already required having one. Damn you history for ruining the joke.)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
And a slot-based power solution should also be more reliable than clunky cables, which have recently become weak points leading to hardware failures including melting power connectors.
Well, there's still a connector involved that can be cheaped out on. Except now it's stuck on the motherboard. As a bonus feature, you're carrying 600W on the motherboard, so better hope those traces aren't underdimensioned.