Posts made by fatbull
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RE: The Official First World Problems Threadβ’
showcase your favourite first world problems
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RE: The New TDWTF - just about done
- The header overlaps some content.
- I think "Latest Comment" is better.
- I'd reorder the left column:
- Sidebar WTF (unfolded by default and with a "Submit" link to the forums)
- Contents
- WTF is The Daily WTF?
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RE: Can we not install this update
yep, that's right he'll roll dice with negative numbers of faces.
he also does negative numbers of dice
-20d16b55
Why did the bot reply to that post without being @ mentioned?
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RE: The new 2^n Badges
an excessive number
Inb4 @ben_lubar posting a huge image of the number 3 (with ornaments).
Filed under: Spam
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RE: Unix Haters' Club
Filed under: An easy mistake to make, I mean, the keys are right next to each other.
A few weeks ago I managed to delete a script I had been working on all day and was about to add/commit, just by running
git clean -fx
instead ofgit clean -fX
.
Filed under: I was able to recover it from Eclipse's Local History, though.
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RE: Unix Haters' Club
Then let's rebind WASD to the arrow keys. They should be unused now, right?
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RE: UI Iconography
π?
I think most icons should work if you add a tooltip or other textual description.
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RE: Unix Haters' Club
Ah, the "everything is a $thing" mentality.
Why, yes, everything is a stream of bytes. If something can be stored on a computer, it can be dumped as a stream of bytes. That's trivial. The reverse direction is the problem. A stream of bytes is not a pretty much anything else.
In any Real Programming Languageβ’ you have data types. In Java, for example, everything (or almost everything) is an Object, but you can easily cast it back to String[], List<?>, InputStream, or whatever it is. And even if you have an actual stream of bytes, there is usually an obvious way to parse it and turn it into something useful.
Try that in a shell script. No, that stream of bytes
find
just dumped is not an array of file names. It's just a stream of bytes. Really. We separate file names with 0x0A bytes, but those could be part of filenames, too, so you can never be sure. It's just a stream of bytes, after all. You cangrep
it,sed
it,cut
it, or write it to a file if you want, but it's still just a stream of bytes. Don't you dare process it! Because there is no way to actually do that safely and portably.
Filed under: Apparently escaping strings is NP hard.
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RE: Why is there a TV icon in Microsoft Word?
Is this a thread necro or a forum necro?
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Just testing ...
Continuing the discussion from Just ignore me.:
Just verifying that the bug has actually been fixed ...
Edit: More testing...
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RE: Firefox Users Can't Keep Up, all your grumpy cats are mine.
Every time I read one of those misspellings I imagine this guy saying it.
Filed under: Guybrush Atwood
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RE: Firefox Users Can't Keep Up, all your grumpy cats are mine.
Mobile view still works in Firefox.
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RE: Unix Haters' Club
I have this in my
.bash_profile
just in case a command line application asks for a commit message or something like that (e.g.,git rebase -i
).if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]; then Β Β Β export EDITOR=/usr/bin/leafpad else Β Β Β export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano fi
Filed under: I miss EDIT.COM
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RE: Doing an SVN checkout? No web for you!
The similar topics list seems to be chosen at random.
Considering that all topics on this forum get derailed at least once, this is probably an accurate algorithm.
Filed under: Squirrel!
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RE: The "fa-spin" Testing Thread
Span, span, span, span, lovely span, wonderful span ...
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RE: Post counters actually off by one
There is, actually, two post 2728's on that thread...
WTF? How is that even possible?
One for meta?
Isn't mentioning @codinghorror or @sam sufficient?
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Post counters actually off by one
Continuing the discussion from The Official "Likes" Thread:
Somehow the beer discussion broke the post counter.
Scroll up until the progress bar shows 2728. Now scroll down slowly. The progress bar jumps to 2730, although that post is not visible (not even partially). The post number seems to be off by one for all subsequent posts.
Edit - Submitted to meta: https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-post-ids-within-a-topic/17333 [mod - PJH]
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RE: Outdated Onebox Preview
Must have been a permission issue. Oneboxing posts from other categories still works.
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/onebox-test/1419
Click the downward pointing arrow to see the actual post.