The Official First World Problems Thread™
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I said "probably". I didn't rule it out.
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sexting
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FWP: I have to wait 5 hours for my recording of space marines killing space aliens on some planet outside of the solar system that fills my entire 1080p screen and runs at 2½ times the frame rate of million dollar Hollywood movies that I made by not touching my computer for 15 minutes to be broadcast to the entire world and possibly also nearby objects outside of the Earth's atmosphere with $0 cost to me.
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I have to wait 5 hours
Get a Sprint unlimited data plan and pay extra for tethering.
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Tell that to the astronauts who are killing the space aliens more than a lightday away.
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Tell that to the astronauts who are killing the space aliens more than a lightday away.
They'd've gotten there faster if you were using 21st century internet speeds.
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You're probably fine as it wasn't started by a certain someone.
I've been told be people other than the certain someone that jokes in Coding Help are inappropriate; please keep it serious to avoid derailing discussion away from actually being helpful. It doesn't ruffle my jimmies, but the certain someone is not the only one who does get ruffled.
Edit: I inadvertently a word that rather changed the meaning of my statement.
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It doesn't ruffle my jimmies, but the certain someone is the only one who does get ruffled.
I think you a word there.
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Good point. I did say "probably" - I didn't guarantee it'd be fine.
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I'm not sure he did. Reads alright to me.
But it makes no sense in the context of the rest of what he said.
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Pipe successfully replaced, ye of little faith.
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But it makes no sense in the context of the rest of what he said.
When did that become a requirement for posting here?
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You sure those words are in the right order?
Oh, Belgium! Um, caffeine deficiency? Yeah, that's it. It must be.
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@Boner said:
nothing can possibly go wrong
"Step up to Red Alert!"Are you sure you want to step up to
bluered alert? It does mean changing the bulb.
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And going dark for 5 minutes first to let the bulb cool down so we can change it?
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Don't know if that would be necessary. I'm pretty sure Kryten has a groinal attachment for that. After all, he can stir your tea that way.
We will also ignore the fact that the quote is from a show taking place in the future and that the idea of them using incandescent bulbs is rather silly. Because it IS Red Dwarf after all and I can see them doing that.
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The set will have been using incandescents at least; LED lighting was still somewhat in its infancy in the 90s
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Well, yes, on the set they did. They also used CRTs. In "reality" though, they probably wouldn't.
FWP: being bothered about our SciFi shows looking outdated...
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Yes but it's a JMC ship, they were cheapskates.
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I've never seen Red Dwarf, but assuming the nature of the original joke I felt the counter-joke was warranted.
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@Onyx said:
our SciFi shows looking outdated
(Haven't watched it yet)That looks awesome though!
I've never seen Red Dwarf, but assuming the nature of the original joke I felt the counter-joke was warranted.
Completely fine and in the spirit, I was just feeling a bit pedantic
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You know I've been watching MASH as my "sitcom to watch while cooking and otherwise wasting time" at home, and it never occurred to me before that Arnold Rimmer is exactly Frank Burns, minus the success with the women. That's the entire character, they just wholesale ripped-off Frank Burns.
When I was a kid, I thought Rimmer was a great character concept, but he's just Frank Burns from MASH. Sigh.
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I'm not sure he is. I have to admit I'm not thoroughly familiar with MASH, had to look it up on Wikipedia to refresh my memory (as it's less of a thing here in general except as filler on comedy re-runs channels)
Burns' character seems to be Dunning-Kruger driven, he never went properly through med school and seems to be unaware of his incompetence and dismissive of everyone else for doing it 'the long way'.
Rimmer on the other hand is completely incompetent, doesn't have that many illusions about it, but tries to rise above. His brothers are all high-fliers, all actually competent, and Rimmer is always trying to compete against that - and failing spectacularly. That said, he does habitually blame others for his failings...
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His brothers are all high-fliers, all actually competent
Someone hasn't watched Series X…
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@Arantor said:
His brothers are all high-fliers, all actually competent
Someone hasn't watched Series X…I stopped watching after series 8 when it had already largely jumped the shark...
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Ah, I see.
Anyway, in one of the episodes in Series X, it's revealed that Howard Rimmer was just like Arnold, a lowly Second Technician.
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So it pisses on both established continuity and the content in the first two books? Way to go.
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To be fair, the series was pissing all over the continuity of the books right from the start, more or less.
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The books came after, loosely based on the first two series.
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Burns' character seems to be Dunning-Kruger driven, he never went properly through med school and seems to be unaware of his incompetence and dismissive of everyone else for doing it 'the long way'.
Huh? Not sure where you read that.
Burns knows he's a worse surgeon than Pierce and MacIntyre. Which is probably why he focuses so much more on his superior military rank when annoying others. Like Rimmer, he's also super-patriotic, knows the military manual inside-and-out and uses it to bug the shit out of people when ever he's put in charge of something, he's the odd-one-out bullied by his roommates, even stuff like cheating at exams is the same.
His rank is the result of being drafted earlier than the other doctors, and being a complete sycophant to his superiors (just like Rimmer is.)
The only practical difference is Burns has a long-term relationship with Hot Lips. (Which I always thought was kind of hypocritical of Pierce-- while you're making fun of this guy for being a loser, he's getting more sex than anybody else at the base with one of the most attractive women there.) And of course a MASH unit isn't a spaceship.
ANYWAY.
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a MASH unit isn't a spaceship.
That's going to disappoint these guys:
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while you're making fun of this guy for being a loser, he's getting more sex than anybody else at the base with one of the most attractive women there.
Except Hawkeye and whoever is his buddy at the time are always running around with various nurses. Just no long term relationships.
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Hawkeye and whoever is his buddy at the time
First few seasons... Trapper, Spearchucker, and Dirty John (??) (floppy moustache guy).
Honnicutt didn't chase the nurses....
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Honnicutt didn't chase the nurses....
Oh, I guess you're right. Still. I'm sure Hawkeye was getting more than Burns.
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Except Hawkeye and whoever is his buddy at the time are always running around with various nurses.
Kind of.
They show Hawkeye getting shot-down a lot, at least in the early seasons.
First few seasons... Trapper, Spearchucker, and Dirty John (??) (floppy moustache guy).
I was surprised they kept the nickname "Spearchucker" from the movie. (I mean, yeah, it's in the movie, but 1970s TV is a lot different environment than 1970s cinema.) Turns out the character kind of just disappears about halfway into season 1 and get replaced by a black nurse whose name I can't remember (EDIT: it's Ginger) who has regular dialog from that point on.
and Dirty John (??) (floppy moustache guy).
The Australian anesthesiologist? He also kind of quietly disappears about halfway through the first season. Around the same time Klinger appears-- HMMMM!
INTERESTING CASTING NOTE I FORGOT:
In the original MASH movie, Mulcahy is played by... Odo! Rene Auberjonois!
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They show Hawkeye getting shot-down a lot, at least in the early seasons.
Aye. Me thinks he, Hawkeye, doth protest too much..I was surprised they kept the nickname "Spearchucker" from the movie.
Ditto. I can't recall them ever actually saying "Spearchucker" but once or twice...The Australian anesthesiologist?
Actual research via imdb (that I omitted to do earlier), reveals him to be "Ugly John"In the original MASH movie, Mulcahy is played by... Odo! Rene Auberjonois!
Making this legit tech-forum content!!
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FWP: Switching between editors / IDEs. Sublime copies the whole line if I hit CtrlC with nothing selected. QtCreator doesn't. Annoyed!
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Are there no settings for that?
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FWP: Lazy!
Seriously, don't see anything like that. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Or I could switch to FakeVim mode and use
yy
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, but I know I lose something if I do that. Can't remember what right now, but there is a feature I use that doesn't work in FakeVim mode.EDIT: OH! CtrlIns! But I don't see a way to rebind it...
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FWP: Have new work laptop, but I'm short of desk space to actually have it on the desk with the display open without significantly rearranging everything on it.
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Sublime copies the whole line if I hit CtrlC with nothing selected.
That's wrong awful horrible broken behavior that makes me extremely angry every time I see it.
NO. WHERE DID THEY LEARN THIS? WRONG! STOP! COPYING WITH NO SELECTION IS A NO-OP. THE COPY MENU ITEM SHOULD BE GREYED OUT IF THERE'S NO SELECTION! GRRRR!
I can't count the number of times I've accidentally wiped-out my clipboard due to Visual Studio's similar brokenness.
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At least in VS you can turn that off
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You can turn it from one broken behavior to another.
You can't turn it off.
I seriously want to punch whoever came up with this idea in the face. How is it possible to misunderstand the complex 1985 technology of "copying" so thoroughly!? How fucking stupid do you have to be to write a GUI app and not know how the "copy" operation works??? Jesus Christ, I'd expect that from incompetent open source dumbshits, but Microsoft? It's insane.
Word does it correctly; Windows does it correctly; how is it possible Visual Studio does not!?
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Word does it correctly; Windows does it correctly; how is it possible Visual Studio does not!?
Different teams developed them, and communication between teams isn't one of Microsoft's strong points.