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Best posts made by trithne
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
You started another one? Did the first one fall over?
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Find and Replace, by way of Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V
So I'm using Microsoft OneNote for some collaboration at work, and decide that I need to do a find and replace across the steadily bloating document. Press Ctrl+H. Exactly nothing happens. Try Ctrl+F, and a pissant tiny text box appears in the top right. A bit of googling around reveals that Microsoft's new approach to Fnd and Replace is:
Finding and replacing text can be helpful when editing your notes. For example, if the name of a project changed, you can easily go in and replace all instances of the project name with the new one. In OneNote, you can use instant search to find specific text, and then replace it with different text using a keyboard shortcut.
- On a blank page, type the replacement text that you want to use. For example, if you’re trying to update a project name in your notes, type the new project name.
- Select the text you just typed, and then press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard.
- Press Ctrl+E to expand the search box in the top right corner of the OneNote window.
- In the search box, type the text you want to find.
- At the bottom of the results list, click Pin Search Results, or press Ctrl+O.
- In the Search Results pane on the right side of your window, click the first search result (blue link next to a white page icon) to jump to the page where OneNote highlighted the text it has found.
- On the page, double-click each highlighted occurrence of the text, and then press Ctrl+V to paste your replacement text over it.
- Repeat steps 6-7 for each additional page in the search results list.
Fuck this. I had something more to say on the topic, but it's gone now, replaced only with fury cooling into disappointment.
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RE: IBM's JSONx, or how to represent JSON in XML
That's it, I'm out. I can't do this anymore, going to raise turtles in the Amazon or something less stupid than software.
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RE: WTF happened to Windows 95?
Terry Myerson actually talked a bit about how/why they went with 10 at the start of the event.Basically, they wanted to include the "1" part to not only signify the unity (same core across all platforms), but also to tie in with other current products (OneNote, OneDrive, Xbox One), and because Windows 1 has already been a thing (the first version of Windows).
TDEMSYR
I was actually expecting it to be called "Windows One". It's not like the existence of a previously existing Windows 1.0 really prevents that, and no-one's reading "Windows 10" as "Windows One-Oh", so it doesn't tie anything together.
They should just go back to using years.
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RE: Congratulations on your glorious four hours of downtime
These guys use vim and emacs and stuff..
"Man I loved how computers worked in 1988! Let's have the 1988 experience ALL THE TIME!"
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RE: Unique datetime
Why don't you just overwrite the file?
Because generally I try to avoid giving the Client an excuse to shriek like a banshee at me.
"It's according to Spec" just gets "You should know better"
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RE: Court reporter fined for courting reporting in court reporting.You can't Hanzo us all.posted in Meta
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RE: Error'd: Fileformat.info disagrees with itself
Having decided I was due for a new avatar and this emoji presented the perfect solution, I particularly like how Discourse, when I tried drag the image onto the avatar selector, decided I wanted that image for my profile banner, and after fixing that and updating the image the long, button-pressing way, didn't actually show me my avatar had changed on the profile page to let me know that it had actually succeeded.
Paging @discoursebot
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RE: India needs you!
To whom do the outsourcers outsource?
Eventually all work on the planet will be done by one man.
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RE: $10 PROVES this is a Paid Job
But the best thing about those Nigerian Princes is that the last monarch of Nigeria was Queen Elizabeth II, so apparently all these spam mails are coming from... Prince Charles?
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RE: Just realized, web apps mean....
Pretty sure we went over Citrix here once before, but goddamn Citrix is a blight. I absolutely love the overhead it adds to every single thing and inability to interface with our local scanners.
'Computing Power is so cheap now! Every workstation can do whatever it needs quickly, and locally! How do we leverage this?'
'Centralise everything to run on a single overworked server somewhere on the other side of the country while all the local processing power sits idle, and then wonder why our single point of failure keeps failing' -
RE: Unique datetime
My gut response is to go the 'throttle the jobs to 1 per minute' route, but if a throughput of > 1/min is expected, then start viciously leaning on sales to tell them their shit stinks. Or find a way to tell them their shit stinks directly.
Filed Under: I was under the impression they hired us for our skills, Apparently those skills do not include knowing why your shit won't work
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RE: The Holy Grail of virtual reality
Given the predicted prices of oil, I expect that the airlines are going to go for cramming yet more seats into the plane, and filling the cabin with an airborne drug to convince everyone they're on a flying carpet without the hassle of VR.
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RE: What's killing off "gameified" communities (yes I made a post of my tweets, suck it)
experts-exchange, you mean. They eventually realised.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Modern western society is based on a principle of "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". The trend in Social Justice is "I don't agree with what you say, so you have to stop saying it because it offends me"
Offense is not something that is given. It is something that is taken. It's right there in the language: "To take offense". When something offends you, it's because you've chosen to let it do so. It's not the fault of the person who did it, but rather, the fault of you for electing to react in such a way. It's natural that it happens though, and when it does happen, the participants have a few choices:
- The offender can choose to cease the offensive activity
- The offendee can remove themselves from exposure to the offensive activity
- Both parties can reach a compromise to minimise the issue
Social Justice takes the stance that (1) is the only correct responce, and that people must be "taught" this. It's thought policing and coercion, and hypocritical when placed alongside the supposed ends of the movement.
As for pronouns: Anyone who seeks to bend the language to suit their own desires not only fails to understand how language works in the first place, but is attempting to place themselves in a position of control over our very speech. Again, this is entirely at odds with any concept of 'Justice' other than classic retribution.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
>trithne said:
It's thought policing and coercion,
"I would like you to use "she" to refer to me""THOUGHT POLICE!!!!!!"
Don't overreact.
Don't strawman then. The pronoun argument is a separate one to what you've quoted. I am talking about the greater argument of the movement, where 'misogynistic attitudes' must be purged from the collective consciousness and only then can women be free from oppression. You calling @wft a 'maggot' for his attitudes. His attitudes may be reprehensible, but he has the free goddamn will to hold them and I will, as someone who respects freedom of thought, defend his right to. You, Buddy, and anyone else rocking the Social Justice train need to learn that attempting to dictate the thoughts and attitudes of others is far more tyrannical than the oppression you claim to be fighting
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RE: Windows 8 Mouse
Wait, is @blakeyrat saying that hardware switches for wifi are a bad idea?
Everything should have a hardware switch. Software glitches. Physically breaking a circuit glitches much less. I should always, especially regarding network connections, have the option to tell the connecting device 'Fuck you, you die now'
Filed under: No, I wasn't a fan of ACPI either, how could you tell
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RE: IIHS prejudiced against fat women because the fat dummy made for them won't help? I guess?
Bootstraps—A reference to the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" canard about self-reliance, which elides systemic disadvantages and privileges conveyed on individuals by the kyriarchy.
I always find these to be the most telling. These people quite simply do not believe in meritocracy.
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
You want TRWTF? What the hell was I thinking that I fitted in here? Most of the people here... I'm quietly in awe of. Yes, even (especially) @blakeyrat. I feel like I have no business here. At least I'm not suffering from the WTF that I'm smarter than I am - because I'm really not.
Imposter Syndrome is pretty common in our industry, possibly equaled only by the amount of people on the other side of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Basically, the industry is full of highly skilled people who realise the field is so big it makes them feel incompetent, and useless imbeciles who think they're savant masters of coding. And a handful of mentally stable people as the glue.
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RE: Tales from the Mortgage Monster: Citrix
Citrix's very existence is the TRWTF. I've never seen it be worthwhile, and dealing with its bullshit nets negative productivity. It's a relic of the mainframe era being applied to a computing paradigm it isn't relevant to.
Fuck I hate Citrix. I didn't even read the post yet, I just want to bitch about Citrix.
Filed Under: Citrix is a barrier to me reading posts about it
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RE: Discourse is slow on Android. Why?
"Toxic Culture" is the sociologist's way of saying "You're Doing It WrongTM"
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
whenever someone posts something blatantly misogynistic and you don't flag it, you are supporting misogyny
I see this argument a lot in the SJW sphere, and it's utterly fallacious. The "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" attitude. Nothing is ever that binary. Not condemning does not equal condoning. The truly frightening thing about fourth wave feminism is the extent to which they advocate thought policing.
Filed under: CONDONE, CONDEMN, ATTITUDE_NOT_FOUND
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RE: PHP's manual is also TRWTF
it really is no less or more dysfunctional than any slice of StackOverflow.
It's probably due to my timezone, but StackOverflow, for me, is basically an endless barrage of Nageshes. Still, SO did work, once upon a time. The problem now being that all the common questions have answers, so the only questions getting asked now are either duplicates getting vote-to-closed in 15 seconds, or some arcane combination of technologies no-one outside the asker has ever tried to use together before. And the community just spends all their time on meta arguing about whether or not they're elitist.
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RE: How can we increase adoption of c/c++ alternatives?
an interesting economy where the extreme lack of competence means there is a market for actual competence to fix the problems.
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The ASUS Taichi, with bonus Windows 8.1 WTF
Continuing the discussion from Dell's downgrade suggestions:
My only Win8 machine is an Asus Taichi, and if I upgrade it to 8.1 I break the entire reason for having it. That deserves a new thread.
The ASUS Taichi is some manner of laptop/tablet hybrid that I bought last year while on holiday because I'm a fucking retard and didn't just get a Surface Pro. The gimmick is that it has a touchscreen in the top of the unit, and when you close it it becomes a tablet, and you can open it to be a laptop. The inner screen is not touch-capable.
Recently, it wasn't swapping to tablet mode when I closed the lid, and I was getting annoyed trying to work out why. Turns out that I'm just stupid and forgot about the hardware lock on the side, but while looking around the internet I discovered the following:
If you update the Windows 8 install on the Taichi to Windows 8.1, the driver package that 8.1 provides does not recognise the outer screen. Or acknowledge the existence of it at all. This has been the case for as long as 8.1 has been available, including RC.
ASUS's solution, even today? Roll back the Intel drivers to the version that came with the Taichi originally.
I have no idea how I'm going to get rid of this thing.
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RE: Lessons in EOL
I'm not really seeing those excerpts as patronising. Rather matter-of-fact, really.
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RE: Cards Against Humanity is like if I got control of a successful e-commerce site
Has anyone ever intentionally called you the wrong pronouns?
Not intentionally, but I also don't go around asking people to refer to me using bun/bun/bunself.
An extreme example, yes.
But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it asking to be called a goose doesn't make it one.
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RE: IIHS prejudiced against fat women because the fat dummy made for them won't help? I guess?
Hexfat—Fat cursed upon a child by hir mother. Usage: O NOES HEXFAT!!!eleventy!
The correct word to use for non-gender specific individual is "their". As in "this person was probably not given enough attention by their mother as a child".
Stop making up pronouns, Internet. Grumble.
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RE: Optifine modder rips the Minecraft devs for the code in the newest version.
XNA's funeral has been going on for how long now?
I don't even care. I'm keeping XNA's head in my refrigerator for a future time.
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RE: Inessential Weirdnesses
Holy shit. I just read the linked page. CONFERENCES ALIENATE PEOPLE! WHAT IF I CAN'T AFFORD TO GO?
All this shit about "safe spaces" pisses me off. If you can't deal with the culture, get the fuck out of that culture. Oh, but that's exclusive! We should be including everyone, even if that means tearing the culture out of the existing group to replace it with our own.
The Tech crowd (particularly what's still around of the older tech crowd), was thankfully made up of people with a strong resistance to bullshit, so the cultural whitewashing crowd is bouncing off of it a lot.
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RE: Poll: Shouldn't the spoilers plugin be disabled?I refuse to vote on the grounds of symmetryposted in Meta
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Trying to censor out anyone trying to mention any other domains in your psuedo-chatroom. Never understand why marketroid-types think this is ever anything but a bad idea. All it's going to do is drive people away from your site to somewhere less stupid.
Filed Under: Subtle Sabotage?
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RE: Lunch or Servers, Take your Pick
Server rooms and broom closets are synonymous in Management's mind.
I have a server room that is cooled by a single split-system unit. And a laundry basket underneath it to catch the occasional drip.
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RE: Ruby or Python? posted in Coding Help
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RE: There should be a "programmers license"...
I have the strong opinion that software development should be a regulated and licensed profession
Except that serial incompetence is demonstrably just as rife in already regulated and licensed professions.
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RE: Citrix, why?
@Intercourse said:
They already have a significant investment in XenDesktop, may as well install X software on a VM for those times when they need to use it and make the most of the money they have spent.
So Citrix's business model is Stockholm Syndrome?
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RE: Poll: Cornify - what else would make sense?
@blakeyrat-ify
foreach (String Word in Blakeypost.split(' ')) { if (Random.Next(0,10) != 10) {Word = Word.ToUpper();} }
Should be enough.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
all you have to do is say "hm, maybe the things I say aren't right" instead of being defensive, and after that you can always arrive at the conclusion that you're perfectly fine.
This cuts both ways though, doesn't it? That's the crux of the issue here: You're coming at this from a self-perceived position of moral superiority. You tell someone they need to think "Maybe the things that I do aren't right" without stopping to apply that same introspection to yourself "Maybe my inability to be tolerant of others' sociocultural differences is no fucking different to their inability to be tolerant of mine".
We're not even asking for different things here - the end goal is a more equal society. The difference is that the one I hope for doesn't plan to achieve that by stamping out 'undesirable' attitudes.
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RE: Another Sunday at work: Let's see who screwed up this time!
Symantec Endpoint Encryption
Hooray for Symantec's vice-like grip on corporate IT. Get into work, Start computer, log in, lock computer, go make a coffee and a sandwich, drink coffee, eat sandwich, talk to boss for 20 minutes about bullshit, go back to desk, try to start VS, go get another coffee, talk to boss some more, go back to desk, work (maybe).
No mention of what "It" is. Or what driver didn't load. The implication is that it was my server, but that doesn't fit with the "It works from my office" symptom. I suspect the answers are "The primary domain controller" and "DFS".
Sounds like your system is a house of cards waiting for a breeze.
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RE: Products for Dumb Suckers
Hush. I don't know where that L came from but it's here to stay now.
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RE: How can we increase adoption of c/c++ alternatives?
It's not something you need to micro-manage.
Micromanagement of pointers is the lifeblood of C++ developers. Without that, they would shrivel up and die.
Filed under: Dessicated Corpse, Pointer Vampires
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RE: Character-separated-values
LinkedIn EE boards which are really epeen boards with everyone trying to look like the best person to hire as consultant.
Isn't that all of LinkedIn?
I don't actually know, I don't use it, but apparently it's essential if I want to change jobs at some point. It sounds like a cult to me.
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RE: Switching from iPhone to Android? Don't count on getting texts for a while...
iPhones are such a technical debacle it's embarrassing. I know, let's tack a later of proprietary bullshit on top of the SMS protocol built specifically so that this would not be a problem! Let's fuck up the vcf formatting! (to be fair, everyone fucks up vcf though)
Then you get all these kids praising Jobs like he's some sort of Technological Jesus, while they go and establish their startup to go and fuck up established standards even more.
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RE: Geek o'clock
I saw some substantial problems with this. "What about our overseas clients? Not everyone uses month-day-year formatting."
Should've been said "No-one else in the world uses month-day-year formatting"
"Geek Time" (YYYY-MM-DD) is also the standard date layout in East Asian countries.
Even were that not the case, your manager's an ass.