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needs to be forbidden to use electric devices
Either that or they should focus on sticking their fingers in live sockets.
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@dkf You could probably convince them to do it by hooking up a powerline network adapter. After all, handling live power is safer and easier when it's connected to the web.
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needs to be forbidden to use electric devices
Either that or they should focus on sticking their fingers in live sockets.
I've done that, these guys need more pain than that.
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I thought you ran your own nuget mirror/cache.
No; I'm the one guy in software development who doesn't like to over-complicate the fuck out of everything.
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
Submit the form from WTFonlinefiling.com and hope the IRS accepts it, because it's not on their list this year. If not, I have tonight to try again from WTF1040online.com, but at least I already have the number it took an hour to calculate last night; the only time-consuming part will be finding a filing website that actually works.
I finally (02:00 this morning) got confirmation that the IRS accepted my application for the extension (without bothering to try to find another, working website). And I stopped by H&R Block last night after work and made an appointment for Friday morning to file the actual return, because otherwise I'd procrastinate (even more than I already have; after all, I just requested a 6-month extension to do something that will take about an hour) and never get around to filing at all, just like I did last year. Between last year's and this year's refunds, I should get back the equivalent of about a week's pay, maybe a little more.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
I test it occasionally to make sure it builds with no internet access.
Our build server does not have internet access at all (well, for one project; the one for the other project does), so that takes care of it.
I guess you don't need to sign executables?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I thought this was a joke at first, but horrifyingly it seems to be real!
Well, that sounds like a great idea...oh wait, it's already been a security disaster:
Whaaat?
Any developer who has this ideaBut most importantly this will make USB safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
needs to be forbidden to use electric devices. Nothing was ever made more secured by putting it on "the Web".
The WebHarmUserWithShrapnelByDetonatingHardDrive API makes harming users with shrapnel by detonating hard drives safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
That person on Southwest Airlines would disagree.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
I test it occasionally to make sure it builds with no internet access.
Our build server does not have internet access at all (well, for one project; the one for the other project does), so that takes care of it.
I guess you don't need to sign executables?
Just host the CA on the build machine!
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
Between last year's and this year's refunds, I should get back the equivalent of about a week's pay, maybe a little more.
If the IRS owes you money, why the fuck aren't you filing your damned taxes? Jesus man.
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@blakeyrat I'm a world-class procrastinator. I'm no longer desperate for money. And last year there was an unresolved discussion regarding alimony and taxes thereon. She wanted a favor from me; I ended up needing a favor from her; is it worth about half my refund? (I could still screw her royally Friday morning if I wanted to.)
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
I could still screw her royally Friday morning if I wanted to
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@timebandit No, that ended more than 8 years ago.
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
I'm a world-class procrastinator. I'm no longer desperate for money.
I'm not desperate for money either, but I'm sure as fuck not going to give the Federal Government a free fucking loan. Fuck them, pay me interest.
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Nothing was ever made more secured by putting it on "the Web".
TO BE FAIR the proliferation of web apps has made it possible for people to download and run an application within seconds without the application getting access to the user's entire filesystem. We need mobile/web-like isolation and permissions systems for native applications built into desktop OSes.
THAT SAID the internet is full of hostile people.
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We need mobile/web-like isolation and permissions systems for native applications built into desktop OSes.
The "web app masquerading as desktop app" thread is this way
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I'd love it if WebUSB didn't suck because then maybe these fucking online banking systems I deal with wouldn't need to use Java, but I can't see that not being broken, forever...
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Status: What is kerning?
(the only part of the title that's missing spaces between words is theserver because tired thumb that I didn't catch when submitting the original request)
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@tsaukpaetra
BUTTHESERVER
- monitoring server, or stash for gay porn?
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@tsaukpaetra
BUTTHESERVER
- monitoring server, or stash for gay porn?It's actually a ruse. There's no gay porn there (well, a token amount). It's mostly hentai.
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@tsaukpaetra Yaoi?
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How exactly does their business model make sense to any reasonable investor? Flat rate of $10 to be able to see one movie per day? And the participating cinemas get paid in full by the company?
It's a great deal for movie goers. It's also a great deal for the cinemas. But I dare say next to impossible for MoviePass to make money under any kind of arrangement.
I mean, sure, new companies will have a period where they incur losses. But this kind of loss rate?
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Upcoming gmail redesign looks like someone sneezed icons all over a blank sheet of paper:
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@bb36e I'm sure I'll hate it, but then again the current Gmail GUI is rather shit too, so I'm not too worried about it. It's hard to imagine how this could be worse.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I thought this was a joke at first, but horrifyingly it seems to be real!
Well, that sounds like a great idea...oh wait, it's already been a security disaster:
Whaaat?
Any developer who has this ideaBut most importantly this will make USB safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
needs to be forbidden to use electric devices. Nothing was ever made more secured by putting it on "the Web".
The WebHarmUserWithShrapnelByDetonatingHardDrive API makes harming users with shrapnel by detonating hard drives safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
The WebHarmPassengerWithShrapnelByDetonatingEngine API makes harming airline passengers with shrapnel by detonating jet engines safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
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How exactly does their business model make sense to any reasonable investor? Flat rate of $10 to be able to see one movie per day? And the participating cinemas get paid in full by the company?
It's a great deal for movie goers. It's also a great deal for the cinemas. But I dare say next to impossible for MoviePass to make money under any kind of arrangement.
I mean, sure, new companies will have a period where they incur losses. But this kind of loss rate?
I wonder if their plan is to corner a large enough contingent of the moviegoers that they can renegotiate their arrangements with the cinemas and name their own price...
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
I could still screw her royally Friday morning if I wanted to
@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit No, that ended more than 8 years ago.
At least you managed to keep the crown.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@bb36e I'm sure I'll hate it, but then again the current Gmail GUI is rather shit too, so I'm not too worried about it. It's hard to imagine how this could be worse.
I am a bit surprised to see you say that, considering your crusade on the ineptitude of developers with regard to shitty UIs. I have no doubt that the gmail devs will go above and beyond to come up with an even worse UI for the next iteration, staying true to form.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I thought this was a joke at first, but horrifyingly it seems to be real!
Well, that sounds like a great idea...oh wait, it's already been a security disaster:
I thought it was only permitted for whitelisted origins either from the device itself or from a master list at fixed location. In which case it would obviously not get enabled for the Yubikey, end of story. But it seems I misremembered it and it is permitted to any origin approved by the user (and the official white-list only applies to WebBluetooth).
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
I test it occasionally to make sure it builds with no internet access.
Our build server does not have internet access at all (well, for one project; the one for the other project does), so that takes care of it.
I guess you don't need to sign executables?
Yes, we do. Since when is the signing key on the internet?
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Just host the CA on the build machine!
Why CA? Just the signing key is needed.
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Yes, we do. Since when is the signing key on the internet?
At least in our build setup, signing needs access to a time stamp server, which is on the internet.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
Yes, we do. Since when is the signing key on the internet?
At least in our build setup, signing needs access to a time stamp server, which is on the internet.
That's not such a great idea, you should always run your own NTP server if possible, a stratum 3 setup is basically free.
Clocks can skew faster than you'd expect if you lose internet connectivity and then things like AD servers stop wanting to cooperate. Plus you get some skew between different services which can make logs less useful,
pool.ntp.org
andtime.windows.com
are currently 10 milliseconds apart for example./2p
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@bb36e Ugh, I see blue, red, black, and grey in there. Somebody needs to tell them how much cleaner their design would be if all colors were white. White text on white background FTW.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
Yes, we do. Since when is the signing key on the internet?
At least in our build setup, signing needs access to a time stamp server, which is on the internet.
That's not such a great idea, you should always run your own NTP server if possible, a stratum 3 setup is basically free.
Clocks can skew faster than you'd expect if you lose internet connectivity and then things like AD servers stop wanting to cooperate. Plus you get some skew between different services which can make logs less useful,
pool.ntp.org
andtime.windows.com
are currently 10 milliseconds apart for example./2p
A time stamp server is not an NTP server. It is a 3rd-party server that adds a signed timestamp to your artefact, certifying that it existed by given time. Since being 3rd-party is the point, it has to be in the internet.
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The machine translated Microsoft help texts also translated whatever PowerShell commands and arguments it finds. I don't think typing the arguments in Swedish will work, Microsoft, especially when Windows Server doesn't have a Swedish language version. Also, it translates the word "the" which doesn't exist in Swedish. Overall, the text reads like immigrant-speak Swedish.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
Yes, we do. Since when is the signing key on the internet?
At least in our build setup, signing needs access to a time stamp server, which is on the internet.
That's not such a great idea, you should always run your own NTP server if possible, a stratum 3 setup is basically free.
Clocks can skew faster than you'd expect if you lose internet connectivity and then things like AD servers stop wanting to cooperate. Plus you get some skew between different services which can make logs less useful,
pool.ntp.org
andtime.windows.com
are currently 10 milliseconds apart for example./2p
A time stamp server is not an NTP server. It is a 3rd-party server that adds a signed timestamp to your artefact, certifying that it existed by given time. Since being 3rd-party is the point, it has to be in the internet.
TIL, thanks. Never heard of a signed timestamp before, that's interesting.
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The machine translated Microsoft help texts also translated whatever PowerShell commands and arguments it finds. I don't think typing the arguments in Swedish will work, Microsoft, especially when Windows Server doesn't have a Swedish language version. Also, it translates the word "the" which doesn't exist in Swedish. Overall, the text reads like immigrant-speak Swedish.
I still want to find the person responsible in removing english Function Names as a possibility in translated Excel versions; and let him meet my clue-by-four.
Vlookup => SVerweis
Len => Länge =>This gets converted to english (I assume) anyways, cause the Formulas saved in EN-Excel work in DE-Excel and vice-versa.
If Microsoft wanted to Improve Excel (and I should know, I have designed 0 spreadsheet applications) they should split each worksheet in three layers:
- Data
- Formatting
- Formulas / Code
The amount of Data loss due to excel helpfully stripping leading 0, or saving long numbers in Scientific Notations (E+29) I have witnessed (in some shitty one time ETL processes for SAP) is staggering.
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Yes, we do. Since when is the signing key on the internet?
The time server is.
d in the next post... (heh, I've barely sipped my 1st coffee!)
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"Are you talking to me?"
"No, my command line switch is also Ta bort"
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How exactly does their business model make sense to any reasonable investor? Flat rate of $10 to be able to see one movie per day? And the participating cinemas get paid in full by the company?
It's a great deal for movie goers. It's also a great deal for the cinemas. But I dare say next to impossible for MoviePass to make money under any kind of arrangement.
I mean, sure, new companies will have a period where they incur losses. But this kind of loss rate?
I wonder if their plan is to corner a large enough contingent of the moviegoers that they can renegotiate their arrangements with the cinemas and name their own price...
That would be an "interesting" approach as cinemas usually have very tight margins already. They'd need to do negotiations with the movie studios instead.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How exactly does their business model make sense to any reasonable investor? Flat rate of $10 to be able to see one movie per day? And the participating cinemas get paid in full by the company?
It's a great deal for movie goers. It's also a great deal for the cinemas. But I dare say next to impossible for MoviePass to make money under any kind of arrangement.
I mean, sure, new companies will have a period where they incur losses. But this kind of loss rate?
I wonder if their plan is to corner a large enough contingent of the moviegoers that they can renegotiate their arrangements with the cinemas and name their own price...
That would be an "interesting" approach as cinemas usually have very tight margins already. They'd need to do negotiations with the movie studios instead.
: We'll give you the discount, but your people are required to buy a large popcorn and soda (you know, like the 2 drink minimum)
Problem solved!
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@kurt-c-pause A.k.a. Bing translator strikes again:
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How exactly does their business model make sense to any reasonable investor? Flat rate of $10 to be able to see one movie per day? And the participating cinemas get paid in full by the company?
It's a great deal for movie goers. It's also a great deal for the cinemas. But I dare say next to impossible for MoviePass to make money under any kind of arrangement.
I mean, sure, new companies will have a period where they incur losses. But this kind of loss rate?
I wonder if their plan is to corner a large enough contingent of the moviegoers that they can renegotiate their arrangements with the cinemas and name their own price...
That would be an "interesting" approach as cinemas usually have very tight margins already. They'd need to do negotiations with the movie studios instead.
I don't know what sort of margins they run, but they make all their money on concessions and commercials anyway. If they really had to, they'd adjust.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How exactly does their business model make sense to any reasonable investor? Flat rate of $10 to be able to see one movie per day? And the participating cinemas get paid in full by the company?
It's a great deal for movie goers. It's also a great deal for the cinemas. But I dare say next to impossible for MoviePass to make money under any kind of arrangement.
I mean, sure, new companies will have a period where they incur losses. But this kind of loss rate?
I wonder if their plan is to corner a large enough contingent of the moviegoers that they can renegotiate their arrangements with the cinemas and name their own price...
That would be an "interesting" approach as cinemas usually have very tight margins already. They'd need to do negotiations with the movie studios instead.
I don't know what sort of margins they run, but they make all their money on concessions and commercials anyway. If they really had to, they'd adjust.
How? By making concessions even more expensive? That's not a good basis - after all, you're not forced to buy those concessions.
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Overheard on campus: "I think a lot of people in San Francisco hate change, they just don't want all these tech people revolutionizing the city"
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How exactly does their business model make sense to any reasonable investor? Flat rate of $10 to be able to see one movie per day? And the participating cinemas get paid in full by the company?
It's a great deal for movie goers. It's also a great deal for the cinemas. But I dare say next to impossible for MoviePass to make money under any kind of arrangement.
I mean, sure, new companies will have a period where they incur losses. But this kind of loss rate?
I wonder if their plan is to corner a large enough contingent of the moviegoers that they can renegotiate their arrangements with the cinemas and name their own price...
That would be an "interesting" approach as cinemas usually have very tight margins already. They'd need to do negotiations with the movie studios instead.
I don't know what sort of margins they run, but they make all their money on concessions and commercials anyway. If they really had to, they'd adjust.
How? By making concessions even more expensive? That's not a good basis - after all, you're not forced to buy those concessions.
I can go in one of two ways with that statement.
Door A
And yet, so, so many people do.Door B
Yes, I am forced to... I have a wife who is a sucker for theater popcorn.
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@anotherusername don't forget you have a ⅔ chance of not getting the goat if you switch doors!