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it obviously didn't work with my Fold 3
The wording of the review suggests she didn't try it.
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@Arantor also. "The recommended spen" refers to Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 Official Blessed S-Pen . Styluses that aren't Official Blessed S-Pen aren't called s-pens, they're called styluses. The reviewer is saying "because it's not the Official Blessed S-Pen , it obviously didn't work with my Fold 3 regardless of what this page says, should've seen it coming. But shipping was fast so here's 3 stars for trying!"
I mean, based on what you cropped and that additional context, clearly the review was made in bad faith and should be deleted. Given that anything below a 5* is a bad review on these platforms, being like "well, I'm an idiotic twat who's hung up on using official branded products but is completely unable to read the listing before I purchased something, so let's review bomb this guy with a 3* review with a negative comment like it really should have been a 1* lul" is just bad behavior.
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@izzion If she's that clueless about what she bought, odds are she's also clueless on review weighting.
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@izzion If she's that clueless about what she bought, odds are she's also clueless on review weighting.
A clueless twat is still a twat
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@izzion I said it before and I stand by it: people are fucking dumb. In all senses of all of those words.
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@loopback0 was that your first clue?
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@Arantor of course not
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@loopback0 I'd hate to think it was getting difficult to spot the other clues these days.
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@loopback0 I bought a Fold 4 recently. Moreover, I intentionally bought it from T-Mobile with monthly payments rather than getting it unlocked for the same price. I did it so I could max out the monthly phone bill reimbursement at my workplace (had to downgrade my internet from 1000 to 75 to stay within the limit).
It's a good phone. Not nearly worth the asking price, but since I basically didn't pay for it, I'm happy with it.
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Faith in the next generation of humans dwindling... I got this question today in regard to tables.
What is the column and what is the row?
With me having to explain that columns are vertical and rows are horizontal.
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@Atazhaia So you had a row with them?
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With me having to explain that columns are vertical and rows are horizontal.
What is this "vertical" and "horizontal"?
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With me having to explain that columns are vertical and rows are horizontal.
What is this "vertical" and "horizontal"?
The right hand is where your thumb is left.
INB4 ableist!
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@topspin I don't remember the details but I recently encountered a library/framework/tool/something like that where vertical and horizontal were swapped.
Could be Jetpack Compose, Google's new favorite child.
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Jetpack Compose
One for the "programming confessions" thread: I'm so far behind having any kind of clue what all the latest buzz is, most of it probably has already died before I figure it out.
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@topspin That's the right way to do it.
Unfortunately, it is often crap which survives...
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@topspin TLDR: out with the old, in with the new, we'll worry about details such as feature-completeness later.
Jetpack is on major version 3, Compose on v2.5, Material UI, 3rd Edition recently hit v1.0, and they STILL don't have feature parity with the old Android UI system. And they've been aggressively pushing Jetpack as the One True Framework since before pandemic. Classic CADT.
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@Gustav I don’t think CADT is Google’s problem. Their problem is their internal culture that handles new stuff as the only barometer of promotion. So shilling a new product is always worth more than shipping a major version increment, which is always worth more than shipping a minor version increment.
Tie peoples’ raises and promotions to this and you get the culture of make as many “new” things as people can convince management to sign off on.
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@loopback0 I bought a Fold 4 recently. Moreover, I intentionally bought it from T-Mobile with monthly payments rather than getting it unlocked for the same price. I did it so I could max out the monthly phone bill reimbursement at my workplace (had to downgrade my internet from 1000 to 75 to stay within the limit).
It's a good phone. Not nearly worth the asking price, but since I basically didn't pay for it, I'm happy with it.
Have you expensed a copy of WinRAR yet?
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@boomzilla no but hopefully I'll be able to expense an original Lenovo USBC cable.
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Status: Apparently, adding a foreign language to iPhone fucks with the folders and moves nearly all apps into the Other folder. At least until reboot.
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@Tsaukpaetra on iOS 16?
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NO THEY FUCKING DON'T DESERVE IT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP GIVING MORE THAN 1 STAR TO PRODUCTS THAT DON'T WORK AT ALL.
She bought the wrong product, didn’t test it because wrong product but still gave 3 stars, that’s somehow even worse than “it didn’t work but was shipped quickly”.
The right thing would've just been to return the item without a review
Fake edit: Unless it claimed to be compatible, but actually wasn't. In that case, one star and return
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra on iOS 16?
No idea. This was reported to me by dude next cube over who showed me his screen.
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@Tsaukpaetra think it was a bug on earlier versions of iOS. Doesn't mean it's not back on iOS 16 I guess.
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I just don't get it. What's the point of Base64-encoding a stringified UUID?
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I just don't get it. What's the point of Base64-encoding a stringified UUID?
Obfuscation?
encryption ?
"Oh, it's him..."
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I just don't get it. What's the point of Base64-encoding a stringified UUID?
Obfuscation?
encryption ?
"Oh, it's him..."Ignorance.
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I just don't get it. What's the point of Base64-encoding a stringified UUID?
Obfuscation?
encryption ?
"Oh, it's him..."Even if Base64 was good encryption, it still would be pointless because the UUID is used for one thing and one thing only, a single HTTPS request.
It's the most pointless thing I've seen since Firefox "SVG" icons.
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@Gustav SVG icons have a place - you can inline them and save the HTTP roundtrip, and you can animate and style them in ways in the browser.
Unless you're getting at something else?
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I just don't get it. What's the point of Base64-encoding a stringified UUID?
When asking Kevin a question, you'd better use German language. He may fail if it is asked in English, and he surely will fail if it is asked in Polish.
Anyway, you may not be able to understand his answer because of his weird paths of thought.
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Status: I cannot express how much I hate all modern software. It's 9:40am and this is the third WTF I've ran into since I started working at
9:20cough 9:00.First, I want to reply to an email I received a few weeks ago, so the fastest way to get there is the search function in OWA. I type in the name and nothing shows up in the results. What? I know I have mailed him before. Try a different part of the name in case I typo'd something, still nothing. Weird. So I instead type in the name of the last person that shows up directly at the top of my inbox. Again, empty.
Okay, everything's broken, but at least I can "reboot" this crap by pressing F5. It spins to load but nothing happens. Is the internet down or just office.com? Open a new tab and type in google.com, Firefox informs me that it "has been updated" and I need to restart it to continue to use it.
So it was actually a Firefox problem and not an MS one, for once. Well, thanks for informing me, I could've had this shit open all day without realizing everything's broken. That's what happens when you abuse hypertext documents to serve as applications.Next, a colleague asked me for two powerpoint slides to sum up a part of a project. Normally, I'd just open an earlier presentation and copy a few slides out of it. But PR told me we've got a new corporate design and I should use that for all new things going forward. So instead I open powerpoint and click new, hoping to find the template there. It doesn't show any templates directly, only one folder with some cryptic name. Weird that you'd put only a single folder at the root, but ok, I look inside of that. Two templates with weird names that are clearly for something quite specific and not the general CD I'm supposed to use.
I'm confused again. I go back to the root again and after waiting a few seconds I can watch as it slowly, one by one, shows a few more templates. While being fully "interactive" and showing no placeholders or any signs that it hasn't loaded everything yet. How fucking hard would it be to firststat
the directory and display placeholders for the literally 4 files in there, before spending an eternity loading the first one?!And finally, I try to copy over some stuff from a different presentation after all. For retarded , powerpoint defaults to copying not just the text but also the source formatting of the original slide. Which is not the formatting of the target slide, and the reason why I did all this shit to begin with. There's different options for pasting, like "keep text only", which is almost always what I want. However, it is actually helpful and instead of having to go through menus, it displays a little on-demand popup menu next to the pasted text. Normally, you can click that and then select a different pasting option post-facto.
Well, not today my friends. Not today:
Filed under: The future is stupid.
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@Gustav SVG icons have a place - you can inline them and save the HTTP roundtrip, and you can animate and style them in ways in the browser.
Unless you're getting at something else?
At one point, Firefox UI had SVG icons that consisted only of a single tag - Base64-encoded PNG.
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@Gustav ok, yeah. That’s fucking stupid.
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How fucking hard would it be to first
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the directory and display placeholders for the literally 4 files in there, before spending an eternity loading the first one?!It would be very easy... for anyone not working at Microsoft.
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@Gustav SVG icons have a place - you can inline them and save the HTTP roundtrip, and you can animate and style them in ways in the browser.
Unless you're getting at something else?
At one point, Firefox UI had SVG icons that consisted only of a single tag - Base64-encoded PNG.
@Gustav ok, yeah. That’s fucking stupid.
A common practice in image processing (DAM) is to use EPS data format, because Adobe products (Photoshop/Illustrator/etc) offer export to this file format.
Of course, the result is "Encapsulated Postscript" with embedded TIFF (base64 is optional though, usually it's just raw binary data in the middle of plaintext).
I have learned this trivia bit when I found a code that "normalizes EPS by converting clipping path to alpha channel and reduces size by using lossy compression instead of lossless". At first, I was just (btw the code was perfectly fine and worked).
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@Gustav SVG icons have a place - you can inline them and save the HTTP roundtrip, and you can animate and style them in ways in the browser.
Unless you're getting at something else?
At one point, Firefox UI had SVG icons that consisted only of a single tag - Base64-encoded PNG.
@Gustav ok, yeah. That’s fucking stupid.
A common practice in image processing (DAM) is to use EPS data format, because Adobe products (Photoshop/Illustrator/etc) offer export to this file format.
Of course, the result is "Encapsulated Postscript" with embedded TIFF (base64 is optional though, usually it's just raw binary data in the middle of plaintext).
I have learned this trivia bit when I found a code that "normalizes EPS by converting clipping path to alpha channel and reduces size by using lossy compression instead of lossless". At first, I was just (btw the code was perfectly fine and worked).
It makes more sense when you consider the history of desktop publishing: almost always destined for a PostScript device, image file formats that don't support CMYK and/or alpha channels (both CMYK and alpha channels are extensions to baseline TIFF), and programs that don't support them but do understand clipping paths (Quark for a long time). Even the layout program I worked on way back when didn't support alpha channels but could use clipping paths, IIRC.
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English Wikipedia has lost 90% of content!
Somehow the front page counter is off by one order of magnitude... (Actual number should be 6.5M articles.)
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@Atazhaia Maybe English Wikipedia is owned by MindGeek and we never noticed.
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@boomzilla no but hopefully I'll be able to expense an original Lenovo USBC cable.
Sure, use gutter cable with company data.
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I just don't get it. What's the point of Base64-encoding a stringified UUID?
It adds some sensitivity to character encoding and/or embedding that a strictly hexadecimal notation lacks. Specifically, some of the characters are incompatible with URLs, JSON, paths, etc. You wouldn't want it not to break if misused, would you?
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@Atazhaia More than 657000 articles.
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Actual number should be 6.5M articles
Well, 657,000+. That counts, right?
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Actual number should be 6.5M articles
Well, 657,000+. That counts, right?
Oh, now you want 10 votes apiece?
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I just don't get it. What's the point of Base64-encoding a stringified UUID?
Taking inspiration from the state of the art, best-in-class forum software that MD5 encoded an asterisk
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@hungrier I'm not familiar with that one and it sounds like a good story. TLDR?
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@Gustav We could have a whole Discourse on it if we wanted to.