@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Everything is removable if you try seriously enough.
Yeah usually putting it back together is where the problems come.
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Everything is removable if you try seriously enough.
Yeah usually putting it back together is where the problems come.
@dkf said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
If you're in another country temporarily but still resident in then I'd expect the tax authorities to be relaxed about where you're physically located.
I think you might be surprised. I work in Switzerland but close to the French border, so we have loads of people who work in Switzerland (because higher salaries) but live in France (because lower cost of living). I know that during the COVID times there specifically was an exception negotiated between Switzerland and France to allow those "frontaliers" to work from home (in France) without running afoul of tax laws.
Without that exception, the folks who live in France are not allowed to work from home for more than some maximum amount of time (2 days per week or something?). I think it's something about income tax being collected by the municipality you work in and not the place of residence.
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can't be fucked to have the debate again
No worries, we can call you a crayon muncher without having any clue what it was about no problem!
@PleegWat Indeed; but not everything is an end user interface. If the log output is part of it, and intended to be understood by said end user, I maintain that you're
Maybe it makes sense for some applications, just seems to me like at that point a typical logging library would be the wrong tool for the purpose and / or you'll miss out on having logs that are actually useful for investigating issues with the program.
EDIT To be clear: no judgement from me, I'm just genuinely confused about how you'd reconcile the differing needs.
@PleegWat said in The absolute state of web storage protocols:
@Bulb How the hell does that work with translation?
Do you really localize your log messages? That would seem to be to me.
Or are you asking this as a more general question?
@Arantor What did the axes ever do to you to deserve such hate?
@Zerosquare They crave to have one thing in their lives that doesn't constantly aggress them.
Filed under: Et tu, cena?
@sockpuppet7 You don't even need the rotary tool.
At least if the thing you want to cut is the skin of your finger.
Filed under: Ouch!
@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I understand wanting to improve scaling for newer screens with widely varying DPI
"Hey, new screens have smaller pixels so let's make the scrollbars narrower to compensate for that!"
Sure, makes perfect sense.
@boomzilla this guy now has a debt he'll never be able to pay back.
At least not exactly.
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Rounding is hard. Let's go shipping!
@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I would have thought that most water-cooling setups would use a closed, circulating system,
You'd still need to get the heat out of the water. Much easier to just dump the water together with the heat.
@boomzilla I have used github copilot a bit and to me it feels like having an over-excited, overconfident but ignorant newbie beside me, constantly shouting "I know, I know!" and randomly grabbing the keyboard from me whenever I press TAB. It's handy for some more trivial things that need a lot of repetitive boilerplate, but now I've mostly turned it off because I found it really annoying for any non-trivial things. Main problem is that you have to read and check very carefully whatever it vomits into the code; it looks plausible enough but often has all kinds of mistakes that I wouldn't myself make, some of them easy to spot but others much less so. So in the end I still have to think the problem through in detail myself, and at that point I'd rather just write the code myself.
That said, I do driver development in C++, for a niche market that requires a certain amount of domain knowledge. Maybe for more common things like doing yet another online store or basic CRUD web app it would be much more useful.
@Zecc I heard that club folded soon after its founding.
@DogsB The Telegraph said in In other news today...:
Kiss to play
For a brief moment I wondered what kind of new game monetizing scheme that might be
‘immortalised’ as avatars to stay ‘forever young
Has anyone told Alphaville about this possibility?
@Steve_The_Cynic said in DEAR FIREFOX:
yes, I'm aware that I cannot count
Error: 406 Spanish Inquisition Joke Required
@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
for demonyms that don’t resemble the placename at all, it’s that the demonym is for an older, often completely different, name that the place had.
At least for most of those mentioned in that article, it's mostly just your usual French word-mangling. Both the place name and the demonym are derived from the same original name, they just got gratuitously mangled in different ways. (AFAICT the demonyms usually seem to have stayed closer to the original, e. g. Saint Étienne vs Stéphanois)
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
JavaScript Messiah
He's come to relieve JavaScript of its sins? Sure got his work cut out for him.
@Applied-Mediocrity kinda, only it's not a joke.
@dkf said in CSS doesn't make much sense anymore:
The concept of a canvas
Is one of the most basic building blocks an OS provides. So what's the point of putting a web browser in between in the first place?
@Arantor said in CSS doesn't make much sense anymore:
But if you go from red to green in a rebrand exercise (which absolutely does happen), you’re fucked.
Oh come on that's easy, just add one more stylesheet:
.red-600 { background-color: #0f0 !important; }
@Arantor said in CSS doesn't make much sense anymore:
Wasm + a canvas
Yay, let's pull in a full-fledged and highly complex document layout engine complete with all the bells and whistles, and then use it to fill the screen with a dumb canvas so that I can draw the individual pixels again!
@sockpuppet7 said in CSS doesn't make much sense anymore:
tailwind
did they drop support for the style
HTML attribute when I wasn't looking?
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@topspin At least, we are members of a small group of people who know how to check the result's plausibility...
Just imagine doing such a business calculation ...
We’reThey are losing $500,000 each minute. If wekeep upcan find a bigger fool in time, we’ll have made billions in profit by the end of the year… Checks out.That's venture capitalist math.
@boomzilla Do you really want markdown to sprout features allowing the inclusion of javascript? Because we all know very well that's the only place this could lead to.
By design, post content cannot overlap post meta-content (let alone other posts).
Why do you hate fun?
Filed under: I agree with whatever ixvedeusi said above
Nobody would find it funny
@Arantor would.
Also:
I am feeling opressed! This forum just doesn't give me the space I need to express myself
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
&br; &br; &br; &br; &br; &br;
You should fetch a blanket or you'll catch a cold!
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace
You don’t need a QA department for this, you only need the dev who wrote this to run it a single time.
With today's moving target coding environments it might very well have worked correctly in the dev's browser when they originally wrote it. Then some npm update or browser update came along which fixed some obscure bug which that other UI framework three levels down in the dependency tree had worked around in a slightly whacky way, and voilà you get evasive checkboxes.
@HardwareGeek said in Overheard in the next cube:
We need a "goddamnit fbmac" banner at the start of these old threads.
Feature request: present posts in a gradually degraded manner according to their age. E. g. after a month or two some letters will get a bit slanted and a few specks of dust appear, after a year the text starts to fade, maybe some mold starts growing on the background, then some letters go missing, random graffiti appears on top of the text, etc.
Status: Nostalgic of the glorious period when computers could write characters to the screen as fast as I can type them
@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
can we space elevator? should we space elevator?
I expect there will be a follow-up video "Can we grammar? Should we grammar?"
@DogsB Dammit, looks like they knew better than to provide a free form text box to explain why exactly you want to close it.
@Carnage said in I, ChatGPT:
Some properly powerful toys do have power cables.
Also, don't forget the original!
@Bulb's new pills are working:
there were some improvements in size
@Arantor Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the hit-men are FBI agents.
@Zecc said in Youtube vs ad blockers:
I was reading those posts when they were moved and I've found myself in the new thread.
I was reading some entirely unrelated thread and also found myself in the new thread. I, too, found it surprising; but I'm not sure I could call it "smooth".
Safari on iOS (where it’s everywhere unshackled)
In Soviet iOS, Safari shackles you!
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
If you drop a remote on the floor, why do the batteries always fly out?
IANAP, but, I figure it is because the kinetic energy finds the easiest way out, which is through the battery cover.
They also constitute a considerable part of the remote control's mass so there's a lot of kinetic energy that can be discarded by getting rid of them.
@Bulb said in Should I bother that my employer don't consider moving away from an ancient compiler a priority?:
It's up to the technical people to decide whether it makes more sense to patch up the old version or get it working with a new one
They'll still need to explain to management why this simple change requires so much more time than all the other simple changes they'd done in the past.
Problem with these technical debt issues is that you can always do them "just a little bit later", until shit actually hits the fan.