• (cs)

    StopUsingFristItsBad?

  • Warren (unregistered)

    Loving the fact that the ad at the bottom of the nutritional info for sugar references Love Hearts and is for romance books/movies. Contextual advertising rules O.Kcal!

  • (null) (unregistered)

    I always use usernames like (null), [Device error], /mnt/sdcard, NullPointerException at line 61, etc.

  • Pista (unregistered)

    Who or whom, that is the question...

    C'mon, grammar nazis, jump on it!

  • (cs) in reply to Pista
    Pista:
    Who or whom, that is the question...

    C'mon, grammar nazis, jump on it!

    As a grammar nazis go, I'm not sure if that's the worst bit...

    ("As a MP3 files go")

  • Paul (unregistered)

    I see things like that Polcast site all too often, on overly-fancy web sites. It is usually the result of a combination of overlaying iframes along with "it looks fine on my computer" syndrome.

  • Sam (unregistered)

    stopUsingBrowserSniffing

    FTFY

  • Noah (unregistered) in reply to Paul
    Paul:
    I see things like that Polcast site all too often, on overly-fancy web sites. It is usually the result of a combination of overlaying iframes along with "it looks fine on my computer" syndrome.

    That was a Youtube video. The WTF is "We'll be back in slightly less than a year!"

  • (cs)

    The MP3 one is, as I'm sure you all knew well before me, simply saying -1(64b) byte of -1(64b). (but it prints the progress as signed and the total as unsigned, which is a minor[1] WTF of its own, and rounds the total down, which is a more serious WTF[2])

    [1] Yes, it's a minor WTF. Since INT64MAX is 8EB (exabytes, or billions of gigabytes!), it's not particularly likely that you'll be able to fit more than that on your phone, no matter how capacious its memory, so the total-downloaded won't ever (in a valid situation) be negative.

    [2] It's more serious, because it will say "10GB of 10GB downloaded" for nearly a GB's worth of download time if the download is really 10.99GB. Even over fast WiFi with a fat backhaul, that's more than a couple of minutes.

  • Gone? (unregistered)

    Totally OT -- I hope --

    Today yahoo decided to give me a targeted ad that says:

    ____ ____ funeral home and cemetary. Here for you since 1951.

    For me? Since 1951??? The year I was born????? They've been waiting that long??????? Do they know something I don't?????????

  • stopUsingJsErrorForWTFsItsBad (unregistered)

    Virgil Cristea has a buggy extension installed, it's not the website's fault.

  • (cs)

    I'm not sure I'd want to trust that calorie app anyway.

    Regardless of the fact that the typical serving is at least 160 billion tons, sugar doesn't have saturated fat in it.

    In fact sugar is, well, sugar. So it is pure carbohydrate. No fat at all. (So, some food producers would tell you that eating 160 billion tons of sugar is 'good for you', since it's "fat-free")

    If the whole Earth was made of granulated sugar, it would still have zero fat.

  • Todd (unregistered)

    My buggy is too short; where do I get this extension?

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Gone?
    Gone?:
    Totally OT -- I hope --

    Today yahoo decided to give me a targeted ad that says:

    ____ ____ funeral home and cemetary. Here for you since 1951.

    For me? Since 1951??? The year I was born????? They've been waiting that long??????? Do they know something I don't?????????

    Apparently they don't, or else they wouldn't have been waiting for you so long.

    They're telling you politely to hurry up a little, is this so hard?

  • Pock Suppet (unregistered) in reply to pscs
    pscs:
    I'm not sure I'd want to trust that calorie app anyway.

    Regardless of the fact that the typical serving is at least 160 billion tons, sugar doesn't have saturated fat in it.

    In fact sugar is, well, sugar. So it is pure carbohydrate. No fat at all. (So, some food producers would tell you that eating 160 billion tons of sugar is 'good for you', since it's "fat-free")

    If the whole Earth was made of granulated sugar, it would still have zero fat.

    And it even takes the usual approach for fat-free foods - take out the fat, add a bunch of carbs! It's a marketer's dream!

    I suppose you could also say it's organic sugar - would that help? I know I certainly prefer organic foods to inorganic ones...no ore chunks for me, thanks.

  • oppeto (unregistered)

    The calorie counter is not a WTF! It's just calibrated in molecules. That's why there's avagadro's number of servings!

  • caecus (unregistered)

    come on. He's just playing words with friends with Manti Te'o's girlfriend.

  • sharkoftheday (unregistered)

    I actually saw the calorie error displayed and a much weirder version where the serving size used unknown characters and a "{" yesterday. I wanted to capture it, but had little time to do so. :<

  • (cs) in reply to Sam

    A few years ago I decided to use browser sniffing on a personal project. My reasoning was that if the background needed to be a -webkit-linear-gradient, -moz-linear-gradient, a DirectX filter, or a .svg (among other CSS hacks), it'd be more noble to sniff the user agent string rather then try to throw dozens of hacks onto the CSS.

    Thank $DEITY for the Webkit Monoculture we're about to have. I designed a site the other day and didn't even test it in Firefox! I love monocultures in web development.

  • (cs)

    That sounds about right for Bradley International Airport on March frist.

  • Gone? (unregistered) in reply to foo
    foo:
    Gone?:
    Totally OT -- I hope --

    Today yahoo decided to give me a targeted ad that says:

    ____ ____ funeral home and cemetary. Here for you since 1951.

    For me? Since 1951??? The year I was born????? They've been waiting that long??????? Do they know something I don't?????????

    Apparently they don't, or else they wouldn't have been waiting for you so long.

    They're telling you politely to hurry up a little, is this so hard?

    I suppose I should at least inquire whether they'll offer me a discount if I act now.

  • C-Derb (unregistered)

    TRWTF #1 is a Memo field big enough to write a novel.

    TRWTF #2 is Banks.

  • Ozz (unregistered) in reply to C-Derb
    C-Derb:
    TRWTF #1 is a Memo field big enough to write a novel.

    TRWTF #2 is Banks.

    They had to make sure the memo field was too big to fill.

  • NTRWTF (unregistered) in reply to C-Derb
    C-Derb:
    TRWTF #1 is a Memo field big enough to write a novel.
    More than likely the OP made it bigger to show more of the text. That field does have a resize handle.
  • (cs) in reply to Ozz
    Ozz:
    C-Derb:
    TRWTF #1 is a Memo field big enough to write a novel.

    TRWTF #2 is Banks.

    They had to make sure the memo field was too big to fill.

    And yet it appears it was not too big to (epic)fail. See, those banks were onto something after all. If only their software were as large as their portfolios (and egos).

  • C-Derb (unregistered) in reply to NTRWTF
    NTRWTF:
    C-Derb:
    TRWTF #1 is a Memo field big enough to write a novel.
    More than likely the OP made it bigger to show more of the text. That field does have a resize handle.
    You're probably right, but that doesn't change the fact that the memo field is allowing that much text to be entered in the first place. I was mostly making a joke, but the more I think about it, they should be setting the maxlength property.
  • Ian (unregistered)

    Thanks DailyWTF for reminding me it is Friday

  • instigator (unregistered) in reply to pscs
    pscs:
    If the whole Earth was made of granulated sugar, it would still have zero fat.
    And lots of ants.
  • Aunt Clara (unregistered) in reply to instigator
    instigator:
    pscs:
    If the whole Earth was made of granulated sugar, it would still have zero fat.
    And lots of ants.
    There are already lots of ants.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ants

    There are more ants than vertebrates by mass. So, like, more than 200 pounds of ants for every 200 pounds of you.

  • History Teacher (unregistered) in reply to pscs
    pscs:
    I'm not sure I'd want to trust that calorie app anyway.

    Regardless of the fact that the typical serving is at least 160 billion tons, sugar doesn't have saturated fat in it.

    In fact sugar is, well, sugar. So it is pure carbohydrate. No fat at all. (So, some food producers would tell you that eating 160 billion tons of sugar is 'good for you', since it's "fat-free")

    If the whole Earth was made of granulated sugar, it would still have zero fat.

    There is no such thing as pure sugar. Sugar is going to have many fat molecules in it, among other impurities. So given big enough serving size, that amount of fat is completely plausible.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Gone?
    Gone?:
    Totally OT -- I hope --

    Today yahoo decided to give me a targeted ad that says:

    ____ ____ funeral home and cemetary. Here for you since 1951.

    For me? Since 1951??? The year I was born????? They've been waiting that long??????? Do they know something I don't?????????

    Yes. Ever since you were born they have known that someday you were going to die. And they're waiting.

  • jay (unregistered)

    So when he got on the plane he should have sat in seat 43F. Then if someone said he was in the wrong seat, he could explain that 6C is the same as 43F, so he doesn't understand what they're talking about.

    Perhaps you've heard the joke about the programmer who regularly got confused between Halloween and Christmas, sometimes putting up a Christmas tree at Halloween or hanging up skeletens at Christmas. Because, after all, OCT 31 = DEC 25.

  • jay (unregistered)

    On the serious side, the 6C=43F issue is, it seems to me, at the root of the problem of developing any real Artificial Intelligence. Sure, a computer can do conversions between different measurement systems much more quickly and more accurately than any human being. But looking at a screen like that and understanding from the overall context that this is a seat number and not a temperature, that's easy for human beings, but very difficult for computers given the current state of the art. In this case you couldn't even say that a temperature is inappropriate because the screen is about air travel: people routinely check on weather conditions at their destination. Humans attach meaning to words and numbers based on context and other clues all the times. Indeed, we do this so routinely and so accurately that when someone does misinterpret information in this way, we often find it very amusing. Such misinterprations are often the material for jokes.

  • Sam (unregistered)

    But I routinely hang skeletons every Xmas.

    Well more accurately I take down the skeletons from last year, and put up fresh skeletons-in-the-making.

    Have I been doing it wrong all these years? I mean people do sometimes object but I haven't understood what all the fuss was about.

  • Kasper (unregistered) in reply to Gone?
    Gone?:
    Today yahoo decided to give me a targeted ad that says:

    ____ ____ funeral home and cemetary. Here for you since 1951.

    For me? Since 1951??? The year I was born????? They've been waiting that long??????? Do they know something I don't?????????

    Well, what do you know? I'll tell you what I know. If you didn't know this already, this may come as a shock to you. Anywhere here goes: You are going to die.

    I think they know that as well, but they probably don't know when, and neither do I.

    On a related note, on one occasion I had typed the address of my doctor into Google Maps, and I got an ad saying: "We know when you are going to die". I tried a few other addresses on that street, but didn't get that ad. I tried an address of another doctor in a different street and got the same ad, again it only showed up for the exact house number of the doctor.

  • (cs) in reply to jay
    jay:
    On the serious side, the 6C=43F issue is, it seems to me, at the root of the problem of developing any real Artificial Intelligence. Sure, a computer can do conversions between different measurement systems much more quickly and more accurately than any human being. But looking at a screen like that and understanding from the overall context that this is a seat number and not a temperature, that's easy for human beings, but very difficult for computers given the current state of the art.
    In this case, the program misinterpreted "6C" as "6°C" (or "6℃"). Because some people are sloppy about writing temperatures, it ends up being sloppy about interpreting things as temperatures in an attempt to accommodate them.

    TRWTF is still using degrees Fahrenheit. Instead of Kelvins.

  • (cs) in reply to History Teacher
    History Teacher:
    pscs:
    I'm not sure I'd want to trust that calorie app anyway.

    Regardless of the fact that the typical serving is at least 160 billion tons, sugar doesn't have saturated fat in it.

    In fact sugar is, well, sugar. So it is pure carbohydrate. No fat at all. (So, some food producers would tell you that eating 160 billion tons of sugar is 'good for you', since it's "fat-free")

    If the whole Earth was made of granulated sugar, it would still have zero fat.

    There is no such thing as pure sugar. Sugar is going to have many fat molecules in it, among other impurities. So given big enough serving size, that amount of fat is completely plausible.

    Food Safety Alert: This post may contain significant traces of horse.

    Or perhaps just bull.

  • (cs) in reply to Watson
    Watson:
    jay:
    On the serious side, the 6C=43F issue is, it seems to me, at the root of the problem of developing any real Artificial Intelligence. Sure, a computer can do conversions between different measurement systems much more quickly and more accurately than any human being. But looking at a screen like that and understanding from the overall context that this is a seat number and not a temperature, that's easy for human beings, but very difficult for computers given the current state of the art.
    In this case, the program misinterpreted "6C" as "6°C" (or "6℃"). Because some people are sloppy about writing temperatures, it ends up being sloppy about interpreting things as temperatures in an attempt to accommodate them.

    TRWTF is still using degrees Fahrenheit. Instead of Kelvins.

    Kelvin is only useful for physics. Fahrenheit is only useful for countries that hate (or deny the existence of) the rest of the world and therefore refuse to be alike.

  • Yazeran (unregistered) in reply to Gone?
    Gone?:
    Totally OT -- I hope --

    Today yahoo decided to give me a targeted ad that says:

    ____ ____ funeral home and cemetary. Here for you since 1951.

    For me? Since 1951??? The year I was born????? They've been waiting that long??????? Do they know something I don't?????????

    Yes they do! Google is your Friend, Google is always Right, Always listen to Google.

    Yazeran

    Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

  • Tusk (unregistered)

    ...use lynx for browsing! :)

  • Valued Service (unregistered) in reply to MiffTheFox
    MiffTheFox:
    Thank $DEITY for the Webkit Monoculture we're about to have.

    Acts 17:23 While I was passing through, I noticed the idols you worship. I found an altar with the quote 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD'. So I'll tell you about this "unknown god" you worship in ignorance.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Kelvin is only useful for physics. Fahrenheit is only useful for countries that hate (or deny the existence of) the rest of the world and therefore refuse to be alike.

    Celsius is only useful for countries that hate (or deny the existence of) the United States, Liberia, and Belize.

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Perhaps you've heard the joke about the programmer who regularly got confused between Halloween and Christmas, sometimes putting up a Christmas tree at Halloween or hanging up skeletens at Christmas. Because, after all, OCT 31 = DEC 25.
    What does he do when Thanksgiving lands on NOV 27?
  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to Neil
    Neil:
    jay:
    Perhaps you've heard the joke about the programmer who regularly got confused between Halloween and Christmas, sometimes putting up a Christmas tree at Halloween or hanging up skeletens at Christmas. Because, after all, OCT 31 = DEC 25.
    What does he do when Thanksgiving lands on NOV 27?
    He gives a BSOD because his driver only handles Halloween and Christmas.

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