@Luhmann Hmm, how do you read Amy offering him a steel bar, then?
Posts made by remi
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RE: 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
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RE: 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
@ben_lubar Well, they know you're an expert in wooden tables. So they are giving you the opportunity to expand to steel tables. And given the number of TABLE that are being talked about, you probably need the kind of amount we see in the pictures.
(although I'm not sure why you would want "deformed" steel... maybe for all those ALTER statements?)
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RE: Reading comprehension
@Jaloopa Ah, right, thanks. I wouldn't have thought that there would be a wiki page for that!
I see that it does say that "in the UK, on the other hand, camp is an adjective, often associated with a stereotypical view of feminine gay men", which is probably why I had this meaning in mind (ESL and spent a lot of time in the UK).
Also, I wandered on the page for the book and it happens to cite the passage I was reading this morning, in the "self-reference" section:
Hagbard Celine claims towards the climax that the entire story is a computer-generated synthesis of random conspiracies: [...] I programmed [a computer] to put it in the form of a novel for easy reading. Considering what a lousy job he does at poetry, I suppose it will be a high-camp novel, intentionally or unintentionally."
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RE: Reading comprehension
@Jaloopa Uh, I thought there was definitively a notion of "gay" in "camp"? Am I mistaken, or maybe it's only British English?
But yeah, over the top and not too serious about it does fit better the book (well, that would be a good description of the book itself, regardless of what characters in it are saying about it!).
The use in the book seemed to imply that there is a fairly official definition of low-camp vs. high-camp, but that may just be my reading.
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RE: Reading comprehension
Since there is a thread about that, something I just read this morning:
I'm reading the Illuminatus! Trilogy and among the various vernacular and idioms that I think are very, very dated from the 70's, this morning I got to a part where characters are partly breaking the fourth wall and discussing whether they are actually characters in a book (I guess with a book that old, there is no harm in spoiling it a bit? plus that doesn't tell much about the story anyway...).
The part that I did not get was that they are discussing whether the book they're in should be "low-camp" or "high-camp". What does that mean?
I know that "camp" is (was?) used as, basically, a synonym of "gay" (not quite, but that's the closest I can think of). But I have no clue what high or low camp is?
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Today I also learned there is such a thing as free beer:
Meh. There are tons of recipes freely (free as in... "free beer", as opposed to free as in "free speech" which is I think what your link is about) available, and a huge community of afficionados and/or craft brewers willing to share theirs.
I never had to pay anything or ask anyone for permission or whatever for any of the beers I've brewed and the same goes even for some friends that are now professional brewers, so publishing one recipe under a CC license just sounds like a marketing/hipster gimmick to me.
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RE: WTF Bites
Not sure if .
Building a browser is Webkit's raison d'être.
Yes, using webkit makes sense. But it was part of the same sentence, I was too lazy to cut it out :-)
As for Node... it's one way to implement a run loop and JavaScript engine.
As long as they're not using both JavaScriptCore and V8 in a hackish mess. That would be silly.
The thing is (again, without being really familiar with these as it's not the tools I use), I am always skeptical when I see one tool initially developped for one kind of use-cases suddenly become the One Great Solution that can be applied everywhere. That stinks too much of hype and/or marketing. It may turn out to work, but my first reaction would be to have a long and hard () look at the reason behind that choice.
Reminds me of the other day, when devs in another team organized a big meeting to show that they had started to rewrite from scratch one of our classical desktop program with HTML5/Node/etc. Okay, why not? They go on for an hour about how it's great that we will be able to build that as network micro-services and that it will work on your mobile phone (we're talking of a very business specific app about as complex as a trading desk or NASA command room!).
Then someone asks if any of the clients, product manager or anyone outside their team has ever requested this kind of features. Long and awkward silence. Right, so the benefits we'll gain by using this new tech are not actually benefits that anyone wants. Might still be useful one day, but that's doesn't sound like a very good argument to put forward.
Then, "why did you choose that tech?" "oh, well, all other apps in the group are written in C++/Qt (*) and none of us knew it, so we had to learn something new, so we thought that's a nice opportunity to try new
hipsterstuff."Really? That's the only reason? At that point, I wonder if it's , or ...
(*) or some older antediluvian toolkits that no-one wants to mention and everyone hopes they'll die... but they're like zombies, they keep raising their ugly heads again and again...
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RE: WTF Bites
using Node and Webkit to build a browser...
I'm no web/js/node/whatever-the-new-group-wank-of-today-is developer, but seriously? Isn't that (or ... or both...)?
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RE: WTF Bites
@homoBalkanus Welcome to Opera 15+! Fuckers.
Had to move my YouTube search to
yt
as well. FFS Opera had the capability to remove/change built-in search shortcuts since they introduced these features. NOPE, NO MORE YOU FUCKS!I had the same issue and found a couple of StackOverflow questions with solutions. But as time went by, each solution got disabled and required some other tweaks...
The last one that I did (and that worked, but apparently since then an update of Opera botched it, I haven't redone it since) was http://superuser.com/questions/956087. Basically, replace %installation-root%/default_partner_content.json by %installation-root%/profile/siteprefs.json (the read-only bit didn't matter in my case) and then you can freely edit all search engines.
Oh, and also, if you just migrated from 12 and this is your first time using Opera Chromiclone... I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
It's slowly, very, very slowly starting to look again like something that can be used. But without all the nice original stuff that made Opera different from the rest, sadly.
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RE: Buying an Amiga
@Gurth said in Buying an Amiga:
The only piece of kit from all of these I have that doesn’t work well is the external drive for the Amiga, which says all disks are “bad” even when they work just fine in the internal drive.
Dunno if it's the same as with the Amstrad CPC, but the disk drive was usually also the first one to fail in those (I don't know if the internal one in the 6128 was any better than the external one for the 464).
And apparently, many people have been able to fix it by simply changing one elastic belt (even with a simple rubber band!) inside it, so while it requires a bit of DIY, that doesn't seem too complicated.
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RE: Long distance AV debugging
@ben_lubar said in Long distance AV debugging:
can you make me a website
I can do
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RE: Testing candidate's mettle S02E02
@TimeBandit said in Testing candidate's mettle S02E02:
@Gąska said in Testing candidate's mettle S02E02:
Now I wonder if French say CV or résumé.
Definitely CV. Résumé has no special meaning in relation to job experience or such.
They probably prononce "sivi", trying to sound english but failing hard at it.
Nope, they go for the French pronounciation "sévé". As far as I can tell, there are relatively few acronyms that are pronounced the (pseudo-)English way.They keep that for normal words (with a preference for words where a perfect French equivalent exists).
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
If the intel is accurate, they're only palatable because they're better at keeping outwardly quiet and working behind the scenes.
My understanding is that they're not really palatable at all, but they are stable enough and could fuck up sufficiently the world economy if they really wanted to (i.e. if some extremist madman took control) that it's better to suffer them...
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RE: Joberate - does your boss know you're looking for another job?
@Gurth said in Joberate - does your boss know you're looking for another job?:
@remi said in Joberate - does your boss know you're looking for another job?:
as @Gurth and @lolwhat said, a PHB would not think of the firewalls but he could be ready to pay wads of cash to an external party
Though I did say that, it wasn’t actually the point of my post :)
Now now, you're not going to ask me to understand what you wrote, in addition to reading it? :-)
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RE: Joberate - does your boss know you're looking for another job?
@Scarlet_Manuka said in Joberate - does your boss know you're looking for another job?:
@remi said in Joberate - does your boss know you're looking for another job?:
To be honest, bosses just have to look at the firewall logs to see what you're doing.
I think the point is that this one will pick up your job search activity regardless of whether you're doing it from home, work, or some random internet café.
Which makes sense, from a purely technological point of view. But it's total overkill, you don't need such complicated, fragile, and potentially illegal (or morally reprehensible) 3rd-party tools, in 99% of cases you'll get as good, or even better, a picture from much simpler techniques (i.e. firewall logs).
But as @Gurth and @lolwhat said, a PHB would not think of the firewalls but he could be ready to pay wads of cash to an external party with a shiny website and funky name.
All in all, that might not be a bad idea. Anyone with a shred of intelligence will know how to avoid the J-score problems, and PHBs will thus either miss our real misdoings or fire the useless ones. OK, let's promote this new tool for everyone!
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RE: Joberate - does your boss know you're looking for another job?
To be honest, bosses just have to look at the firewall logs to see what you're doing. And that'll likely paint a much darker picture of you than whatever J-Score you might have (plus this is even less likely to be unlawful)...
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RE: Neighbors are TR:wtf:
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
someone from code enforcement. ... I ask him what is in violation, and he says the weeds as they are over 12".
that's in The Land of Freedom?? I mean, I know about neighbourhood association and stuff, but that by itself is almost as crazy as your presidential candidate (won't say which one(s)).
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RE: Search?
@anotherusername said in Search?:
You're supposed to press Enter on the keyboard, not click on the icon!
Nope, when I created the bug report Enter didn't work (actually, that's the only thing I tried, I'm conditioned to type Enter after typing a search term, 'cause I don't know any software that passes release 0.0.1 where that doesn't work...).
But it's fixed now (thanks!), so who cares?
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RE: Search?
@djls45 I'm just trying to fit in...
I don't care about threads derailing, I've spent years on Usenet!
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RE: Search?
Is this the point where I'm supposed to go full RatMan and yell at you for doing shit in my thread and not creating a new one?
I feel like adding a few insults in here would fit great with the trend of the thread...
Seriously tho, I don't know how much time you spend with the moderation and the temper-tantrums that everyone throws around here, but I certainly don't envy you!
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RE: target=_blank exploit
@Tsaukpaetra said in target=_blank exploit:
@remi said in target=_blank exploit:
it's just "the dark wiggles"
I'm... the... Bwahaha! Engine thanks you a lot for that image!
Wait 'till you learn how I call other regulars...
@remi said in target=_blank exploit:
jumps to where the mouse cursor is
Yeah, I stopped leaving my mouse position anywhere near where I expect dropdowns for that specific reason.
I love when everybody know of a bug but nobody can be bothered to fix it.
Oh, and the consistency of messages, also:
"Are you sure you wish to discard this post?"
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RE: Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs
@ScholRLEA said in Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs:
@remi Yes, but are they Nazi zombie dinosaurs? Because logic means nothing to a true Nazi!
Do you mean that Nazi science sneers at logic? (as well as boundary between life and death and many other things)
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RE: target=_blank exploit
@Onyx Ah, so it's only TDWTF that is . Or exposing the fact that node is . Meh.
(oh, my first contact with the editor: auto-completion of :foo... jumps to where the mouse cursor is even if that doesn't match what I'm typing. Nice.)
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RE: :beers: The Beer Topic
I've still got to open these two recent acquisitions. Litterally a gamble, could be anywhere between totally undrinkable and... totally out of this world! We'll see...
('76 has clearly not been kept in good storage conditions, so I have little hope, but the '73... who knows?)
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RE: target=_blank exploit
@dkf said in target=_blank exploit:
@remi said in target=_blank exploit:
I'm using the default avatar
The default avatar is actually just a div with some text in it;
So yep, what I said:
node is as broken as that was too retarded to simply generate a picture once and use that
'cause, you know, it's much better to make sure that new users don't get a fully-usable profile by default (and without telling them, of course).
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RE: Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs
@dkf said in Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs:
@remi I think it will provide a severed head or thousand in short order…
Especially if you pair it with his (her? its?) friends! I mean, you have to consider the branding as a full-experience covering all the facets of the multi-interactions of users with, hmm, ahh, whatever.
Firefox:
Thuderbird:
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RE: Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs
@dkf said in Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs:
@remi said in Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs:
a severed head is rarely a good thing.
Except during the zombie apocalypse!
It's missing the severed head, though.
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RE: The lost city of Melbourne
@dkf said in The lost city of Melbourne:
@pydsigner That's why we want lots of global warming, so that we can raise sea levels and make the gap even wider by inundating as much of London as possible.
I guess some Dutch might not like it. Still a win-win situation, as far as I can see.
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RE: target=_blank exploit
@Zecc said in target=_blank exploit:
Didn't know about the
:@Username:
thing. But why is it broken in @remi 's case?I would guess that it 's because I'm using the default avatar (i.e. couldn't be bothered to make one, see above) and that node is as broken as that was too retarded to simply generate a picture once and use that?
( is clearly a non-default picture, I'm guessing also is based on this)
Or maybe it's that my account is very recent, so a server somewhere is still pondering wisely if I should be allowed to be mentioned?
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RE: Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs
@Onyx said in Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs:
The classic Mozilla dino head logo served as a symbol
I read that as "severed" initially...
I was more amused by the "execution" bit. But you could combine both, a severed head is rarely a good thing.
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Search?
Typing any search term in the search box redirects me to https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https%3A%2F%2Fwhat.thedailywtf.com+ (i.e., search term has disappeared).
I've heard a lot of (bad) things about search so I guess this is not really new, but I tried to search for them and, well, you can see where that's going...
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RE: Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs
@pydsigner said in Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs:
Just for comparison, this is what Mozilla is trying to move away from:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/a/a9/Mozilla-foundation-logo.png
Actually, it seems they've already killed the dino and replaced it by "the Mozilla wordmark" (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/mozilla/branding/):
The classic Mozilla dino head logo served as a symbol of the organization since our earliest days, but is now reserved for select uses and executions only. While you may still see it pop up on certain sites and campaigns, please use the Mozilla wordmark on all properties and materials instead.
Which is that (to be fair, you can change the colour. Woot!):
https://www.mozilla.org/media/img/styleguide/identity/mozilla/wordmark.b9f1818e8d92.pngSo yeah, a redesign is not totally a bad idea.
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RE: target=_blank exploit
@error said in target=_blank exploit:
Don't give Nod too much credit. Much of the jellypotato behavior can be ascribed to the way it uses socket.io to broadcast messages.
So, some weird web framework dark stuff that nobody can be bothered to understand or use correctly? Seems par for the course.
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RE: target=_blank exploit
@Tsaukpaetra I'm waiting for the combination of a good idea and the motivation to bring together my non-existent image editing skills.
Plus, there doesn't seem to be any regular using the same as me, so in effect it's as recognizable as whatever-dark-scribble-wiggly-thing is on yours, for example (for me, it's just "the dark wiggles").
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RE: target=_blank exploit
Nice. Funny thing is, I opened this topic as a new tab (with a middle click) from the list of topics, then left-clicked the link (and my settings are to open links in new tabs): not only did it change this tab, but it also went back and changed the tab with the list of topics! (in addition to opening a new tab with the new page in it, of course)
Out of curiosity, what kind of information is passed around when opening a new tab that makes this possible?
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RE: Mozilla Rebranding Or: How to Waste Several Hundred Thousand Dollars on Awful Graphic Designs
Urgh. I guess it's part of the on-going trend of "we need a new design every couple of years otherwise people might start to, you know, actually get used to us?"...
What's wrong with a brand that is well known and has some history? How is a design that in a couple of years will look out-dated better ? (given that the proposals look very "2016" and that fashion changes quickly, I'm ready to bet that in 2 years they will look as old as the current Mozilla brand currently does, in terms of graphic style)
I wish the IT industry would stop thinking that anything older than 2 years is old crap to throw away. Especially when it's core stuff like the look-and-feel of the OS (getting 70 years old people to learn Windows 7, then 8, is painful...).