@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
I guess that’s where I’m going if I want to keep following/being part of the conversation.
We are not enough for you?
@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
I guess that’s where I’m going if I want to keep following/being part of the conversation.
We are not enough for you?
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
You can have printers without havoc?!
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Sounds like bad news. Good news is that somebody else can pick up the business and even offer more expensive trips to see the wreck of the titanic and of the titan in one go, in an even worse sub.
Filed under: expanding!
I'm defending my bachelor's thesis this Saturday.
Is that something you have to do for a bachelor's in Poland?
Yup. 60 pages of pure bullshit, describing a 10kloc application that does pure bullshit.
Your subject is "IT in a nutshell" ?
@Steve_The_Cynic said in VLC - The new poster child for everything wrong with software development:
@MrL said in VLC - The new poster child for everything wrong with software development:
IME all media players, video or music, are shitty. I don't know if it's a uniquely challenging field or what.
One of the big challenges is that the end-users have highly inconsistent expectations of what such a program can do and how it should present those capabilities.
I don't know if it explains fully the sheer retardedness of media players.
Looking for a usable player on android, I eventually conceded defeat. Every single one is somehow broken in a idiotic way. Some examples:
- no, I don't want to be able to only play shuffled songs of chosen artist
- no, I don't want to make everything a 'playlist'
- no, I don't want whole screen surface to be the 'next' button
- no, I don't want to categorize everything only by 'genre'
- no, I don't want autogenerated 'mood' playlists thrown in my face all the time
- no, I don't want to share every click on facebook, or anywhere
- no, I don't want to rate songs with retarded stars/smileys/notes
and so on.
@blek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Some related news from the east!
We had elections some months ago and the local Pirate Party got into the Parliament. Today I saw an article about one of their new MPs who apparently moved into an apartment provided by the government (pretty standard stuff so far), and promptly started mining Zcash. Someone noticed the strangely expensive energy bill and investigated what was going on, and that's how it came to light.
In about three weeks this guy managed to run up an energy bill of about 130 dollars (2500-3000 CZK) which is pretty impressive; it's not clear how much he made but it's supposed to be significantly less (hundreds of CZK, so a couple dozen dollars). Now he says he'll donate what he made to charity. He also says the apartment was really cold and he was using the mining rig to help heat it because, and I'm quoting here, "he was waiting on the Parliament to provide him a heater". What.
Every MP has to put together and submit a list of their valuable assets. When some journalists got a hold of this guy's filing, after the energy bill fuckup, they found out that his lists cryptocurrencies worth a bit under 9000 dollars and graphics cards worth about 8000 total. Apparently he also owes about a thousand dollars in unpaid bills to the power company at his old place.
This is a person who gets to vote on legislation...
Member of Pirate Party is an irresponsible moron? I'm shocked. Shocked!
@Benjamin-Hall said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
@Watson I've used "the warthog kneels" in casual conversation.
I called my friend 'kneeling swine' yesterday
@dkf said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
@steve_the_cynic said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
Just in case you missed it, that was scripts in emails. In 1998.
It wasn't original then (I remember scripts-in-emails from before that point), and at that point there were also systems out there that could do effective sandboxing to stop shenanigans. Not that that was part of the MS gameplan at that point. (For many years after, the single biggest security problem of the MS ecosystem was the way Outlook “threw random stuff over the wall” by default.)
It's the same story for 100th time.
- So we have this data transportation channel, which works perfectly well...
- Let's make it programmable!
- What a splendid idea. I see nothing but benefits. Let's do it right now!
@blakeyrat said in Why yes, I do have a hobby. Glad you asked.:
@mrl said in Why yes, I do have a hobby. Glad you asked.:
Shoes?
The part of the tank assembly that leaves a tread.
Old WWI tanks are all based on agricultural tractors, so they usually don't have very elaborate ones. That Whippet for example seems to just have sheet metal ridges.
Oh ok. Polish modelers sometimes say that they are making slippers for their tank, when they work on tracks.
--edit--
Of course there are tank slippers too
@cvi said in There, but not back again:
@mrl said in There, but not back again:
Cops are getting close, eh?
Hopefully the detour via all of Europe and plus Ankara will throw them off my trail a bit longer this time.
Just learn to hide bodies better already.
@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I think it depends on what you ordered. You could have ordered cauliflower.
In that case one should still make a call, but to the psychiatric hospital.
Call wherever you want, you can take cauliflower with breadcrumbs from my cold dead hands.
@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.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
What is that thing?
INB4 "it's a wooden table"
Ridiculously expensive slab of metal, known in some circles as Apple monitor stand.
@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?"
@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?
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Whoops!
You'd think that coffee from McDonald’s is enough punishment.
@atazhaia said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@blakeyrat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The real problem isn't that there's data in the blockchain, but that there's data in the blockchain that makes it literally illegal for any US citizen to possess the blockchain.
And he was strongly refuting that claim today, being all "Fake news!" about the whole deal. Even when I sent him the article explaining how it's possible, he called the whole thing bullshit and "not possible" and "it's not real data" and other such stuff, trying to deny the whole thing. He doesn't even have any Bitcoin anymore iirc, so I dunno why he spends so much effort defending that one currency either.
Hysterical self delusion, fuelled by fear of admitting being wrong.
@djls45 said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
It's specifically "glasses", not "cups"?
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@djls45 It translates as glasses or goblets. However, it is also "Unità di misura di capacità per liquidi, usata in Italia prima dell'adozione del sistema metrico decimale, con valori variabili da zona a zona."
Glasses are used in Europe in recipes. Because standard glass is 250ml, or 1/4 L (meaning a common glass for tea).
According to cookingconversions.org
Cup measurements are often found in recipes, similarly to spoon measurements, with 1 cup flour or 1 cup caster sugar regularly being seen, especially in American recipes. Over time standard US cup measures have come to be used at 1 US cup being the equivalent of a ½ pint (US) (8 US fluid ounces).
In other English speaking countries the Imperial Cup of half an Imperial pint was formerly used in recipes, this has been replaced in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa with the metric cup of 250ml. The Cup has not been in common use as a standard measure in British recipes in over 50 years.
"Metric cup" also known as 'a normal glass'. Anyway, once again, US is the odd one.
Also
1 cup = 237ml
Nothing new, standard metric-weirdo conversion.
1 cup = 8.33 UK fl oz
as expected.
[bonus]
Wtf is 'fluid ounce'?
A volume of pure water measuring one imperial fluid ounce has a mass of almost exactly one ounce.
Almost exactly. Wonderful system, it all comes together so seamlessly.
@topspin said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Why should my results change depending on if all the classmates are geniuses or morons?
I had a conversation about it with a professor not long ago. I told him that grading this way makes grades meaningless, because they are different for different groups, which means also different on different dates. Effectively they are also not grades for individual work/achievement, but for external factors outside of individual's influence, which is simply unfair.
He was shocked. He's a university professor for 35 years and it never occurred to him
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Also status: thousands of wild geese moving noisily over this place to the west
Does the noise come from one of them arguing with the rest over trivial bullshit in seemingly incomprehensible language?
@Gribnit said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@anotherusername Then again, when someone's holding nearly anything as a weapon, it pretty much looks like a weapon.
@anotherusername said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
True to form, he'll miss all the deadlines and the sub will be completed 2 months after they've all died or been rescued some other way.
That's the plan from the start. PR stunt #1 - 'We will help with this tragedy', PR stunt #2 - 'We have this idiotic solution that will not work, but sounds cool', PR stunt #3 - 'Oh man, we didn't make it in time, so sorry. If only someone called me earlier', PR stunt #4 - 'Our idiotic solution is now on display/given to charity'.
#4 depends on anything being really done, perhaps it's all just talk. No one will ask about solution existence when the crisis is over and he knows it.
@HardwareGeek said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
For sure COVID killed a lot of people who probably wouldn't have died then, but ...
... many of whom were so ill they probably would have died soon from almost any cause.
As one of Polish experts explained (I think his name is Kuna), and I'm paraphrasing heavily here:
"Many diseases can be a compounding factor of death. Let's take an example. Flu kills a lot of people every year. When a patient is admitted to hospital with flu, and he has a history of serious heart problems - flu puts a strain on his system, his existing conditions worsen. Finally he dies of heart attack. In that case we put 'heart disease' on death certificate - it's the heart condition that killed him, flu just sped up the process. Covid is the only disease when we do the opposite, doesn't matter what killed the patient, covid is on the certificate. Covid can kill on its own, with lungs inflamation, but that's just a fraction of reported covid deaths."
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
bleeding eyes and facial swelling
That's just me browsing the internet on Friday.
@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:
@MrL
but releases probably go straight to production
It's the only environment that works, so of course they do.
Oh, you were joking
@Gąska said in Required reading for everyone!:
@Zerosquare it has a whole chapter about people who don't see missing deadlines as a big deal.
Whole chapter about me?
@jaloopa said in Explainging VPNs and Remote Desktops to Non-Technical People:
@mrl said in Explainging VPNs and Remote Desktops to Non-Technical People:
Helping people with Team Viewer for the first time is fun. It's good to have them on the phone at the same time
For bonus points, tell them you're calling from Microsoft because they've downloaded a virus. In a thick Indian accent
First thing I usually do is open paint and draw "I CAN SEE YOU" in blood red.
@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Prediction: it's going to be named Azure (Windows L)Edge Core OS.
It will be called
Windows
because this time it's the final version and there will not be a next one, pinky promise.
Also because it's monumentally stupid.
@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.
@Applied-Mediocrity, you missed the switch.
(not , right? I’ve seen this at least twice but I’m sure it wasn’t here…)
My friend is an audiophile, I'll show it to him, chances that he'll buy this crap are non-zero.
public void DoStuff(string aParameter)
{
try
{
[do stuff]
}
catch(Exception e)
{
throw new Exception("DoStuff failed");
}
}
So, this is how 'standing on shoulders of giants' feels like.
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
You shouldn't encourage his self-harm behavior, you know.
His disdain for non-audiophiles justifies it, believe me.
insert obligatory NCIS duo hacking clip
It's called "Two Idiots One Keyboard"
OMG I didn't ask for help.
@Gustav said in Hacking News:
The bug is due to a heap-based buffer overflow weakness accidentally introduced in glibc 2.37 in August 2022 and later backported to glibc 2.36
But people will still bitch that nobody needs Rust because good programmers can write good code in any language.
: We are switching to node.js. Eveything and everyone, today.
: Wtf?! Are you insane?
: Oh come on, you are a programmer, you can write in any language.
: I quit.
@cartman82 said in One final niggly detail:
- Moral aspect
I will no longer participate in the success or failure of this company. Therefore, if there is any success to be had, the spoils should go to the people who actually make it happen. Not to me.
That's a strange idealistic way of thinking. You earned those shares, they are yours, and that's it.
Plus, with your past work you do participate in success of this company - your influence doesn't stop the moment you leave the building.
She gave a range 5K-10K. Not sure why.
Then you start bargaining at 12K. Obviously.
So, I think I'll split the difference and offer to sell my shares for 7500.
It seems to me that you are trying hard to be a decent person here, not come out as arrogant, rude, etc.
Stop that. This kind of attitude is mercilessly exploited by companies/managers. They will talk about ethics, good conduct, ask you to be thankful, whine about bad financial situation, threat with bad opinion on work market, etc. And when you cave in, they'll report savings and cash their yearly bonus.
@Dragoon said in Lastpass or Keepass (or something else?):
LastPass says no sensitive personally identifiable user data or vault activity passes through the trackers.
"LastPass says no sensitive personally identifiable user data or vault activity passes through the trackers'our trackers don't track, lol'."
"When The Register asked LastPass about the existence of these trackers, a spokesperson responded by explaining, [...]'Don't worry about it'.
His full name is Jeffrey ;Drop Table "users", surely.
@Watson said in Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ?:
Almost is close enough, right?
In javascript almost is all you can pray for.
@topspin I haven’t had Word documents for a while.
Though I did love the one customer I used to have, I successfully taught them “if you have a bug, make a video showing me what you’ve done” so I got a usefully unambiguous set of “what the problem is” and “how to reproduce it” steps.
Were the videos short short and with long file names by chance?
I don't see TDMSYR fading anytime soon.
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon I often think of a similar point when pondering the wastefulness of meetings. Every cut in a cake loses some cake to crumbs. If the cuts are few enough and with a thin enough knife, then the loss of cake is negligible as a percentage of the whole cake. If, on the other hand, the cake is cut into too many pieces, the loss of cake to crumbs can be a sizable percentage.
Similarly, every meeting is like cutting a block of the programmer's time into two pieces. The recovery time for the programmer to remember what he was thinking when he was interrupted for the meeting is like the crumbs. Cutting his time into too many pieces is like cutting the cake into small pieces where the loss to crumbs is substantial and the cake loses its integrity as cake.
Nice analogy, but in case of meetings the cake is cut with a hammer.
@pie_flavor said in Windows and the unwanted apps [Angry rant time]:
@littletijn It's better than posting only when you can't add something, as certain users here like to do.
Hah, nonsense.
As a president I will make downvotes public, upvotes secret and I'll make sure that garage leaks everywhere.
Building a project after merging from upstream into my branch:
NuGet package restore failed. Please see Error List window for detailed warnings and errors.
Error List:
For more information please reread this poster.
@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Mason_Wheeler Did you know that the Welsh have close contacts with quite a few parts of South America, especially in Argentina? There were a lot of emigres who went out for mining...
Huh? I thought it's full of
NazisI mean... GermansOne time when I was in Argentina, in a town with a certain level of German population, some guy randomly came up to me and addressed me in what sounded like German. I told him in Spanish, "I'm sorry, Señor, I don't speak German."
He looked a bit surprised. "Oh, you don't speak Gypsy? Sorry, never mind." And he walked off.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
@boomzilla said in Jeffing Jeffers and the Jeffs that Jeff them Re: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@MrL that's a lot more work, so you can imagine the likelihood.
Sure, but a megathread full of people asking where their stuff is, or what happened, never getting an answer - a black hole of confusion and uncerainty. Would that not be glorious?
I feel your pain, same happens here.
My favourite occurrence is when I'm eating a sandwich and someone comes in, from the city, after at least an hour of public transportation, walks directly to me and sticks his hand into my face with a loud 'HI!'.
"Are you fucking retarded?" is one of my milder thoughts on such occasions.
I'm willing to pay a lot for pretty much anything if I like it. I like gadgets and stuff that has some kind of 'cool factor', so high prices don't scare me.
Problem is, I never understood what Apple gives me for the price. Same thing with phones, laptops and desktops.