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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Especially at work when is approaching and the folder contains instructional images.
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@izzion said in Visual Studio WTfs:
I wouldn't want to be on either side of the bet that Framework 4.8 is going to be available in Windows 12.
I can fairly confidently bet that it won’t be; if it ships with the OS it’ll be 4.8.1 or later.
(It will be… interesting… if they put .NET Framework 4.x on the standalone-component train like 3.5 but not the VB6 runtime.)
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@BernieTheBernie said in Azure bites:
@Arantor E_OFF_BY_ONE - intended?
The 365 is an aspirational amount of uptime.
Pretty sure we're already on 364 for this year assuming no further outages.
360 is the record as far as I'm aware.
@sockpuppet7 most of my daily work consists of undoing the shit caused by such development. For the most part we do actually take our time to think things through.
@CodeJunkie said in I hate printers, with a passion:
You should be able to. I bought a roller replacement kit for $20 for my HP LaserJet 4100n off Amazon about a year ago. That thing just keeps on working.
Yep, those had already been replaced a few years earlier, when they stopped working properly. I don’t remember the reason for getting rid of the printer eventually, but it was some other paper-feed problem that wasn’t the rollers but something more involved.
@Steve_The_Cynic I can't speak for the others but I've seen how much internal bullshit MSF has going on and frankly I would never encourage anyone to donate to them.
I know that such orgs all have some internal bullshit but... fuck me... theirs is more internal bullshit than usual by quite a margin.
May 1
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Joshua Dean, one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit AeroSystems execs had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died after a sudden illness.
On a tangent, I did play Stardock's Star Control: Origins, and it was all right; it kept the space combat pretty much as-is, I enjoyed learning the new ships, and they didn't have that godawful Ethics Committee from Star Control 3 to limit my choices. (Granted, I usually play a good guy, but there was a moment in SC3 where you had to not shoot an actively hostile alien, because it was possible to talk them down.) There was a good variety of aliens, too: the final enemies-from-another-dimension, and the enslaved-by-software guys you eventually ally with were creative.
I didn't like the planet exploration; I get that doing a 3d exploration of a planet is what you've got to do in a modern game, but the limited view meant that it would take a while to finish getting the loot from a planet. SC2's exploration, while slightly dull, was at least quick and didn't overstay its welcome.
I also didn't like the fetch-quests in Origins; there were thankfully few in the base game, but the idea of "gather X resource which you may or may not have harvested and sold already" doesn't work well in Star Control.
And I didn't end up getting the DLC; the base game was all right, but I was ready to be done with it when I finished the game. (And honestly, I don't remember it that well anymore; I played it a few years ago.) I expect Free Stars to be a much better game, but at least I'm not expecting it to be Best Of All Time or anything.
300 reasons to hate Southwest:
Wheelchair basketball players say Southwest left a '300-piece jigsaw puzzle' after flight
Teams of wheelchair basketball players say their devices were dismantled on Southwest Airlines flight ahead of championship tournament.
TL;DR: Southwest baggage handlers disassembled the wheelchairs to put them on the plane but had no personnel available to reassemble them at the destination. Bonus: They left some normal baggage off the plane to accommodate the wheelchairs, so some able-bodied passengers were angry at the basketball players when they didn't have their luggage.
DeAngelo Marquise Vaxter / Apr 24
Video released: Assault on Embark bus driver leads to crash into Oklahoma City business
Video has been released from inside of the bus that crashed over the weekend in Oklahoma City, causing damages to a business and injuries.On Saturday, police ar
@izzion said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread:
got off on his own accord.
Wait. If he owned a car, why did he want to take the bus?
What, you're not going to ask about his fetish for relieving himself in public on his car?
Bonk! Go to Honda Jail.
@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
@Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
@LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages,
...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us
Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard?
Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.
@boomzilla said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
The other part of this meme that isn’t obvious is how it demonstrates Microsoft’s ongoing campaign of aligning interface consistency.
@Steve_The_Cynic said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
@dkf said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
And yes, JIRA encourages this by its design.
I wouldn't necessarily say, "encourages this," but "facilitates this" or "makes this too easy" are definitely on the cards.
Atlassian absolutely encourages you to use JIRA in these ways if you can stomach any of the marketing shite they serve up.
@Parody said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
Meanwhile, I still shut my computers down when I'm done using them...
My wife's father does that. He turns on his computer long enough to check/send e-mail and do whatever he needs to do right at that minute. Then shuts it down.
@cvi said in "I swear to you, I did exactly as you told me......":
@TwelveBaud said in "I swear to you, I did exactly as you told me......":
Free beats 0.3¢ every day.
Further costs savings: measure voltage over the speaker, so it can act as a (terrible) microphone. Remove one of the buttons in favour of the user screaming at the device.
I feel like I would be willing to pay more for this feature.
@topspin said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!):
@Atazhaia said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!):
Called it.
@topspin said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!):
@boomzilla said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!):
Minus the cost of the hoodies!
From the screenshot: "I have concerns at this point".
@joshmid747 said in Super Cow Powers:
Only just rediscovered this on my computer, been ages since I have done this one.
Well, well, well .... if it isn't Jo Shmid.
@dkf said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?:
@dkf said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?:
@Benjamin-Hall Can we defend the kittens and puppies anyway? Asking for a pyromaniac friend.
I mean, I'm fine with them as long as they're not near me OR (not XOR) hypoallergenic. And not noisy, filthy, or otherwise unpleasant. I hold no ill-will towards even the ones I'm not fine with, just can't defend them while they're like that.
You find yourself able to defend them in the abstract, but the realities of fur allergies are unfortunate. Particularly as kittens tend to go 110% into purring...
Purring I'm fine with. It's dogs barking or howling that I dislike, at least if it's constant. I've got neighbors whose dog will sometimes bark like it's being murdered for an hour straight.
@JBert said in Conversations overheard:
@Yamikuronue said:"We started running a promotion on X/XX, which has now ended. We did not set it up using the Promotion Tracker. However, we now want the data. Is there some way to get the data that would have been collected by the Promotion Tracker tool had we elected to use it?"
Hmmm, there was some old quote about this. I think it went something like this:
On two occasions have I been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you fail to put any figures into the machine, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I don't think it's quite as bad as that. The former was due to not having a clear understanding of how the Promotion Tracker works. (URL's with a marker, etc.) The questioner may have wondered if it was just a data analysis tool.
The Babbage one seemed to have no understanding of the most fundamental grasp of how a computer works. What makes it most amusing is that the questioner thought it was a gotcha. The modern equivalent would be, "Then why are apes still around?"
Eric Berger / Mar 7 / Space
After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private
First you burn the cash, then comes the crash.
If only the people getting soaked by this were venture capitalists...
@Atazhaia said in Willy's Chocolate Experience:
It is indeed amazing stuff, and meme-worthy.
Feb 27
What Was The Sad Glasgow 'Willy Wonka Experience' And Who's 'Billy Coull'? The Disastrous Event Explained
Scottish children were anticipating a world of pure imagination, and got a world of disappointment instead.
In the wake of the disastrous event, a ... group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong,
...Now things are gonna get interesting!
In the wake of the disastrous event, a Facebook group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong,
@sockpuppet7 said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?:
in my locality it was unfair laws, with most cab licenses owned by city lawmakers, and cabs being priced as a luxury, with old cars and rude drivers
the owner of the license would hire a driver to work for him, and the profit, doing nothing, was better than the average pay of an engineer like us
That's the sort of situation where I'd expect Uber to do well, cracking a market where prices were massively out of line with service levels. It is the differential between prices and service levels that provides the opportunity, the competitive edge. Markets where there isn't that dysfunction will be harder (that's why they've found the UK mostly hard going, especially outside London; not impossible but very little to gain advantage with).
Status: I'm really confused. For some reason uBlock is not keeping YouTube on the whitelist.
I click the button, it adds www.youtube.com to the whitelist (verified in settings) all is good. Open a new tab, it's gone again.
Good. I feel my hate growing.
@Bulb said in Art Wars: The AI Menace:
The muscles that do most of the work are the back ones as the arches spreads out their arms.
That's certainly how Japanese archery (Kyūdō) does it. Most western archers don't use their backs so much (though they probably should be).
@dcon said in What's an image file?:
@Arantor said in What's an image file?:
Mine says F12
Prt Scr
and in a fancy edgy tech font because it's an MSI laptop. And naturally it has the LED lightup thing, so when I press FN, the text goes orange.
Well, actually, my MS keyboard is PrtScr
SysRq
The Lenovo has a snipping image under the PrtSc.
Standards. Yup. One for every manufacturercomputer and keyboard model!
My Logitech keyboard dumbed it down even more:
(with wooden table for extra pointz)
@Steve_The_Cynic I can’t even claim that, since I had a break of breaking it around 2008-2010, but the underlying point is +3 Immunity to Bad Headlines.
@dkf said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
@robo2 said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
I'm allowed to WFH half the time, but I'm not allowed to do that from a different country (for tax reasons).
If you're in another country temporarily but still resident in then I'd expect the tax authorities to be relaxed about where you're physically located.
I actually had the need to check the laws due to my cross-country situation, and the answer is that it all depends on the specific tax treaty between the countries involved. The usual - but not universal - rule is that your tax residency is the country you spent more than half of a year (183 days), and if there wasn't one, then your home country. In particular, this rule applies across all of EU. So it would be fine for @robo2 to work abroad, as long as they don't do it too much.
Please don't tell anyone I only spend 165 days in USA in 2020.
@Tsaukpaetra It's the needful-don't-doers. There's going to be someone in a small group insulated from all users who has the power to press the Button and make everything work... but they don't want to (and definitely don't want anyone who might qualify as a user near them!) and nobody outside their coterie really knows who to pester in person to make it happen despite their passive-aggressive resistance.
@Mason_Wheeler said in Oh, the stupidity of Firefox:
@Gern_Blaanston Serious question. If you're going to use ambiguous acronyms, you need to explain them, because that's the only ESR I know of, so I have no idea what you're talking about here.
This is perhaps the funniest thing you've ever posted after getting upset that people don't know obscure shit you post about.
@dkf said in Guy brings down thousands of npm builds:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Guy brings down thousands of npm builds:
I'm amazed that there was a systemically enforced policy to disallow deletion of a package if it so happens that some other package happens to reference it.
I'm more surprised that there isn't a check to see whether the dependency graph is a DAG.
There probably is at the point of resolution in npm itself.
But note that “everything” is really a meta package that points to half a dozen other packages that just hard-list everything else, built by scraping the npm registry.
Which means it must be doing something DAG like somewhere because everything-registry/everything -> everything-registry/chunk0 -> list of dependencies, such that everything itself only has 5 dependencies (chunk0 through chunk4) and those individually have all the dependencies.
@loopback0 said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Who the fuck is buying this?
Like with most of the other IoT garbage, idiots. Idiots are buying it.
Also, that if day > 20 && month > 10? It's false now. The train that broke on December 21 is fine now.
Noworoczny cud. Zepsuty Impuls sam się naprawił 1 stycznia
Należący do województwa lubuskiego pociąg Impuls, który przestał się uruchamiać 21 grudnia, od 1 stycznia ponownie działa bez żadnej zewnętrznej ingerencji. Dokładnie taki przebieg wydarzeń przewidzieli hakerzy z Dragon Sector, którzy analizowali jego oprogramowanie.
I like that one of the theories about why some setups were still working and others were not is that the related spec says you need to check the certificate's validity relative to a date. What date? The spec doesn't specify, so some systems might check that it was valid when everything was generated (still works) and others check vs. the current date (fails).
@Gern_Blaanston
Almost 20 years back? Not everything was remote accessible, or accessible remotely for external consultants. The software required dedicated hardware cards. This often resulted in different servers being used and general hands off from IT. Sometimes because they where marked simply as Telco.
The times I walked around with a borrowed IT badge, got left in a room I didn't have access to or IT blocked a door from shutting are countless.
Sometimes, in small companies, they didn't give a flying fuck. Other times, in banks or international institutions, it was lawful good rule breaking. Like, here have my badge because we are still battling internal why my colleagues don't have access.
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@hungrier said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@dkf said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@MrL said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
Disgusting
Makes you wonder if Pantone are based in Boston.
New Jersey, the Boston of states
Posted from Boston, the New Jersey of cities.