🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's better than the other one; that just looked like a tragic accident in a black blob warehouse.
I don't know what your browser did to it. It looked mostly fine on Chrome. Some of the elements didn't line up quite right, but my cellphone QR app had no problem reading it.
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@r10pez10 That was pretty neat. Most weren't broken enough though.
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And now my QR scan history is full of this guy's website....
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Working with time is the bane of any programmer. So what do we use?
...Unix time?
...DateTime?
No, that's not trendy enough:
I think I mentioned this as a bad idea previously, but I had no knowledge of a working library that implemented such an idea.
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@Lathun said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Zecc said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Why even have cup holders inside a car?
They're only there to piss you off when they're too small to hold Gatorade bottles.
Wait, you aren't supposed to pour the Gatorade into the cup (holder) and drink it using a straw?
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@Sumireko said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Working with time is the bane of any programmer. So what do we use?
...Unix time?
...DateTime?
No, that's not trendy enough:
I think I mentioned this as a bad idea previously, but I had no knowledge of a working library that implemented such an idea.
In 2012 (because of the Mayan end times BS) at work, I did an April fools day joke about the upcoming adoption of the Mayan calendar. The centerpiece was a command I built that converted Gregorian dates to Mayan calendar dates and vice-versa.
Should still work.
But the joke was a bad idea...had to explain it to, like, everyone.
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@coderpatsy said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Lathun said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@mott555 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Zecc said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Why even have cup holders inside a car?
They're only there to piss you off when they're too small to hold Gatorade bottles.
Wait, you aren't supposed to pour the Gatorade into the cup (holder) and drink it using a straw?
It's a cup holder--it holds cups. It is not a Gatorade holder.
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Then you hopefully realized that the ability to redirect users to arbitrary URLs has existed for decades (malvertising, spam emails, XSS, MitM, etc) and is actually a pretty shitty attack vector since browsers are built with malicious websites in mind.
Yes, but there's a difference.
Malvertising, spam emails, etc, all require you to trick the user or hack a webserver. There is a layer of distrust in the content that you have to overcome.
Someone who buys this book is doing so with explicit trust in the book, and with the explicit intention of blindly following those links. They believe the QR code will go to http://example.com/grumpycat and have already decided to follow the QR code. I don't have to trick them into scanning the QR code and following the link.
I could even be sneaky and make the QR code go to http://pwnd.example.com/grumpycat which redirects to goatse.
And there is no virus scanner in the world that will scan a printed book and ensure the CRC integrity of the QR codes. All I have to do is paste my own QR code over the existing one.
I can do a really good job to make the pasted code look seemless. Or bank on people not noticing caring. Or social engineer by adding a slip of paper with "Some QR codes had to be updated after print. For your convenience, this book seller has updated the QR code with stickers. Apologies for the inconvenience. - Random House Publishing"
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@Sumireko said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
MayanDateTime - A library for working with dates in the Maya calendar system
I think @blakeyrat made a library like that for the hell of it.
It could have a niche use-- people studying the Mayan culture would find it nice to easily map today's date to the Mayan calendar for reference.
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@Lorne-Kates said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It could have a niche use-- people studying the Mayan culture would find it nice to easily map today's date to the Mayan calendar for reference.
Just like Unicode, someone should make "Unitime", a library that can represent datetimes in every single calendar that has ever been used.
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@Lorne-Kates it also doesn't require you to make the user install a virus to make their speakers play really loud terrible music or show goats having sex or whatever.
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@anonymous234 including 'year 1900 mode'?
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The top prosecutor in Los Angeles announced Friday that he had filed criminal charges against a former Playboy Playmate who allegedly took nude photographs of a 70-year-old woman while in the shower room at a local gym earlier this year.
The model, Dani Mathers, is reported to have taken the photo of the woman in July 2016. She then posted it to Snapchat with the caption: “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.”
As a result of the alleged incident, Mathers was banned from all LA Fitness locations.
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@El_Heffe In Soviet Russia, playmate sees you naked.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Couldn't a trick like the Sans Bullshitsans font does to do it? I don't recall exactly how it worked so maybe I'm way off base....
For ligatures to work, a font has to have a GSUB table (the Glyph Substitution table), which has entries about which combination of letters should be replaced by a ligature. It’ll say “for the letter combination f and i, show the fi-ligature.”
The GSUB table would have to be pretty large to deal with all the possible combinations - even the SBS one is just over 300 lines, consisting of stuff like
$ ttx -o - ~/.local/share/fonts/SansBullshitSans.ttf | cat -n [...] 24363 <LigatureSet glyph="t"> 24364 <Ligature components="e,e,space,o,f,f" glyph="uniE601"/> 24365 <Ligature components="o,l,l,g,a,t,e" glyph="uniE601"/> 24366 <Ligature components="h,e,space,c,l,o,u,d" glyph="uniE601"/> 24367 <Ligature components="i,g,e,r,space,t,e,a,m" glyph="uniE601"/> 24368 <Ligature components="o,u,c,h,space,b,a,s,e" glyph="uniE601"/> 24369 <Ligature components="o,p,space,o,f,space,m,i,n,d" glyph="uniE601"/> 24370 <Ligature components="o,u,c,h,p,o,i,n,t,s" glyph="uniE601"/> 24371 <Ligature components="r,a,n,s,p,a,r,e,n,t" glyph="uniE601"/> 24372 <Ligature components="r,i,c,k,t,h,r,o,u,g,h" glyph="uniE600"/> 24373 <Ligature components="e,a,m,space,b,u,i,l,d,i,n,g" glyph="uniE600"/> 24374 <Ligature components="r,a,n,s,g,e,n,e,r,a,t,e" glyph="uniE600"/> 24375 <Ligature components="h,o,u,g,h,t,space,l,e,a,d,e,r" glyph="uniE600"/> 24376 <Ligature components="a,k,e,space,i,t,space,o,f,f,l,i,n,e" glyph="uniE600"/> 24377 </LigatureSet>
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@El_Heffe said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The top prosecutor in Los Angeles announced Friday that he had filed criminal charges against a former Playboy Playmate who allegedly took nude photographs of a 70-year-old woman while in the shower room at a local gym earlier this year.
The model, Dani Mathers, is reported to have taken the photo of the woman in July 2016. She then posted it to Snapchat with the caption: “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.”
Meh. Mathers was Miss May 2014. Beginning in March 2016, even Playboy centerfolds aren't naked.
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@da-Doctah said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Beginning in March 2016, even Playboy centerfolds aren't naked.
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@Lorne-Kates said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Sumireko said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
MayanDateTime - A library for working with dates in the Maya calendar system
I think @blakeyrat made a library like that for the hell of it.
It could have a niche use-- people studying the Mayan culture would find it nice to easily map today's date to the Mayan calendar for reference.
Except that wouldn't any date after 2012 be undefined?
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@El_Heffe said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The top prosecutor in Los Angeles announced Friday
The LA top prosecutor can't handle cases this important. This is a matter for the California Attorney General.
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@tharpa said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@El_Heffe said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The top prosecutor in Los Angeles announced Friday
The LA top prosecutor can't handle cases this important. This is a matter for the U.S. Attorney General.
What about the LA Tax Attorney?
He even has an umbrella!
@LATaxAttorney
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@aliceif he'd probably be better accepted if he were a LaTexAttorney
Filed under: whether I mean the language or not is up to reader's interpretation
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@Onyx I suddenly have the thought of a judge not using a gavel but a whip, and 'DENIED' being shouted a lot.
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@Arantor said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Onyx I suddenly have the thought of a judge not using a gavel but a whip, and 'DENIED' being shouted a lot.
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@Arantor said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
a whip, and 'DENIED' being shouted a lot.
Future apologies to my youngest brother for making that a trigger.
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@tharpa said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Except that wouldn't any date after 2012 be undefined?
2012 was just the end of the longest cycle they'd defined. Nothing to stop it looping round again AIUI
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Bad idea: Attempting to run a MS SQL Server on a machine with only 650 MB Ram:
Frickin thing shouldn't even be doing anything yet (It's apparently going to be holding configuration and status information for Direct Access, I guess), but it burned right through what little AWS credits they give you at the start and now I can literally watch the characters print one by one in a console as I ping localhost to verify my insanity....
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@Luhmann said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
verify my insanity
You need to verify that?
It's never a bad idea to be sure...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's never a bad idea to be sure...
Should have just asked ...
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@Luhmann said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It's never a bad idea to be sure...
Should have just asked ...
Are you sure? [Y]es [n]o
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@Tsaukpaetra Of course it's working. @wood implemented the same idea years ago. How do you think was "written"?
Filed Under: That's why he
invented the Internetbacked Sewage Overflow in the first place.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad idea: Attempting to run a MS SQL Server on a machine with only 650 MB Ram:
No kidding. Googled "windows minimum requirements" and for Win7, the min ram is 1G for 32bit and 2G for 64bit.
You're just a sadist...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad idea: Attempting to run a MS SQL Server on a machine with only 650 MB Ram:
When I was in college, students were assigned 1.2 GHz Celeron laptops with 512 MB RAM. I had MS SQL Server Express 2005 on it and it ran just fine for classwork and I recall SQL Server using ~15 MB of RAM.
Then I took a class that required Oracle. That laptop was 100% useless for anything once Oracle was installed on it because it used 100% of RAM while idling.
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@mott555 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad idea: Attempting to run a MS SQL Server on a machine with only 650 MB Ram:
When I was in college, students were assigned 1.2 GHz Celeron laptops with 512 MB RAM. I had MS SQL Server Express 2005 on it and it ran just fine for classwork and I recall SQL Server using ~15 MB of RAM.
Then I took a class that required Oracle. That laptop was 100% useless for anything once Oracle was installed on it because it used 100% of RAM while idling.
By default SQL Server goggles up as much RAM as possible. It was complaining that over 70 percent of the RAM it allocated was paved out, so I just said Use less ram!
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@Karla dang 🎹 ...
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@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
for Win7, the min ram is 1G for 32bit
It works like ass on 1GB, though. And not a very nice ass.
Although it might've been the crappy Atom that did that netbook in, but the RAM probably didn't help matters either.
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@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
for Win7, the min ram is 1G for 32bit
It works like ass on 1GB, though. And not a very nice ass.
Although it might've been the crappy Atom that did that netbook in, but the RAM probably didn't help matters either.
Yup. Minimum has always meant "it runs. well, it walks. ok, it's a fucking space heater, buy more ram!"
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@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
for Win7, the min ram is 1G for 32bit
It works like ass on 1GB, though. And not a very nice ass.
Although it might've been the crappy Atom that did that netbook in, but the RAM probably didn't help matters either.
Yup. Minimum has always meant "it runs. well, it walks. ok, it's a fucking space heater, buy more ram!"
Upgraded to 1 Gb:
Not so good for a space heater. Maybe I should try making it do something now, but it says everything is working...
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Status: Spent a day with family over a four day weekend, and then spent the rest of it playing Factorio and Paragon.
In Factorio, one group, we have super-aggressive aliens. And they have all the oil. So we're invading. With almost no batteries. :/
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@Magus How did this get in a non-status thread? Gah, I messed up...
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@Magus said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Magus How did this get in a non-status thread?Status: Gah, I messed up...
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@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Magus said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Magus How did this get in a non-status thread?Status:Gah, I messed up...This was a bad idea
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"I wonder if I could run virtual machines on this tablet"
"I wonder if I could install Visual Studio on this tablet"
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"I wonder if I could run virtual machines on this tablet"
"I wonder if I could install Visual Studio on this tablet"
"I wonder if Windows Server 2016 Nano will run on this Raspberry Pi?"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"I wonder if I could run virtual machines on this tablet"
"I wonder if I could install Visual Studio on this tablet"
"I wonder if Windows Server 2016 Nano will run on this Raspberry Pi?"
I wonder if I can host a production Discourse instance in a Docker container in a virtual machine on this tablet?
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@mott555 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I wonder if I can host a production Discourse instance in a Docker container in a virtual machine on this tablet?