@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
Then I realized I probably needed to lay off all the coffee and Adderall and stop thinking about faxing so much.
I want to see what you come up with if you take more.
@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
Then I realized I probably needed to lay off all the coffee and Adderall and stop thinking about faxing so much.
I want to see what you come up with if you take more.
Just had an amusing observation about myself. I guess I'm getting old with technology. When I see articles about crypto currencies, I frequently think "Windows icon file" when I see ICO.
It would be interesting to see if somebody ever challenged the validity of a document in a legal context where faxing matters by proving an efax service was used therefore the "chain of custody" or whatever was broken.
@dkf said in Florida Man goes to...:
Florida Man goes to… Manchester, England:
A mask that encourages social distancing, a twofer!
The article is rather light on details. As others have mentioned, why does it care about FS stuff?
On Windows, does it need to understand NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT/FAT64? Does it need to understand NTFS encryption?
@anonymous234 said in What is the largest amount of code you added before testing/running anything?:
I once wrote a .c file that compiled and ran properly on the first try.
Hello World doesn't count.
@CodeJunkie said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
I'd honestly like to know the reasoning behind regulations allowing faxing, but not emailing. They are essentially the same thing. You are sending those documents electronically from point A to point B. If it security or privacy is the reasoning, that's stupid as anyone on the receiving end of a fax machine has access to what came through. And in my experience fax machines are usually in a shared space like a copy room or something, not on a single person's desk because phone lines are expensive and the thing is shared by the whole office.
Hell, e-signatures are now a valid form of signing documents which allow for all electronic documents and that's in the financial sector.
I think the main reason behind the regulations is nobody has bothered updating them. I don't know if proposals to update to allow email for random things has actually been rejected. Though I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it was something tried 25 years ago.
@Karla said in Cows are fucked:
@error said in Cows are fucked:
@Gąska said in Cows are fucked:
Mitch Hedberg:
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
I liked Mitch.
My favorite bit of his:
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
@Polygeekery said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
@lolwhat said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
@Polygeekery said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
@mikehurley said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
Why not just stay disconnected? You're on vacation.
I don't always have that option. I was hoping to be able to, but something came up that required my attention.
Right, because your work involves listening to music and watching RedTube.
Yours doesn't?
You have to test the firewall settings.
@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
As teenagers we would so something similar.
Um, yeah...as teenagers.
Possibly up to the mid 20's.
Maybe in to the 30's.
Okay, I might have used that joke a couple of months ago.
Be honest, you'll be pulling that gag on your future grandkids. And then one of them will do it to somebody and get in trouble. Bad grandpa!
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@ObjectMike said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Why was that lead comparing points across teams? They mean nothing outside your team.
Can't compare epeen without slapping down your team's story points on the table.
I guess you could compare velocity stability, velocity increase over the last TIME_UNIT, etc. But if you're using story points, even if you both start with 1 on the low end and X for a "break these up" value, you still can't compare the values. There will be subtle enough differences between say 2's and 3's since a 3 is conceptually 1.5x bigger than a 2, but in reality it's not strict math. Though strange enough teams do seem to converge on what the numbers actually mean.
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
the aaS part is actually very important, because it changes who does what and who is paid for what
Well, yes, it's a hosting service, and that has a bunch of implications, but it's not like services is anything new. And you need to evaluate the specific offer anyway, so the classification is basically useless.
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
- As I said the other dread, terms like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS are just buzzwords with little practical usefulness.
I must disagree here - the
aaS
part is actually very important, because it changes who does what and who is paid for what. Which is very relevant and useful !Of course, the first letter can be anything, really. Some popular examples are MaaS (aka "Banking") or FaaS (well, you can connect the dots here). And of course they can be combined, I am pretty sure some FaaS Orchestration Specialists also provide MaaS services on side (but my knowledge is limited to TV series, videogames and tabloid press).
I remember when the terms started to gain popularity (circa 2010) and CI definitely meant that all the branches are built and tested merged together, but not necessarily merged in
master
(quite the contrary, the rule always was "build and test, then merge").Yeah, I was just as surprised. I commented that merging things to the mainline after a day, and also deploying to production each day is kinda mutually exclusive, but apparently that's what the terms are actually supposed to mean according to some book or wherever they come from.
Yeah, I've never heard of CI including merging.
@DogsB Why was that lead comparing points across teams? They mean nothing outside your team.
Yeah. I was reading an article about how a lot of the lower review scores were justified and saw the list of reasons. I just thought to myself "oh, so it's another Bethesda game, nothing to see here." I was talking with a friend about this and he had the same thoughts, though he added based on other things he's read "I feel like I already know how to play this game."
I saw some other commentary among people complaining about a paid for mod that had DRM. During the discussion somebody pointed out that Bethesda has always embraced the modding community. The first thought I had to that was "well somebody needs to fix the bugs."
@error said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
And both of those are toxic! It's kind of interesting that people are never taught these differences in the first place or if they are, it's not something they/me remember. I probably learned this in scouts and/or biology class, and it never stuck.
Apparently being pedantic online helps with knowledge retention!
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@Zecc said in The Cooking Thread:
You're the second person in this forum which has unwillingly complimented me on my English by thinking I'm a native speaker. (can't remember who the other one was)
With my memory, and apparently yours, they both may have been me.
I hope that's what's happened.
@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla ok, who contributed that to wikiHow? Was it actually one of us, because it feels like that is accurate.
Seems like it would have been written by Maddox.
@remi said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Watson probably, yes, thanks!
I think that "deck" sort of implies a wooden structure? At least that's the idea that I get (and making the analogy with an old-style ship which is where "deck" is commonly used).
"Patio" for me (in French) refers more to the space (semi-enclosed, some sort of courtyard) than the surface, which is why I didn't think of it. But this is probably the correct word here.
"Exterior surface next to the house and covered in tiles."
For extra fun, the big sliding door going to your deck is a patio door.
@Benjamin-Hall said in Targeted advertising fail:
Steam...I think you're drunk?
I haven't played many of these "pretend to have a job" games, but I will say Papers, Please was more fun than it had any right to be.
@Benjamin-Hall Did you end up adding a sleep before the hasher ran to do a quick verification?