@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity Yes. Let's wait for iPolish Version 2.
iPolish 2.0 "Kurwalina"
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity Yes. Let's wait for iPolish Version 2.
iPolish 2.0 "Kurwalina"
@Gąska said in What is the meaning of OR?:
@Parody according to one fairly popular coding coach, no function should have more than 3-4 lines. If you can split it, split it; and if it has 5 lines, you almost certainly can split it somehow. 6 is right out.
I worked at a company where his ideas were treated like gospel. It was a nightmare.
Luckily I'm not there anymore.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
I've been using Fira Code since @pie_flavor convinced me of the awesomeness of code ligatures.
And what's awesome about them?
As the JetBrains page mentions it's good for two things:
Better spacing balance, e.g. C++ scoping operator::
looks nicer than two sequential colons, and nice symbols, e.g.->
,<=
, etc. get merged to what they actually mean.if (i <= j && k != 0) foo->bar();
It takes a bit to get used to at first.
I have numerous problems with this
Not sure if this belongs here or in the Internet of Shit thread, but what the fuck.
Source: @mcclure111
"Headset [...] vibrate function."
@Parody said in Killed by Google:
I just don't want to use a service that plays a video ad before playing a song you uploaded and mixes your video and music plays into one history for suggestions, but that's appears to be what we're getting. :(
You use google services, it doesn't matter what you want.
Hah, I'm back. As you can imagine, I got overwhelmed by tediousness of working on tracks. Everything slowed down to a crawl, but it didn't stop completely - I kept working on it when I could bring myself to it. And so, step by step, I'm close to finishing this part of Panzer II.
Where were we last time... runding the edges of track links. That's done, nothing to write about. Next is gluing on the teeth. This is tricky - links are small, very light, and the move around very easily. Teeth are about 1.5x2mm, so even breathing on them moves them. To keep links in place and to get ready for painting, I made a frame:
Links are held in place by wire (which is also the way they will be connected later)
Each row has 25 links, there are 12 rows. Thats 300 links. Each link has 2 teeth... 600 teeth to glue on. And teeth look like this
Yeah. Easy peasy. 3 months later...
Time to paint all this stuff. Using a brush would make me suicidal, I'm quite sure of it. Luckily years ago I bought myself an airbrush. I never used it, so I'm learning as I go... no risk no fun.
I broke the thing 5 or 6 times, painted parts of my desk and inhaled a lot of acrylic paint. Let's call it fun learning experience. But it worked, all links were painted, with good effect, and probably about 3000 times faster than with a normal brush.
After cutting them off the frame:
I removed the wire (sprayed with paint all over it's unusable for anything, went to trash), cleaned them a bit and started connecting them:
Links are not identical, some are perfect, some are a bit distorted, some are overpainted. Connecting 2 good links takes 30-45 seconds. With bad ones it's up to 10 minutes
After much swearing, resisting destructive urges and proclaiming "fuck this shit" more than once...
That's 100 links. One full track will be 110-115, but connecting the last ones will be done at the very end of building the model, so let's say half of it is done. Whew.
Painting is not ideal, as you can see, but I'll leave it like that, it looks kinda cool. I just have to paint tips of the wire where they are visible.
When second half of tracks is done, it will be time to return to the hull and wheels.
This episode was sponsored by
Atak Chmielu (Hop Attack) by Pinta.
I briefly considered suicide, but eventually settled on alcoholism.
You're competing for the title of "most Polish thing said here", right?
I can't change who I am, may as well be good at it.
New course of action: when I sober up (Monday-Tuesday), I'll rewrite this whole fucking thing. Then it will be rejected because "it may introduce bugs".
@ChaosTheEternal said in In other news today...:
That's a pretty old trick.
There's also optional step 3a:
Keep the money for a time before giving it back, keep interest gained.
With subscription service you can do it perpetually, just charge random people twice a month from time to time.
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I never thought about myself as an every day hero...
@Zerosquare said in Something I hate about Chrome:
@levicki said in Something I hate about Chrome:
"Don't use table" is the same bullshit as "don't use goto".
Wait... you can use
goto
in HTML?
<goto>You sure can</goto>
Ok, there is some interest in the subject, so let's begin.
I'll post images of progress of work on my current model - at first post will be quite regular, as I have some work already done, then I'll post as something new happens, which means not often.
I have some photos of past models, but not many, so this source will dry up quickly too :)
Oh, and I'll bore you with some useless trivia about card modelling too.
Currently I'm working on Panzerkampfwagen II Ausführung C, Sonderkraftfahrtzeug 121.
Which means 'armoured fighting vehicle II type C, military special purpose vehicle 121', or as it is widely known PzKpfw II Ausf. C or just Panzer II C.
It was published in 1998, so it's old, but I got a copy in very good shape, with paper that didn't age badly. Model has good reputation, as being well designed and very nicely 'weathered'*, so it looks cool in spite of being not very complicated.
First thing you do when starting to work on a model is making the skeleton. It makes the hull rigid, so it doesn't implode. Skeleton parts are printed on thin paper, which you glue on thick (1mm) cardboard and cut out:
If there are parts of the skeleton that will be bent, you need to make them thin in bending points, or it all wont fit together:
Then you assemble it all together, check for bad fits, correct them, assemble it again, etc..
When you are confident that everything fits, you glue it all together.
I didn't take a photo of completed skeleton, unfortunately. So here's how it looked like when I started to apply the 'sheathing':
Sides and bottom of the hull are one part according to the design, but I cut them into three separate pieces. Bending paper on long straight lines is hard to do and with paper that is 20 years old it would probably chip off the paint. It proved to be a good decision - lines of connection of those three parts look ok, I'll show it in some future post.
* models are published either in 'clean' state, as they look when they leave the factory, or 'weathered' with usage marks, chipped off paint, mud, etc.
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@MrL Was there a time traveler in the room? If you didn't see him he was probably hiding.
That's the best part, it was me, an hour earlier! Time travel!
@GOG said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/groups/people-who-are-not-abarker
That's a suspiciously small group...
Have you seen people-who-are-not-boomzilla group?
Poof! BitMarket.net disappeared from the face of internet. Aprox 120M PLN (35M USD) lost from over 60K users.
"Dear Users,
We regret to inform you that due to the loss of liquidity, since 08/07/2019, Bitmarket.pl/net was forced to cease its operations. We will inform you about further steps."
@Polygeekery said in More unintended consequences:
I do not know him all that well, but somehow I have become the one he calls when he needs answers to things that are above his technology paygrade.
A fatal mistake. Never ever offer help in anything IT. Never ever show that you know anything in the field someone is asking about.
"Not my area of expertise. I could learn about it, but it would be expensive. You know, I'm super busy like that".
@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
So many brains were damaged permanently by covid.
Just yesterday I was scolded by a family member for not remembering mass graves filled with heaps of bodies moved by bulldozers (no such thing happened).
Panzer II is still not finished, but lately I was able to fend off a bit:
Entwicklung 50 Standardpanzer, or just E-50.
Paintjob is botched, but other than that I'm satisfied with the result.
It's plastic of course, so very easy to build.
@brie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Wonder what Ken would say...
Ken is holding the camera obviously.
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status
It was all so nice and neat until I had to add error handling.
Just program it without errors. HTH
@Luhmann said in Windoze 10 Fall 2018 Flopdate, now with even more nothingness:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Windoze 10 Fall 2018 Flopdate, now with even more nothingness:
It's inconsistent
IT at it's finest.
Laymans and early beginners think about computers as predictable deterministic machines. 1 and 0, 2 + 2 = 4, same action same result, and all that. But we, professionals, know very well that it's utterly untrue. Computers are in fact powered by magic, act on a whim, and really it's a small miracle every time something happens as expected in IT.
@Carnage said in Tinder is shit:
@GOG said in Tinder is shit:
@Carnage said in Tinder is shit:
I love the utter lack of shits given among the elderly.
Once you get to 85, what's the worst that could happen?
If I make it to that age against all odds I'm gonna spend the rest of my life high/stoned the fuck out on the best shit there is.
I once met a guy at a party, he was in his seventies, conversation in our small group went to work and hobbies.
: Now that I'm retired I can commit to my true passion, which I didn't have time for before. Finally I can become a full fledged alcoholic. [To his daughter] Honey, your inheritance is no more. Gone.
@MrL ad block blocking a stupid overlay?
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@MrL It prevents you from clicking on anything until you stop blocking their ads and tracking. And cookie warnings. And newsletter popups. And notification prompts. And seasonal offers. And...
It still doesn't work with adblock disabled. So, as I mentioned: incompetent schmucks.
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
That's crazytalk. Car's just a phone, like everything else.
@dcon said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@izzion said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@kazitor
I am quite disappoint that Teams hasn't updated to the new color of the year background yet.The PR is stuck in the approval process and missed Tuesday's patch deployment.
edit: Think I just found out why
They still have people employed at engineering divisions? I was pretty sure, judging by their latest achievements, that they hire groups of teenagers ad hoc and pay them in weed. Or possibly just monkeys.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My Monday is off to a productive start. 07:18, and I've already caught up on TDWTF. Even without any caffeine, yet.
Careful, don't overwork yourself.
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
@GuyWhoKilledBear ... and the really high-end ones have a cold drinking water dispenser with DRM?
You wouldn't want for you cold water to break copyright, now would you?
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This shit is still happening. How badly compromised is twitter?
Morally or security wise?
@PleegWat said in Solar Roadways?:
@Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?:
@dkf said in Solar Roadways?:
That didn't have power steering, and manoeuvering around a parking lot was a tremendous upper body strength workout.
An old joke from back when a significant number of cars didn't necessarily come with power steering:
"Does it have power steering?"
"It has Armstrong power steering."A similar joke here refers to cars without AC. AC is called airco here; cars without would be referred to as ARKO. Even though they usually only had 4 openable windows.
Around here no AC was sometimes called '4 zone AC'.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
I like saying "you need to calm down", because it makes people even more furious.
@El_Heffe said in Lime scooters:
@anonymous234 said in Lime scooters:
@dcon It's a "viral marketing campaign" from a Swedish advertising company called Odd Company.
Probably true, but the CEO is sticking to his story that they are a real company.
Business idea: kangaroo sharing company.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only programmer in the world who even tries to be competent.
We often laugh behind your back at your excess commitment. Just let go and enjoy life, like the rest of us.
@boomzilla said in Tinder is shit:
You didn't bring your own umbrella? Haha, lame.
Filed under: get your bulletproof dating advice from MrL
@Rhywden said in Fuck this place:
If you have people screaming at other people then you don't have a "safe space" or anything.
You didn't understand my post. But that's ok.
I'm against 'rules of conduct', because they produce boring/irritating safe spaces.
Here's the thing: This place is a massive echo chamber, people screaming and cursing at each other in the Garage. What exactly is that supposed to accomplish?
Freedom to scream and curse each other.
It will do precisely nothing.
Why would you want the forum to do anything?
Well, the trolls will feel fine because they can trigger some snowflake or anything but in the meantime you'll drive away the moderates and people who like discourse without being insulted.
You have general forum for normal conversation and civilized salon for super mild conversations (where you can do something, I guess).
I myself am not receptive to any arguments by boomzilla or anyone else of his ilk anymore - his willful ignorance, his petty cherry-picking and his superiority complex don't really show me that his arguments are anything worth listening to.
Yeah, well, I don't care about your personal dislikes.
I'm now either ignoring what the other side says, calling them out on their hipocrisy or making fun of them by trolling right back. I don't really get angry anymore.
Good, thicker skin is a good idea. Ignoring what others say not necessarily, but whatever works for you.
You may now proceed to yell at me further but I don't really care.
Where did I yell at you?
They always want rules but only in very specific and opportune places.
Like what rules exactly?
The general problem is not with people, but with topics. Political, social and ethical topics are inflammatory by their nature. You can't have coy discussions on those topics - I know you think you can, but you can't. People get angry and call other side idiots in those areas by the nature of those areas.
Now, introducing rules to eliminate aggression and name calling seems like a good idea, but it's a disaster in practice (like communism, sorry, sorry). The practical effect is that the team enforcing the rules promotes their side of discussions, which produces, in time, echo chamber, and later, desolate snooze fest.
Natural idea to overcome this is 'diverse moderation team'. Also sounds great, but doesn't work in practice. Sooner or later some moderators start to 'win' - those that have more time and/or are more motivated. Others leave or stop caring.
I've seen this happen on many forums I took part in - I don't go there anymore.
Garage/normal/civilized is a good separation. The specific problem here, as stated by others multiple times already, is shit slinging outside the garage. Which takes form of derailing threads to inflammatory areas or by starting inflammatory topics in general. This should be moderated, which as far as I can see, is.
Lorne wants his healthcare discussion 'researched and fact based'? Why doesn't he go to the salon with this?
@Gąska said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL take a guęśś.
The one on the back, with head out of view. You cropped the photo to keep anonymity, obviously.
How long does it take to upload a 3kB file? For MS Teams, the answer is full 20 seconds. 20 seconds of the progress bar slowly filling up.
Your file may be 3kB, but the SOAP envelope with metadata is 5MB.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
"Migrate from Visual Studio to Visual Studio Code"
butwhy.gif
I have no fucking clue. That's just what $supervisor wanted (or mentioned they wanted).
They want to save money on VS licenses. Expect great things in near future.
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Whoops!
You'd think that coffee from McDonald’s is enough punishment.
@hungrier I'm willing to believe that every remaining COBOL programmer is a hostage situation.
I know some of them. They are pretty smug for hostages.
"I have employment safety for life and I don't even have to try"
"All this newfangled shit is useless. You can do everything in COBOL"
"Pff, learning new languages? What for?"
@Seppen said in In other news today...:
From my experience, instant 'coffee' is indeed what most people consider coffee in the UK.
Suddenly brexit makes a lot more sense.
@MrL
but releases probably go straight to production
It's the only environment that works, so of course they do.
Oh, you were joking
@atazhaia said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
@kt_ Well, maybe if Windows would be a competently designed and well-built OS it would do a fast and clean boot from any kind of harddrive without the need for artificial crutches to give the illusion of booting fast.
Also, I was just hit with the new Windows "feature" mentioned in the OP. Colleague came in and connected his laptop and started the boot and then went for coffee. And ofc he had a browser tab with YT open, so it would load behind the login screen and start playing the world's longest fucking ad. Seriously, what inbred mongrel at Microsoft thought that feature would be a good idea ever? Fuck Microsoft and their ideas of "helpful" features. Is that yet another thing designed to make Windows look faster than it actually is? As the login tends to be very slow compared to the competition preloading would also give the illusion of Windows being faster than it really is.
So, my message to Microsoft: Stop adding these crutches to give the illusion of your OS being fast and work on actually MAKING it fast. Sort the underlying issues instead of just painting over the cracks. And fire the team who keeps coming up with and implementing these misfeatures.
Colleague opened YouTube in his browser. Browser and Youtube autoplay everything. It's Windows fault.
Did I get it right?
@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
The $bigClient grabbed the last tiny bit of our testing infrastructure and switched it over to production.
You know what? I'll tell you what: now I'm gonna crash one of your prod devices to see if a notification gets sent somewhere.
He pulled the same stunt at the very start of the project (by attaching hist production servers and devices to our staging), after we implemented a prototype of one feature (without any UI, tests etc) which he needed urgently. Then we set up another server and slowly persuaded him to set some devices to use it. Now again he moved everything to prod (formerly known as stage-1).
Of course, for the cash he's paying us he could buy a whole container (not in the docker sense) of this junk. But no, too precious to assign a dozen or so for testing purposes permanently and bring them to an office.
Obligatory:
@jbert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mrl Excerpt from that article where somebody really wants to throw good money after bad:
One such mourner is Mr. Philip Neumeier, who bought 15 bitcoins for roughly $260 in 2013, when he was toying with the idea of accepting the virtual currency on his e-commerce site, reports the WSJ. Now that his cache’s value is nearly $300,000, he’s trying to recover that long-forgotten password. Though he considered hypnosis to help recall the subconscious memory, he decided instead to build a supercomputer that tries to use “brute force” to crack the code.
The brute force required is hot and heavy work, and so the five foot-tall computer system sits in a 270 gallon tank of special mineral water to disperse the heat it generates, says the WSJ. Mr. Neumeier suggests it might even take a few hundred years to run through every possible combination of letters, numbers and symbols.“I should probably be about 332 years old by then—hopefully bitcoin will be worth something,” he said to the WSJ.
By now he must have burned a sizeable chunk of money...
That's such a waste of effort. He can just give me $100.000 and I'll call him in 300 years to tell him it didn't work.