🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Yeah, that's a good one. Gordon Brown was a bit of an easy target, but it doesn't make it any less funny :-)
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And Blair would be one for the Evil Ideas thread.
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Pretending an english professor is a scientist.
"Hence, I’ve always believed that an English professor discussing the feminist implications of a medieval manuscript is as much a scientist as the microbiologist analyzing the impact of a particular chemical agent on cell reproduction."
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Typical academic type, focusing on stupid minutia that doesn't matter.
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OK, so at first they say they include other things with scientist (like economists) which seems like they are just including social scientists. One could quibble with that, but it seems relatively reasonable.
Then they give three examples of analysis. 1, 2, or 3. 1 is listed as the scientific method and 3 is listed as:
may occur by analyzing the results of a participant observation study or a series of focus group conversations
Which is basically social science stuff. OK. 2 is:it may occur through verbal analysis of text
Which is linguistics so again not hard sciences, but acceptable.But going from that to English because you don't like using "Scholar"? Wha?
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OK, so at first they say they include other things with scientist (like economists) which seems like they are just including social scientists. One could quibble with that, but it seems relatively reasonable.
Those at least try to make predictions about the world.
The problem with a lot of the sorts of things mentioned is that they don't make predictions and there isn't a way to verify or falsify them. And not in a, "Well, not yet," manner like string theory is or relativity originally was. They're just trying to rescue their credibility by piggy backing on other who still have some.
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Filed under: FaithInHumanity = FaithInHumanity - 1;
Error: signed underflow: int32 cannot hold value -2147483649
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Pretending an english professor is a scientist.
"Hence, I’ve always believed that an English professor discussing the feminist implications of a medieval manuscript is as much a scientist as the microbiologist analyzing the impact of a particular chemical agent on cell reproduction."
I'm not sure this doesn't belong on the evil ideas thread.Filed under: Persuasively redefining science: what could possibly go wrong?
Or maybe we need a "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" thread...
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As a C/C++ programmer, defining
FaithInHumanity
as adouble
has helped me avoid bipolar disorder.
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Error: signed underflow: int32 cannot hold value -2147483649
I've been using Int64 for a while now.
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Asking for a reference from an employer that you've somewhat irked.
Filed under: clearly Australia doesn't have the same laws about job references that we have in the UK
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Thing is, those kinds of references can also problematic even without the restrictive laws around them. For example: if they've not left yet then it just keeps them around.
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With a reference like that, I'm surprised he wasn't fired.
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Me too, it's quite difficult to get rid of someone in some countries though.
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True. I guess it depends on whether they could document his failure to perform his official job duties.
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I know in the UK that you need to give someone warnings and demonstrate that you've attempted to work to improve the situation to no avail, unless you can demonstrate that they've committed something that constitutes gross misconduct, then you can fire them on the spot.
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And now you have two dictators.
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I know in the UK that [it is hard to fire someone]
And now you have two dictators.
QFT.
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RegEx is like a religion for some people. It is definitely a useful tool to have in your belt, but some people treat it like a damned fix-all. Example:
And that is not even close to all of them...
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jQuery is obviously the correct response.
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Back in my day, we complained about Javascript but we really meant DOM. Uphill, both ways.
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Asking for a reference from an employer that you've somewhat irked.
So, they've redacted the author's name, but not their signature or Todd's name?
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Asking for a reference from an employer that you've somewhat irked.
Shame really - a positive reference would have been worth its weight in gold.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be going soon...
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Had to read it twice, then had to clean the coffee up that came out of my mouth/nose
Filed under: kudos
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Arbitrary limits. #512KDay
Graph: "Oops.. better revert some of those, quick..." as could be heard in the NOCs...
Graph link: Here.
Story:
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I think this belongs in this thread...
Edit - image changed slightly - the original was slightly ambiguous:
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Florida man accused of killing his roommate asked Siri where to hide the body, court hears
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9665427.ece/alternates/w460/Pic_1.JPG
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Florida Man is one of my favorite things to follow on twitter.
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Is he related to either of these two?
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- Noticing that Discourse hides “new” status for older topics after returning from vacation.
- Changing the “Consider topics new when” setting to “you haven’t viewed them yet”
- Starting to read everything
Filed under: Only ~200 topics to go
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Changing the “Consider topics new when” setting to “you haven’t viewed them yet”
I did that over at meta.d....
Filed under: Only ~200 topics to go
Getting that down to <400 may have something to do with my earlier post since I thought my attendance was what was stopping me (having been a member since back in Feb and until recently hadn't really visited that frequently)....
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This time the venue is Pier 66 at the 2011 Fountain New York Art Fair, where Canadian performance artist Martine Viale thrills and captivates passers-by, armed only with a carrier bag of bobbins and a head wrapped in yarn. The powerful climax is rather special.
Filed Under: the climax isn't what you wish
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Cross posting from the Likes topic:
Just browsing on meta.d and ... What in the name of everything holy
https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-q-a/18750
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That was more of a rant than any sort of informative article.
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informative article
The Register. The online equivalent of the print version of The Daily Mail, (the online version of the latter bears little resemblance to the print version for those that don't know.) It gives you sufficient information and keywords to know that thing exists and enough to allow you to google more if you want to, but doesn't quite provide enough substance to those that are actually interested....
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Having to Google more is a barrier to reading.
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A true pedant would know that minutia is an acceptable form. A quick Google search will verify that
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acceptable
A true pedant knows the ways words should be spelled, not just how they can be.
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Bad Idea: Using the LiveCD version of OS to write a review about how shit the new OS is, when you should have used either the network (lite) or DVD (full-on) versions for the install where your ignorance might not have shone so brightly..
The boring background to finding this, for those interested:
I have some shiny new stuff arriving soon for a home system I won't be the primary user for (but will certainly be admin for) and am rooting around for the best host OS. Said user will be using Windows, and the system is fully capable of running even 8.1, if I get it, in a VM to some standard of competence. I was looking for stuff on Centos 7.
I want to use some of the capacity in the system to replace what some of you may have noticed in my
bash
C&P's aspjh@sofa
.The latter of which is a laptop. Guess where it spends most of its time. Or maybe, knowing you lot, no. Don't.
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No operating system, but it comes with a copy of Thief?
That's weird.
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No operating system, but it comes with a copy of Thief?
Extra crap to obtain it from what I gathered. I won't be bothering. ("Just send a SAE to...." sorta stuff.)
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Bad Idea: Using the LiveCD version of OS to write a review about how shit the new OS is, when you should have used either the network (lite) or DVD (full-on) versions for the install where your ignorance might not have shone so brightly..
That guy gave the previous version of Mint XFCE a raving review. Turns out that OS had some kind of kernel memory leak that only becomes noticeable after several hours of serious work. I guess a few hours of playing around the installer aren't enough to form the full picture, huh?
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[spoiler]
[/spoiler]Apparently, this is some kind of jewelry you hook up into your veins so blood can flow through decoratively. Probably a hoax, but still a terrible terrible idea.
@ben_lubar was triggered to his druggie days, thus the spoiler tags.
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wtf is wrong with people?
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Can you
[spoiler]
that image?