WTF Bites
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After (careful) analysis, I did find a reference to tony the pony, but not much else...
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I'm having problems with my Vivaldi browser so I've just joined the support forums:
Yes, I'll read the whole forum as my first task
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Also the WTF is that he was using csv to begin with.
Are you suggesting that he's writing an .xls(x) parser instead? That would be just cruel.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Also the WTF is that he was using csv to begin with.
Are you suggesting that he's writing an .xls(x) parser instead? That would be just cruel.
Somehow, it actually works. No, I dare not to look at the code.
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@onyx Parsing Excel spreadsheets in PHP? Bad Ideas thread is :list_of_random_arrows_meme:
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Also the WTF is that he was using csv to begin with.
Are you suggesting that he's writing an .xls(x) parser instead? That would be just cruel.
Honestly if I had to deal with that problem I'd probably try to hack together a vbscript that would open the xlsx (or xls) file in Excel and export the data properly, either by reading it out directly or by saving as a text format that I know works properly.
Then it's relatively automated and I at least don't have to worry about how the csv was generated. Having people send Excel files instead of csv files would eliminate a lot of potential problems.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
I'd probably try to hack together a vbscript that would open the xlsx (or xls) file in Excel and export the data properly, either by reading it out directly or by saving as a text format that I know works properly.
Or just use unoconv
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Also the WTF is that he was using csv to begin with.
Are you suggesting that he's writing an .xls(x) parser instead? That would be just cruel.
Honestly if I had to deal with that problem I'd probably try to hack together a vbscript that would open the xlsx (or xls) file in Excel and export the data properly, either by reading it out directly or by saving as a text format that I know works properly.
Then it's relatively automated and I at least don't have to worry about how the csv was generated. Having people send Excel files instead of csv files would eliminate a lot of potential problems.
Sounds like the bigger hack to me.
CSV format is actually extremely simple. The only problems you could run into is using the correct encoding (what OP had), which you'll have for all text formats, and dealing correctly with quoting/escaping, and that's because the format is so simple that this part isn't really well specified at all.If you want simple Excel data import this seems the easiest way to go, unless Excel has the option to save in a format that's actually nice to parse, which I don't see at a glance.
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@topspin
Every single time I start Office for Mac (™®©) the auto updater runs first and decides I need to install an update for the updater. It just installed 3.15.180116.
Holy fucking shit, how many different features does the updater need to have that it gets more updates to itself than to the actual Office apps? For fucks sake.EDIT: Also, incremental updates are so last century. That Excel update is only 800MB, not to mention the Word/PPT ones.
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CSV format is actually extremely simple. The only problems you could run into is using the correct encoding (what OP had), which you'll have for all text formats, and dealing correctly with quoting/escaping
You forgot regional and date/time settings.
If you know that you're going to run into issues where the person generating the csv had different settings and/or didn't jump through the correct hoops, and the file that they send you is unparseable as a result, having them send an Excel file instead would solve that problem.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
CSV format is actually extremely simple. The only problems you could run into is using the correct encoding (what OP had), which you'll have for all text formats, and dealing correctly with quoting/escaping
You forgot regional and date/time settings.
I did, but that's more a part of processing/validating the actual content which is unrelated to CSV. If you expect a date and get an entry saying "pizza" you're SOL.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
un-warthog
The only definition of this I can think of comes from my old Halo 2 multiplayer days and involved lots of team-kills...
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@anotherusername They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Right now I'd prefer the thousand words...
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Right now I'd prefer the thousand words...
Closest match I could find in a minute
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/24278/rampant-abuse-of-power/6
I'm sure I could find a better one, but
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@anotherusername They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Right now I'd prefer the thousand words...
is the emoji-version of an internal meme. "The warthog kneels" rather than do work. It means that doing <requested thing> would involve too much work, and the speaker is disinclined to do said work.
Or, as I tell my students--
That would involve effort. I'm allergic to effort.
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@benjamin-hall Hmm okay. I'm guessing it was a "You had to be there" moment.
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@benjamin-hall Hmm okay. I'm guessing it was a "You had to be there" moment.
Yeah, but it's become like Paula Bean or other in-jokes.
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looks like my gpu rendered some random chunk of RAM to the screen...
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We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users
You can use a communication app to communicate "inappropriate content". Oh noes.
Next up: Apple removes whatsapp, twitter, tumblr, safari, mail, iMessage, and the phone app.
Edit: Should've gone to "other news", but I guess it fits.
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@topspin I'm really hoping that they get the Facebook app pulled. That'd be really great for reducing the annoyingness of people on the train!
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Meltdown exploits are finally being found in the wild. And all of them use the published proof-of-concept code.
Congratulations, team, on throwing wide open a 20-year-old exploit that nobody knew existed and was never used until you came along and announced how it works to the entire world! You just tried to prevent nuclear war by dropping nukes on every major city!
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You can use a communication app to communicate "inappropriate content". Oh noes.
maybe it has something to do with the sticker packs offered in the app. if you go to the stickers menu telegram shows a list of sticker packs that are suggested/popular (?). one of them had a raccoon doing a mountain of cocaine and shooting himself in the head, the other had a half-naked nun.
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You can use a communication app to communicate "inappropriate content". Oh noes.
maybe it has something to do with the sticker packs offered in the app. if you go to the stickers menu telegram shows a list of sticker packs that are suggested/popular (?). one of them had a raccoon doing a mountain of cocaine and shooting himself in the head, the other had a half-naked nun.
Sounds like a fairly average Saturday night to me.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
the other had a half-naked nun
That must be it
And yet, the tumblr app shows a shit ton of porn, while I can point Safari at pornhub at will.
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"My ping to Google is 50 meters per second."
Wow. That latency really sucks!
Let's assume an average server is 50 miles away. That's a 3000000ms ping.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
the other had a half-naked nun
That must be it
And yet, the tumblr app shows a shit ton of porn, while I can point Safari at pornhub at will.
I remember that they marked Firefox as an X-rated app because of that exact reason. Which means your iPhone comes with an X-rated app (Safari) installed by default and you can't uninstall it.
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@benjamin-hall Hmm okay. I'm guessing it was a "You had to be there" moment.
The kneeling was a protest inspired by the NFL anthem protests. It's a protest by a staff member against doing work. There was a thing for a while in the Civilized Salon where we'd post pictures of animals (floof) in an attempt to keep people from getting angry and stuff.
The kneeling warthog combined those two things.
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@topspin I actually wouldn't be surprised if they required that all browsers be unable to show porn.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin I actually wouldn't be surprised if they required that all browsers be unable to show porn.
I wouldn't be surprised if they required that all browsers respect the iOS parental controls so that parents can restrict what kids can browse.
That said, I have no clue whether those parental controls are effective. Anything short of a strict whitelist is probably not going to be.
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@topspin I'm really hoping that they get the Facebook app pulled. That'd be really great for reducing the annoyingness of people on the train!
I'd rather them stare at the phone than talk on it!
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin I actually wouldn't be surprised if they required that all browsers be unable to show porn.
I wouldn't be surprised if they required that all browsers respect the iOS parental controls so that parents can restrict what kids can browse.
That said, I have no clue whether those parental controls are effective. Anything short of a strict whitelist is probably not going to be.
If you allow access to Google, you can't block all non-child-friendly pages without doing something crazy like making a whitelist of what words are allowed to occur on a page or what people can search for.
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@ben_lubar Yes you can. Just require Google to force SafeSearch if the User-Agent has iOS.
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@ben_lubar what if we leveraged the next generation of neural network AI and deep machine learning to put content filtering on the blockchain?
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@ben_lubar what if we leveraged the next generation of neural network AI and deep machine learning to put content filtering on the blockchain?
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The biggest Czech news portal is having a stroke. On some reloads, every character with an accent (á, ó, č, ř, ...) is replaced with
ďż˝
. Theż
character is especially puzzling because the language doesn't have one of those. It only seems to happen upon loading the front page, a refresh or clicking on any article and then going back fixes it.
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@blek
Still looks like fine like any Eastern European language
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@luhmann შენი დედამოვტყან
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@blek
Still looks like fine like any Eastern European languageI disagree. There are still too many vowels in the screenshot.
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@ben_lubar what if we leveraged the next generation of neural network AI and deep machine learning to put content filtering on the blockchain?
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
Or, as I tell my students--
That would involve effort. I'm allergic to effort.
https://i.imgur.com/SQEx8nJ.jpg
(ask @Luhmann if you want a translation)
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@remi I think I can get the gist, thanks to
effort
being identical. :smiling_face_with_open_mouth:
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
@remi I think I can get the gist, thanks to
effort
being identical. :smiling_face_with_open_mouth:Is it basically taking several panels to say ?
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@jaloopa The french culture isn't as advanced or efficient as we are here
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comics rule
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