Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
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@PleegWat If anyone does that bullshit to me, instant -2 on given interaction positivity, and you will be put in malicious compliance mode. Do not waste my time.
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@Tsaukpaetra Yes, nowadays we'd call that malicious compliance mode. 12-year-old me didn't quite know how to deal with it.
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@dcon said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I would prefer a KFC
If you prefer a KFC, that really isn't saying much about your fried chicken...
That's probably why there isn't Anywhere In Europe Fried Chicken
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@hungrier Traditional Dutch fast food
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@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Yes, nowadays we'd call that malicious compliance mode.
Yup, I remember being on the receiving end of that as a kid. I quickly learned the difference between "Can you [do thing]?" and "Please [do thing]".
Edit: I'm pretty sure I've pulled that verbal trick on my kids, too, at some point, probably more than once. Also, "Can I [do thing]?" "I don't know; can you?" "Can I [do thing]?" "I suppose you probably can, but you may not [do thing]."
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@HardwareGeek I don't think that works in Dutch.
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@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek I don't think that works in Dutch.
The fact that you speak a throat disease instead of a real language isn't my problem.
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Yes, nowadays we'd call that malicious compliance mode.
Yup, I remember being on the receiving end of that as a kid. I quickly learned the difference between "Can you [do thing]?" and "Please [do thing]".
Edit: I'm pretty sure I've pulled that verbal trick on my kids, too, at some point, probably more than once. Also, "Can I [do thing]?" "I don't know; can you?" "Can I [do thing]?" "I suppose you probably can, but you may not [do thing]."
It certainly works in German. Teachers do it, nobody but them finds it funny, and pupils hate them for it.
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek I don't think that works in Dutch.
The fact that you speak a throat disease instead of a real language isn't my problem.
Wasn't that Danish?
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@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek I don't think that works in Dutch.
The fact that you speak a throat disease instead of a real language isn't my problem.
Wasn't that Danish?
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Whose daughter is that piano student?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Whose daughter
Not mine, they would know better than to keep the laptop plugged in while mobile like that!
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@Tsaukpaetra do as I say, not as I do?
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@Gustav said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra do as I say, not as I do?
I hope you don't go traipsing around with a tether to the wall...
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@Tsaukpaetra depends on how bad the battery life is. E.g. my wife's laptop's battery life was about 1.5 seconds until I replaced it today, so I absolutely did move it around like that. In the past I sometimes had to use laptops with the battery missing entirely.
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@Gustav oh, yeah. There was that time I was in jail in the Phillipines.
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@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Teachers do it, nobody but them finds it funny, and pupils hate them for it.
Sounds just like dads the world round, in their collective role as master trolls!
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gustav oh, yeah. There was that time I was in jail in the Phillipines.
If memory serves the power supply that time was a car battery in a little filing cabinet.
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@Watson said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gustav oh, yeah. There was that time I was in jail in the Phillipines.
If memory serves the power supply that time was a car battery in a little filing cabinet.
My setup is one small step up from that, modulo filing cabinet.
Unlike the shitty battery that came with the UPS and died within a year, this one at least runs laptop+monitor for almost a full workday.
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@LaoC said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Unlike the shitty battery that came with the UPS and died within a year, this one at least runs laptop+monitor for almost a full workday.
Don't forget to put any required networking hardware on it too. Though there's a possibility that a power loss might affect the other end at the same time, that's someone else's responsibility to worry about...
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@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@LaoC said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Unlike the shitty battery that came with the UPS and died within a year, this one at least runs laptop+monitor for almost a full workday.
Don't forget to put any required networking hardware on it too. Though there's a possibility that a power loss might affect the other end at the same time, that's someone else's responsibility to worry about...
Yeah, at half a dozen power cuts a day I'd have noticed by now ;)
My router isn't on it yet because the FTTH box lives somewhere else and doesn't have its own UPS yet so when that goes down I'm offline anyway (unless I use 4G which is luckily dirt cheap) but whenever I get that other little UPS fixed β¦
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@LaoC I just mentioned it because I've seen the equivalent in a supercomputer center. The computers had power all through the power cut, but the network, disks and AC didn't... and nor did the emergency lighting.
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@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
nor did the emergency lighting.
Isn't the purpose of that literally to be working when there is no mains?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
nor did the emergency lighting.
Isn't the purpose of that literally to be working when there is no mains?
It's also a requirement under one or more fire safety regulations in the UK.
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@loopback0 said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
nor did the emergency lighting.
Isn't the purpose of that literally to be working when there is no mains?
It's also a requirement under one or more fire safety regulations in the UK.
Yeah, but if there's no power, what's going to start a fire? It's not like a lithium-ion runaway can happen with fully dead batteries
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@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@LaoC I just mentioned it because I've seen the equivalent in a supercomputer center. The computers had power all through the power cut, but the network, disks and AC didn't... and nor did the emergency lighting.
And when the diesel generators were switched on, all the UPS started to charge up at the same moment, which was too much for the generators, such that they broke down in that very moment, ...
(true story, happened in a datacenter somewhere in europe)
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@izzion said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
what's going to start a fire
Someone lighting a joint.
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@izzion said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
what's going to start a fire?
We didn't start it but it's been burning while the world's been turning.
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@HardwareGeek That depends. I had quite the fun time re-inventing the wheel because I didn't like the interface of the library picked in our partner component.
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
The what?
Just means it takes longer...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
nor did the emergency lighting.
Isn't the purpose of that literally to be working when there is no mains?
Yep. Definitely a moment there.
@izzion said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Yeah, but if there's no power, what's going to start a fire?
A supercomputer, going full tilt with no cooling at all, doing CFD/FEM work that it can never save to anywhere that will survive the power coming back.
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@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@HardwareGeek That depends. I had quite the fun time re-inventing the wheel because I didn't like the interface of the library picked in our partner component.
Affirmative. But the enthusiasm is usually short-lived, up until I solve the "interesting" problem.
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@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@LaoC I just mentioned it because I've seen the equivalent in a supercomputer center. The computers had power all through the power cut, but the network, disks and AC didn't... and nor did the emergency lighting.
I was quite sure I've told this story from when I worked at $MAJOR_ISP but search says no (inb4 lol search) so here goes:
We moved into this new office with red and grey outlets and were told that the red outlets were connected to the nearby data center's big-ass UPS so all workstations and network stuff should be plugged into these and the rest into the grey ones. So we did that and it was all fine until a major substation transformer blew up one evening, half the city was without power for several hours, and immediately everything went down except for the printers and the fax and some desk lights that were in the grey outlets because it had been wired just the other way round and nobody had bothered to test it
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Recently I've been using a
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laptop for work that at times requires connectivity to their VPN. Whenever I see this popup, I'm reminded of , the apparent Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
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@hungrier said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
Sorry, it's just so much easier to use someone else's resources they're giving away free!
Just, um, don't try to learn from them.
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@DogsB that's just mouldy bread
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@homoBalkanus shut up you lawn ornament.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@hungrier said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
Sorry, it's just so much easier to use someone else's resources they're giving away free!
Then copy the image and upload to the forum, like the rest of us.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@hungrier said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
Sorry, it's just so much easier to use someone else's resources they're giving away free!
Just, um, don't try to learn from them.
Donβt worry, Discord is working on preventing this too, by making all the links expire after a period.
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@Gustav said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@hungrier said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
Sorry, it's just so much easier to use someone else's resources they're giving away free!
Then copy the image and upload to the forum, like the rest of us.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gustav said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@hungrier said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
Sorry, it's just so much easier to use someone else's resources they're giving away free!
Then copy the image and upload to the forum, like the rest of us.
He really meant take a grainy jpeg screenshot with snipping tool and be sure to leave your cursor in the screenshot, but he assumed you were as messed up as the rest of us and would just know that.
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@boomzilla figures you'd turn to such insults. Try taking your own advice and get off your lawn at least once in your miserable life
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@izzion said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gustav said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@hungrier said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
Sorry, it's just so much easier to use someone else's resources they're giving away free!
Then copy the image and upload to the forum, like the rest of us.
He really meant take a grainy jpeg screenshot with snipping tool and be sure to leave your cursor in the screenshot, but he assumed you were as messed up as the rest of us and would just know that.
- Snipping tool does lossless PNG by default. I could see @Tsaukpaetra's Windows doing something weird instead, but why would you have that problem?
- If you used a real web browser, you wouldn't even need it.
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@Gustav said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@izzion said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gustav said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@hungrier said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hotlinker Of Discord Images All The Time:
Sorry, it's just so much easier to use someone else's resources they're giving away free!
Then copy the image and upload to the forum, like the rest of us.
He really meant take a grainy jpeg screenshot with snipping tool and be sure to leave your cursor in the screenshot, but he assumed you were as messed up as the rest of us and would just know that.
- Snipping tool does lossless PNG by default. I could see @Tsaukpaetra's Windows doing something weird instead, but why would you have that problem?
- If you used a real web browser, you wouldn't even need it.
Joke
YOU
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@izzion the important part is that I could dunk on both @Tsaukpaetra and Chrome users.