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Posts made by dcon
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Zerosquare said in The Cooking Thread:
@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
E_BURGER_WRONG_ASPECT_RATIO
Overruled: Tater tots.
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RE: In other news today...
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat
The Netherlands are becoming the California of EuropeWelcome to the Insanity.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
If your mouse cursor happens to drift over to the Copilot icon on the taskbar
Ah, easy fix. I've already killed that
off my taskbar.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
10 calls in the last 4 hours.
Tell them to DIAF.
I was tempted, but too
. As soon as I heard the long silent pause, <hangup>. A couple managed to get in on the end of the pause and I hung up as soon as I heard "I'm calling on behalf of..."
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RE: The Official Status Thread
status Crap. I haven't even started reading my ballot. Better get that filled out. Now.
edit: Gotta love when a DEM candidate for prez has the first name of "President". "President R Boddie"
edit2: 27 candidates for Senate.
edit3: Damn. I'm about to change my answering machine message to "If you're a politician, go away. Otherwise please leave a message." 10 calls in the last 4 hours.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@dcon So much for resting in peace
Resting in pieces
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Amazon Logistics and DPD however do deliver up to 10pm here, and that does seem a bit late for deliveries although I've never had one that late.
I've gotten things pretty regularly around 9p.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone rang my bell at 7pm. When I opened the front door and asked whoâs there, they just dropped a package in the hallway and left immediately.
I recently had a FedEx package delivered - at 4am. At least they didn't ring or knock.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@JBert said in The Cooking Thread:
At that point I think a small peeling knife will also do the trick.
I've yet to get one of these silicone rollers, but my aunt was happy with one:
Way more compatible with the
because those work well enough with your regular dry garlic.
Must be from Baaston:
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
They're my preferred form of bakeable processed potato product
They're one of the big reasons I bought an air fryer! Way better that way!
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RE: No Comments on Funny Stuff
@dkf said in No Comments on Funny Stuff:
Development branches should either eventually merge or be closed and/or deleted.
Sigh. We currently have over 7400 "active" branches. Mainly because people forget to check the "delete on merge" box on the PR. Makes using the GUI I use to set the upstream branch useless because a combobox with that many entries <choke/>...
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RE: WTF Bites
I would really like to know how such bugs even happen. There should be enough well tested datetime libraries to choose from these days that already handle all the corner cases correctly.
Date+time arithmetic is hard, much harder than it appears to be at first glance. The temptation is to hack it; that is always wrong but the problems might not show until years later...
Just wait till we get to the leap year that isn't...
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RE: WTF Bites
enough well tested datetime libraries
Doesn't help when you have NIH syndrome.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Zecc said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I am in this post, and I'm ok with that. Except the part about Minnesota; it's too damn cold there in the winter, and there are too many mosquitos in the summer.
Actually, I don't use it in vim. I use it in gvim.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Not allowed to be special.
Iâll take âwhat is SQL injectionâ for $200.
Someone should introduce them to the best way to make their computing system 100% secure.
Crush it to powder, put it in a lead-lined box, encase that in concrete, and sink it to the bottom of the Marianas Trench?
I suppose that's a subset of "power down and unplug"
Slow poke.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
so you have to keep moving it until
the feds get too bored to find youyou run out ofmoney
.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Their recommendation is to do letter-digit swaps on words in your chosen phrase; thus defeating what XKCD will tell you is one of the big advantages over the traditional way of creating non-dictionary passwords.
I don't see how replacing odd characters in a good pass phrase is worse than just using the pass phrase without replacements.
You have to remember not just the passphrase, but also which odd characters you replaced.
And of course you have to enter the whole thing sans tyops. With echo disabled.
That's what copy/paste is for. Getting thru the initial login screen is the tricky one.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Reading a book, more likely
A book mentioning who the actor was.
Movie adaptations are getting stupider.
Getting?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Microsoft Money does not allow the main window to be resized. What a shame.
Quicken has one too - the dialog to enter your paycheck is maximized to the screen's height and can't be resized. That really sucks when your monitor is portrait. At least I can move it since the bottom 2/3 is just white space.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Where are they finding their developers, the Home Depot parking lot?
They would probably be way more reliable.
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RE: Facebook Messenger à EU = Stupidity²
@topspin said in Facebook Messenger à EU = Stupidity²:
@boomzilla browsers make it easier to block ads than phone apps. And without ads thereâs nothing left on Facebook.
When traveling, I sometimes click those repackaged reddit things. 90% of the scrolling is ads (including video ads - they can just fuck right off). And they'll suck the battery dry.
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RE: Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
@Mason_Wheeler said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
So the teacher brought in real, sharpened weapons for kids to fight with, and it somehow took the school two months to fire her
Unions.
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RE: In other news today...
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in
, the country of technological leadership:
A bank (Sparkasse Bremen) had to send their updated Terms&Conditions to their business customers. Because they did not want to send that booklet in paper (~140 pages), they decided to put them on a thumbdrive, and then
the thumbdrives to their customers...
is 140 pages of terms & conditions.
You are right,
A good german bank should offer 140,000 pages of T&C, providing you with value for your bugcks.That would provide you with a larger thumbdrive.
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RE: No Comments on Funny Stuff
@HardwareGeek said in No Comments on Funny Stuff:
@dcon said in No Comments on Funny Stuff:
can you talk a look
No, I can't.
Yeah, I can proofread. Sometimes.
edit: And your answer is, of course, the correct one to give to the asker. Not that it didn't already induce sufficient CRS.
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RE: No Comments on Funny Stuff
@HardwareGeek said in No Comments on Funny Stuff:
@boomzilla said in No Comments on Funny Stuff:
Lots of stuff that makes sense at the time seems kind of ridiculous when you've lost the original context.
With sufficient CRS, that context can be lost within a few minutes of making the edit.
Hey, stop talking about me!
Also, that context is easily lost in an open office. "Hey, can you
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RE: Official forum improvement requests thread
@Zecc Looks like
duckduckgoo.se
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RE: The Official Weather Status
@izzion said in The Official Weather Status:
@izzion said in The Official Weather Status:
Weather Status: The forecast calls for temperatures dropping by 30 degrees in a 12 hour window... starting from the highest point at 2am.
Weather Status2: The weatherman got it right, everyone panic!
The storm we have coming in now is supposed to drop 5 to 10 feet of snow in the higher elevations of the Sierras. And 100mph winds. They're warning people in the Bay area that if they're heading up today (the storm is today thru Sun (I think)) to make sure they bring enough food. The stores up there are currently stocked well, but that won't last.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, duh. All
e
s are3
, alli
s are1
, and allo
s are0
Change all
i
to!
to fit the special character requirementNo need
but spaces now count for the "special character" requirement.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a video interview in 5 minutes and I just realized I don't have pants.
Just don't stand up.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
so you can forget which letters you changed to digits.
Well, duh. All
e
s are3
, alli
s are1
, and allo
s are0
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
hunt3r2 1s b3tt3r th4n p4$$word1
That can be simplified with my rule.
hunt3r2 1s B3TT3R3R than passw0rd1
(you forgot the upper case requirement)
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
In which the self destruction of OpenAI begins:
Either that, or we'll truly get SkyNet.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
start multiplying like tiny little single cell bunnies hopped up on Spanish Fly and Viagra that are also capable of producing their own booze to drink at the orgy.
Quote of the Century.
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RE: đ§ The Official Spam Emails Threadâ˘
Not email, rather snail-mail:
"we'll never ask again"
What it probably means is "for this campaign - but now that we know you, we'll bombard you with all the other campaign!"
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@jinpa I can't remember the last time I saw any packaging other than cylindrical tubs, because that's so much more efficient spacial packing, dontcha know.
They're mostly somewhere in between at this point IME:
And once upon a time, they used to be 1/2 gallon.
Well, things shrink when they're cold
And old.
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@jinpa I can't remember the last time I saw any packaging other than cylindrical tubs, because that's so much more efficient spacial packing, dontcha know.
They're mostly somewhere in between at this point IME:
And once upon a time, they used to be 1/2 gallon.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@HardwareGeek said in I, ChatGPT:
@dcon I'm sure @Polygeekery has more effective materials at his disposal.
And gas is probably cheaper than a newspaper nowadays...
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@dkf said in I, ChatGPT:
@HardwareGeek said in I, ChatGPT:
@Tsaukpaetra said in I, ChatGPT:
When newspapers were a penny.
: What's a newspaper?
A thing for squashing flies and to line the bottom of a bird cage.
And starting fires.