@Gąska Weird indeed. Where I live our checks chèques have separate fields for the sum in writing and the sum in digits (and of course both must match).
So it would be Twenty euros fifty cents
in one field and €20.50
in the other.
Posts made by Medinoc
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RE: WTF Bites
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RE: WTF Bites
@lolwhat And it can of course be used for emphasis -
one thousand dollars
versus$1000
And also the legalese staple
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@loopback0 If it's like when it happened to me, yes, but you get this even if you've set Windows Update to "download even on metered connections".
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@boomzilla NFTs Worth $
1.8M0.00 That Some Fool paid $1.8M for Seized by UK Law Enforcement for the First Time -
RE: Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths
@Gurth Did the installer promptly delete itself afterwards?
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@topspin What does "funge" mean?
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@izzion A shocked Pikachu face is not enough for this. We need Pikachu doing the sarcastically surprised Kirk 2-panel instead.
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RE: Internet of shit
@Luhmann Are you sure they're not underwater? They're clearly under a lot of watermarks...
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RE: Internet of shit
@Arantor Windows also blocks all characters below 32 at some layer of the API (good).
On the other hand, I suspect NTFS's filename encoding is actually WTF-16.
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RE: WTF Bites
and a long file name
Mr. Swamp approves.
(I now set my captions to "FileBasename.ext - SoftwareName n.m.x" where n.m.x is the version)
I did just discover (ah, discoverability!) that if I hover the mouse over the caption, it expands over the toolbar.
Well in a way, it does save on screen real estate... For the next time they decide to unilaterally ramp up font size, I guess.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
driving directions to the Louvre.
That's crazy. Nobody who isn't local enough to already know where it is should even consider driving in Paris.
From my experience as a child, "driving" wasn't so much the problem as "parking" was.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
Oh, you know what would be deliciously awful in its shining hypocrisy? Captain Planet NFTs.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@MrL said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
It's funny how some people can at once fiercely reject the labor theory of value, allegedly subscribe instead to the Austrian view that the price of a thing is a direct expression of individual preferences, hence a thing is "worth" whatever people are willing to pay for it, and pretend to know the exact opposite: that certain things are worth something completely different than the price at which they were exchanged in the market.
There's no contradiction. Things have different value for different people. Saying "it's not worth the price paid" means just "I would not pay that much".
Labor theory of value is insane.
Our attitude to NFT isn't anywhere near bounded to "I would not pay that much". It's "I would not pay that pay that much and I am appalled that anyone would." It's not merely about personal values, it's about the expectation of those values being shared.
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RE: WTF (What-the-Fun) Project: Dust Sucker
I remember Adobe really hates photoshopping...
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RE: WTF (What-the-Fun) Project: Dust Sucker
@BernieTheBernie What makes this feel weird to me is that in France it's already called a sucker (word is aspirateur).
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RE: WTF Bites
I was appalled to see all the GUI stuff in .NET Core was Windows-only.
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RE: WTF Bites
@hungrier From memory, 0x80004005 is
E_FAIL
, so this really is a "We have not idea why this failed" error.
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RE: The most idiotic idea about types ever
I was under the impression ASN.1 DER encoded only field types, not their names (or ID)... Gotta read that again.
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RE: WTF Bites
@cvi IIRC, Group Policies overwrite your machine settings every few hours, that's how they work.
I've noticed that my settings get nuked every few days ...
But that's still entirely pointless. If I can trivially bypass locks/security settings in a few clicks, it doesn't matter that the settings get reapplied every few hours. They're still (at best) a vague suggestion.
Group Policies were intended for computers whose users are not local administrators. There's no "administrator hierarchy" saying the domain admin trumps local admins, so when you have local admins, Group Policies become a "poor man's subtitute" for that.
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RE: WTF Bites
@cvi IIRC, Group Policies overwrite your machine settings every few hours, that's how they work.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@dcon Ah. Sorry for the then.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@dcon Win11:
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@DogsB 20 Terabytes??
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RE: UI Bites
@remi Interestingly, 1036 is the ID of the French language in Windows. Could be related, if someone used the wrong parameter in the wrong place...
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RE: Denial of Senses
Coming from a C background, for a long time I had been a proponent of "teach by reinventing the wheel". By now I've amended that to "First and foremost teach with the existing library wheels. Then as an exercise teach how to make one."
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
- Upload the same image at separate URLs
- Generate an NFT on each
- Sell to suckers
- Profit!
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@Zecc Hence the "do not steal" part of "original character"?
OTOH, furries like to have their character(s) appear in other furries' pictures (as long as they're not on the receiving end of something nasty, I guess). It's more art of the character, so anything that's not bad is good.
I'm sure the NFT bros would disapprove of someone making "fan art" of their shiny new auto-generated lion... Assuming anyone would want to.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@Rhywden Amateur.
https://youtu.be/erFI2g0rQTc?t=1320
Skip to 22:00 if whatever turned my link into an embed behaves predictably bad.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@kazitor We need an open letter or petition urging Valve to keep it banned.
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RE: Teams is directionally challenged
A few weeks ago I was in an audio-conference with (among others) a guy in the same room as I. So I tried the "mute" button next to his icon, to avoid hearing him in "double".
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RE: The Return of Windows RT?
I was confused at first, but then I checked dates and it turns out this topic predates the Epic Store by a year, which is why the guy was talking about Steam instead.
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RE: Your files are right where you left them
@HannibalRex said in Your files are right where you left them:
@LaoC said in Your files are right where you left them:
The fact that a Save dialog contains anything other than an OK button doesn't even enter their conscious awareness so shit gets saved wherever suggested by whatever you created it with and under the default name, and later you try to remember something from it that will make search find it.
This. The save dialog is usually just something to be clicked through.
It's even worse than that. Nowadays for most web browsers, by default there is no Save dialog. And for a long time, on Edge this wasn't just the default, but the only way!
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RE: Firefox Developers Hate You
@El_Heffe said in Firefox Developers Hate You:
The arguments are what TFA says: the people complaining are a minority, telemetry shows that ${x} isn't being used, etc. But each time a few people get pissed and switch.
The problem with the "telemetry shows that ${x} isn't being used" argument is that most knowledgeable users turn off the telemetry because they don't want their browser spying on them. So Mozilla's telemetry is not accurate and only represents the usage patterns of people too lazy or stupid to turn off the telemetry.
I think that's one of Firefox's major problem: That most of Firefox's remaining userbase is the tech-savvy users, the kind that disable telemetry on sight. And they don't realize this.
Which is why they do stuff like bump the menu item spacing to levels that make no sense on desktop, remove the "View Image"[in the same tab, without losing Back] option, copy every misfeature of Chrome, etc.
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RE: Am I the only one who remembers when ... ?
@Gribnit I think I remember the palette to be uncompressed, and I don't remember either whether it was possible to set it to some arbitrary size between 16 and 256 colors.
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RE: Am I the only one who remembers when ... ?
@Gribnit AFAIK, they can't alas. Frames MUST have their own pixels. :-(
(also, a full 256-color palette is 768 bytes, whereas info such as "Shift colors at indices X1 to Y1 every Z1 milliseconds, Shift colors at indices X2 to Y2 every Z2 milliseconds" would be much smaller) -
RE: Am I the only one who remembers when ... ?
I liked animated GIFs, but to me, they were "ruined" by people cramming movie excerpts into them.
And by "ruined", I mean "inspired platforms like Twitter to convert GIFs to actual videos on-the-fly when uploaded, leaving no trace of the original, lossless GIF". Yeah, it makes sense when it's a movie, but it does not when it's an actual, hand-crafted pixel art animation!That said, after watching this GDC talk, I've come to realize there's one thing cruelly missing from GIF and other "animated image" formats (MNG, APNG, is there another?) alike: Support for palette cycling. Animating without changing the actual pixel data? That would make for some cool, yet small files.
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@Gurth said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
@remi said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
I saw in Real Life some signatures that were more or less just a circle or a line, or some other pattern that was really not distinctive of even being a signature
When delivery people began requiring a signature on their little handheld device, I quickly found it awkward to do so because it’s hard to write on it. I began putting an X instead, as much for a joke as because that is easy to write on that little screen.
After years of doing this, one of them told me it wasn’t valid and I had to put an actual signature. Later still, I began noticing that some, after I put an X, had to fiddle with the device to (apparently) say “Yes, this is what the guy signed.”
Every time I sign on one such device, I feel a pang of paranoia that someone could feed it to a plotter in order to forge signatures. Then I sign anyway.
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Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...
STILL delete themselves? Without prompting?
Also, I've been trying to find one article about that I thought I've read on The Daily WTF, but my search has so far been fruitless.
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RE: That is a nice password you have, would be a shame if you installed this theme
Wasn't there, a few years ago, an identical fuck-up with .scf files and Explorer fetching their icon the same way?
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RE: CodeSOD collection
@BernieTheBernie
GC.KeepAlive(m_BlahCount)
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RE: WTF Bites
@Bulb This reminds me of the minor annoyance of font fallback on Windows (This may or may not have changed since): if you had a Latin font selected and, say, a Japanese+Latin font, if your text was Latin-Japanese-Latin, the engine would not revert to the original font for the second Latin part.
I wonder if it's still the case, but cba to check.
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RE: Tech YouTube channel advertising stolen Windows keys and saying they're legit
@Gąska Now I wonder if the actual source of these screenshots also expressed sarcastic surprise, or if it was just taken out of context / badly animated.
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RE: Epic Store (and other "Occupy Steam" movements)
@loopback0 said in Epic Store (and other "Occupy Steam" movements):
On PC everyone complains there are too many options. On mobile too few. So we need to legally mandate precisely the right amount of competing stores.
Reminds me of Microsoft mandating that manufacturers of x86-based PC set UEFI to allow installing other OSes, and manufacturers of ARM-based devices to disallow it. To me it really sounded like "we allow installing other OSes on PC because we're forced to, we disallow it on ARM stuff because (due to not being a monopoly there) we can get away with it"
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RE: Epic Store (and other "Occupy Steam" movements)
In a vacuum, all an app-store-front application needs is to pay for its own hosting and bandwidth costs (which could be as simple as "pay us a monthly fee, plus a percentage on downloads and size, regardless of retail price".
But something like Play Store is not in a vacuum, its owner needs them to not just pay for themselves, but also cover the costs of everything that's provided for free on the ecosystem (various Google apps, etc;).
And then, greed comes in, and being self-sustaining is no longer enough: We now want to the store to make lots of money. That's where the "You're making money off your app, give us 30% of it" card comes in. I wonder if that could be solved by mandating that all platforms support several competing stores... But that's where the arguments start about what a monopoly is. People say "there already is competition! You can choose between iPhone and a multitude of Android ones!"
So on the one end, we have the argument that it's not a monopoly because iPhone is only X% of the market, etc. But from the point of view of an app vendor, what they see is several local monopolies. If they want to reach customers who bought an iPhone, they have no other choice than go through Apple. If they want to reach other customers, they must support Android (which thankfully allows sideloading). And it's worse than the whole Epic/Steam/UPlay etc.,, because a user has a much greater chance of creating several user accounts than of buying both an Android phone and an iPhone.
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RE: Next you'll tell me that vi and emacs are two different programs
@Gurth I wouldn't say it looks ugly, but it definitely looks kiddy.
Also I don't know exactly why (the size of the digits?) I keep picturing it as having huge keys (like, 1.5 times the normal size) for no adequately explained reason.
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RE: Virtual not-so-Private Network
@Gąska said in Virtual not-so-Private Network:
And besides, if you watch people making new people through a commercial VPN that promises anonymity, the ISP will see that you're connecting to IP of a commercial VPN that promises anonymity, and why would you do that if not for some nefarious reasons. So it's not like VPN gets you anything in this case either.
And indeed, countries with a Great Firewall usually ban VPNs as well.
I would expect "no logs" VPNs to be legal in some places the same way there are "tax havens" that are really about hiding bank activity rather than taxes, but then you'll soon need a VPN to access those...
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RE: Next you'll tell me that vi and emacs are two different programs
Haven't read the article yet, butI haven't seen separate Return and Enterkey since my old Amstrad CPC 6128.My current Keyboard (a Dell French AZERTY) has keys Entrée↩for the big one and Entr for the numpad.
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RE: CodeSOD collection
@bobjanova said in CodeSOD collection:
@BernieTheBernie said in CodeSOD collection:
How does [ Task.Run(() => CheckBlah(someParameter)).Wait(); ] differ from
[ CheckBlah(someParameter); ]In the simple case CheckBlah will be run on the current thread. In the Task.Run case, it will be run on another thread (one in the executor's thread pool, assuming a normal config), and the current thread will wait for it to finish (including waiting for it to get pipelined, if the thread pool is limited and busy).
It's hard to see any situation where that difference would be useful. You're still blocking the current thread, and you're also adding load into the thread pool and some OS thread switching/monitoring overhead. Your coworker almost certainly did not mean to do it. But there is a difference.
If the
CheckBlah
tasks does anything that can accept incoming events (like, say, show a modal message box) there is a big impact: The message box introduces reentrancy if it executes on the same thread (because a new event could come in while the message box is up, etc.). Using a task and Wait() would make it "truly blocking" for the calling thread.I know this because, well... WTF confession time! I had that exact problem with a program for a college project. Of course, the reason I had message boxes in the first place was because of another sin: I was indulging in
printf
-debugging my network application with message boxes. As events would come, dialog boxes would pile up (leading to wackiness if closed out of order)... So I resorted to this method to make my boxes "truly blocking". Which of course, hard the unfortunate side-effect of making the main thread unresponsive.I think I cleaned all that up by the end of the project (the program needed to work without requiring user intervention every second, after all), and there is a happy ending to this: I drew the lesson of never attempting to show any modal UI in response to events not in the user's control (like network events).
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RE: Security Snake Oil Inc.
One way to get around such weakness would be to check the password against a dictionary when submitted (computationally easy since changing the password usually involves sending its cleartext to the server -- hopefully under SSL/TLS). If it's in the dictionary, reject it as "vulnerable to dictionary attacks".