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password fields that don't let you paste
There's a site I maintain that doesn't let you paste in the "confirm your email" field. Except it only blocks ctrl + v and right click. Shift + insert still pastes fine
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@jaloopa
I can see the bug reports...I cannot paste into the confirm e-mail field
WOMM. CLOSED. NOT WELCOME HERE.
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There's a site I maintain that doesn't let you paste in the "confirm your email" field.
That at least I can understand: it forces you to type the address in full twice, making it more likely to catch mistakes.
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@izzion I'd like to get rid of the paste restriction entirely, but the client isn't paying us for any enhancements at the moment. I suspect the original author allowed shift + ins to make testing easier while looking like they'd implemented the request
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
There's a site I maintain that doesn't let you paste in the "confirm your email" field.
That at least I can understand: it forces you to type the address in full twice, making it more likely to catch mistakes.
That's the idea. But for people who use password managers, it increases the likelihood of a mistake.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
No, it's not a good thing, just one of many reasons to not use ftp, ever.
So it's still a bug that should be fixed so that there is one fewer reason to not use it, right?
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So it's still a bug that should be fixed so that there is one fewer reason to not use it, right?
No, I think it should be left as-is to punish people for using FTP.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
buy Notepad++
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??? ???Edit: Oh, M$ should buy it and replace Notepad with it.
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Notepad itself was fixed, not the underlying library that had the bug
Brillant.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Notepad itself was fixed, not the underlying library that had the bug
Brillant.
The underlying library in this case is the Windows API, and MS are extremely careful about changing how it works, since even a tiny change could break hundreds of badly-written programs that rely on the old, buggy behaviour.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit It is also still the only non-formatted-text editor guaranteed to be present on any windows PC.
is Micro-Soft waiting to improve that POS ?
They should just buy Notepad++ if they're too lazy to improve Notepad
Would they also be too lazy to "fix" Notepad++'s menus?
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I remember when I first heard of HTTP I thought "Why? There's already a perfectly good FTP."
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@greybeard said in WTF Bites:
I remember when I first heard of HTTP I thought "Why? There's already a perfectly good FTP."
Perhaps you should change your name to Whitebeard these days?
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Notepad itself was fixed, not the underlying library that had the bug
Brillant.
The underlying library in this case is the Windows API, and MS are extremely careful about changing how it works, since even a tiny change could break hundreds of badly-written programs that rely on the old, buggy behaviour.
I think they're trying to try shiving that in a test bed called .Net Core.
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
The underlying library in this case is the Windows API, and MS are extremely careful about changing how it works, since even a tiny change could break hundreds of badly-written programs that rely on the old, buggy behaviour.
And again: Instead of forcing developers to be not shit and fixing their programs, they let them keep writing badly-written programs by adding bloat to Windows. Awesome. So that's two shit for the price of one! Well done, Microsoft.
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@atazhaia You're aware that if MS makes changes that break programs, they'll have hundreds of thousands of companies calling for their blood, right?
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@raceprouk You're saying that like it's a bad thing!
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WTF of my day: Yes, this job posting is for a university course in a foreign language. But, seriously, just look at the requirements...
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@rhywden the "higher education" system in the USA is completely rotten, head to toe. A more rapacious, predatory system is hard to imagine. They overwork the lowest paid/lowest status people, churning out 10x (numbers made up) the number of PhD students as can get jobs in the field. Teaching is the lowest status part of the job (except at a few non-research schools) and the number/pay of admin (deans, associate deans, directors of X, etc) is increasing way faster than actual professors.
I wonder if the reason that academics are so often hostile to "capitalism" is that their day to day interactions are with the worst examples of corporations (the school, the textbook companies, etc) imaginable. That and repressed guilt at the treatment of graduate students and post docs.
I used to want to be a professor. Now I'm glad I'm well out of that cesspool.
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@rhywden
Prediction:- Someone will take this job
- This someone will make his or her PhD students do most of the work
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GitLab can't count.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
GitLab can't count.
Obviously you've seen the others already.
That's quite strange, because out of the four open PRs, three are from me. At first I thought "oh, it shows the number of PRs I submitted that are open" but that's just dumb.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
that's just dumb.
Sounds like the perfect excuse to design something that way.
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the ability to find identical haha with different inputs,
Heh, heh... Very difficult. Commutative Comedy is a very young field.
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That would be nice on my SP4. Like every second time I take it out of my bag after a few days and want to turn it on it just gives me the "no battery"-icon.
Norepro. Sounds like some application is misbehaving? Connected standby works pretty well here...
Dunno, I have hardly any applications on there. I don't use it daily, and pretty much every time I want to use it it won't turn on and just show the "empty battery"-icon. I've had pretty much the same issue with my SP2 a few years ago. Maybe I should just completely reset the damn thing but I have no motivation to go through that process :|
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That's actually how you know that it isn't critical: if it was, they wouldn't be letting you take those devices on the plane at all
When they thought it might be an issue, they asked you to turn off your devices for the whole flight. They no longer think that and are stopping to do that.
I believe the actual reason they want things off during take-off and landing is so that you'll be paying attention if they have to evacuate
Yes, exactly that. They'll ask you to put down anything non-electronic too (everything needs to be properly stowed), but most distractions are electronic, so that nicely solves the issue. Most airlines will also make sure the blinds are open for take-off and landing (so you/they/anybody can see if there is some hazard outside).
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
From that altitude and moving at that speed, it causes an unusual amount of load on the network as it can faintly see tons of towers and constantly tries to reconnect to the strongest signal while it's moving hundreds of miles per hour.
The older protocol (still supported in most places), GSM, actually uses time multiplex and it is tight enough that the phone needs to estimate its distance from the station (the station measures it and tells it to the phone). At that speed, the estimate will sometimes get off to the point that it will miss the slot and cause conflict with some other call.
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That's some fine maths, Lou!
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@atazhaia You're aware that if MS makes changes that break programs, they'll have hundreds of thousands of companies calling for their blood, right?
Given what they've done to Skype…
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@atazhaia You're aware that if MS makes changes that break programs, they'll have hundreds of thousands of companies calling for their blood, right?
Given what they've done to Skype…
But that's a consumer product, not a business product, so MS doesn't give a shit ;)
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
MS doesn't give a shit
They do give a and it is the application formerly known as
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GOG thinks I'm Russian. All the text (besides game names) is in Cyrillic and the prices are in rubles.
I'm not behind a VPN, Google Maps has no problem locating me.
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GOG thinks I'm Russian. All the text (besides game names) is in Cyrillic and the prices are in rubles.
I'm not behind a VPN, Google Maps has no problem locating me.
Do you have any Russian language packs installed?
Browsers send an
Accept-Language
header and I'm surprised there aren't more websites that use it.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Browsers send an
Accept-Language
header and I'm surprised there aren't more websites that use it.I think most sites don't use it because it's almost always set to
en-US
, making it useless. That, and most sites aren't multilingual.
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Browsers send an
Accept-Language
header and I'm surprised there aren't more websites that use it.I think most sites don't use it because it's almost always set to
en-US
, making it useless. That, and most sites aren't multilingual.All the browsers I've checked have sent a list of the OS's installed language packs with the active one having higher priority.
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@ben_lubar They do so on your machine, which is presumably set up properly. I wouldn't be so sure about other machines.
Then again, I did make a website I built last year aware of
Accept-Language
.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Do you have any Russian language packs installed?
Nope. I don't understand the language. I barely understand the alphabet.
Whatever it was, it's gone now. It's now showing me Brazilian Portuguese, which is far more cromulent.
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@atazhaia You're aware that if MS makes changes that break programs, they'll have hundreds of thousands of companies calling for their blood, right?
Given what they've done to Skype…
But that's a consumer product, not a business product, so MS doesn't give a shit ;)
Skype for Business. Mic drop.
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I got this postcard with an unsolicited job ad in my mail today:
I wonder how they managed to get the red squiggly spellchecker lines to show up in the printed version. Is there perhaps a wooden table involved somewhere? Also, good skills getting them on both the names of the recruitment agency and the company you're recruiting for. Quality work there.
(In case someone is wondering, the ad is for a job as a 1st level support drone at one of the large TV and internet providers in Sweden, (Also, my sister mentioned it being the single largest source of work-related complaints to her union in the region.))
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
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@jbert Web developers from 1996 are Vulcan?
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@arantor It's only logical, there were no other web developers around.
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@jbert I feel like Vulcans would have made less of a mess of the web if they had been building it.
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Web developers from 1996 are Vulcan?
Do Vulcans think that things should be butt-ugly? No.
Romulans.
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@jbert I feel like Vulcans would have made less of a mess of the web if they had been building it.
Would a Vulcan have built JavaScript if a Vulcan had been around to build javaScript?
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@jbert I feel like Vulcans would have made less of a mess of the web if they had been building it.
Would a Vulcan have built JavaScript if a Vulcan had been around to build javaScript?
How much JavaScript would a Vulcan code if a Vulcan could code JavaScript?
Edit: hmm, doesn't really scan...
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
How much JavaScript would a Vulcan code if a Vulcan could code JavaScript?
None: they'd use TypeScript ;)
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@raceprouk that's illogical. The only rational language is Forth. But anyway, they'd certainly not use PHP.