@Zerosquare said in When the reviewer doesn't understand my Javascript it's his fault:
the JS community seems to encourage this behaviour.
Arguably the JS community is based on this behavior, starting from the language itself.
There's a tracer word in this paragraph that I will use to identify you as a person who has read it. No, no that one.
No, not that one either.
Post EULA: Posts are free to view, read, copy, and store in digital or physical retrieval systems. No warranty is made as to the immediate or topical relevance or comprehensibility of posts for any given reader. Understanding any one post requires an expense of 1Q or one point of IQ/sanity, payable unavoidably.
At their sole option, posts may consist of identical content produced by a non-sentient universal stimulus-response engine.
Gribnit is brought to you by the letter Gribnit and the number Gribnit.
I disclaim this message.
Too late now - you are infected.
And whatever you do, don't throw me into that briar patch.
@Zerosquare said in When the reviewer doesn't understand my Javascript it's his fault:
the JS community seems to encourage this behaviour.
Arguably the JS community is based on this behavior, starting from the language itself.
@Cursorkeys did I ever tell you about the guy named Grant that couldn't register?
@topspin said in I hate vBulletin and all the idiots who run their forums:
@pie_flavor said in I hate vBulletin and all the idiots who run their forums:
@Polygeekery Just do what I do and never drink coffee at all. It really helps with your interpersonal skills.
I never drink coffee and it doesn't seem to help.
No amount of coffee I drink or do not drink has had any measurable effect on @Polygeekery 's interpersonal skills.
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Appears to be a case of not meeting the minimum supported hardware requirements.
@PleegWat said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@boomzilla said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
The subscript, however, is misleading. Acute angles are less than 90°.
That's right.
@anonymous234 said in The Revival of Great SQL Ideas:
I always found SQL to be a bit cargo cultist. I know relational databases are based on specific mathematical principles, but that doesn't mean we always have to do everything the exact same way.
For example, in nearly every computer language in the world that supports data objects, you can declare something like
type Person{ int age; string name; list<string> favoriteColors; }
But in SQL, as we all know, you have to put the favoriteColors list in its own table and link it back to Person. Why? because some guy said so 47 years ago?. It's not just the same data, it's fundamentally the same data type represented in different ways. What exactly does not allowing me to write it that way offer to the developer or maintainer of a small website?
Nothing, as long as they want to remain small and not do things like, perhaps, look at the favoriteColors of more than one person at a time, for instance to see who-all likes "blue".
Sometimes there is a right way to do a thing - said right way does not constitute a cargo cult until the understanding is lost. 2 + 2 = 4
isn't a cargo cult.
@Carnage said in Go stand behind him:
@Andrew-Scott Yeah, I've worked at places where people and teams have been given secret offices hidden away from everyone else just to let them get some of their work done free from interrupts. Seems like a better solution really.
Wait, so some sort of a building full of like, walled spaces with doors? How would you get the noise level high enough?
@boomzilla My gosh, a shaped lump of matter can interact with radio waves. Secrets of the ancients. I hear it also affects the flow of air and sound.
@Polygeekery said in What users say versus what they mean:
@Gribnit said in What users say versus what they mean:
@Cursorkeys did I ever tell you about the guy named Grant that couldn't register?
I don't think you have, and this may be the only time I ever tell you this, but please tell us more.
So this one guy could not register for yon tradeshow. Everything about his registration was normal except that his name was Grant. I was the happy person to realize that this was the problem, and that someone had done basically the exact same boneheaded approach to defending the SQLs, stripping keywords. And thus began the great Fixing Allll The Queries project because, it was about that time we realized we were getting SQL injected anyway.
I appreciate the effort chasing the power efficiency rabbit, as it increases the chance of the supplicant actually buying one of these abominations. The missed argument is cost-efficiency over time. This thing will have an order of magnitude shorter working lifespan, aggravated if you ever turn it off and on again. Also you'd need to jailbreak it in order to avoid the vendor cut. Like I said, buy three, but only because your credulity calls out for it.
@BernieTheBernie said in CodeSOD collection:
And by the way, a "normal" .config file of a .Net application has a connection string section for holding encrypted values...
Yeah, MS is generally piss-poor at security.
@boomzilla if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Also though, if you rely on self-reporting, you can't measure it.
@error said in It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account:
ultimately landing you in a random post nearby.
On mobile, nearby post lands you.
@Luhmann said in It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account:
other methods might help though? 🤔
So far, we've done chapters, folios, scrolls, tablets, excerpts, inclusions, quotations, transclusions, indices, errata, commentary, critique, deconstructionism, binary search, dictionary search, and cat entrails.
Note that scrolls are already in there. They were a pain in the ass...
also, whatever the hell SSDS is. Except no-one has actually done that.
@Carnage said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
@Rhywden said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
@Carnage said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
@Rhywden said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
@Carnage said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
@dangeRuss said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
@topspin said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
Eh, it’s not that crazy.
IF you use resistive electrical heating, then obviously you’re just wasting electricity to create heat. Electricity you might as well use for something before it gets converted to heat. In other settings, using waste heat of data centers for district heating is quite sensible.The problems are of course: that only makes sense if you have a need / use for that, e.g. a data center, in the first place. If you just need heating, heat pumps are much more energy efficient than resistive heating, and much cheaper than high performance computer chips.
And, of course, using it to mine shitcoins is stupid because shitcoins themselves are stupid, worthless crap.Heat pumps might be more efficient, but absent that this thing is exactly as efficient as a space heater. And it mines bitcoin to boot.
Given that it is doing work other than heating, it can't be as effective as a space heater at generating heat, since the only thing resistive space heaters do is turn electricity into heat.
Well, for that to be true, a CPU would need to convert the electric energy into something else besides heat. Maybe if you discard radio waves as "usable" heat?
Information is not free, it requires energy. Shitcoins, for all their uselessness, is still information being generated.
I'm not aware that "information" is a form of energy.
What is not a form of energy?
Your mom.
@dkf once the futility has grown incomprehensible, this is the best course, and perfectly safe.
@dangeRuss said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
@Zenith said in When I proposed this a few years ago you guys called me crazy:
At this point in the cycle, though, is this going to generate more than $1 or $2 per year?
Claims it can generate about $600 in 6 months running 24/7 based on the current bitcoin price
Buy three.