🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Maths... just the class you want a child sleepy from a meal to go back into ...
Filed Under: ZZzz Ate lunch... now to pull a "Kostanza" :)
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I used to have lunch in the middle of math class too.
Wasn't supposed to be that way, but the lunchroom was so inefficient that I was late for my next class by the time I got through the line and received my food, hence lunch ending up during math class.
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That's not in the middle of math class.
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It could be, you just have to allow for sufficiently large values of "late".
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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.
At my company, we get a bunch of (compiled) files sent to us from a third-party vendor. The PHBs were looking for a way to store a history of these files with notes in a system that had been evaluated as secure/useful/document/whatever. I kindly pointed out that we had source control in use for other things.
One of the most sane moments working here.
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Yeah but that's exactly when ubernerd comes in to the conversation and is like, "uh guys, ACTUALLY, source control isn't very good at storing binary files, we should spent a billion manhours creating a whole new thing because otherwise it might waste a tiny bit of disk space! I am ubernerd!"
Then management does it, because they're fucking idiots.
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Ehhh, then it's politics. Any issue that comes up is ubernerd's problem, not yours. At least if you do your job right, and draw the line.
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It could be, you just have to allow for sufficiently large values of "late".
He might not start eating until the middle, but by his description, he left for lunch before it started.
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Man I can't just do that. That's why I hate my current job so much, I keep asking: "how does this thing we're doing benefit the business (holistically)?" and they never have an answer.
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That situation is one of the few "he who touched it last owns it all" aspects of my job.
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So, like, one day, she goes to math, breaks for lunch, then comes back to finish math.
I remember sometimes having that sort of schedule at school (though it wasn't usually the same subject before and after lunch on the split days). The dining hall wasn't big enough to take everyone at once.
The plus side: we finished at 14:30
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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
My high school had a 6-day "week" cycle. Typically a class would meet on days 1-6, 1-3, 4-6, 1-2, 3-4, or 5-6, depending on how many credits it was worth. That meant every day, in the morning announcements, the principal would say "today is day 5, we're following a day 5 schedule." Sounds like this makes more sense than your old one.
We also had a lunch period that was 50% longer than the rest of them, broken into 3 parts. (Too many students for the cafeteria, I guess.) Classes in that period were generally broken up according to how "important" they were and you'd go to lunch during the subperiod your class was supposed to use (so, art usually got broken up and you ate in the middle of the period, but science labs would never get broken.)
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Typically a class would meet on days 1-6, 1-3, 4-6, 1-2, 3-4, or 5-6, depending on how many credits it was worth.
Are those like: 1-6 is meets on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 vs 1-3 being 1, 2, and 3
or like: 1-6 meets on days 1 and 6 vs 1-3 meeting on days 1 and 3?Mine did something apparently relatively simple to get block scheduling (looks like code is monospace yay!):
M T W R F
1 1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2
3 3 4 3 4
4 3 4 3 4
L L L L L
5 5 6 5 6
6 5 6 5 6
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Are those like: 1-6 is meets on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 vs 1-3 being 1, 2, and 3 or like: 1-6 meets on days 1 and 6 vs 1-3 meeting on days 1 and 3?
Ah, I didn't make it clear enough. Each day has 7 periods. You'd typically take enough classes to have 5-6 periods of classes each day. Math, science, English, and so on, were 6-day classes; most electives were 2- or 3-day classes.
First day of the school year, let's say it's a monday. That's day 1. Tuesday's day 2. Friday's day 5. The following monday is day 6, not day 1 again. The next day, Tuesday, is day 1.
So you have the same classes every day 1, but each week day 1 is 1 day later until it wraps around. Now that I think about it, I think they may have experimented with days 5 and 6 having periods in different order, so instead of going 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, it went 5-6-7-1-2-3-4, but I might be remembering that wrong--it's been a long time.
In summary, they just define the school week to be 6 days long and fit it into 5-day calendar weeks by wrapping. Other than that it's basically like the normal way.
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Trying to be taken seriously when you have a document titled "Final final final final draft ... 5th Edition".
At least it didn't have Do_Not_Use in the filename
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That is an excellent question.
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If I just say 'Customer Relationship Management', would that be bad enough of an idea to count?
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Not sanity-checking your shipping options:
Filed under: TRWTF is ordering from Walmart
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I don't think you should be getting your customers grouped up for the purpose of cheating on their spouses. Unless that's what you're in business to do.
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Our middle school has 10 periods for 7 classes plus lunch.
The looniness is in periods 4-8 where they have lunch and two classes over a span of 2 hours.
So my son has lunch period 4, and classes during "periods" "5/6" and "7/8". Other grades eat at periods 6 and 8.
Lunch period is 30 minutes and the double "periods" are 45, as are periods 1-3 and 9-10 at the beginning and end of the day.
Filed under: you couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.
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Took me a while to figure out it was "tears" as in "ripping apart", not as in "crying".
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My friend is an X-ray tech or something like that, he has a whole list of crazy stories when it comes to people sticking objects where they don't belong.
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My friend is an X-ray tech or something like that, he has a whole list of crazy stories when it comes to people sticking objects where they don't belong.
Hell, my wallet wasn't stolen after all! And after all that work getting credit cards closed and getting a new ID...
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List? Try an entire book.
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I see nothing remarkable about that medical report. Not when "foreign body" can legitimately, innocently and involuntarily describe a "splinter".
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Does the set of all empty sets contain itself?
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"foreign body" can legitimately, innocently and involuntarily describe a "splinter"
Or a hamster.
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List? Try an entire book.
PATIENT C: I swore this would never happen again. This time I made
sure to put a string in the bottle and closed the cap. When I pulled the
string, there was nothing on the other end.o_O
I see nothing remarkable about that medical report. Not when "foreign body" can legitimately, innocently and involuntarily describe a "splinter".
OK - N(really)SFW pic that accompanies that medical report - the item recovered is on the left:[spoiler]
[/spoiler]In the patient's own words
[spoiler]Image of the vibrator which got stuck up inside me compared to a standard size bottle of HP sauce. The entire thing was up inside me, beyond the 2nd sphincter, and caught in my bowels....[/spoiler]
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Actually, it would work better as an album title, I think. In fact, I'd better e-mail that one to Jon Ginoli and see what he thinks... though really, it's more of ProgRock sort of title than Punk, come to think of it.
Filed under: It's a take off on the phrase 'Panzer Division', get it?
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Maybe they're trying to upsell you to standard.
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1982? You look so much younger.
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I'm not sure it's a good idea to be that cheeky to an admin... ;-)
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Oddly enough, this just popped up on b3ta
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It is the bad ideas thread, after all.
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Does the set of all empty sets contain itself?
*sigh*No, Ben. It contains a bunch of empty sets.
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Funny, especially since I know they put the handle where it is so the fan would be balanced.
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How not to clean a street:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10203785243327065(Why does Discourse not onebox Facebook links?)
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Fruit ninja strikes again.
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@ben_lubar said:
Does the set of all empty sets contain itself?
sigh
No, Ben. It contains a bunch of empty sets.
Including the set of all Ben L's funny posts
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That's a tiny set.
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I'm about to go to a party here on Sunday night, and it's a national holiday tomorrow.
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Wife "accidentally" books a hotel room coincident with the (NSFW) Masters and Slaves Conference.
Filed Under: I'm sure opinions will vary on whether this was in the right thread or not
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The real question is which is which?