In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.
Works pretty well, I think.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.
Works pretty well, I think.
@pie_flavor If I had one Euro every time my name gets written as Rémi
, I would have a lot of €
...
@bb36e Also, if your password is more than 140280 characters, we can't tweet it to you if you forget it.
Overheard in the office: one dev goes to help another on a build issue.
: oh yeah, you have this issue because you build by clicking the Compile button in the IDE, in this specific case (some build case that isn't handled by the IDE), you need to type make
instead.
: yeah but the IDE is the method that [myself] gave me and that I have noted in my notes file [yes, really... he has noted that to compile you need to click the Compile button...], I've always done that.
: sure but in this case it does not work because of [valid reasons], what you need in this specific case is just to type make
in this terminal that is always opened next to the IDE because you already use it for other tasks.
: I don't know what any of this does, I just always redo what I was told initially and that worked...
You're supposed to be a developer, you've been working on that code for literally months if not years, you have years of experience as a developer before, this build system is nothing fancy, and yet you don't even have the slightest idea or intellectual curiosity as to what you do...
@CodeJunkie said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
No one actually validates signatures anyway. Just like with credit cards ... there is no one validating the signatures on receipts back at the home office against known signatures of yourself.
The system relies on the user complaining, and then ignoring the user for as long as possible.
A couple of years ago, my mother paid a bill (to some sort of HOA) by cheque. A few weeks later she got a reminder to pay her bill, but her cheque had been cashed, so she started to investigate. Turns out that the HOA had employed a crook (he had been fired since then... for good reasons!) who simply stole the cheque and cashed it. My mother asked her bank for a copy of the cashed cheque (which by law they have to keep for some time, exactly for these reasons, and on which the recipient must write the recipient account details). It was absolutely obvious from it that the cheque was written by my mother as "pay to: <HOA>" and the recipient account was "John Doe." And yet the bank cashed it without any qualms, and when challenged about it they denied it was their fault (the recipient's bank said the same thing, btw). So for them, anyone can cash any cheque that they lay their hands on, no matter what is written on it.
In the end my mother's bank decided on a "commercial gesture" (no, not this one ) and to reimburse her, but this was clearly done so that she would drop the matter without the bank admitting any kind of responsibility.
@TimeBandit said in The most important part of selling a product: having a product:
At my previous job, my boss was often sending me emails written in all caps.
One previous boss wrote emails with subjects such as "!!!!IMPORTANT!!! $$$stuff and things$$$" (with the "stuff and things" part being the real subject of the email, albeit formulated in vague terms such as "new release" or "that code you sent me").
Weirdly, he never understood why many of his emails ended up in our spam folders and he had to resend them (yes, we could have configured the spam filter to accept his emails... but where's the fun in that?).
Although there may or may not have been times when we pretended to not have received an email from him thanks to that excuse...
@kt_ There are two main reasons for this kind of loss of colour: prolonged exposure to sunlight, and too many washes (usually in a dishwasher).
There are two easy solutions for these problems: stop having sunlight in your office, and stop washing your mug.
The first one will remove sun glare and unwanted distractions, making you a better programmer. The second one will remove social interactions and unwanted coworkers bothering you, making you a better programmer.
So really, you're just posting excuses for being a bad programmer.
@Onyx said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
I just noticed "dildo" is on the list.
Seriously? Is this a swearword list, or "Little Timmy innocence protection" list?
That's just one of the many reasons why this kind of list is absolutely stupid:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla also, "scarfolk council water boarding" at the bottom (maybe it's only funny because I don't know what water boarding is other than torture)
It's a deliberate joke on that, the correct phrase would be 'water board'.
Hey, I didn't know that @Polygeekery did a school exchange with Scarfolk?
@topspin Update!!!111!
(or I just read it a few hours later than you...)
@Carnage said in Sportsball WTF:
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By that standard, snooker should be the manliest of sports
Then again, both players have to play with the same balls, but that's the case for most sports (golf and bowling are the exceptions I can think of -- and all variants of boules though each player has their own balls, but they might hit other players'...).
@PleegWat yeah, that doesn't sound outrageous (and indeed, it's quite some work to do properly and even more work to make significant money out of it). It's just that... I never thought about it, I guess.
@PleegWat yeah, the "gaining value faster than people’s pensions" bit is probably very misleading. It's like all of those investment things with crypto and NFTs. You may be sitting on a fortune but only if you look at the made-up-numbers, not if you try to actually turn it into cash.
I find more interesting (in TFA) that the guy is making some serious money (5000/year, not enough to live off it but still more than just pocket money!) from his author's rights on some models he invented. I had no idea there was such a market on that.
@boomzilla This one time, at band camp,I once visited an ostrich farm and at the end of the tour they had set up a small racing track. Half a dozen of us (me included) got plunked on top of an ostrich each (legs astride the wings, holding with hands at the base of the wings), and then they were released.
I wouldn't really call it "racing" as there wasn't muchany control and the ostriches mostly ran because there were guides scaring them from behind. And no one cared about picking a winner, it was mostly about hanging on as far as we could.
It only lasted... maybe 20s, tops? Still, pretty funny overall. There probably is a picture of that somewhere, if I could find it.
ETA: found it! Either my memory was bad and there wasn't a race, or (I think) this was the "practice run."
@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Luhmann Skimming TFA before the please pay now banner appears
As I regularly remind people here, the Telegraph is one of those sites where blocking JS removes the annoying banners with no visible downside.
seems these are unopened set.
So basically it's an investment in a relatively non-liquid asset, that takes physical space and is vulnerable to almost anything that can happen to his house.
IOW, that's good for him as he says it's a passion more than anything, but definitely not a recommended investment strategy for anyone saneelse.
@dkf in a sense, he was going to turn. Except that the "going to" part was about 3 km further down the road (this is also where I was going). So yeah, no, he wasn't about to turn.
Then again, he at least was smart enough to not take the left-most lane, which is reserved for buses. That is smarter than quite a few other people, so there's that.
A small one on my morning commute: 2-lanes highway, stop and go traffic on both lanes, with the right lane being mostly trucks and me in the left lane. It's downhill so when the traffic in front of me moves forward, I don't accelerate and just let the car gather a bit of speed until it catches up. As a result, I am driving relatively smoothly but there are large gaps that are appearing and disappearing in front of me.
The trucks next to me are doing more or less the same thing, so the same applies to the right lane.
Of course, the driver behind me wants to go faster-faster-faster! So he's permanently stuck at less than a meter from my rear bumper and I can see him jumping forward (by inches) whenever he can.
So he ends up taking advantage of one gap between trucks and pass me on my right, back to the left lane and speed up to the next car! Wohooo! He's gained... one spot. And then remained stuck there for the whole length of the traffic jam, with me just behind me, going .
Now the real funny part is that the right lane was actually going faster than the left one, but the guy doggedly stuck to the left one while trucks were passing him on his right.
@topspin said in Qt / CSS: setStyleSheet is slow, suggested alternative using dynamic properties in CSS even worse:
I doubt anybody cares, but I guess I should still follow up on it:
I'm a bit sorry for you that I didn't see your OP before, because while reading it I was thinking that playing with QStyle
seemed a better idea to me than CSS (partly because, like you I guess, I'm not a web dev and I just don't grok CSS). I would also have suggested looking at item delegates to avoid doing unnecessary changes. Basically... what you found out yourself!
Well I'm glad you did find it out in the end (plus anyway I would just have suggested the idea, not which is the really hard part!).