People who are not Mike Patton
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As a person to whom it matters that they are not Mike Patton, I'd like there to be a group "People who are not Mike Patton". If necessary, I would also accept an additional group, "People who don't care if they are Mike Patton", and so on as needed.
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I await your response on this matter of international import.
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There are several 'famous' people of this name, please identify which one to whom you are referring for the purposes of perhaps begging our forum overlords to grant such a boon.
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@Arantor said in People who are not Mike Patton:
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There are several 'famous' people of this name, please identify which one to whom you are referring for the purposes of perhaps begging our forum overlords to grant such a boon.
All of them.
As indicated, I fully understand if more groups are needed.
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I'm not a Mike Patton, but I'm not sure which one.
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@Watson said in People who are not Mike Patton:
I'm not a Mike Patton, but I'm not sure which one.
Probably the one you're least like. Alternatively, could be the one you're most sure you aren't.
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Summarizing,
- People who are not Mike Patton
- People who do not care that they are not Mike Patton.
- People who are unsure if they are Mike Patton
- People who are unsure which Mike Patton they are not
- People who are unsure which Mike Patton they are
- People who are unsure whether they care if they are not Mike Patton
seems the needed set to support the uses mentioned so far.
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@Gribnit What if I am more than one Mike Patton?
There'd also be the possibility of a superposition.
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The reason I ask about the unambiguous position, what if I am not Mike Patton because I'm another Mike Patton, a different one?
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@Arantor said in People who are not Mike Patton:
what if I am not Mike Patton because I'm another Mike Patton, a different one?
You white? Then you Ben Affleck.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@Arantor said in People who are not Mike Patton:
what if I am not Mike Patton because I'm another Mike Patton, a different one?
You white? Then you Ben Affleck.
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Fair points. Obviously zero isn't nearly enough groups to address this. Probably best to start with a smallish superset of those so far identified, although of course without any that directly identify anyone as any particular Mike Patton.
Probably only missing one, the available predicates being false, unknown, and meaningless and three predicates yielding seven distinct positive subsets.
And beyond that, a group of people who are not the Mike Patton in question, which would I suppose be a supergroup including everyone but Mike Patton, unless, which may cause some trouble, someone actually is asking about them (as opposed to some other Mike Patton).
Of course, there's no need to necessarily combinatorial explode these - if there are in fact 4 distinct predicates here, 15 is too many groups for this anyway, maybe. Maybe not enough! But, could just go with one group per predicate,
- People who don't know if they are Mike Patton
- People who are not the Mike Patton in question
- People who don't care if they are not Mike Patton
- People who are not Mike Patton.
Of course, noting that these share a common attribute, of almost certainly not being Mike Patton, it's possible, just possible, that a single group would suffice. I just wish I knew what to name it.
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@Gribnit said in People who are not Mike Patton:
Obviously zero isn't nearly enough groups to address this.
And yet it's already too many.
What to do? What to do?
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@boomzilla none of us are mike so we don't need a group.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@DogsB said in People who are not Mike Patton:
none of us are mike
Including @mikeTheLiar
Especially him. The only thing we need a group for is to figure out who isn't @abarker
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I'm not saying anyone here is Mike Patton, calm down. Now, I'm not saying anyone isn't, so calm up a bit.
There we go.
I'm sure a lot of people are saying "you can just tell if somebody is Mike Patton" and "isn't there a registry somewhere?" and all that kind of thing. It's as American as pied apples. But once in awhile, it's about time to stand up for who we aren't.
We're not talking about Steve Wilson or Mark Smith here, mind.
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@Gribnit said in People who are not Mike Patton:
mind
I think "mind"'s got nothing to do with any of this.
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@boomzilla said in People who are not Mike Patton:
What to do? What to do?
As a mod, you obviously know what to do.
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@boomzilla said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@Gribnit said in People who are not Mike Patton:
mind
I think "mind"'s got nothing to do with any of this.
It certainly has nothing to do with the person you replied to.
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@HardwareGeek said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@boomzilla said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@Gribnit said in People who are not Mike Patton:
mind
I think "mind"'s got nothing to do with any of this.
It certainly has nothing to do with the person you replied to.
Who do you think you are, Mike Patton or something?
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I think I'm not General George S. Patton.
I'm not sure how to proceed.
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@Zecc said in People who are not Mike Patton:
I'm not sure how to proceed.
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@Zecc said in People who are not Mike Patton:
I think I'm not General George S. Patton.
I'm not sure how to proceed.You could still take his advice:
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
And then head over to the Laidlaw thread to tell us how it went.
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@boomzilla violent executions are always a good plan.
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@Gąska said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@boomzilla violent executions are always a good plan.
So, just the one group then?
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Although it seemed a consensus had been reached on this, I note with dismay that the group "People who are not Mike Patton" remains unavailable. Please remedy post-haste.
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@boomzilla said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@Gribnit said in People who are not Mike Patton:
Please remedy post-haste.
Message received.
Acknowledgement acknowledged. I'm glad we were able to clear this up via diplomatic channels.
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@boomzilla , something must've borken, the group's not showing up in search
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SYN/ACK has happened but upstream disconnected after ACK, citing HTTP 204.
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@Arantor Now that you mention it, I think I'll go grab myself a SyN/ACK.
Hopefully not salt crackers. I'm not in the mood for strangers getting unauthorized access to my passwords.
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@Zecc what about hash browns?
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@Gribnit said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@boomzilla , something must've borken, the group's not showing up in search
I am heartbroken at this news.
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@Arantor said in People who are not Mike Patton:
SYN/ACK has happened but upstream disconnected after ACK, citing HTTP 204.
It says 204 but I rather suspect it's 503.
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@Arantor said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@Zecc what about hash browns?
Can they be made with mung beans?
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@Gribnit No, no, a server error was not encountered. The request was made, and acknowledged (ruling out any 4xx class errors) and returned 204. Valid idempotent GET request right there.
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@Arantor said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@Gribnit No, no, a server error was not encountered. The request was made, and acknowledged (ruling out any 4xx class errors) and returned 204. Valid idempotent GET request right there.
That's what it can look like from here, sure. My suspicion is along the lines of
} catch (Throwable e) { return noContent(); }
somewhere in
boomzilla.cs.asm.bas.docx.doc (2)
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@Gribnit Nope, fairly sure an exception was never thrown in the first place to be caught. Request was received, parsed and returned 204.
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@Arantor nope. It was a 503. Maybe a more cryptic version than normal. But definitely a 503: Service Unavailable.
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@boomzilla You realise that you're implying the request was accepted as valid with that outcome, though...
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@Arantor groups are a thing on nodebb.
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@boomzilla said in People who are not Mike Patton:
@Arantor groups are a thing on nodebb.
that's abelist
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@boomzilla I assumed the whole transaction here was you receiving the request and giving it the due deference it deserved with an eye roll and moved on. As in, request received, understood, here is nothing, go away.
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@Arantor it is dangerous to assume too much about the
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@Arantor I'm happy to reiterate the request at length, there's probably additional scope that could be discovered.
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@Gribnit I'm not sure about that. It appears that the request was legal but the server decided to NGAF.
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@Arantor well, as observed, it's all idempotent operations which allow for retry.
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I've just realized I've been thinking of Patton Oswalt all this time, and I don't know who Mike Patton is.
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@Zecc said in People who are not Mike Patton:
I've just realized I've been thinking of Patton Oswalt all this time
Sounds like you've been taking the theme of this thread seriously.