WTF Bites
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@ben_lubar Hah. It seems to be working now, though.
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Now it will be renamed Studio YouTube
You're not supposed to translate the words in the name.
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Some of the links link to Spanish help articles. Everything but that one paragraph is in English.
This is why I absolutely despise using software that isn't in English.
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Now it will be renamed Studio YouTube
You're not supposed to translate the words in the name.
April fools prank idea:
- Message in not-English.
- "Translate to English" button.
- Clicking the button moves the message so it overlaps with the button but does nothing else.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Clicking the button moves the message so it overlaps with
the buttonthe word "English" but does nothing else.Just to clarify.
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I'm afraid I'm going to need it though.
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
So you deleted all your repos and dissolved the company and then committed sudoku?
Wat? How can they commit puzzles when their repos are gone?
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Good thing we can just disable hyperthreading to work around this…
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KiwiIRC boasts of supporting multiple languages:
But... The hebrew is written in the wrong direction in that image...
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Updating the Hearthstone mobile app through Google Play does not always mean that the Hearthstone app is actually updated. Because it may surprise you with the need to download an additional 1.2GB of data when you open it, which is a mandatory download to play the game. I dunno why they felt the need to invent their own in-app downloader for game data when Google Play is perfectly able to provide that service.
I've got a friend that works for an iOS game dev startup. They do it the same way, you download the app and then you need to wait to download the content. They do it this way for two main reasons:
- Easier updates. If they need to update stuff that doesn't requires changes in code, they can do it without having to release a new version. Which is much easier and faster.
- Building up on the above: they "game" the AppStore reviews system this way. On iOS only the reviews for the latest version count towards app's score and only those reviews will be shown to a potential user.
- It's easier to get someone to download the game and then play it. You download a few hundred megs from the AppStore, then you download a few hundred megs when first launching. Also, you can choose if you want to download it all, or if you want for some stuff to be downloaded JIT.
So yeah, there are actual reasons for that.
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I thought these ads were just automatically translated, but apparently there's some human interaction still.
Typing a 'p' instead of an 'o' in Miljonär (Millionaire). I'm also trying to figure where exactly in Sweden I can find "Local Area". ("Millionaire mom from Local Area makes 3900kr/h from home")
Also, the iPhone 7 have lost a lot of value recently it seems.
Last I checked, the iPhone 7 cost ~7500kr from the Apple Store, but they're apparently only worth 3000kr now. And here I can even get them for only 5kr! What a bargain!
But why are these SE's there in the picture?
Seems legit, though!
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Well, it's Ubisoft, and they're tr regardless of situation.
Watch_Dogs 2 is worth its price, though.
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The hell is up with that interrobang?
Well, this seems to be the time to say: Go home Carlito, you're drunk...
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@onyx The interrobang in Slack does the same thing for me:
Discord gets it right though:
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@raceprouk In my case it seems to be loading the local resource for Nod, but it's picking a different one as a default. Note that this is a Linux box and I don't have Arial installed. Seems like the default sans-serif font is set to be
Carlito
, which is the first time I heard of it, honestly.I now wonder if this is affected by my KDE theme? I'd swear it defaulted to
Noto Sans
before...
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
We offered to set up automatic archiving of all the email hoarders emails to a PST file stored on the server. We tried it out and it was roundly rejected. I cannot remember why.
You said earlier
@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
their biggest problem is that they are an idiot.
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[2017-06-26 16:27:13] ERROR[855]: tcptls.c:1335 ast_tcptls_close_session_file: fclose() failed: Success
Goddamnit
OracleAsterisk!
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[2017-06-26 16:27:13] ERROR[855]: tcptls.c:1335 ast_tcptls_close_session_file: fclose() failed: Success
It was trying to fail and succeeded !!!
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
We offered to set up automatic archiving of all the email hoarders emails to a PST file stored on the server. We tried it out and it was roundly rejected. I cannot remember why.
You said earlier
@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
their biggest problem is that they are an idiot.
Oh! My other big bitch about how people use Outlook, or maybe with how Outlook works.
On occasion, we have to reinstall Office because it decides to shit itself in new and interesting ways and that is the surest way to take care of the issue in short order. Inevitably when we do, we get the user sending a frantic email:
or : "All of my contacts are gone!!11!!!"
No they aren't, you never had any contacts, you just relied on the autocomplete feature of Outlook to fill in addresses you have used previously. You never stored them as contacts. Store them as contacts and they come back. Don't and we have to go in to your Outlook profile and trick Outlook in to using your old autocomplete store.
Store them as contacts.
Alternatively, and a better workflow, would be if Outlook created these contacts for you, or stored autocomplete some place where it was more permanent.
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Alternatively, and a better workflow, would be if Outlook created these contacts for you, or stored autocomplete some place where it was more permanent.
Gmail does this. It was really annoying until they started automatically categorizing them out of the main contacts group.
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WTF of my day: Found a notification from the delivery guy on Saturday afternoon that he wasn't able to hand over a parcel in person.
The delivery was supposed to have happened on Friday. And I could pick up the parcel at the nearest delivery point on Saturday at 10am.I hadn't looked into my mailbox on Friday after returning from school and slept in on Saturday, so I found the note at around 3pm.
I also didn't expect a delivery. Then again, I sometimes (rarely, actually) get the odd package from relatives.
I didn't feel like going to the delivery point just for the parcel, considering that going there on my way back from school is much more convenient. So I planned to do so on Monday. Didn't make it, today (Tuesday) worked out.
The guys at the delivery point told me: "But you already collected the package! On Saturday at 9:20am!" - "No, I didn't." - "But it says here: Collected by legal representative!" - "I don't have a legal representative in this town." They told me to call DHL.
So I called them and tried to get an answer, during which I noticed that the house number was off by 4. Thus I hung up to check if my neighbour by any chance had the same last name as me. They don't (it's a rather uncommon last name, too).
Called DHL again where the agent told me that it was a heavy package (15 kg) from a town I don't know. But the signature was readable as my last name, according to the agent. He also couldn't tell me who sent the packageYeah. Which means that I'm currently waiting for my girlfriend (who's a cop) to tell me where to go to report fraud because I want at least those guys at the delivery point to be slapped around a bit for not doing their fucking job when checking identities.
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@rhywden
You might want to check to see if the DHL guys have stolen your identity to smuggle dope :P
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Two idiots working on a feature together (front & back), but can't agree on naming and snake_case vs camelCase convention. This is the result.
AGGGH.
I fucking hate other developers. They always dissapoint.
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
snake_case
is
@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
camelCase
is the One True Way ;)
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
is
@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:camelCase
is the One True Way
The convention in this project should be snake_case for data like this. But even if they went camelCase, AT LEAST FUCKING AGREE ON ONE AND FOLLOW THROUGH.
And wtf is that
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thing? Couldn't decide on a name, so they left both!?This is fresh fucking code, not some legacy garbage you need to maintain compatibility.
I hate people.
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I mean, I am a tabs guy, but I can't believe they'd put that as a requirement in a job ad.
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@cartman82 xXx_MySpAcE_cAsE_xXx
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@ben_lubar Where's the "Intentionally Annoying Ideas" thread?
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@cartman82
I mean, you might as well rule out the religious nuts early in the recruiting process...
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@cartman82 That's a warning that they'll be paying you less
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@cartman82
I mean, you might as well rule out the religious nuts early in the recruiting process...I'd tend to conclude they've got religious nuts in high places already.
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@pleegwat
No, the fruits are the ones that use tabs
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Well, that's new to me.
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@cartman82 Oh god, no, it's because of that article going around that spaces guys get paid more. They're looking for someone cheap.
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Well, that's new to me.
Now, why their driver requires a full reboot (a.k.a. their driver doesn't unload/reload properly).... that's TRWTF.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@dreikin said in WTF Bites:
Well, that's new to me.
Now, why their driver requires a full reboot (a.k.a. their driver doesn't unload/reload properly).... that's TRWTF.
BTW, am I the only one here thinking that making a cold boot "warmer" than a restart is very surprising and thus not such a good idea?
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I am pretty sure shut down + start up is just as good as restart
Not so much with Windows nowadays, thanks to its Fast Boot mode, where a shut-down doesn't actually do a full shut-down: it hibernates the kernel. A restart, however, does shut down the kernel.
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Why do you think anybody does this?
Well, I got that impression from some comment on this forum somewhere stating that after a software update you need to do a Restart, shut down and power up doesn't cut it, because doing a shut down on recent Windows is more like hibernate or something; or something like that don't know the details, I haven't used recent versions of Windows.
Also a quick google search seems to indicate that this is correct (e. g. https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pros-and-cons-of-windows-10s-fast-startup-mode/ ; haven't actually read it, just skimmed, but it says that the mode is enabled by default on laptops and "some desktops")
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
I am pretty sure shut down + start up is just as good as restart
Not so much with Windows nowadays, thanks to its Fast Boot mode, where a shut-down doesn't actually do a full shut-down: it hibernates the kernel. A restart, however, does shut down the kernel.
And there's no way for an installer to say "hey, I'm done but I require a proper reboot sometime when it's convenient", which forces it to do a real shut down instead?
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@anotherusername Not that I'm aware of
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
And there's no way for an installer to say "hey, I'm done but I require a proper reboot sometime when it's convenient", which forces it to do a real shut down instead?
No need, it just wait for Windows Update to do its thing
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
I am pretty sure shut down + start up is just as good as restart
Not so much with Windows nowadays, thanks to its Fast Boot mode, where a shut-down doesn't actually do a full shut-down: it hibernates the kernel. A restart, however, does shut down the kernel.
And there's no way for an installer to say "hey, I'm done but I require a proper reboot sometime when it's convenient", which forces it to do a real shut down instead?
Since its obviously not an MSI package, I'm willing to bet that the setup package suite does not.
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Colleague just spent about one day worth of effort—plus some more from others helping him—hunting down why on his Mac workstation the application builds, but then locks up immediately after start while the same revision, built on any other Mac, works fine, even on the same tablet.
Turned out that:
- There was problem with permissions on the installation of Closure (the JS minifier; this is a hybrid app) due to which it didn't work.
- The build somehow didn't report error even though the minifier failed.
- Since it worked on the same computer before too, the permissions appear to have changed on their own.
It took so long to find, because the build log is somewhat hidden and nothing picked the relevant error message.
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because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site.
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
Two idiots working on a feature together (front & back), but can't agree on naming and snake_case vs camelCase convention. This is the result.
AGGGH.
I fucking hate other developers. They always dissapoint.
Maybe they should have gone for kebab-case to meat in the middle.
Horrible pun intended.
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•One of the passwords with access to publish koa was literally « password ».
Ya'll. How the fuck do we expect users to do any better?