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...)
So that other question, totally unrelated. It's about DIY, no computer or electronics (or even electricity) involved.
I have a cooking dish (for stuff that goes in the oven, think... I don't know, mac & cheese?) with two small handles. Something like this:
We use it a lot and as a result both handles are chipped. Nothing that prevents using it, just the usual wear & tear. But this being glass, the broken bits are quite sharp -- and what provoked me to post here is that the other day I got a nasty cut while cleaning it.
Now I could just throw it away and buy a new one. It's not particularly valuable, financially or sentimentally or otherwise.
But first I'm wondering if there is an easy way to smooth out the edges?
If it was wood I'd just sand it. If it was metal I could also file it. But I don't know how to work glass? It's not particularly fragile (it's not cristal or anything like it) but it's obviously glass. Obviously regular sandpaper isn't going to get me anywhere. I have an angle grinder but also obviously the likelihood of shattering the glass is pretty high.
So, without buying some specialist tools, is there anything I can use to sand it and just round a bit the cutting edge?
I'm about to ask another question on an absolutely not related topic so first some closure on the previous one, in the vain hope that it'll stop that discussion:
In the end I hard-coded the size of messages, to 4 MB (i.e. the same as the library default value), when I start the server (in the C++ code). Then the rest of the C++ code can trivially get this size (I stored it somewhere that my code can access).
The only complication that I hadn't thought about was that I also need to pass the same size when I open a channel to the server (from the Python side). I could have hard-coded it again in the Python code, but instead I decided to be a bit smarter (or er?). I added a request to the server to get the size (that one was trivial to implement), and now when I open a channel I first open it with the default size, then send this request to get the proper size, then close the channel and reopen a new one with the correct size.
This way if we ever want to change the size, there is only one place where it's hard-coded.
Job done. and wait for bug reports to do something (or nothing ).
@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
So what I'm hearing is that we need a script that can be fed logos to auto create the emojis for
:old-man-yells-at-x:
such that it will generate the emojiscorrectly, and then leave the images likeold-man-yells-at-cloudas edgein all cases?
FTF
@Bulb said in Help Bites:
You need to think about [whatever]
But that's the thing, I don't want to have to think about things I don't have any clue about!
(this is getting way out of a simple "help" question, and turning into a rant, but since I'm the one who asked, I don't feel any guilt in derailing it)
Yes, yes, you could probably make an argument that if I'm using a library to do X then I should learn how to do X and if that means setting some special parameters, I should learn about it. And you have a point, blindly calling into a library without having a clue as to what it does it not a good idea, to put it mildly. But the point of using a library rather than reinventing the wheel is to avoid having to think about all those nitty-gritty details. And now we're getting into the "leaky abstraction" thing -- that always happens, yes, as this example shows, but that still doesn't make it a good thing when that happens, on the contrary.
This is one of the things I dislike with a lot of neural network stuff. To get it to work you have to set some values of something or some other thing (number of neurons, layers, activation functions and what-not) and as someone tackling whatever domain-specific problem I'm looking at, I don't have the slightest clue as to what those are.
I've read many, many papers in my domain where people show how to get some result with a NN and there's always this part where they describe the setup of the thing and there is never any justification as to why they used n
rather than n+1
for this parameter -- at best it's pure cargo-cult "we're reusing the values used by Smith & Smith as it worked for them."
Anyway. Moving on.
Also Garcia apparently means something in Andorra but not in Spain.
Still, an interesting/amusing map.
@izzion reminds me of a quip that entered pop culture in . There was a satirical TV show with puppets mocking the news, so when a cyclist tested positive and defended himself with some poorly phrased half-baked excuse, they mocked him by having his puppet saying that it happened "hidden from his free will" or something similar (the French original was "à l'insu de mon plein gré" which is about 100% idiomatic...).
That show coined quite a few other expressions and memes, a few of them still alive 20 or 30 years later, and I'm sure many people aren't even aware they came from there.
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You 're a professional fucking writer.
That's a different kind of stories you're thinking about here...
All those things about MTU and the like (@dkf, @cvi) are part of the reason why I would prefer not to set any message size! I don't know much about network, but I know just enough to know that here lies dragons and that picking a good value isn't easy. Which is why I originally thought that whatever the library picks by default has a good chance to be a better compromise than whatever I might come up with.
Now of course that is assuming I'm using the library in the context where the compromise was decided upon, and more importantly that the library did think about this value rather than slap whatever was hardcoded by the rockstar developer who hacked version 0.0.1-prealpha. But even that came out of the mind of someone who knows more than I do about networks.
That said and tbh, the main reason I used the default was . And since coding a size is just a couple of lines, it's not like I'd have to go hugely out of my way to do it. So using the default size was probably fine as long as nothing really relied on it (all messages were small-enough to fit into the default size), now that I need to worry about message size, hard-coding something, anything really (i.e. the same as the default, but explicitly coded instead of it being a hidden default!) is probably the best solution.
Besides, I'm far from concerned about performances here. This is moving maybe a couple of tens of MB, at worst 100 MB or so, between a C++ application and some Python code (both are on the same computer) which is used to test ideas and tinker with the data. The code isn't optimised anywhere, so it's unlikely any additional communication cost caused by the message size would matter.
@Zerosquare said in Help Bites:
And if you don't want to abandon your clever hack
Calling it "clever" is probably way too generous. Parsing an error string to get a value is something worthy of the front page (inb4...). Yes, yes, I was pretty smug to have thought about it and made it work, but that was never more than "could that actually work? " so the faster it disappears, the better.
@Arantor this reminds me of a story my mother told me about some distant relative (so at that point, this might as well be an urban legend...).
An old women, 70-something years old, had an accident and was brought to the hospital. Doctors and staff thought that she had some mental issue, maybe dementia, because she kept saying that she had to get home quickly as her mother was waiting for her.
Until someone put one and one together and realised that the lady still had her mother, who was 100-something and being cared for by her daughter!
@Zerosquare Pretty well played, Wikipedia :obama_not_bad:
My first reaction was " has this got to do with the US army " and I had to click and then realised how the Pentagon was indeed such a perfect example of a metonym that even when it was right next to the word "metonymy" I still wondered why it was there.