@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
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Back in my day, we earned our whoosh badges uphill both ways, without any hidden text wharrrrgarbl.
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
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Back in my day, we earned our whoosh badges uphill both ways, without any hidden text wharrrrgarbl.
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: watched 3 seasons of The Boys in 1.5 weeks. Don’t want to go to bed, since that inevitably brings me closer to don’t want to work tomorrow again. Or ever.
I wonder what the green line would look like if the chart counted your right hand.
@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Tuping competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger”
The spelling event can be a follow-up
I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger”
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
so I'm going to go with "used memory off of eBay" as the source of the problem and you didn't get what you thought you were paying for.
Yes.
"used memory off of eBay" is almost never a good idea.
Don't worry, it was only underwater for a few hours after the hurricane knocked out power in the entire region.
@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
@PleegWat Looks like someone is confusing football and soccer.
Sportsball is hard, let’s writhe on the ground until we get what we want!
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
WTF Bite: Why TF does it take almost 50 seconds for my PC to power off? WTF is it doing during all this time?
This is the time from clicking "shut down" to the moment the power LED and fans turn off. The screen turns off after about 10 seconds already.
The telemetry has to finish uploading
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
And some motherboards are known to be picky about RAM modules, and not work with certain brands/models.
But both are the same brand: "corsair cmv4gx3m1a1333c9". Only difference is the "ValueLine" sticker on the freshly bought modules.
Which might mean the ValueLine modules are single rank instead of dual rank. Meaning the actual physical chips on the stick are twice as large, to have the same amount of memory in half the space & chips. Which would put them over the capacity of the motherboard, if the board's maximum was 16GB per RAM slot and that's based on 16GB dual rank.
Edit: Though, looking at Corsair's site in more detail and the mb specs, it looks like the MB should support 4GB per slot sticks and the SKU in question is a Value Select brand board, so I'm going to go with "used memory off of eBay" as the source of the problem and you didn't get what you thought you were paying for. It looks like the real module should look something like or https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-CMV4GX3M1A1333C9-Corsair-Desktop-Memory/dp/B003XFT3XE?th=1
Also, used memory off of ebay for something that retails at $25/u new? How crazy are you?
@Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread:
got off on his own accord.
Wait. If he owned a car, why did he want to take the bus?
What, you're not going to ask about his fetish for relieving himself in public on his car?
@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation"
Which only fueled the shippers
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I’ve been awake for over twelve hours and it's almost 9pm.
So you've been awake since 9am? How terrible.
He's been awake for so long he can't do basic math any more
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Voted 18 times
Vote early! Vote often!
The Chicago school of economics.
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
The lesson learned by s:
And this is why nobody should trust the same s that replaced the DBAs with full stack developers to save money.
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it.
Psh, amateurs. I once wrote a short story over an otherwise pointless 3-day meeting.
Hopefully the story turned out at least as good as the meeting
@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi Someone should tell the English to stop horsing around.
HOof.
Was your pun better than his? Neigh.
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
just check which cars are pumping hot exhaust out.
The bad thing is that the exhaust gases are gaseous - they are almost invisible ti infrared. When you want to see the hot gases, they have to be dirty. Exhaust from large ships on the ocean: that worx. I doubt that even VW has some much particulate matter in it.
Doubly so once it detects the monitoring camera on it and engages standards mode.
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
It’s rural Ireland! They live on Guinness! Ipas are overrated hipster muck!
I prefer the headlines the old guy brought us.
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time
Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest."
Maybe the author is a Chicago White Sox fan who dreams of 2 runs in 23 innings
@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
It's easier to hire JS developers
Whether it's implemented in node.js is orthogonal to how it's split into separate services.
Yes, but when you hire JS duhvelopers, you get the micro-service architecture automagically. If you want something sanely engineered, you need to hire real developers who use serious languages, and then let them use JS as necessary.
@Arantor said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Zerosquare said in Programming Memes Thread:
Excuses, excuses.
I wouldn’t park a Lambo outside, not in this neighbourhood. I’d come home to find it replaced with a mid range EV that’s tuned for urban stop/start traffic for the bonus green credentials.
Really, you just need to start a figurine collection of the former administrator of the Bespin mining colony. And then claim old age for mishearing "Lambo" when someone asks you about it.
@topspin said in Hacking News:
@ixvedeusi said in Hacking News:
That's stealing, just like it's stealing to walk through someone's wide open front door and take the money lying on the kitchen counter.
Yeah, kinda.
It's more like I bring you a cake, you give me money in return but it's twice as much as you said you'd give me. The difference is that the machine / you hand me the money, so there's an argument to be made for you agreeing on the thing you are doing.It must have been rather obvious to them that they were not supposed to do that.
And if it's obvious that you're not supposed to win at slot machines, but (consistently, due to a bug) still do? Is that stealing?
The better analogy here would be:
Edit because I hit enter before completing my thought: the point of criminality is step 4.
@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Though I don't remember the orange juice thing. I don't even like orange juice.
That's it.
And here I thought we were going to get some orange you glad I didn't say banana setup
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I keep thinking some new fucker is stealing my schtick.
You should talk to @DogsB's placement agency to get him distracted and make room for your shitposting
@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Rickrolling Rockerfella Rickrolls Revelers!
I guess even Rick Astley has to give you up these days.
Who had Rick Astley letting you down on their 2024 bingo card?
As long as he doesn't start doing laps around a Dairy Queen throwing ice cream at us, I think we're good.
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Rickrolling Rockerfella Rickrolls Revelers!
I guess even Rick Astley has to give you up these days.
@loopback0 said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?:
The building's a former police station. The holding cell is left in this studio flat as a feature.
Key features
LARGE STUDIO WITH FEATURE HOLDING CELL
The lifestyle thread is
@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
@loopback0 And then they'd been in Edinburgh/Geneva (Cross out what is not appropriate). Why would they do that to themselves?
HTH, HAND
@Tsaukpaetra said in Error'd Bites:
Status: Please explain why you don't like me.
It's valid, there's nothing going on with cookies and shit, so what gives?
Certificate is valid but not for 2023.babscon.com?
So nice of the WADA to accept the verdict of the completely non-interested party Chinese anti-doping agency that those positives were just contamination.
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I have an opinion on wearing white socks in general, and with black crocs in particular. I chose not to share it with the person in question.
We are disappointed; you have denied us .
I propose we bombard him with pictures of feet wearing white socks and black crocs as payment for blue balling us.
Bwahahahaha!
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I have an opinion on wearing white socks in general, and with black crocs in particular. I chose not to share it with the person in question.
We are disappointed; you have denied us .
I propose we bombard him with pictures of feet wearing white socks and black crocs as payment for blue balling us.
@Zerosquare said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I wonder what @Benjamin-Hall and @Rhywden think of this.
It might also be proof of stairwell grading methods, since papers at the bottom of the stack would be more likely to fall earlier due to hand waving
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I love it when a guy comes in with his just-fired wife asking us to go around security policy and break into wife's drive "to save pictures" that they "forgot they had saved" on their work computer.
FAFO, misusing company resources edition!
@topspin said in Scientific Science:
@DogsB fucking stupid website. You can read it if you click on reader mode immediately. Otherwise, if you try to read it normally, it'll show some dumb popup and then reader mode doesn't work anymore.
Websites really go out of their way to be shit now, but I guess you need that Google traffic somehow.
Google search rank gives double super mega bonus points based on how enshittified the website is
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Probably a better phishing training campaign than anything corp sends out.
@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Golden Axe is, uh, less than detailed in its story.
And the only notable things in there are the beefcake character models in less than properly clothed conditions. Which I doubt will be allowed to continue in a show version.
At least not without age verification in Texas.
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
reputable Brazilian
Does that exist?
I think that's when you only wax up to the bikini line.
@PleegWat said in I, ChatGPT:
@error said in I, ChatGPT:
Filed under: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
While the old mechanical clock I have downstairs, which is between 1 minute fast and 1 minute slow per week depending on temperature, humidity, and how high I've kept the weights, is basically never right.
Sounds like you should rebrand it an AI clock
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston we’ve been over this before, it’s some weird mount he’s set up and called it B for
shits and giggles.backup
Shirley?
@DogsB said in I, ChatGPT:
Kang and his colleagues computed the cost to conduct a successful LLM agent attack and came up with a figure of $8.80 per exploit, which they say is about 2.8x less than it would cost to hire a human penetration tester for 30 minutes.
When did penetration testers get that cheap?
1,056 tokens for the prompt.
So… six paragraphs of text explaining how to do it?
When it became needful to have more of them.
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
That little known province of Germany is kicking off again.
I said to myself, “Surely the purity of this thread will be maintained against AI written drivel, right?”
But here I am, left with nothing but my Padme face and a broken dream.
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I'm glad they think this computer isn't supported. At least I won't get any surprise upgrades.
Surprise! Surprise! It is supported! And we've just provided you with the Greatest Version of Windows. Enjoy!
Releasing in 2025… Windows_Final_Updated_v2!
@Zerosquare said in I, ChatGPT:
@DogsB said in I, ChatGPT:
I can’t wait.
I can.
But the important question is... could you care less?
@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
No fair providing only a picture of an excerpt of the article! How are we supposed to violate the letter of the thread's name now?
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status feeling old.
I had to buy a new broomstick so I was leaning on it on the way home. I’m thinking of investing in a walking stick now.
Didn't want to startle the kids by flying on it?
I'm surprised they didn't just put up "deer cross here" signs somewhere they already had an overpass.