@Zerosquare said in Feeling depressed? Have a boner.:
...this topic is sadder than I expected from the title.
you don't have dark enough sense of humor then. keep reading tdwtf daily and you'll get there ;)
@Zerosquare said in Feeling depressed? Have a boner.:
...this topic is sadder than I expected from the title.
you don't have dark enough sense of humor then. keep reading tdwtf daily and you'll get there ;)
@Gąska more like "the real California's idea of making money",everything being based on "valuation", and thus trading the idea of (future) profit, instead of actual profit.
we in europe still mostly try to make actual money.
(edit: i never understood how californians do it, until i watched Silicon Valley, and then it started to make perfect sense.)
@scholrlea said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
@sh_code Don't hold back so much, @sh_code , tell us how you really feel.
it's in the replies to their tweet. enjoy
@kian said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
@steve_the_cynic said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
There are so many better ways of doing it than that.
That really depends on what 'it' means for you. Pissing off customers with overcomplicated installers? It's pretty good at that. In any case, it may not be doing what I described, I'm just guessing based on the error message.
heh, i misread that as "terror message" =D
@CodeJunkie... and this is why we can't have nice things...
@Luhmann said in WTF (What-the-Fun) Project: Dust Sucker:
@dkf
Only if we make long term graphs and comparison charts a premium package ... I mean we can include them the first year or so but then yank them behind a paywall later on ...
of course we always collect the data, from everyone, but we only display them to the user if they have the premium package.
oh, and the stats are never stored locally, they are always streamed in real time to our servers, and when premium customers want to view them, we stream the data from our servers back to the ram of the sucker
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF (What-the-Fun) Project: Dust Sucker:
If the license servers cannot be reached (for whatever reason, e.g. they may be down for maintenance), Dust Sucker won’t suck dust. It will just suck.
no, in that case, it should dump the contents of its dust compartment onto the floor
@ben_lubar said in YouTube demonetizes people in the scariest way possible:
My total revenue for the last 4 weeks: $0.36
My views in the last 4 weeks: 212YouTube estimates the following advertising revenue per thousand views for my channel:
USA - $2796.40
UK - $1755.30
Germany - $1471.30
Poland - $1296.30
Sweden - $606.20
Estonia - $6121.90Math question: How many monetized views have I had?
... per THOUSAND VIEWS? as in, thousand monetised views should yield you that much money, if you lived in those countries?
are they on crack or something?
@coldandtired said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Despite this time, and multiple labels, arrows, flashing lights, etc. minutes of my commute are spent waiting at a stop for passengers to grasp the concept.
we've got this system in my town for about 10 years now, and it can still be confusing, because our transit company buys assorted collection of buses discounted from other companies, so there's like 6 types, which gradually get "upgraded", and in each type, the buttons look different and are in different places and in some of them it's not "open door" buttons, but "signal stop" buttons, but in others which do have "open door" buttons, drivers sometimes get annoyed when you try and use the "signal stop" button, so not only does that make you unsure which specific one to use (despite the arrows and descriptions, because, well... a "open door button" arrow pointing to a red "stop" button above which there is a yellow "something" button which looks like official "open door" buttons in different bus models), but it also makes you a bit worried to make a mistake.
yes, I'm a programmer and sometimes I have trouble with this.
Suppose you're a galaxy-spanning civilization ran on some kind of subspace internet.
You have risen from what we are now to hundreds of starsystems.
And you need a crapload of IDs for all the devices in the whole universe to UID to send messages to.
You can keep increasing the word width of processors/default bit width of integer or whatever, or you can keep increasing the maximum-id-string-length constriant, and piling on forward compatibility bandage on top of the backwards-compatibility ball of mess, or...
how would you future-proof this requirement, if you could build it from zero with no compatibility regards, and deploy it instantly to everyone?
my, the most idiotic idea about types ever, which sparked this question is:
every literal value has built-in bit resolution:
10 - boolean false. first bit: "there's one bit of info". second bit: "this is the one bit of info".
11 - bool true
1100 - zero of 2bit variable
1111 - 3 of 4bit var.
This doubles every datatype size, yes, but... kinda makes every datatype variable size/resolution by default?
pointer jumps to int, sees 32 1s in, row, naturally concludes int has now 32 bits of resolution.
if it jumps to float, it knows it's 32bit float.
jump to float, read 64 1s, know 64bits of data follow - c# double.
now your number types are infinitely extendable, regardless of how many IoT orc dildos your civilization absolutely needs to plug in to the interstellar information highway.
comments? shot downs? i'm stoned so aware this is stupid, don't worry.
better ideas?
I was just thinking how funny it is how everyone everywhere does jokes and memes about windows updates and reboots and such, while I'm just sitting here, happily having no issues for the past at least 4 months, being surprised this morning when I turned my computer on and got my first "please wait, updates installing" in those 4 months, which took about 2 minutes and happened flawlessly.
...kicking out the reboot shortcut which windows update uses does wonders =D
also, you know there's a "restart"/"update and restart" option in the menu under your shutdown button, do you?
that one always works. who cares about some fancypants UWP button? =D
@topspin well.. yes, i know it's not actively, intentionally fixing it, but it's just a side-effect.
doesn't detract in any way from my being thankful to it, and being fascinated by it.
While I'm sitting here, still not having a single bit of idea how Slack is able to be in any way relevant, in a world where Discord exists, which is basically "Slack, but actually good and useful".
EDIT: ...probably except because of some ToS crap that I just learned about few comments above.
Do you think it is socially acceptable to strangle HP support?
nope, they're just as innocent in the issue as you are. find out who engineered that thing and strangle them. pin a striped note printed on the thing to their bodies explaining why you did it.
@Dreikin said in Windows Update WTFs:
except
when updates are required to keep Windows running smoothlycritical fixes/security updates, but people panic when they see "critical" and "security", so we didn't want to use those words
@viraptor said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
@stinch said:
Unfortunately I think he is talking about literally videoing a book. Pointing a camera at a book and turning the pages. One way to get the information in your library into your computer I guess.
Wooden table v2.0! Now with moving images.
well... we already have audiobooks, it was just a matter of time until someone decided to try videobooks, sadly...
@gurth said in XML file confusion (wooden table, advanced edition):
@sh_code said in XML file confusion (wooden table, advanced edition):
a file with the same extension
I assumed she didn't have it checked.
I might have been wrong.
@bgodot said in Overheard at Work:
there is little modern useful data that fits in 8 bits anyway, 32 bits for an RGBA color
i would say the data about each color channel is pretty useful ;)
@El_Heffe huh, didn't know about this, nice, thanks.
but the fact that a (more advanced user) person can change the settings doesn't excuse stupid defaults anyway, in my opinion.
@bb36e the primary goal is pleasurable UX, and low contrast certainly IS pleasurable to look at.
who cares about readability, nobody reads anymore anyway.
@dkf yes, but you've got to have the "close elevator door" button to keep people feeling in control.
(just an ex-post joke, you're right)
@dkf said in systemd implements ransomware for your own home directory:
And
systemdlinux beingsystemdlinux, it'll never describe what the problem is in a way that allows anyone to figure out what the problem is; that user will just have to hope thatthey've got backupsthey can google the magic shell command that nobody understands but it seems to fix the issue becausethat home directory will be permanently lostotherwise that issue will be permanently unsolved.
FTFY ;)
@Zecc how about a complete DBFS then? no folders anymore (except if you want), instead, query windows.
create folder "Newest music" select *.mp3 from C:\ where date_created < 2 days ago
boom, there it is, where you right-clicked, looks like a folder, behaves like a folder, except queries its contents based on anything you can come up with. files by default still get a structure to them, but as it would be a database filesystem, it would become a column in their attributes, there would be the standard preset of "empty folder designating structure", in-ui ability to add your own custom-written to the menus, hmmm...
i bet someone somewhere already had this idea?
is it a bad idea? i'm not sure, seems kind of awesome (although unnecessary, in most use cases), but i'm suspicious.
oh, also, app sandboxing would then be done through per-app db user (hah, user so the app can access the db it resides on, funny) with default rights only to read and write its own records, ability for the app to request more rights, ability for the user to grant them, and... well, even though the app would be sandboxed, after uninstall you could choose to just keep the files/documents, or remove them too, without the need for "export" as in mobile apps, all the data would be naturally available through the shell/explorer to the "user" db user, having rights to view and modify all the records, all the "files".
hm... sorry for the long post, also, i'm out of potatoes currently.
@sockpuppet7 said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
@groaner blender is the VI of 3D editors
i disagree. i hate VI with a passion. i mean, in the age where Gui was still a scifi, it was a... nice effort, i guess? a witty idea about how to avoid coding ascii interfaces, because i guess they're were too hard for linux guys to implement, but... what's the point in it existing since 1995 forwards, I will never understand.
blender, on the other hand... yummy...
i did the thing and youtube said "okay we won't do the thing to you"
it's still stupid, yeah, but i think it's kind of a filter to detect people who don't care about their channels/videos enough to do the thing.
i expect second stage in a year or so to be deleting those private vids from channels that don't care.
@pie_flavor said in Betrayed by github activity graph:
@cartman82 I just realized I should commit bugfixes on certain days so that the activity graph spells out 'deez nuts'.
i would go for "hello hr"
@cheong said in PSA: JavaScript is retarded:
@sh_code said in PSA: JavaScript is retarded:
Datetime is difficult. That's why we have Moment.js .
and JS is shit but people are too dumb to make some actually sane replacement for it, and they rather try to cover it up by piling layers of bandages made from shit on top of it, because that's the webstack mentality. that's why we have jQuery, typescript, whateverelsescript and who knows what else.
also processors are dificult, yet i don't see DYI wooden addons which would be basically required for them to work in at least remotely sane way.
@magus said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
I just want someone to buy Demigod on steam, and write a post here like the one above, about the installation process.
I mean, I probably did in Status or Likes somewhere, but I kind of want to share the exquisite pain involved.
@Rhywden i had to read up on what Hollywood Accounting is.
my dog thanks you very much for it delaying my going out with him :-D
(i thank you very much for a new term i've learned)
XML += myadorecorset.Fiels[0].ToSTring()
"My Adore Corset"? what?
myadorecordset = new ADODB.Recordset();
...oh, I read that wrong.
...wait...
XML += my-adore-corset.Fiels[0].ToSTring()
no, I didn't.
there's some corsets I adore too. none of them is mine, though :'(
The point was to keep them all the same to help compare, and because MSSQL will slurp up all the ram until there's nothing left for the other's
...wait, so you're running all of them on the same server at the same time? I'm no DB expert either, but this doesn't seem right...
@sh_code oh, close. a white knight.
and of course, no comments enabled.
SO is a place to find answers and solutions. if you want to feel welcomed, go visit family or friends, where that feeling is, unlike on SO, relevant.
@Bulb said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
t is a status symbol. Somebody shows off with insanely overpriced shirt from Versace, somebody has insanely overpriced phone from Apple.
i agree. and by doing that, both successfully signal their status of being morons.
@hungrier said in is GTA V doing in the pause menu?:
I would say that rendering menu text as individual 3D models for each character is doing it stupidly to begin with.
not each character. even the worst offenders I know generate the whole textbox/textblock as a single mesh.
which has the advantage of eating less cpu and gpu time when just displayed and moved.
...and has the disadvantage of having to re-generate the whole text block mesh even if you change just a single character.
seriously, dudes, EXAMPLES.
and balancing acts. optimize for one thing, pay for it via other things.
...am I in an IT forum, or not? seems like I am not, because I'd expect not to have to spell these things out if I were in IT forum.
the core is: GPUs are optimized to show relatively small number of relatively complex objects - wanna draw 1 object with 10 million polygons? okay, no prob.
UI is a relatively large number of relatively simple objects - wanna draw 10 million objects with 1 polygon each?
choking commences.
...oh...
...would that still work?
...didn't even cross my mind
@levicki said in Microsoft debuts Bosque – a yet another pointless programming language:
If you can't express yourself in a natural language you are a bad programmer.
please express matrix transformations of a set of vectors required to display a rotating 3d model in a natural language.
@Quwertzuiopp no idea how squarespace looks from inside, but i've tried and kind of used wix.com, and to me, it seems pretty good. It's organized more like an online wysiwyg than a "pick template, use this CMS to fill it with data", but still pretty friendly to use.
@Yamikuronue 7 out of 8 right, because this one is bullshit
i correctly answered there are three, because the upper left one (in the answer image) doesn't exist in the question image, but they got it wrong. I could have had clean score.
@lorne-kates said in What the fuck, Android:
So the first time someone uses lock screen they'll enter 4 digits, then sit there starting at the phone waiting for something to happen. And then, even after they discover how this shitty UI works, they'll still have to use an extra tap every time they unlock!
...wat?
even on my previous phone (windows) my unlock pin was 7 digits. everywhere i can use it I do, because it's such an automatic motion for me that it requires extra mental effort to stop myself after the first 4
even on my previous phone, as well as on my current android, a) there's no "enter" key, b) as soon as I enter the last digit of the correct sequence, it unlocks
meaning, what kind of crap phones have you been using?
@lorne-kates said in What the fuck, Android:
Ios
...oh.
@tsaukpaetra said in What the fuck, Android:
@sh_code said in What the fuck, Android:
@lorne-kates said in What the fuck, Android:
@sh_code said in What the fuck, Android:
...oh.
I said iOS was the one that work, dork-nibbler.
yeah, and I just saw the opportunity to make that joke and from that point I just ignored the meaning of related parts of your comment, sorry. I gotta amuse myself somehow
Has nobody shown you how to masturbate?
correct, nobody. I kinda figured it out by myself when I was eleven or twelve, i think.
but sometimes I've got to amuse myself with other people.
better?
@brisingraerowing said in WTF Bites:
And on a side note, a good name for Autocorrect came from an older phone of mine, which 'corrected' Autocorrect into 'Auto Condom Wrecker'.
you do know that these corrections are made based on long-term analysis of your typing, right?
i wonder what one would find in your messaging history...
@Dreikin said in Windows Update WTFs:
It'd be a different matter if most updates didn't require a reboot, or even if I could tell it "auto install any updates that don't require a reboot, but let me decide for ones that require a reboot".
keep an unsaved notepad file open. blocks the auto-restart pretty effectively
@xaade said in The Fun of Zen:
and whether they can effectively communicate this.
that's precisely the opposite of the intention, for various reasons, one (the most cynincal) being:
you want your religion's statements to be as fuzzy and widely interpretable as possible, so they can be used to as wide a range of situations as possible, freely interpretable in any way needed to justify the opinion/reaction you decided you want to have, because that's how religions work. by this "universality" caused by the fuzziness, the statement gets an aura of being so wise (because how it would be so readily applicable to such a huge number of things and situations? and how it could be discussed about in such lengths, if it werent about us mere mortals trying to understand something Godly Wise?)
and one less/least cynical being: the author knows precisely what he means and he chooses to communicate it in a very specific type of ineffective way, engineered such that from how people explain / reformulate it, he can distinguish who really understood what he meant, the whole principle of the whole philosophy, not just that single statement, and who didn't.
i sometimes use the latter approach when explaining certain things, it tends to be more effective and yields more truthful information than asking people "do you understand what I mean?". with the bonus of showing you exactly what and how they misunderstand, thus giving you the opportunity to learn how that person's mind/thought process works, so you can adjust the explanation for that, to get it closer to their native way of understanding.
@Quwertzuiopp said in Windows Update WTFs:
You can make the door go openclosopencloseopencloseopenclose if you press the two buttons in the right rythm.
yes, that's the part "the close button does nothing", so the "right rythm" is to account for that (i'd bet). the open button, on the other hand, HAS TO WORK, by law, as far as i know. congratulations to successfully finishing your pavlovian elevator training :-D
the other info about making it ignore other floor stops is news to me, makes sense.
@blakeyrat said in Someone poked Blakey about Git again:
Stop defending garbage software.
i was just thinking, reading this thread, what kind of ...git will name a program GIT, when it's the kind of program that, BY DEFINITION, will be used by many other people even if it's just "my internal tool for my own use". and if the name was supposed to mean something or not.
i think i found the answer:
Garbage Is Timeless
or Garbage is Transcendent.
or, also considering its use, "Garbage Is There", but that might be giving the authors too much credit in foreseeing how the software will be used, which they obviously didn't otherwise this and most of other GIT threads would not exist :-D
@Gąska said in Someone poked Blakey about Git again:
@RaceProUK said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
@gwowen said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
As I explained very carefully earlier - they're writing this software for their needs (and more importantly their notion of usability).
If they didn't intend for Git to be used outside of their little group, why is it available to the public?
Why not?
because there's this saying that people should be trying to spread good, or at the very least, avoid spreading suffering.
@marczellm ...dat player is a work of art...
no buffering, and changing the quality 1. resets the video position; 2. makes "Play" button to stop responding, only way to recover being F5, which of course cancels the quality settings...
@accalia said in Government Efficiency:
@sh_code said in Government Efficiency:
i don't see any negative sign in there
a somewhat common accounting practice is to surround negative numbers with parenthesis instead of using the negative sign. this is because that scheme makes it less likely to misinterpret numbers as negative or positive due to an ink smudge or the misinterpretation of the sign as an ink smudge
a somewhat common practice of sarcasm meant to highlight absurdity of something is to dismiss the correct but absurd variant on the beginning and proceed to suggest a number of (slightly less, but still) absurd incorrect alternatives.
which i probably failed to do in this case.
and not just because you actually gave me an explanation that makes sense (at least historically).
thank you, not understanding this quirk of accounting has been slightly bugging me for years :)
@powerlord said in Stanford dumps Java as introductory class:
@sh_code said in Stanford dumps Java as introductory class:
Therefore Java makes little sense, but at least some.
So, you're tossing one language because this boilerplate is bad:
public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Stuff"); }
(this was cited as an issue further up this thread)
C# feels good for the purpose, but that might be just out of my personal preference.
but this one is OK:
using System; static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Stuff"); }
?
no, i never mentioned anything about boilerplate.
the difference is that "C# is like a Java except it makes sense"
as in, names and structure of its standard library, for example. or as in, not containing four implementations of almost any feature, three of which are obsolete. or as in, not containing 4 or 5 "built-in" (re)implementations of GUI system which are sometimes silly easy to mix up/combine if you're not aware of this problem.
And similar stuff.