• Hans (unregistered)

    Fortunately you don't need to swim the IJ, there is a ferry at that location. But then there are also ferries closer to the Central Station from that starting point

  • (nodebb)

    I'm not sure what people are seeing on the Step-by-Step Guide. Looks like the author updated their work on March 9, perhaps late in the evening, and then pushed the "publish" button shortly after midnight.

  • Darren (unregistered)

    That first one should act a reminder to those submitting. The reader doesn't know the context of what you're seeing or which bit of it is an oddity. Help them out by explaining exactly what the WTF is.

  • (nodebb)

    The Outer Worlds "discount" looks like someone doesn't know how to input a permanent price change properly, so set up a "sale" ending in the year 9998 (maybe the software doesn't accept the year 9999).

    Unfortunately, this could run afoul of advertising regulations in some jurisdictions; I know where I live, the discount cannot be based on a sales price from more than 6 months ago, which effectively puts a time limit on such promotions.

  • (nodebb)

    The thing I liked today isn't a tech WTF, but rather a marketing-speak WTF:

    ... now with 100% less packaging!

    So exactly how much packaging does your product come in? Unless it's a download, the answer is not zero. And even if it is an e-artifact, darn near anything like that will be some sort of compressed bundle of loose files.

    Addendum 2025-03-14 10:25: To clarify a bit, I think the product is something tangible like a book or pamphlet.

  • (nodebb) in reply to sibtrag

    Exactly. Every normal CMS system works like this: You update something, and after that you'll publish it. I would find it awkward to do it the other way round. It's just unclear why the update date is even mentioned, but without context, we can't know.

  • Brian (unregistered) in reply to WTFGuy

    The Outer Worlds is a video game (not a very good one, I might add) about a bunch of cartoonishly evil corporations. So the "100% less packaging" thing is probably an attempt to extend the cringe-humor of the game to its product description, which in this case is a DLC bundle. I guess whether it's true or not depends on whether you originally bought the game in an actual box.

  • (nodebb)

    Taking the train needs 77 minutes of waking, but walking directly is 71 minutes.

  • (nodebb) in reply to WTFGuy

    This depends on which country you're in, and the exact postal rules. As a kid (up to the age of 15), I lived in the UK , but was able to get a subscription to Cricket, and American literary magazine full of articles, short stories and so on, all pitched at kids.

    So far, so good, except that they fell foul of a key difference between US and UK postal rules about magazines - they were, apparently, permitted at the time (mid-late 1970s) to send the "naked" magazine (no envelope or other wrapping) through the US post, but this was not allowed in the UK, which caused them some difficulties about delivering the magazine to Rightpondia.

    So, an in-US delivery might not, for small material, need packaging of any sort. Well, until they want to send it to the UK.

    Addendum 2025-03-14 11:49: Bah, "an American literary magazine"

  • airdrik (unregistered)

    I suspect that last one involved someone dropping a unix timestamp into that date field and letting it format that as a date using yyyyMMddhh...

    datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1661110719.07) -> 2022-08-21 13:38:39.7

  • (nodebb) in reply to Gearhead

    I didn't see an explicit "77" or "71" anywhere in the post.

  • (nodebb)

    @**Ross_Presser

    Under the words "public transport" you see different travel mode options. First up is car 18 minutes, train 45 (and the selected option), walk 1hr11 (read as 71 minutes).

    A bit farther down you see another walking person icon with a little 10 next to it. That represents a 10 minute walk. Then take a train called the "Sprinter" for an unknown duration, then walk 67 minutes (so a total of 10+67 = 77 minutes), then get on bus #38. Then arrive after a total of 45 minutes spent with this itinerary.

    Whatever the heck the computer was thinking, it's a mishmash of nonsense.

    I can certainly imagine an itinerary where due to waiting for transport to arrive, you can walk there faster. e.g. For someone with limited walking range, a 5 minute walk followed by a 20 minute sit followed by a 10 minute bus ride totalling 35 minutes might be doable, while walking there directly in e.g. 25 minutes might not.

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