Random Question of the Day
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@dkf said in Random Question of the Day:
Doing it well requires thermometers. Inventing them is recommended.
If you drink enough alcohol, methanol poisoning is indistinguishable from other side effects...
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@remi: "On a dû arrêter la fabrication, y a des clients qui devenaient aveugles."
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@Zerosquare ... aaaaaand of course I had to go and re(re(re(...)))-watch that scene.
Thankfully everyone else in my open space has already left.
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@Zerosquare Spoiler: I never do.
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@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
@Zerosquare Spoiler: I never do.
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@Zerosquare said in Random Question of the Day:
@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
...he says, without actually upvoting.
What on Earth is a ‘vote’?
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@kazitor said in Random Question of the Day:
@Zerosquare said in Random Question of the Day:
@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
...he says, without actually upvoting.
What on Earth is a ‘vote’?
It's like a , but with a lisp.
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@topspin said in Random Question of the Day:
@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
@Zerosquare Spoiler: I never do.
*glomps all the upvote buttons!*
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What is the difference between blinking and flashing?
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@Tsaukpaetra you should always do one but absolutely never do the other.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Question of the Day:
What is the difference between blinking and flashing?
Blinking:
Flashing:
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@HardwareGeek Well I'm describing a switch's lights. Don't want to upset anyone so...
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@Tsaukpaetra Blinking (short periods in one state followed by long periods in another) are normal network activity that can be ignored. Slow flashing (equal times in both states, summing up to 0.5 sec or greater) either indicates a network administrator is trying to identify a specific port, or that something is causing the port to go offline shortly after it goes online and is constantly retrying -- dumb PoE without enough power to fully boot, for example. Fast flashing means the network is overloaded, usually because something is connected to itself or to something else twice and STP/RSTP are turned off.
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@DogsB said in Random Question of the Day:
@Zerosquare said in Random Question of the Day:
That's very context-dependent, isn't it?
I’m generally very vague because it makes it sound like I don’t know anything so I’m less likely to get more work to do.
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were you already a contractor when you wrote this?
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@Arantor said in Random Question of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Question of the Day:
which was the original point of the "For Dummies" books.
A concept I found hilarious when I found "Windows 95 Registry For Dummies" was a real book with real actual documentation in it about the Registry and its workings.
Did you remember when there was books about XML? I think sometime I saw a job post with knowledge of XML as a requirement
No wonder many things are moving away from that
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Question of the Day:
@Arantor said in Random Question of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Question of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Question of the Day:
Ripley and the Xenomorph
I haven't seen the movie, but does it actually talk? If so, I'm going to get the Harkness test going.... 😏
Cue the Doctor just warning you to stop it, Harkness saying he was just saying hello, and the Doctor suggesting that “for you, that’s flirting”.
Our mutant babies will fuck the galaxy!
You know how the xenomorphs do it, right?
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@sockpuppet7 said in Random Question of the Day:
@DogsB said in Random Question of the Day:
@Zerosquare said in Random Question of the Day:
That's very context-dependent, isn't it?
I’m generally very vague because it makes it sound like I don’t know anything so I’m less likely to get more work to do.
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.I can feel @HardwareGeek lining up a quip.
were you already a contractor when you wrote this?
Yeah I was. I wouldn't call it great advice if you're a contractor. I'm a little disappointed @HardwareGeek missed that one too.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Random Question of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Question of the Day:
@Arantor said in Random Question of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Question of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Question of the Day:
Ripley and the Xenomorph
I haven't seen the movie, but does it actually talk? If so, I'm going to get the Harkness test going.... 😏
Cue the Doctor just warning you to stop it, Harkness saying he was just saying hello, and the Doctor suggesting that “for you, that’s flirting”.
Our mutant babies will fuck the galaxy!
You know how the xenomorphs do it, right?
One iteration, sure.
🎶 Don't speak, I know what you're thinkin'. I don't need your reasons. Don't tell me 'cause it hurts! 🎶
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@TwelveBaud said in Random Question of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra Blinking (short periods in one state followed by long periods in another) are normal network activity that can be ignored. Slow flashing (equal times in both states, summing up to 0.5 sec or greater) either indicates a network administrator is trying to identify a specific port, or that something is causing the port to go offline shortly after it goes online and is constantly retrying -- dumb PoE without enough power to fully boot, for example. Fast flashing means the network is overloaded, usually because something is connected to itself or to something else twice and STP/RSTP are turned off.
So on other words, a duty cycle of 50 percent is flashing, less is blinking, and more is.... Twinkling?
I don't need an interpretation of the lights, I just need to describe it cromulentically enough to pass this ticket on.
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@Tsaukpaetra I would say "twinkling" is multiple lights flashing or blinking with random timing relative to each other. (Each individual light may or may not have a steady rate; they might even be the same rate, but the phase is random.)
I'd describe the case you asked about as blinking, but "blinking off" rather than "blinking on".
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random Question of the Day:
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
Standard must needs be created! Let's gooo! 📝
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@sockpuppet7 said in Random Question of the Day:
@Arantor said in Random Question of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Question of the Day:
which was the original point of the "For Dummies" books.
A concept I found hilarious when I found "Windows 95 Registry For Dummies" was a real book with real actual documentation in it about the Registry and its workings.
Did you remember when there was books about XML? I think sometime I saw a job post with knowledge of XML as a requirement
No wonder many things are moving away from that
I remember when AJAX genuinely meant “Asynchronous JavaScript And XML”.
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@Arantor Are you really such an old fart already ?
Oh wait, JavaScript... - could have been lastmonthweekday
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random Question of the Day:
@Arantor Are you really such an old fart already ?
Oh wait, JavaScript... - could have been lastmonthweekdayI am an old fart because I remember the XmlHttpRequest being proprietary to MS with version specific constructors and I remember fudging it with hidden iframes in IE4.
These days we use the term xhr but few people remember it wasn’t ever intended to be used with JSON.
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@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
Or maybe I'm confusing with l'École des Robinsons (uh, English title is apparently Godfrey Morgan?!?),
A common misconception, that. "Godfrey Morgan" is actually the name of the doctor who creates the monster.
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@Arantor I remember this post, in this thread:
@Cap_n_Steve said in Can't do OO in javascript. But you can do AJAX with HTML forms.:
I know. It doesn't require XML and it's not always asynchronous, so I guess it's just called Javascript.
For some reason it stuck with me.
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@Zecc said in Random Question of the Day:
@Arantor I remember this post, in this thread:
@Cap_n_Steve said in Can't do OO in javascript. But you can do AJAX with HTML forms.:
I know. It doesn't require XML and it's not always asynchronous, so I guess it's just called Javascript.
For some reason it stuck with me.
Indeed. I’ve suggested many times in the last decade it should be called AJAJ but the unforced asynchronicity and the fact that JavaScript is a superset of JSON does indeed reduce it down to just JavaScript.
Or as the hip youngsters call it, “fetch”.
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@Arantor said in Random Question of the Day:
Or as the hip youngsters call it, “fetch”.
It's great that fetch indeed happened.
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@Zecc happy Gretchen noises...
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@da-Doctah said in Random Question of the Day:
@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
Or maybe I'm confusing with l'École des Robinsons (uh, English title is apparently Godfrey Morgan?!?),
A common misconception, that. "Godfrey Morgan" is actually the name of the doctor who creates the monster.
no, that's Frankenstein, Morgan created Ultron
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Why do teenagers with dirt bikes feel the need to fiddle with the engine for hours, without going anywhere? (source: a neighbour a couple of houses down the street )
I understand having a noisy engine and going to play on dirt tracks. I understand going up and down the street if you can't go on tracks. I even understand playing tricks in your backyard if you can't go outside. I also understand tuning the engine if you've changed something.
What I don't understand is turning the engine on, let it idle for a minute or so, rev it for half a minute, let it idle again for a minute, then turn it off. And repeat every 5 minutes. For hours. Every single fucking day you're at home.
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@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
turning the engine on, let it idle for a minute or so, rev it for half a minute, let it idle again for a minute, then turn it off. And repeat every 5 minutes. For hours. Every single fucking day
I once encountered someone doing that same thing with their car.
When my wife and I first got married we were living in a large apartment building and we had a bird, a cockatiel named Roger, and Roger started making this weird noise.
After a while I realized that Roger was imitating the sound of the person revving his engine in the parking lot just outside our apartment.
Years later, long after we had moved out of the apartment, Roger still made that sound on a regular basis.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Random Question of the Day:
we had a bird, a cockatiel named Roger
Also,
Roger the cockatiel was my wife's pet, she already had him when we first met. She told me that she named him after the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
I still do not understand that, but, we've been married 36 years, so, there a lot of things I don't understand.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Random Question of the Day:
After a while I realized that Roger was imitating the sound of the person revving his engine in the parking lot just outside our apartment.
(: I know, I know,
E_WRONG_PARROT_SPECIES
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@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
I understand having a noisy engine and going to play on dirt tracks. I understand going up and down the street if you can't go on tracks. I even understand playing tricks in your backyard if you can't go outside. I also understand tuning the engine if you've changed something.
What I don't understand is a neighbour a couple of streets over who has modified their car to dump fuel into the exhaust system where it ignites.
Yes, they want their car to backfire. Frequently.
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@Watson "Crackle tune". Ughhhh.
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@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
Why do teenagers with dirt bikes feel the need to fiddle with the engine for hours, without going anywhere? (source: a neighbour a couple of houses down the street )
I understand having a noisy engine and going to play on dirt tracks. I understand going up and down the street if you can't go on tracks. I even understand playing tricks in your backyard if you can't go outside. I also understand tuning the engine if you've changed something.
What I don't understand is turning the engine on, let it idle for a minute or so, rev it for half a minute, let it idle again for a minute, then turn it off. And repeat every 5 minutes. For hours. Every single fucking day you're at home.
Think of a male deer in the forest during the time of musth.
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@BernieTheBernie you know, I would actually understand that, if the revving happened anywhere close other people -- friends, potential mates, etc.
But in this case, that happens even when there isn't anyone (except neighbours ) around. So why??
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@remi The noise is load enough to be heard miles away (if only the girls would not wear head phones listening to noisy music...)
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random Question of the Day:
The noise is lo
aud enough to be heard miles away
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RQotD: can you point me to companies (in any industry, the larger the better) whose corporate logo is a square with 3 rounded corners?
Something a bit like this (ideally with a bit less rounded corners), except just one square, not 4 (doesn't really matter which corner is not-rounded, nor which colour the whole thing is):
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@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
can you point me to companies (in any industry, the larger the better) whose corporate logo is a square with 3 rounded corners?
HTH
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I knew there was at least one such logo that I was semi-familiar with, but couldn't put my finger on it. Thanks!
Now I'm pretty sure there are other(s), based on how many close-but-not-quite matches any search for e.g. "square logo" returns, including a lot of stock images (so basically "hey business owner without any graphical skills, here's simple stuff you could use"). Any other suggestions?
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What percentage of your time is spent actually coding vs. dealing with people?
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@Sampa Real people? None. Virtual people in an office halfway across the country? A little. Virtual alleged-people in a
wretched hive of scum and villainyforum? 90%.
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@Sampa 97%. Sadly I don't get paid to code anymore...
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@Tsaukpaetra When did you ever get paid?