Best posts made by Keith
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
This one was doing the rounds in the office yesterday:
Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts.
However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird's beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car.
MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills.
The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause: when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger.
The scientific conclusion was that while all the lookout crows could say "Cah", none could say "Truck."
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Do I get a pedantic dickweed badge for pointing out that you've misspelled "viscount" in the badge Vicount Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Noble Order of the Garter?
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I love the thumbnail Chrome has created for this forum
That's a representative screen shot if ever I saw one.
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RE: The Sad State Of (Atwood's) Web App Deployment
Mobile website development isn't great either.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
If no one responded about you being wrong, then you'd never get any responses.Wouldn't that make you lonely?
That would be Nirvana.
Have you considered that a private text file might be a more suitable outlet for your ideas than a public forum?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Holy shit Amazon. That's quite the agenda you're pushing...
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla It's only a shame it wasn't 6.5 dozen because then you would have bought a baker's dozen of half-dozens.
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RE: ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
That moment when you realize that you started calling the plastic creeper sitting on your desk @Keith.
FTFY:
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RE: Windows 10 Upgrade to be Free as in Beer (if you don't have an MS account, come in here and @blakeyrat will give you $50)
It makes me wonder if the kernel is still NT or will it be Linux.
That's some impressive blakeybait.
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RE: Breaking news!
1000 posts to be exact (or 1024 if you include topics)
I see you've covered all bases.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!
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RE: My Adventures as an Only Developer™: Fun with third party integration.
A fly that's made of fruit? How patently absurd
If you think that's bad, you'll be really disappointed to find out what's in baby powder.
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RE: 📖 Teh Official Discopædia (Forums Dictionary)
Discobash
verbThe act of discussing the features and occasional flaws of forum software.
noun
A CLI designed for the next ten years.
Featuring:
- A white, clean and clear interface, with just four columns of distracting text.
- Autocomplete magic.
- Be amazed as your
man rm
becomesrm -rf /*
before your very eyes, right after you press enter.
- Be amazed as your
- Interesting responses.
- Your command may show a valid response, show no response or show a completely white screen seemingly at random.
- High performance.
- Any slow down is the result of poor programming in the five thousand libraries that we import and the platforms that we run on.
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Do you even know how semantic versioning works?
So the NPM semver package has just released a new patch version going from 7.3.5 to 7.3.6.
In the new release they've changed their engines definition from ">=10" to "^10.0.0 || ^12.0.0 || ^14.0.0 || >=16.0.0", explicitly removing support for the non-LTS versions of node.
Additionally they bumped their only dependency — lru-cache — from "^6.0.0" to "^7.4.0". Version 7 doesn't support node 10, so they've unintentionally removed support for that too even though they claim to support it in the engines definition.
The irony of the semver package breaking BC this badly in a patch release is just too delicious not to share.
The code change: https://github.com/npm/node-semver/compare/v7.3.5...v7.3.6#diff-7ae45ad102eab3b6d7e7896acd08c427a9b25b346470d7bc6507b6481575d519R47
Related issue: https://github.com/npm/node-semver/issues/447
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RE: Apple Watch
I've noticed a pattern. Every time I say "penis", @boomzilla likes my post.
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RE: From the TDWTF Google+ feed
OBDO:
<Pongball> Religion is like a penis. <Pongball> It's fine to have one. <Pongball> It's fine to be proud of it. <Pongball> But please don't whip it out in public and start waving it around. <Pongball> And PLEASE don't try to shove it down children's throats.
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RE: MySQL backslash escaping
Universal constants:
c
π
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RE: Couple trapped in car for 13 hours: AKA common sense WTF
Government needs to get involved here. We need public service announcements and training camps and courses. When cops stop you, they should question you if you know how to open the car's door and fine you if you don't. We did it for seat belts, and now we can save even more lives with this!
I suspect they'll settle for a law whereby all car manufacturers must attach a sticker to the door with an arrow pointing to the handle saying "<- Use handle to open door". Ideally, it should use strong adhesive that leaves horrible sticky bits on the door to encourage people not to remove it.
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RE: Bot Duel!
The script isn't very stable. It only manages one or two responses before crashing.
Sounds like it should be a Discourse core feature. I think it's ready for prime time.
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RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Brexit allows the Brexiteers to apply lower standards than the modern world.
Also this idiocy:
BBC News - Imperial measurement review to mark Jubilee
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RE: Making the best of MS Office files
I send each page as a separate PNG image. That way, people can simply open the file up in Paint and draw their changes on with the mouse. It has the same advantage as PDF, in that you basically guarantee that everyone sees the same document, but editing is much more intuitive.
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Yahtzee
So I was experimenting with Elm and I ended up making a mobile friendly version of Yahtzee:
If you've not played it before, the aim is to fill the scoreboard with the best overall score you can get. Each turn you get three rolls and you can lock and unlock dice after each roll.
You can click a score slot name for details about how each score works and bonuses. When you choose a score for the turn, a little undo button appears next to it (in case you tapped the wrong slot).
There's a link to the hub of gits in the menu.
Enjoy!
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Spoiler tags too blurry
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/[spoiler]ï[/spoiler]\##Current behaviour
Spoiler tags are too blurry to make clear that there's a clickable peen on the stickman above.
##Expected behaviour
The stickman should have a slightly blurred out peen that tempts the viewer to click it to reveal the goods.
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RE: Badge suggestions - ones with added thought
Bronze name: Touched by Shiva
Req: Got a like from @NageshSilver name: Touched by Insanity
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RE: Incoming changes
I think I may be heading for a ban on meta today. I lasted over 24 hours though, so it's not bad going.
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RE: The Creepy Ideas thread
school-girl sniff parlor
In any country other than Japan, that would be a nonsensical jumble of words.
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RE: How to exploit a developer (article)
It felt wrong liking your post. We need a way of changing the verb on a post by post basis. This one should have said:
x people were horrified by this. Be horrified too.
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RE: YADWTF (apparently an invalid title)
He said 12+, not 21+.
I don't think there's any age at which reading @algorythmics's writing become appropriate.
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RE: You know you've been at TDWTF too long when...
I just looked for the button on an email so I could express my appreciation to the person without writing a response.
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
Suggest a good picture and maybe @PJH can add it for you.
I made one using my 1337 GIMP skills:
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RE: Procurement also has it's WTF moments
I can't see why quality of product is necessary. I mean, how precise does an electron microscope have to be really?
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RE: Tracking your insanity
The bug tracker is ironically named "Agile Software Development".
Agile Software Services would provide a more appropriate acronym.