@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Taxes (Fed & State) are filed. Now to wait for my money...
My tax return this year is a whole round 2PLN (0.47USD).
Ah, sweet early retirement.
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Taxes (Fed & State) are filed. Now to wait for my money...
My tax return this year is a whole round 2PLN (0.47USD).
Ah, sweet early retirement.
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
In this cultish methodology
It's a full-blown religion.
software developers self-identify how long a job will take – invariably over-estimating the time needed because task descriptions make no sense, so better be on the safe side. They then have lots of meetings, which
obscures their lack ofprevents them from doing any real productive work.
Poor showing by your agile master.
Being useless is their only area of expertise.
That should have been a spike to investigate the task. Spikes can last up to three days and aren't pointed so be quick about it so that we can give the task an accurate point tally.
I'm a little rusty on the lingo so YMMV.
Nah, it's accurate enough to make me nauseous.
@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.
@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.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
So, next time someone asks me "Why don't you take the time to report the issue?" and continues with "Of course it won't be fixed when nobody wants to report it" I am going to kick them in the nuts so hard their kids will be scared of shoes for life.
Best possible outcome for steam.
Just what they were aiming for.
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.
@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.
Electric scooter explosion in Poznan. Windows in nearby buildings smashed.
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Would you prefère
couleur
?
Reading c as k is freaking weird. 'kolor' is the right way obviously.
I want to upvote this but in the same post you said dark theme is good.
I'm all for free choice. If you like staring into the sun or desk lamps, knock yourself out.
Better than staring into the abyss.
That's just waking up and starting a day in IT.
@berniethebernie said in Arithmetics...:
class UserInactivity
UserInactivityStatic
event Action<long> SecondsOfUserInactivity
Lastinputinfo
m_LastInputInfo;
Let the defendant rise.
Steven Steven, you have been found guilty of at least five counts of aggravated heinous naming. Seeing as this seems to be a deeply rooted habit, and not an isolated case of abhorrent behaviour, I must admit that this was one of the most disturbing cases in my career. Rarely do I see individuals so twisted and beyond repair in this courtroom. Therefore, after consideration, I sentence you to 15 years of help desk, without possibility of parole.
May God have mercy upon your soul.
@adynathos said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I always think first about Byto
nm, a city in Poland.
Which is known for mines, btw.
@stillwater said in I'm done with MS and their .NET Core Bullshit:
How long can you hack on top of hacks everytime something breaks? This is absolute madness.
Last company I worked for did this for about 30 years. They still do.
They also use shovels and dump truck to deal with money.
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.
I see nothing strange, or wrong, in Windows as a server. Most of systems I worked on were hosted on Windows machines.
I remember at one company, management was constantly bitching about license costs of our servers (whole two of them). For months on end, "OMG, this project is so expensive, those servers cost us a fortune, we have to do something about it". So we finally moved (servers to linux, system to .net core, plus some invented-here strangeness).
Management was ecstatic about the savings. We tried to tell them that now development time is considerably longer, which costs more monthly than those server licenses, plus server management went to different team, which costs us additionally, plus the move itself was a costly project on its own.
But no, it was not possible for them to understand. The project burns more money each month, but it's cheaper because we don't pay for licenses
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
I wasn't sure whether to put this in Funny Stuff or News, because it's just plain weird: a Polish professor is using Tropico 5 (the tongue-in-cheek banana-republic simulation game) as actual coursework. Apparently, they picked Tropico partly because it gives you a good idea of how much stuff you have to juggle as a ruler, and partly because it's funny, which keeps students interested.
Department of Political Theory and Political Thought
Playing vidya is all you will be doing after graduating this, so it kind of makes sense.
@stillwater said in Agile taken tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far:
@MrL Is it like roleplay but in a professional environment? Is everyone aware that someone took a joke too far and everyone has to play along?
It wasn't like in the article, company structure was rather normal. But the whole Agile/Scrum thing was retarded and harmful. Exhausting plannings with consideration about every stupid detail, writing childish 'stories' about every fucking button press, Jira wankery taking 20 minutes to save a simplest ticket, pointless scrum rituals without any consequences in real world.
And above all - never ending discussions about our Scrum quality. Are we Scrum enough? Do we use story points correctly? Was last retrospective ideally scrummy? Let's change this. Now let's change that. Let's go back to this thing from two months ago. On and on and on, ever changing irritating process mostly concerned about itself.
My estimation is that all this Scrum crap took over 25% of our time.
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Sudden onset amnesia is already pervasive around here. Noone was ridiculed for claiming lab leak, there was no censorship, we had a civilised discussion of different theories from the beginning. All it took was a single article in enlightened newspaper.
"Noone was forced to take the jab" is also emerging. Just like Malone predicted.
It's quite fascinating to watch in such condensed form how moldable people's brains are.
@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?
Status: drilled a hole in my hand.
Not useful. Quite painful. Would not recommend.
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Both Photos' (which doesn't have an obvious way to change the format) and Paint 3D's Save As go by default to some bullshit default directory instead of the directory from where I opened the original damn file (via Explorer, of course)! Grr.
Photos and Paint 3D are so crude and primitive that they are mostly useless, so I'm not surprised when behave differently from 99.9% of all the other software in existence. And Microsoft seems to be a bunch of pricks who like to do things for no apparent reason other than fuck you.
The bigger problem with stupid defaults, and its not just Microsoft, is that NOBODY seems to be able to grasp the concept of a source directory (File -> Open) and a destination directory (File ->Save) and allow them to have different defaults:
File Open
Navigate to directory A and select a file
Do stuff
File Save As
Defaults to directory A (last directory used)
Don't want that, navigate to directory B and save file
File Open
Defaults to directory B (last directory used)
Don't want that, navigate back to directory A for the file I want
Do Stuff
File Save As
Defaults to directory A
Have to navigate to directory B and save file....and so on
I seems obvious to me but I guess I'm the only person in the universe who does that.
There's more infuriating variation of this: both save and open always start at the same useless wrong location.
@Gurth said in WordPress has a "daring plan" to forcibly update old websites:
You can get it to do major updates as well, but that requires editing files to change a setting.
I found the next minor update.
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
xckd
You have to spell it right.
You should add 23 new commands to @error_bot, belittling the poster for their poor spelling.
"Spank! Spank!" ?
@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.
@TimeBandit said in Lime scooters:
all the accidents that are bound to happen between pedestrians, cyclists, scooter drivers and pogo-stick riders
And kangaroos, if we find an investor.
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
There's almost certainly something available so you can get it to the point that someone just needs to pop the pictures on there and off they go.
We have a thread for that, it's called SSDS.
@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@MrL I just wish there was some consistency and common sense.
Wrong planet, sorry.
Visual Studio Code is idiotically named steaming pile of shit.
Also, Electron is cancer and needs to die in a fire.
That's all, thank you.
Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.
At a low low price of new_device+100$
Thanks VS, very helpful
Now you know that it wasn't zero errors - that eliminates some possibilities. Helpful, no?
Zoom. Enhance.
Found the problem.
Or a problem rather.
@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is that a printout of a screenshot of a webpage photographed on a wooden table?
Captchas on paper forms are easy.
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month
That's kind of short for a test
They stopped when this time of month happened.
@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?
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't judge me, Spotify.
According to the vocalist, when they started the band, one time they were rehearsing in one of the member's garage - his/her father came in and said "this 'music' is garbage" . Hence name of the band.
@Onyx said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
HOW MUCH SHIT ARE YOU STORING IF YOU NEED A PROGRESS SPINNER TO SAVE ALL THE PREFERENCES?
That's Forbes, btw.
They store 3 30 char long string values and 2 numeric ones. They added the spinner because it looks professional. It disappeared so quickly it wasn't visible, so now it's set to spin for 10 seconds always.
@Jaloopa said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
If your hand is empty at least three people will ask you, "You want another beer?"
Similar thing happened at a Polish party I was at for my eldest's classmate. Also lots of different types of sausage
Yeah, 'get foreigner blackout drunk' is a popular game around here.
@MrL I work for an agency with a total of 5 people where going from a client's $60/month hosting down to $40/month hosting would be a tangible benefit, and we have staging environments for everything.
And I work for a billion-dollar-corporation, and we have no staging. So there, I win. Or loose, rather.
Most mice you can buy today are complete crap. Gaming mice are even worse - criminally overpriced crap.
So, it's really hard to find a decent mouse. But that's not the WTF.
One of the good ones is Logitech MX Master. It's pretty great actually.
Care to guess how they named their driver/configuration program?
Options. They called it "Options".
It doesn't stay in tray, it doesn't show battery level. FFS. They made a piece of decent hardware so they had to stuff unused WTFs somewhere else.
I have one of those
It makes me wonder how many people coming to your door saw that, walked back to the street, turned right and looked to see where the actual entrance is.
Hopefully very many.
@ixvedeusi said in Well, this is new, Google.:
I can't concentrate on the thing I'm reading when there's blinking stuff screaming for my attention all around it.
Would you be interested in renting a car by any chance?
@groaner said in Money from nowhere?:
@pie_flavor said in Money from nowhere?:
Tip: You're using one right now. You may notice that it doesn't take six seconds to load the topic list or a thread. Meanwhile, I didn't say SPA. I said rendering server-side. This website is an SPA while rendering pages server-side, and it is completely possible to browse the site with JavaScript completely disabled. There is nothing whatsoever about your four pages of static content and a login screen that can't be rendered server-side, even if SPA functionality can be loaded on the client after visiting the page. And if you think your fancy dynamic art requires tons of JS to load I urge you to think again. Just keep repeating that figure to yourself. Six seconds.
Hint for those who are following along: the usual benchmark for acceptable response times is typically in the sub-second range! The only exceptions might be when dealing with very large datasets. A static site is not dealing with a very large dataset.
Initiative Q: 6s
lingscars: 2s
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Jaloopa But what if they want you to use tabs next time instead of spaces? What if the definition of
1
changes? What if left and right are inverted? ERR_WHARGBGBLGLBLGLBLGL!
public static class StringTools
{
//TODO: get from db
public static char SpacerBase = ' ';
//TODO: get from db
public static int SpacerWidth = 1;
public static string Spacer
{
get
{
return new String(SpacerBase, SpacerWidth);
}
}
}
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
- OneDrive: Could not combine changes in folder "Backup", rename or delete either the online or local folder to synchronize
OK, whatever. I click and rename "Backup" to "asdfasdf" so it will download the other version and I can fix it...
- OneDrive: Could not combine changes in folder "asdfasdf", rename or delete either the online or local folder to synchronize
God damn it!
Fucked up file in the folder. Should be named in logs.
OneDrive's error reporting is shit.