@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Maybe they should have used Other River instead of Main River.
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Maybe they should have used Other River instead of Main River.
@Bulb said in How to find "common" types of exceptions in C#?:
@Zecc said in How to find "common" types of exceptions in C#?:
On the third hand
Where did you get a third hand? I'm still stuck with two.
@Tsaukpaetra said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
I consume all the cookies! Except the ones that cost money.
Funny, with me it's the other way around...
@Zecc I'm willing to let it slide provided we never return to the matter again...
(Incidentally, I don't believe the attorney's life or well-being was at any point threatened in any way.)
On a related note, a friend who works at a hospital told me of one time he was wheeling a patient to MRI and - having already learned not to trust the medical staff when it came to this stuff - started chatting with him on the way, and when he learned the patient rode motorcycles, casually asked about whether he had ever had an accident ("Of course!") and whether he might have had any implants ("Why yes! There's this, that, and the other.")
One can only imagine the amount of that would have been involved if he hadn't asked.
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Click through and read the whole thread.
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.Let this be a lesson boys and girls: Think ahead before you insert something in a bodily orifice. Don't be part of the long queue in first aid of people who fell on their shampoo bottle.
Nothing ends up in your anus by accident.
@jinpa said in The Official 2022 Death Pool:
@boomzilla "Mehran had lived off the money he received for selling his story to Spielberg, spending the past few years in homeless shelters in Paris, before returning to his bench in terminal 2F several weeks ago. He was allegedly found with a couple of thousand euros in his pocket."
My new retirement plan. See you at de Gaulle.
@GOG For an additional fee, we will reverse the polarity.
@DogsB To be fair, DRY is - in my experience - a good practice that helps ensure that shared functionality is maintained throughout changes for all users. Whether you implement it through a library, service, or whatever, it's nice to know you're unlikely to run into "we changed things to match the new requirements everywhere except this one seldom-used bit of functionality that everyone forgot about".
The biggest problem is that you need someone who understands how the entire architecture works, and how it may be used, at all times (and while you're at it, have this one person/group be responsible for the inevitable changes to same).
In practice, there's a good chance that the, also inevitable, personal changes will result in understanding of the plumbing being lost, to the point where nobody's willing to touch the thing, lest something important breaks. Safer to just write your own, ad hoc thing, that you're sure will do what you need it to, and won't affect anything else.
I'm wondering how that would work on TDWTF with the massive offtopic fetish we have here...
I'm guessing:
five posts of game
thirty off-topic posts
200-post flame war
everyone loses interest
NECRO!
five posts of game
Rinse, repeat.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Nope:
@Polygeekery Looks like a facehugger?
I wonder if it's the variant that's a dicksucker?
Well, you would.
I think just ignoring climate change is a worse idea
Do bear one thing in mind: climate is something we don't understand very well at the moment - much less well, in fact, than the energy requirements of maintaining (let alone growing) humanity at present levels.
Caution is advised, because we know that rapidly scaling back energy production/consumption will be a disaster - regardless of what the climate is doing.
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
I'm not sure a cat would stay on a buzzing cell phone.
Mine would, and he's a bit bigger so when he sleeps on my phone I can't see it.
Hey, call me, I can't find my phone.
Sure, just a sec...
rings
Story told to me by my drummer:
A while back he was on a weekend outing with a bunch of friends, staying at some sort of agrotourist spot or other; basically, to get out of the city and get wasted out in the countryside, as one does.
At some point his friend realised he couldn't find his phone, so they did the thing you do in these cases: tried calling it. Turns out, they ended up calling the local goat. The goat didn't answer the phone.
When he was leaving, his friend was still waiting for the phone to work its way through the goat, in the hope of getting the SIM card back, at least.
@PleegWat Turns out getting to the moon is even harder than we anticipated.
@topspin said in I, ChatGPT:
I'm torn. On the one hand, I want to say "Yes, please don't bother learning to code. I like the market to work in my favour." On the other hand, I'm not gonna want to do this forever.
@HardwareGeek Already sorted:
@GOG said in I, ChatGPT:
Hmm, I guess it's time to turn humanity and the entire Earth into paperclips...
...
@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zerosquare You forgot where we are. On TD, only two opinions are possible:
TRUE
: X is the best thing in the world and anyone who disagrees is a moronFALSE
: X is an abomination that should DIAF and anyone who disagrees is a moronFILE_NOT_FOUND
: can't be bothered about X and everybody is a moron anyway.
Proposed optimization:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
a boolean type (as opposed to boolean-typed) column from the program's database (SQL Server)
Are you sure it's not Oracle?
Because with Oracle, there is no boolean...
Pretty sure, given that I had to actually peek the database schema/data on the server to find out what's what. Documentation? Wassat?
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
So, I'm guessing the char(1) takes 'T' or 'F'?
It does take
F
, though you may not have encountered it.
It stands forFILE_NOT_FOUND
.
The depressing thing is that this is not altogether impossible in this case...
@cvi The neighbours seem pretty chill, though.
@loopback0 Would've also worked in any of the "Things that remind you..." threads.
@Carnage Please don't remind me. The simulation hypothesis is a stark reminder that it takes truly smart people to talk themselves into believing really dumb shit.
@DogsB I, on the other hand, love it, and would very much like for it to take my job.
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Possibly, he wants to walk with her along the way of God's mercy and tenderness? (I shall, for sanity's sake, assume the tenderness herein referenced is also God's.)
I'm pretty sure there's a Jesus quote that supports holy men going to mingle with loose women. Something involving the healthy not needing physicians, as I recall.
@loopback0 said in Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon:
@abarker said in Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon:
Make room on the bandwagon!
It's an infinite bandwagon!
Unfortunately, this also means it's full, so you're out of luck @abarker
Although... hey, everyone, move a seat back.
@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Chipotle has parking spaces reserved for @Karla:
For some reason, I always parse "it's the least we can do" as "it's the least we can do and can't be bothered to do anything more".
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
I keep reading that as "TV debut of White Power", and wondering what I missed over the holidays.
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
People with synesthesia claim to see numbers as colors, and they claim that the specific associations of each number with a particular color are inherent and natural. If this is true, everyone with the condition should associate each number with the same color.
Wife has synesthesia, and - to the best of my knowledge - doesn't have anything in the way of number-colour association.
She can totally tell you what a word tastes like, though.
Also:
The worst thing about talking to other synesthetes is that they've got the associations all wrong.
@Dragoon Honestly, it's not like the situation I outlined for Poland is how it always works in practice. Leaving aside the issue of unpaid overtime that mentioned, a lot of people prefer to take time in lieu as opposed to being paid overtime, for example. Specifics depend on the company.
That said, don't take me to seriously, this is TDWTF. Where would we be if we didn't make fun of the Foreign Barbarians?
@Gustav IOW, when doing frontend you're always in the deep arse?
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin *awkwardly glances at all the energy drink cans
Strive instead for the Ballmer Peak.
@Gustav said in I, ChatGPT:
Second AI to detect abusive prompts and block it.
Halting problem says "Hi!"
@MrL said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@lolwhat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Hmm.
The comment section... oh my.
A chilling reminder that reversed stupidity isn't intelligence, no matter how many times you reverse it.
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Eliminating humans from roadways makes self-driving 100x easier.
You means cars with nobody inside? I agree, it's definitely safer.
On the other hand, your use of the tram car emoji reminds me of the time a tram took off by itself from the service yard and drove quite a distance through the city before it finally failed to make a turn and crashed into a flower booth (luckily, this happened early in the morning, so nobody was hurt).
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
And now here I am, wondering whether this is, in fact, not only sane, but even rather clever...
Hey, Kids! Do you know what time it is? It's War Story Time!
The discussion over yonder reminded me of the time I bought The Silmarillion. So pull up a chair, grab a cuppa, and listen.
Must've been 1991, or so, when I saw on the telly that there was a new edition of The Silmarillion coming out in Poland. The previous one came out in the Seventies and was long out of print, so you can see why I was excited.
The year 1991 was a strange one in Poland, what with Communism just recently collapsed and the nation desperately scrabbling to eke out some manner of existence whilst doing a speed run of the Stages of Capitalism, in order to catch up with the West. The economy was shit, inflation was rampant, the old social order had broken down, with the new yet to be established. Fun times!
In the prevailing climate, expecting to simply trot down to the local book store and pick up a copy was wildly optimistic. However, living in Warsaw and being an enterprising young lad, I had the brilliant thought: the publisher has a company book store at their headquarters. I'll simply buy direct from them.
Turned out the book store was actually a stand in the company cafeteria; open to the public, but during office hours only. Arriving after school, I found the doors shut for the day.
As fate would have it, shortly after my first failed attempt to procure the work, school let out early, so I got straight on the bus and headed into town. This time, I managed to get in and secure the coveted book.
Having got my hands on it, I did what any avid reader would do in the situation: I started reading it immediately, deciding to take a leisurely stroll back towards home along a slightly different path than the one I arrived by.
It will be important to note, at this point, that the publisher was located on ul. Wiejska, which is also the location of our national circusParliament. My chosen route back would lead right past the legislative assembly.
Fully engrossed in my reading, I didn't realize I'd walked straight into a major protest taking place in front of it until I was right smack in the centre. Can't remember what was being protested - there were so many things in those days - but it could be described as peaceful only with some effort. Naturally, getting the hell out of there became my first priority.
Needless to say, subsequent ventures into the general vicinity of Parliament were preceded by a scan of the papers to see if protests were expected.
@Zerosquare Not disputing that. However, we shouldn't pretend it didn't happen, and we should definitely be looking very carefully at whether we didn't introduce a completely different vulnerability in the process (not to mention checking whether our patch actually solves the problem to a meaningful extent).
I'm not convinced that the current climate of "the vaccines are 100% safe and effective and anyone who questions it is a dirty, science-denying anti-vaxxer" helps us with the latter bit.
@Zecc said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@HardwareGeek said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
Is it the same image though?
@Gustav said in Tinder is shit:
But what gave it away as a scam is asking for banking info.
No. What gave it away as a scam is that she wants to pay someone else via you.
Words to live by: do not handle other people's financial transactions unless your first name is Western and your last name is Union.
@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Carnage It includes even more than that. A bit shoddy reporting by the BBC it seems - the WHO news item and data presentation actually mentions this explicitly:
Excess mortality includes deaths associated with COVID-19 directly (due to the disease) or indirectly (due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society) [...]
That's a fine pair of brass balls on the the WHO.
"Indirect excess mortality" is nothing else than a polite way of saying "people died because everyone lost their collective shit over Covid and implemented a bunch of ultimately useless, but otherwise quite harmful 'interventions', with the WHO cheering them on".
The two should absolutely not be conflated. The "indirect" death toll, per these numbers is twice the "direct" death toll. This strongly suggests the "cure" was worse than the disease.
There was nothing inevitable about the pandemic response, the governments (and in many cases, large portions of societies - including members of this very forum) chose to disregard the entirety of pre-2020 pandemic experience, knowledge, and planning. We're only now starting to fully apprehend just how utterly insane that was - mostly because it's only now becoming permissible to actually talk about it.
@DogsB said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
To what extent is "socioeconomically disadvantaged" a polite term for "non-European" in Ireland?
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb I blame [...] humanity in general.
Always a wise move.
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Given the way stocks are priced these days, they’re basically Diet Crypto, right?
@loopback0 said in Fun with maps:
@dkf Also not an enclave but here's Saltney, which has the border running down the middle of the aptly named Boundary Lane.
The COVID-19 restrictions are different depending on which side of the street people live. The Wales (Flintshire) side is under "local lockdown" and the England (Cheshire) side is not.
Well, now we finally know why the chicken crossed the road.