🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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YES I DID!
But, I'll give you a question: what is causing these mysterious but apparently plentiful people's pain receptors to fire when they "remember"?
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YES I DID!
But, I'll give you a question: what is causing these mysterious but apparently plentiful people's pain receptors to fire when they "remember"?
Once again, you are trying to say that remembering == re-experiencing. This is not the case. I don't need to have my pain receptors fire to remember a pain sensation.
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Once again, you are trying to say that remembering == re-experiencing. This is not the case. I don't need to have my pain receptors fire to remember a pain sensation.
Further, if you can't remember sensations, I feel sorry for you. Because not only are you unable to remember pain sensations, but pleasurable ones as well. It means you don't remember how if feels to pet a dog, have the warm sun on your skin, or how it feels to have sex.
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Every Heinlein story ever...
It's a book. Some authors like to throw in bonus plot points just to make it harder for you to spot what's important ahead of time.
(Some of Heinlein's books are more tightly plotted; it probably depends on who his editor was at the time.)
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... stupid timeouts.
I've got to travel to some place in the UK I've never been to before, with the closest airport in London (sort of). So essentially, the I'm trying to find out which flight- and train-combination takes me to the right place (more or less) at the right time (more or less). This involves some amount of staring at a list of trains and comparing flights and vice-versa ... to at least make sure that the trip is possible. Suddenly the damn page refreshes and tells me that I need to fucking reenter my search criteria and start from the beginning. *rage*
FWIW, the three tabs for booking flights on different days are still open and work perfectly, even after writing this post.
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My argument is derivative of the private language argument. You can't remember what your pain feels like. You can remember how you described it. There is a subtle difference between them.
Meh. You're wrong.
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This is generally only observed with painful experiences that are coupled with a biological imperative, such as child birth. The process of child birth actually triggers the release of a chemical that dulls the mother's recollection of the experience, increasing the chances that she will have more children.
Snort. Don't try this one on a woman who had a difficult childbirth!
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@abarker said:
This is generally only observed with painful experiences that are coupled with a biological imperative, such as child birth. The process of child birth actually triggers the release of a chemical that dulls the mother's recollection of the experience, increasing the chances that she will have more children.
Snort. Don't try this one on a woman who had a difficult childbirth!My wife had a long and painful labour with our first child and she couldn't really remember what it was like leading up to the birth of our second. She remembered it hurt, but she couldn't remember the actual hurt. But I don't want to send this thread back to the remember/re-experience loop....
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My wife had a long and painful labour with our first child and she couldn't really remember what it was like leading up to the birth of our second. She remembered it hurt, but she couldn't remember the actual hurt. But I don't want to send this thread back to the remember/re-experience loop....
I was reading her a quote from this thread and my wife volunteered that she remembered her second childbirth quite vividly.
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My wife had a long and painful labour with our first child and she couldn't really remember what it was like leading up to the birth of our second. She remembered it hurt, but she couldn't remember the actual hurt. But I don't want to send this thread back to the remember/re-experience loop....
Why? I don't remember how much that first loop hurt.
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send this thread back to the remember/re-experience loop.
This discussion is going in circles. Topic closed. So says you-know-who.
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Where are you trying to get to in the UK?
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Hull.
I'm looking at flying via London mostly because it's way easier to get there than other airports (e.g., Manchester or something). Plenty of direct flights to London... and most of the other destinations go via London anyway (or some other totally random place in Europe that's much further away.)
Besides, it'll be fun to see the outside of Heathrow for once. :-)
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If you're coming into Heathrow, you'll be heading into London Paddington, from there National Rail's website tells me your best bet is underground across to King's Cross St Pancras, and up direct to Hull from there. Alternatively, King's Cross -> Doncaster -> Hull seems to be marginally more frequent.
Heathrow from the outside is actually fairly dull and lifeless IMO. Gatwick is a bit better. (Of course, if you're doing Gatwick, you should be able to get on a train easily enough to King's Cross for onwards, if nothing else First Capital Connect trains should be running via KGX to Bedford at least twice an hour)
Whether it'd be Heathrow or Gatwick you're taking, you're looking at about 4 hours onwards to Hull, and a cost of £120 or thereabouts for the ticket (based on 'buying today' prices), and it's about the same from either Heathrow or Gatwick. No idea about Luton or Stansted though.
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I know we are past the uzi thing, but this was funny.
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Trying to be taken seriously when you have a document titled "Final final final final draft ... 5th Edition".
Screenshot of Firefox's title bar:
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Hull.
Alternatively, fly to Manchester and take the train over to Hull. (I can't remember if there are any direct trains now; I think that most of them require you to change in Manchester or Leeds.) Plus part of the route is closed right now because of major engineering works to a bridge, but apparently if you're travelling after 7 September you'll be OK. If you believe the train company's website…
(There's also Humberside airport, which serves Hull more directly. It's not a big airport, but will have direct flights from some hubs such as Amsterdam.)
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Lol, nice one. Needs Firefox to see it, though. Probably left in some PDF meta field or the original file name.
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If you're coming into Heathrow, you'll be heading into London Paddington, from there National Rail's website tells me your best bet is underground across to King's Cross St Pancras, and up direct to Hull from there. Alternatively, King's Cross -> Doncaster -> Hull seems to be marginally more frequent.
Thanks! That's the route I ended up looking at earlier, so I guess one could say I was on the right track then... Thank you, I'll be here all week etc etc.
Heathrow from the outside is actually fairly dull and lifeless IMO.
I've been to Heathrow a few times, but for some reason never managed to get off there and visit any part of London. Probably won't have much time to visit London this time either, but at least I'll have been outside of the Airport...
Alternatively, fly to Manchester and take the train over to Hull.
Yeah, had checked that out too, but unfortunately there are no direct flights to there. (Heathrow is one of the hubs that I can get to directly, so it's quite convenient because of that.)
National Rail's website
At least they're a bit less sneaky and more up-front about the timeouts...
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Well, it worked for me last night and it's up now, don't know about any 504s.
If you can spare a bit of time, London has plenty to offer a tourist
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Not having too much luck with them internets today...
Edit: Hmm, temporary hickup in Discourse?
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(let's try again.)
Well, it worked for me last night and it's up now, don't know about any 504s.
Weird, I'm getting that error right now. Even tried to reach it from two other machines in different networks... same result. Seems like they doesn't like Sweden.
If you can spare a bit of time, London has plenty to offer a tourist
I'll probably try to put in a quick visit to the city on the return trip. Probably won't have time to see too much, but hopefully it'll be sufficient for a beer somewhere ... and maybe some of that famous British food. :-)
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Yup, not just you with the temporary hiccups.
The beer's good enough... the food...
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Claiming that your mascot isn't what it obviously is
Fuck right fucking, the fuck, off. Fine, I'll accept it if you say she's a British school kid, (not obvious, but acceptable), but she's definitely a fucking cat.
Filed under: TDEMSYR
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"Filling out a survey from my RA. This could be a long year."
http://imgur.com/j5PXB6w
Source[x] Other:
Lord, my Lord, my Lord's
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I wish my RA had tried bullshit like that with me.
Filed Under: Other: Fuck, Fook, Fieck
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TITLE_NOT_FOUND, TITLE_NOT_FOUND, TITLE_NOT_FOUND
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Shit that's another thing PHP hasn't got, TitleNotFoundException
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From the old forums:
@pjt33 said:
And whatever you do, don't ask a friend who flies a crop-dusting aircraft to drop a tonne and a half of water on you for the Ice Bucket Challenge. (I'm not sure whether that's been officially confirmed yet, but it was the initial hypothesis behind a recent event in Cataluña which led to the guy on the ground being hospitalised).
Google Translation of the article.
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Fuck right fucking, the fuck, off. Fine, I'll accept it if you say she's a British school kid, (not obvious, but acceptable), but she's definitely a fucking cat.
You didn't link to Chris Sims, the "source" (not the original source, but surely the person all the mainstream media is stealing this story from, because they're fucking awful):
Hello Kitty Is Not A Cat, Everything You Know Is A Lie
Everything you have been told in your life has been rooted in lies and deception. Are you sitting? Good. So it turns out Hello Kitty is not actually a cat.
Leave it to the BBC to copy the fundamental story and leave out the jokes.
One assumes that the same applies to Kitty’s twin sister, her mother and father, and her boyfriend Dear Daniel, who must all be reclassified as mysterious, non-cat creatures with no fingers or mouths with which to grasp or scream.
Anyway the correction just says she's a "cartoon character". Which is fine, Disney has done that with Goofy for decades and nobody has any problems with it. (And Goofy has a dog also. Despite being a cartoon character that vaguely resembles a dog.)
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Snort. Don't try this one on a woman who had a difficult childbirth!
Studies have shown that the memory is dimmed, though how much varies. For a sufficiently painful birth, the effect isn't going to be very great.
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Yeah, I've heard labor / delivery memory loss joked about (by mothers, including my wife) as mommynesia.
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Not another Mornington Crescent game! No! No!
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I was in a gun store once when a guy walked in with a girl about 10 years old in pigtails. He asked to see an S&W 500 revolver. I'm not going to bother finding you a picture. The barrel's about 8.5" (or 21cm) long. Remember Jack Nicholson's silly revolver in Batman? Yeah. Anyway the guy asked how you could reduce the recoil, and the sales guy made a joke about tying the girl to the bottom of the barrel with the pigtails.
It's like that one episode of SpongeBob: "that's a great idea! Children are small and can look in places you couldn't normally go!"
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Trying to be taken seriously when you have a document titled "Final final final final draft ... 5th Edition".
"That's not even my final form!"
This is not even big enough to register on most people's scale who've worked in a large office. "Copy (1) (2) (1) of janice's markup of janice's copy of final revised final 2nd draft.doc - Copy (1).docx"
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This is the point where I bring up that source control shouldn't be considered only a programmer's tool, only to be jeered at and mocked.
EDIT: that said, the .docx format already has pretty damned good revision control, and those idiots just aren't using it.
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I was in a gun store once when a guy walked in with a girl about 10 years old in pigtails. He asked to see an S&W 500 revolver. I'm not going to bother finding you a picture. The barrel's about 8.5" (or 21cm) long. Remember Jack Nicholson's silly revolver in Batman? Yeah. Anyway the guy asked how you could reduce the recoil, and the sales guy made a joke about tying the girl to the bottom of the barrel with the pigtails.
That is the one handgun I actually chickened out on test-firing during a range visit. This one had a barrel quite a bit longer than 8.5" too.
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I'd never seen a post update with an edit right before my eyes like that.
I just put the .docx for the heck of it. I'm used to seeing that with regular .docs, although, admittedly, not for a long time--that's usually a sign of being in government.
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Reminds me of a contract I was approached about once. The potential client wanted me to write a document tracking system. It had to allow for drafts, approvals, rejections, obsolete, etc. There were all sorts of regulatory conditions that had to be taken into account that most source control systems couldn't handle. After about three months, I was finally able to meet with their IT director to find out what kind of environments they had available. He refused to allow any Windows servers. Since I'm a .NET programmer, I told them that they either needed to convince their IT manager that a Windows server was necessary, or find someone else. We kindly parted ways at that point.
Two months later, they contacted me to help with installing and testing an existing solution they had discovered which met their needs. TRWTF? [spoiler]It ran on a Windows server.[/spoiler]
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Mass dampens recoil, though. I bought a 12-gauge years ago but didn't get around until firing it until last year, shooting skeet with some other guys. The recoil was far less than I had expected.
By contrast, an S&W 637 Airweight will chew the webbing right off your thumbs.
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Since I'm a .NET programmer, I told them that they either needed to convince their IT manager that a Windows server was necessary, or find someone else. We kindly parted ways at that point.
Mono wasn't an option?
Two months later, they contacted me to help with installing and testing an existing solution they had discovered which met their needs. TRWTF? It ran on a Windows server.
That's not a WTF. That's a bad decision being reversed. It's like the opposite of a WTF.
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Mono wasn't an option?
This was early in my career. I hadn't heard of mono at the time.
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That's not a WTF. That's a bad decision being reversed. It's like the opposite of a WTF.
It felt like a WTF to me. From their perspective, you are correct.
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Well Mono would be impossible if you needed to use Office Interop or anything like that anyway, which you probably would in an application like that. But still.
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Not another Mornington Crescent game! No! No!
I forgot about that, we were still playing that and then things got hectic here in RL.
No, this wasn't Mornington Crescent but actual navigation.
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Well Mono would be impossible if you needed to use Office Interop or anything like that anyway, which you probably would in an application like that. But still.
That's a good point, one I hadn't even thought through to by the time the contract collapsed (Office interop, that is).
The lack of any Windows servers was kind of an odd decision, given that all of the work stations were Windows. I'm sure it made for some interesting networking to centrally manage updates and the like. I know that the workstations were locked down to prevent local installs and updates, so I'm wondering how they managed the updates without a WUS server*. I can only suspect that they either weren't pushing out updates (bad idea), or the admin was doing the updates manually at night (dumb idea).
* Yes, I know WSUS servers can be setup in a *nix environment, but they tend to be very unstable. Not only that, but everything I can find recommends against it, even the *nix people who managed to pull it off. I believe that this would be a bad idea in a corporate environment.
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This is the point where I bring up that source control shouldn't be considered only a programmer's tool, only to be jeered at and mocked.
EDIT: that said, the .docx format already has pretty damned good revision control, and those idiots just aren't using it.
It isn't, but the proper name for what you're thinking of is document management. It's a different beast than a source control version system, and (the really good) track changes stuff in MS Word isn't truly a replacement for either one.
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No, this wasn't Mornington Crescent but actual navigation.
I know :) , but it sure sounded like Mornington Crescent! Just wanted to head ya off at the pass pard'ner...
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Last year, my daughter's middle school had a ridiculous class schedule that changed every day. Basically, one period was dropped in a 7 day cylcle (except for the last day when they had all of them or something...I never figured it out, to be honest).
This year's bell schedule is a bit simpler. There are only really 3 differently scheduled days. Except. She has lunch in the middle of class. So, like, one day, she goes to math, breaks for lunch, then comes back to finish math.
WTF
