🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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I only have vodka if I've flavoured it with something nice first.
I only have vodka if there's nothing else about. But consistency in the jokes seemed more important than consistency with my drinking problems.
Lemon peel works well, or a little fierce chilli. Pop it in the bottle, leave it to steep for a while somewhere cool, drink (carefully if it is the chilli version).
We have homemade vanilla extract made in a similar fashion. Though we cook with it instead of drinking it.
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Erecting a "Christmas tree" sculpture in the middle of Paris.
Filled under: It wouldn't look out of place in Italy
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something that belonged on the Bad Ideas Thread, but then I realised where I was
I've done that, too.
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"Christmas tree" sculpture
Congrats to whatever artist (though they are more a bullshitter than a "sculptor" or whatever they passed themselves off as) who convinced the approvers that was a christmas tree.
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Yeah, that guy deserves some serious props!
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Congrats to whatever artist (though they are more a bullshitter than a "sculptor" or whatever they passed themselves off as) who convinced the approvers that was a christmas tree.
He didn’t convince everyone, tough…
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Place Vendome is amazing, even without this lovely inflatable sex you.
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Erecting a "Christmas tree" sculpture in the middle of Paris.
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<hr>Filled under: <a>It wouldn't look out of place in Italy</a>
At least it's not quite like erecting a giant blue cock in Trafalgar Square and getting Boris Johnson to announce it.
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I know, I know, it was priceless when I learned it was him announcing it.
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Yep. For people outside the UK, it helps to know that the party colour of Boris's party is blue. It's entirely appropriate.
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Yep. For people outside the UK, it helps to know that the party colour of Boris's party is blue. It's entirely appropriate.
Actually it's not even that much of a deal. Certain things about cocks being blue... when you're a full bodied, red-blooded wanker, like most politicians are.
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Bishop, she is not
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+1 for reference.
Guess she never heard of direct pressure.
Direct pressure can be fun.
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Direct pressure can be fun.
Especially compared to the alternative.
I slashed my fingertip when I was about 10 opening a can of juice. Direct pressure--it's not just a good idea.
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Let's just say, certain kinds of direct pressure can be fun.
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Ambulances focusing on speed and not equipment load (60% of the equipment in a standard one):
Plus as they point out in the article, in a city not on a racetrack.
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URL's fairly self-explanatory.
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URL's fairly self-explanatory.
Except that it's a little unclear from the URL alone that other students are saying that. Even the article is unclear on how many other students are saying it — at least 3, but are the rest of the students siding with them?
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It's Wellesley, so I would expect plenty. This is the same part of the country where college students--putative adults--are triggered by a statue of a guy in his underwear.
TRWTF is an all-women's college not booting a man.
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Trwtf is having a job called "diversity officer" in the first place. That's some Orwellian shit there.
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TRWTF is an all-women's college not booting a man.
It's all fascinating. Do you let him stay because biologically he's a she? Do you kick him out because you can't have a man at an all woman school? What could be more diverse than a male at a female school?
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It's all fascinating. Do you let him stay because biologically he's a she? Do you kick him out because you can't have a man at an all woman school? What could be more diverse than a male at a female school?
Better question: what could be more diverse than someone fulfilling their ideal/preferred gender in spite of their biological origins? - it's literally the most diverse thing going by not conforming to physiology.
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Better question: what could be more diverse than someone fulfilling their ideal/preferred gender in spite of their biological origins?
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Changing their race?
That is pretty diverse, yes.
Perhaps what they wanted was a transrace, transgender person?
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What about trans-species?
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Better question: what could be more diverse than someone fulfilling their ideal/preferred gender in spite of their biological origins? - it's literally the most diverse thing going by not conforming to physiology.
It depends on how you're defining diversity. If most of the college is people like that, it's not very diverse, at least locally. At a traditionally black, all women school, a white male is pretty damn diverse.
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Do you kick him out because you can't have a man at an all woman school?
I say if you believe he thinks of himself as a man, then you should boot him. I bet nobody would let me in there. Seems like discrimination to me.
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Citing Daily Fucking Kos approvingly.
If Markos "Screw them. I feel nothing [for those military contractors who were ambushed, killed, and then had their corpses set on fire, dragged through the streets of Baghdad, and hung on a bridge]" Moulitsas says something, it's reasonably safe to take the opposite opinion.
I came this close to unfriending someone on Facebook, so I logged out of it.
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Bad idea: forgetting a file you've worked on for a couple of hours is in
/tmp/
— not~/tmp/
— and turning off your computer for the night.
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It's a bold strategy to cut down on silicon counterfeiters on the part of FTDI. A reasonable company would go after the manufacturers of fake chips, not the consumers who are most likely unaware they have a fake chip. [bold mine - ed]
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What bullshit. Just wait until someone sues them.
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Getting settled in at a new work place. I noticed that my machine is a bit noisy at times (mostly during compilations, baking data, or other CPU-intensive stuff). A short investigation later, it seems that the CPU-fan doing its best to emulate a jet engine. I wonder why...
Physical id 0: +104.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 0: +96.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 1: +104.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 2: +99.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 3: +92.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Eh, whoops? That doesn't look good.
TRWTF is that somebody else used this machine before, and apparently for quite a while. That person's solution was to keep the chassis open... :-(
Filed under: Let's figure out how to get a new CPU fan around here.
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Filed under: Let's figure out how to get a new CPU fan around here.
You know the fastest/easiest way is probably "buy one yourself and drop it in without saying anything to anyone", right?
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Bought 5 Android devices for displaying images on TVs; they discovered when they plugged them in to the LAN that all of them had the same MAC address. Hilarity ensues.
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00:e0:11:22:33:44, if you were wondering. What a clever number.Apparently you can only change this by jailbreaking them,
Wow.
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You know the fastest/easiest way is probably "buy one yourself and drop it in without saying anything to anyone", right?
Sorry - the conclusion turns out to be a bit anticlimactic. Essentially, after talking to just half a dozen different people, the CPU fan is now on its way, and may arrive as early as tomorrow.
I've only spent like maybe four days with this machine, and I already can't wait for that. Hearing the fan spin up just when scrolling in firefox is driving me insane. Not to mention the constant background noise.
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Frankly it's amazing the CPU hasn't fried itself with temps that hot. I bet it's clock-throttling like crazy.
You might investigate buying some Arctic Silver 5 or equivalent, and replacing the TIM on the heatsink.
My current work computer[1] came with a wobbly/loud CPU fan. I called up Dell, and instead of shipping a new CPU fan, they actually shipped out an entire new PC.
[1] well, sort of.
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Frankly it's amazing the CPU hasn't fried itself with temps that hot. I bet it's clock-throttling like crazy.
It is. I've never seen the temp go above the critical limit, though, so the throttling is working rather well (I have the kernel log on display next to the core temperatures since "discovering" this little problem - it's actually somewhat interesting to follow). For now, I'm not too worried, considering that the machine's not very new and was actively used before me.
But yeah, CPU-intensive tasks have been postponed for the moment. (Guess I'm forced to surf the web. Huh.)
The machine is an in-house build from components, since parts need to be swapped every now and then. The fan I'm getting is a Noctua something-large, and it ships with fresh thermal paste, so my main worry is going to be about getting rid of the old one. The current fan seems to be a stock Intel one, except that it's positively tiny compared to all other stock Intel fans that I've ever seen.
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so my main worry is going to be about getting rid of the old one
Do you live somewhere where you can't throw a fan in the trash, or perhaps a recycle bin?
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Do you live somewhere where you can't throw a fan in the trash, or perhaps a recycle bin?
.. getting rid of the old thermal paste.
Edit: Alas, you're actually raising a good point. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a policy or two about getting rid of electronics trash properly.
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.. getting rid of the old thermal past
True. I mean, even the Big Bang's is still hanging around.
EDIT: Hanzo'd
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.. getting rid of the old thermal paste.
Are you actually worried about a gram or so?
Clean the CPU with a wash cloth. Throw out the wash cloth.
As for the original fan, what would you do at home if you had a small desk fan that died? Do the same thing with this.