@masonwheeler said in Major purchases and customer service:
There are some things you only expect to buy once, or at least only once in a great many years, and if you become a repeat customer it means something's gone very wrong.
@masonwheeler said in Major purchases and customer service:
There are some things you only expect to buy once, or at least only once in a great many years, and if you become a repeat customer it means something's gone very wrong.
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Satirical summaries of comments on the popular news aggregator hackernews.com. The style is very fitting for TDWTF, we should invite the author here.
The Rust Evangelism Strike Force is on hand to point out that Rust obviates all need to understand how computers work.
SpaceX concludes anomaly investigation, sets return to flight target date
The Muskonauts figured out why their shit exploded. Hackernews, literally all of whom are actual rocket scientists, wonders if unit tests could have helped.
Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless
A webshit, based on his hobby project, decides that the entire web advertising market is a lie. He's right, but for the wrong reasons. Hackernews trades tips on convincing themselves their entire industry isn't a sack of bullshit.
How I got my attention back
Yet another dickhead mouths off on the internet about how he is better than other people because he stopped using his iPad for a while. Hackernews abstains from electric light, which further blurs the already weak borderline between 'hipster' and 'amish.' Both the author and Hackernews, having reclaimed their attention spans, waste it on stupid bullshit.
Some rich asshole shits out ten thousand words amounting to "CEOs lead companies." Hackernews thoughtfully ruminates on this enlightening revelation. After deep consideration of the rich asshole's momentous words, Hackernews concludes: CEOs do lead companies. This man must be a genius. What other secrets are his to reveal?
New Macbook Pro power efficiency and time remaining
A fanboy posts counterpropaganda attacking those who insult Apple. Hackernews is full of mechanical engineers, so they spend some time reconstructing Apple's design process from first principles. Conclusion: everything Apple does is correct. If it seems incorrect to you, that means you don't fully understand the problem.
A Guide to the Breads of India
Hackernews, suddenly the world's leading repository of bread expertise, is not certain what 'bread' actually is. This goes a long way toward explaining the software they produce.
Making SQL Server run on Linux
Microsoft's database software depends directly on the Windows NT kernel. Instead of fixing that, they wrote an emulation layer to translate ABI calls to Linux calls. Hackernews is deeply impressed with the elegance of this shitshow. A late-1990s-style flamewar breaks out when the Knights of Linux invade the Windows on the Mount.
Nintendo releases original Zelda design docs
Nintendo advertises their new game on their blog by posting pictures of a previous, better game. Hackernews splits up into two camps to fight about whether it's better to design a program and then write it, or write a program and then design it. Nobody wins, including you or me.
SHA-1 collider: Make your own colliding PDFs
Hackernews resumes a previous thread, wherein they admonish each other never to 'roll your own crypto', but rolling your own public-facing internet service, database backend, programming language, kernel, messaging protocol, orbital launcher, autonomous war robot, or legal document is completely fine.
There are many more there, but those small snippets of text are hidden in an elaborate directory structure. This helps http://n-gate.com/sitemap, at least a bit.
@hungrier said in Multi device wireless charging at a distance:
wireless charging in the cloud
track a tomato on a Blockchain to help keep shoppers safe
If Bitcoin's bandwidth is any indication, by the time the blockchain transaction is confirmed, the tomatoes will be rotten.
designed for your data, AI ready, secure to the core
"AI" (understood in this context as "machine learning") is about statistical analysis of big datasets, often employing black box methods.
It is fun, but it is an opposite of verifiable security.
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@Yamikuronue said in Guess the WTF from the password requirements:
A bank I'm in the process of removing my money from.
You can remove money from other users as well. Surely if you read all the password constraints carefully, it turns out there are just 3 different passwords possible that satisfy all of them.
@quijibo said in Lime scooters:
So the company is subsidizing a rather fun activity:
Lucas says he goes out with friends nearly every night, and even when they don’t find tons of Birds, it’s still a fun, social activity. “It’s like a whole-city scavenger hunt,” he says. He even jokes that it would make a great date.
Also:
Criminals and pickpockets have also begun to recognize Bird hunters as prime targets and can use the Birds to lure their prey to isolated areas.
One scooter charger said he has been nearly robbed on two occasions and that he now won’t retrieve scooters that are left in strange places, for instance, at the end of a dark alley.
@atazhaia said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So 1% of a token gives 0.01 bitcoins, 0.04% of a token gives 0.5 bitcoins and 0.02% of a token gives 1 bitcoin. Seems a bit backwards...
As I understand it, for a given token:
Or in their own words
For every 5000 candles, 1 candle contains 1 token that may be redeemed for 1 Bitcoin, 2 candles contain 1 token each that may be redeemed for .5 Bitcoin, and 50 candles contain 1 token each that may be redeemed for .01 Bitcoin.
The expected value is 0.0005 BTC, so according to the rate at the millisecond of writing (8237.1 $/BTC), is 4.12$.
The candle costs 45$.
While the Kickstarter project is gathering its hundreds thousands $ and preparing for the inevitable manufacturing delays, the factories in China will start producing and selling the item on their own.
@sloosecannon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Free cooling (it's cold in space!)
Cooling in space (vacuum) is quite difficult: you can only transfer heat through radiation, which is quite slow (no air/water cooling available).
But Kickstarters that promise the break the laws of physics sell quite well :)
@mikehurley The new Ryzen 4xxx CPUs are powerful and energy-efficient.
Some laptops which have those:
Video about CPU comparison - the small G14 is on the same level as some huge thick laptop with overclocking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA
@Benjamin-Hall said in Proving that my python changes are being hit:
a logging call
@jinpa In that case use the logging
module.
import logging
log = logging.getLogger('myscript')
log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
# if you want to write to stdout:
log.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
# if you want to write to file (can be both stdout and file):
log.addHandler(logging.FileHandler('some_file.log'))
# if you want the date in the log entry:
for h in log.handlers: h.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt='{asctime} | {message}', style='{'))
# output to logs:
def my_func():
log.info('hello log')
@Cabbage said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Dilbert looks like an annoying retard
He went all-out in that direction in the newest one.
In each of guest artist's pages where Dilbert is present, he calls someone an idiot, or implies it.
We can imagine the normal comics are Dilbert's perception of him as the innocent protagonist tortured by others' incompetence.
The guest comics could be the others seeing Dilbert as aloof and condescending.
Maybe he became jaded after decades in this dysfunctional organization, maybe he was like this from the start and contributed to the culture.
Anyway, some literary speculation...
@error_bot said in TDWTF Plays Zork II:
I don't know the word 'butt'.
@Tsaukpaetra Security theatre...
Same with websites complaining that the passwords do not contain enough /,.][/;.]'l
.
Maybe instead of pestering the users, make sure the login site is rate limited and can't be brute-forced, properly salt the hashes, encrypt the database etc.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Automatic CVV updates?!?:
The cardholder still needs the new numbers.
I mean keep the numbers the same.
What does the change of card and numbers achieve?
An argument could be made that the numbers and CVV are changed periodically in case they got leaked or stolen.
But since the new numbers are given away by the bank, that is not the case.
Or at least it is less effective, and so not worth the cost of sending new cards every few years.
If the subscriptions and everything is supposed to stay the same, why issue a new card at all?
Some plastic could be saved.
@PotatoEngineer said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
Treating the smaller sites like second-class citizens just feels dumb.
The feeling of superiority over the poor souls looking for help on the site is the goal of SO for the power users and admins, so ... works as intended?