In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.
Works pretty well, I think.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.
Works pretty well, I think.
@pie_flavor If I had one Euro every time my name gets written as Rémi
, I would have a lot of €
...
@bb36e Also, if your password is more than 140280 characters, we can't tweet it to you if you forget it.
Overheard in the office: one dev goes to help another on a build issue.
: oh yeah, you have this issue because you build by clicking the Compile button in the IDE, in this specific case (some build case that isn't handled by the IDE), you need to type make
instead.
: yeah but the IDE is the method that [myself] gave me and that I have noted in my notes file [yes, really... he has noted that to compile you need to click the Compile button...], I've always done that.
: sure but in this case it does not work because of [valid reasons], what you need in this specific case is just to type make
in this terminal that is always opened next to the IDE because you already use it for other tasks.
: I don't know what any of this does, I just always redo what I was told initially and that worked...
You're supposed to be a developer, you've been working on that code for literally months if not years, you have years of experience as a developer before, this build system is nothing fancy, and yet you don't even have the slightest idea or intellectual curiosity as to what you do...
@CodeJunkie said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
No one actually validates signatures anyway. Just like with credit cards ... there is no one validating the signatures on receipts back at the home office against known signatures of yourself.
The system relies on the user complaining, and then ignoring the user for as long as possible.
A couple of years ago, my mother paid a bill (to some sort of HOA) by cheque. A few weeks later she got a reminder to pay her bill, but her cheque had been cashed, so she started to investigate. Turns out that the HOA had employed a crook (he had been fired since then... for good reasons!) who simply stole the cheque and cashed it. My mother asked her bank for a copy of the cashed cheque (which by law they have to keep for some time, exactly for these reasons, and on which the recipient must write the recipient account details). It was absolutely obvious from it that the cheque was written by my mother as "pay to: <HOA>" and the recipient account was "John Doe." And yet the bank cashed it without any qualms, and when challenged about it they denied it was their fault (the recipient's bank said the same thing, btw). So for them, anyone can cash any cheque that they lay their hands on, no matter what is written on it.
In the end my mother's bank decided on a "commercial gesture" (no, not this one ) and to reimburse her, but this was clearly done so that she would drop the matter without the bank admitting any kind of responsibility.
@TimeBandit said in The most important part of selling a product: having a product:
At my previous job, my boss was often sending me emails written in all caps.
One previous boss wrote emails with subjects such as "!!!!IMPORTANT!!! $$$stuff and things$$$" (with the "stuff and things" part being the real subject of the email, albeit formulated in vague terms such as "new release" or "that code you sent me").
Weirdly, he never understood why many of his emails ended up in our spam folders and he had to resend them (yes, we could have configured the spam filter to accept his emails... but where's the fun in that?).
Although there may or may not have been times when we pretended to not have received an email from him thanks to that excuse...
@kt_ There are two main reasons for this kind of loss of colour: prolonged exposure to sunlight, and too many washes (usually in a dishwasher).
There are two easy solutions for these problems: stop having sunlight in your office, and stop washing your mug.
The first one will remove sun glare and unwanted distractions, making you a better programmer. The second one will remove social interactions and unwanted coworkers bothering you, making you a better programmer.
So really, you're just posting excuses for being a bad programmer.
@Onyx said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
I just noticed "dildo" is on the list.
Seriously? Is this a swearword list, or "Little Timmy innocence protection" list?
That's just one of the many reasons why this kind of list is absolutely stupid:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla also, "scarfolk council water boarding" at the bottom (maybe it's only funny because I don't know what water boarding is other than torture)
It's a deliberate joke on that, the correct phrase would be 'water board'.
Hey, I didn't know that @Polygeekery did a school exchange with Scarfolk?
@topspin Update!!!111!
(or I just read it a few hours later than you...)
@DogsB when something is literally orders of magnitude (10x or 100x) more expensive than another variety of something, you can be almost certain that it is not that amount of times better.
At that stage, the price difference is purely a marker of "I can afford it" rather than quality.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I blame the French.
Bullies always hit on the same target.
But what I really wanted to post: I recently read that in old Norman (and apparently that sort-of continued for centuries, only disappearing when regional accents mostly disappeared a century or so ago), the French "ch" was spoken as a hard "k" rather than, uh... "ch" (or "sh").
This (partly) explains, for example, how English got "cat" where the French ended up with "chat" or "cart" from "char."
@Gern_Blaanston said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
I broke up with my girlfriend Ruth, so now I'm just living my life ruthlessly.
In the children's classic "Swallows and Amazons," one of the girls who plays at being a pirate is called Ruth, but insists on everyone calling her Nancy, because "pirates are ruthless."
Heard this morning on the radio (couldn't find a link after a very thoroughone semi-random web search ):
An undercover report on the condition of women in Iran or Afghanistan with the voices of interviewed persons filtered through AI to make them unrecognisable.
One one hand, that seems a not-totally-stupid use of AI? On the other, journalists have been using various kind of sound filters (or having "the words are spoken by an actor") to do do that for ages so why use AI? On the third hand (), all those filters were always obvious and sort-of broke the flow of the report, so... why not?
@Arantor Right.
So next you're going to get angry at being forced to stick to Win10, before telling yourself that maybe you can live with it if only you can fix a few things, before falling in a deep sadness about your lost productivity, and finally saying that after all Win10 isn't that bad.
Filed under: the five stages of Windows
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the thing is, Win10 bucked that trend in a nasty way.
Au contraire, I think it's pretty much following the trend, as you illustrate since you're now clinging to it. That you do that because of the shittiness of Win11 rather than any love of Win10 doesn't change that.
@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I would love to go back to Windows 7.
I hate to concede it but windows 10 wasn’t god awful until about 2022.
It feels like every version of Windows is first hated, then grudgingly accepted, then desperately clung to as a newer version appears.
The kind interpretation is that every version starts shittier than the previous, mature one, and gradually improves during its life cycle.
The less kind interpretation is the same but stops before "and."
@Arantor said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
But also I still have some of my DOS era big boxes.
Same here. I probably even have a couple of boxes with floppies inside (not 5 1/4, I may be -old but not (yet) -old).
I don't have any working floppy drive anywhere in the house (though... there may be one on an old box from my wife's childhood that's buried at the back of a cupboard, but I have no idea if the machine still works, let alone the floppy drive), and even if I had it is somewhat unlikely the floppies would still work. But I still have them.
@Arantor do video games still come in physical boxes?