Performance. Nodebb is way faster.
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RE: Tsaukpaetra Button
@pie_flavor said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it. ;) If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything. I think it would be of value to the rest of us also. The existing forum software makes a valiant attempt to bring you to the last read item in a forum, but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies, etc.
Discourse, of course, needs no such button, because it remembers the read status of every single post and I have not ever experienced it making a mistake on that front.
I recommend you go to meta.d and tell them you love their product and are trying to get your favourite site,
what.thedailywtf.com
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RE: "Hacking" Teenager in trouble - for downloading public documents
Quite a few years ago, the new government budget leaked a few days before it was to be publicly announced because somebody tried the URL that contained last year's budget and incremented the year. There was much public uproar regarding security, and no hacking allegations.
The year after, it happened again. In the exact same way.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@Rhywden Well, that'll stop Dutch travel agencies going "We don't see a 'no non-essential travel' as a reason to cancel your vacation".
Dutch PM this evening announced a general recommendation to stop shaking hands with others. At the end of the press conference, he shook hands with the head of the CDC, who co-presented with him...
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RE: In other news today...
Supermarket has to recall peeled walnuts. Reason: The label does not warn that the package may contain walnuts.
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RE: WTF Bites
@rhywden Are they testing for teachers who don't pre-check the tests they put out?
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RE: We need to be more user hostile to help them embrace freedom!
@hungrier Compare this with mac, where asking how to turn the light off, proverbially speaking, will get the fanboys tripping all over themselves to extol the virtues of sleeping with the lights on.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
Today's XKCD is practically a wooden table:
And the tweet it links to fits right in as well:
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RE: âJust use Chromeâ
@kazitor said in âJust use Chromeâ:
Atrocious injustices against the English language aside,
I find the best English is typically found in the works of those apologising for their English because they are not native speakers.
Latest posts made by PleegWat
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
But when presented with 018 it appears to parse it to (decimal) 1 and discard the rest of the literal without printing a diagnostic at any error level, which is bad.
>php -a Interactive shell php > echo (017=='017') ? 'true' : 'false'; false php > echo (018=='018') ? 'true' : 'false'; PHP Parse error: Invalid numeric literal in php shell code on line 1 php >
?
Must be a version thing. I tested on a work box running an ancient version of PHP and I forgot they've been tightening up their game since 5.x
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@topspin I'm looking for a meaning for the
0w0
prefix.wexagesimal.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: I can't believe they brought me to counting the exact number of times my shell script requires a new process (subshell or external program) to be started.
The answer, in the common (second run) case, in just over 300 non-empy non-comment lines of script, is 9.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
Quite. In any sane language line 1 would be a syntax error.
It is in PHP for example. PHP also supports 0o17 syntax (similar to 0x17 for hex)
Woe on you for making me check.
It parses the
0
prefix as octal, which is the only correct behaviour (even if0o
is the preferred prefix). But when presented with018
it appears to parse it to (decimal)1
and discard the rest of the literal without printing a diagnostic at any error level, which is bad. Then again, we're talking about PHP, so the above remark about sane languages applies.Have a relatively sane language for comparison:
$ for i in `seq 10 19`; do printf '%s: %d\n' 0$i 0$i; done 010: 8 011: 9 012: 10 013: 11 014: 12 015: 13 016: 14 017: 15 bash: printf: 018: invalid octal number 018: 1 bash: printf: 019: invalid octal number 019: 1
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
Quite. In any sane language line 1 would be a syntax error.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Gern_Blaanston Whenever you see an image, first thing, count the fingers.
I've also heard count the nipples but I don't think that applies here
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RE: Fun with maps
@loopback0 And then they'd been in Edinburgh/Geneva (Cross out what is not appropriate). Why would they do that to themselves?
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Mason_Wheeler err 2b not found
Mount options invalid, try
fsck
and mount again?Dunno, it looks fine, but what is its personality like?
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RE: The bad jokes topic đ´đšđ¨
@Gern_Blaanston said in The bad jokes topic đ´đšđ¨:
11/11/11
Ah, crazy day.
(proceeds to be unable to find an English-language source for that)