@cartman82 said in Python 3 angst 2016 edition:
Zed Shaw
Haven't we already established before that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about?
@cartman82 said in Python 3 angst 2016 edition:
Zed Shaw
Haven't we already established before that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about?
My work laptop has a 15.6" screen with a 4k resolution. I hate it very much.
Why? Because DPI scaling works very, very badly.
Here's are a few examples of the Windows 10 installer trying to be "helpful". Apologies for the literal screenshots but for obvious reasons Print Screen wasn't an option.
Let's play "spot the 'Next' button":
Microsoft clearly thinks of people reading their license agreements from 5 kilometres away (guest starring a massive checkbox):
I have a very large hard drive:
@admiral_p said in Fuck this place:
They limit themselves to voting.
I do this a lot. This isn't because I'm disinterested in taking part, it's just that I believe the "don't repeat yourself" programming principle extends to forum interactions. Given my location, often times when I log on the discussion is long over. The vote button gives me a convenient way of interacting after the fact without having to dredge up old posts just to say I agree with @Gąska.
@Dreikin said in Python 3 angst 2016 edition:
@ben_lubar said in Python 3 angst 2016 edition:
@anonymous234 said in Python 3 angst 2016 edition:
Let me skip down the article a bit...
To be fair, very few things you can run on a finitely-large physical computer are Turing complete by the strictest definition.
Technically, as long as you add capacity at least as fast as it consumes it, you can be Turing complete and still finite. Which is sort of the basis for the SCOTUS deciding that ever-lengthening copyright on Mickey Mouse is okay as long as it always has a finite (if mutable) limit.
Reminds me of a conversation I once had at the local government office...
Hi, I'd like to suspend my business license.
Sure, how long would you like to suspend it for?
Permanently.
I'm sorry, that's not possible.
Really? I read somewhere that it was.
No, sorry, it can only be suspended until a given date.
OK... So if I say that date is 1 January 2100?
Not a problem!
@cheong said in Forum guidelines:
@asdf said in Forum guidelines:
Most of you have seen the recent discussion in the Lounge. Apparently, we need to clarify how and when we want to sanction a user. Since we're a forum that tolerates a lot of behavior, these were my suggested guidelines:
- Don't post anything illegal.
- Don't post spam.
- Don't doxx any member of the forum.
- Respect the rules and tone of the various categories, as specified in the respective category.
- On the rare occasion that the overwhelming majority of the forum disagrees with a behavior (examples: use of obnoxious bots for an extended period of time, deleting hundreds of threads, actively scaring away users) and the majority of the mods decides to give you an official warning, listen to the mods. Pro tip: Our mods have to be really pissed off to do any work.
Should we adopt something like that as the official rules/guidelines for this forum?
I'm thinking about suggesting not to post anything (especially images) that may cause discomfort to others. But it'd be better if @mods can bring back the "spoiler" tag and require forum users to hide those "content that may cause discomfort to others" in those tags.
So basically you want to ban CodeSOD?
@Vixen said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
why is this thread showing up in my unreads again? I set it to ignoring like a month ago...
All your ignore list entries are exactly where you left them.
@julianlam But what if I have an Android phone? Surely you should inspect the user agent and adjust accordingly.
@Cursorkeys said in Assange Arrested:
Especially with the snarky roommate advert from the embassy. It all smells rotten.
I agree, it smells like a rotten vegetable of some kind. An onion maybe.
@steve_the_cynic said in Finding max element of an array using two heap-allocated arrays and a bubble sort:
maxabs
Sounds like a name of a protein shake.
@pie_flavor said in Excuse me? Do you have any idea how telecommunication companies work?:
@deadfast Betcha they don't when this is all over.
Hahaha. Don't hold your breath.
Meet the AS/NZS 3112 outlet :
This is an AS/NZS 3112 AC adapter designed by a normal person:
This is an AS/NZS 3112 AC adapter designed by a bloody idiot:
Well, Jeff isn't exactly the best at being nice to users, so I can see how getting someone to do that might help.
I assume 99% of Erlend's job will be to SPANK SPANK Jeff any time he tries to open his mouth.
As everyone knows, spacebar means "click the highlighted button".
Fuck this so much. I have lost count of how many times I have confirmed something. I have no clue whatsoever what it could have been. For all I know I may have agreed to sell my organs on the black market.
Who's design decision was it that any application whatsoever, regardless of whether it has focus or not, can pop a dialog right the fuck up and basically take over your entire computer?
https://twitter.com/samsaffron/status/649739970639335428
Free code? You're getting paid to write it! What kind of an excuse is this?
KNOCK KNOCK Police, open up!
What do you want?
We need to talk!
How many of you are there?
Uh, two.
Talk to each other then.
I just received the following from a recruiter:
This role will be suited to someone who are excited by:
- Very progressive insurance companies
- Working in a production environment with frequent releases
- Lots of Stakeholder engagement
- Working on complex enterprise projects
Yeah, sorry, not really that excited so far...
- Free onsite parking
SOLD!
I drove past an interesting programmable road sign this morning.
It said:
HELLO
ROAD
CLOSURE
8TH JUNE
8AM-4PM
No idea why it was telling me about a road closure that happened two months ago, but at least it was friendly about it!
Emirates doesn't trust Boeing to the point they're threatening to send their own engineers to monitor the manufacture of the 95 777s and 787s they ordered.
@doctorjones said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
As an example, for a long time he didn't give a shit about performance on Android, because he
believed all of the available hardware was shithad an iPhone.
Here, I made it more accurate for you.
@Benjamin-Hall Ah, I see you found the driving equivalent of JavaScript "programming" .
A small correction if I may:
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I meant to say the appartment is completely level
ed
The original version makes it sounds like a robot vacuum stuck behind the door is the least of the apartment's problem :D
level
verb
To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.The hurricane leveled the forest.
: Hi, my MacBook Pro screen is really dim.
: We have to replace everything. That will be 1,200 or maybe 1,980 CAD please!
...
: The connector was bent. I bent it back. It's on the house.
@jbert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Currently, the iotaseed.io website now features a message that reads: "Taken down. Apologies."
Wow. So there's actually an apology, close to "sorry for no longer scamming you out of your money - have a nice day".
I guess it's one step above "penis".
Meanwhile in Windows 10 land...
"So you put me to sleep? OK, no worries."
"Oh my god, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, he unplugged the headphones!!!"
@gąska said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
@blakeyrat said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
@ben_lubar Ben as a user, given those example, which am I supposed to trust more? How would I know?
The top one is saying "ok this site is really GitHub, Inc", but it doesn't say "Secure". Therefore it must be less secure than the second one, right? As a naive user, I'm sitting here going, "well GitHub makes enough money, why haven't they bought the secure padlock yet? Slackers!"
Right now, you're being purposely obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. Like that one client I've had when I worked in phone shop. He wanted a car GPS that was very easy to use and absolutely foolproof since, as he said, he is very bad with computers and doesn't have time for bullshit. I took random Garmin and showed him how to operate it. After explaining how touchscreens work and what I mean by pressing a button on screen, I proceeded to walk him through setting up a route.
: You type in the address here.
: I made a mistake. What now?
: Press here. *presses backspace*
: And how was I supposed to know that?
: ...
: Okay, I typed the address. What now?
: You press search button.
: Where is it?
: Over there, with looking glass icon
: Where?
: Here. *presses it*
: And how was I supposed to know that?
: It has looking glass icon.
: Really? It looks more like tennis racket to me.
: ...
<- his wife: :what_did_i_think_when_i_married_him:And no, he wasn't old - he seemed to be in his late 30s, which means computers were everywhere around him for at least a third of his life (this took place last year).
Are you sure this wasn't set up by your boss to see what it would take for you to punch a customer?
@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
it might have asked you to register for their (insecure) cloud service to be able to
change the light colorsinstall a graphics card driver
There, Nvidia'd it for you.
@dcoder And nothing of value was lost. Well, other than all of the graphics cards that would be better put to use in my gaming PC.
@Gribnit said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
@Zerosquare said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
LiFePo4 for example
Polonium? Fucking Polonium? Is safe?
Look, I'm not usually an advocate for abstinence-only sex education but in this case I'd make an exception.
The issue doesn't seem to be .NET but rather web. Deadfast's Razor: If it's web, it's shit.
But maybe I just became grumpy in my old age... wait, shit, I'm not even old!
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
you can't put the taskbar on the side
Taskbar on the bottom makes the aspect ratio of what's left of the screen worse, on the side it makes it better. At least for laptops, but probably also for these UWXVWQHD surfboard-size resolutions.
Having the taskbar centred on the bottom actually works really well for my surfboard-sized monitor. I am very happy that Microsoft decided to tailor the OS specifically to myself and the 3 other people in the world.
@mott555 said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
This isn't my image, but it gives you a general idea of just how wrong things can go.
What, you mean that isn't a successfully printed Flying Spaghetti Monster?
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@anonymous234 said in Internet of shit:
Embed them into a song or something.
They have also donated the dollhouse a local children’s hospital.
I'm not sure I'd trust a dollhouse to manage a children's hospital.
@boomzilla said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
this guy
Sorry, no longer welcome here!
@cheong There is no plug, or rather the emergency door itself is the plug. As @HardwareGeek said, the door is still there, it's just deactivated and hidden behind an interior trim panel. It's cheaper to do it this way because you don't need to manufacture a special part (beyond a piece of plastic) and it allows for an easy reconfiguration of the plane in the future (you can just unhide the door if you add enough seats to make it required).
As usual, blancolirio's video explains this better than any MSM article would:
https://youtu.be/I9EvHpf8jZg
Better yet, it also has this comment:
I did 43 years at Boeing in Commercial Airplanes with 31 years in QA. As Juan says this is a plug type door. These types of doors have been used on all Boeing transports back to the 707 and are very reliable. They should not be confused with the cargo doors such as the 747 door involved in the United Airlines flight 811 accident. Those pegs sticking out of the door frame are door stops. There is a matching set of stops on the door. The set of stops on the door are inside of the door frame. The pressurization of the airplane pushes the door against the stops in the door frame. The way the door opens there is a gate at the bottom of the door that folds in allowing the door to move down so the door stops will clear each other and move outward. Part of the mechanism includes pins protruding from the door frame and cam locks on the door side. This cam/pin arraignment is the locking system. Inside the door there is an arrangement of gear boxes, linkages and torque tubes that move the end gate, cam locks and the door moving down. When the door is properly rigged the door stops are adjusted to ensure proper contact and the push rods are adjusted to ensure the linkage goes over center to prevent unwanted movement and subsequent opening of the door. Proper rigging is also dependent upon having the weight of the door slide compensated for. A deactivated door does not have the escape slide. If the door was rigged with the slide weight and then deactivated, then the rigging could possibly be incorrect. Either the door was mis rigged or a safety device was left off the door assembly allowing the rigging to change. These doors are installed and rigged by Spirit Aviation (formerly Boeing of Wichita).
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@Deadfast said in Internet of shit:
@levicki said in Internet of shit:
G-SYNC
You mean FreeSync.
Aren't they both the same now? Or so someone on the Internet told me, anyways.
Well yeah, they are the same. Except Nvidia said FreeSync sucks, made their own thing, realised their own thing sucks, adopted FreeSync and somehow they still get to slap their own logo on it.
@Zerosquare I'd feel sorry for the unfair accusation if YouTube's maliciousness wasn't indistinguishable from AdBlock's incompetence.
@boomzilla said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016443130017505280
Mini-sub is ready if needed. It is made of rocket parts & named Wild Boar after kids’ soccer team. Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future.
Yeah, that'll be a no mate:
Excellent job by the rescuers!
@HannibalRex said in Enlightened:
But of course, Debian Stable is Debian Stable, and nothing released in the last decade is in the repos, much less this E17 thing.
I have a feeling the Debian maintainers were trying to tell you something.
@rhywden said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@polygeekery You'd also have to consider the possibility of this rigid object getting stuck. So, not only would you have failed to produce a working gadget, no, you'd also have plugged the known escape route.
Eh, that's easily solved by bringing in a few barrels of Vaseline first!
@cvi said in Branching is bad, use feature toggling instead!:
@PJH said in Branching is bad, use feature toggling instead!:
Sounds a bit too much like actually doing some forward-planning, which seems a tad optimistic for the author.
Why do forward-thinking when you can do backward-thinking?
Why do any thinking at all?
Holy shit, @flabdablet, you're going to love this one!
So since nobody called me, nor have I received my money (what a shocker), I called Complaints this morning.
I was told that the reason nobody from Refunds Department called me is because when the consultant email them a case, they email them back to report on the progress. It is then the consultant who calls the customer to inform them of this progress. The fact that this consultant may not work 24/7 is not a concern, I guess.
I was then told that the Complaints person has to check with the consultant to see if she had received any emails and that she'd call me back by 5pm today. She also said she's email me the interaction number and the link to get back in touch. Apparently, since I last spoke with Telstra, they have actually gotten worse, as neither of the things she promised to do have happened...
I'll call them again tomorrow but at this stage I'm starting to wonder whether I get to involve the TIO :).
All things considered I have to say he's rather calm!
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
≤0°C: I think my freezer uses that end of the scale.
5°C: my fridge setting
10°C: winter is really cold this year!
15°C: winter
20°C: can't wait for this winter to end...
25°C: spring's here!
≥30°C: spring's over!
FTF