🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Why won't the government just tell me already‽
Because they're too busy working out which country to blame next for wiretapping the Toupé In Chief?
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@RaceProUK
Psh. Wiretapping was last week's buzzword. Get with the times, we're looking for who to blame for incidentally surveilling the Deallosermaker in Chief
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The 'Send to Compressed (zipped) folder' feature will omit any directories that start with a period character. But wait, the '.metadata' directory in the Eclipse workspace starts with a period and it was successfully included in the archive, so what gives? I did a bit of experimenting and it appears that only directories after the first directory are omitted.
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@abarker Because when a new apple product comes out, you are honor bound to buy one.
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FileUnder: Building desktop app based on NodeJS is NOT a good idea
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@TimeBandit to be fair, a simple CSS two-step blink animation really shouldn't cause the CPU usage to spike like that.
And I'm guessing the person has an 8-core processor, and 13% CPU is 100% of a core.
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@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
to be fair, a simple CSS two-step blink animation really shouldn't cause the CPU usage to
To be honest, an IDE/Text editor shouldn't consume 4.5gig of RAM while I only have 2 PHP file opened.
I uninstalled the damned thing and went back to NetBeans
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@Magus said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@abarker Because when a new apple product comes out, you are honor bound to buy one.
I must not have any honor left then, cause I haven't bought an Apple product in 11 or 12 years. And, if memory serves, that was the only Apple product I've ever purchased.
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@TimeBandit yeah but in this case, they got bit hard for doing things correctly...
Seems like a logical, good, non-WTF way of animating the cursor, right? We're supposed to be using CSS animations instead of intervals and timeouts, right?
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@abarker I was given an iPad and I sold it.
I know, I know. You're not supposed to sell a gift.
But in my defense, it was an Apple product
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@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
in this case, they got bit hard for doing things correctly
If they would have done things correctly, they wouldn't have based it on NodeJS
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@abarker said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Magus said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@abarker Because when a new apple product comes out, you are honor bound to buy one.
I must not have any honor left then, cause I haven't bought an Apple product in 11 or 12 years. And, if memory serves, that was the only Apple product I've ever purchased.
Apple. Not even once.
Apart from iDevices I had while I was an iDeveloper, but those were purchased by work, not me.
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@obeselymorbid I was weak. I wanted an iPod Video. I haven't even touched an Apple product since it died. I swear!
Can I ever have this stain removed?!
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@abarker said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Can I ever have this stain removed?!
Well, when a stain can't be removed, it can always be covered with a worst stain.
So, you could always buy a Windows phone
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@TimeBandit said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@abarker said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Can I ever have this stain removed?!
Well, when a stain can't be removed, it can always be covered with a worst stain.
So, you could always buy a Windows phone
NO.
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@RaceProUK said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I'll admit I didn't read it very carefully, but it didn't immediately strike me as bad.
The shape puts a whole lotta torque on the vertical sides during construction, if they're not already joined together.
There's a reason that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is spread out the way it is:
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@RaceProUK said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
And because the onebox is teh dum:
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BByAXKS.img?h=1080&w=1920&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=fHasn't Coca-Cola done the same thing just a few months ago? And it kind of sucked?
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Hasn't Coca-Cola done the same thing just a few months ago? And it kind of sucked?
If they did, I musta missed it
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@Maciejasjmj Never seen it here
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Currently, the ‘world first’ is only available in Australia and New Zealand
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@Maciejasjmj I'd try it. I like ginger. Not sure how well it'd go in Coke, but I'd try it.
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@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Maciejasjmj I'd try it. I like ginger. Not sure how well it'd go in Coke, but I'd try it.
I think the consensus was "it's basically Coke with a subtle hint of ginger, kind of".
I like Vanilla Coke (unfortunately we usually need to import it), but the taste is rather subtle there too.
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@djls45 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The shape puts a whole lotta torque on the vertical sides during construction, if they're not already joined together.
There's a reason that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is spread outWould it make any difference if it was a pointed arch? Just out of idle curiosity.
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I like Vanilla Coke (unfortunately we usually need to import it)
I'm pleased that the Freestyle machines are rolling out more and more. That seems to neatly solve the issue of most places near me not carrying fruit flavors of soda.
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@CarrieVS said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The shape puts a whole lotta torque on the vertical sides during construction, if they're not already joined together.
There's a reason that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is spread outWould it make any difference if it was a pointed arch? Just out of idle curiosity.
A little, perhaps, but that would still put a lot of pressure against the sides. The optimal shape for an arch is the same shape, but inverted vertically, as a string or chain hanging freely from the ends, because that best provides support for the entire structure with a minimum of shear stress.
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I like Vanilla Coke
Finally! Some else who likes it! :D
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@RaceProUK I love extra flavors in my drinks (except I don't drink alcohol).
I've done this a couple of times: some of my friends would get a cup and fill it with a variety of the options from the drink machine without my seeing what they picked and then ask me what they had mixed together. I'd get it right every time. The hardest one was when they had put orange juice and Mountain Dew (and a bunch of other stuff) in the cup, since MD has orange juice in it, but I thought that there was a tad more orange than usual, so I did get it right. :)
Orange juice and hot chocolate is really good together, but make absolutely sure that there's no dairy in the mix.
Orange juice and chocolate milk is terrible.
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@djls45 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
OrangeAny citrus juice andchocolatemilk is terrible.FTFY. I think it's chemistry or something...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
OrangeAnycitrusacidicjuiceliquid andchocolatemilk is terrible.FTFY. I think it's chemistry or something...
FTFTFYFY
And it is chemistry: the acid curdles the milk. ;)
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@djls45 to be more precise, the acid denatures the milk proteins. Denaturing can be accomplished in various ways (heating is one of the most common, but acid is another; certain catalysts such as rennet can also be used) and the effect on proteins tends to coagulate and solidify them. It may or may not change the chemical makeup of the protein by breaking it into several fragments, but at the very least it alters its shape, causing it to unwind. Once unwound, it tends to become entangled with other protein molecules and they clump together, and you end up with curdled lumps, or even one large, solid mass (such as a cooked egg white).
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@djls45 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
the same shape, but inverted vertically, as a string or chain hanging freely from the ends
That shape is called a catenary (from Latin catēna, chain), or — unsurprisingly — when inverted, an inverted catenary. Not coincidentally, that is precisely the shape of the aforementioned Saint Louis Gateway Arch.
TIL that it is the optimal shape for an arch; I always thought a semicircle was the ideal. I knew that the shape is almost but not quite a parabola; TIL it is a rotated hyperbolic cosine. (It's quite possible I knew this once, but if so, I'd long forgotten it.)
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@RaceProUK said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I like Vanilla Coke
Finally! Some else who likes it! :D
I tried making my own once by adding a little vanilla extract to Coke. The result was not pleasing. Coke changes something else to make vanilla Coke taste like vanilla Coke. (Or it's possible I just put too much vanilla in it.)
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
adding a little vanilla extract to Come.
Well, I guess people have done stranger things, like a vaginal yoghurt.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I tried making my own once by adding a little vanilla extract to Come.
I would be REALLY surprised if that ends up tasting like Vanilla Coke
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@TimeBandit said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I would be REALLY surprised if that ends up tasting like Vanilla Coke
I blame autocorrect.
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@HardwareGeek I blame it on the thread title
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
TIL that it is the optimal shape for an arch; I always thought a semicircle was the ideal.
Yes; as @djls45 pointed out, the catenary maximizes tensile (or, when inverted, compressive) forces, and minimizes shear forces. This is clear from the case of a hanging rope or chain. As it is flexible, it cannot withstand shear forces at all; any shear forces will simply move the rope or chain into a position where the shear forces disappear (same for compressive forces). It is only strong to withstand tensile forces. So, when it's hanging supported from both ends, the force of gravity pulls it into the shape where the shear forces are zero -- the force vectors at any point are parallel to the rope at that point, and it's under pure tensile force at every point in the curve.
So, for the same reason that materials which perform well under tension and not under compression or shear will naturally form the shape of a catenary, it's also the most natural shape for materials which perform optimally under compression -- most building materials.
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@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
minimizes shear forces
Indeed. I think someone a long time ago, perhaps in high school, or even earlier, once said semicircular was the strongest, and I never questioned it. And as an electronic, not mechanical or civil, engineer, I guess I never took whatever class would have corrected that error.
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@TimeBandit said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@HardwareGeek I blame it on the thread title
I agree that it would be a bad idea.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
minimizes shear forces
Indeed. I think someone a long time ago, perhaps in high school, or even earlier, once said semicircular was the strongest, and I never questioned it. And as an electronic, not mechanical or civil, engineer, I guess I never took whatever class would have corrected that error.
Semicircular is the strongest against forces perpendicular to the curve. A good example of this would be a dam; the hydrostatic force of the water will push against it perpendicular to its surface, regardless of how it is curved.
The catenary is strongest against a parallel force field (perpendicular to its highest or lowest point), such as gravity.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I blame autocorrect.
Autocorrect ... Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
: p, a, r, a (NB: "para" is a word meaning "to" in Portuguese) : parapsicopataYes, it means "psychopath". No, no I've never used the word in my phone.
e, s, c, r, i, t— (NB: "escritório" means "office") : escritescroto"Scrotum". Never used either.
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@Zecc said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Portuguese
I installed another input keyboard on my phone because I occasionally need diacritics not available on the default English keyboard, which only includes the ones common in western European languages, not eastern. Now, not only does it suggest Polish words in the middle of English sentences, it puts red squiggles under perfectly valid English words. But not consistently, of course; that would be too, um, consistent.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Now, not only does it suggest Polish words in the middle of English sentences, it puts red squiggles under perfectly valid English words. But not consistently, of course; that would be too, um, consistent.
Yes, I've had times where it suggested "correcting" a word it itself autocompleted in one language using words in another language.
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https://www.firebox.com/Pornogami/p7164
At least it's not a popup book.
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