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Brent Jenkins wrote: would you prefer they use the autopilot?
Can this autopilot land the plane in the Hudson River after a flock of birds caused all the engines to fail?
There are strangers on the Plain, Croaker
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For every one lucky positive, there are hundreds of incidents caused by human error..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Überlingen_mid-air_collision[^]
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The horrible part is that these people did not have to die.
The 911 operator failed to tell them to put the car in neutral, and they failed to know themselves.
Yes, the software caused a failure, but I remember being quite upset watching this on the News because you should know how to handle a stuck accelerator, and failing breaks. A momentary panic is understandable, but the one incident on the news, these people had worn out their brakes trying to stop/slow down the vehicle.
Had they put the car in neutral, the brakes would have worked fine.
The engine might have revved, but who cares.
This is not excuse for horrible code. But horrible code + lack of skills = disaster!
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I learned driving with manual transmission and still prefer it today. If the clutch would fail, I still could force it into neutral, probably damaging the transmission.
Anyway, even if this does not happen every day, I would probably be smart enough to put an automatic transmission into neutral, simply because I still know how the transmission works. Relying on any automation and ignorance of the underlying principles can prove to be deadly when things go wrong.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I very, very, very nearly ran into an old fella on a mobility scooter when he drove straight out in front of me on my way to work this morning. Good job (for him) I was in the car with brakes that work.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The image appears to be gone, however anyone, for whatever reason, who crushes a motorcycle is OK in my book (and should receive a metal of honor and lower insurance premiums for ridding us of a damn nuisance).
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: anyone, for whatever reason, who crushes a motorcycle is OK in my book
IMAO, given the way some (most?) motorcyclists ride, the law should mandate the crushing of motorcycles.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Finally, a law I could vote for!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I've been using Chrome for years, and really like it. But since last week or so, it refuses to print anything from a map service, including Google Maps and Mapquest. On a whim, I also tried it on this page (Ctrl-P) and it failed to print. It allows me to select a printer, displays the preview perfectly, then merrily prints blank pages. I've checked for fixes and found nothing, so I'm ready to abandon it for something - not IE - that works.
What do you suggest?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: What do you suggest?
Stop printing ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Don't quit your day job just yet, though...
Will Rogers never met me.
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What kind of printer? My family's Kodak requires both Black and Color ink cartridges to print anything, even if what is being printed is black and white (i.e. no color at all).
I often wonder what 'bright spark' at Kodak came up with that idea.
EDIT: And yes, if I do tell it to print, it only spits out blank pages.
EDIT2: Can you print from other applications?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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All of them; we have several in the office. All print perfectly using IE, but none print anything but blank pages using Chrome.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Weird.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Weirder still is that, if I print to CutePDF, it works great; saves the file and all. But when I open the pdf file, it's filled with blank pages.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Likely a bug in Chrome. Not surprising, really. I find all sorts of bugs in Chrome (usually ones that have come back from the dead to haunt users and developers, like this print bug, reported in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, over multiple versions of Chrome/Chromium). I hate zombugs like these.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I've seen those postings, too. What I haven't seen is any fix posted. Apparently this problem strikes for no apparent reason, and doesn't go away. That's not very encouraging.
Will Rogers never met me.
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The only fix I have seen is uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome. If that doesn't work...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If you tell me I should uninstall an application to fix a problem I'm very likely not installing it again...
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I print from Chrome occasionally and I just tested by printing this page - no problem!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I know - it worked perfectly two weeks ago here. But now, nothing but blank pages. Online help is useless, of course. No one else on the planet has this problem. Nonetheless, it exists and is a royal PITA.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Update your printer-driver.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Seems to work fine for me. Can you save to PDF from Chrome (and print the PDF)? It may be your printer driver that's causing a problem.
/ravi
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His reply to me above states that it prints blank pages to a PDF file.
This seems to be a zombug (a bug that rose from the dead to haunt the users and developers of a product).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Lynx[^]! definitely!
Even works on headless Linux device in a remote terminal!!
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