â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@blakeyrat Apparently not, because I had to explain it.
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@loose You're also great at detecting sarcasm!
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@blakeyrat I think I'll just leave this here...
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@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
You're also great at detecting sarcasm!
You can tell? Good news, you may be able to retire your shoulder aliens in another 8 years!
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@loose I didn't get the joke either.
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@loose ha ha! I love the eastern hemisphere!
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@anotherusername It used to be (in my childhood and country) a common "meme" that, when witnessing somebody or thing digging a deep hole in the ground, you should comment on cautioning them to stop before they get to China. It was probably "pedanted" to death by the observation that digging straight down from England did not bring you out in China. London being at 51.507 N, 0.129° W, the hole would come out at 51.507 S, 179.871 E which is about 800 km south east of New Zealand.
Confession:
Initially I thought to just make the comment - the stuff about language and swimming. I then thought, as I did not know the exact antipodean location, pedants might seek to correct me. So I quickly transposed the latitude and longitude to check. Then I made my first mistake - I thought I would I would add them in as a link so ppl would follow the link; go :WTF: and then work back to my starting point. Assuming, of course, that they picked up on the meme. My second mistake was not noticing that I had buggered up the E/W transposition.
So. Starting from Bellevue, Washington at 47.610 N, 122.201 W (Valve Corporate Headquarters - according to Wikipedia), you should come out at 47.610 S, 57.799 E. Which is somewhere in the south of the Indian Ocean. On the plus side: The nearest land is the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, which would make the language more confusing and amusing because it's French:
Ironically, the next nearest land includes the McDonald Islands where they probably do speak Australian:
INB4: I am quite sure that if this error had been noticed, it would have been exposed.
In researching this, I found this useful site to help aviod similar errors in the future:
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@loose yeah, I did get it the first time you explained it, just not from the original post. I'm familiar with the idiom about digging a hole to China, but it wasn't immediately obvious that you were invoking it. It was a bit of a far leap from the other idiom about scraping the bottom of a barrel.
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Greetings, my fellow developers.
I would like to use this forum to inform you of the new development paradigm that I have just realized. Believe me when I say that this will blow your mind. It combines the power of C++ with the flexibility of the easier loosely-typed languages.
I call it "exceptional programming". The 'exceptional' is because it is based on exceptions and of course because the whole idea is quite exceptional - if I may say so myself.
See, the problem with C++ has always been that a function can have only a single return type. Of course, nowadays with templates it's possible to have functions that accept almost anything, but the return type is just that - it's static and that inhibits flexibility and creativity.
What if - instead of returning this single type, you throw the thing you want to return. So instead of returning a boolean, you can throw one. Or an std::string, or anything you want. It's easy because now you can return any type from any function. The caller can easily use the return type by having multiple catch clauses for the types that are returned.
Of course we also still need to have a way to actually signal a fault. This we then do by not throwing an exception, but returning a const char * with a description of the error that occured.
So, all our functions will have this single type:
template <class Arguments...> const char *function(Arguments... &¶meters)
This is the only function declaration you need to remember. Easy, isn't it? No more checking what the prototype of function X was. You just call it and catch the type you want to have returned.
I expect to see this new way of programming everywhere within the coming years. You can help out to by converting existing open-source code to use this new wonderful way.
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Looks like the new Ghostbusters wasn't such a great idea.
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@boomzilla Haha I bet your men's rights group is having a chuckle at that one! Here's another hilarious joke:
HAHA!
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@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I bet your men's rights group
My what now? Are you bitter because you invested in the movie or something?
@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
HAHA!
Indeed. The bad jokes thread is . I mean...it's not like guys don't pay more attention to women who work to present themselves similarly well.
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"It just shows how shallow and stupid women are"
ITYM
"I'm handsome, but I had a gross fucking beard and look like a murderhobo most of the time"
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@blakeyrat I'm not sure "revulsion" is quite the right response, but I'd certainly consider someone wearing "jeans and snickers" quite odd. OTOH, if she's a she and that's all she's wearing, and the chocolate is melting and gooey,...
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@HardwareGeek said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I'd certainly consider someone wearing "jeans and snickers" quite odd
???
I don't wear jeans. I'm not sure that my secondary shoes are sneakers though...
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@Tsaukpaetra
Tried to paste image, but mobile. Snickers are candy bars with caramel and peanuts covered in chocolate, which would be rather odd things to wear under most circumstances.
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@HardwareGeek said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra
Tried to paste image, but mobile. Snickers are candy bars with caramel and peanuts covered in chocolate, which would be rather odd things to wear under most circumstances.They also won't last more than a few steps. And any one with a carpet is coming after you with a crowbar.
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@HardwareGeek said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Snickers are candy bars with caramel and peanuts covered in chocolate, which would be rather odd things to wear under most circumstances.
Oh. For some reason google didn't even bat an eye with the apparent spellar.
Oh, that's probably why...
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This unlock code
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@cartman82 it's just 01189998819991197253
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The teen stripper, arson and the telltale potato
A 19-year-old Connecticut woman was arrested this week on charges of second-degree arson, third-degree burglary and first-degree criminal mischief for allegedly setting fire to two businesses in September.
Willow Martin worked at Hollywood Connecticut Strip Club, where she was chummy with fellow dancer Breonna Constantino. Constantino and Martin took a summer trip to New Jersey in 2015 but their friendship would not last, once Constantino asked Martin for a loan to go clothes shopping.
Martin's boyfriend, Matthew Garguilo, who was arrested on July 7 in connection with the fire, said Martin gave Constantino $1,200. Garguilo told authorities that Martin was angry with Constantino for being slow to repay the loan so she hatched a plan for revenge, Garguilo said she texted him that she wanted to burn down the building that housed Constantino's stepfather's business.
On the night of Sept. 15, 2015, a fire damaged two shops: Golden Wok Chinese Restaurant, and also Masonry Inc, and Chimney, both located in the same building in the town of Prospect, Conn. Police determined it was arson. Masonry Inc. and Chimney is owned by Constantino's stepfather.
When Constantino's stepfather arrived at the scene, he discovered a potato stuffed in the tailpipe of a Masonry Inc. and Chimney van. In Hollywood logic, a potato lodged in a tailpipe will cause cars to explode. In reality, according to people who know cars, the engine will stall when anything blocks the exhaust. Anecdotally, if the potato is not sufficiently mashed, it can be expelled with great force.
The police say the potato led them to Martin when the stepfather handed the potato over to the police and forensic examination revealed Garguilo's DNA. He confessed to touching the potato, but said he gave it to Martin and blamed her for stuffing it into the van's pipe.
Garguilo is being held on a $35,000 bond. Martin, who was already incarcerated for possessing heroin and allegedly trying to pay a toll with counterfeit bills, had her bond set at $110,000 pending a Wednesday arraignment.
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@El_Heffe Wow, that's an entire smorgasbord of dumbfuckery.
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@El_Heffe said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The police say the potato led them to Martin when the stepfather handed the potato over to the police
Effing snitch!
(the potato, I mean)
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Bad idea: Intel's driver finder. It'll cheerfully download 8 drivers and run the installers one after another. Oh, too bad the idiots who wrote the driver installers didn't work together with the idiots who wrote the finder! The first driver (probably) wants to reboot, but was called in a way that it doesn't. So the finder marks it as failed, and then every single other installer fails.
Fortunately, you can run them manually, one at a time. But some of them just don't seem to want to take, like the IR one, which I've apparently uninstalled and reinstalled like 4 times now. Even after installing it, the old one's still there.
Special shout-out to the people who renumbered one driver from 10.x to 6.x, the latter apparently being newer.
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@FrostCat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
10.x to 6.x, the latter apparently being newer.
Makes sense. It's like when Java went from version 1.5 to 6.
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@ben_lubar said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's like when Java went from version 1.5 to 6.
Not really.
1.5
at least has the good grace to be smaller than6
under both numeric and alphabetic collations…
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@FrostCat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Special shout-out to the people who renumbered one driver from 10.x to 6.x, the latter apparently being newer.
People like that need a special purple dildo that's been enlarged and pushed in so far that it is mistaken for their tongue.
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@FrostCat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
You're the kind of person who pastes screenshots into Word documents before attaching the latter into emails, aren't you, you son of a bitch.
I know this post was months ago, but this is still on topic for the thread: I have actually had the following interaction with Oracle support.
OS: "Please attach screenshots of x, y, and z."
Me: attaches screenshots in a .zip
OS: "I could not open your .zip, please send individual pictures"
Me: attaches screenshots as individual .pngs
OS: "Still couldn't read them, please paste them into a Word document and attach that"So I did that and they could finally see the pictures. Which didn't add anything to the original problem description, but that's SOP for Oracle support.
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@Zecc Was 'WTF?' considered too subversive to translate? And the second question mark, it seems.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Which
didn't add anything to the original problem descriptionadded billable hours to the support ticket, but that's SOP for Oracle support.
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Using the mute key as a keyboard shortcut for anything that isn't muting.
Specially if it's something destructive.
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And what's up with calling Enter, Zoom?
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@Zecc said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
And what's up with calling
EnterReturn, Zoom?FTFY
Filed under: command-meta-altGr
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@Zecc What's with the colors? Did a 10-year-old make that infographic? Did they someone manage to release that to the public without anybody in marketing touching it? Christ.
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@Zecc said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
And what's up with calling Enter, Zoom?
TIL: if you are looking at an album, Enter causes the first picture to zoom, like if you'd clicked on it.
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@dkf said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
choose names that it's hard for anyone to get upset over, such as battles of the Revolutionary War.
Or Jewish towns the Nazis burned down. Oh wait...
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@Zecc why can't they just give me an
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without having a giant cat paw slide all over my screen
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@FrostCat Just that it's so hideously ugly. Color-coding is fine, lots of places do that. (Although I imagine this particular variant is TERRIBLE for color-blind people, something that should have been caught before release.) The black background makes it look like some 10 year old's Call of Duty fan site. The lack of any white (black?) space makes the captions virtually impossible to read comfortably. (Not to mention the use of the great blue-on-black color combination.)
It's just really amateurish and awful, yet the caption at the top implies it was actually made by someone working at Imgur. Just surprises me that a company would put something that unprofessional out.
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@blakeyrat Gotcha. Those are all valid complaints, yeah.
That image is, in fact, used on their help pages, so it must be official.
Your continued capacity for surprise at amateurish behavior surprises me, and I was called cynical when I was 9.
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@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Not to mention the use of the great blue-on-black color combination.
It beats brown-on-hot-pink. I wish I didn't know that by experience…
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@Maciejasjmj But they called both Enter and Return "Zoom".
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@FrostCat Yeah but they're not some shitty open source project, they're an actual company that makes actual money. That's the surprising part.
The less surprising part is that people on this forum who love open source-y shit and generally have no ability to recognize bugs don't see the image as amateurish.
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@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Yeah but they're not some shitty open source project, they're an actual company that makes actual money.
Do they? I'm not sure how they would monetize the site; I just always sort of assumed they were bleeding venture capital or something.
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@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
they're an actual company that makes actual money. That's the surprising part.
Are you really surprised that a company is shit?
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@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The black background makes it look like some 10 year old's Call of Duty fan site.
Have you been to imgur lately?
@blakeyrat said in â€đź™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
amateurish
Read the "best comments" column in the screenshot I capped. I'm pretty sure their target demographic won't care.