@polygeekery I know a guy who works for a crypto startup that sells an app that takes your four cryptocurrencies and 'rebalances' them every day so that you have equal value in each.
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RE: Lime scooters
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RE: In other news today...
@dcon said in In other news today...:
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on track to be one of the worst-reviewed films in the nine-picture saga.
Commentators who found the film underwhelming pointed to a number of problems: It answered some of the same questions and themes of past movies, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s Nicholas Barber; it was dull, according to Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out; and Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich called it a “zombie.”
Star wars part nine is formulaic and samey?
Let me fetch my fainting couch.
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RE: DNS is optional
@levicki said in DNS is optional:
@AyGeePlus said in DNS is optional:
I think it's because people pay them to do it.
Paying random hookers doesn't turn them into professionals.
I know you feel clever right now, but it literally does exactly that. That's what words mean.
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RE: Microsoft comes to senses, disables Wifi Sense
@blakeyrat said in Microsoft comes to senses, disables Wifi Sense:
VERY PROMINENT restroom signs, and yet still got asked about 46 times a day where the restrooms were,
If you beamed the knowledge directly into people's brains they would still ask you if the brain beam was to be trusted. Or to confirm the brain beam. Or if you have restrooms.
Reading technology is not widely implemented.
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin 'Paris zoo unveils well-understood organism, dumb reuters reporter doesn't try very hard.'
Seriously, you can buy 'the blob' from science supply stores for 14.70 USD. Most 'mysterious' organisms cost more than a delivery pizza. You can even do math with one. As of five years ago.
Wait until I tell them about 'tall horses'
And 720 sexes isn't even that many for a fungus(calling them 'sexes' is basically a lie. It's so close to completely false you'd need a scalpel to pull them apart. Fungi are weird and behave weirdly. More news at 11.).
@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
The writer seems to not be aware what "uni-cellular" means,
Tobey faire, neither do slime molds.
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RE: WTF Bites
Does it live in the page itself somewhere?
You could replace it with
.text("<h1>LEVICKI WANTS TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE SHOW YOURSELF DEMON</h1>")
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RE: WTF Bites
@topspin What's fun about Office security decisions is you can reverse-engineer the use case they must be optimizing for, and it's horrifying.
There must be someone(or several someones) with a very large MS support contract who needs to print things with macros in, and the macros have to run or it won't look right, and being sure to click the button so it looks right is unworkable. Someone is doing business logic(well, something important.) in Office macros, and it's mission-critical, and it's arriving over email from untrusted sources, and whoever is receiving it is either an idiot or an executive. You can tell because if they weren't, "do your job right instead of wrong" would be the answer, instead of "make microsoft change the behavior of Word so doing my job wrong is impossible".
Someone's nephew wrote a word document that automatically expands an Access call into paychecks in 2004, and now Goldman-Sachs /the NFL/Ford uses this system to make payroll. Or calculate C-level analytics for someone who gets reports printed out by someone else, and you need to be able to mail the file to an intern who can print it?
Whatever the workflow is, it's very important.
Either that, or some team in Microsoft is populated entirely by insane morons and nobody is checking their work. You decide which is less depressing.
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RE: WTF Bites
@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
But, hey, any excuse to bitch about Microsoft, right?
If you're not going to support 'console' just don't support it. You don't have to, it's not in the standard. What in god's name possessed someone to think "well let's not support that except if the developer tools are open, then let's do it".
It's a recipe for code that only works when you're looking at it. It literally throws an exception unless you are looking to see what exception it throws. Why the fuck would you think that's a good idea?
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@anonymous234 seems...fair?
A SPECIES WITH NOTHING TO LOSE
A MAN WITH NOTHING TO GAIN
IT'S OUR TURN TO BE POACHEDTHIS FALL
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@boomzilla What the hell is the park supposed to do? Driving your car through the park where the tigers live is what people want to do. If you exit your car now you're in with the tigers.
Ditto people who climb into tiger enclosures. If you fell, sure, but who scales a wall accidentally?
Probably my inner libertarian but you cannot prevent people from doing dumb things. It's literally impossible. Help them not do dumb things, sure, but at a certain point you have to give up.
Latest posts made by AyGeePlus
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RE: In other news today...
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Unless Trudeau himself shows up in a maple leaf helmet
Something like that?
Davy crockett belongs to Texas now, but what do I care? Mess with Texas if you want. They're not all that.
you ain't got shit.
We have plenty of white shit, does that count?
Don't talk about your mother that way!
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RE: In other news today...
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
We already have one
Did you see Tony up there? Patriotic HAT.
Unless Trudeau himself shows up in a maple leaf helmet, you ain't got shit.
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RE: In other news today...
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
The monarchy is literally the Kardashians of the UK, from the way people treat them.
Honestly I think it's much smarter than having Kardashians. You get a tourism industry either way but if it's hereditary you don't have to worry about people spending all their money trying to become 'the next kardashians', and you pre-empt any competition that might split the tourism dollars across several sites.
Like this guy with that hat? He's a volunteer!
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RE: In other news today...
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
The group called the ad “irresponsible and tasteless.”
“It is extremely destructive and damaging to impressionable children viewing the commercial. We all know children repeat what they hear,” they continued.
One Million Moms called for the public to sign a petition urging Burger King to cancel the commercial, “or at the very least, edit out the cuss word immediately.”
This isn’t the first time the group, which claims its mission is to “stop the exploitation of our children,” has used its platform to call out a commercial it does not agree with.
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One man, completely stunned by the Impossible Whopper’s tastiness says: “Damn, that’s good.”God I love one million moms.
They rarely get more than like ten thousand signatures to anything. I wish I had thought of starting an advocacy organization called "Every Programmer" or something. "All The Furries Who Make The Internet Go on line two, sir."
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It's easy to spend money when it's not your money
He fully expects to make it back in tourism revenue. Monarchies are tourist attractions, like sports teams, CISOs, and Kardashians.
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RE: In other news today...
@Buddy said in In other news today...:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/world/middleeast/shah-iran-chase-papers.html
Conspiracy theorists are going to go nuts about this one, they've been saying the Rockefellers conspired with the Shah to advantage Reagan for ages.
Big 48 hours in Iran news, eh?
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin what's not to like about fried dough? It's basically a South / Central American donut.
They have rarer savory preparations too, but the classic is honey and chocolate sauce.
I think it's wonderful two civilizations thousands of miles apart independently invented the beignet/sopapilla.
I still wish naan/tortilla/injera was a thing everywhere, but you can't have it all.
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RE: In other news today...
@dcon said in In other news today...:
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on track to be one of the worst-reviewed films in the nine-picture saga.
Commentators who found the film underwhelming pointed to a number of problems: It answered some of the same questions and themes of past movies, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s Nicholas Barber; it was dull, according to Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out; and Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich called it a “zombie.”
Star wars part nine is formulaic and samey?
Let me fetch my fainting couch.
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RE: In other news today...
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Vixen appropriate coming from a (near?) obligate carnivore.
There's a person on the internet who has ferrets, and periodically she feeds them butternut squash because they like it. It comes out completely unchanged by its time inside the ferret.
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RE: In other news today...
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Oh jesus, that guy is from a company that builds a food stamp app.
Seriously? He takes his work seriously enough to write in the bugtracker. That is, he puts in effort. I thought food stamp apps would be built by the lowest bidder, likely in India. They wouldn't report bugs.
Afaict it looks like his app sits on top of the actual system and is theoretically less shit. Apparently in some places to check your EBT balance you have to call a call center?