@PleegWat said in Could you pass a US citizenship test?:
@blek Isn't the 1900s typically the period 1900-1910? I don't think any of those wars fall in that period?
No, it's 1900-1999.
@PleegWat said in Could you pass a US citizenship test?:
@blek Isn't the 1900s typically the period 1900-1910? I don't think any of those wars fall in that period?
No, it's 1900-1999.
Allow me to introduce you to Citroën Visa dashboard:
That still looks much more reasonable than the Swift I was doing my driver's training in. Some idiot decided that the best location for the headlight control was on the indicators lever. As a result the procedure for turning left was:
@cvi said in Nvidia Geforce Experience:
Pretty sure Geforce Experience just committed sudoku on my machine. I told it to run its update, which resulted in some error about some runtime in setup.exe, and now it's gone.
Yup, exactly my experience too:
@Deadfast said in Nvidia Geforce Experience:
- On two different PCs the automatic upgrade from the non-shit version failed. It uninstalled the old version and then crashed while installing the new one. I had to manually download the installer which actually worked.
@cvi said in Nvidia Geforce Experience:
I am OK with this outcome.
I'm not because the old version was actually quite decent.
Which reminds me of a WTF I rail about every freaking time: there's a road I travel on sometimes that has that sign, with "STOP 100m" additional sign below. And there is, indeed, a STOP sign 100m later. It's not the same fucking thing! Proper signage would be a STOP sign with an additional sign that says "100m" only on it.
Do you mean this?
I have never seen the same done with an actual stop sign so I assume this is the legal way to do it. I can kinda see why. A stop sign is just a modification of the yield sign but very distinct since you need to react to it pretty much immediately. The small sign underneath may not be necessarily noticed at first so you could end up with people slamming the breaks for basically no reason.
@Jaloopa said in Traffic sins:
@Lorne-Kates said in Traffic sins:
I have no obligation to enable someone else's illegal behavior. I do have an obligation to drive according to the road conditions. If someone is tailgating, then there is no safe stopping distance at our current speed. They have created a situation where there is no choice but to slow down.
But if there's space in the lane to your left/right [delete according to country of residence] then you should be moving over to let him pass.
Exactly. I'm not saying you should suddenly accelerate to 200 km/h to ensure Mr. Fancy-Car isn't inconvenienced or that you should immediately force your way into the "slower" lane, regardless of whether it is free or not. What I am saying is that if the left/right lane is free and it is safe to change into it, you very well should do that, regardless of whether there is a car tailgating you or not. I fucking hate driving on Australian motorways because this appears to be an entirely foreign concept to 75% of the drivers there, no matter the "KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING" signs sprinkled every 5 metres.
@dcon said in Traffic sins:
@Jaloopa said in Traffic sins:
@RaceProUK said in Traffic sins:
Only if they're a dumb and don't use their handbrake
Eh. As long as it's not too steep and you know where your buying point is, the handbrake isn't necessary. Hill starts really aren't that tricky
Remember that when you stop at the top of
I don't see the problem. Now try parallel parking there :P .
@levicki said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Meh, just merge all game WTF threads and rename the resulting thread to "Cthulhu Thread of WTFs in gaming".
I know threads are free but I kind of agree with this approach. It seems that every week it's yet another gaming company/publisher fighting for the #1 spot on everyone's list.
@lucas1 I created a throwaway account. That worked until today when the session expired and the damned thing completely shat itself. By this point I have had enough of this rubbish and uninstalled the damn thing. Luckily for NVIDIA the uninstaller actually worked because I was this close to buying an AMD card out of sheer spite.
@Benjamin-Hall said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@levicki This is the first one (that I'm aware of) that's online/multiplayer only. Bethesda games have been notorious for being ultra-buggy and using a -caliber engine for years, and so (to me) it's no surprise that their security/net code is utter crap as well.
Ironically GameBryo actually started off as an MMORPG engine so I think it is more likely down to the amount of hacks Bethesda had piled on top of it over the years.
@RaceProUK Yeah, you're right, they must have just been performing an upgrade after all.
@MrL said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Bethesda was treating players like bitches for ages. Morrowind was already lazy half-assed attempt at a game, and this was in 2002. Everything went downhill from there.
You can be angry at them, but they are right. Gamers are dumb infantiles with no self esteem or long term memory. They will eat Bethesda's shit and ask for more.
I mean, seriously, people still think that Skyrim is a good game.
I always found it fascinating that every other game gets absolutely destroyed in reviews for being buggy but somehow until Fallout 76 Bethesda always got a pass.
@kazitor said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Is it actually happening? Does anyone still care?
It seems that Bethesda started to care but only after they got called out for doing absolutely nothing.
That works, and saves time and movement if you're in continuous stop-and-go driving, but if you have to hold it for a while, your leg can tire and subconsciously relax. If the car is in gear when that happens, you'll suddenly start moving when you don't expect to. Moving the stick to neutral prevents that issue.
The explanation I got from my driving instructor is that unless the pedal is 100% fully depressed, you'll be riding the clutch. While I find the possibility of releasing the clutch to the level that you suddenly start moving quite unlikely, doing so to the level that you start riding it seems quite likely. For the same reason I was taught to always remove my leg from the clutch pedal when I'm not using it.
I'm not sure if you'd get booted from the Czech driver's test if you kept the vehicle in gear while stopped. You very well might be as I was warned that shifting into neutral before stopping will land me in hot water so clearly proper gear manipulation is something they watch out for.
On a slightly unrelated note, unlike the Brits, I was never taught to engage the handbrake when stopped at a red. For hill starts, I was taught both with and without using the handbrake. I used to be absolutely useless without it until, eventually, I barely had to use it anymore unless the hill was really steep. Having driven an automatic for two years I'm probably back to being useless, probably even with the handbrake.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Clutch!:
I honestly have never heard any news reports lamenting how someone was blinded by brake lights....
To be honest, I do find the brake lights on some of the cars really annoying at night...
Even if I had a blog it wouldn't be under my real name. All this resurgence of online services demanding a real name (it's "John Doe" if you really need to know) pisses me off.
@helix said in Apple Marketing Bullshit Festival:
A bit clumsy when you need to take a quick picture of a favorite clamshell.
Can't you do that without unlocking the phone?
@hardwaregeek said in Room planning thread:
Is the tall cabinet a refrigerator? It doesn't really look like one in the picture. If not, where is it?
It's a built-in refrigerator. Very popular in Europe.
@hardwaregeek said in Room planning thread:
Blekistan
Czechia
@dragnslcr said in I fucking hate StackOverflow sometimes:
I just came across a question that was closed as off-topic 7 years after it had been asked. Does that earn some extra dickweedery points?
Can't have difficult unanswered questions ruining the stats, duh.
@tsaukpaetra said in Popular Gmail-address:
I'm (relatively) sure none of them were named Anne though...
What about Pauel?
Broumis rentals from Lefkada (accident with scooter)
Dear Pauel,
I am sorry for contacting with you again.As per our telephone conversation, I would like to kindly ask you to
send me the Polish law, where it is written that you are aloowed to
drive a small scooter with your driving lisence for car (B).Thank you very much in advance,
Spiros Anifantis
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@deadfast said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor Right now that's neither of them.
What's wrong with the Windows one?
It didn't have the keyboard layout I required. It took googling and two restarts to fix that.
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@deadfast said in The Official Status Thread:
"pwepawe to instaww updates,"
Yeah, it's actually installing them, just not telling you that. Essentially, doing all the file extraction and making the "apply this on reboot" registry entries.
And not at low priority either. Because you obviously want to be updated as soon as possible, right?
Judging by the amount of resources consumed, I figured as much...
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
But don't worry, our new robot overlords only have our best interests at heart.
"Hahaha."
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
don't you have ABS? it might have helped a bit, although probably not significantly at that point...
In snow ABS would not help, in fact it could even slightly prolong the braking distance compared to no ABS.
I'd love to see these jokersdesignbuildhack togethera car. Changing the oil would probably require using a garden hose to overflow the crankcase and flush all the oil out the valve cover instead of draining it, then doing the same thing with oil to flush all the water out, then tipping the car upside-down to drain out the excess oil until it's at the right level.
If they made a car you wouldn't need to change the oil because the discomobile would use any. After all, oil is a to motoring .
@dse Bordering? If Erdogan has his way, TurkeyErdogania will be a part of the EU.
@Jaloopa said in Solar Roadways?:
@theBread No, that's so blind drivers know when they're drifting out of their lane
I thought they were replacing radio?
@luhmann said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
@pie_flavor said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
all my accents get done by pressing apostrophe and then the letter
that doesn't make sense ... how does that allow éèê or ë ?
@boomzilla said in Bad Gateway *SPANK SPANK*:
@Deadfast said in Bad Gateway *SPANK SPANK*:
So if I'm looking at this right, it's getting deadlocked?
I don't think so. Would that result in 100% CPU usage? When you wait for a semaphore or whatever, that doesn't use CPU, does it?
Hm, I don't think it would. I'm guessing the remaining threads are waiting on thread #1 to finish whatever the hell it's doing. I guess you could check htop
to confirm.
@boomzilla So if I'm looking at this right, it's getting deadlocked?
@jaloopa said in Microsoft Adds Proper Support for Line Breaks in Notepad:
This was one of the screens you have to go through when installing Git for Windows
I know. I meant that you have to go the extra distance of manually selecting them, as opposed to just pressing Next and accepting the sensible default option.
I'm saying the "as is" should be whatever the repo you checked out from was set to. If that's LF then convert to CRLF for editing then have checkins go back to LF. If it's CRLF then nothing gets converted.
Probably .
Fundamentally, line endings shouldn't be something users ever have to know or worry about. You press return, the cursor moves to the next line. That's it
Why stop there? I would like it if I could press any button on my keyboard and the same symbol I see was what everyone else sees too. Unfortunately this industry is built upon many historical decisions that turned out to be not quite entirely great in hindsight.
And never start it without the handbrake on so if you do start it in gear you'll only go a few inches and then stall.
Or just hold down the brake pedal at the same time. No reason not to with a modern car that does not require (or even forbids) pumping the accelerator while starting.
@blakeyrat said in DropBox dropping (GET IT? GET IT? GET IT?) all Linux filesystems and file encryption except one:
If you ran my app on your hacked-together "Windows" and it crashed, you'd think my app was shit. When in actuality it was your hacked-together shit that was shit.
And how's that any different from Theodore Thuckerwut's hacked-together shit being shit?
@admiral_p I'd probably lose interest in participating altogether.
@wft said in I've got a new monitor!:
Are you running that with DPI scaling? If so, good luck.
I don't run Windows. At all.
What do you use? Mac? If so, how does DPI scaling work there?
I know that in the Linux world it's not much better than Windows. In fact, I'd say it's even worse since the DPI multiplier has to be an integer due to X11 limitations. Then again, this is partially mitigated by the fact that you can configure font sizes separately.
Right, I know I'm pretty late to the party but I need to vent a little. Overall the game is good, terrible time sink though! Not as good as The Witcher 3 but still good.
Anyways, some of my random observations...
Steam wants 79.95 USD for it here is Australia. I guess shipping all of those bytes must be expensive! Fuck them, bought it elsewhere, actives on Steam so they still have to ship those super-expensive bytes, muhaha.
What the fuck is up with this light texture? It looks like it's upscaled about 300 times.
This happened in the middle of a dialogue where the "woman" was trying to explain to me just how much human she is:
I guess the camera got too close. The faces aren't too bad otherwise, except for your infant sonwax figurine which looks creepy as fuck!
There aren't enough guns... Yes, the few guns that do exist can be modded but that's not really enough to make them interesting. The exception is the "pipe" gun which can be modded to hell but I never grew to like it. It's a home-made gun cobbled together from whatever could be found. Interesting idea but Metro 2033 executed it much better. The biggest problem is that by default it is week as hell. By the time I was able to mod it I found better weapons already. Compared to New Vegas I was disappointed.
The main story didn't intrigue me very much either. You see, at the start of the game you spend about 5 minutes with your wife and child and the game magically expects you to care about them. Even the Vault-Tec salesman who visits your house at the start of the game is more memorable.
And finally, the rant of them all, the fucking UI/UX.
Bethesda needs to fire their UI designer. Hahaha, who am I kidding, judging by their previous titles they never employed one. As usual the whole UI is form over function and it's fucking terrible. And by "it" I mean the actual interaction. It looks to me as if they design the whole bloody thing in Photoshop, with no consideration for UX whatsoever, and then just have some intern implement it.
OK, first of all I will admit that I am a super-special snowflake when in comes to my keyboard layout. Basically if you ever needed to really stress-test your controls you'd call me.
Instead of your regular WASD I use ESDF. The reason is simple: extra easily reached keys to the left. In games I usually just shift the default bindings one key to the right and then use the extra keys for some commonly used stuff such as throwing grenades, medkits, etc.
To add a layer of complexity, what I said above about ESDF isn't entirely accurate. It's actually .OEU
since I use the Programmer Dvorak layout keyboard layout and my gaming PC is also my programming PC...
Now Fallout deserves some credit for even allowing one to bind a Dvorak keyboard. An unfortunately large number of games shit themselves as soon as you try to bind the period as the move forward key (fuck you very much).
Well, now that I have complimented Fallout it is time to start shoveling the manure...
None of the menu controls can be rebound!
The good case is that the hotkeys are in completely idiotic positions. Observe this screen.
Now observe a Dvorak keyboard - see where I'm going with this? I'd have to perform keyboard gymnastics if I ever wanted to press those. Luckily you can still use the mouse to click those buttons instead, in most cases.
One massive exception is the settlement building interface. There the key for placing shit is E. You know, the same key as for walking backwards. Now, this is where my exotic keyboard layout actually saves me. You know what it would conflict with when using ESDF on a regular QWERTY keyboard? Why only the move forward key of course!
Unfortunately precision placement of stuff usually requires one to walk backwards too so when I need to do a lot of building I have to use my XBOX controller instead... I don't use it otherwise because I am not enough of a sadist to try to aim with an an analogue stick. So every time I need to build I have to plug the damn thing in, build the stuff and then unplug it again. Why? Because when the controller is plugged in none of the keyboard inputs work of course!
The main menu has some cool shit in the background. This means the actual UI is a second-class citizen. Best example is the Controls screen where only about 1/4 is actually useful...
At the start of the game on when picking your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats some fucking annoying cartoonish sounds play. Here I am trying to decide what I'm going to go for and I can't think because I'm being distracted by this shit.
My first five levels I spent dumping points into the main stats instead of choosing perks. Why? Because those were the only things that weren't greyed out! I figured that since the whole damn rest of the screen is greyed out - the universal indicator for "you can't use this" - I haven't reached the appropriate level yet to unlock them.
It's gimmicky as fuck and you have to mouse over everything one by one to learn what it does, all the while more of those annoying cartoonish sounds play...
So VATS used to completely pause the game. It does so no longer, it just makes everything slow-motion. Terrible fucking idea because they did nothing to address the horrible controls. I'm trying to click on the enemy's head but it's selecting the butt instead... I suppose you could use the buttons instead of the mouse but as we've established before the keys are in stupid positions...
I find myself duping skill points into strength in every single Fallout 3+ game, despite not playing a melee build. This is because I need more carrying capacity because I am constantly overloaded. This is only in part because of my take-everything-not-nailed-down-and-sell-it OCD.
The big reason is that the inventory UI is atrocious and you can never find anything. For example if you pick up a holotape and want to play it you have to dig through the entirety of your "Misc" section, hoping you'll remember what it was called. This somehow regressed because previously all holotapes were under their own section, with clear indication of what you already listened to. What the fuck Bethesda?
Wondering where the hell all my carrying capacity was disappearing to I did a full inventory of the crap I was carrying...
259 total
63 weapons
41 apparel
151 aid
4 misc
151 pounds of aid? What the hell?! Sorting everything by weight the heaviest item was 1 pound! Oh wait, you silly person, you made the mistake of thinking that sort actually works. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't. Because it doesn't take into consideration the amount!
See this screen?
It's useless! Literally not one thing is in the correct position. 1x1 pound worth of Brahmin Meat is at the top, while 1x27 pounds of Nuca Cola Quantum are not!
@Adynathos said in What laptop brand isn't pure shit?:
@Lorne-Kates If you want to have a GPU in the laptop, I can recommend MSI.
I can second that. I have a work-issued MSI GS60 Ghost Pro. It's ridiculously light-weight despite its specs so it's a breeze lugging it around. It does have the downside of a rather meager battery life though. Oh and fuck the 4k screen, nothing but trouble. Until proper DPI-awareness becomes a thing, avoid the 4k variant like the plague.
It doesn't sound too difficult.
In that case you should have absolutely no problem pronounicing "třista třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes třista třicet tři stříbrných střech." ;)
@Luhmann said in That's a weird Signature Guy you've got there:
@DoctorJones said in That's a weird Signature Guy you've got there:
How old is he?
Two forum softwares old
Isn't it three?
@loopback0 said in 3080 scalping:
I wanted to try and get a 3070 at launch but I think I'll let the madness die down and stock levels normalise a few months later.
At that point AMD might actually reveal some details of what their offering is going to be. If rumours are to be believed it's going to be at least on par with the 3070.
@Gąska Try Chicago Med. It's hardly novel but it might fit the bill.
@Zenith The Pixel 4a can take decent photos, although it's probably more expensive than you were looking for.
However as @cvi said, it's probably a better "investment" in the long run.
@Carnage said in Aquiring an automobile:
But test drive before you make up your mind.
Be sure to plan a route ahead of time. Try it at higher speeds to see what the engine and road noise levels are. Find a bumpy road to test the suspension. Take it around a roundabout a bit faster than you normally would. Try accelerating and braking (where safe).
Bring along someone to review the passenger experience as well.
@TimeBandit said in Aquiring an automobile:
They don't offer the Impreza where you are?
They might have it somewhere out back in the shed if you ask them but as far as the showroom is concerned, they've seemingly gone full SUV mode in Australia too. It's depressing.
@Atazhaia If price is important to you, consider the Korean brands. They used to be pretty crap not too long ago but nowadays it's no longer the case. Well, except for the worst of them: Daewoo which got turned into GM Korea (should tell you something about GM).
The good news is that Hyundai and Kia are still trying to shake the stigma so they're competitively priced, despite being pretty good cars. Hyundai especially.
@boomzilla said in Graphics card upgrade:
It didn't have a PCIe v3.0 slot, so we'd have to upgrade the motherboard, too
If you mean that it only has a PCI-E 2.0 then you technically wouldn't have to, they're backwards compatible. Hell, you could even go as far back as 1.0.
Of course your graphics card would then have its throughput limited. When 3.0 was originally introduced the difference was immeasurable, nowadays I imagine that would no longer be the case.
That said it sounds like you're dealing with some pretty old hardware (pre-2014?) so I suspect you would have been bottlenecked by other things as well anyway.
Edit: Bit late to the party.
@JBert Ah, I didn't realise Maestro was still around elsewhere. I remember it existing many many years ago in Czechia before being completely phased out and replaced by Debit Mastercard.
@JBert said in My computer crashes randomly. How do I even tell what's happening?:
The way it's built it can't even serve as a ferrite choke.
Reading the translated page, that's exactly what it's meant to be: a "choke" out of a "Take Me" (Out?) power supply.
Seems to me that the snobs have a point.
@pie_flavor said in Mattress Suggestions?:
@lorne-kates This is, of course, from a Canadian perspective. Do you know if American mattress stores have similar haggling practices?
The same is true in Australia. I'd be surprised if the same didn't apply in the US too.
Speaking of which, here are some tips for buying mattresses in Australia. I'm sure most if it is universal.