This is similar to a previous life here too. But after the "PM"s "party" a few of the developers left, never to be replaced, with the entire company eventually making more money selling Vietnamese sandwiches than making software! (True story)
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RE: The "Project" "Manager"
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Samsung fridge standard feature: you can't open it!
About six months ago we had to replace our refrigerator due to it being 12 years old and not being cold. So we got a nice new Samsung model from a suggestion of a friend and getting a good deal from some good guys. We even paid for it to be delivered and installed. It's been working well.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago where there was a 40+°C heatwave. Open the freezer compartment to get some ice-blocks for the kids, go to put the packet back and can't open it. What!? The suction is so great it's impossible to open. Even trying to wedge a plastic knife in the seals is difficult. I'm not a weight-lifter or anything but I can carry both my 5-year-old twins at the same time so I have some strength! After a while the suction reduced and it was able to be opened again. The fridge section was not affected during this time.
Putting it down to the really hot day we let it go. Putting the knife in as it closes lets the pressure equalise so is a good temporary workaround. But because it's still happening we decide to call Samsung to get it fixed under warranty.
My wife called and after wrangling the IVR got some scripted low-level drone in Elbonia. I'm not sure if there was a language barrier but she was twice told that the seal and suction was a standard feature to keep the cold in, even after explaining that it was so great I couldn't open it.
In the end they said to turn it down a little bit and see what happens. Still happening now though. If they can't fix it I'll have to take it back under Australian Law because it was advertised as being able to open!
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RE: Sometimes I am TRWTF.
@toon said in Sometimes I am TRWTF.:
Unfortunately, I'm stuck with PHP 4
Four years later and someone used a
??
in our PHP code. The dev boxes are officially running PHP 5.6, with production on 7.0 (don't ask), so some devs upgraded their manually. This dev then proceeded to use a 7.0+ feature. But it was used likereturn $something['val'] ?? null
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How much data did I use in 1970?
472 bytes apparently
Nice of Android to go back 42 years before this phone was manufactured to use some data on a network that wouldn't exist for almost 40 years!
Bonus WTF: I went back to check something and discourse ate my draft. More mobile data to upload the screenshot again...
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RE: From the people who brought you "referer"...
@gąska said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
Except the general public is currently conditioned to look for green padlock specifically. Not institution name. Green padlock.
The general population thinks that icon is a handbag.
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RE: Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair
@Douglasac said in Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair:
Also, Australia Post are involved so they'll find new and interesting ways to screw up the simple task of delivering mail.
Don't get me started on Australia Post! We constantly get wrong mail, including once to something completely wrong. Name, address, suburb, postcode, state (!) were all wrong. The only common thing was the street number. Even putting it into the postbox, scribbling out the routing barcode and writing "misdelivery" on it got it back. Luckily there was a phone number in the return address so we called them to tell them that they couldn't rely on Australia Post to do their One Job.
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RE: Warning: Contains nuts*
@sh_code said in Warning: Contains nuts*:
Step 1: Make a company named "Warning, contains:"
Step 2: Start producing foods, specialise on the allergen ones.
Step 3: Package front and center will be "Warning, contains: Peanuts", "Warning, contains: Honey", etc...
Step 4: $$$, primarily those you'll save on lawsuits with american stupidity.You can hire my company "Nine of out ten experts" to recommend your product.
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RE: What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?
@Onyx said in What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?:
In the same vein, this just popped up:
Changes? What changes? I did nothing! What do you want? WHY?
Windows has detected that you have moved your mouse. Please restart your computer for these changes to be applied.
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RE: Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair
When I cancelled a business service they told me over the phone I'd have a small credit, under $3, so I didn't worry too much about it. Six months later and I got a call on my mobile from a debt collection agency demanding why I didn't pay my ~$60 bill and there was going to be all kinds of repercussions to my credit history and possible legal problems. What?
Luckily for me when I called Telstra back I actually got a competent person, eventually, and she saw a charge on the account that was in error so I indeed had a credit of $2.something. I guess since it was a business account they actually care. I did have have a phone line at home (HomeLine Budget FTW, just for ADSL) so that credit could be transferred. Looking back, I should have accepted the cheque so I could have framed it.
Why would they send such a small debt to a collection agency? How much in water time and effort did that small billing error cost everyone? Why didn't Telstra actually send me the bill in the first place?
I can't wait for NBN at my place for similar reasons to OP. But I'll be on Uncle Rupert's network so time will tell how much the current government has screwed it all up.
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RE: Easier Than Fizz Buzz - Why Can't Programmers Print 100 to 1? (article)
Edit, also forgot the "no two loops" rule.
Add another loop in there. It says you couldn't have two loops, didn't say anything about three!
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RE: In other news today...
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
It's Canada. The land is as big as entire USA, but they have less people than Poland.
You know what country is also approximately the same size and even less population, while being much more isolated from the rest of the world? Australia. And our mobile prices are much better. I am on a $59/month plan with the "best" network which includes unlimited call/SMS and 20GB data, and includes repayments for my Google Pixel 2XL. (So going by the RRP at the time my monthly plan cost is under $1 over two years).
Of course my plan was wildly good value, (without the deal I got it should have been around $100/month) even if it the highest monthly fee I've ever paid to a telco. More common plans are around $40 without a handset and better inclusions.
For ~$10/month there's heaps of options with unlimited calls/SMS and ~1GB data. There's also prepaid PAYG plans (minimum cost about $10/year) where it's a few cents per minute/SMS/megabyte. Incoming calls and SMS are always free.
The most expensive plan I know of is $199/month and that includes truly-unlimited data (reports of people using terabytes) and the high-end phone of your choice, as well as international calls and roaming inclusions.
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RE: Tales from Stack Exchange - Coworker is lying about having kids. What should I do?
@PJH there's a seven-legged spider living in my bathroom (yes this is Australia) and every time I see it I think of 27b/6.
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RE: In other news today...
Good old Gizmodo
It sort of makes sense—if you were getting seats to a football game, you’d prefer one near the 45.72m line rather than one of the end zones in order to see the most action, even if you’d occasionally be much closer to the players from the end zone. That’s sort of what’s going on here.
What kind of football has a "45.72m line"? I'd like to sit near the 50m line in the football (rugby league) games I go to!
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RE: `s/www\.//g`
@levicki said in `s/www\.//g`:
Now I want to register vanity www.www TLD and have an invisible domain!
If the title's regex is correct then something like googlewww.com would be interesting...
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RE: `s/www\.//g`
@Deadfast said in `s/www\.//g`:
@anotherusername From the bug report:
An example of bad results from this in the wild: https://citibank.com.sg and https://www.citibank.com.sg are not the same site, and the first doesn't redirect to the second.
That seems more like a bug/misconfiguration than a real example? They both now redirect to https://www.citibank.com.sg/portal/bluehome/index.htm for me...
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RE: How not to do UUIDs
@djls45 said in How not to do UUIDs:
@Zemm I think the WAC is your password.
Yes it is. That is a screen shot from one of my two banks I actually use. My password or WAC is an 8 digit number.
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RE: How not to do UUIDs
From memory the site "encrypts" your WAC before sending it off (Ceasar cypher over HTTPS), which would defeat any password manager.
This is my secondary account: my main bank used to have a keyboard that moved on every click but at least it was alphanumeric. It's a normal (looking) password field now.
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RE: How not to do UUIDs
@lorne-kates Letters? Luxury...
(No, there's no other password or anything)
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RE: USPS.com requiring modern browsers starting back in April
@ben_lubar said in USPS.com requiring modern browsers starting back in April:
Maybe they're dropping support for IE 4?
Seriously, IE 10 doesn't support TLS 1.2 without a tweak
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RE: Sometimes I am TRWTF.
@dreikin said in Sometimes I am TRWTF.:
No? It issues a notice when you use the undefined index without the null coalescing operator (as expected), but the ones using it are silenced.
Whoops. https://3v4l.org/Qvb3C - I now understand my misreading. :)
@pie_flavor said in Sometimes I am TRWTF.:
Yeah, but that's wrong-associative.
You're talking about the ternary operator
? :
. There is a literal?:
in PHP called the elvis operator (which is||
in Javascript or Perl) that will return the left side if it's "truthy" or the right side if the left side is "falsey".So it's similar to null-coalesce but false values in the left side like
0
or''
will return the right side.a() ?: b() ?: c()
short-circuits sob()
will only be called ifa()
returns something that is false in PHP (likefalse
,0
or''
, etc). Same:c()
will only be called ifb()
is called and is falsey. Ifa()
returned say a5
then the other two functions will not be evaluated and the expression will return 5.In PHP
||
will always return a boolean. Soa() || b() || c()
has the same associativity. But in the case ofa()
returning5
the expression will betrue
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