The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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@boomzilla oh, well any idea about this then? It's been touch-and-go for the past couple hours...
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@anotherusername
@ben_lubar didn't really say, though he did do something to something or other that sounds plausible. Check the restarts topic in Meta.
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edit: ummm, I think I meant to post this in the funny stuff thread. Oh well...
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@boomzilla I was live-blogging it on Freenode#thedailywtf.
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Not sure if good idea:
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https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/2f9367a3f1bc731e1cae19edfa3b89bc18071093
TL;DR: you can now do this in Chrome 51+:
document.querySelectorAll('div').forEach(div => { console.log("OMG! NodeLists are iterable now and they even gave them some of the Array methods!"); });
About damn time.
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With the new 14342 build of Windows 10, released last night, AdBlock and AdBlock plus extensions exist for Edge.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
With the new 14342 build of Windows 10, released last night, AdBlock and AdBlock plus extensions exist for Edge.
Wow, Edge got a feature that Firefox got December 8th 2009 !
The innovation never ends at Microsoft.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Wow, Edge got a feature that Firefox got December 8th 2009 !
With this one of the big problems of Edge is gone.
With each new build it gets better. The intermittent (Not Responding) on tabs is gradually going away, and the rendering speed is getting faster.
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@FrostCat At least they made it their official default browser before it was ready so most people will probably switch to something else before it gets really usable.
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@boomzilla Indeed
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@TimeBandit That means Firefox never once held the top spot for even a millisecond.
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I love this quote
Firefox has gingerly pulled ahead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers for the first time across the globe.
Looking at the stats, Firefox and IE are both in decline, so to describe either of them as "pulling ahead" would be grossly misleading. IE has fallen behind Firefox, but that isn't good news for Firefox as it's still hemorrhaging market share at a rapid rate.
It's just a fanboy article designed to make the Firefox crowd feel better.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
that isn't good news for Firefox as it's still hemorrhaging market share at a rapid rate.
Considering that IE was once at 95%, it's doing a lot worst then Firefox.
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@blakeyrat It also shows that, despite the fact that IE/Edge is bundled with Windows, Chrome is king by a wide margin.
IE / Edge is still useful, to download Chrome.
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@TimeBandit Funny how my Acer laptop that I have since last December came with Firefox and the Microsoft browsers.
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@TimeBandit Yes, the IE6 of today sure is good at convincing people to use code incompatible with every other browser. Oh wait, you were trying to say good things about Chrome.
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@Boner
Splash guard is too small.
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@Magus If you use chrome-specific tags, you are the
And until Chrome support running
ActiveXexecutables downloaded from the internet, you can't compare it to IE6
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@TimeBandit I agree, but people only bother making things compatible with Chrome rather than sticking to standards, and they break everything. We may as well be back in the days of IE6.
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Splash guard is too small.
Not to mention it doesn't seem to provide a lot of room for movement, unless your hand is capable of making sufficient micro-movements...
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@Tsaukpaetra You guys have really thought this through, haven't you?
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@antiquarian said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
You guys have really thought this through, haven't you?
It's not my fault Engine ordered a feasibility simulation when I saw that!
Additional problems include:
- How do you explain the limp arm? And why it's obviously fake?
- How do you explain the rhythmic expansion/depression of your stomach?
- How would you mask your (potential) facial expressions while active? Not to mention any verbalizations...
- Is there a collection mechanism for "the splash" that will prevent "wet spots" from occurring?
- That's an incredibly ugly design, wouldn't recommend for geeks even.
There are more, but it starts getting creepy from there I think...
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This post is deleted!
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Though points knocked off for the URL: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/trekini-star-wars-fans-211459048.html
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That update which makes the YouTube embeds on this forum be preceded by their title and duration.
That's a great idea, whoever is responsible for it.
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
That's a great idea, whoever is responsible for it.
You're welcome and thank you.
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@boomzilla Much better than the old solution. Thanks
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@r10pez10 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Ah, yes, the Visibone "Everything Book". Mind you, I found it helpful to scan the whole thing and make a PDF out of it so I can have it on whatever device I'm using at the moment.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@r10pez10 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Ah, yes, the Visibone "Everything Book". Mind you, I found it helpful to scan the whole thing and make a PDF out of it so I can have it on whatever device I'm using at the moment.
You mean it's not encoded in some kind of markup?
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Ah, yes, the Visibone "Everything Book". Mind you, I found it helpful to scan the whole thing and make a PDF out of it so I can have it on whatever device I'm using at the moment.
Little dated though, 2009. Time to upgrade, only $90 laminated.
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@BatConley said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Time to upgrade, only $90 laminated.
Free shipping!
Goddamned, for $90 for 32 laminated sheets, they fucking BETTER ship it for free. My local copy shop would charge maybe $20. Probably far less. And throw in the spiral binding for free.
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I'm not convinced that this belongs here, but it's funnier to put it here than somewhere else:
Put simply, the business model would see men ordering a coffee and using an iPad to select a prostitute they want to perform oral sex on them. They would then sit at the bar.
“In five or ten minutes, it’s all over,” Charvet explained to Le Matin.
At 60 Swiss francs (€55), with a possible five-franc surplus for a latte macchiato the ‘coffee’ would be the most expensive in Geneva.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I'm not convinced that this belongs here, but it's funnier to put it here than somewhere else
Meh, sounds like a good idea to me!
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Good idea in the surface, sounds like BS in reality.
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@Tsaukpaetra Possibly over hyped in that article, but looks like a real thing:
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@anonymous234 I grow all the food I need in like... maybe 20 hours of labor. I got at least 20 lbs of potatos in the ground and I barely even remember I planted them. Growing food isn't hard, at a household scale.
FOUR THOUSAND BUCKS?! JESUS!
Also it can't grow anything vine-y, like tomatos or peas.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Growing food isn't hard, at a household scale.
I notoriously kill all my plants. I want this thing XD
I even bought an aerogarden... and my plants all got root rot. Three times.
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@Yamikuronue Plant a normal regular garden. "Gee I did this weird science fiction space garden from Mars and it didn't work out!"
This is like "products for cityboys who've never spent more than 40 nanoseconds outdoors". Cripes. It makes me angry.
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@blakeyrat I mean, I planted some tomatoes, and they died. I replanted and they died. I planted an herb garden and they all died. I replanted and they died again. I got a hydroponic system and it got root rot three times.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I mean, I planted some tomatoes, and they died. I replanted and they died.
Tomatos are hard to grow. But this robot machine can't grow them either, so. Robbie the Robogarden here can't help you with that.
My only garden problem this year is my radishes grow TOO QUICKLY and sucked up their own roots before I had a chance to harvest and eat them. Stupid radishes. I'm going to yank them out of the ground and pretend I never planted any.
Which is a shame because gardened tomatos are so much better than store-bought. Like millions of times better.
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@blakeyrat But it's so cool though.
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@anonymous234 I know they say it's weatherproof, but there's no way it'd still be running after a month outdoors.
No, it's useless tech-hipster bullshit.
For the $3900 you can just hire a guy to take care of your garden for like 5 years.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Which is a shame because gardened tomatos are so much better than store-bought. Like millions of times better.
We grow at least three tomato plants each year. Sooo much better than store-bought! They're not even hard to grow, at least not where I live. We put in a fertilizer stake thingy in the ground and a length of PVC pipe over the stake. The pipe has holes drilled into the bottom, and that's how they get most of the water; just pour it into the top of the pipe. That way it gets into the ground better. Bit of mulch on the surface, water every day or two, and BAM! Tomatoes.
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@Erufael said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
They're not even hard to grow, at least not where I live.
Tomatos HATE water on their leaves.
In Washingon State, some summers it just naturally rains enough to just rot the tomato leaves right on the vine. Even if you do everything right, Mother Nature will just up and say, "nope! no tomatos!"
So you either have to keep them covered, which means they don't get enough sun, or you just shrug and don't have tomatos this year.
Everything else I grow is easy-peasy. Potatos, like I mentioned, are not just a perfect staple food, but in Western Washington they grow with zero effort. Absolutely zero. Carrots, ditto. Corn just takes a bit of water, that's all. Recently I've been doing peppers, jalapenos, and you wouldn't expect them to do well here but they do great. I have chives because the chives plant grows so well I actually tried to kill it and it kept coming back. So I gave up and kept it. Same with my strawberry patch near the garage.
The most frustrating thing about gardening here is the stuff that grows so well, you end up like "weeding" a potato plant that could feed a Somalian family for a week because it's interfering with your corn roots.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
gardened tomatos are so much better than store-bought. Like millions of times better.
Yeah. I never liked tomatos as a kid until I visited my grandparents one summer and they had some growing. It's why I keep trying to grow them despite having the brownest thumb ever.