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Not writing the code to commit a database transaction and spending 30 minutes trying to debug why your changes aren't being persisted.
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Ahem:
Triceratops remains have...been found in the American states of Montana and South Dakota (in addition to Colorado and Wyoming), and in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Filed under: I was wondering how long that would take.
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pshhe's way too whacked out to even manage to make it back here.
Or, he's trying to copy the entire content of the forum to SSDS so he can read it. And with this layout, split topics, and Infiniscroll⢠it's bound to get painful.
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Bad mothers.
From the article (
linked from picor would be if Discourse didn't break it. Try here instead.)- Minnie Snodgrass climbed into bucket while mum, Gemma, was cleaning
- Shocked family rushed the tot to hospital but medics called in fire crews
- Firemen used bolt cutters to free 16-month-old Minnie from pail
- Mother says the youngster found all the fuss hilarious and enjoyed the fun
- But she says she'll be keeping a closer eye on her from now on
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Not writing the code to commit a database transaction and spending 30 minutes trying to debug why your changes aren't being persisted.
Working with pyodbc? autocommit catches a lot of developers.
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Working with pyodbc?
No, it's PHP (Yii Framework). I intentionally started a transaction to update several records atomically, but then forgot to write $transaction->commit() at the end of the updates.
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Challenge gone terribly wrong.
A man has died of a heart attack after consuming a 1-litre bottle of bourbon and having his
head drenched in ice cold water as part of a social media drinking game in New Zealand. Willis Tepania, a 40-year-old father from Kaitaia, took part in the game called the 'ice challenge' on Saturday night, downing a 1-litre of Jim Beam bourbon minutes after having a bucket of ice cold water thrown over her head
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Challenge gone terribly wrong.
A man has died of a heart attack after consuming a 1-litre bottle of bourbon and having his head drenched in ice cold water as part of a social media drinking game in New Zealand. Willis Tepania, a 40-year-old father from Kaitaia, took part in the game called the 'ice challenge' on Saturday night, downing a 1-litre of Jim Beam bourbon minutes after having a bucket of ice cold water thrown over her head
I don't want to know.
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That is exactly how the newspaper has already published it online.
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It's dailymail.co.uk, which from what I've gathered based on the UK based Euroweenies here is that it is roughly equivalent in editing quality to the US joke tabloids (actually I think the articles about vampire children of Elvis living in a trailer park have less mistakes).
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It's dailymail.co.uk
Ah, I didn't even look at the URL, since I had no intention of following the link. So we can perhaps trust the story as far as believing that somebody somewhere got drunk and died. Maybe.
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Ah, I didn't even look at the URL, since I had no intention of following the link. So we can perhaps trust the story as far as believing that somebody somewhere got drunk and died. Maybe.
No, that's just the anonymization. The original story was about the president's daughter.
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Well, in editing quality up to the standard of the joke tabloids, but in terms of content... it's not exactly Euroweenies. It's more 'for the people' by being OUTRAGED at things that Middle England might be outraged by. The great unwashed don't read it or care, the people with actual power read better papers. The 'Yes, Prime Minister' definition of it being 'read by those married to the people who run the country' is about right.
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It's dailymail.co.uk, which from what I've gathered based on the UK based Euroweenies here is that it is roughly equivalent in editing quality to the US joke tabloids
Not entirely inaccurate...
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Similar news item published in New Zealand website.
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Does anyone else think the guy would have been OK if he didn't drink a litre of Jim Beam?
Filed under: Jim Beam: it won't always kill you but it will make you wish it did.
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Does anyone else think the guy would have been OK if he didn't drink a litre of Jim Beam?
Filed under: Jim Beam: it won't always kill you but it will make you wish it did.
I think he died because of cold water and not the whiskey.
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I think he died because of cold water and not the whiskey.
So you think it interfered with the drugs being taken as part of gender reassignment?
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How appropriate...
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Fixed the title.
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Bad idea of the day: quoting a client for a job, assuring you charge for the job not per hour and suddenly realising it's about 3x bigger than you thought but you stand by your original quote.
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How is it so much bigger?
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Consider a hosting account that has been hacked and malware is present. You quote based on removing two of the three open source content packages, and cleaning up the third.
Then you discover this hosting account runs multiple websites, with multiple copies of everything present. So you have to unpick what package is serving what website areas, they're all different versions, all with malware and so on.
We're talking multiple WP, multiple Joomla and multiple (diverse) forum installs here.
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Just to follow this up for a minute, there's infestations and nasty uploads - and there's injections into injections to clean up.
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Why don't you just back up the database and run the deployment scripts, presumably after patching holes?
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Because there's a crap-ton of custom modifications that aren't documented or anything, so I have to do it the hard way.
Yay for software that does patching by XML-packed find/replace instructions.
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Maybe you should write some good deployment scripts, using Salt or Puppet or something. And not patch stuff. And then wait a few months for them to get pwn3d again. And then run the scripts again. For money.
Oops, I think I typed that instead of thinking it.
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Not my system, not my circus, not my monkeys. I'm still getting paid a relative fortune to do this.
The problem is, automating something like SMF is a mess in the first place because it simply wasn't designed for this. And it requires the people don't do their own shenanigans in the meantime.
Go open source! (At least I got shot of the Joomla and WordPress installations. That was extremely satisfying.)
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automating something like SMF is a mess in the first place because it simply wasn't designed for this
Yet you struggle on, being too busy fighting the alligators to drain the swamp. TRWTF has been detected.
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I struggle on because I'm being paid to in this case. As for me persisting with SMF is because I still believe it's not irredeemably bad.
You people thought I was joking when I called myself TRWTF.
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Don't worry about the creaking, it's because it's made of wood, it always does that... It'll be fine...
Filed under: My plans just fell through
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I've had a few funny things that I've wanted to post, but don't belong in the bad ideas thread, because they're not really a bad idea. So I made an appropriate thread for them.
I don't think that was a bad idea. It depends if you want more funnies or not...
Filed under: pickle
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Allowing images to overflow outside of post area, even though you rehost all the images and can resize them in the process. Also, CSS.
Yes, I am TRWTF for only realizing it now. On the other hand I saw no one pointing it out yet.
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I don't think that was a bad idea.
But... the good ideas thread says the bad ideas thread is a good idea... so it must be true... right?
Filed under: The greatest trick a troll has ever pulled is convince the world he isn't trolling
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On the other hand I saw no one pointing it out yet.
I found a similar issue here, when quoting images but apparently that issue got fixed.
Yep, fixed. Or not, editing brings it back, it looks like, but adding quote levels re-fixes it. But on mobile, it's shrunk down like you'd expect.
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but of course you won't find the original attribution on FunnyOrDie.
Attribution is unnecessary. Just look at this forum. It steals all hotlinked images without crediting the source.
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Well if we're linking to The Worlds 100 Unfunniest Videosâ˘, then:
http://youtu.be/anf2qEjec3U?t=23s
Edit: I like how oneboxing ignores the t=23s hint on the end of that and plays from the beginning...
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Edit: I like how oneboxing ignores the t=23s hint on the end of that and plays from the beginning...
No repro
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Don't worry about the creaking, it's because it's made of wood, it always does that... It'll be fine...
There have been some similar incidents with balconies in Queensland with unfunny consequences such as people dying. I think there's an assumption that if a structure can physically fit x number of people on it then it can take the weight.
Filed Under: Dangerous Assumptions thread
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Filed Under: Dangerous buttumptions thread
Filed under: BTFY, they make an butt out of u and me, You know what they say about buttumptions
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Creating an collider from a procedurally generated mesh without checking how complex the mesh is. Like, say, an edge collider with 32769 vertices and wondering why it's running painfully slow.
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Bad idea: having a technologically illiterate government. A recent report indicated that the Spanish "DNIe" (electronic ID card) that was supposed to revolutionize bureaucracy almost a decade ago, was used for a whopping 0.02% of last year's online administrative procedures.
I think smart cards are a good concept that, like many others, has been permanently ruined by dozens of incredibly bad implementations.
Oh, and the utter failure of Madrid's bicycle sharing system, aptly named "BiciMAD", so insecure that someone managed to hack the terminals to show a pornographic video of a naked man on the very first day. But that was not really due to technical incompetence, just an obvious case of shameless corruption. I was going to write a Side Bar WTF thread for this, but then realized I'm lazy.
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Bad idea: white text over a red, orange or cyan background.
As well as ÂżDM?/ÂżDM?/YYYY date format.
Edit: screenshots lest it goes offline.
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This webpage is not available
Edit: Thankfully, it seems it has already gone offline.
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Nope. Still online for me.