If I'd put a microwave meal next to that Pi thing, can I then eat it after a few minutes?
Best posts made by AlexMedia
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RE: Multi device wireless charging at a distance
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Our office manager is a
heroessheroine."Hello, <company name>, how can I help you?"
"Hi this is <name> from <company>, I'm looking for <colleague>."
"I know that <company> is a recruitment agency and we don't do business with you. I take it you aren't looking for <colleague> because you have an in-depth question on <his area of expertise>?"
"Err no..."
"That's what I thought. Have a nice day!":D
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RE: Using Discourse as a mere bug tracker is for pussies!
@mott555 You forgot about the mailing list functionality
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RE: A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer TCP/IP Route Command after 5 security plugins
Why does an online bank want to fuck with your OS's routing table?
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RE: In which I accidentally Windows 10
Look on the bright side, at least the button didn't say: upgrade to Windows Vista
Welcome to the brave new world of Windows 10. Sit back, and enjoy the ride!
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RE: Using Discourse as a mere bug tracker is for pussies!
Something which I really like about JIRA: JQL. Being able to search for issues by writing a SQL-like query is something which I like, as I get it. I prefer JQL over the clumsy "Expression builder" interface given to you by Azure DevOps.
Something I dislike about JIRA: how inconsistent it can be at times. Buttons that are available in one view but not in the other, for example. Sometimes this is due to customisation, but I do feel that the product should guide you when you customise it.
For example, if you add a custom field - the system should ask you "Where do you want this to appear?" and not leave it entirely up to the user (who more often than not might be a PMO who's just implementing a process) to figure out how the system should guide its users.
One of my pet peeves of a JIRA implementation I had to use for two years was the 'Story points' field: it only existed in the list view quick edit pane. When viewing the details of a story, the story points weren't visible. It wasn't visible on the detailed Edit page either. Only in the quick edit pane.
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
You guys are always awesome at helping with this kind of thing.
Except if you're from TDWTF, then you get banned.
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RE: Not wanting to be outdone by NCIX, Toys-R-Us steps up
@El_Heffe said in Not wanting to be outdone by NCIX, Toys-R-Us steps up:
I'm not entirely clear on how the process works, but somehow, companies like Bain can buy a company, like Toys-R-Us, and then walk away with a lot of money, leaving the victim holding the debt.
It's somewhat comparable to buying a house. You go to a bank, get a mortgage, and buy the house from the seller. You then have to pay down your mortgage on a monthly basis. The house is the collateral for the loan.
If you run into financial difficulties, you'll try to renegotiate the loan with your bank ('debt restructuring'). If you're successful, you can stay in the house. Otherwise, the bank moves to foreclosure. You get to live somewhere under a bridge, while the bank sells the house in an attempt to recoup as much of the money as they possibly can.
I'm not an investment banker, but what I think has happened in the case of TRU is this:
- A group of companies (KKR, Bain, Vornado) decided that they want to acquire a different company (Toys'R'Us).
- They set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for this job, which is a legally separate entity.
- The SPV gets initial funding from the group of companies. Say, 10% of the purchase price.
- The SPV talks to a group of banks to arrange a loan for the remaining 90%.
- The SPV acquires the target company, the target company's assets serve as collateral for the SPV's loans.
If everything goes well, the SPV pays out healthy dividends to its shareholders. The shareholders only had to invest 10% of the purchase price while income might be much higher. Furthermore, by requiring the SPV to use the shareholders for all sorts of "management services" it might be possible to syphon off more money to the shareholders.
When things go wrong, eventually the SPV can't pay off its debts anymore. The SPV goes into bankruptcy and will be liquidated. The assets owned by the SPV (the TRU brick-and-mortar stores, inventory, etc.) are sold to the highest bidders in an attempt to recoup as much of the debt as possible.
As the SPV is a legally separate entity, the shareholders are not impacted financially and also can't be held responsible.
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RE: Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile
@blakeyrat said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@alexmedia What I worry about is some asshole Eurojerk buying into a product, even though it's in US English and priced in US dollars and there's absolutely zero reason to think the company is set up to do business in Eurovania in any way, and then going to their local, i dunno, dutchess or whatever, and start bitching about their data.
The primary intent of extending GDPR beyond the borders of the European Union is to prevent companies like Facebook and Google from scraping data about all European citizens without being able to hold them accountable in any way (see the recent saga surrounding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica).
A typical mom and pop shop shouldn't have to worry too much about GDPR, as there's not really a legal precedent for enforcement (yet). See also this post:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2007530-how-the-eu-can-fine-us-companies-for-violating-gdpr
I'm already fucking sick of companies, even a lot of US companies, being all "THIS SITE USES COOKIES OMGOMGOMG!" Fuck Europeans, why do you want to make the internet so shitty? Are you just assholes? Or are you jealous that the US dominates this market because your entire continent was snoozing through the 1980s and 1990s, apparently?
I have to agree with you on this, the EU cookie directive is bloody awful. Like many laws, the original idea was good ("people need to know that they can be tracked!") but the outcome is just overly annoying and leads to a whole new episode of pop-up fatigue.
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RE: Pick my front-end framework for me
Have you tried the hot new framework called VanillaJS?
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
It's homegrown forum software, and even after running the site for 16+ years the owner still thinks making changes directly in production is A Good Idea
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I'm working from home today.
Freshly made coffee (okay, the coffee at the office is pretty good too)
Windows that can be opened whenever I want, without automatic sun shades fucking around 30 times a day
A proper internet connection (FttH!)
Not being in a hen house all fucking day long
SimCity 3000 sound track playing in the backgroundWhat's not to like? :D
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RE: Install this app to browse our website...
@anonymous234 said in Install this app to browse our website...:
When you make a very simple website using a fancy stack, and it takes 45 seconds to load that website (on 4G), shouldn't your first reaction be to throw that stack away and try again?
Not if you use scrum! Because then you'll just "fix" it in the next sprint, right?
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
On one of the other forums on which I'm active, I participate a lot in a certain topic. Due to technical reasons (poor database schema) threads are locked automatically whenever 300 replies are posted, it's up to the last poster to create a new topic.
Currently, we're in topic #1101. So that makes for a grand total of 331.401* posts in that topic, which has been running since february 2003!
* Yes, I use dots as a separator for thousands. Bite me.
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RE: When did Git become terrible? Let's track down the specific commit...
I quite like TortoiseGit. It's ugly as hell, but it works pretty darn good.
Neither can be said about SourceTree.
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RE: Just a regularly abnormal day
Wow, that is even more useless than not having VC at all
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@Dreikin said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
: @codinghorror In our forums, only mods and admins can PM people, but in such a way that mods first have to create a topic and then turn that into a PM through the wrench on the side.
Why would you do that?
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
Hey look, it's me!
I like the idea of showing the avatar. I don't like that they've chosen for the avatar of the last person to respond, as this means that the picture in front of a given topic will change with every new post which makes it harder to easily recognize a topic by avatar+title length :(
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
At least issues with NodeBB get fixed from time to time. That's miles and miles better than getting yelled at because you're "doing it wrong", because you're not "supposed to have a discussion like that", or simply because Jeff has "never heard of the issue before".
I would contribute to NodeBB if I knew a thing or two about how Node/NodeBB development works. I would never even consider contributing code to Dischorse anymore.
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RE: New and 'improved' Github Desktop
"The new native"
It's built with Electron. That's a friggin' webview.
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RE: I am a Developer from India.One among the bunch of guys you hate for writing unmaintainable shit-ass code that you have to fix. Ask me anything .
Your and @Weng's advice would translate in train or attract and retain beter developers
I don't think they should only hire "rockstar" or "ninja" developers, but having someone with a mindset that goes beyond "problem -> fix it" would be nice. Otherwise, we'll never get rid of "solutions" that look like this...
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RE: Crystal Reports Needs To Die
@royal_poet said in Crystal Reports Needs To Die:
Why would anyone use this shit in production anywhere?
Because it's made by SAP and as we know: the best-run businesses run SAP®.
It says so right on the brochure, so it must be true.
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RE: Windoze 10 Fall 2018 Flopdate, now with even more nothingness
I tried installing this on my desktop through Windows Update. After doing stuff for a while, Windows wanted a restart. After rebooting, it informed me that the update failed. So I tried again.
Rinse and repeat, same result.
I ran Disk Clean-up, freeing up some disk space. When I subsequently retried, the 1809 update was no longer offered.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Telegram's emoji suggestion list
With one of the latest updates of Telegram Desktop, they've added the ability to do emoji suggestions.
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RE: DELETE in prod
@Lorne_Kates said:
Second, before you type ANYTHING into a production SQL connection, the very first thing you enter is:
Here's a tip for those using SQL Server Management Studio and are blessed with local administrative rights: change the default query template.
Put this in it:
BEGIN TRANSACTION SET XACT_ABORT ON /* Your query goes here. */ ROLLBACK
Tadaa, each query is now covered by a transaction. And even if you hit F5 before you've finished building your query, you won't lose data. :)
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RE: Credit card readers - what am I missing here?
@Zenith said in Credit card readers - what am I missing here?:
Because as it stands right now, it looks like the real reason Square added encryption was so somebody like me couldn't throw their garbage unsupported app away and roll their own. Or am I missing some key detail here?
They probably did that to prevent rogue Android apps from also listening to what the card reader is sending to the Square app, and meanwhile syphoning off valuable creditcard numbers to Western Bumfuckistan.
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RE: Bullshit jobs
Somewhat on-topic: are scrum masters, agile coaches and blockchain consultants considered to be bullshit jobs?
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@boomzilla said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
Eh...you can just not make all your users moderators.
That's a good start, but every community needs moderation from time to time and TL3 alone doesn't always cut it, I think.
@boomzilla said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
I think the guy in the thread is correct that anonymizing should probably be an admin only thing, especially since it's not reversible. But yeah, there's not really much in the way of customization in what moderators vs admins can do.
Temporarily banning someone ("You've been bad, now go play elsewhere for a few weeks") is something I would trust a mod with. Anonymising (removing someone) is an irreversible process and is not something which should be available to too much people.
I'm not sure the inflexibility is a terrible thing, except that Jeff is nearly guaranteed to pick a retarded default.
It all comes down to how you want to design your software. Personally I love to have everything configurable (although that doesn't have to mean through a GUI) but I can see the reasons for going with "we pick a set of defaults and you'll have to deal with that". Just don't be surprised if you get questions then. :)
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RE: When did Git become terrible? Let's track down the specific commit...
I wasn't recommending it to you, I just said that I like TortoiseGit.
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RE: Speaking of the forum freezing the browser, uploading an image does it too!
@lorne-kates said in Speaking of the forum freezing the browser, uploading an image does it too!:
It occurs AFTER the post to
https://what.thedailywtf.com/api/post/upload
has completed and returned.[{"url":"/assets/uploads/files/1518202687152-spark-plugs-20180209_134623-23-resized.jpg","path":"/usr/src/app/public/uploads/files/1518202687152-spark-plugs-20180209_134623-23.jpg","name":"spark plugs 20180209_134623 23.jpg"}]
Slightly offtopic, but why is the filesystem path in the JSON returned by Node ?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: my car e-mailed me this morning to alert me that something might be wrong. It's the only useful e-mail I've received today.
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RE: If you could make breaking changes to C#, what would you do?
Why would anyone ever want to reset the stack trace? You might as well do this instead:
try { somethingWhichDefinitelyBarfsAtYou(); } catch(SomeException sex) { throw new SuperGenericAndUtterlyPointlessException(sex.Message); }
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RE: Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
@dcon said in Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack:
@arantor said in Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack:
but I still don't use the desktop client...
It's not too bad...
That's 325 MiB of RAM being used by a fucking IM client. If that's "not too bad" then I don't know what is.
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@loopback0 That thread has been up for 7 days without any action (response, close) by the DiscoDevs. Surprising!
edit: But of course, Jeff does close a different bug report without any input on why it's closed. Before that a reference is made to a different thread, but there seems to be no further activity over there, so it's impossible to say if the mentioned bug report is ever getting fixed. Or rejected.
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RE: Microsoft fucks their developers in the ass... AGAIN
@lucas1 said in Microsoft fucks their developers in the ass... AGAIN:
I am honestly thinking of forking the whole .NET 1 core and maintaining it myself and basing a business on doing that if Microsoft can't fucking do it.
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RE: Totally new software development methodology that's never been tried before
Gigster’s artificial intelligence engine. It converts a client’s product proposal into a development plan,
Looks like next year's April Fools day is early.
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RE: Using Discourse as a mere bug tracker is for pussies!
@boomzilla said in Using Discourse as a mere bug tracker is for pussies!:
displaying all the thousands of tickets that have been assigned to me
I do hope the majority has
Status: Closed
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RE: Commuting WTF Thread
@dkf said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Has anyone established what those safety parameters need to be when all the vehicles concerned are autonomous or semi-autonomous?
An important factor to consider is passenger comfort. While AVs can theoretically drive very close together, any sudden event (such as an animal crossing the road) will lead to full service brake applications on a lot of vehicles, which means that some people would have to see a dentist or optician afterwards. A bigger distance between vehicles means that they can brake more gradually, and thus more comfortably.
My car, an Opel Mokka X (Vauxhall Mokka X in the UK, Buick Encore in the USA) has a Forward Collision Alert system. As part of that it can show the following distance to the vehicle in front of me.
When I see a green car icon light up on my dashboard, it means that the sensors have spotted a car in front of me and consider me at a safe distance from it. When this icon turns orange it means that the computer thinks that I am too close to my predecessor. In one of the menus I can also see the following distance to the car in front of me, expressed in seconds.
On Dutch motorways the speed limit is 130 km/h (80 mph, 36,1 m/s). At that speed, the tipping point between green and orange seems to be at 0,8 seconds. Note that this is the absolute minimum as to what GM considers "far away enough". The Dutch road safety board advise to always maintain a following distance of at least 2 seconds.
36,1 × 0,8 = 28,9 m (31,6 yd)
36,1 × 2 = 72,2 m (78,9 yd)It felt quite unnerving to be following someone that close (for science!) so I quickly backed off once the icon had gone orange. At around 1,5 seconds, it felt much more comfortable to be following someone.
In practice, it seems like people (including traffic engineers) don't take the 2 second guidance too seriously. Traffic engineers use a following distance of 1,4 seconds in calculations, as they know that drivers aren't just focused on the car directly in front of them but look beyond that.
So, concluding:
- A following distance of 0,8 seconds might technically be possible, but it feels very unnerving to be driving that close to someone. Having AVs drive that close to each other will lead to very stressed passengers.
- A following distance of 2 seconds is considered safe for conventional vehicles, but might be too much for AVs that are equipped with sensors which can react to changing circumstances much quicker than human beings could ever do.
- The mean following distance in practice seems to be 1,4 seconds. This is halfway between the 2s and 0,8s from above, and would probably be the ideal following distance for AVs as well.
This leads to a distance of 50,5 m (55,2 yd) between two cars traveling at 130 km/h on a straight piece of road. This does not yet take merging and diverging traffic into account.
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RE: Agile taken tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far
And here I was thinking that having to deal with just one "scrum team" is bad enough, I can't even imagine having to work in this sort of madness...
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
I also love how the icon doesn't show up if emoji are disabled.
Why the heck is that a dependency??
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
By the way, why would you boycott "flange"? That's the name of a part of a train wheel...
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RE: WTF Office?
The Office 365 Personal plan also gives you the O365 mobile apps, 1 TB of cloud storage on OneDrive, and 60 landline/mobile calling minutes for Skype. Plus, you'll regularly get new features as Office is updated every month.
The "Office Home & Student 2016" option gives you Office 2016, and that's it. You won't get intermediate feature updates, and when Office 2018 comes out you'll have to buy a new license. With O365 you'll automatically get it, as long as your subscription is valid.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@alexmedia said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate JIRA. I hate it with a passion.
This underwrites my previous statement:
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
Aww, lame. At least they could've included a discount at the closest Dunkin' Donuts or something.