🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Apparently, they're not the first to try this idea.
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I noticed after I posted it. I don't want to click on either to check
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I like how he says "credit to them" but then fails to actually credit them in the actual posts. Fuck those image-stealing assholes.
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Bad idea: a white icon on a white background.
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This description:
WAT
Best I can determine, you set PriorYearDataInd to 1 if you are filing this form for the year before the PaymentYr. I'm not sure why you'd do that, though, or if you're even allowed to.
Also, this is the first year for this particular form so it doesn't even make sense to set to 1.
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Also, this one irritates me every time I run across it.
"You must submit a set of test scenarios and have them validated before you are allowed to submit actual data."
Among the rules for the XML file you submit:
- A character- by-character comparison tool is used to determine if a submission passes or not. The submission will pass when it exactly matches the answer key for that submission based on a character- by-character comparison. This includes (leading, trailing, and embedded spaces; punctuation; and capitalization (case sensitive). The system will return a “match” or “no match” response for each data element based on the comparison results.
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A white icon on a transparent background on a white background.
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The icon was white on transparent. Windows put it in front of a white background; it doesn't try to figure out whether an icon contrasts with a given background or not. That's up to whoever designs the icon. They should make it contrast with any background, including but not limited to white.
If you are designing an icon, there's a pretty good chance that it'll be used on a white background, at some point. But you don't really have much control over the background, in the general sense... the icon could be on the desktop, which could be any flat color or a picture.
Generally, icons that consist of just one color (any color; not just white) plus transparency are just not a good idea. It needs to at least be outlined with something that contrasts.
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I used to use a mouse pointer that consisted of an arrowhead made up of a random mixture of transparent and anti-transparent pixels. Guaranteed to be visible against just about any background without obscuring that background from view.
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anti-transparent pixels
Those have really gone out of favour. They were great on monochrome and greyscale displays, but are nothing like as nice on full colour systems.
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I was wondering if anti-transparent is a common term. Apparently not.
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Anti-transpirant pixels are visible over any background, no sweat.
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So ... Opaque?
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My wild ass-guess is that "anti-transparent" as used by @da_Doctah means "inverting the color behind it", but I don't know.
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My wild ass-guess is that "anti-transparent" as used by @da_Doctah means "inverting the color behind it", but I don't know.
Yes. The pixel is a transparent pixel that inverts the pixel beneath it. A long time ago I reverse-engineered the 32x23x16 .ico format and figured out how it worked, but I can't remember exactly how off the top of my head right now. I think it was a combination of a bit in the transparency bit mask and then another bit in a second bit mask... or something like that.
Anti-transpirant pixels are visible over any background, no sweat.
Not necessarily if the background has high-contrast pixels next to each other.
Or, the pixel is visible just fine, but you might not be able to find it for the noise in the background image.
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I'll find you yet!
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@Zecc said:
Anti-transpirant pixels are visible over any background, no sweat.
Not necessarily if the background has high-contrast pixels next to each other.
Or, the pixel is visible just fine, but you might not be able to find it for the noise in the background image.
Or the background pixel is medium gray and the inversion results in ... medium gray.
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Best I can determine, you set PriorYearDataInd to 1 if you are filing this form for the year before the PaymentYr. I'm not sure why you'd do that, though, or if you're even allowed to.
Since there is both a filing year and a prior year flag, I'm guessing 1 is intended to identify data that affects the filing year, but is from a prior year.
Our accounting has a similar PriorPeriod flag, but the use is slightly different: it is used to identify account balance data relating to postings made after the end of the period. So, using January and February as examples, postings done during January are accumulated in rows with PriorPeriod=0; but once we cross into February, any postings made to the January period are stored in rows marked PriorPeriod=1. It's a simple tracking mechanism for postings that pertain to January, made during January or after.
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Since there is both a filing year and a prior year flag, I'm guessing 1 is intended to identify data that affects the filing year, but is from a prior year.
That's a reasonable guess but as far as I can tell that isn't a meaningful thing to do, in context. Since the form was optional last year, probably approximately nobody did it--and there's no reason for anyone to use the prior year indicator this year.
Oh, and get these errors:
AIRMF3008 MANIFEST-001 If Manifest 'PriorYearDataInd' has a choice of "Yes" indicated, then 'PaymentYr' must be equal to the Processing Year minus two or more years.
AIRMF3008 MANIFEST-002 If Manifest 'PriorYearDataInd' has a choice of "No" indicated, then 'PaymentYr' must not be equal to the Processing Year minus two or more.*blink* Well, fortunately, I don't have to worry about it this year and my goal is not to be in a position where I have to next year.
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AIRMF3008 MANIFEST-001 If Manifest 'PriorYearDataInd' has a choice of "Yes" indicated, then 'PaymentYr' must be equal to the Processing Year minus two or more years.AIRMF3008 MANIFEST-002 If Manifest 'PriorYearDataInd' has a choice of "No" indicated, then 'PaymentYr' must not be equal to the Processing Year minus two or more.
blink Well, fortunately, I don't have to worry about it this year and my goal is not to be in a position where I have to next year.
Okay, I got no idea WTF those messages mean...but it probably is, indeed, a bad idea. As far as that goes, even the messages are individual bad ideas.
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@anotherusername said:
@Zecc said:
Anti-transpirant pixels are visible over any background, no sweat.
Not necessarily if the background has high-contrast pixels next to each other.
Or, the pixel is visible just fine, but you might not be able to find it for the noise in the background image.
Or the background pixel is medium gray and the inversion results in ... medium gray.
#DiscoWorldProblems
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I had no idea this series was coming out. Now I do, and am interested.
I know I'm late, but if someone else stumbles onto it... once I found out about it I read the book, loved it (I loved something by PKD, oh the shock!), the show is good. Changes to the format are acceptable, characters are well-used even where changed... I approve. I put it in 3rd place on my "good PKD adaptations" list, behind Scanner Darkly and Blade Runner. Might shift as I get to read more books though.
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Would it be evil to come up with the idea of writing a "native desktop" client for Discourse using EFL's JavaScript bindings? The airquotes are important and add meaning.
I'm actually intending to do that, but with QML. I have the general design in mind, just no time...
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I know I'm late, but if someone else stumbles onto it... once I found out about it I read the book, loved it (I loved something by PKD, oh the shock!), the show is good. Changes to the format are acceptable, characters are well-used even where changed... I approve. I put it in 3rd place on my "good PKD adaptations" list, behind Scanner Darkly and Blade Runner. Might shift as I get to read more books though.
I can't stand PKD books, they are too obtuse and boring. His short stories are excellent, though.
Best PKD adaptations?
- Total Recall
- Blade Runner
- Minority Report
Total Recall just rocks. I'm sure Scanner Darkly is well made, but I hated that story, so it's off the list. Honorary mentions: Screamers and Paycheck. Paycheck isn't that great movie, but is one of his most interesting stories, so it gets a pass.
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1. Total Recall
Fun movie. Not much to do with the story other than the basic idea, so I don't rank it high on the adaptation scale.
2. Blade Runner
Is great, yes. It's a better movie than Scanner Darkly, but Scanner Darkly is more faithful, which is what I was listing. Also, Scanner Darkly is the only "druggie" story I could stand to read from beginning to end. I'm guessing it's because it's not preachy like 99.99% of them are.
3. Minority Report
No! NO! NO!
Fuck that movie with a spiked fucking purple dildo! Fuck it up its starhole sideways! They fucked up every single story element! EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Fucking mutants become main-ish characters? Anderson doesn't have a minority report, at all? The main fucking point of the story? [spoiler]He had THREE! Because he was in a special situation where he could see his reports, each report assumed he saw the previous one.[/spoiler]
Fuck that movie, fuck Spielberg, fuck the nimwits that are making that new show that I refuse to even read about because it will probably just piss me off even more.
Dear lord, do I hate that fucking movie!
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Fucking mutants become main-ish characters? Anderson doesn't have a minority report, at all? The main fucking point of the story? He had THREE! Because he was in a special situation where he could see his reports, each report assumed he saw the previous one.
Um? I think I read the original novel / story, but honestly, I don't remember a thing about it.
I was rating it purely as a flawed movie, that still had some of that Spielberg magic, lifting it up to no 3.
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Fair enough I guess. I really don't feel like discussing the damned thing, TBQH.
Bad idea: mentioning that damned movie in my presence
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The alignment of these checkboxes.
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As far as that goes, even the messages are individual bad ideas.
The Federal Government at work.
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I just found out that the testing process, which I think only became available a few weeks ago, takes "hours or longer" for you to get a response. And all this shit has to be validated in time for employers to be able to do their data entry and uploading of their actual data by 1/31. Oh, and they have to do some kind of validation, too.
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Did anyone else notice that one line in there:
Forgery (with or without permission)
WTF kind of crime is "commission of forgery with permission"?
If someone gives me permission to sign their name, have I committed forgery?
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Did anyone else notice that one line in there:
Forgery (with or without permission)
WTF kind of crime is "commission of forgery with permission"?
If someone gives me permission to sign their name, have I committed forgery?
A wild guess is that it is like when my dad allowed me to sign the homework chit with his signature waay back in the long-before when I was still a kid.
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Bad idea:
I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
I wanted to check if it's possible to use emoji in a password for my Account on OS Yosemite. It worked but I didn't realize that the login screen has only native keyboards, so I can't type emoji th...
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Anderson doesn't have a minority report, at all?
I haven't read the story, but yes he does. Agatha has his minority report, but was "out-voted" by the twins.
They also at one point drop a bit of info that whenever Agatha has the minority report, she's always correct. But it's just a throwaway line.
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Filled under: your own damn fault
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A wild guess is that it is like when my dad allowed me to sign the homework chit with his signature waay back in the long-before when I was still a kid.
If he gave explicit permission, you were his agent and it was not a forgery. There would have to be intent to defraud for it to be forgery.
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I haven't read the story, but yes he does. Agatha has his minority report, but was "out-voted" by the twins.
They also at one point drop a bit of info that whenever Agatha has the minority report, she's always correct. But it's just a throwaway line.
Maybe I misremember and they just deleted it or whatever? Been a while, and I don't feel like re-watching it.
Even in that light there are so many things changed that detract from the cleverness of the original story just to cram in some political message about using the mutants as slaves and a religion forming around them that I still dislike it. I don't want to go into the whole discussion here due to spoiler and stuff.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Oad5F3Bu9g
A-salt your house, wall-to-wall. Oh, and watch those eyes, kiddies.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
A wild guess is that it is like when my dad allowed me to sign the homework chit with his signature waay back in the long-before when I was still a kid.
If he gave explicit permission, you were his agent and it was not a forgery. There would have to be intent to defraud for it to be forgery.
If you acted as his agent, wouldn't you sign your own name?
Anyway, I suspect more like someone asking you to sign them in and punch their time card for them at work. They have permission to sign themselves in, but not the right to give someone else permission to do it for them.
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Maybe I misremember and they just deleted it or whatever?
They do; that's why John had to basically abduct her before they deleted the evidence that could pre-clear him for the pre-crime.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NT2ZiPIukw
Holy shit. Desperate for attention much?
EDIT: And turns out this might not be a real Simpsons intro. Making me into Whoosh. Whatever. I'm leaving it here. It's still a bad idea.
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did I just watch?
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did I just watch?Apparently, this guy on YouTube is making some pretty morbid claymations.
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Nice for him, I guess?
I don't know, am I just too desensitized? That was just... uncomfortably weird, I guess?
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Log into most any Linux system by hitting backspace 28 times
Security researchers have discovered a ludicrously simple way to hack into a number of Linux distributions: Just tap the backspace key 28 times in a row. A team from the Cybersecurity Group at Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain found that doing so for builds utilizing the ubiquitous...
Oops. Now the article, at the end, says the exploit requires physical access, and RH, Ubuntu, and Debian have already released patches, but still, oops.
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I once used a version of a Basic interpreter that had a count bug like this. This was on a timesharing system and, while in the interpreter, list a line that doesn't exist:
LIST 1234 LINE NOT FOUND LIST 1234 LINE NOT FOUND LIST 1234 LINE NOT FOUND LIST 1234 LINE NOT FOUND LIST 1234 (system failure)(SYSTEM FAILURE on that OS was the same as a KERNEL PANIC in Linux.)
And this from a user-mode interpreter anyone could use.
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Dutch driving instructors can trade lessons for sex | CNN
Government ministers in the Netherlands say it is legal for driving instructors to offer lessons in exchange for sex, provided their students are over 18.
But Melanie Schultz van Haegen, the country's Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, and Security and Justice Minister Ard van der Steur said that while the policy -- widely dubbed "ride for a ride" -- may be "undesirable," it is not against the law, provided both parties are over 18.
They said that if the transaction were reversed, with students proposing "personal services" in return for lessons, then this would be unlawful.
Exchanging A for B is OK but not B for A, that isn't going to cause enforcement problems at all.
