@Karla From when rage comics were a thing:
Best posts made by anonymous234
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
That's not very typical, I’d like to make that point. Most buses are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all.
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RE: The International Space Station is finally getting a printer upgrade
@el_heffe said in The International Space Station is finally getting a printer upgrade:
HP printers
Great, now they have to hire an extra sysadmin just to maintain the drivers.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
http://i.imgur.com/pwOkBPT.jpg
Can you spot the problem here?
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RE: WTF Bites
Oh look, the POSIX C standard library has hash tables. How useful!
Too bad they lack a way to enumerate their contents. So if you need to do that (for example, to free() the stuff you store), you'll need to save that list separately.
Oh, they also seem to lack a way to delete or modify elements. Hope you didn't need that.
Oh, and they have a fixed size. So if you don't know how many elements you'll be getting, you'll have to either make a really big one, or make a new one when it has filled up and copy all the elements there.
OH WAIT YOU CAN'T EVEN DO THAT BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE GLOBALLY SHARED HASH TABLE.
Great design guys
(yes, the GNU implementation fixes that last point, thankfully, still a wtf)
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Missile alert memes
Because accidents are funny when they happen to others. And making bad UIs is a popular reddit pastime.
https://gfycat.com/QueasyGrandIriomotecat
https://gfycat.com/PepperyGoldenAfricanpiedkingfisher
https://gfycat.com/ChubbyDeafeningAfricanelephant
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RE: 2117 prediction thread
@bb36e said in 2117 prediction thread:
Or when your ocular implant decides to reboot for updates and becomes unusable for the next half hour?
This is an interesting thought that I often get when watching sci-fi movies. Computers have existed for a while now and they've always had annoying technical issues, it seems unlikely that this will change any time soon.
Just once I'd like to see a scene that went like
"OK, boss, I've made it past the guards"
"Great, I've sent you a 3D map of the building, just head for the hidden vault in the second floor and..."
"Wait, I'm not seeing a 3D map"
"That's weird, I'm sure I sent it... have you checked the spam folder?"
"Oh, hold on, I do see a message from you, but it says something about unrecognized file format"
"Well, it's a standard .3dm file... is your mapping app up to date?"
"Yes, I have auto update enabled, says it's version 128.3"
"Dammit Steve! Are you still on eyeOS 16? Of course you can't open the newer formats on that old thing!"
"But boss, I don't like the new interface on eyeOS 20, it's too flashy, gives me a headache" -
RE: WTF Bites
@japonicus The carpentry tool equivalent of UNIX would be a set of weird devices designed in the 1600s with names and purposes no one else uses. People who used them would swear they are the only true design and would actually manage to build impressive stuff with them, while everyone else finds them weird and confusing. Some of the tools would have obvious glaring flaws or be inconsistent with the rest, but their defenders insist you just need to get used to them.
Windows would be a set of tools that comes in a $100 "home edition" that has everything you need except a hammer, a $2,000 "pro" edition that includes the hammer, and a $50,000/year "enterprise" contract that has god knows what. Every 5 years they deprecate about 1/3rd of the tools and introduce a similar amount of new ones. Also all the parts are coated in rubber to prevent you from seeing their internal design, and if you peek inside you can see most of them are made with bits of old recycled newspapers wrapped in duct tape, but despite that they seem to hold together pretty well.
OS X is set based on the Unix tools, but with a much nicer design, and a lot of extra handles and some of the worse parts remade with a brand new design. Unfortunately they are only available for use in authorized Apple™ workshops.
Android is a set of power tools that actually use the UNIX tools inside, but you'd never know that because you only ever interact with the outside shell that completely covers them.
Man, I love creating overly complex analogies.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Careful.... careful... almost there.... done!
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RE: Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down. Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down...
@timebandit
The completely pointless ideas thread: put a stair climber machine inside the elevator, wire it so that you have to climb an equivalent amount of steps in it to make the elevator work. -
Improving features, the Microsoft way
If you use Windows 10, you've probably noticed a "Note" button on the action center (aka "the side bar"). This one:
Clicking it opens the built in "OneNote" app with a new blank note.
This is not a bad concept of course, taking notes is a pretty common thing to do. The problem is that it can only open the OneNote app. Even though:
- Lots of people use other note-taking apps (Evernote, etc.)
- Windows itself already includes a different note taking application (Sticky Notes)
- Microsoft itself offers a different OneNote client too
- Windows already has a mechanism to allow people to pick what app they want to use for specific actions, that would work perfectly here.
So for all the people who use different note programs (i.e. most people), that tile is just a misleading annoyance.
So how does the Windows Team fix that problem?
Of course
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RE: Ways to troll speedrunners
Release 5 versions of the game, all with slightly modified physics engines, and no way to tell which one you have.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
https://i.imgur.com/6WRs60l.gifv
He was reaching for a weapon! You all saw it!
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RE: Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft
@parody said in Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft:
Why you should treat random notifications the same way you'd treat pop-up ads.
Always the same cycle
Company: "We've created an API that lets you notify the user of important messages"
Developer: "I'm gonna spam the shit out of those notifications"
User: "I'm ignoring or blocking these notifications because they're all spam" -
RE: WTF Bites
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Our WordPress website's control panel has no less than 13 warning or info messages from plugins in every page.
It's not my job to maintain it though so I definitely won't touch them.
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: our server somehow caught malware.
Boss' proposed solution: "install some antivirus in it"
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RE: In other news today...
According to the source, Boeing patched a software code error just two hours before the vehicle reentered Earth's atmosphere. Had the error not been caught, the source said, proper thrusters would not open during the reentry process, and the vehicle would have been lost.
Fixing bugs on production: extreme edition.
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RE: WTF Bites
@AyGeePlus said in WTF Bites:
Nobody does this because now you have to write printer firmware, and nobody wants to do that.
Yeah. If you're a nefarious hacker, you've got the problem of wanting to get into a secure system. But if you hack a printer, you've now pwned a printer, which means you have another problem.
Hacker: "I finally did it. I found a way to hack into this office through their printer. Now I just need to upload my payload and the entire network will be mine."
[6 hours later]
"I can't write to the firmware until they change the magenta ink cartridge?" -
RE: Microsoft seems desperate
@El_Heffe said in Microsoft seems desperate:
Google and YouTube work just fine with Palemoon. Never had a problem, other than having to fiddle around a bit to get the "dark theme" working on YouTube.
I think what he was referring to is
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RE: Wish-it-was password security
So... you're still trusting them with your money?
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RE: Microsoft seems desperate
@blakeyrat said in Microsoft seems desperate:
and MS will likely rebrand it 27 times before that happens anyway.
Edge
Edge 365
Azure Edge
Azure Edge .NET
Edge Live
Edge Live .NET
Xbox Web
Xbox Live Web
Xbox Live Web with Bing
Groove Web
Xbox Groove Web
Edge 365 (they like to go back to old names sometimes)
Cortana web (by this point I estimate they'll be pushing it on everything)
Cortana web 365
Cortana X-plore 2000!
git linux docker container node python kubernetes html5 ubuntu (a last ditch effort to appeal to the open source crowd)
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Samsung plans to bring Bixby to everything it sells by 2020
Yes, Samsung has claimed they want to push their crappy voice assistant that they couldn't even get to understand English on time (and by extension, internet connectivity) on all their devices, not just phones. And Samsung makes a lot of different devices. No sci-fi author suspected that the AI would not take over the world by its own actions, but rather would be forced onto everything by big corporations.
Of course, considering that approximately 77% of the world's population does not natively speak any of the languages that it supports, one would doubt the commercial success of such a thing. Then again, being Samsung, there's three possibilities:
- They expect everyone in the world to learn Korean, the superior language.
- They don't care about spending millions pushing some product that local customers can't even use. They might add support for a few more languages in the future.
- It's all vaporware to generate hype
Probably a mix of all 3.
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RE: Bethesda dealing with Fallout
I don't understand why they'd try to cut costs on their most willing to pay users. That's the one demographic you don't want to neglect.
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RE: Tumblr bans porn and proves that it is really serious
@Watson Fantastic idea. So it would let you browse content just by pointing it at a server, and receiving some sort of Markup Language, probably with embedded scripts of some sort.