@boomzilla Yeah, from $20K for 10 litres (at consumer prices of $20 per 10 ml) to $650 per ten litres is a huge reduction in price, a thin hair over 99%.
Posts made by Steve_The_Cynic
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@topspin Surely the cyan box should be bigger than the rest...
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RE: Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!)
@topspin For a long while after Adobe released their subscription model, it was possible all the same to still buy a paid-up permanent licence, but the option wasn't remotely easy to find on their site. I'd like to have a new permanent licence for for Acrobat (Writer) to replace my one for Acrobat 8 (not supported on Windows 10+, and possibly not on Windows 7 either), but ...
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RE: Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!)
From the kickstarter:
For a long time, we owned the software we used
That "long time" was exactly never. We owned a licence-to-use for the software we used, unless we wrote it ourselves (including questions of "work for hire", thanks).
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RE: WTF Office?
@topspin said in WTF Office?:
how it seems to anchor formatting at line/paragraph endings.
It seems to do that because it does do that. Well, for paragraph-level formatting(1). Turn on the option to show paragraph markers and you'll be able to see the [REDACTED] things and know easily whether you've selected one (or more) of them.
(1) Character-level formatting (bold, superscript, font, etc.) is stored on the characters themselves, more or less.
@topspin said in WTF Office?:
Look, if I wanted to include the line break, I’d shift-down.
I wouldn't, because, as a universal rule, that causes problems when you start half-way along the line (because shift-down will select the second half of this line and the first half of the line below.
@topspin said in WTF Office?:
This wreaks all kinds of havoc when dealing with bulleted lists, etc. Delete (or cut) some text, it completely fucks up the surrounding text and formatting.
Mostly, it messes those things up only if you fail to bear in mind the paragraph markers. Mostly...
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RE: WTF Office?
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Office?:
But, the latest versions are not better or more capable than my 20 year old version of MS Office. And that's just sad.
To be less unfair, you could say much the same thing about the latest versions of Microsoft Office as well, especially for the core functionality that most users stick to. They are for sure better in all those respects than Word for DOS, for example, but that's not actually saying much.
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RE: WTF Office?
@LaoC Oh, yeah, for sure it was succint and to the point, but it definitely lacked explicative power.
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RE: WTF Office?
@LaoC Not the mostest usefullest of arguments for avoiding PP or XL.
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RE: Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
I really need to make an add-on low pressure regulator but I wouldn't bet money on me remembering this before I need to spray paint again.
So make it now, while you are thinking about it...
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RE: Scientific Science
@MrL said in Scientific Science:
"This “significant” is the statistical, and not important kind. The phrase “statistically significant” has no relation to the English word significant, which means large effect, interesting, decisionable, useful, and things like that. “Statistically significant” means wee P, and nothing ”
Ok, whoever wrote this article should be fired and banned from writing anything adjecent to scientific papers.
Not least because "statistically significant" means "large enough to be meaningful" rather than "wee P".
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RE: Azure bites
@dkf said in Azure bites:
@boomzilla said in Azure bites:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Azure bites:
@Bulb Is the problem described, that the files contain naked ASCII control characters, accurate?
That said, in $JOB, we did have a problem that was eventually tracked to an naked NUL (
'\000'
) character in a C source file. Gcc somehow didn't notice this, and did strange things as a result.The real tragedy is that @blakeyrat is no longer here to gloat.
A naked NUL in source does hit the "Dude. WTF." button, especially in C.
That was my reaction when it was found. Félicitations to Philippe, though, for finding it.
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RE: Azure bites
@Bulb Is the problem described, that the files contain naked ASCII control characters, accurate?
That said, in $JOB, we did have a problem that was eventually tracked to an naked NUL (
'\000'
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RE: Intentionally bad UI
@Gurth said in Intentionally bad UI:
Not sure what the decimals separator has to do with it, though
It will affect the output if it has fractions in it.
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RE: Intentionally bad UI
@pcooper I remember having a basic calculator where the sequence for adding 6% to 27.99 € would have been more like
27.99 x 6 % +
possibly with an=
after the+
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RE: Intentionally bad UI
@Zecc I looked at the site, and I read his thing about 4K monitors, which was violently dishonest. He shows all these pictures of text, which really does look awful, but since they are enlarged by about 10:1 in both horizontal and vertical, you'd kind of expect it. He goes on about how horrible they look, but never shows them at 1:1 size so we can judge the "true" appearance for ourselves. (Mostly, I don't care. If the text is clear enough at "normal" scale to be easily readable, that's all I care about. Precise and accurate text rendering is not part of my job, and I have much better things to worry about than how inexact the rendering of text is on my screens.)
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RE: Google’s .zip
@Zecc And doing a mouseover in the browser shows that the link is, indeed, to malicious dot zip.
EDIT: bah. corrected "zop" to "zip"
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RE: Feature is loves by who didn't ask for it.
@xaade So the is that the person who wrote the ticket didn't know about the app property?
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@clippy said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
As for @Steve_The_Cynic, well, let's just hope he doesn't ruffle too many feathers.
Ruffling feathers is what I do best...
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@clippy said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
Boss-Of-His-Own-Firm (BOFH)
BOFH == Bastard Operator From Hell. Sheesh. I thought everyone knew that.
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RE: The eBike Rant Thread
@BernieTheBernie said in The eBike Rant Thread:
it shows “Calories” with the unit of “kcal”.
That's actually correct, since a Calorie is the same thing as a kilocalorie, 1000 calories. Note capitalisation.
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RE: The eBike Rant Thread
@cvi It might or might put you in a different country, depending on which house you were in.
Really, dudes and dudettes, look closely at a map of that area. It's one of the very few places on the planet where there's an exclave of country A inside an exclave of country B that's inside country A.
EDIT: and those exclaves are smaller than the town they are in...
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RE: The eBike Rant Thread
@cvi said in The eBike Rant Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The eBike Rant Thread:
TWh
Yeah, wouldn't want to be around when that battery catches fire.
Especially since we're talking about 750 of whatever unit suffix, suggesting ... a lot. (At 860 Kt per TWh, that's almost as much as 13 Tsar Bombas.)
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RE: The eBike Rant Thread
@BernieTheBernie said in The eBike Rant Thread:
Since the ebike comes with a really large battery (750 mWh),
This assessment of a 750 mWh battery as "really large" has been bothering me ever since I first saw the post. And, well, I looked it up. A typical alkaline AA battery has 1800-ish to 2800-ish mAh, which is approximately 2700-4200 mWh at 1.5V, so I think maybe you might have meant 750 Wh...
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RE: Azure bites
@Bulb said in Azure bites:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Azure bites:
C/C++
They are environment variables. And it's for .нет, which does not follow C/C++ conventions anyway.
For sure. It was just a comment about the collision between my C/C++ brain and this stuff.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@Zerosquare It's worse than you think, because the female inhabitants are "pralines"...
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RE: Azure bites
@Bulb That double-underscore prefix makes my C/C++ brain ... itch.
Very few people outside the category "language uber-nerd" seem to have the slightest respect for (and/or knowledge of) the point in the standards for both C and C++ that all names with a double-underscore anywhere and/or an initial single underscore followed by a capital letter are reserved by the implementation for its own purposes.
Granted, the specific names you cite are part of the system, but ...
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@remi said in I hate printers, with a passion:
for example in the Alps in a name in -az/-oz or -ax/-ix the "z" or "x" are silent, but many French from other regions don't know it
(Sorry for the lateness here...)
Oh, so "Praz-sur-Arly" (a small town/village higher up the same Alpine mountain than Megève, notable mostly because it has a Behambra and a station de ski) is pronounced "Pra sur Arly" by the locals?
TIL. At the time when we went there for a company-wide event in 2014, all my French-speaking colleagues (from widely distributed different parts of France or [REDACTED]) pronounced the Z.
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RE: Password mismanager
@Gurth said in Password mismanager:
@topspin said in Password mismanager:
At least if the password starts with an alphabet, you got about the first 26 characters down.
There are alphabets with fewer or more than 26 letters, though.
True, and there are oddities like the Welsh alphabet, which doesn't have K, Q, X, or Z, but does have ch, dd, ff, ng, ll, ph, rh, th as separate letters. Words starting with 'ch' are sorted between "cy" words and "da" words, for example. Adding to the confusion is that lovely "ng", which might be an "ng", or it might be an "n" and a "g". (e.g. penglog = skull does not have an "ng" digraph, because it is pen+glog)
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@boomzilla That made me think of an announcement one evening at London's Paddington station, the terminus for trains to and from the western part of England and the southern parts of Wales. The train I wanted was late, and the explanation given over the tannoy ("PA") was that the train had been hijacked by sheep.
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RE: What's an image file?
@BernieTheBernie Strictly speaking, it's a photograph of screen that's displaying a photograph of a venomous snake.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@HardwareGeek You forgot about prepositions. In Welsh (and probably in the other Celtic languages), there are pronoun-specific versions of prepositions, together with the "base" form of the preposition that's used when there is a specific preposition. It's not exactly conjugation/declinaison, but it's danmed close.
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Carnage Indeed, combined with a careful approach in a strong headwind, which is almost cheating.
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RE: A fool and his actual money are soon parted
@izzion I'd say that it's a mixture of some folks who genuinely don't trust their government (ref: sovereign citizen movement, freemen on the land, etc.) and some who just plain don't know about the possibility.
But mostly because it's easier (less awkward-tedious) to get your money out of a deposit account when you need it.
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RE: Minor units of volume WTF
@LordOfThePigs said in Minor units of volume WTF:
@Gustav Is that measured in original British Mini Coopers, or modern German Mini Coopers?
There is a significant difference
No, no, it's talking about small barrel-makers.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@Zecc said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in I hate printers, with a passion:
The less you try to pronounce English names, the Leicester your troubles.
Leicester, Gloucester, Worcester, Bicester do similar things, but Cirencester doesn't.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@remi said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Aaaaand here's a French word that ends in "-st" and where those sounds are not pronounced!
I can think of an extremely common French word that ends in "-st" where the S and the T are silent, "est" when it is the 3rd person singular present indicative of "être". (For the larger audience, when it's the French word for "east", the S and T are pronounced.)
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@remi It works better than you think, since "surprised" has multiple meanings in English, including:
- astonished, as with Mme Littré.
- (in a military sense, approximately) ambushed.
- discovered unexpectedly, as with M. Littré and his maid.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@remi OK, I found a "how to pronounce" site, and it appears that the "st" at the end is pronounced (which was my main doubt).
See, I have severe doubts about pronunciation of names, either of people or of places, in English, inspired by the English family names Cholmondley ("chumley") and Featherstonehaugh ("fanshaw"), and the coastal Cornish village Mousehole ("mowzle"), and this carries over into other languages.
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RE: I hate printers, with a passion
@remi One day I'll ask someone who knows how exactly I'm supposed to pronounce the glowing dude's name. (It might be obvious for a native francophone, but not for a native anglophone.)
For the rest of the audience, his name is spelled "Lanfeust".
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RE: External data files or hardcoding? Why not both?
@Bulb said in External data files or hardcoding? Why not both?:
That is, I would expect it to recognize it as Windows EXE because it starts with the two characters
PE
no matter what extension it hasUm. No. Windows Portable Executable files, no matter what their target is (x86-32, x86-64, MIPS, ARM, etc), begin with
MZ
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RE: Headset woes
@Carnage I have a Sony WH-CH710N with active noise cancellation, which is a real eye-opener when I have reason to turn of the ANC and take off the headset, and I realise just how (...) (...) noisy our world is.
It has (small) actual buttons that click when pressed, but to know which model it is, I had to look it up in my phone's list of known paired devices, because the model number isn't visible anywhere on the outside of the headset. -
RE: mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks
@dcon Re: your abbr:
Where I'm from is but that has no bearing on this discussion because where I'm at is . Where I've also lived is .
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RE: mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks
@BernieTheBernie said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
@Polygeekery said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
I was so pleased it was that easy.
Talk to us in a year, I bet you it shits itself a week out of warranty.
Sorry for the necro, but the printer I was talking about is still going strong six and a half years after I bought it.
Tsss... Only 6 and half years? You do not deserve a !
I bought my printer on 14 June 2008, and it still worx.
Good old laser quality, no cyan cartridge. What a simple solution.Someone said I should expect it to curl up and die at warranty expiry plus one week. It didn't.
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RE: mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks
@boomzilla said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
@Polygeekery said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
"Talk to us in a year, I bet you it shits itself a week out of warranty."Sorry for the necro, but the printer I was talking about is still going strong six and a half years after I bought it.
What did you win?
Not one of those, for sure. All I won was the satisfaction of being able to use the same printer six years later, and it still just works.
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RE: mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks
@Polygeekery said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in mott555 tries to backup his ESXi software, and HP sucks:
I was so pleased it was that easy.
Talk to us in a year, I bet you it shits itself a week out of warranty.
Sorry for the necro, but the printer I was talking about is still going strong six and a half years after I bought it.
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RE: A fool and his actual money are soon parted
My problem is that whenever people talk about films of LOTR, I tend to think first of Raplh Bakshi's version.