Random thought of the day
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
it's usually more efficient to put just a foreign key from the many-table to the one-table for a many-to-one relationship
Only if you don't want the individual relation arc to have its own properties (labels, etc.) Once those things sprout, you've got another table of entities…
Well, sure. I'd put that firmly on the the other side of my "usually" qualifier. And I do have a few of those in my schema.
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
why do we even bother with passwords then? Why not just make the email/SMS code the only required info?
On some sites I rarely use, I don't even bother storing (or remembering) the password ; I just use the "I forgot my password" feature to get a new one every time, because . I suspect I'm not the only one...
There's one site I use regularly that I do that. Not because I don't have the password stored in KeePass; I do. But the site will never accept it to log in (it accepts it just fine to set it; at least there's no user-visible error that some special character is not allowed, or whatever), even though I'm pasting it from KeePass, and it's the same password I've been pasting into the "new password" field for months.
This is almost always because they silently truncate the password when you set it but not when you try to login. You need to figure out what the secret actual password length is.
Well, other web specialists allow your full-length password when you set it at sign-up, but will truncate it at login, or when you try to change it... and then greet you with a "wrong password" message.
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Can you imagine being almost 80 years old and still feeling like the world is so fucked up you have to go to work and control everything to fix it? I don't like Brandon but I almost feel sorry for him. At 80 I would just want to be able to stay home and feel safe (physically and financially).
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
why do we even bother with passwords then? Why not just make the email/SMS code the only required info?
On some sites I rarely use, I don't even bother storing (or remembering) the password ; I just use the "I forgot my password" feature to get a new one every time, because . I suspect I'm not the only one...
There's one site I use regularly that I do that. Not because I don't have the password stored in KeePass; I do. But the site will never accept it to log in (it accepts it just fine to set it; at least there's no user-visible error that some special character is not allowed, or whatever), even though I'm pasting it from KeePass, and it's the same password I've been pasting into the "new password" field for months.
This is almost always because they silently truncate the password when you set it but not when you try to login. You need to figure out what the secret actual password length is.
I had that happen with a security question
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
Can you imagine being almost 80 years old and still feeling like the world is so fucked up you have to go to work and control everything to fix it?
Some go out to work not to really change anything or earn very much, but rather just to meet people and feel useful.
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Both Cyberpunk 2077 and Order of the Stick have a purple-haired player character who goes by V.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Both Cyberpunk 2077 and Order of the Stick have a purple-haired player character who goes by V.
Probably an omaige to V for vendetta.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Both Cyberpunk 2077 and Order of the Stick have a purple-haired player character who goes by V.
Should be Q.
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@DogsB said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Both Cyberpunk 2077 and Order of the Stick have a purple-haired player character who goes by V.
Probably an omaige to V for vendetta.
Order of the Stick doesn't have much about resisting tyrannical governments. Well, not in this way at least. And even then, V isn't the one doing it.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Both Cyberpunk 2077 and Order of the Stick have a purple-haired player character who goes by V.
The protagonists of Stranger in a Strange Land, 1984, and Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner are all named Smith.
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When Vanna White first started turning letters for "Wheel of Fortune", she was 25. She's now 64.
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@da-Doctah "wanna" (pronounced "vanna") is Polish for bathtub.
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@Gąska As it happens, bathtubs are white... well, usually
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@Applied-Mediocrity when I was a kid we've had a green one. That was the only non-white I've ever seen.
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@Gąska 1960s avocado green?
When I was a kid, we had a pink bathroom — tub, sink, probably toilet (although I don't specifically remember it), tile, and of course the walls had to be painted to match.
The house I'm renting now has beige and white swirly fake marble tub, shower, and countertop.
I can't remember whether any other places I've lived had POC.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska 1960s avocado green?
1990s bluish green. Or maybe greenish blue. Even as a child I wasn't good with colors.
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My dad's old flat had a sort of dark mint green bath and toilet. So naturally when we repainted, we painted the walls a pale mint green to complement it.
I should add, the first week we did the grocery shopping after repainting it, we did actually locate some green toilet paper, but it was more effort to have than normal so it was just for that one week.
The 1990s were a weird time.
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@Arantor colored toilet paper is the worst. You panic thinking you're bleeding from anus but it's just a fucking strawberry.
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@Gąska pale mint green doesn’t have this problem. But definitely some of the red shades, absolutely.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor colored toilet paper is the worst. You panic thinking you're bleeding from anus but it's just a fucking strawberry.
Panic? Pfff, that's just Tuesday.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
If you have two phones and a USB-C cable with the proper connectors on both ends you can plug them in to each other and each will pop up a prompt asking if you want it to deliver power or charge itself. I think that whichever one you answer on first is the decider.
But under normal circumstances that capability is basically useless.
New party game idea! Is that a "normal" circumstance or not?
Two
girlscontestants with phones, onecupreferee.Take two USB-C cables, one male/male and the other male/female, or any other arrangement so you can end up with a cable that can plug into both phones, and be disconnected in the middle.
Plug one cable in each phone, the referee holds both cables, then at one time plugs them together. The first contestant to answer the prompt and drain the other's battery wins.
Of course iPhone people won't be able to play, but then you just have a good reason not to invite them, what's not to like?
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If someone identifies as a pump, does that make them a pumpkin?
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@Zerosquare, the @Tsaukpaetra keeps spreading. Can you reboot @Zecc?
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@topspin
it's touched my jira ... please make it stop
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@Luhmann do we need a new forum group, "JIRA touched me in a no-no place"?
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare, the @Tsaukpaetra keeps spreading. Can you reboot @Zecc?
Only if he gives consent first.
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Stupid GDPR popups.
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@Luhmann I usually touch them in the no-no-place.
("No, I don't want your cookies" and "no, I don't want third-party cookies either")
Filed under: obvious .
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
Did they touch you in the no-no-place?
Information on that has been removed.
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In the latest Order of the Stick comic, Serini calls Haley "sunshine".
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@Gąska Either I'm ing, or the "Haley" that makes this statement is actually Halley, and this not being the name of Haley in OotS, you're not .
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@remi Haley Starshine
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I thought it was some clever reference to Halley's Comet. I guess I was expecting too much cleverness from you
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How well you hold your liquor depends on how much you've had before.
Whether it helps or hinders depends on how you interpret the sentence.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
How well you hold your liquor depends on how much you've had before.
Whether it helps or hinders depends on how you interpret the sentence.
"this too, shall pass"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
"this too, shall p
aiss"
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I've heard Blondie credited with both the first mainstream rap single ("Rapture") and the first mainstream reggae single ("The Tide Is High"). Hardly.
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If I had a reminder service that reminded me of things, what ways would I want to be reminded?
For bonus internet points, what different ways would you want reminders to get to you? The more quixotic the better I think... for example would you want to be reminded to keep hydrated, by way of a bot sending you a Twitter DM?
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
for example would you want to be reminded to keep hydrated, by way of a bot sending you a Twitter DM?
I just get thirsty. And I don't use twitter.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
If I had a reminder service that reminded me of things, what ways would I want to be reminded?
For bonus internet points, what different ways would you want reminders to get to you? The more quixotic the better I think... for example would you want to be reminded to keep hydrated, by way of a bot sending you a Twitter DM?
Have it call you on your landline to remind you to go to the bathroom?
The above is not meant to indicate any desire from me to be notified about such matters in that fashion.
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@PleegWat that is suitably quixotic for sure. The sad part is that I actually know which API provider I'd use to make that happen...
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
that is suitably quixotic for sure.
Especially since I haven't had a landline in over a decade.
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Random wordplay of the day:
That period of time during which all playing cards are collected together, as opposed to some having been dealt to players, can be referred to as "all hands on deck".
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Relatively few phrases with two meanings are in fact double entendres.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
that is suitably quixotic for sure.
Especially since I haven't had a landline in over a decade.
Hippie! What are you going to do when the UN chaffs the air with fluoridated scatterfoil?!
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
would you want to be reminded to keep hydrated, by way of a bot
-- causing an erection? Sure.
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Virus variants are the virus trying to "get better" at virusing. If you're a virus, your strategy should be to become more transmissible while simultaneously becoming less devastating to your host organism (a virus that kills its host is an evolutionary failure). One or two more after Omicron should make COVID about as harmful as a mild case of the flu. And if the "better" variant had come along first, we might never have had the panicky lockdowns and mask mandates that have changed what the world now looks like.