The Technology Vent and Rant Thread

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Speaking of Tech V&R:

Anybody else having a weird thing with MR, in the browser, where it seems to take a long time to render and it bogs? I mean, not just affecting its own browser, but all others, too?

Has a noticeable lag?

Hitch

That has been happening to me for months, but for some other sites as well.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

That has been happening to me for months, but for some other sites as well.

No other sites that I've noticed, UNLESS MR is up, with it is most of the time. Have you tried with it up and without?

Hitch

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by jbjb

Under the "as-if" rule, reordering shouldn't affect the computed results (so long as there's no undefined behaviour, such as signed overflow, going on). Some compilers have options to enable unsafe optimisations which might affect things if you're e.g. operating at the limits of floating point precision, so rounding errors mount up, and some may even default to those being turned on, but they must have a way of turning them off or they're not conforming.

Yes, they have options to turn them off.

I could maybe make peace with unsafe optimisations being on by default outside parentheses but I think parentheses should be honored by default unless unsafe optimisations are explicitly enabled. I feel completely entitled to V&R about it. Being technically conforming does not mitigate that, it is part of the cause of the V&R.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

That has been happening to me for months, but for some other sites as well.

Originally Posted by Hitch

No other sites that I've noticed, UNLESS MR is up, with it is most of the time. Have you tried with it up and without?

Hitch

Depends on what "up" means. I always have lots of tabs, but if I am not actively reading MR, the tab it is in is usually "back arrowed" out of MR. I'll have to remember to check if MR is showing when another site is hung. (Some places I visit are subject to overloading or internal network congestion.)

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Depends on what "up" means. I always have lots of tabs, but if I am not actively reading MR, the tab it is in is usually "back arrowed" out of MR. I'll have to remember to check if MR is showing when another site is hung. (Some places I visit are subject to overloading or internal network congestion.)

Ah. I typically have, IDK, 30-50 sites in tabs. The last...3 weeks-ish (sorry, I've been a bit mental with some illness crap I've been dealing with, so this observation might be whack), suddenly, when I post something at MR, or switch from MR to anything else, my entire computer bogs down for a moment or two--like...IDK, 10-20 seconds? I'll count next time. And then resumes. It's weird as hell.

Hitch

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Speaking of Tech V&R:

Anybody else having a weird thing with MR, in the browser, where it seems to take a long time to render and it bogs? I mean, not just affecting its own browser, but all others, too?

Has a noticeable lag?

Hitch

If hardware acceleration is on, try disabling it. Might be a glitchy GPU driver.

[Darqref]

I have a relatively new refrigerator. It has an icemaker with a water filter, and the filter needs to be replaced regularly. The owners manual clearly gives part numbers of the filters needed to replace.

When I look for those part numbers online, I see LOTS of third party filters that claim to be compatible. Being a suspicious person, I looked at reviews, especially the most negative reviews, and find a curious thing. So far, although I have not tried to look at EVERY imitation, each one has recent comments that indicate the device *used* to work, but that recent purchases no longer work. To the point of damaging the filter assembly so that NO filters fit - you then need to repair the whole assembly, costing several hundred dollars.

WHY?!?!?! why would a manufacturer *change the part's design* without bothering to note that in the product description? At least some of the reviewers post photos that clearly show a difference in the way the filter connects. Do they think that there are so many imitation parts that no-one will damage their reputation? Did the original appliance manufacturer commit espionage to make all the cheap competitors obviously a bad buy?

I could see the OEM changing the design of the filter for newly sold models, but this is a case of a replacement part working at first, the not working when purchased again.

grrrr.

[John F]

Originally Posted by John F

It is 2023, if you want documentation via fax or mail, also except it via email.

And by email, I mean some sort of upload also.

I received a letter from the IRS requesting more information for my tax return. No problem. They have 2 ways to submit the form: fax or mail. And they seem to prefer fax. They say if you have don't have a fax machine, you can use an online fax service, but be careful of scams and understand their privacy policy.

So as a tax payer, I can electronically send info to some third party who then faxes it to the IRS, vs the IRS providing some electronic service. Wouldn't it make more sense for the IRS to help the filers by providing this "online fax service" itself? The IRS is happy to take my money online, but they can't take documents?

I think the Illuminate have infiltrated the IRS, own the USPS and fax companies, and don't want to loose a revenue stream.

[ownedbycats]

regexes

more specifically, googling how to solve a problems within the constraints of a regex and instead getting many suggestions on how to accomplish it without a regex (which i cannot use because of constraints)

[gmw]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

regexes

more specifically, googling how to solve a problems within the constraints of a regex and instead getting many suggestions on how to accomplish it without a regex (which i cannot use because of constraints)

The standard response to which must be:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
“I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

The source is ... complicated.


More helpful, I hope, might be this site: https://www.regular-expressions.info

It has many examples and discusses many of the regex variants - which I find helpful because my work crosses between a few different sorts of regex.

[ownedbycats]

Of course there's an xkcd comic



I make heavy use of regex101 which is a great help but sometimes need to google to get an idea of how to do a specific match or substitute.

I've been suggested RegexBuddy but the lack of free trial (just 'give us money upfront and refund if you're unhappy') is putting me off.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

. . .
The joys of web scraping unfortunately.

Guess how many years is it since I whinged about having to scrape and paste from and to 3270 emulators because the CICS programmers couldn't get their heads around using an RPC package I found.

Spoiler:

37

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

[ownedbycats]

Outlook.com's gone mad and is sending literally every email to Spam.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Outlook.com's gone mad and is sending literally every email to Spam.

Temporary glitch. I found posts about it on other parts of the internet.

Seems to be behaving now thankfully.

[BetterRed]

What's the half life of a fiddle-fone app these days?

Oh, about the same as thulium-171 (1.92 years)

See recent posts here ==>> Calibre Sync for Android & iOS

No, I've never heard of thulium either.

BR