The weirdest bug I've seen yet

Post by guessmyname » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 10:40 PM UTC

digging wrote: post #115

tru3_power wrote: post #6

Is there a copy of the gif available? That’s interesting

I wouldn't even know how to look for something unusual in a gif's source code but I also feel this is the most compelling part. I wish they'd uploaded it.

Post by gnulinux » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 10:42 PM UTC

ianlevesque wrote: post #124

natbennett wrote: post #105

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There are a lot of people whose professional outcomes are meaningfully constrained by their ability produce clear business English. I know a guy who used to get inexplicable feedback about his communication that boiled down to “write better.” This limited his ability to get promoted. He runs all his comms through ChatGPT and asks it to “make this more professional” and doesn’t get that feedback anymore.

I get that people don't care or understand this, but that's also saying he cc's OpenAI, and therefore probably Microsoft, and therefore almost definitely the NSA, on all his business communications. What a world.

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 10:47 PM UTC

jiveturkey wrote: post #77

I'm guessing this is the webp bug. The auto conversion to webp on the backend, signaled by chrome, resulted in a bad image that crashes the browser due to grammarly parsing of said bad webp. Safari doesn't tell the server it does webp and so it downloads the actual gif, and doesn't crash.

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 10:48 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #153

gwbas1c wrote: post #82

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> They don't address why they didn't just run Chromium. Or Firefox. The article implies that Gusto's employees can whatever browser they want. And, honestly, telling your employees to run a browser that only techies have heard of sounds like a really dumb idea.

> The article implies that Gusto's employees can whatever browser they want. For users of their security-sensitive internal software? > And, honestly, telling your employees to run a browser that only techies have heard of sounds like a really dumb idea. Sounds like they're using this for internal tools, as a kind of thin-client layer. They could recommend or mandate a particular browser, and people would just use it…

Post by pixl97 » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 10:51 PM UTC

akira2501 wrote: post #136

thaumaturgy wrote: post #113

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People that are comfortable with text-based forums may not realize the extent of illiteracy and semiliteracy in the US. Decades ago, a small company was able to convince most of the education system (public and sometimes private) to use a teaching method based on junk science. The end result is that there are many millions of adults in the current workforce who can barely read, and many of them work in office setting…

It's odd to read the story of an adult who believes they're a poor reader, still to this day apparently, because of what happened to them 30 years ago. Odder still that the article leaves itself the only conclusion of going all the way back to grade school and trying an entirely different strategy and hoping that just "works out" in the end. The lack of "continuing education" in the era of the internet is baffling to…