🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Graphic designer responds to Craigslist advert, hilarity ensues...
Graphic design is hard. Really hard.
I see what they did there! <sarcasm>Funny stuff!</sarcasm>
Filed under: A bone of contention
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Looks like a half-hearted attempt at mimicking David Thorne. Or Photoshop Troll.
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It's from Textastrophe, but of course you won't find the original attribution on FunnyOrDie.
Fake edit: I checked the "Bro Bible" link at the bottom and that article credits the original.
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Bad idea: attempting to filter HTML by assuming everything is valid except the bits you say aren't.
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Uploading a 1GB archive with my internet connection.
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That's faster than I get for uploading but that's what I get for house sharing with people that still use AOL.
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I feel you man.
Hey, the hell? I want to prove my upload sucks and it goes up to half a megabit? Come on man!
Filed under: Yes, that's a lot by standards of my connection
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I'm currently running about 6mbps down and 0.39mbps up... I wouldn't mind but I'm in a decent sized town (30k ish people) and this is a better than average net connection.
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They had to invent a new grade for my internet.
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Ok, that IS worse. You have my honest condolences.
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To be fair, I'm still uploading that file.
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That's terrible for being in Murika.
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Just dropping this in this thread...
Obviously links work in quotes.. but quotes are not designed to carry formatting beyond the most basic kind.
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Uploading a 1GB archive with my internet connection.
Next time send it to me and I'll upload it for you.
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Next time send it to me and I'll upload it for you.
Sure, I'll just upload it so I can email it to you and--
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Oh, don't bother uploading. Just copy it to your Dropbox, or drag it to WeTransfer window or share a folder...
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Next time send it to me and I'll upload it for you.
Why don't you link to the actual speedtest result (click Share this result, then click the Image tab)?
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Why don't you link to the actual speedtest result (click Share this result, then click the Image tab)?
Because clicking twice is so much harder than cropping a screenshot.
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Why don't you link to the actual speedtest result (click Share this result, then click the Image tab)?
I have an allergy towards links that say "Share", so I never clicked it and I didn't know that existed.@ben_lubar said:Because clicking twice is so much harder than cropping a screenshot.
Cropping is included in the act of taking a screenshot:
And it's three clicks actually:
- Click "Share this result"
- Click Embed tab
- Click "Copy"
Pasting is common to both methods:
But, I'll admit, it's less steps than:
- Press PrtScr
- Press Enter
- Select region
- Press Enter again ("Copy to clipboard" is selected by default)
Filed under: first time taking a screenshot of the "Take a screenshot" window
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Bad idea: having you cocaine-laden banana boxes delivered to a supermarket. Again.
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Somebody's going to get fired over that.
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That reminds me of our old 28.8k dialup connection.
We had a 56k modem... didn't matter one bit because we lived in the fucking sticks.
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Different things. I have a fucking stick. We lived in the fucking sticks.
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7 results? Oh a real common expression then. Maybe you should abbreviate it: LITFS. That sounds catchy.
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That reminds me of our old 14.4k dialup connection.
We had a 56k modem... didn't matter one bit because we lived in the fucking suburban area of a large city.
FTFM
Filed under: Fixed that for my-own-experience-as-a-youth
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Hey, it's not the rest of the world's fault that US network speeds are usually so poor. It's not even the fault of the size of the country (unless you really are out in the true sticks with the hicks). It's the fault of decades of underinvestment and lack of true competition; you don't need a planned (by the telco monopoly/oligopoly) economy, you need a real free market.
Cue the But Socialism… derail in 5… 4… 3…
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I always gave USA'a ultrashitty internet a pass because of the landscape (the Dutch landscape and population distribution is damn near perfect for internet, which logically means other countries may not be so well-suited), but you're making me doubt that lenience.
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if it's anything like here, it's not that they can't upgrade all the shitty infrastructure and given everyone a decent connection, it's that doing so costs money. Here, the notion of the government spending money is anathema, especially on something as frivolous as internet access. We'll just use it to pirate more Game of Thrones anyway.
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I always gave USA'a ultrashitty internet a pass because of the landscape (the Dutch landscape and population distribution is damn near perfect for internet, which logically means other countries may not be so well-suited), but you're making me doubt that lenience.
Large parts of the US, while not as flat as Holland, are still entirely non-problematic in terms of topography for internet building. Their internet problems —independently measured IIRC — come from something else. I've seen analysis (but can't remember where right now) that pointed the finger at lack of realistic competition and problems with regulatory capture (these being closely linked problems).
I find it hilarious that The Land Of The Free has these sorts of problems, and even funnier that they get upset when one suggests the application of a more free market approach.
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...lack of realistic competition and problems with regulatory capture...
I find it hilarious that The Land Of The Free has these sorts of problems, and even funnier that they get upset when one suggests the application of a more free market approach.
Sadly, the proposed solutions for regulatory capture are typically...more regulation and regulators.
Filed Under: Doing it wrong
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Sadly, the proposed solutions for regulatory capture are typically...more regulation and regulators.
Part of the problem is that it seems that the worst of the regulatory capture is at the state (and lower) level, so everything is tangled up in the whole interface between the Feds and the States. I suspect that the right way to actually make progress involves substantial numbers of prosecutions for corrupt practices, which is why the real focus of lobbying is probably on making sure that nobody cracks down that way.We had similar problems in the UK back in the 1990s. BT — the incumbent national telco, though no longer public owned — was a behemoth that had little interest in making infrastructure improvements and every interest in bilking customers for as much as possible. I don't know how fast the internet was back then; it was so expensive that I didn't try to find out. It was fixed by regulation — fought against tooth and nail — forcing the separation of the infrastructure company and the services company; the infrastructure side had to sell the right to use the physical connectivity to any ISP who wanted to have that customer, plus the space in the relevant exchange to put the endpoint (the services side is the side that end customers actually have contracts with). That broke the key monopolistic stranglehold and made a big difference to the service that a lot of people get and how much they pay for it. BT are still a very big company, with a lot of customers who still grouse about service costs and levels, but they don't screw over people nearly so badly as I can remember them doing. They really were grasping bastards.
Would a similar approach work for you guys? I don't know. But I do know that breaking the incestuous coupling between services, infrastructure and regulation is important. And very difficult, especially because the worst abuses are relatively hidden by being local abuses.
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Oh boy, politics...
There goes the thread.
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I suspect that the right way to actually make progress involves substantial numbers of prosecutions for corrupt practices, which is why the real focus of lobbying is probably on making sure that nobody cracks down that way.
Doubtful. The real scandal isn't what's illegal, but what's legal.
But let's get back to other bad ideas, like butt implants gone wrong.
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; What's with all the whitespace in the source code?
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That chrome powered notebook is having lot of potential, but I am thinking that little bacground process is doing some funny stuff.
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Works for me.
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I got the same thing as @Zecc - ip geolocation based content (or lack of it) may be?
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That reminds me of our old 14.4k dialup connection.
FTFM
Filed under: Fixed that for my-own-experience-as-a-youth
Actually we did have a 14.4k modem for a little while, we bought and installed a 56k to upgrade our connection, which turned out to be a waste of money since it could barely connect over 14.4k anyway!
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Actually we did have a 14.4k modem for a little while, we bought and installed a 56k to upgrade our connection, which turned out to be a waste of money since it could barely connect over 14.4k anyway!
this is where JSON is very useful compare to XML. you can send json string back and forth quickly over telephone wires.
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Giving @ben_lubar a lot of likes is indeed a bad idea.
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Using black text on dark background in high contrast theme:
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Using black text on dark background in high contrast theme:
This is the stuff that spy masters in Cairo used during the rein of Byzantine Empire.
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I clicked "Rebuild Solution" instead of "Build Solution" so now I have to wait while it recompiles all my files for no reason.
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I think the reason you have to wait is because you clicked "Rebuild Solution" instead of "Build Solution."