@wharrgarbl said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:
I couldn't stand more than 10min of pulp fiction
We can never be friends.
@wharrgarbl said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:
I couldn't stand more than 10min of pulp fiction
We can never be friends.
@wharrgarbl said in Highly Acclaimed Movies you Hate Thread:
All Tarantino movies.
You don't like Pulp Fiction?
Inception
I've already posted a lengthy explanation elsewhere on this forum. (Maybe it was in the Unpopular Opinions Thread?) Anyway, the movie was advertised as something deep and mind-blowing, but in the end it was just a mediocre action movie with a plot that makes Swiss cheese look solid. There were also zero relatable characters in the movie, the premise was ridiculous and the mechanics of the fictional world were changed/ignored almost constantly.
All in all, it was just a series of nice special effects without any real story behind it, so they shouldn't have advertised it as anything else.
I also agree with @cartman82 regarding Django Unchained. Worst Tarantino movie I've seen so far.
@masonwheeler
We're not talking about dev boxes here. Well, at least I wasn't. And trusting all developers not to do anything that might bring a shared cluster used by at least 500 people across the globe down doesn't sound like a particularly bright idea.
@wharrgarbl said in PSA: Lunix haz teh bugz:
@sloosecannon said in PSA: Lunix haz teh bugz:
if you've restricted what you can use sudo for
But nobody does that. Even wtfbank infosec that dedicate their lives to make ours more annoying don't do that.
I do that all the time. A while ago, I automated the deployment of certain intranet apps, so there's now a user who can execute sudo service httpd restart
, but nothing else.
@pleegwat said in Fake or just weird?:
I wouldn't be surprised if + was invented for GSM because the source circuit is not always known.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
No, it's free at the point of care to all citizens even if they've never paid anything in their whole lives.
That's different from the German model, then. Even if you're unemployed, you're still technically paying insurance; the state just does that for you as part of your unemployment benefits.
@onyx
Does the telco ever actually see the +
? I thought it was replaced with the appropriate prefix for the current country (00
, or 011
for North Americans) client-side.
Well, it's Ubisoft, and they're tr regardless of situation.
Watch_Dogs 2 is worth its price, though.
The NHS is funded from the general taxation pot.
Can you Brits do anything right?
So… The NHS is not an insurance, then?
@jarry
The plus should still be before the "54", because it stands for the "international call" prefix code, which is "00" in most, but not all countries.
To answer the OP: Yes, the screenshot is most definitely fake.
in single payer system, there is one entity that pays for everyone's medical bills - it's called the state, and it's funded entirely from taxes.
Well, yes and no. Unlike most other "taxes", this one ends up in a fund for exactly one purpose. They actually use your healthcare payments exclusively for funding the healthcare system, not for increasing the government budget in general.
That's why I object to people calling payments for state-run insurance taxes. They're not, there's an important qualitative difference.
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I remember going to a way extended family reunion, like 3rd and 4th cousins. None of my 1st or 2nd cousins there.
There was a girl there that was super hot. Nice body, blonde hair, really large chest. Like.... really large.
Disappointed the hell out of me. I refuse to be the southern stereotype.
I had the very same experience. Minus being afraid of the stereotype. I still resisted the temptation to flirt.
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
But they want to keep 35+GB of email in their Outlook and they want their Outlook to not run like total shit. Pick one. You can't have it both ways.
My former boss was like that. He was terribly afraid of accidentally deleting emails he might need later, for example if a client decided to sue us.
He was smart enough to archive his emails regularly, though. Does Outlook allow you to do that somehow or does it lack functionality for periodically moving emails to a different file?
@boomzilla
Yeah, I had absolutely no idea, either. Maybe disagreeing with the use of force is an extreme example of liberalism to them? ("Human rights are so important that extreme means are never justified.") Depends on the exact interpretation of "liberalism", though.
@boomzilla said in 8 Values:
I chose to assume some context on that one beyond just what the words said.
Let's just agree that the question was badly worded. If they wanted to know whether I want to forcefully disown anyone, the question should have been "do you believe in the concept of private property" or "are you a Marxist". Not whatever they asked.
@boomzilla said in 8 Values:
so I had a lot of Neutral answers
Me too. Like "do you want worker to own factories" (paraphrased). I mean, I sure as hell am not a Marxist, but I don't have anything against cooperatives, either. What the fuck was I supposed to answer there?
Meh, the questions in the test were biased themselves, and none of them asked for the reason behind an opinion. In case anyone cares despite that:
I strongly disagree with being labeled a socialist, and I'm also convinced that the test completely ignores the difference between libertarianism and liberalism.
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm in the SF bay area. Absolutely great climate.
I know, I used to work there. It's the perfect temperature in summer.
@RaceProUK Apparently, some dickhead a few years ago that designing the air conditioning for temperatures up to 32° would be sufficient. Because nobody's ever heard of higher temperatures in Germany in summer, right?
The air conditioning in the old trains is even worse. Never board the (always overcrowded) IC from Stuttgart to Munich in summer. It's a health hazard and probably increases your chances of a heat stroke (or actual stroke) by at least 700%. By the time you arrive in Munich, you'll be as wet as if you just went for a swim with your clothes on.
@dcon
I live in the hottest part of Germany. Well, apart from saunas and crowded long-distance trains, because the air conditioning in them fails every single goddamn time.
@coldandtired said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm surrounded by locals complaining that it's only 28 degrees and when will summer start?
Lucky bastard. I recently decided "Fuck the environment" and bought an AC. Best. Decision. Ever.
@wharrgarbl said in Contiguous iterators (C++)?:
Any concept that depends on good humans doesn't work
Says the C programmer. How ironic.
@wharrgarbl said in Contiguous iterators (C++)?:
Duplicated code is easier to maintain than the C++ template clusterfuck.
No, it's not. Duplicated code is the worst maintenance nightmare; and good C++ developers know templates well enough to at least be able to maintain existing code.
And templates have another advantage: If you do something wrong, your compiler will complain loudly. It sure as hell won't complain about diverging versions of some duplicated logic, though.
@PleegWat said in Deploying in 2017:
We've got the NIH bug
Well, deploying applications is hard, and the requirement vary a lot; so it kinda makes sense to write your own tools. I don't know whether I'd trust the magic of an existing tool myself.
@PleegWat Has anyone here actually used it for real-world projects?
@Benjamin-Hall said in Contiguous iterators (C++)?:
I don't C++, but template metaprogramming had always seemed to me to be the same type of mystical stuff that got people burned at the stake as witches.
The mystical stuff is in the compilers; template metaprogramming is just the symptom. Let's burn a few copies of the C++ standard instead!
Seriously, though: Watch the video I posted above if you find the time. There are a few ugly tricks, but for the most part, metaprogramming is just programming with a really weird syntax and equally strange basic operations. Once you get used to the patterns and learn to ignore the ugly syntax, it starts making a lot of sense.
@anotherusername This might be the best covfefe joke I've read on this forum so far.
@MZH said in Contiguous iterators (C++)?:
Like, why does std::is_same<> create a struct from which the actual bool value has to be extracted?
Unfortunately, I don't have a better answer than "Because that's how template metaprogramming works."
Why not just return a bool?
In a way, you are. This is how you return a bool from a metafunction. Think of it as an esoteric programming language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am2is2QCvxY
I can see what std::enable_if does from the docs, but it still seems like a roundabout and language-abusing way of doing something.
That's because template metaprogramming was not designed as a feature of the language, but later "discovered". You are abusing certain language features. Which is why C++11, C++14 and C++17 contain a lot of changes to make template metaprogramming more bearable and feel less esoteric.
Example: In C++14, you can just use std::enable_if_t
; then you don't have to append ::type
all the time.
@LB_ Yeah, this version is definitely more readable:
template<typename Iterator, typename U = typename std::vector<typename std::iterator_traits<Iterator>::value_type>::iterator>
void f(Iterator beg, Iterator end)
{
for (auto it = beg; it != end; it = std::next(it))
{
if constexpr(std::is_same<Iterator, U>::value) {
std::cout << *it << " vector!" << std::endl;
} else {
std::cout << *it << " iterator!" << std::endl;
}
}
}
You still have to figure out the trick you used, though (deducing std::vector
's template argument via the iterator).
@LB_
That's clever. I accept you as my new TMP master.
I tried to use std::enable_if_t
in various ways as well, but always ran into the basic problem that the template argument deduction failed. I posted the above attempt because it had the shortest error message. ;)
@MZH said in Contiguous iterators (C++)?:
After more attempts at generalizing, I'm giving up.
Me too. The best I could come up with was http://ideone.com/H0i7RN, which doesn't compile either. I think it may be fundamentally impossible to specialize a function for iterators of vectors this way.
@WernerCD said in Konami officially hates the people who made them loads of money:
Required to be favorable? Doesn't that negate a reference for anything other than "Yes, they worked here and those were the proscribed duties"?
Yes and no. There are certain established "codes". For example, if the reference does not express regret that the employee no longer works there, (s)he was probably crap at his job. "Very sociable" means "spent half of the time chatting in the break room". And so on. You have to read between the lines. Also, omissions are very informative (are skills/work ethic even mentioned?).
@dkf
Not in Germany, either. You have a right to get a written reference from any previous workplace up to 3 years after your employment ended. It must be both truthful and favorable. The latter requirement leads to a lot of weird newspeak and in those references, which other employers then have to try and decipher.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Pounding it harder doesn't make it better...
@Perverted_Vixen disagrees.
Non-Android WTF: Why the hell did this topic just show up in my unread list?
@marczellm said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
This is the format that Hungarians expect to see.
Weirdos!
@Bulb
If at least that was used consistently on Windows, that'd be a step in the right direction. But apparently, the various legacy codepages are alive and well; and build systems will happily mix output in different encodings.
@marczellm
Reading the bug reports and pull requests made my head hurt. I'd say it's time to kill legacy (i.e. non UTF-X) encodings, once and for all, to stop this madness.
@Yamikuronue
@gwowen's post two posts above yours ended up in the wrong thread.
@sloosecannon said in Let's not debate creationism in the News thread:
@asdf said in Let's not debate creationism in the News thread:
I'm a Catholic, so your argument is invalid.
HYPOCRITE!
Nah, I'm not gonna bite…
OK, I'll start: Google makes it impossible for its paying customers to change the home country their account is associated with.
I haven't been able to install local, region-locked apps for 2 years now, despite obviously living in Germany; and I still have to pay my Google Music subscription in dollars.
@heterodox said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
Makes all the typical use cases as simple to handle as possible.
It doesn't offer any of the advanced features, though.
@dkf said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
@asdf said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, IntelliJ?
Heretic!
Even if you have an onion on your belt and prefer Eclipse, you'll have to admit that IntelliJ's Git UI is pretty awesome.
@djls45
Only just saw that post. It's funny how you complain about being ridiculed minutes after writing a long rant which tries to ridicule Catholics. (Badly, I might add, because half of your arguments are based on accepting the premise of young-earth creationism and taking the scripture literally in the first place. You're arguing in circles.)
@RaceProUK said in Please create a I Hate Microsoft Club too:
Though if we do create these, we should make them all subcategories of a parent, so the category list doesn't get a mile long
Hm... We've never tried to break the category page / chooser that way, have we?
@Dan-Howard said in Please create a I Hate Microsoft Club too:
How about an Apple and Google one too?
I'd have a lot of content for a Google one.
@RaceProUK said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
OK, so that means there's no good Git GUI
Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, IntelliJ?