Performance. Nodebb is way faster.
Best posts made by PleegWat
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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 Thread™
Today's XKCD is practically a wooden table:
And the tweet it links to fits right in as well:
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RE: “Just use Chrome”
@kazitor said in “Just use Chrome”:
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: Nope, you eat it
@blek What did that poor drumstick do to them? And what did they do to it in return?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@accalia I read once that standard 101/102 key keyboards have a key which, when pressed, results in 5 separate events being sent. Possibly the pause key, otherwise something in the same row. I can't check because I've got an n-key-rollover keyboard and that at least has a separate scancode for it.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
*laughs in PHP*
We have it these days so that mandatory arguments can’t come after optional ones, that if you want to accept null you can expressly indicate this in the type hint, and that you can even call a function with parameters out of order as long as you respect the required parameters and name your args.
Legal PHP:
function myfunc(int $a, string $b) { … }myfunc(b: "thing", a: 3);
I've done that in pl/sql in the past. Function with 20 or so boolean arguments, all defaulting to false, and typical usage required at most one or two to be set to true.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Windows:
reg query <KeyName> /v <ValueName>If it successfully finds the registry key/value that you are looking for, it returns %errorlevel% = 0
If the registry key/value does not exist, it returns %errorlevel% = 1
Wait ... what? Isn't this backwards from the way everything else works? Isn't it supposed to be 0 for failure and 1 for success?
Fuxcking Microsoft. Consistently Inconsistent.
Well, yes. This allows signalling one kind of success and 255 kinds of failure.
In C, this can cause trouble with different return types. If you're returning the number of items read, or a linked list of those items, the return value on error tends to be
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@dkf But is there a difference between explicitly passing undefined and not passing anything at all?
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Windows:
reg query <KeyName> /v <ValueName>If it successfully finds the registry key/value that you are looking for, it returns %errorlevel% = 0
If the registry key/value does not exist, it returns %errorlevel% = 1
Wait ... what? Isn't this backwards from the way everything else works? Isn't it supposed to be 0 for failure and 1 for success?
Fuxcking Microsoft. Consistently Inconsistent.
Well, yes. This allows signalling one kind of success and 255 kinds of failure.
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RE: Fun with maps
@Bulb Where applicable, it would not give them a penalty compared to last names which do not have gendered forms.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dkf Meanwhile in NL they can update their design fast enough that they produce special 'double heads' in the succession year.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Thing is if you add the unlit letter (a B, as far as I can tell) it doesn't get much better.
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
“Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies