Pfft, etc. Mine is 221dpi (15" MacBook Pro 2016, 2880x1800)
Recently was involved with a display that had <1 DPI
(Roadside display the size of a billboard)
Pfft, etc. Mine is 221dpi (15" MacBook Pro 2016, 2880x1800)
Recently was involved with a display that had <1 DPI
(Roadside display the size of a billboard)
There are three types of developers:
;( :)
@timebandit said in Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down. Ellellator go up. Ellellator go down...:
Like any sane person in 2018, I have a gym membership. This is where I go to ride a stationary bike, stair simulator or run on a treadmill. To get to the gym, I drive my car then take the elevator, of course. You want me to walk or climb stairs like a caveman
I had a gym membership for a decade. Did absolutely nothing for my health :( [it was only at the end, that I found out one also needed to go there ;) ]
For me the most annoying was being on the 18th floor (of a 23 story building) where there was no elevator for a while (weeks).
@rhywden said in Software toggles that dont do what they should:
Turn off your devices" rule
I love asking "does that include all portable electronic devices?"
Crew:: "Yes, sir"
Me: "Is there a Doctor, hopefully a cardiologist on board?"
Crew: "What does that have to do with it?"
Me: "He will be needed when I turn my pacemaker off"
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thecpuwizard Bear with me, English is not my native language. :(
All meant in good fun :) :) Rest assured your English is much better than my flailing attempts to speak/read/write any other (human) language....
The image of a "leveled apartment" (in the sense of the picture above) and an automated vacuum was just too much for me to resist....
@masonwheeler said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
Nothing is wore than XCode.
I disagree. Having "nothing" is better than having to deal with xCode ! :)
Just an observation. For a few years now, I have been involved in Coder Dojo - with kids as young as 5.
Scratch is our typical second level (the first being "An Hour of Code").
Some of the kids are now in their mid-teens and doing some serious programming (we try to stay in touch). Most of them credit the Coder Dojo sessions as being their starting point, and are appreciative of it.
@lorne-kates said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Are there trolls for this law, too?
ARE? probably not... WILL BE? certainly!
@loopback0 said in I hate printers, with a passion:
because I'm reliably informed inkjets don't do networking?
I can attest that InkJet printers do a very good job of not-working...... oh, wait a minute.....nevermind.....
I would say you basically have it covered...but, interpretations vary, and there is an entire industry profiting from filing claims of license violations and then settling (as the cost of defense can be high).
I think long and hard about including GPL (any version), and will go to fairly extreme measures to avoid it, if at all possible.
@lorne-kates said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
@pie_flavor said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
You are then locking yourself to C#
Oh no i HAVE to use a mature, sane programming language.
Actually you don't have to. There are COBOL, FORTRAN, APL and other compilers that work within Visual Studio
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Or just use a glove. Gloves are a thing.
Most of those gloves And common human behavior) will only be of limited protection. Virus->Glove, then Glove->Face...
@cartman82 said in No meeting is ever useless:
Me: Well boss, this was an absolutely useless meeting.
Boss: Ah Cartman, no meeting is ever useless.
> I beg to differ.
Me: You are right, this meeting just convinced me to look for employment elsewhere. Thank you for the enlightenment.
@Onyx said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
@Gribnit said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
@Polygeekery That's how I learned to swim!
On the other hand, that's the way I got pretty much the only real fear I have, which is deep water. The fact that the person who threw me in was not a family member or something but a random asshole might've also been a factor.
I am a scuba diver. Normally I dive in water where the bottom is visible, but far far below the safe dive depth. If I go into an uncontrolled sink, I will (almost) certainly die, but they will (likely) find the body...
A few time I have dove where the bottom was completely out of reach (say 1000M). A sink here would surely mean they would never find my body.
For some strange reason that made me nervous, despite there being no meaningful difference in the odds of having such an event. The human mind is strange....
@izzion said in Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications:
@pie_flavor
Back in my day, we used 640x480 with an overlay of static snow and it worked just fine!
Pfff.... Yellow rolls of paper. Upper Case characters only - 7.2 seconds to print one (full) line.....
@cursorkeys said in One final niggly detail:
Personally I would immediately speak to a solicitor about this.
THIS (and EVERYTHING in writing, if there must be a "speaks with", see if you can record, and volunteer NOTHING)
On a Saturday (non-billable) trying to solve a few things before the engagement ends at EOM....
Mazimize(true) means DONT maximize,
Maximize(false) is what will maximize...
I should have opened a Deli, so many decades ago...
@jaloopa said in Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2018 edition:
@thecpuwizard said in Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2018 edition:
1/13/2015
The first of undecember?
Yup! or the 2015th day of the 13th month of the first year --- I am a fany of Y-M-D (with padding) so you get a proper sort order easily.
@the_quiet_one said in Is there any big software corporation out there still practicing Waterfall?:
@thecpuwizard said in Is there any big software corporation out there still practicing Waterfall?:
- True Waterfall rarely exists (as per the definition), there is almost always some capability of a "Change Order" which results in a process that does have feedback loops (which are by definition lacking in Waterfall). Even the originator of the term acknowledged that they did not (commonly) exist.
This is true for ANY project, in and out of software projects. Waterfall resembles other non-software projects that by their very nature need to be rigid. Building construction for example. But even those are going to have complications in the implementation. Perhaps the ground was softer than initial surveys measured and need more piles. Or some material they were originally gong to use was discontinued. Or a new fire code gets passed requires them to change their sprinkler schematics.
The point is, waterfall is a goal and a mindset, just like agile is. Waterfall's goal is to minimize the risk of too many unforeseen changes to the requirements, but Murphy's Law will always get in the way of that goal. There's no way to 100% accomplish that goal but you can give it a 100% effort to accomplish it regardless.
Sorry, NO....
Waterfall (when properly used) means that there is no ability to change. Once the "Requirements Document" is complete [before any architecture, design or implementation begins] it can not be changed. One must deliver exactly what is in the document or FAIL.
I did actually work on ONE project that was Waterfall in the 1970s. Within a week of the company getting the contract, it was realized that the device would never work. No matter, it was built. It passed the individual tests. When it was turned on [by the client, against written recommendation] it literally caught fire and had a smallish explosion.
Just think of all the exercise you got :)
@Bulb said in It's tools all the way down!:
So there is a way to deploy them from Visual Studio (that's what the developer has been doing so far
NO, just NO..... If you want consistency (and this has nothing to do with any specific set of tools, just an example), ALWAYS us an automation path. ALWAYS had a dedicated (Set of) account with permission to do the deploy. ALWAYS have the best reproducability you can (it will never be 100%).
Didn't people learn from the fiascos with doing Web deployment from Visual Studio????
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
the appartment is completely leveled
An a vacuum could fix it???
@topspin said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@TheCPUWizard don’t think so. Shoot!
DJ-111, had it about 7 years, but <350 total pages printed. Not used for about a year. Power it back up and print quality was basically zero. Price out HP ink and heads, about $375. Look at reputable 3rd party, and about $80....
Colored inks do not report levels, Black ink reports failure. 3 print heads failed. Vendor for the heads RMA'ed, but the RMA literally flooded the inside of the printer with ink.
@jaloopa said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
Up to a whole $7 per hour for someone
Top level expertise in some of those areas [and I do mean the very top] can exceed that cost level per MINUTE.
@tsaukpaetra said in echo I copy:
Yeah! I totally want to undo the 🔥 that burned my house down.
Thanks for a memory. My daughter (now nearly 30) had a coloring book program when she was about 3-4. She would often flood the wrong area and say "Daddy, Undo please"...... One time she broke a favorite toy (an honest accident) and, you guessed it....
@cheong said in A recurring pattern:
You have 45 days to do it.
Response: "Actually, you only have 10 days of me, here is my notice.".
@mrl said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
ere's a million of small retarded idiocies sprinkled everywhere. First thing from top of my head...
visibility. Simple concept, right? Something is visible or not.
And when it is NOT visible, it can either retain control of the space [so layout does not change as visibility is toggled] or it can release the space [so that things can be repositioned to make use of the space....
So it is Trinary, not Binary.
@blakeyrat said in I need 10 hours of sleep each night, do I have a disability?:
@thecpuwizard Yeah but the point is if I'm missing that 2 hours, I should get paid for it and where's my fucking money.
How am I going to open the fancy office in New York City and get Intel to send me CPU prototypes all the time because I'm so great if everybody else can out-compete me by 2 hours a day?
:) You have it backwards.... The extra sleep is lowering the time you can spend money. Back in the day [remember I am no longer in NYC, and have not been in years], only sleeping 4 hours a night meant a lot more time spending money. :) :) :)
@lorne-kates said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
@masonwheeler said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
@blakeyrat said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
Right; and don't confuse any of those with Narnia, which is a strange fantasy land accessible through closets where Lorne
learned all of his computer science knowledge.disposes of bodies.FTFY
To be fair, the bodies I dispose of have long since come out of the closet.
But do you finalize them after disposing, or do you suppress that?????
Well, at the instruction level an OISC can be "blindingly fast". :)
@acrow said in Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus:
@Tsaukpaetra Digital sound mixing became a thing when all those gigaflops got a lot cheaper than the dedicated mixing hardware. It is actually being done.
Especially when you're mixing 60+ channels at once, like in a live concert.
@acrow said in Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus:
@Tsaukpaetra Digital sound mixing became a thing when all those gigaflops got a lot cheaper than the dedicated mixing hardware. It is actually being done.
Especially when you're mixing 60+ channels at once, like in a live concert.
Indeed. I was the workspace developer (faders, knobs, screens, logic, snapshots, et. al.) of the first 100% digital mixing console. Used 12+ Pentiums (1 per module) and up to 72 Sharc DSPS..... And that was about25 years ago.
@timebandit said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
@anonymous234 said in Xamarin's contiuing barrel of cross-platform, XML-encoding fut the wuckery:
It can't help Windows Phone anymore
There is only one thing that can help Windows Phone
Actually, I have found that the following works quite well....
@cursorkeys said in Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2018 edition:
I still miss the degaussing BRRRMMmmmmmmm though.
Gaussing was much more fun.... Still have a huge AC Coil (electro magnet) that I could use to pull the image completely off the screen [or by holding it a little bit further away create "acid like" distortions...... Fun times!
42 consecutive right angle brackets
YEs, the limit should clearly be no more than 39 :)
Seriously, if one starts doing heavy meta programming, this can happen. Take a look at Andrei Alexandrescu's work...
One of by favorites [NOT related to Andrei] was a program to play all possible games of tic-tac-toe and print out the results in a simple format... Use C++ templates to provide the maximum amount of compile time decision making.... The end result was a C++ executable that consisted of the output of a single literal string!
@stillwater said in Hmmmm....:
402/345. I don't even.
Many of the downloads are from external sources, and are independent of Visual Studio itself. This is a bit part of the reason for the move to the new installation architecture, and the elimination of the .iso form.
For better or worse, this means that the size is not known at the start.
There are good arguments what the size should be updated as part of the UI, but that is not the current approach.
@masonwheeler said in Why TCP is so unreliable?:
Bandwidth is great, but the ping time is horrible. It's all about the tradeoffs.
Well, one could always use a McLaren to cut down on the ping time.....
@unperverted-vixen said in Pick my front-end framework for me:
SPA application
As long as you do not exceed the length of a roll, every application is "single page"
@xaade - And why not? Seriously. AI needs data [I feel like I am channeling Short Circuit]
Most embedded systems don't actually run arbitrary code, but rather just what their manufacturer intended.
Ya might think...but...
About two years ago I was involved in a large industrial system. One component was a thermal sensor and display. The only "programmatic access" as via an RS-485 for establishing trip points, etc..... Occasionally the display (old school 7-segment) would start displaying strange sets of segments. We thought it might be some type of diagnostic code and contacted the vendor. They said no, so it must be a defective device. We exchanged it, and the new one did the same thing. After the second exchange (3 devices replicating) it was clearly not something at that level. Still the vendor could not reproduce.
On a lark, we attached a recorder to the 485 line and waited.... After the next occurrence we played back the recorder but it it did not reproduce.... We went one step further and put a simple signal recorder on (the 485 recorder captured characters, the signal recorder, simply transitions..... BINGO a reproducible situation.
Yup, there was a vulnerability that cause the device to execute code that was NOT what the manufacturer intended....
@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
Surely they don't place a call from one modem to the next in the same datacenter? Right? If we assume that they do, then things are even more retarded.
Not sure if things have changed in the last 13 (approx) years, or if it is different outside the USA.... But at that time, they absolutely had to use actual hardware to do a proper (paperless, electronic only) faxing with retaining (internally for a service) the fax transmission and reception reports.
That specific step was what made it "legal". One company (mid-range player, I can not legally reveal who, but some research may resolve it, the charges were public and filed in New York) cut out that step, and was bankrupted (though the executives escaped criminal convictions IIRC - it has been a while)
@Zenith said in “Just use Chrome”:
Thank the Church of DIV for that. If people would just shut the fuck up about tables for layout, we wouldn't have to endure the endless churn of almost-sort-of-not-quite DIV layout schemes brought to us by the hipsters at Google.
No, it is about using screen-readers [which is a USA requirement under the ADA].
@julianlam - Wish granted [well at least the ability...this is NOT an offer to buy you one]
http://www.mobilegeeks.com/best-smartphones-removable-battery/
Many years (decades) ago, when I was working on optimizing compilers, there was a challenge circulating.... Develop a tic-tac-toe game, the computer was to play both sides. Each side was to take the "upper left" best square. As a result the game was deterministic (the outcome would always be the same....The output was to be the state of the board after each "player"s turn...
The actual challenge was to develop a compiler that would take "C" source and optimize it to the point of being a single printf...
@Benjamin-Hall said in Are there any programming/IT certifications worth anything?:
ow much does it matter that none of my experience is directly "professional"?
I have been involved in selecting hires for decades. One of the best I ever had was a young man (just graduated high school) looking for a (very) junior position. He had NO experience, except what he taught himself on his Commodore (including Assembly!)... He seemed bright, so I asked if he could come back with his 'puter and let me take a look.
Honestly it was crap, but it was innovative crap, and based on what he had as baseline learning material it was quite impressive. He was hired...
Fast forward (quite) a bit of time, and he ended up as a Senior Technical Executive at a major (worldwide) financial firm. It was very gratifying to watch him progress throughout his career.
@anotherusername said in Discount Hotels....:
@thecpuwizard that can't possibly be right. $19 probably wouldn't cover the hotel's cost for the complementary hot breakfast, let alone the room...
Also I notice that the tab says the rates start at $284. In fact, all 4 of the tabs... identical tabs... say that. I think the website is just very, very broken.
Indeed, but TDWTF focuses on broken web-sites so I posted... Attempt to click on any of the "low priced" went to a page with the proper pricing... (but the error did survive multiple page refreshes)
Depending on raisins...
Get the CD as an ISO, burn a bunch of ISO's to a single DVDR.....
@dkf said in Microsoft switches to git:
squash-commits, and they're history-destroying.
And virtually impossible to 100% prevent
I am a big fan (in most situations) of extremely small commits, the smallest possible increment of work that does not break something.
More than once the existence of these incremental commits provides great insight into what the developer was thinking. Given that most applications have a lifecycle longer than the employment duration of the original developer, this can be the difference between success and disaster.