The toggles, they do nothing?
Best posts made by cark
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RE: Software toggles that dont do what they should
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RE: Multiple downvotes?
@gąska said in Multiple downvotes?:
@ben_lubar how much more effort would it take
The first rule of boomzilla (alts) is that any effort is too much effort
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RE: Cancelable
@anonymous234 said in Cancelable:
You know how C makes it too easy to shoot yourself in the foot and should be avoided? English makes it too easy to make spelling mistakes and should be simplified.
If English had undefined semantics like C has undefined behaviour, communicating would be so much more fun
Source: "You look lovely <UNDEFINED SEMANTICS> today"
English -O0: "You look lovely today"
English -O1: "You look so hot"
English -O2: "Nice tits"
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RE: Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths
@Grunnen said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
@ben_lubar That's also find-specific.
Now try to make this work in a whitespace-proof way:
$ rm `tar -tf archive.tar`
#!/usr/bin/env python3 import tarfile, os with tarfile.open('./file.tar', 'r') as f: for name in f.getnames(): os.unlink(name)
It's 2017, why are you still writing shell scripts for anything non-trivial?
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RE: THE HOT BATON ISSUES THREAD
@ben_lubar said in THE HOT BATON ISSUES THREAD:
- the Sy
rbian referugee crisis
Fleeing refugees report stories of torture by the Sybian war machine. An official source was quoted as saying "We're coming for you, and vice versa"
- the Sy
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RE: In other news today...
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Rape is never the answer.
What is a word for non-consensual sex?
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RE: Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
The existing forum is crap but everything will be better when we switch over to the new forum
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RE: the CORRECT HISTORY topic thread
The Soviets adopted the hammer and sickle symbol to recognize the tools as their preferred choice of torture devices. "MC Hammer" was a title given to the official producer of music used to drown out the victim's screaming. The title remained after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@cvi said in Quotes Out of Context:
@cark said:
I do it like 20 times a day
Look, I wasn't very careful when I came up with that number, so it's not really accurate. On some days I only do it once or twice, or even not at all if I'm pressed for time. And on some days, I keep doing and re-doing it because I'm not happy with the result or I forgot a step, and the number could be higher
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RE: General Question
You must lurk for 10 years before creating an account. Then you must only talk about things that happened when you started lurking. Currently acceptable topics include tag cloud attacks, user polls, mugs and the forum being crap
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RE: I need 10,000 hours of sleep each night, do I have a disability?
At least you don't have the disability that causes you post an inane rant every time you come across a program you don't understand
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RE: Cancelable
@Tsaukpaetra Pfff, Americans. What have the
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RE: WTF Bites
@yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
is up with the subliminal adverts
Really? Didn't notice it.
Oh wait, there it is
Yeah, I should have noticed when it suddenly switched to a language I can only half read
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RE: Someone poked Blakey about Git again
@RaceProUK said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
@gwowen said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
Yes. I am comparing them. At first its weird and unintuitive, and feels like nothing you've done before, and some kind of weird abstraction leak from the implementation to (all of which is true).
Press one pedal to open the throttle, press another to open the clutch. Seems pretty intuitive to me. As for using a lever to select a gear, that's pretty intuitive too, especially since the gears are laid out in a simple and intuitive manner.
So why does the gas pedal only work sometimes? Only when the clutch is engaged? Why?
Why can't I move the gear stick around when the clutch is engaged? Why can't everything just work when either the clutch is engaged or disengaged, so we don't have to deal with this bullshit?
And what does any of this have to do with me driving from point A to point B? I just need this damn car to move when I tell it to
You can fumble through life not understanding how the world works, and have a bad time when fantasy meets reality, or you can learn how to work with what you've got. Same with cars, same with git
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RE: SQL Formatting
@djls45 said in SQL Formatting:
(A long line is approximately half to two-thirds of the way across the screen, but may be longer or shorter.)
Please never, ever write a spec
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RE: You now do the opposite of your job. What do you do now?
@Karla The reversed thing is "throw up".
Which means I actually take it as a suppository
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RE: April Fool Outrage
Yeah, they missed flipping that 9 in the upvote counter. How lazy do you have to be to not test that?
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RE: Let's create DUMB PASSWORD RULES
- Password must contain enough entropy to cook a whole chicken
- Password must summon Cthulhu
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RE: Warning: Contains nuts*
@Rhywden said in Warning: Contains nuts*:
Oh, great, the anecdotal "I lobotomized myself with a rusty shank and am still able to count to ten without my fingers." evidence.
Why would I need to count to ten without my fingers? I lobotomized myself, I didn't cut off my fingers.
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RE: Re: Why are Linux debug builds of my C++ app so big?
@boomzilla said in Re: Why are Linux debug builds of my C++ app so big?:
Re: Why are Linux debug builds of my C++ app so big?
Is that a linux debug build or are you just happy to see me?
It's impressive when you realize it's made up of DWARFs
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RE: Need help: best ISP provider
@Jaloopa said in Need help: best ISP provider:
sweet old men
Did you need to marinate them or did they come pre-seasoned?
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RE: Goodbye, Daisy. Hello, Edgar.
@ben_lubar said in Goodbye, Daisy. Hello, Edgar.:
@tsaukpaetra said in Goodbye, Daisy. Hello, Edgar.:
@darkmatter said in Goodbye, Daisy. Hello, Edgar.:
@tsaukpaetra i have learned that @Tsaukpaetra is up ALL the fucking time, and loves the random bs i google image search and post to nsfw ;)
Not ALL the fucking time. I have to spend some amount of time workng, eating, you know. Biological stuff.
You work/eat during the fucking time?
You're not going to get any complaints if you're good at eating
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RE: You now do the opposite of your job. What do you do now?
I take a functioning website and remove features from it, and/or add bugs. While doing that I reopen closed tickets and remove comments and mess up the ticket description.
I introduce whitespace where unneeded and randomly create lines with mixed tab/spaces.
I suck code back from servers and downgrade the version of deployed code. Sometimes I downgrade versions of libraries used and infrastructure as well.
I talk with people about features until we are all completely confused about what needs to be done
I throw up large amounts of coffee every day, and a small amount of whisky every Friday
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RE: F**king Funny as Hell !
@Dreikin said in F**king Funny as Hell !:
Are you in the process of failing a Turing test?
@Claire-Collins Which of the following would you most prefer? A: a puppy, B: a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C: a large properly formatted data file?
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RE: Reading comprehension
@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
Ron and Hermione sat themselves opposite him,
looking happier than they had donetheir current state of happiness being a maximal element of the set of all states of happiness they've experienced since he had first arrived at Grimmauld Place -
RE: Python 3 angst 2016 edition
@dkf said in Python 3 angst 2016 edition:
It seems to me like the really big problems relate to how hard it is to have both Python 2 and Python 3 installed on the same system. If you do, everything just gets very upset.
I'm pretty sure every system I've managed in the last 3 or 5 years has had both python 2 and 3 installed, with no problems whatsoever. You're either using a really shitty distribution, or not using the distribution supplied packages, which is probably the wrong choice. There is no reason for this to be a problem
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RE: The minor rants thread.
@Luhmann said in The minor rants thread.:
@Yamikuronue
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RE: Some pictures/videos are enlarged when posted
@Arantor That way lies madness. It's a small very step from that to something like this
:not([style*="font-family: Comic Sans MS"]) { font-family: Comic Sans MS; }
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RE: The minor rants thread.
I've been writing many variations of this lately
$datetime->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
(Hint: look at which letters are in uppercase. Also,
setTimezone
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RE: Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish
@jbert said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
I just had to disable fast-boot, again, though other than that it seems to work fine?
Goddamnit, I should have known something was off when startup became much faster after upgrading. Thanks for reminding me
@steve_the_cynic said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
Fast-boot is "semi-hibernate"
The thing that gets me is that the C drive isn't marked as "clean" or however it's done with a proper shutdown, so Linux won't touch the partition.
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RE: Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
@raceprouk Most of what I say should not be taken at face value
Chest value, perhaps, or even shoulder value, but definitely not face value
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RE: The Whisky Topic
@coldandtired said in The Whisky Topic:
A couple of students are pushing me to try whiskey with apple juice. As I hate both of those, is there any way some sort of synergy makes the combination drinkable?
Drink the whisky and throw the juice in their face for suggesting such an outrageous idea
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@RaceProUK Are you insinuating that @Perverted_Vixen is a vixen with perverted tendencies? Why would you sully her good name like that?
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RE: THE HOT BATON ISSUES THREAD
low incest rates
is causing a rush of hot mommys to flood the market. Companies should be careful not to overextend to avoid trouble when the incest rates rise and the mommys dry up.
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RE: Belt Onion Shave Club
@Maciejasjmj said in Belt Onion Shave Club:
@antiquarian said in Belt Onion Shave Club:
Post here if you shave with a double edge
*waves*
Much easier to clean than the disposables. Used to spend a bloody fortune on those since even the best ones just gave up after the first shave, or in the middle of it.
Does your beard start to soften at around 1300°C?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Saved the day in the office today by alerting the boss to the dangerously low levels of toilet paper
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RE: Lorne (and others) attempt to make expensive death-machines not-not work!
@mikael_svahnberg said in Lorne (and others) attempt to make expensive death-machines not-not work!:
Any job that ought to take no more than one hour invariably ends up eating a full day and includes bruises, scraped knees and knuckles, and a deep and profound insight into the use of profanities in at least four languages.
I might give that a try next time I want to learn a new language. I only speak 2 at the moment
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Onyx said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Just out of curiosity, I went to check what empty() does
What were you expecting? Looking at the documented return values, the only input argument considered empty that makes me feel uneasy is the string "0".
I would expect, from a sane language, an error when trying to coerce a non-integer value into a boolean. There is no possible sane behaviour for empty(), especially as a builtin.
I won't deny that it is handy and that I use it extensively myself, though.
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RE: Lenovo's are shitty garbage
@xaade said in Lenovo's are shitty garbage:
@blakeyrat said in Lenovo's are shitty garbage:
Guess how you deleted characters on that.
Hole punch?
You guys are oooollld
Don't be silly. You type over the original character with correction tape loaded
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RE: Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
@thecpuwizard said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@hungrier said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
I'm 31 and have been using the internet since like 1996.
I am 39 (not necessarily in decimal notation) and first accessed DarpaNet in 1971 ... Ahh the days when simple things (by todays standard's - trivial) were simply amazing..
I'm 10 (base my current age) and I first accessed the internet at age 10 (base my age when I first accessed the internet). I remember Yahoo was actually useful back then
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RE: This is how it feels to learn Javascript in 2016
@Luhmann said in This is how it feels to learn Javascript in 2016:
@Dragnslcr said in This is how it feels to learn Javascript in 2016:
Then have one more drink.
Then post your JavaScript theories on TDWTF.
Thanks in advance.Javascript killed JFK
Elvis faked his own death with Javascript
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RE: 8 Values
Feels about right
Just for fun, if I try to go for as much equality, world, liberty and progress as possible:
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RE: Some pictures/videos are enlarged when posted
@ben_lubar Is that... is that a CSS rule matching on a style attribute? I... I would have needed a drink, except I've stopped drinking, and I'm already sitting down, so.... I guess I'll continue as usual?