@PleegWat That character probably was intended for data streams like from teletypes/serial transmissions and only got repurposed there
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RE: The Most Absurd Thing You've Ever Coded/Built
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RE: The Most Absurd Thing You've Ever Coded/Built
Most WTFy code at my end was abusing a locally running test apache as a "service host". started the "service" by triggering a wget on autostart and then the script continue running even though connection got zapped and for stop a file on disk was used that got checked on each loop run (loop ran in a 10 minute cycle). Script was to "sync" a optimized to filesize version of the wallpaper to the Win7 loginscreen wallpaper which had a 256k filesize limit. still got that code somewhere in my file archives somewhere....
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RE: ̶W̶i̶n̶d̶o̶w̶s̶ ̶1̶0̶ ̶f̶a̶i̶l Of electronic roddents
@benjamin-hall said in Windows 10 fail:
@timebandit said in Windows 10 fail:
@benjamin-hall said in Windows 10 fail:
many wireless mice don't play nice with macs
You just have to use the right one
https://www.apple.com/us/shop/product/MLA02LL/A/magic-mouse-2
It's Magic™
And those are the ones I mentioned as hating. "real" mouse >>>>>>>>>>> Trackpad >>x Infinity > magic mouse.
Oh, and about 42 times as expensive as it should be, because Apple.
And when not lifting up your other fingers while clicking you can get right-clicks instead of left-clicks or the other way round.
Hated that mouse after using it for a few months (workplace usage, not my choice) since it was a pure WTF -
RE: Facebook apparently stored passwords in plaintext
@Gąska said in Facebook apparently stored passwords in plaintext:
@levicki I like how you covered up the user part of your email but left your personal domain visible.
Maybe he uses the part before the @ as a domain-specific email address and doesn't want to burn it by publishing it elsewhere so he knows when a breach of that site happens.
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RE: Students must install this GPS app to get 10% of their grade. Not creepy at all...
@da-Doctah said in Students must install this GPS app to get 10% of their grade. Not creepy at all...:
--SNIP--
(In other redundantly named newspaper areas, I wonder if any town ever called its paper the Daily Journal.)In germany there is one called "DIe Tageszeitung" (that translates to Daily Journal). ==> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Tageszeitung
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RE: Science!
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Science!:
(1) As previously discussed, I have lived west of the Atlantic, although I now live south of the Sleeve.
All of the hits the goog gives me on "the Sleeve" are about gastric sleeve surgery. Which I guess relates to donuts indirectly.
Edit: OK, I see it refers to the Channel.
Was instantly clear for me as german since its called Ärmelkanal in germany which would be sleeve channel when translated literally which wasn't done.
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RE: The War On Right Clicks
Got one of those buggers on a blog. Quickly fired up tampermonkey and patched that listener oput by straightforwardly nulling it. (implementing that as a fix on all sites isn't a good idea since some pages legitimately "catch" right clicks like google docs to provide a more contextual context menu
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RE: Foot shooting
@Bulb said in Foot shooting:
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@masterX244179 said in Foot shooting:Mergetools might sometimes whack off a closing tag or mix up the balancing so the XML is syntactically broken.
Not if the whole entry is on one line. That's how everybody else does it.
@masterX244179 said in Foot shooting:
Also have fun when you get a mergeconflictmarker inside the csproj file.
Yeah, Visual Studio projects, and especially solutions, always required a lot of hand editing for various reasons anyway. It is Visual Studio being crap, not anything fundamental to listing files in project.
--SNIPresx files are another candidate for getting FUBAR'd by merges. (had that case a few times already)
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RE: What users say versus what they mean
@anonymous234 Robertsspaceindustries.com (Star citizen) also got login name different from public profile name. Initially it wasn't that way but once the site upgrade away from wordpress was done it got reworked that way.
Latest posts made by masterX244179
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RE: Foot shooting
@Bulb said in Foot shooting:
--SNIP--
@masterX244179 said in Foot shooting:Mergetools might sometimes whack off a closing tag or mix up the balancing so the XML is syntactically broken.
Not if the whole entry is on one line. That's how everybody else does it.
@masterX244179 said in Foot shooting:
Also have fun when you get a mergeconflictmarker inside the csproj file.
Yeah, Visual Studio projects, and especially solutions, always required a lot of hand editing for various reasons anyway. It is Visual Studio being crap, not anything fundamental to listing files in project.
--SNIPresx files are another candidate for getting FUBAR'd by merges. (had that case a few times already)
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RE: Foot shooting
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Foot shooting:
@JBert said in Foot shooting:
@levicki said in Foot shooting:
- Why would you want an IDE to assume your intent?
- What's wrong with specifying files that are part of the project and thus get compiled?
- Convention over configuration is a thing. Build tools like Maven have been doing it for years: everything in
src/main/java
gets built, no exceptions. The downside of having to explicitly include files might mean that sometimes code is not included when it should have been, while convention-based setups mean that whatever is visible in your file explorer is what gets built in the IDE / build tool.
It might be a thing, but it smells very strongly of the machine deciding what to do rather than being told what to do. The problem with any instance of that is that the machine's criteria for deciding to do or not do something are almost always capable of completely shredding POLA.
Or maybe I'm just old-fashioned. Or just old. Not sure.
- It's a PITA when you're frequently merging branches which all add new files - at least for project files like Visual Studio's where XML tags can get misaligned by naïve merge tools.
If the alignment of XML tags matters, you go round to where the people who made the parser live and chastise them with your GAU-8. Geez.
Mergetools might sometimes whack off a closing tag or mix up the balancing so the XML is syntactically broken. Also have fun when you get a mergeconflictmarker inside the csproj file. YOu need to go to the file with a different editor to fix that.
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RE: Students must install this GPS app to get 10% of their grade. Not creepy at all...
@da-Doctah said in Students must install this GPS app to get 10% of their grade. Not creepy at all...:
--SNIP--
(In other redundantly named newspaper areas, I wonder if any town ever called its paper the Daily Journal.)In germany there is one called "DIe Tageszeitung" (that translates to Daily Journal). ==> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Tageszeitung
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RE: Science!
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Science!:
(1) As previously discussed, I have lived west of the Atlantic, although I now live south of the Sleeve.
All of the hits the goog gives me on "the Sleeve" are about gastric sleeve surgery. Which I guess relates to donuts indirectly.
Edit: OK, I see it refers to the Channel.
Was instantly clear for me as german since its called Ärmelkanal in germany which would be sleeve channel when translated literally which wasn't done.
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RE: The Most Absurd Thing You've Ever Coded/Built
Most WTFy code at my end was abusing a locally running test apache as a "service host". started the "service" by triggering a wget on autostart and then the script continue running even though connection got zapped and for stop a file on disk was used that got checked on each loop run (loop ran in a 10 minute cycle). Script was to "sync" a optimized to filesize version of the wallpaper to the Win7 loginscreen wallpaper which had a 256k filesize limit. still got that code somewhere in my file archives somewhere....
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RE: The Most Absurd Thing You've Ever Coded/Built
@PleegWat That character probably was intended for data streams like from teletypes/serial transmissions and only got repurposed there
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RE: Take one $10 USB stick (64Gb,) add Linux, sell for $80 (includes 50% discount!)
@Gurth In that case you paid for the work done on the Guide and not for the software packaged. Similar if you pay to get support incase of problems
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RE: United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why
@levicki said in United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why:
@masterX244179 said in United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why:
(was on a 747 without per-seat screens).
Aren't all their 747s like that? I remember mine not having seat screens either which with the lack of leg space is actually a good thing or there would have been no more liquid in LCD.
Only had one measurement. Mostly the comment was about the WTF program running on the screens