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Posts made by cartman82
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RE: Solar Roadways?
This guy in my youtube inbox has a huge rage-boner against Solar Roadways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocV-RnVQdcs
He's a bit of a blowhard, but his science is probably solid.
TLDW: Solar roadways seem to be somewhere between cold fusion and perpettummobile in terms of viability. And thats with cold fusion at the upper end of the spectrum.
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RE: *(**foo** bar)* still ignores bolding
Being bold means being unpredictable, doing your own thing.
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RE: Poll: We need more polls, right?
The demo is only if you want to play with things behind the scenes. The actual software is running quite happily on their website.
InvisionPower operate the same way, btw.
Got it, my bad. Still looks like PhpBB and Windows Vista's rape child.
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RE: Empty Catch Blocks
I use them for loading optional config values from app.config. Pseudo code, too lazy to look up syntax.
try { this.intOption = int.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["intOption"]) } catch (Exception) {}
Similar for Dates, enums etc...
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RE: Poll: We need more polls, right?
Wait, phpBB is considered a benchmark now?
How about XenForo?
If a site trying to sell you forum software refuses to show you a demo before you give them your email, something's fishy.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Why all the MRA hate? We don't all have the privilege of healthy arteries, you know. Are you saying we only you shitbaronesses deserve medical treatment that can help prevent stenosis, occlusions AND aneurysms? Why do you hate us? Why!?
Aghgh step back, I'm being triggered!
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
All joking aside, it's actually pretty good. Bugs are getting fixed, and you'll forget all about stupid pagination once they implement topic timeline / scrollbar replacement. Which is, IMO, all that is needed for infiniscroll to start paying back the investment.
PhpBB and other traditional forums might be less buggy and more feature rich ATM, but they will never become more than the blind alleys they are. Discourse at least has a chance.
If nothing else, it did nudge me out of lurekerdome, so you got that going for you, which is nice.
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
But it really loves me, it's me that's bad.
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RE: Cannot drag selected text
+1
This has been annoying me for some time. I like to be able to drag selected text into the address bar and open a new tab.
Shouldn't be too difficult to fix.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
The intent is to use expansion, not jump to, in that scenario.
I'm doing that too.
I use the summary feature to find a good post. Then I start expanding and following thread up and down, to see where it started and where it leads. Unfortunately, since some of these trails end up within collapsed blocks, I never get to find out how a mention of a local haiku poetry club ended up with everybody screaming at each other about Ayn Rand.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
I liked the summary feature in theory. However, it seems the inter-message navigation (jump to quoted author, jump to reply) fails once you have parts of the page collapsed. That is, links don't know to unroll hidden posts and just end up throwing you to random spots within the thread. A barrier to reading if I ever saw one :-)
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RE: Hacker attacks in real time for fun and profit
Oh, so it's just a statistical simulation? Like, if your server is under DDoS, you can't go to this site and watch it happen in real time. Sucks magic isn't real.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Everyone, stop it, just STOP IT.
Don't you see that your misogyny and misandry are barriers to reading?
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RE: Hacker attacks in real time for fun and profit
Interesting.
Is this real data? How do they know what's being attacked?
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Skipping over the economy flamewar, if I may address the "IT is boys club" argument...
I get that some women might be deterred by the male only perception of IT field. But the same used to be true for medicine, design, management and pretty much every other field where women are today doing equally well or better than men. I think I'll go @Arantor in that it seems there is just something about STEM that females in general find unappealing. What percentage of this is due to genetics and/or culture, I don't know.
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RE: Best way to take JSON and turn it into a useful object?
In similar situations, I would create a NET object structure matching the javascript one, and then use Json.NET to deserialize json into CLR. Then you can do whatever you want using normal c# methods.
public class Data { public int chatter_count { get; set; } public Chatters chatters { get; set; } public class Chatters { public List<string> moderators { get; set; } public List<string> staff { get; set; } public List<string> viewers { get; set; } public List<string> admins { get; set; } } } // ... var data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Data>(json); Console.WriteLine(data.chatter_count); Console.WriteLine(data.chatters.moderators[0]); //...
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RE: Get Field, no matter where it is
'c#' seems to be working as well.
namespace TDWTF { public class Test { public static void Main(string[] argv) { var x = 1 + 1; var y = "test"; } } }
You're right, auto-detection seems to be working on this example. Not sure why it failed to initially mark chubertdev's post.
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RE: Might I make a humble request...
Seeing a post without @mikeTheLiar tag now feels wrong.
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RE: Non-IT WTF: Feminism WTF
How can you split people into male and female, you insensitive pig! What about those who identify as genderless, otherkin or sentient asparagus?
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RE: Get Field, no matter where it is
StackOverflow has a pretty nifty automatic detection mechanism, where it will try to detect your programming language and apply the correct formatting. Maybe @codinghorror can nab it and expose it to the tech-oriented discourse users (like a plugin, perhaps)?
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RE: Get Field, no matter where it is
Btw, try to specify language highlighting when posting code, it seems to work.
``'c# // code here ``'
Replaced the last ` with '. Stupid markdown.
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RE: Get Field, no matter where it is
string val = Request.QueryString["fieldname"] == null : "" ? Request.QueryString["fieldname"].ToString();
Or
string val = Request.QueryString[strField] ?? "";
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RE: Discurse is logging me out
Discourse's immune reaction to the official "Likes" thread.
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RE: Windows 8 sign in - no problem
On Linux it's calm, followed by WTFery, followed by poking around in the terminal, followed by an ugly hack.
Potentially possible on a Mac, no idea how locked down/open it is though.
Hacking Mac is for me like hacking Linux used to be. Just when you think everything is smoothed over, there's another annoyance to overcome. Dunno if the shift is due to my skill level or Linux GUI maturing or me just lowering my expectations enough (probably a combination).
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RE: Windows 8 sign in - no problem
On a mac, it's constant slowly simmering disgust, instead of a calm intersected by explosions of rage.
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RE: Where did your user name come from?
When I was little, I liked to play with toy carts. Everybody called me Cartboy. Now that I've grown and moved out of the lurkerdom, I knew I had to treat myself to a nickname suitable to my new status.
As for 82, it's the number of men who owned the nickname before me. cartman81 was careful. Always using incognito mode in Chrome. Always leaving a little string jammed against the lock, to know if someone had snuck in. But he just wasn't good enough. Some day someone stronger, smarter, more ruthless will get to me too, and become cartman83. But today is not that day.
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RE: Poll: This is the sexiest one!
Keep in mind, this is not the kind of stuff HTMLBars will solve.
No! Never lose faith, brother! Salvation is at hand. It has been foretold!
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RE: Adobe Playpanel
At first I read it as 'paypanel', and thought "that makes sense".
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RE: Poll: This is the sexiest one!
@codinghorror right now: "Yessss my little beta testers, let the hatred flow through you..."
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RE: Poll: What's your least favourite phobia?
Next on TDWTF: Your least favorite entry in a phone book.
Filed under: They really should have limited number of entries in a poll
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RE: Windows 8 sign in - no problem
Eww, jpeg? I'd use PNG. And they wouldn't fit on a screen.
They are PNGs. And they are not full screen. Not sure about the way they are presented in mail, though.
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RE: Windows 8 sign in - no problem
Ok, so copy-and-paste didn't work... did you think to try drag-and-drop?
Nope.
Just so you know, I had to 'forget' painstakingly entered password to test this out. Hope you are happy.
EDIT: reply to wrong person. still learning...
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RE: Windows 8 sign in - no problem
Did you mean Ctrl-X? Because Ctrl-C not changing the textbox is, uh, normal behavior.
My ruse is up!
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RE: Windows 8 sign in - no problem
I copied the script I've been using forever. It calls rasphone with a bunch of arguments, which spawns the regular VPN window. I don't do anything with that sidebar shit.
Uuuuh, nice. I didn't even know this thing existed.
I gave you a like, don't spend it all in one place.
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RE: Windows 8 sign in - no problem
Use Windows 7?
The only thing that's impressed me with Windows 8 is that it has built in support for right clicking and mounting ISO images. That's literally the only thing.
I've been resisting it for half a year before giving in. It looks better (yes, even with metro). And it works better too. At least until modern crap stabs you in the back, like here.
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Windows 8 sign in - no problem
Monday afternoon, boss sends me a mail with some company's (let's call it AstroDrink) VPN connection information. I'm supposed to sniff around their database and make an assessment for a new GUI we will be slapping together.
I never used Windows' PPTP VPN, but instructions are clear enough. I fire up my trusty old Windows 7 desktop, "connect to a workplace", bla bla bla. Click on the newly created connection, copy/paste username and pass into a popup and I'm in. What follows afterwards is a WTF for a later date. Suffice it to say, VPN was working like a charm and haven't given it another thought... until now.
Fast forward today. I'm working from home. I need to get back into that machine and do some more research. My VPN connection is at my work PC. No prob, I'll just create a connection from my Windows 8 home PC. Just like I did the day before yesterday. So right click "Networks and sharing center", connect to workplace, etc... pretty much the same deal. Why are people so down on W8? This isn't bad at all.
Ok, time to connect. Click on the network icon...
Ugh, always a downer when you're reminded this isn't a flat Windows 7. Why couldn't they just keep little old popup instead of slapping this ugly rectangle over the third of my screen? Oh well, I'll get on with connecting and soon won't have to see this bullshit any more.
Right, now just to copy/paste username and password, and...
...fuck. It rolls back when it loses focus.
Ok, think. Surely, someone has at some point tried to copy/paste login information into this thing. Surely there was a torrent of bug reports during usability testing. What would M$ do that would least distract them from wacking off at their mobile world domination plans? How about... simply remember what you typed in when the sidebar loses focus? That makes sense as a quick & dirty fix, right?
Nope. At this point, rage begins bubbling up. I take a deep breath. "Calm down, cartman82, you're stronger than this". There's got to be a solution.
I got it! All I need is to copy/paste all the information once and then arrange it once the side bar opens. Ha! Take that Microsoft!
There we go. Now just copy/paste that password into the lower box and no lost focus required. Easy-peasy.
Hmm... twitch... I seem to be missing copy command. But surely, the keyboard shortcut HAS to work. Good old Ctrl+C. It has been a part of Windows for decades. Every textbox everywhere ever has this shit. They couldn't have screwed THAT much. They couldn't
*the sound of keyboard clicking. no change in the textbox
A minute later I painstakingly typed in the password and (after two false attempts) went on my way. But seriously, what were they thinking?
Also, anyone has better workflow for this?
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RE: Email notifications?
Yeah, I moved to outlook.com and problem solved.
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Email notifications?
Ok, it sucks that my first post has to be forum troubleshooting whine, but it can't be helped, it's driving me crazy.
I used to receive topic notification emails on the address I used to open my account here... the address that USED to be hosted by lavabit.com.
Yeah, as you might have figured, I had to go on a hunt for a new non-gmail address on a short notice. I went with gmx.com (BTW, if you MUST hijack this thread, some suggestions for lavabit replacement would be my preferred direction :-))
I entered the new address in my profile settings (as private email). And haven't received an email from thedailywtf.com forums since. I tested the new address from a different account, checked the spam filters/folders, etc, all the obvious things. The best I can guess, the forum keep sending stuff to my old address.
Am I missing something? Any admin/mod can do anything to help?
Thanks.