Someone I know from somwhere else got the same message. Fun
A conversation I just had:
Coworker: "Hey, you know those banner messages admins can put on the site? There's only room to show one of them on the login page and I don't feel like redesigning the whole layout. What's a good way to grab the latest one?"
Me: "Well, there's a GetLast() method, that'll work... but what if the newest one isn't the most important?"
C: "Oh, good point. We don't have a field for 'importance', and it's just the login page so I don't think we should add one..."
<pondering ensues>
M: "I've got it."
C: "Yeah?"
M: "Sort by the color, descending."
C: "What?"
M: "Yeah. We've got that field to customize the background color of the banner, and bright red stuff is usually more critical and important than, like, green or blue. So if we've got a big red 'SHIT'S FUCKED' banner, and a blue 'stop using the bottled water to fill the coffee machine, shit's expensive' banner, the red one gets selected."
I still can't tell if I'm a genius or an idiot for that idea.
I'm finding everything has been "Good enough" for a few years, so everything is all incremental updates or changes for the sake of change, not because they were needed or improved anything.
Most new phones are big glass slabs of touchscreen with features being removed and existing features incrementally changed. Android is "Good enough" on any somewhat recent version, I can't say I've cared about any features enough to be annoyed that my Galaxy Note 5 is still on Android 7.0. The only feature I'd be actually excited about is if there's some breakthrough that allows companies to cram optical zoom into a regular thin phone without compromises.
PCs are all incremental updates at this point, every year it's "less power more performance", so laptops don't suck as much as they did in the past... But most people don't need a huge amount of performance, a mid-range Ivy Bridge desktop with a somewhat modern GPU will still handle most games coming out.
Home automation / IoT is a lot easier and accessible, but most of it is solving a problem that doesn't exist.
Companies I used to be excited for aren't making cool shit anymore. Apple used to make nifty stuff, now they're letting their PCs stagnate. Sony got out of the PC business. Valve isn't making games worth playing.
I do like that wireless stuff is getting considerably less garbage. With 60GHz stuff coming down in price, you can shoot real gigabit speeds around or do wireless VR with minimal latency. 5GHz AC is quick enough where I don't feel the need to always reach for a network cable. Bluetooth sounds decent now with AptX.
I remember reading tons of tech sites and listening to podcasts to hear about interesting stuff coming out and companies working on interesting things, now I can't give a shit.
And now, the bottled water one will be red because they feel it's critical and needs to be seen.
I stopped caring when I realized that GeForce 525m is probably the best I could afford for the next 10 years, lol
If it's stupid, but it works, then it's not stupid
RX 560?
Costs like average monthly salary here.
"an hour ago from Azerbaijan"
O_o
What's strange about that?
God, don't even fucking remind me of how irresponsible users are with levels of importance.
I can't tell you how many times our internal users would mark something has "⚠️ IMMEDIATE" when really it was such a fucking trivial problem that it's barely worth our time to even fix it. I can't even remember anything in particular, that's how goddamn trivial some of the problems marked as immediate were.
And if that wasn't bad enough, we see this fucking problem marked immediate, so one of us immediately messages the employee.
Wait fifteen minutes for a response. SLAs already fucked.
Finally get a response. "Oh sorry can we deal with this problem tomorrow? It's not important right now."
WHY'D YOU MARK IT AS IMMEDIATE AND FUCK OUR SLA'S THEN RETARD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I love doing the most unnecessary things to get stuff to work
My old ass motherboard wouldn't boot from USB drives so I had to go to my second computer just to install windows on my new SSD, when that finished I moved my SSD from my new PC to my old PC, and now I get to finally experience an SSD's speed. Only took me 3 days, pretty nice :O
I once wrote a bootloader so that I could ACPI call to disable the fried dedicated GPU of an old switchable-graphic laptop fast enough before it auto-restarted the whole system.
Even if he had paid you, $10 for writing a custom bootloader still makes him a cheap bastard
He didn't ask me to write a bootloader but fix his computer stuck in restart-loop. He probably
https://s.gvid.me/s/2018/06/22/hmmm.png
🖥️🔫🤷
Probably a Windows machine sending few quick files to the President of the Internet Mr. Bill Gates.
Fastest AGP card you can get is an HD4670. If you can get your hands on one it's minimum 35% faster than a 525M.
Hope your board supports quad core CPUs too.
Nah, that's not doable, can't really revive that Pentium 4 box.
I'll game in the afterlife, lmao.
It's most interfaces (like Cogent, Level 3, etc) suddenly defaulting outbound routes to a meh-tier provider for no explained reason.
Shit adds like 30~ ms to a ton of things (There's a route that is directly peered at an IX that on outbound goes out of state twice, then comes back through like 3 different backhaul providers).
Can you get a PS4 (or even better a PS4 Pro) for a decent price ?
You could slap Linux on it for desktop use and also obviously have the PS4 gaming portion. May or may not work out better than an ancient P4 machine.
Used PS4 costs like 3 times the average monthly salary of the country. So, no.
Well of course PHP is eco friendly. Shit has been a great fertilizer ever since the dawn of agriculture.
You'd think cryptocurrency would be eco friendly in that case.
Cryptocurrency has a made up value at least, PHP has no value, made up or otherwise.
PHP had its value back in the day when the only real alternative to creating websites was writing CGI scripts, but now it still lives thanks to human stupidity and inefficiency.
Cryptocurrency had its value back in the day when the only real alternative to buying drugs online and laundering small-time hacking money was by going through channels like PayPal, Liberty Reserve, and Western Union, but now it still lives thanks to human stupidity and inefficiency.
Sometimes this one person at work gives me "bug reports" via Google Hangouts by using her phone to take a portrait video a tiny portion of her screen that doesn't show the issue and talking over it and it drives me insane.
How did the ratings get even worse
wtf lol
I dont mind the whole artsy thing it's going for, but it scales down pretty badly.
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