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Arquinsiel posted:I managed to pick the exact hex code for orange today that when you put it into the colour picker in MSPaint it silently crashes to desktop. Wait, what? Are you serious? This sounds like "grandma keeps crashing her computer but she's not computer illiterate, she's just cursed" territory.
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Jan 28, 2023 09:13
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Entropic posted:Post your best UI buttons with bad vibes The autocomplete in my editor half-broke last week, and now when it can't find any suggestions to put in the tooltip, it just says "No." I'm assuming it's supposed to be "No suggestions found" or something, but it makes me smile every time it does it.
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Feb 3, 2023 19:47
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I remember having only 50mb space in my mailbox in uni, and every few months warnings would come in and I had to go in and delete stupid old PowerPoint presentations I'd done for classes to make space for new ones. This was BEFORE Gmail existed. I'm old.
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Feb 12, 2023 10:38
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Fil5000 posted:My uni email was only accessible via telnetting into a Unix server and I once had my access suspended and got called into the sysadmin's office because I replied all to a dumb email thread someone started. I once got a stern talking to (as well as receiving dozens of flame emails) after I sent an email to a distribution list to literally every student on campus, asking how to install Quake on lab computers. I was not a very smart freshman.
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Feb 12, 2023 13:11
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gently caress, Google Wave was so bad. I never got it to perform anywhere close to decent. It was always a slow laggy mess. So much for reinventing email.
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Feb 12, 2023 15:19
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were they auctioning off eligible bachelors at a work party? 
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Mar 17, 2023 19:06
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Sorry to hear that, Frosty Witch 
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Mar 22, 2023 19:00
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Teams doesn't fetch new messages if you're idle?? That's insane
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Apr 27, 2023 02:17
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A ticket just came in: make the filter more intense
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May 7, 2023 01:56
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Sirotan posted:My sovcit (and Nazi) coworker  what the gently caress
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May 17, 2023 22:22
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Anytime ChatGPT gets mentioned at work as relevant to use for work, I just start laughing. It's just a program vomiting out word salad, ffs.
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May 21, 2023 12:43
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I mean I'm sure that, at some point, the "AI" middels of now are improved and true AI will be created. But at this moment in time, it's all just marketing bullshit, no smarter than Wolfram Alpha...a product dating back to 2009.
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May 21, 2023 14:31
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Years ago the wife insisted on getting smart thermostats for the radiators. I asked if we could still set the temperature if internet went down. She lied and said yes. 
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May 25, 2023 15:37
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Honestly when it works, it's very nice to get up and take a shower in a preheated bathroom.
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May 25, 2023 18:42
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It's funny how the thread about complaining about computers suddenly rallies together to fix a computer. ❤️
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Jul 8, 2023 10:43
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I tried that too once, but after 10-15 minutes I started to feel bad for the poor lady in India.
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Aug 24, 2023 22:45
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A mod replied an hour ago: "The team is aware of this issue and we have a fix. It's currently being tested and we're aiming for a hotfix since we see this as critical. I'll share more details on a timeline when I have one."
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Sep 25, 2023 19:05
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.... how did they check?
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Sep 27, 2023 12:34
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A Frosty Witch posted:Just got a call that a potential job wants to fly me out to Portland for a second interview. That's great! Mr only interaction with recruiters is annoyance, thankfully. There's one in my messages right now who claims they have great local jobs. But it's extremely obvious from the phone number and bad grammar, that this is in fact, an American using Google Translate, for unknown reasons.
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Oct 28, 2023 09:05
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Wizard of the Deep posted:There is a place for expert systems, tools designed explicitly for a task like analyzing code or rapidly prototype novel drug combos. But these Bayesian word salad-spinners ain't that. LLMs were brought up in our company a few months ago, and one of my senior co-workers said he used it to explain a piece of code to him. This is such a bad idea that I had a million things to say about it uit, but I was unable to accurately convey my into words.
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Nov 2, 2023 15:51
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It's a language model, not a code linter/analyzer. It knows nothing about writing computer code, it just heard people talk about it online and parrots the information. It's a language model.
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Nov 5, 2023 07:38
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Yes! Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉
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Nov 18, 2023 11:40
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Thanks Ants posted:I'm fully invested in Do Nothing December now. I think the last three meetings I've joined I said hello at the start and then goodbye at the end, and sat on mute playing PlayStation the rest of the time. We're in Europe, but wife works at a huge intl corporation and the Americans are already telling her "happy holidays" since December 7th. They're truly ahead of the curve on doing gently caress all in December.
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Dec 9, 2023 08:15
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After the regime change 4 months ago, someone who was once my peer (albeit in another field) is now my manager. I've since learned that they are absolutely not a good manager. I'm being judged on how many hours I keep my face glued to my screen every day, instead of how well I do my job. Normally I am away from my screen every WFH Tuesday for an hour after lunch to run a personal errand, this has never been a problem. They've decided to make it their personal vendetta and give me a deadline of 'Christmas' to stop doing this and 'be available for coming into the office, or else'. Their managent style is so oppressive, unreasonable and unexpected, that I'm back to being scared of clicking their emails in my inbox, for fear of it being bad news (and it has, consistently). I want to bring this up to upper management, but they're unavailable until January. It's honestly so demoralizing that I've switched my LI profile to 'looking for work', while I write the first few drafts of my email to the boss and trying to find ways to ask them in polite terms to ask my manager to loving stop giving me stress ulcers.
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Dec 20, 2023 16:09
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A giant clusterfuck is about to happen at my job. Multiple senior-level programmers leaving together due to recent very bad management. It's going to be fun to see if it's triggered or not. Good thing I've already put out some feelers in LinkedIn. 
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Jan 11, 2024 17:47
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Thanks Ants posted:All those companies that make spyware to monitor remote workers' laptops are getting ideas. They'll be detecting poo poo breaks based on the neurons firing off that control the sphincter. Two words: unskippable ads.
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Jan 31, 2024 09:44
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I'm ready for Windows Moon 🌛
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Feb 3, 2024 18:51
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The email rfc also specifies emails can have a bunch of really stupid characters that nobody ever uses, forcing programmers to use insanely long regex's to validate emails, when it should just be *@*.* 
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Feb 13, 2024 06:53
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wolrah posted:Just to be pedantic though, technically you need to go to *@* to cover all valid internet email addresses. There are a couple of TLDs for which the root has an A or MX record, which is no longer allowed but was in the past so they're grandfathered in. These are the kind of stupid exceptions and special cases that make 'accurate' regex's for email addresses so complicated. ^.+@.+\..+$ should cover it, screw it. vvv I love it. It's my superpower. Sywert of Thieves fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Feb 14, 2024 14:16
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I just learned that my spare Chromecast does not work on wifi networks with a captive portal. I've also spent enough time trying to find workarounds for this that I realized I've learned this on at least 2 other occasions before. I hate my stupid brain.
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Feb 19, 2024 21:56
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minusX posted:Setup a travel router that you can use that is already all configured for the chromecast and will allow you to bring both together to have the access you need without having to change the network it's connecting to each time. Allows your other devices to do the same as a bonus. That's one of the workarounds I found, but it requires a network cable to plug into the router, no idea where that thing is or if it has a free port. It's a clever solution though.
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Feb 20, 2024 06:39
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DST sucks and I want to stop changing my loving clocks twice a year. I don't care what the clock says when the sun rises or sets, either permanently on or off is fine. The current 3-week period where the US is on summer time ,while the rest of the world is still on winter time, is the stupidest result of DST ever.
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Mar 13, 2024 12:28
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johnny park posted:No, he just created a rule to try to forward all his emails to his cell number. Which of course didn't work. And then the first bounceback notification also got forwarded, which created a new bounceback message, etc What a pioneer, he created his own personal email tsunami. No reply-all torrent to a badly configured email list needed!
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Mar 30, 2024 08:00
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MIL gave me her old laptop to convert into a Chromebook for my children. It has only 32GB hdd and 4GB of ram. Stuck on Win8 because the Win10 upgrade fails due to the small hdd. Sounds like a fun project to me. Is it doable?
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Mar 31, 2024 12:34
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You guys are no fun. I guess I should've asked in the homebrew thread or some poo poo, instead of the Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes. e: ah two more replies came up while i was typing this out that are a bit more positive. 👍
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Mar 31, 2024 13:47
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Dunno-Lars posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes - DO NOT ASK FOR HELP I did not expect to be the next thread title.  Anyway this laptop is super locked down, and I can't even boot from my thumbdrive or get into the BIOS. Upgrading the ram also seems impossible. It's perfect for ChromeOS! e: update I got into the bios and it's installing ChromeOS Flex now. Suck it, HP. Sywert of Thieves fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 06:30
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Sywert of Thieves posted:Anyway this laptop is super locked down, and I can't even boot from my thumbdrive or get into the BIOS. Upgrading the ram also seems impossible. It's perfect for ChromeOS! Almost forgot to update the thread on this boring issue of mine. Everything worked out fine and it works great, except for the one problem that you can't enable "login by pin" on ChromeOS on unofficial hardware. Now I have to either change my kids' Google passwords to something they can memorize, or let them have safe passwords. So far I haven't found a way to hack it so pin login is enabled. Thanks, cynical buttholes! 
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Arquinsiel posted:"Yak shaving" sticks better, especially when you link them to Hal changing a lightbulb. I usually have this at home during chores, not at work. Before I plop on the couch, I need to put a load in the washing machine. But it's already full, I need to empty it first and put it out to dry But the dryer is already full, I need to take that out first. But the washing bin is already full, I need to fold that first. etc
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