🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@Yamikuronue said:
Like, for someone who is infertile [...]
Yeah, it would be more like the parent telling a story about his kids, or maybe just mentioning them.
We had two lots of friends who were trying to start families using IVF. When one fell pregnant it was literally all she would talk about. While it was understandable that she was happy, and we were happy for her, she took it to a level that made the non-pregnant friend not want to spend time with us.
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I blame seeing the story in two different publications long apart...
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Fact checking SNL skits:
http://twitchy.com/2014/11/23/oh-dear-lord-washington-post-fact-checks-snls-parody-of-obama/
These are better:
http://twitchy.com/2014/11/23/check-out-these-other-mocktastic-wapofactchecks-photos-video/
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Someone just sent out a new template for Technical Design Documents.... in MarkDown.
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Someone just sent out a new template for Technical Design Documents.... in MarkDown.
Is it full of unexpected formatting and missing entire paragraphs due to parser errors?
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Someone just sent out a new template for Technical Design Documents.... in MarkDown.
well i like markdown for the lite stuff... not a lot of syntax to remember and when you don't try to mix in bbcode and other crap like discourse does it more or less does what one would expect....
for the heavy stuff it's LaTEX all the way! just can't beat that professional look.
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Dunno. It's not rendered. It's just a markdown template. I guess the new procedure is to document this stuff in markdown, where you don't have a WYSIWYG editor to see what you're doing, because it's more "lightweight" than editing in Word, and then once you have a markdown file you can then run pandoc to get the docx file, and also then use the "insert from file" feature to add the cover page we like to put on our Word files, but you can ALSO turn it into html! For... reasons!
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that's devs for you. we like shiny things
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but you can ALSO turn it into html! For... reasons!
Right; because you can't convert Word documents into HTML at all. It makes perfect sense.
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I'm sure once they put the safety net on it'll be fine
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I'm sure once they put the safety net on it'll be fine
"Safe-t net? What's he talkin' bout Darnel? You know anything about this safe-t net whats-it?"
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@fox13now.com said:
Woman says, 'We're ready for Ferguson,' accidentally shoots self in head
I haven't read the article but if they mean Sarah Ferguson then it was probably no accident
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I haven't read the article
"He told investigators that as they drove late Friday night, the victim waved a gun, jokingly saying the couple were ready for Ferguson, the sources said.
He ducked to get out of the way of the gun and accidentally rear-ended another car.
He said the accident caused the gun to go off and she was struck by a bullet in the head, the sources said."
Think of it as evolution in action. She done something REALLY dumb.
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Yeah, sounds like she didn't point the gun at her own head, but instead, near the head of the driver of the car she as in, which is just about as stupid.
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Allowing glass bottles on a glass walkway:
(URL/headline is at odds with the story - that claims a member of staff dropped it)
We should have said no glass on the glass section of the floor. It was a bit shortsighted of us.
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We should have said no glass on the glass section of the floor. It was a bit shortsighted of us.
I wouldn't dare stepping on glass floor with "no glass"
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Skyrim just crashed. A few seconds later, the Steam screenshot uploader came up, just like it normally does when I exit a game. I said "fuck it, upload my screenshots".
Did the Steam network going down just crash my singleplayer game?!
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Share with Facebook
WTF? Is humanity reached this point of stupidity? What am I going to share next, Jira tickets?
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Allowing glass bottles on a glass walkway:
Sounds like they're using the wrong kind of glass for the walkway.
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Screenshots of games? That's a thing people do, actually, share on facebook. Especially if they're screenshots of you achieving something impressive, or building something in Minecraft.
I dunno, I don't really get the level of hate people have for facebook. I share things on facebook whenever I have the urge to go run and tell someone about something I did, which I often do after playing a game for a while. That way they can ignore me if they don't care :)
ETA: Oh hey, 500 Internal Success error. Good times, Discourse.
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He put potato flowers WHERE?
Oh. Buttonhole. Get out of the gutter, brain.
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He put potato flowers WHERE?
Oh. Buttonhole. Get out of the gutter, brain.
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I thought repeating the joke made it funnier.
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I thought repeating the joke made it funnier.
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College student gets mugged, figures it isn't the fault of the muggers, and it's wrong to blame them. Suggests we just get used to it until magic happens...
Friedfeld suggests that the “privileged” adapt to normalized crime, until the wrongs of the past are righted.
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I share things on facebook whenever I have the urge to go run and tell someone about something I did
Which is rather exhibitionist of you, no? "Hey guyys, GGGUUUUUYYYYS! CHECK OUT THE NEW BUILDING I BUILT!!!!!" is not something most people want showing up on their pages. It's like forcing spaces in your source code, because everyone needs to see YOUR INDENT SETTINGS EXACTLY AS YOU SET THEM, or they're utterly wrong!...I don't know. It's one thing to have, say, Google post the title of one of my incredibly rare blog posts, but it's another thing entirely to expect people to care about exactly what I eat for every meal and think about everything else I do.
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Yeah, but they opted in to see updates. If they don't want to, they can defriend me, hide my messages, or quit facebook altogether. Facebook is explicitly a platform for exhibitionism :)
It's like complaining that people share photos on pinterest.
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I've pretty much given up on all the people who refuse to use any method of communication outside of Facebook. It's easy for people to contact me on gtalk (and since everyone has an android...), steam, skype/messenger, sms, various websites... But FB is called 'social networking', so I must be antisocial for getting rid of it.
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Sounds like you know a bunch of douchebags then :) I happily will contact people I want to talk to via gtalk, steam, sms, skype, phone calls, emails, PMs on forums, whatever they're up for.
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This couple seems to be filled with BAD IDEAS, but I'd like to focus on the husband's recommendation for his wife about how to get by using cloth diapers:
"I want to use cloth diapers, too, but it's day 10 with pee and poop soaking through them and onto my clothes, and we're 15 loads of laundry in, and I'm the one doing it all!”
His comeback was to suggest I pay closer attention to our newborn’s “pee cycles” and change his diapers more often.
With nuggets of wisdom like that, it seems sure that this kid will be an only child.
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I think you totally missed the point. The screenshot is of the bug because of Skyrim crashing.
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Actually, the screenshots are here.
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Damn, you're like a Japanese in Louvre.
And your post made me think that it was a screenshot of the crash.
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How would I push F12 on a program that already exited?
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Actually, the screenshots are here.
I had to take back my like when it became apparent that your broken link (now fixed) wasn't a joke about the upload failing.
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I'm not sure why Google Chrome decided to copy everything except the part that makes it actually a link.
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A few seconds later, the Steam screenshot uploader came up, just like it normally does when I exit a game
That screen always pops up after a game session in which you took screenshots. It's not an error feature. Since the post clearly says that, I thought you were ranting about facebook in general.
But yes, uploading specifically error data to facebook would be stupid.
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Maybe the game took an screenshot of the last render before it crashed.
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If anything, they should implement that feature and target TDWTF.
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I think that her not procreating is a good idea.
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> His comeback was to suggest I pay closer attention to our newborn’s “pee cycles” and change his diapers more often.
With nuggets of wisdom like that, it seems sure that this kid will be an only child.
I don't think I can bear to read the article, but I'm not sure that's an entirely bad suggestion.
Or she can buy diaper covers so her boy can sit in his own filth longer to assuage her guilt.
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I think that her not procreating is a good idea.
Yeah, too bad she didn't decide that earlier.
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Or she can buy diaper covers so her boy can sit in his own filth longer to assuage her guilt.
Too obvious.
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Too obvious.
Which is good, because she seems like the kind of person who'd do it.
Edit: specifically, use covers so she could go longer without changing the diaper after it's dirty. Someone like that shouldn't be allowed to have, or keep, kids.
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His comeback was to suggest I pay closer attention to our newborn’s “pee cycles” and change his diapers more often.
I grew up in California. You see a lot of interesting suggestions for how to raise kids out there, including entirely diaperless methods (in which you keep a very close eye on the kid and when they look like they're going to go, plop them onto a toilet), co-sleeping, and the like... Though you wouldn't think they'd soak through that much. I've seen dishtowels washed with fabric softener that were basically incapable of soaking up mess. I wonder if their laundering habits were too effective at removing anti-soak coating?