Best posts made by bb36e
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
Will you two just fuck already
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RE: WTF Bites
I lived in an illegal Airbnb with 12 roommates split between two rooms. There were six people packed into my bedroom alone — seven, if you included the guy who lived in the closet...
I had moved to San Francisco to break into the tech world after being accepted into one of those ubiquitous 12-week coding boot camps. I had dreams of becoming a programmer, hoping one day I could land a remote contracting gig — a job where I could work from wherever and make a good living.
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Valid JPG and HTML in one file
This is an embedded landing page for an image. You can link to this URL and get the HTML document you are viewing right now (soon to include essential squirrel facts); or embed the exact same URL as an image on your own squirrel-themed page:
According to the internet, here's how the page works:
- start page with JPEG header
- insert HTML content inside JPEG header's comment field
- hide the JPEG body and header data from the browser using CSS
- when the browser gets the HTML, parses out the HTML and renders the surrounding stuff as text, but that gets hidden by CSS
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RE: WTF Bites
Microsoft: Windows 8 was a horrible trash fire, but at least we learned from it?
Apple: hold my beer
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RE: WTF Bites
@polygeekery this is good for security, as a long password can cause a DOS (DOS Operating System) vulnerability since the server needs to take longer to encrypt the data.
- b, Tesco Support
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RE: Right to repair sold to the highest bidder
@Gąska said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
if not for GPL, we'd never have Git
I don't see how this is a bad thing
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RE: WTF Bites
support.apple.com/en-ca/ht208240
If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
If you updated your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 11 or later and find that when you type the letter “i” it autocorrects to the letter “A” with a symbol, learn what to do.
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Try setting up Text Replacement for the letter "i"
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Cornwall Community Police Service said:
A happy ending to a complicated car rental!
Sgt#121 - In late June a woman attends a car rental company in Cornwall and rents a vehicle. The vehicle was a black Nissan Sentra. The woman proceeds to Walmart where she parks and does some shopping. She returns to the parking lot, gets into a black vehicle, and proceeds home.
Around the same time, a man attended Walmart in his vehicle, a black Infiniti. After finishing his shopping, he returned to the parking lot to find his car was missing. The man contacted CCPS and reported his car stolen.
For the next two weeks, the woman drove around and used the black car for her regular everyday activities. This weekend, the woman re-attended the car rental company in order to return the vehicle. Once inside, the woman spoke to the Manger and commented about how unkept the inside of the vehicle was and the fact that there was a set of golf clubs in it as well. The woman was not impressed and handed over the keys. The Manager, now slightly confused, observed the keys to belong to an Infinity, a vehicle the woman did not rent. The Manager observed the vehicle and asked the woman where she got it. The woman told him it was the vehicle she had rented. The Manager informed her otherwise and then proceeded to ask her where she went after leaving the car rental two weeks ago. The woman informed him of her activities. The Manager asked the woman to attend Walmart with him in order to have her point out where she had parked. Upon arrival, the woman directed him to the area where she parked and there sat the Black Nissan Sentra. The Manager and the woman, who was now confused and a wee bit embarrassed herself, returned to the car rental company and contacted police, providing the information for the Infiniti and what took place. The Infinity came back as stolen on police systems as reported in June and CCPS attended to take the information of what took place.
Both the car rental company and the Infinity owner retrieved their vehicles and there was a happy, and funny ending to this story! However, the moral of the story is this….PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE YOUR KEY FOBS IN YOUR VEHICLE WHEN NOT BEING OPERATED, YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MIGHT TAKE IT!
Folks, we just can’t make this stuff up!
Source: https://www.facebook.com/CornwallCommunityPolice/posts/2483270448365810
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RE: In other news today...
A teacher accidentally fired a pistol inside a California classroom while lecturing about public safety and injured three students, according to police...Shortly after the incident, class resumed as usual.
The teen’s father, Fermin Gonzales, said he rushed his son to the hospital after the 17-year-old returned from school with blood on his shirt and a neck injury.
“He’s shaken up, but he’s going to be OK,” Gonzales told KSBW. “I’m just pretty upset that no one told us anything and we had to call the police ourselves to report it.”
...Alexander also serves as a reserve officer for Sand City police and is a Seaside city councilman...
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RE: WTF Bites
Upcoming gmail redesign looks like someone sneezed icons all over a blank sheet of paper:
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But in general, if your loop body is longer than 5 lines and there's more to your function than just this loop, it usually means that refactoring is overdue.
Funtions too short have their own problems. IIRC code complete claimed that researchers found out the ideal function size os around 200 LOC. That means lots of loops with more than 5 lines in their bodies.
In javascript, this is optimized so that each line of code gets its own library
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RE: Is it just me or does the forum go down a lot?
I opened a new tab on my phone and chrome appears to have added this site to speed dial with an interesting page title:
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
- user reports issue in november 2016
- no response
- user replies
Thank you
I go back to Google Apps suite.
- Microsoft support replies today
Thank you for posting this in the community. Some people may have previously experienced difficulty accessing OneDrive for Business on Linux. We want to inform you that this issue has been fully resolved.
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RE: WTF Bites
Dr. Regex: Unique, esoteric insight into the world of regular expressions
How to Match "A B C" where A+B=C
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The Linux command line sucks
The command line (bash, zsh, fish,...) sucks for regular everyday use because:
- one wrong keypress/character breaks everything
- each application has its own interface (gnu vs BSD args), --foo vs -foo, dd's decision to use
if
andof
, parameters that are literally one key away from each other on a QWERTY keyboard - only method of discovery is manpages/
foo --help
(--help is not a recognized option: use foo -h
) - the fact that everything has to be typed led to everything being optimized for speed of entry instead of consistency and ease of use (c.f.
tmpnam
umount
ls's manpagels -abcdefghijABCDEFGHIJ01234
)*
Do you agree? Discuss.
* yes I know some of those are because UNIX commands had a 7 character limit in the 80s but that's a stupid reason to be chained to those names after 38 YEARS…
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Scientists temporary set e = mc1 in light of budget cuts
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RE: YouTube's new logo
@pie_flavor said in YouTube's new logo:
Consistent look means Material Design for me, which is always a bonus
And Material Design for me means indecipherable and hidden UI elements separated by postal codes worth of whitespace and only half a tweet's worth of text visible on screen at a time
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RE: Nobody running Twitter uses Twitter
@bb36e talk about some complex issue 140 characters at a time is really 2/
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RE: Adobe Reader is a very polished turd
Especially when it was the Windows 10 new version update that made Edge my default PDF reader without asking.