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At least the SO code isn't actually harmful.
No surprise; they're from Cleveland, after all.
I guess Kofax threw a real curve ball with that dialog.
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And people give me shit about Phoenix!
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There's a whole city deadicated to reading? I can cook it!
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Sad thing is that somebody will download that malware to fix 503.
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BUT WHICH READING IS IT?!!?!?!
Reading, PA? Reading, UK?
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My goodness, I believe we have found a better example of clown barf: [image]
Whoever came up with that logo should stay far away from @wood...
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Uh huh. I'm sure it did.
Naturally (under PCLinuxOS) I get a different screen on that URL.
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You need to provide the "file" field. Naturally, it's interpolated into the generated page with no sanitizing whatsoever.
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Ah. I see. We seem have stumbled on a solution.
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35%?
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The real WTF is that a man shot in 2007 just now died from his injuries.
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Blah blah... looks like someone was trying to get around an all code post to Stack Overflow ... blah blah blah.
http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/30898070/1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30898070/cannot-serialize-system-web-ui-webcontrols-unit
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Well, based on your Avatar, either way, you could probably benefit from a little less sun. :P
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Maybe we should ask Tim about that.
No, not that Tim. Tim.
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The one behind the barrier.
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Congratulations Peter W. for discovering online scams.
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Well, it did happen in 2013 - but the big question I have, does the year and a day rule apply?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_and_a_day_rule
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The rule appears to be non-applicable in the majority of the US (including for Federal prosecutions) since prior to 2007.
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All the clues you need are in the article.
It's Reading, Arrakis.
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All of family Tim. Each one named Tim. Slight differences in how you pronounce. Tim. Tim. You are seeing now?
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"But only Tim have no one to talk to. No one manages poor Tim, you see. So Tim talks to dirt. Or to walls, or talks to ceilings. But dirt is closer. Dirt is used to everyone walking on it. Just like Tim. But we have come to like it. It is our role. It is our destiny in the universe. So, you see, sometimes dirt has insects in it. And Tim likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much protein for diet. Hmmm, huh, huh, very good! - Tim fix now. Come, this way."
"What an eccentric performance."
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Some call him...Tim.
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It just goes to show that lead poisoning, however extreme, will eventually kill you.
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Filed under: Zathras, for those who didn't get the reference.
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:hanzo:'d by a SLOOWWW Discourse (imminent crash coming? Can't even edit a post.)
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Discourse is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry.
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servercooties.com says back to normal, for the moment.
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"normal" for DissedCourse is definitely accurate: [image]
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That means two posts have been deleted somewhere up-thread — probably @PaulaBean's unlisted/listed posts. So that is post #30, but is the 28th of the 28 posts remaining in the topic. So both of those numbers are as designed, and the design is actually rational (if a bit confusing) in this case.
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I tried to create a reply to the same post twice (and gave up - absolutely no response even when I walked away and found something more productive to do) so maybe they are responsible?
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This one: http://thedailywtf.com/images/15/q3/e181/Pic-2.png is probably caused by the SVG containing text with non-ASCII characters. At least, the only times I’ve encountered this error, it was with files that had those, and the only way to fix it that I’ve found is to open the file in Inkscape, remove the text box, save the file, and re-open it in Illustrator.
It’s mightily annoying, especially because it doesn’t give this error for every SVG file with such characters, even from the same source. Something more must be at work, but I can’t be arsed to figure out what the :wtf: actually is now I discovered a quick fix for it :)
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So FOSS can do something that commercial software can't :interrobang: That's unpossible :exclamation::exclamation::exclamation: :trolleybus:
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Aside from cost, this seems to be about the only recommendation for using Inkscape over Illustrator that I’ve found. Unlike some here, I have nothing against OS software in general, and I would love to find a more usable, less quirky replacement for Illustrator, but Inkscape isn’t it. (At the very least, not under OS X anyway.)
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I've used both Inkscape and an ancient version of Illustrator, but neither of them enough to make a meaningful comparison. Unlike GIMP, which I use all the time. I find it quite satisfactory; the only thing I've run across in PS that I would find particularly useful but is lacking in GIMP is automatic background removal, and my version of PS is so old that it doesn't have it, either.
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It looks like someone already did.
Filed under: I'll probably get a whoosh badge for this...
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(emphasis mine) Maybe it's more the point that Google is rather good at omitting that kind of stuff in general.
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http://thedailywtf.com/images/15/q3/e181/Pic-2.png
Does "Cant" refer to the error that occurred in Illustrator, or to the error message itself?
What meaning of "cant" do they use here? Is there an angle or sloped surface in the SVG that Illustrator can't render? Is the error message hypocritical nonsense, or jargon for something very meaningful ("unknown error")?
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Well, we must have had different experiences, because I've always seen Google happily deliver malware (as long as it's not technically illegal since they make you accept an EULA first) and scams.
There was a time when googling a popular open source program meant you had to scroll past 2 screenfuls of bullshit before finding the offical website.
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CBA to contribute to Wikipedia now, but "day" doesn't mean a time period here, but court date. That phrase means "one year (as a time span) to think about it or to wait for things to settle, and a chance to sue" (source: maybe Duden's etymologic dictionary)
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I think it means if you read the error aloud you have to sing it.
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Describing something as having a cant is the same as describing something as having a list. Only the something is different in each case, but the effect (in appearance at least) is the same in both.
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You might want to look at the GIMP's G'MIC plugin then: background removal/foreground extraction is one of its tools. It's not automatic, though; you indicate which regions in the image belong to the foreground and which to the background and it does the segmentation.
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It was you!
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I have a feeling my main problem with Inkscape is trying to use it under OS X. It feels sluggish despite running on a quad-core iMac with 16 GB, which I suspect is because it comes across as a quick-and-dirty port rather than one intended to work well. (The user interface not being adjusted to OS X standards at all is a bit of a giveaway, I’d say, which doesn’t really help its usability.)
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Thanks. It's not something I need much currently, but next time I do, I'll (try to) remember that.
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Or you have to be running at a moderate pace.
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Not obscure enough. Maybe the error can be traced back to an Italian aircraft manufacturer.
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Was he shot with a peanut moving at 0.1c? Because maybe he didn't take 8 years to die. It was just time dilation.
From whose frame of reference?
Filed under @ben_lubar
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Whether or not - so what?
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Does it still run in X11 mode?
Back before I gave up on Apple, I tried to use Inkscape to design a mural for my garage, and quickly found:
The OS X support sucked shit, and
That didn't matter since Inkscape was useless at creating documents larger than about 6' by 6'. It's a goddamned vector tool which uses floating point for everything, why the shit does it limit canvas size?