@pie_flavor Sock puppets are too much work anyway.
Best posts made by antiquarian
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RE: Say goodbye to your sock puppets
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RE: Posting without comment
I stopped reading here:
I want to make one thing crystal clear - Windows, in some regards, is even worse than Linux and it's definitely not ready for the desktop either.
There are 2 kinds of operating systems: the kind everyone complains about, and the kind no one uses.
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RE: Coding confession/brag/rfc on something i just wrote
@boomzilla said in Coding confession/brag/rfc on something i just wrote:
Careful or someone will show up and start talking about monads.
Possible Laidlaw's Rule inversion?
edwardkmett: Most monad tutorials are written by people who barely understand monads, if at all, but unfortunately nothing can stop someone from writing a monad tutorial. We've tried, there was blood everywhere.
And then the murders began.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like someone found TDWTF archive…
It's good to know that someone is still reading the front page.
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
I haven't noticed anything involving gamification of indicator lights yet ...
It's a thing. You get:
- 5 driverpointzzz for turning or lane changing without signaling
- 10 driverpointzzzz for signaling without turning or changing lanes
- 25 driverpointzzzz for signaling and turning or changing lanes in the opposite direction from your signal
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
I am really not that unreasonable.
Most unreasonable people would say the same thing.
We dont hold with them newfangled ideas in these parts. If it aint in the Bible it aint worth larnin.
Translation: if you're not a Progressive, you may as well join the Westboro Baptist Church because we'll assume you share their beliefs anyway.
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RE: Random thought of the day
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
I think we're all going to be in a bit of trouble, if what our users believe about us is true…
Unless you've appealed to occult forces to make your programs work, you're probably OK on that point. On the other hand, if you've ever written a Perl script, you may want to go to confession just to be on the safe side.
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RE: God’s own OS
@scholrlea said in God’s own OS:
the bout of compulsive public masturbation that was apparently so vigorous that he broke his clavicle in the process
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RE: Marketing bullshit WORDS DON'T HAVE TO MEAN ANYMORE!
it told me "Chaotic Chaotic"
... i'm not sure that's a valid allignment.
It's more of a signal to seek professional help.
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RE: Enlightened
@asdf said in Enlightened:
but at least it's not trying to spank me anymore.
And then the boobs came out.
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RE: Functional programming advocates in a nutshell
Relevant item from my quote file:
edwardkmett: Most monad tutorials are written by people who barely understand monads, if at all, but unfortunately nothing can stop someone from writing a monad tutorial. We've tried, there was blood everywhere.
It applies here with a couple of modifications:
:s/monad/functional programming/g :s/tutorial/advocacy article/g
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RE: Forum Bullies called out - The greatest program on the planet showdown.
@clippy said in Forum Bullies called out - The greatest program on the planet showdown.:
What is this other thread, and WTF is @SpectateSwamp talking about?
It looks like you're trying to necro a thread that no one cares about. Would you like help?
- Yes, please.
- Fuck off, I can annoy everyone perfectly well without assistance.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
that's literally their business model, how could that happen? We're not in a shortage crisis again, are we?
We are not in a shortage crisis. There were a couple of refineries that we impacted by the hurricane, and the media speculated that gas stations might run out of gas. That led to everyone going to get gas whether they needed it at the time or not. The business model doesn't work when everyone tries to get gas at the same time. That's what caused the gas stations to run out. So it was literally a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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RE: ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
... when someone ends an email with "I'll stick something in" and you almost respond with .
And if you really do respond with ?
I'm asking for a friend.
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RE: The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club...
@masonwheeler said in The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club...:
The problem is, people have gotten ahold of a dumbed-down version of it where "anyone who thinks they're competent at something probably actually sucks and knows just enough to be dangerous." And that leads to a very dangerous category of logical fallacies in which a person asserting X can be used as evidence of not-X.
Anti-intellectuals are prone to logical fallacies. In other news, tequila increases the likelihood of drunken brawls. Film at 11.
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RE: Stack Overflow
I had a question and I googled it and found a similar question on SO and the dumbass had done exactly what you said. "Never mind, I found the solution", without giving the solution.
Embarrassingly, I was that dumbass.
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RE: Your ')')')') is showing
Did anyone else see the title and think it was a Lisp joke?
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Why do programmers love Halloween?
[spoiler]Because they work with booleans.[/spoiler]
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RE: ContentID is getting EVEN MORE FUCKED than the troll in here
Don't you 'Muricans have some anti-monopoly laws or something for that?
We do. We also grant monopolies, usually in the form of copyrights and patents, but there are other forms. But the rule of law is so 19th-century. These days, the laws apply so broadly that everyone's guilty of something. That way, they can just pick someone out and find something to pin on them.
Filed under: selective enforcement FTW
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RE: In other news today...
@Applied-Mediocrity I used to live in the area. I'm pretty sure he will say it's close enough.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
I wonder if anyone has done any research into whether US children suffer less injuries or deaths around their buses than ours or other similar countries.
That's a good question. People here would have you believe that kids run out into traffic all the time. I've never seen or even heard if it happening, and if it was really a problem, it wouldn't only be a problem around school buses.
There's also the "one is too many" crowd, but that anyone takes them seriously is a in itself.
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RE: The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant
@arantor The worst part is I know what it does.
It's a map function.Spoiler
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RE: In other news today...
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You fled the wild turkeys?
I lived about half an hour away from Boston University so the wild turkeys weren't that much of an issue.
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Poll: Will Nagesh ever stop making polls?
Poll: Will Nagesh ever stop making polls?
- Yes
- No
- Only after @Onyx finds out where he lives
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RE: In other news today...
@timebandit When I lived in Boston, a dance club I frequented would occasionally bring in a girl to serve tequila shots. Every night she worked, there would be at least one fight.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
decent idea for a comic but the punchline is kinda undermined by naming the dog "King".
I assumed that was part of the joke. There's no guarantee that the average American even knows that rex is Latin for "King".
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Because Russian drivers are cray-cray, apparently.
Or drunk on водка. Or both.
Based on my visits to St. Petersburg, I'd say you're both right. Let's just say I never thought I'd see a practical application of the bumper sticker "if you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!" (To be fair, the car was actually parked on the sidewalk and not moving at the time.)
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RE: Just use sublime text (anti-vim rant)
This can't possibly be blakeyrat's blog
But remember that blakeyrat is just an online persona. blakeyrat's owner could very well be a Linux zealot who wants to keep Linux from becoming popular (and dumbed down as a result).
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RE: Haskell Isn't for Everyone
I saw this on Haskell Weekly News a few years ago:
I was TA for a C++ programming course aimed at 1st year physics once.
Some girl asked for help "i wrote pseudo-code but I cannot translate it to C++".
Her pseudo-code was valid haskell. I cried.This is valid Haskell code and implements the equivalent of a nullable type:
data CanHaz a = Haz a | ButIEatedIt
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Doesn't help that people (at least in the US) are swarming the testing centers and there just aren't enough tests (either at home or lab tests) to go around.
I caught pinkeye over the weekend, so I went to urgent care this morning. There were 8 people in line in front of me, every one there for a test.
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RE: What markup format do you prefer?
@anonymous234 said in What markup format do you prefer?:
I want one that uses pseudo-LISP syntax.
(b bold text (i bold and italic)) (link http://google.com/ hyperlinked text)Not sure if evil ideas thread or quixotic ideas thread...
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@boomzilla I feel like we need that sign here.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
A common tactic they use is trying to establish a definite boundary between acceptable and unacceptable behavior so that they can brush up against the limit and accuse anyone who punishes their repeated bad behavior of overreacting.
Two questions:
- Are there other reasons that someone might want to have well-defined boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable behavior?
- If yes to the above, how do you know which of the reasons is motivating the person who is asking for well-defined boundaries?
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@boomzilla They can have my das keyboard when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@izzion said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The future nation @Izziontopia will be the pillar of salt and light in the Carribean
Does your future nation need any DBAs?
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RE: Conversations overheard
I don't like it, therefore it sucks.
You must be new here. That's @blakeyrat in a nutshell.
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RE: Florida Man goes to...
@Polygeekery said in Florida Man goes to...:
Like, isn't that counter productive? I mean, I know he kind of person to fake a robbery to get out of work isn't going to be particularly bright, but wouldn't that keep him tied up with the police for a few hours?
I'm guessing that's still better than working at Hardee's.
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RE: In other news today...
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I think we should start a pool on when all this data shows up in an unsecure s3 bucket.
When the data shows up there or when the fact that it's there actually gets reported?
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RE: Functional programming rah! OOP nah! Or how to know you're a zealot
@Arantor The evil ideas thread is .
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RE: The minor rants thread.
@Mason_Wheeler said in The minor rants thread.:
Why are red left-turn arrows on traffic lights a thing? Like, at all?
Happens all the time: I'm at an intersection, wanting to turn left. The intersection is clear, as is oncoming traffic in the other lane. The going-straight light in the lane to the right of me is green. It would be perfectly safe to turn left across there... but some idiot of a civil engineer put a red left arrow up.My guess is that it's the same reason for "No Turn on Red" signs: at least one person was wrong about having enough time to make the turn.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@mott555 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Meanwhile, the MSM is still raging that our governor hasn't implemented an official stay-at-home order.
That's to be expected. The longer your state can function without it, the more likely that people in other states will notice and question whether the lockdowns are really still necessary.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@dcon said in Testing breaking update for NodeBB:
You're supposed to clean that thing when you're done with it!
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RE: Net neutrality non-neutrality
@dkf said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
You're expecting the current Administration to actually enforce anti-trust laws? I think that's an opinion likely to be unpopular with with them…
If they won't enforce anti-trust laws, there's no reason to believe they will enforce net neutrality laws, but there's a bigger point here. Whenever a law isn't enforced properly or for some reason doesn't achieve the desired result, why is the first suggestion always another law?
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RE: Net neutrality non-neutrality
@masonwheeler said in Net neutrality non-neutrality:
You're the one who's always saying "rules are for losers."
Actually, I'm the one who's always saying "rules are for losers." And I agree with the article @lolwhat posted. Neither side has clean hands in this debate. Also, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, if we did a better job of enforcing anti-trust laws, NN would probably be a moot point.
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RE: Here's our chance: Ask Discourse Why Jeff Broke Bad
Another legitimate objection (that we've already mentioned in another thread here):
From time to time I search stackoverflow for easy answers and I would say about 20% of the time the question has been closed even though it is the reason I went to stackoverflow in the first place. In most of these instances a useful answer was also provided before closure. So my question to you is simply what gives.
The most common reason for closure I run into is that the people closing it don't have any domain clue what is being asked and appear to assume if they don't understand nobody else does either.
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RE: What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?
@flabdablet said in What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?:
Microsoft cares about you.
Microsoft wants to be near you.
Microsoft likes to watch you while you're sleeping.