I haven’t drunk beer in years but this feels wrong on so many levels.
Best posts made by Arantor
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RE: In other news today...
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RE: Circle of Size
@Kamil-Podlesak the letter CDN is a specific piece of idiocy from Discourse.
If you have a user with no set avatar, they have a letter on a coloured background. Instead of having this as text+CSS or even “generate an image on registration and treat that as an uploaded avatar”, Discourse literally rolled out a CDN whose sole purpose is serving letter-on-coloured-square images.
For example:
https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/288.png
Taken from the first example I could find on meta.discourse.org just now, so it’s still live.
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RE: StackGoFYourQuestion
@Carnage said in StackGoFYourQuestion:
Can we get 4chan to go troll the shit out of SO for some nerd on nerd internet drama?
SO seems to create its own drama without needing 4chan’s help.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status Excel stop bloody assuming I'm typing a formula when 1) I start it with a + but 2) I DO NOT START WITH AN =
Don't be 'helpful', fuck off with that.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
I don’t know if this is going to make it worse or better.
But I do know there gonna be
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…
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RE: WTF Bites
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.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: I want Lego. I can afford the Lego. I just feel bad for feeling like I need to justify the Lego (to myself). It’s like £380 I want to spend on Lego.
But I suppose if I wait long enough the two sets will go off sale ahd the problem will solve itself. But then I wouldn’t have the Lego.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I’ve just spent 15 minutes listening to someone explain a fucking if statement. Why am I subjected to this shit.
if ($user == 'DogsB') { subject_to_this_shit(); }
Probably because the explainer just learned it and needed to share to validate that they understood it.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@cartman82 observe the decline began in 2004. What else began in 2004?
TDWTF.
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RE: WTF Bites
I blame the worldwide component shortage because of the cryptoanarchist bullshit people.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status order by! How hard is it to add an order by to a query. Predictable ordering makes life easier for everyone. Also an option to sort a list alphabetically makes every app better.
April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November, October, September
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra proof if any more were needed that the web is fucking broken and can we please go back to simpler times where shit just worked without all the nonsense?
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RE: It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account
@codinghorror1 we’re trying to be excellent. It’s, uh, everyone else…
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RE: WTF Bites
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.
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
@topspin said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@BernieTheBernie because some people actually like Twitter.
Like me for example.
Well, I post here so I must be right?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf honestly, I’m not going to care, they put us in the fifth floor (0-based counting) and the lift doesn’t work. The five flights of stairs are about three flights too many for me at the moment to care too much about the outside.
It gets better! There are electrical sockets in the room for the TV, the kettle etc. but none of them work. Management tells us this can’t be fixed. Not “can’t be fixed tonight” but “nothing we can do”. They suggested if we wanted to charge our phones we could walk down to reception and charge them there.
Tomorrow we will be in full Karen mode because it’s one thing to pay for a 5th floor room and have to walk the stairs, but no tea/TV/charging is not on. New room or refund please.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
Windows Actually Never Knows Eternal Reliability
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@LaoC is that what they meant when they said “eat the rich”?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dcon I increasingly see breakage for versions like FF 113 because “it’s not Chrome” just like the bad old days of “it’s not IE”. Same shit, different decade.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Two goddamn hours debugging the routine in my game. Two goddamn hours because I forgot I was meant to be dividing the opposite by the adjacent and not the other way around for the purposes of my atan() call.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: having some motivation issues to work on a project, so obviously the solution is to expand the scope several times over.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Zenith perfectly cromulent JS. Next image in the sequence is shipping that function in an npm library for isActuallyTrue()
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@kazitor I have a t-shirt that says, "To save time, let's just assume I know everything."
I used to get people going, "I bet you don't know..." and they'd try to surprise me with trivia - the problem is that I used to work with people who never had interesting trivia so I genuinely did know all the things they were saying...
Haven't worn it in a while though.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@LaoC Scarfolk also has this to add.
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RE: The "That's just sad" thread
@FrostCat That particular iteration of logo looks like it has some kind of dart inserted into its butt. Which is also 'just sad'.
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RE: WTF Bites
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.
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RE: In other news today...
In other news, Apple will have to start using USB-C on their shit before the end of 2024.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dkf and if you throw it out, 2 weeks later someone is going to ask you if you have such a cable.
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RE: In other news today...
@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.
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You know you've been at TDWTF too long when...
...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.
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RE: Vote of No Confidence
And if he hadn't been such a douchebag about things, we'd probably have been nicer to him in the first place.
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RE: UI Bites
@Bulb dafuq is that shit? Do they really have such a serious bot problem to necessitate that, while also going “we have so many users, we can afford to piss some of them off”?
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RE: Guy brings down thousands of npm builds
And fuck me, y'all complain about PHP. We have a (shitty) package manager but pretty much any PHP dev can master
if ($x > 0)
and we have sane string padding built in. And our packages are usually less fucktarded.Who's TRWTF NOW HUH?!?!?!?!
We didn't even overload
+
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RE: WTF Bites
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
this sort of bullshit is why I pay $9.99 a month for PS
Stop paying rent for creative tools. Come in from the cold, into ABODE PhotoPOP
Is that a thing yet? They said it would be.
It’s not a thing yet. In fact there’s better utter radio silence from them since December 2023 when a “we need your help” survey was sent around.
Some of the backers who wanted hoodies have apparently received them.
Worth noting: the guy behind it is the artist who got pissy about not being able to use Vantablack, and he has released a new paint colour since this kicked off.
General mood is that it was a scam.
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RE: Fuck You, I Quit - Hiring Is Broken (article)
One thing I would point out, he is talking front end dev.
While I'd be all for people in this industry actually knowing their shit (and I don't have a CS degree or anything!), I do have to question the sanity of some of the tests.
I wouldn't necessarily expect a front end guy to know those algorithms, on the basis that while it can teach you something about ability to reason through a problem, there is a... Missing the point to it. Front end devs generally don't need to solve the kinds of problems where Dijkstra's algorithm would help. Or maze solving.
I haven't, for example, needed to do path finding in any work I've done in the last year at that place. No path finding, no tree balancing (though I have done tree traversal but only because I also do recursion for an arbitrary nested structure that the user can manipulate like a kind of CMS)... I've done none of the things he talks about, either in the interviews or in the hobbies.
I didn't have a problem getting hired, but none of the interviews I had even touched on them. One does not do these things in PHP, and I would have buttumed not in JS either...
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Mason_Wheeler said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Third panel:
(Pikachu surprised face) :
return (a == 0);
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RE: Discourse DMZ
- Publicly embarrass team
- Sling poo at my co-founders
- Learn us how to build software
No. We were in the early days quite happy to offer our thoughts and insight and generally help you guys make it more awesome than it was - despite our objections on things like infiniscroll.
The problem is when your co-founders starting being pissy with us about it. We're not regular mortals. We're not people who are swayed by shiny or spiffy. If you're going to throw software at us - people who write software ourselves - expect to be called out on bugs.
And when we raise bugs, we appreciate being taken seriously because we know we don't have to bother spending time and effort using the skills that normally make us money.
So when we raise bugs and get passive-aggressive and aggressive-aggressive bullshit for our trouble, don't expect to get a free pass because spiffy and shiny don't appease us.
So Github wasn't the right tool for you. Fine, that happens. But trying to bastardise a bug tracker out of a forum is not a clever idea, no matter how good the forum is because a forum IS NOT A BUG TRACKER.
This is the reason we give you the bile we do - it's kindness. It's a cruel form of kindness but all the time we spit bile it's because on some level we care.
When we stop giving you grief, that's when you should really worry.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
Regex is also potentially quite computationally heavy, therefore it also ruins the other kind of threads…
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RE: Do you even know how semantic versioning works?
No, I don’t think anyone actively in the npm ecosystem understands what semantic versioning means.
If they did, the ecosystem would be less of a nuclear-grade clusterfuck.