@Zerosquare said in The Off By One Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall almost said:
You know kids, those things that should be unique, right? Well, in this case they weren't.
This isn't "The Off By One - Out of Context Thread"
What is the context?
@Zerosquare said in The Off By One Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall almost said:
You know kids, those things that should be unique, right? Well, in this case they weren't.
This isn't "The Off By One - Out of Context Thread"
What is the context?
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Bulb nobody seems to know for sure whether my great?-grandfather was White Russian or Black Russian. Hadn't thought 'til your post that this uncertainty may indicate for Red vs either.
It may just be that I've never fully understood the concepts, but I don't know whether I'm White Irish or Black Irish. My father's plumbers' union back in the unenlightened 1960s once had a form for him with a space to report his race, and he wrote "Irish". When they were reviewing a big stack of forms at the union hall, one of them held up the paper and asked "is that Black Irish or White Irish"?
Dad shouted out "it's green Irish!"
In the demographics our system collects, those would all be Black ofor White race.
And choose ethnicity separately, LatinX or Not LatinX.
Same thing as Hispanics. They are 1 or more races and LatinX.
Most Hispanics I know, would consider that their race.
The genetics works out really funny with my big kids.
Dad's Dad: white with a pinch of a lot of other things
Dad's Mom: white Hispanic (Puerto Rican )
Dad: White Hispanic
Mom's Dad: black Hispanic (Dominican)
Mom's Mom: black Hispanic (Dominican)
Mom: Black Hispanic
The girls: White Hispanic
The boys: They fall somewhere between Black and White Hispanic.
My 8 yo doesn't have have any Black or Dominican blood but her life is surrounded by both Blacks and Dominicans that love her.
My husband's ancestry included (mostly European, Taino-Native, and some African).
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm convinced this didn't happen. I haven't had to change any clocks.
As a kid, I couldn't understand why no one ever forgot. I was always hoping that some place would forget.
How did they all know?
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We have a clock in the LR that switched a day early.
It was driving my husband crazy. He asked why it wasn't bothering me, I can't see the clock from my spot on the couch.
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
take over most of the U.S. East Coast
... and nothing of value was lost.
Says they eat mosquitoes and stink bugs. I could get behind that.
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Paper: https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phen.12385
That might convince my husband to move westward.
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
This type of hantavirus is less severe than the one that usually spreads in the Americas.
I mean, I know DC is out there but I was pretty sure it was still in North America.
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Bedtime is a myth in our house too. She does need to change out of obvious pjs, but often we let her sleep in street clothes, so no changing required.
We do bathtime just before bed, so PJs are a given overnight. (Yes, even though she's of an age that she doesn't really need a bath daily, it's now part of the bedtime routine.) But then, my daughter doesn't really seem to care about what she wears, aside from having a preference for PJs over all else. If you do the "this shirt or that shirt?" bit with her, she just ignores you.
I think the preference for pjs is pretty universal.
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Yesterday, my 2.5yo took his milk glass from the dinner table and started to walk around. We'd told him often enough to not walk and drink. But but he still does it.
He managed to drop the glass, spilling milk all over the floor. And then he took another step forward and slipped. Fell straight on his back, in the middle of the puddle of milk.
I giggled until I was almost done mopping up the milk. My wife had to ask me to stop. I blame sleep deprivation.
They mostly bounce at that age.
But I still struggle holding in my reflexive sharp inhale to wait to see how the kid reacts.
Now, I'm usually far enough away that it goes unnoticed.
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I would like everyone to know that I am a complete sucker.
Yesterday, around 3, I realized that I had just enough time to take my daughter to a trampoline park. She was in pajamas, so I asked her about getting clothes on, getting in the car, and going to "big trampoline." She refused; changing out of pajamas was a non-starter. After a little chasing, where my daughter demonstrated she really didn't want to change out of her pajamas, I gave it up. I know she'd enjoy the trampolines, but if she doesn't want to go, I'm not about to make her.
About an hour later, she said "big trampoline." I told her no, because now there wasn't enough time to get home in time for bed. (Side note: she's autistic, and she's not huge on words, so I often give in to her requests to encourage more words. But we're also preparing for daylight savings next week, and I didn't want to have her staying up later just before we move bedtime much earlier.)
And half an hour after that, just as I was leaving to shop for groceries, she insisted on getting dressed so we could go out. So just as I'm getting in the car, my wife opened the front door to let a dressed, crying daughter out to come with me.
So I went to the trampoline park with her. Apparently, "bedtime" is going to be one of those myths she tells her children.
Bedtime is a myth in our house too. She does need to change out of obvious pjs, but often we let her sleep in street clothes, so no changing required.
@Benjamin-Hall said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I want miniature fainting goats if we ever get the land.
I know they come in miniature version and fainting version but I do not know if they come in miniature fainting.
My daughter's school is obviously promoting Women's History Month. They get to dress up as their favorite "Wonder Woman" for this month's Spirit Day.
We've repurposed her Wonder Woman costume a few years and she was Sally Ride one time. Mostly we try to encourage something that we have things to dress her as.
She wants to dress up as me.
We did try to discourage her.
So, how does she dress up as me?
Looking through my swag T-shirts, we found the perfect one from jfrog.
The front has an image of a frog dressed up as Wonder Woman with the text, "Save the binaries, save the world."
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
how is this in anyway child abuse or neglect?
It's not, obviously, and it doesn't seem realistic that social services would do anything. But stupid busybodies are stupid.
I think it is is ugly
Very. But apparently it's intentional; she's rebelling against conventional beauty standards.
I don't think it matters that it is intentional. Her baby doesn't care.
I've had experience in foster homes and group homes. In my opinion all edge cases should default to the legal parents.
This isn't even close to an edge case.
@Boner said in In other news today...:
FFS, how is this in anyway child abuse or neglect?
I think it is is ugly and takes away from her face
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.I've been partial to a moat.
If you move to Florida, you can have a moat with crocodiles.
Hubby doesn't want to go Florida. I have looked into electric eels.
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I hate unnecessary repetition.
I was going to make a post saying this, repeatedly; but since you hate jokes that have been done, I won't.
I do wonder what you're doing on the internet and in this forum in particular then.
Agreeing with me is fine.
More accurately, I hate jokes that we all knew when we were kids so we've heard them over and over again.
And having been married for almost 22 years..when my husband says the same joke or story for the 500th time...
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.Does anybody build houses with secret passages any more like the ones in old horror movies?
I've seen a youtuber take tiktoks where they do. But most were extremely wealthy people.
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And perhaps a yard where I can build a bunker in secret.
Have you been studying Colin's videos?
I've been planning to build one way longer than that. The last house i lived in the bunker plan was vetoed by my girlfriend at the time.
So hopefully my current girlfriend won't veto the bunker in the next house.
I've been partial to a moat.
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The pacing of movies has definitely accelerated over the last 30 years; anyone who's grown up on the more modern stuff will find older things sluggish.
Also: Star Wars Original Trilogy hasn't aged as well as I wish it did. It's still fantastic, but I have to admit that a goodly part of it is the nostalgia filter.
I think that's one of the reasons I don't have the patience to re-watch them. I'm referencing my post the funny thread where I said I hate unnecessary repetition.
I can probably re-watch some 80s movies again IF I hadn't seen them since the 80s or early 90s.
@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Toddler did some drawing in my computer screen, with a red colored pencil. It was unexpectedly easy to clean with a wet towel
Had that happen. Baby wipes work too.
Well, yeah, but baby wipes work for everything: ink, dust, crap, dry snot, marines, firearms.... I even hear that you can clean a baby's bottom after a poo with them!
Almost as good as WD-40 and duct tape.
Just don't apply the duct tape to the backside.
Instructions unclear: Applied WD-40 to all sides.
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@HardwareGeek I remember that I was scheduled to officiate at a karate tournament on the 14th but that got canceled. And then over the weekend the schools shut down. And things kind of gradually shut down more over the next few weeks but it all really started at the end of that week.
My daughter had a dentist appointment Friday of that week (pediatic dentist only available on Fridays). We tried to move it up, but two weeks before she would miss a field trip. So me moved up one week which I was thinking what's the point of one week.
This time that one week make a huge difference whether or not he appointment was cancelled.
When they reopened my daughter was a month or so beyond the standard 6 months.
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf and apparently US audiences thought this was a typo of “Ford Perfect”, without realising the Prefect was a model sold in the UK.
So my wife tried to get me to watch the TV show Mindhunter, which is about an FBI criminal profiler in the 1970s. Anyway, in the first episode, he gets transferred to his new office where the show takes place and about 30 people ask him, "Hey, new guy, what's your name?"
His name is Holden Ford.
Unsurprisingly, I could not get into the show.
That would drive me crazy, I hate unnecessary repetition.
When singing karaoke (of songs that I like) I often end it early because I'm bored with the repetition. When I'm listening passively it doesn't bother me.
Generally, I don't like watching a movie more than once. I think The Incredibles was one of the movies I've seen at least parts of multiple times (except the Star Wars 4-6). I have re-watched the Jurassic Park movies with my daughter.
Also annoying, people who tell me the same joke many times especially if it is a common one.
@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL about Juhyo:
It's not unique to that place though, Finland for example has it as well:
A phenomenon similar to juhyo is observed in Finland at the Riisitunturi National Park. The Finnish call it “tykky”.
Cool.
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Toddler did some drawing in my computer screen, with a red colored pencil. It was unexpectedly easy to clean with a wet towel
Had that happen. Baby wipes work too.
Well, yeah, but baby wipes work for everything: ink, dust, crap, dry snot, marines, firearms.... I even hear that you can clean a baby's bottom after a poo with them!
Almost as good as WD-40 and duct tape.
@dkf said in Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date):
@Karla said in Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date):
Our VPN kicks off at 9ish hours. It is definitely more than 8 and less than 12.
Ours kicks us off twice a day, one of which is some time in the 7am-9am timeslot and the other 12 hours later. (Yes, that's only in the home service timezone, but that's not too big a problem usually.) The effect is that I can get a whole day's work in, yet can't really get started too early or carry on too late.
Fortunately I hardly ever need the VPN these days except when connecting to the production systems (because it guards ssh and I need access to our private IP address range when doing that).
It normally doesn't get in the way because my day is 8 hours (government) only when I work late.
@Polygeekery said in Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date):
@Watson said in Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date):
65535 seconds?
That points out another idiotic thing about the whole system. Why does anyone need that sort of precision level? Granularity of a minute would be way more than enough. Honestly, a dropdown menu of:
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 2 hours
- 4 hours
- 8 hours
- 12 hours
- 24 hours
- 1 week
- 1 month
Would be more than sufficient. But I would start it at one day if it were me.
Our VPN kicks off at 9ish hours. It is definitely more than 8 and less than 12.
@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Toddler did some drawing in my computer screen, with a red colored pencil. It was unexpectedly easy to clean with a wet towel
Had that happen. Baby wipes work too.
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Well, I was thinking of this:
Not the safest thing, but I'm competent at riding and am unlikely to fall.
It's not the falling that I'd be worried about. More the random car stopping right in your path so suddenly that there's no way to avoid crashing straight to the side of it. In that case, the baby will be between you and your steering bar, pressed by the side of the car.
(Cars used just as an example. Other sudden obstacles happen also. Like a moose or a deer...)
While you normally could react to the obstacle, the extra weight will lengthen your reaction time.
Also it changes your center of gravity, the front facing seat does too but not to the same extent.
I like the trailer, and we've taken both my daughter and my dog at the same time. What I don't like is how low it is for visibility.
@HardwareGeek said in The minor rants thread.:
@Applied-Mediocrity My hair is not entirely gray. At my age, it ought to be, but it's not.
While in the ER getting ready to leave, I'm sitting in the wheelchair and my husband says that my hair is so pretty with the silvery streaks (at that time, I hadn't washed it for a week and barely combed/brushed it within that time.). I don't really agree but grudgingly accepted the compliment.
I'm struggling with almost turning 50 (soon, 25 was difficult too, apparently fractions of a century stress me). So I do try to appreciate his complements and asking me to pick something off the floor in front of him, now he has to wait 6 or so weeks for me to be able to pick most things from the floor (I did get one of the grabber thingies).
But I am the epitome of middle age right now and I don't like it.
@dcon said in Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date):
@HardwareGeek said in Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date):
How does it work differently from LastPass, etc.?
It's the difference between an online service and a local file.
Yeah, I'm pretty screwed if lastpass goes down and I need a reboot. Though I can get to my email so I can "forget password" on all the sites.
I think to be safer, I should make my email log back in restart. That password isn't as complicated at my lastpass password but it is a decent password.
<tech noises> I will write something to regularly download the lastpass data into keepAss or something.
Does anyone already have something that does so?
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
So... I've been bicycling lately. And now I have a 4-month-old. Is it dumb to baby-wear while biking? I'm planning on sticking to the main roads, for what it's worth, rather than the biking trails in the wilderness out back.
I plan on getting a little baby helmet, for what it's worth. I'm not sure it's worth much, but it beats the alternative!
My husband had something like this:
And we took her through NYC traffic.
Now that she is older we have a trailer like @HardwareGeek mentioned or a tube to connect her bike to my husband's bike. In which case her pedaling does make a difference (relative to her weight) and it is so cute when she would pedal so fast to "help."
@Gąska said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Karla you should try decompilation sometime. It's fun! And with modern tools it's very easy too (for bytecode languages). IntelliJ IDEA even has a built-in Java decompiler - just open a .class file and it looks like any other source file.
I may check it out. Because I am geek, though honestly I've been intimidated by it.
Does it work in Eclipse? That is where I do my "Hello World" programming in Java?
I'd like to be in a position to help my daughter my Minecraft mods.
And she has been working with Scratch, Jr. She download this new game, Love Balls.
It is a children's game (aimed at 12+). The goal is to get the mr and the ms together by drawing lines that effect how the characters fall. Do it wrong you lose. Use too much ink to draw lines and you don't get all three stars.
She gets frustrated if she can't full stars. I try to tell her that's how you learn.
But once she got past the lower levels, I didn't know the answer (or require more effort to do so).
I to pay for the pro version of this game because the ads are too frequent and drive me crazy.
@Gąska said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I remember how one time, I found some freeware/abandonware/blogpostware program that was specifically made to fix the exact problem I was having. But it didn't work on my computer. It crashed on startup. It was a .Net program, so I could attach a debugger and see the exception. Paraphrased, "cannot convert 2,5 to float". The program was written with an assumption in mind that some Windows system statistics reporting module will always use a dot as a decimal separator. But I had Polish Windows so instead it was a comma. So I decided to fix the problem in the simplest way possible - decompile the binary, find the line with the bad conversion, fix it to use locale-dependent format, and reassemble the binary.
If I'm ever in a position to interview candidates for a senior developer position, that will be my test. Live debugging session. Here's the program, there's no source code, make it work. You can do anything you want, including googling (especially googling) - but you share your screen all the time. You have 30 minutes.
I'm sure I won't be getting that job.
@Polygeekery said in Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date):
@izzion you would get no argument from me that they are the lesser of evils when talking about users at large. If you asked me to bet on Jane from payroll inputting her password into a phishing site or a large group that we hope knows what they are doing keeping all of that safe, I would bet on the large group every time.
I use LastPass just because easier. It does 2FA and the authenticator is on a cell phone that doesn't have data. It automatically blocks mobile devices that have not been approved.
This is especially so considering that we have had users that avoided getting phished because their password manager did not prompt them to fill the password.
All my browser force a login to LastPass on startup.
And I've made the compromise of keeping my lastpass password in a draft in my email which stays logged in on startup (but does have 2FA for any new device/browser) but it is well camouflaged and you would have to know things about me. It is 28 characters long.
If someone has gotten that far...anything more is far too inconvenient.
I already hate rebooting because that means getting the password to enter into each browser and confirm on the phone.
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I generally prefer the cheaper chocolate on February 15th, but I like this one. Goes with our wedding theme.
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla what are you saying? She looks fucking metal. A pool of blood next to her, and she's just laughing!
I suppose when you own it (even if at the time you don't know what "it" is).
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bad planning, bad scheduling, bad following cycle, erratic cycle, I would feel completely humiliated in such circumstances.
Joke was still funny but I feel for that girl.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official 2022 Death Pool:
@Karla Who's Apparently Bob Proctor? Strange name.
Filed under: Commas save lives.
Not sure if teasing the title or not knowing who Bob Proctor is.
So I edited the original post and hear is an additional link for information about Proctor.
I've seen him speak when I was in my self-help stage. I liked him.
The wording of the title is very strange to me, "apparently bob proctor dead."
ETA: Referring to Bob Proctor of the self-help junkie's check-off list.
@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
All served on a cheap plastic plate.
Still better looking that whatever horrible plate you used in previous pics.
Story time!
My parents got (as a wedding present, I think) a flat rectangular cake dish, of canary-yellow ceramic with golden insets. It was hideous. But it was very convenient to put the Christmas cake, because it was the only somewhat fancy dish that my parents had of the right shape. So we used it for that -- once per year, hidden below the cake, so there never really was any pressure to get a better dish.
After some years, it became part of the tradition. We still all thought it was hideous, but we had to have the Christmas cake on it otherwise it wasn't a "proper" Christmas cake. So for... probably at least 3 decades, we used it so, joking every time that we should break it because it was so ugly and yet carefully stowing it away until next Christmas.
It all ended up this Christmas, where after being used in the traditional way, we actually managed to break it (truly accidentally, and by my mother who usually played the role of the defender of the dish, as opposed to everyone else saying it should be broken!). We weren't sure whether to be glad, or sad. But we laughed a lot. Though the wine probably helped for that as well (Sauternes... ).
And so ends the story of the ugly yellow dish.
(lame, I know)
I thought it was cute.
Accidental traditions are the best. Organic, not forced.
@Dragoon said in Turning a flat file into a PDF:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Turning a flat file into a PDF:
but I'm questioning why we're turning a flat file into PDFs in the first place.
Well, at the end of the day what we are doing (in this case) is creating a packing list that is going to be sent to a customer. As this is for a 3rd party sale (direct to customer) they want their logo/details on the form as well as a custom format for the document. So it doesn't technically have to be a pdf, but that is one of the easiest ways to make a document like that. In the end it is printed out and placed with the shipment, so the customer doesn't actually get a PDF.
This is the third time that we have run into a customer wanting a more dynamic solution than we can do with our existing system. The previous two we have used Excel and custom code to create them as needed. That would also work in this situation, but I am looking for alternatives as that solution is not ideal for a multitude of reasons.
I suppose my real question is turning a set of data into a structured document, supporting dynamic spacing of items and containg structures (grids, boxes, etc...).
Our legacy ColdFusion app made dynamic pdfs. It was html and css. It was less forgiving that a browser but most of that code is almost a decade old, I'm sure modern html and css would work without much issue.
The dev version had a watermark on the pdf.
@Luhmann said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Karla
Until you find yourself washing out the shit or vomit stains
Then it is evil if you do it to someone else's baby.
@HardwareGeek said in Advanced Trolly Logic:
@Karla said in Advanced Trolly Logic:
ones-elves
One should save the lives of all elves, not just one's own.
And that means
anyone, ones-elves and othersanyone, oneself, and others.
I think in my head I was thinking:
And that means
anyone
one
selves.
e.g. anyone's self and oneselves <with a red squiggly I chose one of the suggestions>
So spellcheck screwed me.
@HardwareGeek said in Advanced Trolly Logic:
@Karla said in Advanced Trolly Logic:
ones-elves
One should save the lives of all elves, not just one's own.
Yeah, sorry don't I know know how to say that correctly and didn't feel like looking it up because .
Please me.
@Zecc said in Advanced Trolly Logic:
So let me get this straight: it is preferable for the Jew to break the laws of their own faith than the person who doesn't follow the same faith?
If a medical emergency is known or suspected that warrants placing a phone call rather than transportation in a motor vehicle, the telephone may be used. If the situation has a lower level of urgency, the receiver shall be removed and the buttons pressed in an unusual manner (e.g., by using the elbow or the knuckles, or a pencil).
Preserving life is the most important action. And that means anyone, ones-elves and othersanyone, oneself, and others.
I think my thoughts on this would be better placed in the Garage, so let's leave it at that.
Possibly, but the law is simple, help life succeed no matter that law being broken or the background of the person they are helping.
Jews can donate organs that can save a life but ones that help a life (cornea). Jews can received an artificial heart made from pig, it is will save their life.
If the powers that be would prefer this discussion in the lounge, I have no objection.
@dcon said in Florida Man goes to...:
@JBert They should've packed that sucker in dry ice. Looks like it just relied on styrofoam.
I've stuff shipped to me with thick solid ice packs that lasted for days. It might not be cold enough for snow, but they last.
We reuse the ice packs until they are unusable. They are great for coolers.
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They'll never find me. I don't talk to real people.
Today's PSA: If there was locational data here it would have been trivially easy.
As per Pokemon Go, I get a lot of GPS drift. They would have to go through at least 4 apartment buildings and maybe more.
@Benjamin-Hall said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Could also go in the parenting thread...
Definitely not evil.