🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Bad Idea: Blocking kernel updates in the yum configuration and fully relying on ksplice to get kernel updates. Probably related to mandatory proprietary kernel modules providing features you're better without in the first place...
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Bad idea: Biodegradeable robots.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-smartmaterials-eco-robots-idUSKCN0UX25V
There is an idea that ~0 people asked for. ?
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I'd rather have robots made with recyclable materials. Aluminium made casing sounds good enough.
Unlike plastic bag, most parts of machinary cannot simply be thrown away without harming the environment anyway. Proper disposal is required.
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I'd rather have robots made with recyclable materials.
That is all well and good, but most of the materials in a robot are recyclable already. What they are talking about is a robot that decomposes, which is basically forced planned obsolescence. This is not the type of obsolescence like "This robot does not to what the newest robots do, so we need to get a new one". This is the type of obsolescence where the robot returns to the earth like a slowly decaying corpse, so you have nothing left.
It is a shitty idea, on all fronts. Unless you are deploying autonomous robots in to the rainforest for them to never return, you do not need a biodegradable robot.
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I was wondering why none of my dwarves had a job. Turns out the AI drafted the manager (Medtob Volalasën) into the military and she never got a chance to validate any of the work orders. So no furniture got built and everyone was going to the river to drink because nobody was making barrels or brewing alcohol.
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Yup. Except the metal on PCBs.
I keep hearing people use toxic chemicals to extract the metal from PCBs and that's why electronic material recycle workshops are told to be harmful to the environment. I wonder if anyone will design PCBs that you can just pull the metals out with physical effort other than rely on chemicals. That could be a more sounding idea.
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I think that's because they have to dissolve the green material (which I have no idea what it is made of) that keeps it all together. Also, the soldering isn't easy to remove on industrial level.
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Bad idea: trains in Britain.
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my dwarves
I wonder if Wisconsin coyote hazing techniques would work for you?
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I was wondering why none of my dwarves had a job.
Inquiring minds want to know whatever happened to Fort TDWTF.
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Sure, you save money, at the expense of the seven hour layover.
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Wisconsin coyote hazing techniques
You know what also gets rid of coyotes? BB guns. I'm not suggesting we try that on Ben.
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£44 vs £52... travelling 175 miles vs over a thousand. And the dude enjoyed his layover.
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I still have it, but I've been focused on my AI and THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WAS MADE.
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I still have it, but I've been focused on my AI and THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WAS MADE.
What announcement? I don't know what you are talking about.
<Filed under: Yes, I saw the announcement, I just wanted to fuck with you.
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You know what also gets rid of coyotes? BB guns.
You know what else gets rid of coyotes? A .22/250. I don't think we should try that on Ben either.
But...maybe a BB gun. That should work on a Ben.
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most of the materials in a robot are recyclable already
Ugh. Yeah, if you want to take it apart. They're not exactly designed in such a way that the different recyclable components are easy to remove and salvage. Recycling them will be difficult and costly. Most of them are just going to go in a landfill. What few do get recycled will be broken down by a bunch of Chinese 12-year-olds who will ultimately end up with cancer.
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£44 vs £52... travelling 175 miles vs over a thousand. And the dude enjoyed his layover.
Understood. I'm just saying, you wouldn't be replacing your daily train commute with that flight. Presumably, you could eventually run out of things to do in Berlin that you'd find interesting, too.
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True, true, but as a one off demonstration of stupidity, it's golden.
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they have to dissolve the green material (which I have no idea what it is made of) that keeps it all together.
If you're talking about the green coating of the top of everything, it's a plastic of some sort (possibly epoxy-based, but I'm not sure), and it's purpose isn't to keep it all together; it's to prevent solder from making unwanted connections between the wires on the board. If you're talking about the green board, it's epoxy-fiberglass laminate. For single- or double-sided boards, it's fairly easy to remove the copper wiring from the boards with heat; it can happen accidentally while soldering, if you're not careful. For multi-layer boards (which is just about anything complex enough to be used in a modern computer), you have to somehow get the layers of the epoxy-fiberglass laminate apart to get at the metal between them; I don't know how this is done industrially.
the soldering isn't easy to remove on industrial level.
For old tin-lead solder, the solder is rather less chemically active than the copper. (I'm not sure what modern lead-free solder is made of, tin and something; I suspect this is true of lead-free solder as well, but I'm not sure.) It's almost certainly easier to remove the copper from the solder than the solder from the copper. ISTM the most likely way to do this would be, after getting the metal off the boards, to use FeCl3 (the same chemical used to etch the copper when the boards are made, somewhat hazardous because it has a fair bit of HCl in it, but not particularly toxic) to etch the copper away, leaving the solder behind. The copper can then be recovered from the etchant, and the solder can be melted down and recycled. I don't know if this is how it's done industrially, but it's how I would do it if I had to design a process off the top of my head.
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Bad idea: trains in Britain.
That dude's an idiot. He saved £7 but how much extra time did he spend?
East Midlands Airport is also nowhere near Sheffield.
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I don't know if they count as bad ideas, since I don't seem to have a choice about them, but depression and self-hatred are even worse when they go together - which is usually the case, at least for me it is. Sometimes I think that the only reason I haven't killed myself on a day like today is sheer ennui.
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East Midlands Airport is also nowhere near Sheffield.
But it is about a quarter of the way from Sheffield to Stansted…
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That dude's an idiot. He saved £7 but how much extra time did he spend?
East Midlands Airport is also nowhere near Sheffield.
Time-saving is not the only criteria for good. Given that he had to travel from Sheffield to Stanstead, he basically got a free trip to Germany out of it, even if only for 4 hours. Oh, wait, that's wrong...they paid him to take a trip to Germany.
Which, among other things, means the train system is price-gouging people travelling from Sheffield to Stanstead in order to subsidize lower fares on other segments. Serves them right to get £0.
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Not searched this thread to see if it's mentioned before:
Deathmarch for consecutive 72 hours in attempt to get project done on time.
(Yup, I've done something that stupid before... And I'll add that the 92 workhours week is not the longest I have in life. I've done a few 100+ workhours week later)
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The fuck?
$70K-$90K/year to work at Burning Man? ?
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Below the article:
[spoiler]I would not drive that thing on the ground ...[/spoiler]
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Given that he had to travel from Sheffield to Stanstead
And then another 30 miles from Stansted.
he basically got a free trip to Germany out of it
Anyone who travels from the UK to Berlin to be there for a few hours is Doing It Wrong™. He'll have spent more time either travelling or pissing about with airports than he would have actually enjoying Berlin.
Sheffield to Hutton is ~170 miles. £47 doesn't seem unreasonable for a train journey that length.
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The point is that it does seem a touch unreasonable when you can travel to another country, travel more than 5x the distance in so doing, and still spend less in total.
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I'd love one of those for my daily commute.
"Shit, I'm running late. I'll have to actually hit mach 3 today."
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Chinese 12-year-olds who will ultimately end up with cancer.
And that's the lucky ones.
Not since Vatican II, they aren't. They don't even use rulers anymore.
So they don't call the Pope a ruler anymore? Or do you mean they won't get anything straight anymore?
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So they don't call the Pope a ruler anymore?
Why don't you do a bit of research and report back to us?
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Anyone who travels from the UK to Berlin to be there for a few hours is Doing It Wrong™.
Nah. For a publicity stunt it seemed to have been done quite well and on a pretty reasonable budget.
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But for anything that isn't a publicity stunt, it's silly.
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He'll have spent more time either travelling or pissing about with airports than he would have actually enjoying Berlin.
Well, yeah, duh. My experience is that's true for pretty much any vacation shorter than 10 days. (Okay, yes, I'm being hyperbolic.)
But I make this trip to Wyoming every once in a while (from Orlando, Florida) and travelling or pissing about with airports kills a full day. Going up, usually from 4 AM to 2 PM and, coming back, from 10 AM to midnight. So for a 7-day trip, I just spent 28% of my trip days in a car, in an airport, or on a plane...basically a third of my trip because I'm worthless the first day after getting to Wyoming.
Anyone who travels from the UK to Berlin to be there for a few hours is Doing It Wrong™.
That's because you're a glass-half-empty type. You're focused strictly on the goal of getting from Sheffield to Stanstead. He, on the other hand, saw an opportunity to have an adventure for nothing but some additional time. Yeah, he could have spent, what, 12 more hours cleaning his garage or something. Instead, he got in 4 hours of sightseeing in Berlin for 12 hours additional time not cleaning the garage.
He thought it was fun: Therefore he was Doing It Right™, stop trying to rain on his parade.
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You're focused strictly on the goal of getting from Sheffield to Stanstead
No, that specific comment was focused on the goal of doing something enjoyable without spending more time travelling than you do enjoying the destination.
stop trying to rain on his parade.
YMBNH.
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And that is the hidden, but significant, part of the irony. His cheaper, but longer, journey had significant potions of in by rail - possibly the very same train.
Also, for @those_about_the_longer_time, had there been any leaves or the wrong type of snow then this may well have been the faster.
Incidentally, you can buy a rail ticket in advance for literally pennies. The same rail ticket on the day will require you to take out a mortgage. This is actually the strategy employed to discourage demand exceeding supply, in terms of passenger capacity. Rather than say, adding carriages. It is accepted that extra trains cannot be added - and that's a different story, But there could be less cancellations
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Incidentally, you can buy a rail ticket in advance for literally pennies. The same rail ticket on the day will require you to take out a mortgage. This is actually the strategy employed to discourage demand exceeding supply, in terms of passenger capacity
Ah, so it's demand or surge pricing, aka, in other contexts, "price gouging."
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"price gouging."
I thought this was the right term, but didn't speak up for fear of pedantric responses..
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YMBNH
Also you spelled "pendantic" wrong.
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His cheaper, but longer, journey had significant potions of in by rail - possibly the very same train.
The first third(ish) of the journey.Incidentally, you can buy a rail ticket in advance for literally pennies. The same rail ticket on the day will require you to take out a mortgage.
YMMV. I used to book trains in advance, until I discovered it actually made no difference to the ones I get.
I only ever get trains to London, which is between 40 and 60 minutes. On a busy route.
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I only ever get trains to London
Is probably your answer.
I would love to discuss UK rail ticket pricing, but that would require a thread-cum-category of it's own. Suffice to say the GCHQ Christmas puzzle (which i know absolutely nothing, other than it's continued existence,about) would be solved before anybody could even begin to correctly pseudo code it.
Filed Under: [The next WTDWTF coding challenge?] 1
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Opps, forgot to hyphenate.
Post edited, I wouldn't want anybody to get the wrong idea.
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Still getting the wrong idea. Keep editing.
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thread-cum-category
WTH is a Thread-Cum-Category?
Don't we already have one of those?
For once, Engine is being way too chatty to be useful on this issue...
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Assuming "What The Hell/Heck":
Given the state and complexity of obtaining a rail ticket online and (I suspect) fleecing at the station ticket office. It would be a topic that soon exceeded the capacity of a single thread (even by WTDWTF standards) and require or become a category in its own right.