@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Jesus++
? Maybe.
Is that written in Holy C and compiled native for TempleOS?
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Jesus++
? Maybe.
Is that written in Holy C and compiled native for TempleOS?
@LaoC if ever the question “what the fuck?” were appropriate, that was it.
The Unity shit-show train keeps on rolling.
AppLovin - the ad network that Unity tried to muscle out of its space with ironSource - is now working on a proof of concept converter tool to convert from Unity to Unreal, Godot and Cocos.
And Re-logic - the Terraria people - stated that despite them not really using Unity, they've just thrown $100k to each of Godot and FNA and sponsoring both for $1k a month moving forward.
Unity really pissed people off.
(This might deserve its own topic for teh lulz but for now, here)
Yes, you too can buy a 100-year plan for a domain and hosting of your very own WordPress. Never mind that it's nearly 4x the lifespan of the language it's written in, and more than 4x the lifetime of the software to date, you can buy hosting for the next 100 years for $384/yr running a WordPress.
TIL that part of the UK is called Test Valley and it isn’t dummy data.
Is that eggshell white or Egyptian cotton paint you're buying for the bikeshed?
Recruiter just called me, having gotten my details from “CV Library”.
I last posted on there in 2015… he wanted to know if I was still looking for a mid-tier role, looking to learn Laravel and whether I’d work for a salary that is approximately half what I am currently paid.
Yeah nope.
@da-Doctah Canada is sufficiently polite that it is sharing, eh.
Stallone: I’m making a movie about composers. I’m playing Beethoven.
Van Damme: I’ll be Mozart.
Arnold: I’ll be… no, screw you guys I’m not saying it.
@DogsB that’s why they’re looking outward because they already know there’s none down here
@Zerosquare I work with a web designer so young, she was still in diapers when I started writing HTML. By hand, which was the fashion at the time.
@PleegWat not to mention that everyone who consumes DHMO will die.
@dkf as an example of npm horror…
The app I am currently working on declares 12 “dependencies” and 20 “devDependencies”. I’m amazed this only imports 1650 packages.
@BernieTheBernie I have a couple of bags to take to the local thrift store, less than a block away. Either they’ll take it and sell it and put it towards the local homeless shelter, or they’ll chuck it. Either way, not my problem.
But on that note, trying to sell a < 1yr old washing/dryer machine, fucking hell. We’ve had scammers, timewasters, one person sending a dick pic and offering to pay with sex.
I’m a bit weird, I like to use the browser versions of things on my iPad rather than dedicated apps.
Imagine my surprise when I just went to Twitter.com and got the prompt for storage from Safari - “Would you like to let twitter.com use 1.1GB of storage?”
Like, uh, what the fuck have they done where shoving a GB to localStorage in any way makes sense?
@boomzilla I really need to use the "Delivering this feature goes against everything I know to be right and true and I will sooner lay you into this barren earth than entertain your folly for a moment longer." quote more often, and unironically.
So it's a bit late and I need to get some food in before @royal_poet gets home after an exhausting weekend - and she wants a pizza.
So I go to Dominos, pick a medium pizza with things she'll want and it tells me the 'make your own' is £10.99. Fine.
I get to the checkout, and it tells me:
You qualified for a Deal: LUNCH SPECIAL LARGE PIZZA ONLY £11.99 (valid 11am to 4pm only). Saving you £3.87.
How the fuck do I possibly qualify for that given that it is fucking 9.30pm?
@magnusmaster said in Do not upgrade:
At work I am working on a React app that uses
react-select
. By mistake my boss installed a different version of that package on his PC and that caused the app to not compile. The kicker is that my boss installed a newer minor version. Shouldn't only major version updates have breaking changes? I am insane for not updating packages unless there is a bug fix that I want or something else broke?
You are using JavaScript and npm wrong because you’re meant to always be using the latest version of everything all the time no matter how rapid the release cycle and that includes not caring about backwards compatibility breakage.
Move fast and break things, it’s the only way.
A mouse with an HDMI cable, plus directly into your display device and is a fully fledged computer.
As title says, not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea. away!
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Why would you even need keyboard lights?
I have mine configured to do pretty patterns. Wasn't a choice to have or not have, as such, this model of laptop comes with per-key programmable LEDs, and a light bar at the front of the case which I have naturally programmed to sweep back and forth with only red lights because I am secretly 8 again and my computer's name is consequently KITT.
FedEx is my latest wonderful example of genius.
I had a package coming. The email arrived on Friday, with the heading that 'your package will be delivered today', with 'estimated delivery day' of Monday.
Package did arrive on Friday.
Today, Tuesday, I get a card through the door for 'sorry we couldn't deliver your parcel', with the tracking number matching the item delivered to me on Friday.
Now, the last part with the card is a repeat of last month's (for the same basic situation, as in, same sender sending me this month's item for a monthly shipping), but the email that went with it was new where the same email gave me two different shipping dates.
Lay off giving empathy to blakeyrat, I mean, he comes in here asking if he has a disability and you people be fucking nice to him and be all empathetic (as opposed to merely pathetic) and offer him unsolicited advice. Stop that! STOP IT AT ONCE!
So I notice there is a FedEx 'sorry we missed you' card in my letterbox.
I've been home all day.
Now, it's entirely possible that I didn't hear the doorbell because it's a bit quiet (and it's an Amazon Ring doorbell from the previous occupants so at some point it'll just have to go I think, we inherited a bunch of shit 'smart electronics' from them)
But anyway, I have a card that says "we left your package at..." and a scrawl that conceivably could say 'call bk tomoz' which I sort of infer to mean 'call back tomorrow', but this wasn't ticked, merely written on.
Meanwhile they have ticked the 'manage your delivery' option for their app.
Their app is rated 1.7/5 on the Apple App Store. I don't think I've ever seen an app rated that low. So while I'm downloading it, I have a think as to what could be coming via FedEx.
There are a few things lately that have come via FedEx but all of those came with copious emails before, during and after to go 'this has left the sender', 'this is in our warehouse', 'we have received this', 'we're going to send it to you on xyz'.
The last of these was a Kickstarter thing I backed, I had the email chain, it originally said it was going to arrive today - but it arrived a couple of days ago, so I figured it couldn't be that. Especially as I even have the email saying 'it was received and signed for'.
But anyway I open the app. Fuck me I can see why it's 1.7/5 with all the BS things it puts in my face before I get to scanning the barcode.
But I scan the barcode on the 'sorry we missed you' and... of course it's the thing delivered two days ago, signed for etc.
So I am now very very curious a) if they're going to call back tomorrow, and b) if they do, what they could possibly be leaving me...
Issue 1: there isn't a standard way of indicating an inconsistent or indeterminate state.
Issue 2: they have crossed over between environments to the point that using them on a web interface implies to people that there is an immediacy and a permanence to the state even if the form as a whole requires submission anyway.
Issue 3: while filled + indicator on the right is the usual state for 'on' and unfilled + indicator on left is usual for 'off', this is not entirely consistent in web implementations. Some reverse the orientation, some add red/green, some add text in the middle.
It's a very muddled and abused control at this point, in a way checkboxes aren't.
Another Win10 WTF (inb4 @Lorne-Kates calling me an idiot)
Because fuck you if I might have flexible working hours and want to make sure I don't get updatified in that time.
@cartman82 observe the decline began in 2004. What else began in 2004?
TDWTF.
Status: having some motivation issues to work on a project, so obviously the solution is to expand the scope several times over.
In other news, Apple will have to start using USB-C on their shit before the end of 2024.
I'm into whatever a Kardashian is,
The Cardassians (/kɑːrˈdæsiənz/) are a fictional extraterrestrial species in the American science fiction franchise Star Trek. They were devised in 1991 for the series Star Trek: The Next Generation before being used in the subsequent series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Discovery.
HTH HAND
I liked the way Honest Trailers did this:
...and the Kardashians, omnipresent leather skin tyrants bent on galactic domination - oh, sorry,what's that? Oh! Sorry - and the Cardassians, omnipresent leather skin tyrants bent on galactic domination. Eh... not sure which one I prefer.
@FrostCat That particular iteration of logo looks like it has some kind of dart inserted into its butt. Which is also 'just sad'.
And if he hadn't been such a douchebag about things, we'd probably have been nicer to him in the first place.
...you get ninja'd by another poster on another forum and your first reaction is to add: "Edit: Hanzo'd" because TDWTF memes are so prevalent in your mind.
The manual for Semantic Mediawiki sucks donkey balls. For so many reasons.
But today's comes courtesy of some fucking genius web designer.
So I'm reading the manual to see if this thing will help me with something I'm working on, and I realise this particular help page has some loading it's doing.
Those three grey bars are animated. It's a nice little animation.
It's also moving the entire fucking sidebar up and down +/- 5 pixels.
Zoom was having a moment. (And if you’re wondering why I didn’t just screengrab the device, I rather not connect WTDWTF on the device in question. I don’t think it could cope.)
@RaceProUK the fact that it is clearly signposted as 'do not do this' is one thing, the fact that not content with ignoring the rules, he discarded his not-properly-extinguished cigarette into a bin causing an actual file on the plane. And then there was a second incident on the same flight.
I'd have argued less for arson and possibly attempted murder for every person on the plane. While it would never have gotten through the courts, it might have highlighted the seriousness of doing it.
I also love how Stuart Semple - another artist - is sufficiently pissed over Vantablack being licensed exclusively to Kapoor that a) he went out of his way to invent new blacks, such as Black 3.0 and Black 4.0, and as per https://culturehustle.com/ refuses to let Kapoor buy them, or even let anyone buy his products for Kapoor.
Even the cookie banners refer to this pissing match. That’s some level of grudge right there.
In my experience, grooming is where all the actually-good ideas - that the customer doesn't want to pay for - go to die, and what's left on the backlog are all the pointless add-ons that will cost even more but will never recoup any actual value.
I think the lesson to learn here is not to schedule meetings past midnight of Friday to Saturday.
Meetings are like mogwai?
Given that we never learn how far after midnight it theoretically becomes safe to feed a mogwai, we can extrapolate that we never learn how far after midnight it is safe to schedule a meeting.
I propose that the entire window of 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 (23:59:60 on leap second instances) be marked as unsafe for that reason.
@Medinoc said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
@Medinoc Okay, I'm gonna give this one to Microsoft: I tested "Copy Image" in the NEW Teams, and this time it works as expected. So at least they fixed that.
What they broke was the Spellchecker, or at least its support for languages other than the UI's (I have English UI but communicate in French, and can't get NEW Teams to accept French as a real language).
This is the same company who thought it was a good idea when localising Win11 for the market thought that s/zip/postcode
everywhere was good enough.
It wasn’t enough to have “Compress to zippostcode file” in the context menu, they also misspelled the “Add to Favourites” menu item without the u.
Like, you managed to over and under localise the same menu, good jorb!