WTF Bites
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Fucking printers are the worst.
- Submit jobs to printer
- Go to printer. Printer complains about paper jam.
- Follow instructions by printer to unjam.
3a. No jam visible where indicated, so it's impossible to unjam
3b. Printer insists that jam remains. - Give up and delete jobs.
4a. Printer doesn't know anything of my jobs
4b. On the computer, jobs have status "Completed at ${current_date_time}."
Wait a second. Why did my print jobs complete successfully? Did they like print elsewhere in the building? Did I send them to the wrong destination? (I don't think so, but been there done that, architecture department and their a2 plotter were not amused).
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@cvi
The printer might be less likely to jam if you stop fucking it.Or at least clean up after yourself.
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Milk boxes now are asking to install their mobile app
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There is this webpage where I need an account so I can book laundry times (and pay for them). As with most of these pages, I randomly generate a new password just for that site. Randomly, I get a password that contains a '%'. Account creation works fine, but I can't log in afterwards.
Cue cursing. Anyway, the site has this slightly amateurish feel over it, so on a hunch, I use the password-reset function to change the password -- same password, except with the '%' replaced with a '-'. Now it works just fine.
Hmm... is that the smell of SQL burning in the morning?
Or disco-style parsing...
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architecture department and their a2 plotter were not amused
That's what happens when "a2 architecture" is the first in the alphabetical list, I guess. We've got a printer called "aaaaa" here that prints to /dev/null and sends you an email "
SPANK SPANK SPANKDon't print here"
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Was curious what this "note" entry in the Win10
Speech Bubble MenuAction Center does.
Very useful feature, indeed. Now how do I dismiss this thing with a deactivated "ok" button and no title bar?
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Very useful feature, indeed. Now how do I dismiss this thing with a deactivated "ok" button and no title bar?
Presumably, the Windows equivalent of
sudo kill -9 1
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architecture department and their a2 plotter were not amused
That's what happens when "a2 architecture" is the first in the alphabetical list, I guess. We've got a printer called "aaaaa" here that prints to /dev/null and sends you an email "
SPANK SPANK SPANKDon't print here"I'm not really surprised they don't have printers assigned by group so this kind of thing doesn't happen...
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Was curious what this "note" entry in the Win10
Speech Bubble MenuAction Center does.
Very useful feature, indeed. Now how do I dismiss this thing with a deactivated "ok" button and no title bar?Click anywhere but the dialog. Discoverable, I know....
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Sometimes even the most senior, know-everything-about-the-product devs just don't put in the effort.
SpecificCustomer has a bug in the Auto-Apply Coupon Code logic. It looks like the latest version of the website has a fix for that.
Okay, you're super busy, Lorne, so can you take care of that?
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I did compare between SpecifcCustomer and BaseLatest don't see difference maybe should do this.
grr.. it isn't on the Coupon.ascx, it's in the base code itself. Just go one function into CouponManager.GetCouponsForAutoApply, and there's this:Public Overridable Function GetCouponsForAutoApply() As CouponList // Fix for auto apply coupon - signed with developer tag for :old_woman: // Code for fix here End Function
{YOU WROTE IT YOU WROTE IT YOU WROTE IT WHY DID I FIND THIS IS 2 SECONDS WHEN YOU FUCKING WROTE IT?!?!}
There it is =)
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This won't go wrong at all
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@bb36e Such as, for instance, Trump's collusion with Russia?
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wrong
And yet they still refuse to update support for annotations on mobile.
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Microsoft can't count.
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@benjamin-hall it's downloading Candy Crush Saga
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@bb36e I sure hope not!
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This won't go wrong at all
Woo hoo time to start bot-poisoning articles on the Moon Landing.
Filed under: "Everything this guy just said is bullshit.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
That thread is over a year old - why is it still around?
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Client is using a softphone instead of a physical phone. Calls in with a complaint that the audio is too quiet on their end, and that after boosting the volume the other side complained about a hissing sound.
They boosted the microphone instead of the output volume.
This is the actual system tray, with microphone and output volume controls:
I don't think the iconography for microphones and output volume changed since what, stereos from 1970s?
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@izzion
It ain't no phone if it ain't hard
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Client is using a softphone
^
TR ---------------------|Standard 3.5mm jack headsets are cheaper than phone headsets alone, let alone a phone + headset. That's basically what it came down to, AFAIK (it's a small callcenter).
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@onyx
Good QualityYeah, I've seen that quite often too. I've never perfected the sales technique to get the decision maker to realize that TCO of the cheap solution is going to be a lot higher when accounting for all the kludging to keep it working (or the extra demands it puts on the users or whatever). Oh well, more HPC action to deal with the softphone tickets
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California state tax forms. Why do I have to do all this shit myself (also they don't let aliens e-file)?
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Why do I have to do all this shit myself
Well, I mean, you could let it be handled through your employer like it is in the Euroland, but I'm pretty sure someone would yell something like "get your grubby government hands off my taxes!"
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@onyx I'm not even bothered by having to do taxes myself, but so many lines on that form are just derived from previous lines without any additional input. the goverment should add scripting to their annual tax forms
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@benjamin-hall It's 2018. No software can count.
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This is the actual system tray, with microphone and output volume controls:
Maybe the black on black on black made that invisible-ass speaker icon... invisible?
But sure, must always be the user's fault.
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@blakeyrat It's not the best choice of colors, but it's perfectly visible on the actual screen.
Besides that, I still don't know how anyone can expect that moving a single slider which appears when you click an obvious microphone icon would change the output volume. If someone doesn't know how to do something and then they ask, I'm fine with that. Doing the completely illogical thing and then complaining how that thing didn't work is what I don't understand
Filed under: Damn you for being the first result for
:shrug
, you pony bastard!
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It's not the best choice of colors, but it's perfectly visible on the actual screen.
To you maybe. How do you know it was visible to him? Did you ask?
Besides that, I still don't know how anyone can expect that moving a single slider which appears when you click an obvious microphone icon would change the output volume.
That becomes a lot more explainable once you realize the speaker icon was literally invisible. It's the only thing there that looks audio-related, so why not try it. I'd think that way, too.
Doing the completely illogical thing and then complaining how that thing didn't work is what I don't understand
What you also don't understand is that this is a usability problem. Instead of blaming the user, fix your shitty software.
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Doing the completely illogical thing and then complaining how that thing didn't work is what I don't understand
Hi @Onyx! YMBNH! Meet Blakeyrat!
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
Did you ask?
No, I just explained the solution. Me and millions of users using that same exact color scheme have no problems. You're also judging it by a shitty screenshot taken over a VNC session.
If anyone complained about any lack of contrast I'd set the system up for them in a different way, but I'm not going to go around and change the theme settings on every PC due to a complaint I never got before from anyone using that theme, be it my user or otherwise.
@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
That becomes a lot more explainable once you realize the speaker icon was literally invisible. It's the only thing there that looks audio-related, so why not try it. I'd think that way, too.
Guess my brain works differently then.
@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
fix your shitty software.
Not my software. I pretty much did this more out of the courtesy since they, of course, don't even have an IT person there.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
the speaker icon was literally invisible.
It's not invisible, but if I saw that, I'd assume it was disabled. I'd try clicking it anyway, because it's the control that should do what I'm trying to do, but I wouldn't expect it to work because stupid software had disabled it for inscrutible raisin.
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You're also judging it by a shitty screenshot taken over a VNC session.
FWIW it's perfectly visible on my screen from your screenshot.
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California state tax forms. Why do I have to do all this shit myself (also they don't let aliens e-file)?
(HRBlock) Importing from Federal... Done. Print. (You can tweak, but I've never needed to)
What shit? (ok, I actually am lazy and pay the extra $whatever and efile state. Fed efile is included in the price)
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No, I just explained the solution.
You can't fix the problem until you know the root cause of it.
You're also judging it by a shitty screenshot taken over a VNC session.
There's no way that amount of contrast is acceptable, VNC or not.
If anyone complained about any lack of contrast I'd set the system up for them in a different way,
It's hard to tell if a lack of contrast is the problem if the control is virtually invisible. They literally might not see it at all. Not "see it but the contrast is poor", but not see it.
but I'm not going to go around and change the theme settings on every PC due to a complaint I never got before from anyone using that theme, be it my user or otherwise.
The theme's not the problem; the software is.
Not my software.
Then tell the vendor to fix it. Make some noise.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
The theme's not the problem; the software is.
Same software (KDE's volume control) under a different theme
The theme is the problem
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Same software (KDE's volume control) under a different theme
The theme is the problem
If the icon is put on a background color that can change, then the icon should itself have enough contrast to be useful atop any background color.
So the software is the problem. But if the software adapts to the theme, that works too. Either way, the problem is not (and is never) the user. If the user has trouble using an app, that's the fault of the app.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Same software (KDE's volume control) under a different theme
It's MATE on that one, actually.
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@blakeyrat Er actually task tray icons like that on most desktop environments are controlled by the theme, not the software.
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Er actually
Whee.
task tray icons like that on most desktop environments are controlled by the theme, not the software.
Ok? So it's a slightly different piece of software that's broken.
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Decided to try .NET Core SDK on Linux.
Follow instructions on how to install on Debian, easy job.
Create a new console app
dotnet new console -o myApp
This creates an "Hello World" console app. Sweet.
Try to run it
dotnet run Segmentation fault
Check the generated code, make sure everything is installed properly, erase the project and re-create it.
Uninstall dotnet and re-install it, just in case.Still Segmentation fault
After a quick Google search, found the solution
export DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
Now it works !
Thank you Microsoft for making me disable your telemetry shit before I can use it
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
Microsoft can't count.
Pff, at least it's doing something.
Windows update has been downloading 2018-03 Cumulative Update since yesterday. When I left work yesterday it's been at 95% for a few hours. Right now it's at 0%.
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@timebandit I need to grab screenshots of a website for a project. I hear PhantomJS is good for this so I download it and try out their own example for taking a webpage screenshot...
PS C:\Users\xxx\Downloads\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\bin> ./phantomjs.exe rasterize.js https:// google.com test.png "1920px" size: 1920px ReferenceError: Strict mode forbids implicit creation of global property 'pageWidth' phantomjs://code/rasterize.js:29 in global code
Great. They set the JS interpreter into "strict" mode, then use variables without declaring them. Good jorb.
We should have a topic that's like "projects that ship with examples that don't actually work."
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Performance of ld.exe under Cygwin:
$ rm bin/tests/something.exe; time make ld : bin/tests/something.exe done. real 1m56.010s user 1m48.410s sys 0m3.509s
Same thing with WSL/Ubuntu (so, still Windows 10):
$ rm bin/tests/something.exe; time make ld : bin/tests/something.exe done. real 0m6.296s user 0m2.234s sys 0m1.906s
The latter is also more in line with what I'd get with under a standalone linux. Or with VisualStudio for that matter. Wtf cygwin?