WTF Bites
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
There is a in there, though I am not sure which point is it.
"Windows could not reconnect all of your network drives"
That point ^^ right there.
No, that's not a WTF. The fact that it tried is, because I never told it to reconnect them automatically.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
There is a in there, though I am not sure which point is it.
"Windows could not reconnect all of your network drives"
That point ^^ right there.
No, that's not a WTF. The fact that it tried is, because I never told it to reconnect them automatically.
You have to explicitly tell Windows not to if you're using the GUI. By default, it looks like this:
If you do it via command line
net use
the default will be whatever was used last (though good luck figuring out what the default is initially!).
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@tsaukpaetra I am not using the GUI. I explicitly said I used
net use
.
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@tsaukpaetra I am not using the GUI. I explicitly said I used
net use
.Wait, I didn't see that part.
Uh...... did you offline cache any files? It shouldn't remember drives with
net use
at all - that's really weird. Unless you used the "reconnect" flag
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@sloosecannon There is no reconnect flag. There is a
/persistent
flag that can beyes
orno
and I didn't use it either way.There are also other strange differences between
net use
and the dialog like thatnet use
only accepts path of the form\\server\share
, while the dialog also accepts both bare\\server
on one side and\\server\share\some\more\folders
on the other.
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@sloosecannon There is no reconnect flag. There is a
/persistent
flag that can beyes
orno
and I didn't use it either way.That's what I'm saying, according to the docs you don't need to specify it: it uses the last state specified unless you specifically specify it not to.
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My minor WTF: Recently tried Elite Dangerous again to see what had changed and what had maybe even improved.
Is it really so boring? It's just come out on the PS4 with a sale price so I was thinking of picking it up. I have great memories of Frontier but I had a looooooot more time back then.
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@coldandtired said in WTF Bites:
My minor WTF: Recently tried Elite Dangerous again to see what had changed and what had maybe even improved.
Is it really so boring? It's just come out on the PS4 with a sale price so I was thinking of picking it up. I have great memories of Frontier but I had a looooooot more time back then.
There's not much meaningful stuff beyond getting a number of ships - Engineers is basically a grind and you're dependent on RNGjesus, Powerplay is ... basically a funky Excel sheet (and another grind), Community Goals don't have much of an impact as well (and, yes, another grind).
Basically, it's EveOnline with a more interactive flight model but without the emergent gameplay that Eve has.
That interactive flight model has a massive downside, too: Be prepared to be bored out of your mind if you have to do several jumps in a row plus, say, a 10K Lightseconds flight to an orbital. Because there's no autopilot for that and even the straight line flight to the orbital requires constant low-level attention or you might drift off course or overshoot the target.
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Hey Windows 10, why do you think my wired office internet has "no internet access" despite the fact that it totally works?
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@hungrier Our home Windows 10 desktop does the same thing. Disable and then re-enable the ethernet adapter in Windows, it should fix it.
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@hungrier It just mean that it couldn't contact the telemetry server
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@erufael That did the trick, thanks
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Hey Windows 10, why do you think my wired office internet has "no internet access" despite the fact that it totally works?
Hey Windows 8, why do you think the checkbox marked 'automatically connect to this wifi network' means you shouldn't automatically connect to this wifi network?
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Hey Windows 10, why do you think my wired office internet has "no internet access" despite the fact that it totally works?
It couldn't talk to a
MSWell-known host server for a second, so it assumed there was no internet.This status really only changes/checks again like every fifteen minutes or so (it backs off exponentially I think, because pinging a non-existent host could overload it after all) or if a network change has been detected (i.e. unplugged the cable/disconnected from Wi-Fi).
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Representative screenshot from VM manager thing:
It's just Windows 10 running. I didn't even log in until 5 minutes ago.
THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
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THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
RAM DOESN'T MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR AND WOULD OTHERWISE GO TO WASTE!!
ď
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THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
I know Win10 likes to do prefetching, but I can't see how that would use nearly 11GB of RAM. 2 or 3GB, maybe, but not 11.
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exception: org.hibernate.loader.custom.NonUniqueDiscoveredSqlAliasException: Encountered a duplicated sql alias [WTF] during auto-discovery of a native-sql query
This is so much bullshit. You don't let me fucking use the aliases to get data out of the result, why should this matter? Use a goddamned array index like you force the rest of us to do.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
This status really only changes/checks again like every fifteen minutes or so (it backs off exponentially I think, because pinging a non-existent host could overload it after all) or if a network change has been detected (i.e. unplugged the cable/disconnected from Wi-Fi).
It happened after I turned off wifi, when I noticed that it was connected to wifi despite being docked. After I turned off the wifi it was working with the "no internet" icon, and using the troubleshooter suggested resetting all my network settings and restarting the computer as the first solution to try.
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@boomzilla
If you send us$$$$$
we will consider taking your request under advisement.
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What a useless page selector
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What a useless page selector
I've seen worse. Not much worse, but still worse.
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Today, on "Whose Language is it Anyway?", where the products are made up and the support contracts don't matter...
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
I know Win10 likes to do prefetching, but I can't see how that would use nearly 11GB of RAM. 2 or 3GB, maybe, but not 11.
Doesn't prefetching go into caches, which aren't counted as used memory?
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@ben_lubar Maybe VMs are Differentâ˘
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
I know Win10 likes to do prefetching, but I can't see how that would use nearly 11GB of RAM. 2 or 3GB, maybe, but not 11.
Doesn't prefetching go into caches, which aren't counted as used memory?
The Win10 Task Manager can tell the difference, but can the VM host?
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Actual CSS rule on the Azure Portal right now:
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@greybeard said in WTF Bites:
Seriously, they shouldn't let people who design APIs like [curl] into the country.
I'm not sure if you were referencing this event, but the developer of
curl
was recently denied entry into the US:
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THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
Two words: âWindows Updateâ.
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
I know Win10 likes to do prefetching, but I can't see how that would use nearly 11GB of RAM. 2 or 3GB, maybe, but not 11.
Windows Vista+ will prefetch until they fill up memory. That's normal.
The only problem here is that your VM software doesn't have visibility into what the memory's being used for, so it assumes it's all actually in-use when undoubtedly the vast majority of it is pre-fetch cache. The fact that Windows has had this behavior since Vista and your VM software doesn't know about it now in 2017 means you're using shitty software.
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
What a useless page selector
I've seen worse. Not much worse, but still worse.
This one?
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@pjh That's⌠Ew.
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@raceprouk ta.
Suggestions for improvement?
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@raceprouk ta.
Suggestions for improvement?
Make the color scheme not horrible, delete the random button, and get rid of the miscellaneous numbers that aren't anywhere near your current page and aren't the first or last page.
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@raceprouk ta.
Suggestions for improvement?
Proper 'Frist' and 'Lsat' links, not just 'Perviuos' and 'Nxet'. Also, have a list of at least five page numbers, centered on the current page. And most of all, sort out the colours and try and get it all on a single line.
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The button on the right is the one that dismisses the message.
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@dcoder What, no "I saw what you did there" meme? You honestly thought that was coincidence?
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Representative screenshot from VM manager thing:
It's just Windows 10 running. I didn't even log in until 5 minutes ago.
THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
File cache, ready boost other cache. Windows tries to preload stuff it thinks you'll need before you need it.
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I turned off wifi
Ah, yes. Why would you do that? Everyone uses Wi-Fi now!
Trolleybus
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What a useless page selector
DataTables does this to me too! IIRC I have to implement my own pagination in order to fix it.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
I know Win10 likes to do prefetching, but I can't see how that would use nearly 11GB of RAM. 2 or 3GB, maybe, but not 11.
Doesn't prefetching go into caches, which aren't counted as used memory?
Hypervisor can't tell the difference between cache and any other types of RAM. It's either "
hostguest touched it" or not.
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@greybeard Yes⌠I got 'ed again.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
I know Win10 likes to do prefetching, but I can't see how that would use nearly 11GB of RAM. 2 or 3GB, maybe, but not 11.
Doesn't prefetching go into caches, which aren't counted as used memory?
Hypervisor can't tell the difference between cache and any other types of RAM. It's either "
hostguest touched it" or not.Why not? The Hypervisor can tell what OS is running (and if not, you can tell it), so why can't it look at the OS's memory manager?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
THE FUCK ARE YOU USING 10 GIGS OF RAM FOR?
I know Win10 likes to do prefetching, but I can't see how that would use nearly 11GB of RAM. 2 or 3GB, maybe, but not 11.
Doesn't prefetching go into caches, which aren't counted as used memory?
Hypervisor can't tell the difference between cache and any other types of RAM. It's either "
hostguest touched it" or not.Why not? The Hypervisor can tell what OS is running (and if not, you can tell it), so why can't it look at the OS's memory manager?
Just because you can change the icon that displays in the VM list doesn't mean the hypervisor intrinsically knows what OS is running on it. Or that it predictably maps its memory consistently for a given configuration. Or that even if you use heuristical analysis on the guest's memory that your guess is even close to correct. From the point of view from the hypervisor the best you can do is say "well the CPU was instructed to load data into this portion of RAM" and assume that the CPU may at some point in the future be tasked with using it again. As far as I know there is no CPU or other hardware level instruction that says "Yeah, this memory isn't important ever unless I ask for it again, if I'm in a VM, you can totally reclaim this from me".
Also, even if it could tell the difference between cached data and not, the guest still expects said data to be available (you know, because it put it there) and if the hypervisor went and erased it from under the guest (perhaps because another VM needed it, who knows) it would be Very Bad Idea.
At best, you can have the guest load up a driver to communicate through the hypervisor-given channels and report on what the guest is indeed using etc, but then the user would end up complaining that they're having issues loading ten Windows VMs each provisioned with 8 gigs of RAM on a machine with 16 physical gigs available, yet each VM says it's only using 1.5 Gb so WTF man?
Rule to the wise: don't overprovision your VMs unless they're literally sitting idle 99% of the time.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Why not? The Hypervisor can tell what OS is running (and if not, you can tell it), so why can't it look at the OS's memory manager?
I'd argue that it's a fool's errand to even do so. Because I don't usually care, I just care if the machine is struggling or not. I don't need the hypervisor poking around and potentially slowing the guest OS down because it's locking down its memory access because it decided it wants to poke around it instead just to produce some pretty graphics.
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@pie_flavor I could see the usefulness in having page intervals >1 if there's enough space. E.g.
1 ... 20 ... 60 ... 77 78 79 80 81 ... 100 ... 120 ... 129
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@anotherusername That would be a good one, something like
<< | < | 1 | 10 | 20 | 30 | ... | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | ... | 90 | 100 | 110 | 113 | > | >>
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SELECT foo, bar, null AS end_date FROM things WHERE end_date IS NOT NULL AND (end_date IS NULL OR end_date IS NOT NULL);
I take it that this is the result of at least one change to the business rule.
I've seen some abuse of conditionals, but this one is pretty remarkable.
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WTF of my day: So, you guys think your company's bureaucracy is bad?
Compare this to the experience of a hopeful scientist who wanted to do a study wherein he just wanted to ask some questions.
Some highlights:
And: âWhat will you do if a participant dies during this research?â (If somebody dies while Iâm asking them whether they sometimes feel happy and then sad, I really canât even promise so much as ânot freaking outâ, let alone any sort of dignified research procedure).
IRREGULARITY #3: Signatures are traditionally in pen. But we said our patients would sign in pencil. Why?
Well, because psychiatric patients arenât allowed to have pens in case they stab themselves with them. I donât get why stabbing yourself with a pencil is any less of a problem, but the rules are the rules. We asked the hospital administration for a one-time exemption, to let our patients have pens just long enough to sign the consent form. Hospital administration said absolutely not, and they didnât care if this sabotaged our entire study, it was pencil or nothing.But whatever. The bigger problem was the encryption. There was a very specific way we had to do it. We would have a Results Log, that said things like âPatient 1 got a score of 11.5 on the testâ. And then weâd have a Secret Patient Log, which would say things like âPatient 1 = Bob Johnson from Oakburg.â That way nobody could steal our results and figure out that Bob was sometimes happy, then sad.
(meanwhile, all of Bobâs actual diagnoses, sexual fetishes, etc were in the easily-accessible secure online chart that we were banned from using)
And then â I swear this is true â we had to keep the Results Log and the Secret Patient Log right next to each other in the study binder in the locked drawer in the locked room.