🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@TimeBandit said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I wonder if I can host a production Discourse instance in a Docker container
in a virtual machineon thistabletreally beefy server?FTFY
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A high school teacher gives 23 kids a glucose test for a diabetes awareness event. Using the same needle.
Oops.
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@mott555 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I thought he was wearing a vest. Turns out it was just his flab. :O
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@mott555
Did they get permission from Nintendo to use the Mario character?
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@anonymous234 ... did ... that really just bounce straight back and hit square in the center of his bow?
He wasn't even trying to use the bow to block it, just really damn lucky...
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@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 ... did ... that really just bounce straight back and hit square in the center of his bow?
He wasn't even trying to use the bow to block it, just really damn lucky...
Damn. I'd go out and buy a lottery ticket real quick!
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@anotherusername The arrow rotated 90 degrees and was traveling sideways by the time it hit the bow.
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@MZH hmm, it looks like you're partially right... it seems to hit the bow a few inches in front of the arrow's feathers. It's not totally sideways, but it's not straight either.
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@anonymous234 He has good reflexes. Jack Burton reflexes.
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@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I'd go out and buy a lottery ticket real quick!
Why? That nugget of luck is used up now.
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@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Why? That nugget of luck is used up now.
Ah, the age-old debate between tabletop gamers about dice: you have a pool of dice from which you need to pick up a few for a roll. You roll all of them a few times beforehand.
Do you then pick the ones that consistently did a good result ("these are the lucky dice!"), or the ones that didn't ("the other ones have already used up their luck, better discard them!")?
(and then as bonus points, try to figure out who's being serious in their argument...)
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@remi can you be absolutely certain that all of the dice are perfectly fair dice, though?
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@remi said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Do you then pick the ones that consistently did a good result ("these are the lucky dice!"), or the ones that didn't ("the other ones have already used up their luck, better discard them!")?
Both forms of the Gambler's Fallacy
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@anotherusername Well, that's obviously one reason why you need to roll them a lot of time beforehand.
But if one is consistently better than the other, is it a lucky dice, is it an unfair dice or did you not roll it enough? And is there a difference between all of these "explanations"? Discuss.
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@remi They're dice: just pick some and roll them
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@remi said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
But if one is consistently better than the other, is it a lucky dice, is it an unfair dice or did you not roll it enough? And is there a difference between all of these "explanations"? Discuss.
Better safe than sorry, right?
At the very least, "this dice has been unlucky, so its luck is about to change" is definitely unfounded -- unless it's a really tricky weighted dice where you have to warm it up or something before it gets "lucky" (but if they're clear resin dice, or if someone x-rays the dice, that sort of trickery would probably get caught; and anyway, if you don't know the trick, you're probably unlikely to make it "lucky" on accident -- that'd defeat their whole purpose). But "this dice has been lucky, so it's probably going to continue being lucky" could actually have a very tiny bit of truth...
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@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
At the very least, "this dice has been unlucky, so its luck is about to change" is definitely unfounded
Come on, that's basic statistics! Anyone knows that a fair dice will give each number with the same frequency so if one number hasn't come out for some time it is bound to come out now!
:trollface, of course
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@remi said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anotherusername Well, that's obviously one reason why you need to roll them a lot of time beforehand.
But if one is consistently better than the other, is it a lucky dice, is it an unfair dice or did you not roll it enough? And is there a difference between all of these "explanations"? Discuss.
Observations are predicting that the dice are unfair. Depending on the number of times we've rolled them and the discrepancies in the results we will be more or less certain of that prediction. We might closely examine dice to see if there were any obvious physical signs such as rounded faces, imperfect corners, odd centers of gravity or incorrect numbers printed on the sides.
Barring anything obvious, my uncertainty would be very high unless the discrepancies were pretty large.
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@ben_lubar said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
This video game:
FYI: Watched the entire LP. Mother-krunking buddah-poo, am I glad I never actually got around to playing that game. :/
Also, FUN FACT! If I
DiscoNoSearch for "Omikron", I do not get this thread.If I Gaggle Search for "Omikron site:what.thedailywtf.com", I get this thread.
Because onebox!
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@Lorne-Kates Not surprising, but I'm a bit confused by TFA:
China's once-celebrated Traffic Elevated Bus (TEB) has been left abandoned in the middle of a Hebei city road ... forgotten in a rusted garage, covered in dust.
The article seems to be self-contradictory. Is the bus in the middle of a road causing traffic jams, or forgotten in a garage, which one? Even if the shed, which appears to be over the road in the photo, is the "rusted garage," it could hardly be "forgotten" if it's causing as much of a traffic blockage as stated in the other part of the article.
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@HardwareGeek As I understand it, it's in the way of traffic, but the bureaucracy has forgotten.
We're talking about a country where an 8-lane road narrows to a 4-lane road for 100m because an adjacent apartment complex was accidentally built out for a block too many and already had residents.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"rusted garage,"
How rusty can it be after less then half a year? They should have used rusteze .
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@Luhmann said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"rusted garage,"
How rusty can it be after less then half a year? They should have used rusteze .
Report as Spam for advertising Rusteze!
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@ScholRLEA said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Luhmann said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"rusted garage,"
How rusty can it be after less then half a year? They should have used rusteze .
Report as Spam for advertising Rusteze!
Kachow!
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Bad Idea: Hosting plugins for server software that is almost exclusively run from headless console-only Linux VMs, on a website with a fruity JavaScript delayed-download DDOS protection thingy that makes it impossible to download the plugins via
wget
.Bad Idea Supplemental: Expirebox.com. I downloaded the plugin on a normal workstation via a normal browser and uploaded it to expirebox. If I follow the download link in my browser, I get the original plugin file. If I
wget
the exact same download link on the headless server, I get an HTML page instead. An HTML page with the file extension.jar
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Bad Idea: pretzels made with non-GMO gluten-free low-fat salt
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@Lorne-Kates said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Boner said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
What could possibly go wrong?
<meta name="twitter:title" content="China\'s futuristic \'straddling bus\' now sits abandoned, gathering dust and blocking traffic">
WHY WOULD YOU
addslashes
AN HTML ATTRIBUTE VALUE
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<!DOCTYPE html>
okay, so it's HTML5?
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
wait, no, it's XHTML
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
HTML but not 5? (This tag would be
<meta charset="utf-8">
in HTML5)<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, shrink-to-fit=no"> <!-- <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> --> <!-- looks right but scroll broken --> <!-- <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" > --> <!-- scroll works but too wide --> <!-- <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0"> --> <!-- scroll works, but too wide -->
what is source control
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@ben_lubar said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad Idea: pretzels made with non-GMO gluten-free low-fat salt
Good luck finding salt that is not fat-free, gluten-free and non-GMO.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ben_lubar said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad Idea: pretzels made with non-GMO gluten-free low-fat salt
Good luck finding salt that is not fat-free, gluten-free and non-GMO.
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@Boner I would have guessed, "Because Japan," but it's actually from City University London. I'm not quite sure what that says about Englishmen.
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Researchers from the Imagineering Lab
'Nuff sed.
So far, the team has created a functioning iOS prototype that plugs into a device’s headphone jack.
See Apple? People still use it for things!
But okay still, maybe one day the Kissenger will let you kiss your lover
Sweet!
or your mom
On the lips?
or even your favorite celebrity
Because that's not creepy at all.
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@ben_lubar said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad Idea: pretzels made with non-GMO gluten-free low-fat salt
So.... regular ones?
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@RaceProUK said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
So far, the team has created a functioning iOS prototype [of the Kissenger] that plugs into a device’s headphone jack.
This seems like reason alone to remove the headphone jack from all phones.
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@PJH said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ScholRLEA said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Also:
And while we're at it - this one too:
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@PJH said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ScholRLEA said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Also:
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@PleegWat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PJH said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ScholRLEA said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Also:
Yeah - Tesco used to do something similar:
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TBH it's kinda fucking annoying. It makes it hard to see what you're looking for.
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@anotherusername it's written on every package... Here is the 70's version from Sweden:
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@Mikael_Svahnberg That one labelled 'Kaviar'… that's actually toothpaste, isn't it? Or tomato purée. Something like that, anyway.
And do I see 'Kok-Kafee' at the back?
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@RaceProUK said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Mikael_Svahnberg That one labelled 'Kaviar'… that's actually toothpaste, isn't it? Or tomato purée. Something like that, anyway.
And do I see 'Kok-Kafee' at the back?
Kaviar is something which the EU forbade us calling caviar. Don't know what the 4:25 is about. I guess if you look it up in the Book Of Caviar, the quote is probably "squeeze and ye shalt receive", or "unto a firm hand it shalt be given", or possibly "woe to he who squeezeth from the middle. Bountiful shalt be the reward if thou starteth from the narrow end. Also the consumption date is printed at the seam."
Toothpaste is the one on the left labelled "tandkräm". This was before international brands discovered Sweden and everyone used either this or something made with soot and stale urine.
Yes, you see "kok-kaffe". At the risk of whooshing, what do you read into that? (I know what kok means in icelandic, but I didn't know you did)
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I know what kok means in icelandic, but I didn't know you did
I have no idea what it means, I was just going for points. If I had to guess though, it'd be something totally innocent, and describe what type of coffee it is.
Assuming of course it's coffee.
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@RaceProUK said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Assuming of course it's coffee.
Coffee, probably coarse ground for use in percolators or by directly putting it into a coffee kettle. (Filter coffee tends to be finer ground, especially if you're using paper filters.)