@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I almost ran over a guy taking a leek with my bike last sunday
That's pretty harsh just for vegetable theft, even on a Sunday.
@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I almost ran over a guy taking a leek with my bike last sunday
That's pretty harsh just for vegetable theft, even on a Sunday.
@topspin There's also adult shoes with LEDs. Which I know because a thief got on the news by trying to escape into the night while wearing a stolen pair. The police had no problem whatsoever finding him.
As an example, just look at the pricing on the current Samsung 4K TV UHD TVs, as listed through the company's website. On April 29, if you wanted to buy a 55-inch MU8000, it would cost you $1,299.99 (as part of a $200-off sale). If you wanted to get the 65-inch version of that same TV, it would cost you $2,199.99. A $900 increase is a considerable amount of money, to be sure, but it's not outrageous. However, if you wanted to step up from the 65-inch model to the 75-inch one, it would cost $3,499.99--an increase of $1,300.
A 70% increase isn't outrageous, but a 60% is. This is why we shouldn't let the journalists do the math.
It gets even more funny when you account for the screen area increasing in the square of the diagonal. As in, $/m2 .
But this is tech reporting. You know the saying?: "Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, review. Those who can't review, report."
This got hammered home to me by one news story of a journalist causing a fire alarm when they'd tried to destroy a hard-drive with a hammer. I wondered aloud how that was possible, at the workplace. A coworker pointed out that the person in question was a former technology reporting lead for a newspaper, so they'd probably mistaken the laptop battery for the hard-drive. This was later confirmed.
How's the saying go? "A-players hire A+ players. B players hire C-players that should behave meek and grateful, like the cattle that they are"?
@Gąska said in Do you send thank-you notes after being interviewed?:
So what's her argument?
It signals that the person wants the job — or rather, no thank-you email signals the person probably doesn't want the job. The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected. A few times, the offer is accepted, but the person pulls out before their start date or leaves after a few months.
Funny thing - if this really becomes widespread rule, then candidates will adapt and will always send thank you email, whether they like the job or not, whether they plan to pull out at the last moment or not - and the rule will lose all its effectiveness.
How long until Outlook includes a function for automating thank-you mails after you've made the calendar entry for an interview? Bets are open.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It may not be the worst language ever created, but it's definitely the worst ever to be taken seriously
*laughs in PHP*
*cries in ruby*
*sighs in Bash*
*mojibakes in APL*
*wharrgarbls in Perl*
*suicides in ColdFusion*
*whirls in WTFAI*
*Writhes in pain in MUMPS*
Best comment in the OP article's comment section thus far:
People went to digital photography to get AWAY from this
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a "think of the children" panic in Canada, and crusaders went on the tear to get the police and government to "do something" to stop it.
In the middle of this climate, I know of three cases where people ended up getting visited by police investigating them for alleged child pornography.
One case was a Japanese anime, as in, a cartoon, with no actual humans being filmed, let alone children.
The other two were the result of photo development. Those old enough to remember actual film cameras know that unless you had a darkroom, chemicals, and skill, you needed to go to a photo developer to convert your raw film into actual snapshots. Camera stores did it, of course, as well as specialty outlets like Fotomat, but one of the most common photo development places was, oddly enough, the pharmacy. And it was pharmacies that called the cops on two people getting their photos developed.
The first case showed the shocking picture of a nude 5 year old boy with his pants on the sidewalk with a scantily clad 3 year old girl next to him. In other words, a 3 year old girl snuck up on her big brother and pants his swimsuit on him. Mom happened to be taking pictures of her kids in the pool, and couldn't resist getting a snap of her kids pranking each other.
The second case was similar, with a grown woman in a bathtub with a 2 year old boy, who decided to make an obscene gesture to shock his mommy just as Daddy walked in. In other words, a typical "Jim, get in here and see what your son is doing" family moment.
Fortunately, in both cases, the police officers were parents themselves and not idiots, and when they visited the families and saw that the kids photographed were the children of the photographers, they realized that the photo developers had completely over reacted. But as you can imagine, those families stopped sending their film out to be developed, and went to digital photography.
Now, you don't even have to drop your film off to have busybodies report you to the cops, your camera vendor will do it as soon as you take your picture.
There's no way that this won't be abused, both by companies, and governments.
@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
Because we don't have a separate "Internet of dongs" thread…
Source: @qDot
It's a surprisingly common issue with any use-case that doesn't have just one phone + one headset.
Two examples of products that I've had the (mis?)fortune to take part in the development of:
The solution: each battery-radio-display unit got an NFC tag, and the HUBs got an NFC reader.
Of course, one PHB had just learned of the miracle of RFID, and so was trying to make us use those instead. Bad idea when all devices are within 10ft (3m) of each other, but it took a few meetings to shoot the idea down. I moved to greener pastures before the product went to market, so I don't know how well the concept worked in Real Life(tm).
Solution: let's embed ESP8266 to each device. Each forms a WiFi. Configuration UI in HTML. Yay.
Current problem: Factory may need to configure and test 20 devices at a time. 20 ESPs in the same room fight for airspace. Only way to get a reliable connection to some is to take them out of the range of the herd.
Edit:
added "of products ... development of"
Ten bucks on "adding their own neo-ActiveX". Maybe something Java-ish this time.
Five bucks on baking in a version of Flash Player that is several versions out of date.
If the Flash Player one is a hit, then 20 more bucks say that it can't be disabled.
Potential idea for a Halloween decoration/trap:
Hoped-for sequence of events:
The lighting is key. The spider must be unnoticeable until the viewer is right under it.
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
did you update your footer year?
Did you write your server code competently in the first place, to insert [current year] so that it doesn't need to be updated in the future?
Seemed relevant.
I think TSA's sense of humor was removed after customer complaints. Officials trying to be funny gets scary fast.
There's a story I remember of a border agent checking a guy's passport and going "This isn't you! ...You've lost weight!". This was after 9/11 so the traveler had Gitmo flash before his eyes hearing the first half.
@izzion said in In other news today...:
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it.
Psh, amateurs. I once wrote a short story over an otherwise pointless 3-day meeting.
Hopefully the story turned out at least as good as the meeting
I had to keep half of my mind on the meeting just in case it veered toward anything that might actually have something to do with me, so it ended up very... stream of consciousness. Hallucinations, an abduction, a dead gimp and a (not very) daring getaway. I think I'd read Sin City: Hell and Back and watched Pulp Fiction recently. You can guess the rest.
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it.
Psh, amateurs. I once wrote a short story over an otherwise pointless 3-day meeting.
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Roku will inject ads anyway. If it detects a loading screen or pause in the HDMI video stream, it will display an ad instead of the "paused" video
If it detects a pause. I wonder which video player will be the first to offer something to counter this. And how? Will we see 2-pixel wide shifting edge? A small cartoon sheep hopping around the screen while video is paused?
@BernieTheBernie Grub did, but the Linux OS didn't. That's the point of putting them on different disks; switching Linuxen is a lot more stress-free when it's on its own disk.
Yes, there shouldn't be any difference in theory. But neither should a popular Linux distro fail to boot. Stuff happens.
@BernieTheBernie said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
all diplomas and references were blacked out
Any Eurion constellations on them? Well, I've seen MS Word (365) cut all pictures in half when exporting a document to PDF. There's something about those exports that's not quite as trivial as we'd like to think.
@BernieTheBernie The last time I set up dual boot, I put the OSes on different physical drives. Ubuntu got a 128GB drive. And Windows a 1TB, since both OSes would be able to access that one, so it would act as bulk storage also (remember to turn Fast Boot off). Which disk to boot would be selected from BIOS/UEFI.
@BernieTheBernie said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
@acrow said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
The last time I had occasion (and energy) to do anything similar, I think my tools of choice were dd, 7zip and gparted.
Inj my case, it was in 2018 when I replaced the spinning rust with an SSD. But then, things were easy for me: just brought my machine into the office, where my colleagues from the service team plugged the old and new disks into some hardware from Acronis (? not sure), presssed a button, and it just worked.
Something like this?
@Parody Well, yes, that's the easier way to do things. As long as the adapter is available. But I've been a student once upon a time.
Then there's the mini-laptop I wanted to backup before wiping and installing Linux on it. The disk was an eMMC. That time, live-CD and ssh joined the fun.
@BernieTheBernie said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
CloneZilla
The last time I had occasion (and energy) to do anything similar, I think my tools of choice were dd, 7zip and gparted.
dd and 7zip to make an image of the old drive, and then extract it onto the new drive. Gparted to expand the last partition to fill the drive.
Man, do I feel old.
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Midori No Hibi body pillow fascination
That's... awfully specific. You do know you can just come right out with your ...hobbies... here, right? No need to keep dropping hints like a bad manga.