🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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I don't see what would be so bad about discourse.
Or do you mean Dyscourse?
Edit: Oh, I see:
from Late Latin discursus (“the act of running about”)
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The latter, hence the capital letter.
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Dyscourse
http://store.steampowered.com/app/234920/ ?
Filed under: [Contains:](#tag) [Confusion](#tag), [Teamwork](#tag), [Choice](#tag), [Consequence](#tag), [Trust](#tag), [Cannibalism](#tag), [Frying Pans](#tag), [Isolation](#tag)
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Or maybe a good idea, depending on whether they were released or not afterwards.
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Hopefully not.
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http://campusreform.org/?ID=6750
Mitchell, a former assistant district attorney, offered shoplifting as an example, suggesting that communities of color may prefer that police refrain from enforcing laws against theft from large retail chains because responding to such crimes leads to an increased police presence in neighborhoods where shoplifting is prevalent.
Mitchell also noted that police generally defend their actions by saying they are merely directing their focus toward high-crime areas, but rejected that explanation, saying, “they do that all the time to justify why they’re going to over-police our children.”
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This web-based course management system (or something) detects whenever you open up additional tabs and puts the previous tabs into standby mode. I use tabs heavily, so this annoys me to no end.
They also managed to reinvent tabs, so you can have multiple "tabs" in their own web-based UI. Why must people do such things?
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Those are individual letter decals, and the connecting swoop is on the front end of the letters, not the tail. That means the swoop connecting an "o" to whatever follows it can't be in the correct place, unless you add an extra swoop after the "o" and then the person applying them has to cut them to make them work, which is really too much to expect from the average idiot.
tl;dr: the connecting swoops in cursive fonts are hard to do correctly. You basically have to create digraphs for a bunch of letters that otherwise won't connect properly.
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the connecting swoops in cursive fonts are hard to do correctly.
It's not worse than merely getting correct rendering at all in some writing systems (Arabic, I'm looking at you!)
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They also managed to reinvent tabs, so you can have multiple "tabs" in their own web-based UI. Why must people do such things?
Filed under: FTFY
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cursive fonts
For when you want to write things in a very sweary way.
Filed under: I'll see myself out
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I work in a generic office building with a bunch of different tenants. A third party contracts with building management to put a pair of vending machines in the lobby for the workers. Pretty typical stuff.
Except I can't tell you how many dumb shits lose a buck in the machine and write--as today--"Owe Ben $1.00, 8/27/15 11.45". The date/time is a nice detail I'm sure the vending machine stocker doesn't give a shit about. You know what's missing though? That's right, Ben, you dumb shit, you're not getting your buck back because YOU DIDN'T SAY WHICH OFFICE YOU WORK IN!
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That's right, Ben
You work in the same building as Ben? Does he wander the halls muttering to himself in lojban?
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You work in the same building as Ben?
Yes, it's a really long building, that stretches from Dallas to Madison.
No, that just happened to be the name of the person who left a note on the vending machine this time.
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Madison
No, UNiVeRsE lives in Madison.
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/634658837757227008/Q88J9pwA.jpg
I live where this is a thing:
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Ben, the distance between Milwaukee and Madison is piddlin'. Possibly even triflin'.
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Only about 120km? Yeah, that's really not too much.
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the distance between Milwaukee and Madison
A distance between Milwaukee and Madison is 8
Brought to you by the same people that measures the distance between piddlin and triflin as 4
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Correct. Right down to the site. (Page 1 Google search results sometimes has its good points)
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In that case, I presume you first tried for Hamming distance?
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Actually no. And this invokes old memories, in that I know it for being used for memory error correction. Never occurred to me to use it for strings.
Of to satisfy my curiosity....
EDIT: Back. Interesting, Similar to Levenshtein, but limited to strings of equal length IIRC
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Crash at 200Km/h
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Ten of the world's biggest automakers were sued on Wednesday by U.S. consumers who claim they concealed the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning in more than 5 million vehicles equipped with keyless ignitions, leading to 13 deaths.
According to the complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles, carbon monoxide is emitted when drivers leave their vehicles running after taking their electronic key fobs with them, under the mistaken belief that the engines will shut off.
The 28 named plaintiffs said this can injure or have "deadly" results for people who inhale the colorless and odorless gas, including when vehicles are left in garages attached to homes. They also said the defect reduces their vehicles' resale values.
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Good thing I still have a real key ...
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Me too.
I'm also not a retard, so I know to turn the engine off before leaving the car though.
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A distance between Milwaukee and Madison is 8
Here in the US, we will drive what would be the European equivalent of into the next country just to try out a new BBQ joint.
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Some European countries are, I admit, quite small. which can be useful as you would want to drive through them (when you have to) quite quickly eg Belguim
Here in the US, we will drive what would be the European equivalent of into the next country just to try out a new BBQ joint.
An unfortunate example of where you fail to benefit from the economies of scale We (in Europe) can drive less just to try out a whole new cuisine
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An unfortunate example of where you fail to benefit from the economies of scale We (in Europe) can drive less just to try out a whole new cuisine
Well, what do you do if they didn't open a location near you? I mean, I can probably get to 6 different BBQ places alone with a ten-minute drive from my office (and that's a short distance because of rush-hour traffic.) I probably, no exaggeration, have 50 different places to eat within 2-3 miles in each direction on my street. But, maybe there's this new place down in Waco or something that everyone says is awesome?
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I think they just suck it up and eat at the shitty local places because gas taxes are too high.
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I think they just suck it up and eat at the shitty local places because gas taxes are too high.
That does seem likely. Oh, but wait, they could take the train!
Meanwhile gas prices here were as low as $2.11 yesterday.
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1.30€
The money being measured in €, I would presume that the gasoline was measured in liters, right?
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~$4 per hot dog. This is against the spirit of the hot dog.
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This is against the spirit of the hot dog.
Against the spirit of the beef, too. Well, we can probably presume they're using the cuts that couldn't go anywhere else, like any good hot dog maker, but still.
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Good thing I still have a real key ...
I don't, but my car:
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Has an "Off" button (duh)
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Is a Hybrid, so it doesn't produce any CO while idling (or philosophically, I guess it doesn't idle at all)
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You're right, apparently the average is £1.10 for diesel, £1.13 for petrol.
I'll be honest, I don't pay that much attention to the prices, and last time I filled up was at a services. The price doesn't affect how much of it I need and going out of my way for the sake of a few pence is daft.
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last time I filled up was at a services
Ouch! I usually try my best to avoid them. Supermarkets are pretty ubiquitous — you can find them in a strange town easily enough with your favourite mapping app — and tend to have the keenest prices in the area on average.
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Supermarkets are pretty ubiquitous
I avoid them for fuel. They don't do Premium Diesel, and even if they did, I still believe the fuel to be lesser quality. I've noticed differences on previous cars between supermarket diesel and branded diesel.
you can find them in a strange town easily enough with your favourite mapping app
I go to the closest branded one. Can't be bothered going out of my way for a few pence.
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I'm also not a retard, so I know to turn the engine off before leaving the car though.
I find it hard to believe that you'd fail to notice that your engine was on when you came back to the car too... That's a pretty big oversight
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I avoid them for fuel.
Your loss. Literally.
They don't do Premium Diesel, and even if they did, I still believe the fuel to be lesser quality. I've noticed differences on previous cars between supermarket diesel and branded diesel.
I just use standard diesel, and all the closest places to fill up are supermarkets for me. Paying more than a 10% premium for going to somewhere else that is further away… No thanks!
Most supermarket fuel is fine. They're a bit sloppier about making sure there's no contamination, but going to a busy store prevents most of the problems (which tend to come from having fuel sitting around in tanks for a long time).
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And you turn the engine off how? by taking the key out?
...that doesn't work with these keyless ignition fobs. Taking the key out of the car won't stop the engine. You actually have to press the button to shut the engine off, or it'll just sit there idling until it runs out of gas.
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And you turn the engine off how? by taking the key out?
In this car, yes.
...that doesn't work with these keyless ignition fobs.
Obviously. I've hired cars with keyless ignition before. I still know to shut the bloody engine off. Just like I know to put the handbrake on before leaving it, and to lock the doors.
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My point was simply that people who all their life have had cars which shut off when they take the key out are likely to be confused if they get a new car that doesn't.
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Fair enough. I can't imagine how they'd not notice the engine running though.
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I can't imagine how they'd not notice the engine running though.
That
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