WTF Bites
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
If you want actually reusable bottles, you need to use glass like in the old days. But glass is heavy, fragile, needs a lot of energy to produce, and you need to transport the bottles back (which every shopkeeper avoids like the plague).
And yet, for 100+ years glass bottles weren't a problem. As a kid, it was a regular ritual -- you gather up all your empty glass bottles, mostly from soft drinks, and take them to a store where they would give you a few cents for each bottle.
If you were a kid and looking for a way to get a little money you might try to steal a few of the empty bottles that a store had sitting around waiting to be sent off for re-use and cash them in (or so I've been told).
Once again, we had something that was working just fine (glass) that was replaced by something worse (plastic). So now people are wondering if maybe we should go back tot he stuff that never should have been replaced in the first place.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
where they would give you a few cents for each bottle.
Here the shopkeepers always want a bill for the drinks purchased. If you don't have one, they won't take your bottles. Attempts to force them by law have been largely unsuccessful. And nowdays some marketing wizadrds at the breweries decided to sell beer in non-standard bottles with various engravings or weird shapes, which complicates things even more.
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Once again, we had something that was working just fine (glass) that was replaced by something worse (plastic).
It's cheaper though.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@homoBalkanus said in WTF Bites:
WTF bite: stored procedures in JavaScript
What DB allows this?
Postgres:
Don't show it to my boss, he'll get some brillant idea that now his front-end bootcampers can write SP.
Edit: I just had a vision: The bootcampers download 2GB of node_modules and put all their nest, next, graphql and other crap into one big stored procedure
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@homoBalkanus said in WTF Bites:
WTF bite: stored procedures in JavaScript
What DB allows this?
Postgres:
I see your JavaScript and raise you
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@homoBalkanus said in WTF Bites:
WTF bite: stored procedures in JavaScript
What DB allows this?
Snowflake
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
What DB allows this?
Snowflake. Works reasonably well, even through multiple SQL-to-JS and JS-to-SQL transitions, as long as you don't expect actual exception handling.
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@Watson are you telling me that modern PHP is somehow worse than modern JavaScript?
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@Watson are you telling me that modern PHP is somehow worse than modern JavaScript?
Well, the repo hasn't been touched in over a decade, so "modern" would be stretching it. No idea if it would still work.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Global Variable
CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
The label for the contact’s mother’s sibling’s younger daughter or father’s sister’s younger daughter.There's a bunch of these.
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFRoILS1jY&pp=ygUUY2hpbmVzZSBmYW1pbHkgbmFtZXM%3D
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@topspin Recycling plastic simply doesn't work. What the Germans pushing their "we recycle 80% of plastic" stats are actually doing is shipping it to somewhere else (used to be China, now some shitholes in Oceania apparently) so that they can check the box that it's been recycled, at least until it shows back on the beach in Hamburg, cause the Chinaman ditched it into the river.
Statistics office says no (it used to be Malaysia).
You gotta decide though: either most of the trash is exported and ultimately dumped into the sea, then banning plastic straws makes sense. Or whatever is not recycled goes to a properly maintained landfill and stays there, then it doesn't, but the recycling quota is what it says it is.If you want actually reusable bottles, you need to use glass like in the old days. But glass is heavy, fragile, needs a lot of energy to produce, and you need to transport the bottles back (which every shopkeeper avoids like the plague). I think only the Czechs sell beer in visibly used up bottles, everywhere else even glass bottles don't get reused much.
I haven't been to Poland but it seems you have some catching up to do because all of Europe I've seen reuses most of their beer bottles—even motherfucking Laos does it (they don't even have single-use beer bottles, only some cans but they're less common), and you guys don't?
And no, you don't need glass. Sturdy, reusable PET bottles have been in use for decades. The difference is they only last for about 20 refill cycles while an average beer bottle gets to 40.Meanwhile you could just bury the PET bottles in the landfill - there's more than enough space and they're completely inert. Or use aluminum cans - they recycle themselves, you just leave them outside and every night some bum takes them to the scrapyard.
The Polack's solution to recycling efficiency: just make sure you have enough destitute people! What's your objection to the conditions pictured in "Plastic China" again?
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Once again, we had something that was working just fine (glass) that was replaced by something worse (plastic).
It's cheaper though.
Like shitting in the street and dumping your trash in the river. It's always cheaper to make everybody else deal with your shit.
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@Watson are you telling me that modern PHP is somehow worse than modern JavaScript?
Well, the repo hasn't been touched in over a decade, so "modern" would be stretching it. No idea if it would still work.
Well, it wants Postgres 8.1 and PHP 5 so... :do-not-want.avif:
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@Watson are you telling me that modern PHP is somehow worse than modern JavaScript?
Is liver cancer worse than brain cancer?
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@HardwareGeek I know many people who have damaged livers, but it's never due to cancer.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Watson are you telling me that modern PHP is somehow worse than modern JavaScript?
Is liver cancer worse than brain cancer?
I feel like one of these has better treatment outcomes.
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@Arantor except in Grey's Anatomy where brain tumor patients have a selection of world class surgeons ready to save their life but liver tumor patients must choose between a clinical alcoholic and a PTSD'd veteran.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Watson are you telling me that modern PHP is somehow worse than modern JavaScript?
Is liver cancer worse than brain cancer?
I feel like one of these has better treatment outcomes.
Yes, and it is brain cancer. Liver cancer is very bad; the liver is needed to handle the effects of the treatment on the rest of the body...
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@HardwareGeek I know many people who have damaged livers, but it's never due to cancer.
They just haven't noticed it yet.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Once again, we had something that was working just fine (glass) that was replaced by something worse (plastic).
It's cheaper though.
Something that APPEARS to be cheaper but only if you don't consider ALL the costs.
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@Gern_Blaanston does "all the costs" include environmental impact? Because if so, excluding these is exactly what we should do when talking about what is cheaper (as in costs less money).
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@Gern_Blaanston does "all the costs" include environmental impact? Because if so, excluding these is exactly what we should do when talking about what is cheaper (as in costs less money).
The environmental impact of PET bottles is negligible. The only problem is that they don't decompose for thousands of years, but who cares? There's plenty of poor soils , even in Poland, where we can just bury them and forget. The problem with plastic bottles, straws, bags etc is mostly a waste management problem in third world countries, aggravated by fake "recycling" policies in the West. Both need a political, not technological solution. If you need to worry about plastics, you should rather look at poliester (same material) clothes which shed little fibers into the sewage and they end up literally everywhere. How much poliester are you wearing now?
OTOH making a glass bottle requires (in comparison) enormous amount of heat, which is necessarily derived from fossil fuels, because you can't heat sand with induction. And aluminum? Once it's extracted it can be recycled ad infinitum using only electricity, but the primary extraction is a messy process, sometimes resulting in mishaps
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Again on a Windows PC ...
(Slider allows comparing old and new version)You've got to be kidding me?! Give me back the old version! In fact, give me back the version from 3 redesigns ago.
Just like I can't even find the envelope anymore in the shitty new icon, I can't find any buttons in this shit, except that huge search box in the middle of the title bar where it doesn't belong.
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Again on a Windows PC ...
(Slider allows comparing old and new version)You've got to be kidding me?! Give me back the old version! In fact, give me back the version from 3 redesigns ago.
Just like I can't even find the envelope anymore in the shitty new icon, I can't find any buttons in this shit, except that huge search box in the middle of the title bar where it doesn't belong.I'm with you. At least you can beat it back into some semblance of its former self:
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Somewhere between roughly one-half and one-third the times I want to watch something in the Amazon Prime app on my Apple TV, I get everything except the actual video. I open the app, find the show I want to watch, set it to play, and end up looking at a mostly black screen with subtitles, the app’s overlays (age warnings, “skip intro” button, the stuff that comes on-screen when you swipe up on the remote, etc.) and audio … but not the picture for the actual show. Stopping and restarting the video, or even fully quitting (not just exiting it) and restarting the app doesn’t help — the only thing that works is to go to the Apple TV’s system menu and reboot it.
And since I’m complaining about Amazon here, they now seem to be taking their superfluous and confusing localisation even further than De Uitroeier I mentioned a while ago: somebody apparently felt that Wheel of Time needed a Dutch overdub. Never mind that the only things that get dubbed in this country are kids’ shows, plus for some unknown reason Disney shows aimed at teenagers, but nothing intended for adults. Except on Amazon, it seems. And that wouldn’t be too bad, since it’s easy enough (if a nuisance) to change it to English audio with Dutch subtitles, but the stupid app occasionally switches back to Dutch audio and no subtitles without me telling it to.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
@Gustav said in WTF Bites:
OTOH making a glass bottle requires (in comparison) enormous amount of heat, which is necessarily derived from fossil fuels, because you can't heat sand with induction.My father in law was a plant manager in lightbulb manufacturing so I get treated to quite a few stories about glass, like how they experimented with induction heating in the 1980s already. Now it seems to be established technology. Not widely used in mass production because it's uneconomic as long as your power source is using fossil fuels anyway, but possible. You can either use an electrically heated crucible (which you need anyway because you don't usually expose the sand to burning gas) or you exploit the fact that molten glass is actually conductive so once the stuff has been heated up over a gas burner, you basically induction-heat the part that's liquid and that melts the newly added sand.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Watson are you telling me that modern PHP is somehow worse than modern JavaScript?
Is liver cancer worse than brain cancer?
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For example, some years ago there was this public debate that male chicks get shredded instead of raised for farming eggs. Nobody cared about that for ages, but once it was in the public it was a controversy. So at some point they disallowed that practice, for better or worse. And wouldn’t you know, right at the point where nobody was allowed to do that anymore, all the egg cartons had big labels about raising male chicks. Nobody had that label before it was mandatory.
And it's totally dumb too. And they'll get eaten anyway, just a bit later.
Which reminds me, I should order some more frozen one day chicken for the cat. He liked them a lot.
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@dkf The freshly hatched cocks of the egg-laying breeds that are not worth feeding up to slaughter weight. I first encountered them at someone who kept some bigger cats (lynxes, cheetahs, ocelots) and fed them these one day chicken. The larger breeders and zoos buy them at the chicken farms, quite cheaply since for the farm they are waste. Later I looked and some pet food stores have them, frozen, in the BARF section. So I bought some and the cat loved them.
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Status: This game apparently uncaps framerate when minimized.
I minimized a game, then wondered why my fans suddenly spun up. This is what happened when I restored it to check progress and minimized, and then restored it again....
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You are now entering... the @Tsaukpaetra Zone
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@topspin MOZILLA STOP COPYING MICROSOFT'S MISFEATURES
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@Medinoc
The only way they can capture market share is by having no distinguishing features, surely!
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While the hotly anticipated phones have only been released for a matter of days, reports have already circulated online that simply holding them can cause the metal case to change colour – suggestions which Apple has now officially confirmed.
Still holding it wrong.
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@loopback0 The Pro Max also comes with amazing easy back-glass-cracking, hardly any force needed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0SItAzEXg
Interestingly the regular smaller Pro does not have this feature.
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I'm with you. At least you can beat it back into some semblance of its former self:
Do you have some pointers for me? I can't figure out how to get something resembling a normal title bar and toolbar back.
I'm quite amazed that their what's new highlights specifically says things like "perfect for people used to modern webmail", "emulates a mobile interface" and, like, do they just not realize that people might be using their product specifically to avoid those things?
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@pcooper I didn’t even think of that. If I wanted webmail, I’d be using webmail.
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@pcooper I didn’t even think of that. If I wanted webmail, I’d be using webmail.
Not hipster enough! Everything is a phone now! Shift your paradigms!
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do they just not realize that people might be using their product specifically to avoid those things?
Would you expect something different from a (former) Mozilla project? We do have a whole topic about them saying "lalala can't hear you" to the Firefox user base for a decade or so.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Not hipster enough! Everything is a phone now! Shift your paradigms!
Webmail on a phone is truly a torture.
I've gone pine -> webmail. I miss pine. But being able to jump computers at will with access to half written email drafts is neat.
I don't get work email on my phone though. If you need to get in touch with me outside of working hours, you have the means to do so through other channels. And if not ... you don't need to get in touch with me.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
If you want actually reusable bottles, you need to use glass like in the old days. But glass is heavy, fragile, needs a lot of energy to produce, and you need to transport the bottles back (which every shopkeeper avoids like the plague).
And yet, for 100+ years glass bottles weren't a problem. As a kid, it was a regular ritual -- you gather up all your empty glass bottles, mostly from soft drinks, and take them to a store where they would give you a few cents for each bottle.
If you were a kid and looking for a way to get a little money you might try to steal a few of the empty bottles that a store had sitting around waiting to be sent off for re-use and cash them in (or so I've been told).
Once again, we had something that was working just fine (glass) that was replaced by something worse (plastic). So now people are wondering if maybe we should go back tot he stuff that never should have been replaced in the first place.
When everything was centralized in huge warehouses and factories, the double travel for the glass bottles made it less environmentally friendly than plastic. Though I am not averse to reversing the centralisation retardery and going back to glass bottles for everything. It doesn't leak flavour like plastic or cans does.
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Do you have some pointers for me?
0xcdcdcdcd
Oh sorry, that one is broken.
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I'm with you. At least you can beat it back into some semblance of its former self:
Do you have some pointers for me? I can't figure out how to get something resembling a normal title bar and toolbar back.
Sure. I have these things enabled; you can find them in the hamburger menu or on the menu bar once you can see it. Everything else in these particular submenus is turned off.
View, Toolbars: Menu Bar, Status Bar
View, Layout: Classic View, Folder Pane, Message Pane
View, Folders: All Folders
(View,) Density: DefaultIn Settings, General, Language & Appearance, Window Layout: uncheck Hide system window titlebar, check Auto hide tab bar.
I'm quite amazed that their what's new highlights specifically says things like "perfect for people used to modern webmail", "emulates a mobile interface" and, like, do they just not realize that people might be using their product specifically to avoid those things?
It's always a struggle to balance doing what they think will attract new users vs. not alienating the old crotchety users who switched to Thunderbird from Eudora twenty-odd years ago.
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In Settings, General, Language & Appearance, Window Layout: uncheck Hide system window titlebar
Thank you! That's the one I was looking for. Silly me, thinking that somehow everything relating to how the window looks would be in the View menu.
It's always a struggle to balance doing what they think will attract new users vs. not alienating the old crotchety users who switched to Thunderbird from Eudora twenty-odd years ago.
Yup. I don't even really mind having multiple themes and styles for people to pick from if they really want to do that, just that changing the look of things dramatically without giving an easy-to-find "go back" option isn't very endearing.
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Do you have some pointers for me?
I have one that results in a SEGV and an attempt to allocate exabytes of memory. I'd be happy to let you have it cheap.