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RE: In other news today...
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RE: IT departments of the world
@NeighborhoodButcher The obvious answer is, yes.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Back-story: There's an airline pilot/YouTuber who has had certain interactions with the flat-earth crowd. In the real world, one can fly south from Buenos Aires, over Antarctica, to Perth in about 16 hours. On the flat earth, you have to fly north from Buenos Aires, over North America, the Arctic, and Asia, to get to Perth, and it takes about 30 hours. So, if you fly from one to the other, which direction you fly and how long it takes should be a (fairly) easy way to prove which earth you're on.
Therefore, he challenged the flat-earthers to organize such a trip and observe for themselves. In the intervening time, flat-earthers have called him a coward and various other names, because he's taken no steps to organize the trip. (That wasn't part of his challenge.) So now he's taken their challenge, at least partly. He has set a date, arranged for a plane, air crew, and professional documentary film crew to record the trip.
The rest is now up to the flat-earthers. They have to pay for it (and it's not cheap, $1.5M total bill). He's set up a kickstarter for them to put their money where their mouths are. He's also not organizing the rest of it. They have to arrange their own travel to Buenos Aires and home from Perth, passports, visas, lodging, etc.
Anyway, I found his challenge amusing, and for how the flat-earthers are going to respond.
$1,500,000 Challenge to Prove The Earth is Flat! – 11:27
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RE: In other news today...
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
When your wind turbine can be blown over by wind
To be fair, a typhoon is not just "the wind." Lots of things get blown over in a typhoon.
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RE: In other news today...
@PJH said in In other news today...:
she excelled on the viola.
Cue viola jokes:
No one excels on the viola; one merely plays less badly.etc.How do you get two violists to play in tune?
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RE: In other news today...
@mott555 I have multiple reactions, including:
- I did not need to know this.
- Why?
- So that's why it tastes so bad.
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RE: In other news today...
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Amethyst Realm
If someone's name sounds like the title of a cheesy fantasy fan-fic, you know they're going to provide some entertaining .
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Applied-Mediocrity wrote:
I never much cared for Ass.
Somebody had to post this here; I'm just surprised it took 6 hours.
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RE: Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments
@Gąska said in Gąska sed what?:
It'd be like ... git pull, except ... it would do a random wrong thing and then present you with a cryptic error that doesn't make sense.
So, exactly like git?
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RE: It was a fun run.
Discourse will stop producing strange new bugs.
This seems very unlikely. The strange new bugs will no longer be inflicted on us, but there will continue to be strange new bugs.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Polygeekery I've always enjoyed the occasions when the only way to report a network outage was through the online ticketing system.
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RE: Initiative Q - Money from nowhere?
@lorne-kates said in Money from nowhere?:
Now how are you going to fill all those spaces with wireless internet?
My car broke down the other day, and I needed other transportation. It took me two frickin hours to install the Lyft app on my phone. I installed the app inside, where I had WiFi, but it needed confirmation by text message to prove the phone number I gave it was my phone, so I had to go outside and wander around the parking lot in search of a signal. Half an hour later, I finally managed to get confirmation by phone call, on the second try, because I never did get any texts. Go back inside to WiFi to continue creating the account. Read the TOS and privacy policy; accept them. Confirmation has expired. Back outside to try to find a cell signal again.
This was in the heart of Silicon Valley, the most technologically advanced place on the planet. If we don't have reliable wireless internet here, how do you think that's going to happen in Outer Bumfuckistan?
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RE: I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire
@blakeyrat But if everyone stopped tweeting things they can't prove, Twitter would be deserted. Hmm, you know, that's a really good idea.
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RE: Fsck you. Give me money. (Now with IndieGoGo)
Before or after the hidden file extensions bullshit?
Whoever at MS thought up that idea, along with whoever approved it, should be given a job tending rabbits.
To answer your question, after, because I don't usually think of disabling sticky keys until I activate it accidentally.
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RE: I'm still a grumpy cat: a final plea to Alex
@skotl said in I'm still a grumpy cat: a final plea to Alex:
We can't just keep on discussing Discourse.
Somehow, we seem to have managed to do just that, though. Even months after we've moved to :nod:, we're still discussing it.
(Necropost due to necrolike by @obeselymorbid.)
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@HardwareGeek said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
So yeah, I'd get banned.
I just had an Evil Idea (INB4: ). I'm not advocating actually doing this, but it might be rather embarrassing to CDCK if it were to happen:
IIRC, the Discourse admin page fairly prominently shows the IP address from which you registered, right? So if they were to IP ban somebody, that's probably the address they'd most likely ban.
Many companies have wide-open WiFi access for business visitors (or employee personal devices), blocked from their internal networks but with access to the external Internet. And WiFi can often be accessed from a short distance outside a building.
Park outside buildings belonging to some of CDCK's high-profile paying customers. Register several accounts. Later, post enough inflammatory (but true!) remarks to get not only banned, but IP banned.
They're pretty quick to swing the ban hammer; do you think they'd check who the IP belongs to before banning it? They could wind up banning their own biggest paying customers.
Of course, this is obviously malicious, and the company whose WiFi you used stands a good chance of causing you significant legal trouble if they managed to track you down, so it's also a Really Bad Idea (Edit: and, as Blakey pointed out, rather childish;
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RE: Testing candidate's mettle S02E02
@Gąska said in Testing candidate's mettle S02E02:
my then-4-years-old cousin
He's aging rather quickly. (For those who didn't see the edits happen, he went from 2 to 3 to 4 in the space of a single post.)
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RE: Random thought of the day
@scholrlea said in Random thought of the day:
It occurs to me that some of the confusion around Lisp compilers and interpreters vis a vis other types of compilers could be cleared up a bit
Yup, sure cleared it up for me.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@ben_lubar There aren't any. I just saved you 8 hours of your time. My invoice will be in the mail.
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RE: The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®
@mott555 It's almost like Scott Adams has been reading the Trolleybus Garage.
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RE: WTF Bites
- Make a phone whose primary (?) value-add is the quality of its camera.
- Create an ad campaign featuring the camera.
- Fake the photos in the ads.
- ?
Profit.Oops!GOTO 1
TL;DR: The photo on the left is the Huawei ad; the one on the right is a stock photo from Getty Images.
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RE: Python 3 angst 2016 edition
@Yamikuronue said in Python 3 angst 2016 edition:
I'm sorry, what the actual fuck is Zed Shaw talking about?! That's not how ANYTHING works!? And has he never heard of Hanlon's Razor?
Oh, wait, this is the blowhard who puts big red scare boxes at the top of exercises to say things like
If you skipped Exercise 0 then you are not doing this book right. You must read every single thing I write here and read it carefully.
Fuck you dude.
He also likes to say things like, Don't worry about how it works; just make your code look exactly like mine. That's not teaching programmers; that's training code monkeys.
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
the tuple function \x->(x,x) is actually a special case of a diagonalization for biapplicative and some related structures monadicially.
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I never open it, either. Although it wouldn't be accurate to say "anymore."
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RE: Blakeyrat pointing out NodeBB problems
Sorry to interrupt the "pointing out Blakeyrat problems" thread, but I'd like to point out a NodeBB problem I don't recall seeing mentioned yet.
Discourse, for all its problems, did have a few good ideas. One that I've sorely noticed the lack of in NodeBB is the ability to see replies to a post. It was very useful to be able to look at the replies and see that somebody had already made the response I was about to make. Of course, it didn't completely prevent , but it did at least somewhat reduce the number of redundant posts.
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RE: UI Bites
I18N and L10N are hard. I just sent the following message to my healthcare provider's customer service:
English is my primary language and the only one in which I am fluent and use in everyday life. I normally use My Health Online in English. However, it is currently appearing for me in a mix of English and Spanish. For example, this form is mostly in English, however message limit text currently says "664 de 1000 caracteres restantes". The home page text that should say something to the effect of "overdue preventative services" instead says "Recordatorios de salud ya pasados de fecha", and the "MAKE APPOINTMENT" button says "PEDIR CITA".
If I view the page in Spanish, it is entirely in Spanish, but when I switch back to English, it is again a mix of English and Spanish.
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RE: WTF Bites
There exists a store with both brick-and-mortar and online shops. (I've never been to the brick-and-mortar store, even when I lived within ~1.5 hours of it, and it's now 1800 miles away, so shopping there is pretty much out of the question.) Let's call them WtfCo. I have been a customer since 2018.
In March of this year, they launched a new website; if one has not ordered from them in the last 7 months, one must create a new account.
Mildly annoying, but not really a WTF. I create a new account and log in. The new account does not provide any order history prior to March. Ok, it's a brand new account, even if I used the same username (email address). However,
So I attempt to log into the "Legacy Customer Account Center". "Your password has expired due to inactivity. Reset your password."
Note that the Legacy Customer Account Center is not WtfCo.com, as one might expect. It is numbers.app.netsuite.com. Generic Oracle NetSuite site, with minimal WtfCo branding. The reset password link goes to a page with no WtfCo branding at all.
I do the password reset song-and-dance. I go back to the previous tab and log in with the new password.
The Legacy Customer Account Center is still not WtfCo.com, but at least
numbers.app.netsuite.com now looks like it might legitimately be affiliated with WtfCo, maybe. It's full of useless NetSuite crap, but it's not too hard to find the link to show previous orders.It's still netsuite.com, but it has WtfCo branding and a list of my previous orders.
Yay! What did I order in 2020?
None of the 3 orders from 2020 can be displayed. Good job. The two from 2018 can be, though. Oracle.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@BernieTheBernie said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
The final "Far Side" comic ran January 1, 1995.
Not completely, but almost.
At least, occasionally emerges some new stuff:
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
@abarker said:
I said I didn't need any logic!
Sometimes you don't get what you need.
Sometimes you do get what you need but don't know you need.
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RE: Apple's newest iPhone, 2016
@bb36e said in Apple's newest iPhone, 2016:
He said that analog technology is ancient. This means that it's bad. VCRs are analog, Blu-ray is digital.
Bluetooth is digital; no proprietary, incompatible, walled-garden system needed.
In any audio system, the last bit that vibrates to transfer the sound from the electronics to your ears is analog, and until we get direct connections from the electronics to the auditory nerves, it'll stay that way. (Even then, the actual nerve stimulus probably still will be.) That's the limiting factor in the best audio system.
My ears are analog. Bad analog is bad. Good analog is better than my ears.
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla Even apart from the flammability of the spray, that's not real bright. Make yourself smell nice, then make yourself smell like a dirty ashtray. Ick.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
So, when (if) T-1000 comes back online, are we going to restore from the backup?
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RE: WTF Bites
Like quite a few large employers in Silly Valley, mine provides bicycles for employees to travel between buildings. I just saw an email in my junk folder that the bikes are currently not working. Due to a firmware issue. On a bike. That you pedal with your feet.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
I thought it was decided up-thread to not let them run amok in here, in order for them not to be blamed for any cooties that may occur before whatever fix is needed to allow T-1000 to be brought back to normal operation.
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RE: Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ?
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ?:
"stuff"(1)
Did anyone else read that as a man page for a command-line utility called "stuff"?
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RE: WTF Bites
Hey, FF, I don't think a randomly generated credit/debit card number would be very useful.
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RE: WTF Bites
But the rest of Ireland?
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The rest are “randomly allocated”. Some of these randomly allocated identifiers are, of course duplicated.Ireland. Whoever did the allocation was undoubtedly drunk at the time.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Dear @rhywden,
Every thread is the ry thread.
Sincerely,
HardwareGeek, Viscount Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Noble Order of the Garter -
RE: Indian Recruiters
@stillwater said in Indian Recruiters:
This person is old. 35+
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RE: WTF Bites
At least the wanted result is still on the list, even if Windows determines the relevance in a different way you or I would.
How the (&-+_$&+#&! does this forum's emoji picker determine relevance? Sometimes I can type the entire canonical emoji name without it ever being offered as a suggestion
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RE: WTF Bites
# 1:
I got a robocall that I almost didn't answer, because I didn't recognize the number, but I answered it anyway.
You are due to visit $medical_facility on $date. It is very important that you enter your medical and insurance information in our web form before your visit. Please go to $url and enter password
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as in ... Again, the website is $url and the password ish
as in ... Press1
to repeat this message.Presses 1
Goodbye.
Great job, . (And yes, this call was legitimate.)
# 2:
Wait, what decade is it?
I'd name and shame, but it's medical-related, and for all I know they're the only $medical_facility that uses this web app, and that would be more self-doxxy than I'm comfortable with.
# 3:
Great. I can expect to spend an hour or more filling it out, and if I'm interrupted for some reason, it will almost certainly time out (for privacy and data protection reasons) and I'll have to start over from the beginning. If they ever call me back so that I can get the password I missed because I wasn't prepared for the stupid call and it didn't repeat the message when I asked it to.