Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
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@Bulb most of the non-WP sites are done in Drupal these days rather than Joomla. And anything else tends to be built on Laravel as a general framework for new stuff.
Can confirm WP still ungodly popular though.
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@Arantor The popularity of PHP is really inexplicable.
Even back in the early '00s when all this web business was starting up there were better tools for the job. Perl had some good templating engines like Embperl or HTML Mason that were better than PHP. They were still text-based, but they had blocks for conditionally including or repeating blocks of the template. HTML Mason even had some separation of concerns with template blocks and code blocks. Perl also had proper database interface back then, with binding support and database-agnostic object interface. It was also faster, because the Perl module for apache cached the bytecode while the PHP one didn't. And of course there was also early JSP by then.
But no, a bunch of web hosting companies though this slow PHP thing that was its own special language was a better fit and started supporting that and nothing else and now we are stuck with it.
And the greatest paradox of course is that for PHP, which is first and foremost a templating system, there is a bunch of templating systems, because the built-in templating sucks.
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@Bulb it's actually not. I don't know how familiar you are with hosting and stuff around 1999-2000 but that's the point where its popularity spiked.
Mostly because you didn't have to deal with specific cgi-bin folders and rules attached to that (yes I know you don't now but the landscape was a bit different then), but also around that time the hosts of the day worked out they could plug in PHP and restrict it infinitely better than they could restrict rampant Perl scripts.
By the time I started actively playing in the PHP sandpit in 2003, it was evident that PHP was winning the war for these reasons and the fact it was perceived as easier to drive (especially with the 'helpful' features it had) cemented it.
But we're paying the price for that supposed beginner friendly approach where some of the stupid is still entrenched, and in some ways getting worse, though the worst idiocy (register globals, magic quotes, safe mode) have all died in a fire.
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@Arantor As far as I remember the php, perl and a couple other modules for apache behaved very similar in how they could be set. The default setting for cgi was it was only allowed in cgi-bin directory, but it could be allowed elsewhere easily. I am not sure what the default of the perl module was.
For some reason many hosting providers decided php was better sandboxed, though I am pretty sure it was never actually true..
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@Bulb yes but you're also assuming far more competence on the part of the hosters than they actually had.
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@Arantor said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Mostly because you didn't have to deal with specific cgi-bin folders and rules attached to that (yes I know you don't now but the landscape was a bit different then), but also around that time the hosts of the day worked out they could plug in PHP and restrict it infinitely better than they could restrict rampant Perl scripts.
During that time I was using ColdFusion.
I just aged myself, didn't I.
Yes, I did just age myself. .
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@Arantor said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Bulb yes but you're also assuming far more competence on the part of the hosters than they actually had.
Of course the incompetence is the explanation. It just goes to show that such incompetence isn't anything new.
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@Karla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I was using ColdFusion.
@Karla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
was
Wasn't it not so long ago you were still dealing with that?
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Shhh. What matters is that @Karla is finally ColdFusion-sober
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@Zerosquare I don't think that's completely true, though.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Karla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I was using ColdFusion.
@Karla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
was
Wasn't it not so long ago you were still dealing with that?
Write access ended at the end of July (this year). Users can still access for reports (since the data isn't migrated ).
So mostly no, not unless there is a bug in reporting that I can fix faster than querying the database directly.
My post was mostly pointing out that the alternative to PHP at the time, ColdFusion, had similar. And me knowing that from being employed at the time, was ageing myself.
While I've been learning Python/Django I still prefer ColdFusion's templating on the front-end.
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Not sure how long this place will be around:
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@JBert said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Not sure how long this place will be around:
There are strip clubs that survive w/o alcohol.
Speaking as a person who performed...
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bad karaoke in front of drunk people I'd like to think sober people would be a bit toned down with their heckling.
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@Karla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Speaking as a person who performed...
@Karla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
bad karaoke in front of drunk people
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Definitely not good, but mostly "Why?!?"
At least no meat was wasted in the making of this burger.
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Potential idea for a Halloween decoration/trap:
- Make a candy bar dispenser. 1 bar dropped per button push. 30 second cool-down time between accepted inputs.
- Cover the dispenser with a large-ish, matte black, spider prop.
- Hide it amid some tree branches over the driveway.
- Hook up some lights so that the path under the contraption is lit. This both helps make the spider hard to spot, and helps finding the dropped candy bars.
- Place the activation button several feet away. Maybe with a sign like "PUSH FOR CANDY".
Hoped-for sequence of events:
- Someone pushes the button.
- Candy-bar falls.
- Person notices that the candy bar fell, and goes to pick it up.
- Person will wonder where it fell from, and will peer upwards.
- They'll see a large spider, up close. Suddenly and unexpectedly.
The lighting is key. The spider must be unnoticeable until the viewer is right under it.
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@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Make a candy bar dispenser.
That's going to be the hardest part, I think.
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@acrow Evil idea. I despise spiders, do not want near me ever, but 10/10 for evilness of idea otherwise.
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Who wants the automated laundromat bomb?
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@izzion Short circuits will be interesting...
(ignore the wire in the image - I just wanted that cartoon BZZZZT!)
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@izzion said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Who wants the automated laundromat bomb?
Forget that! Not having to plug in things that would otherwise require plugging bulky batteries that uglify the design? I'll take it!
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Let's be honest. If your RFID key fob is:
- important enough that duplication is a serious issue
- insecure enough that it's possible to duplicate it without significant efforts
...you had a problem right from the start.
Also, that shop may require proof of ID before they copy your fob.
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@Karla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
My post was mostly pointing out that the alternative to PHP at the time, ColdFusion, had similar. And me knowing that from being employed at the time, was ageing myself.
While I've been learning Python/Django I still prefer ColdFusion's templating on the front-end.Also ColdFusion has that sweet sweet QoQ.
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Git for savegames.
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50000 MW? Ummm....yeah. Does it come with a portable fusion power plant?
Heck, even if they got the capitalization wrong and meant to put 50000 mW, that's still 50W. Which for a handheld (or even table-bound) laser is quite a lot.
And 5 miles range? Why mention that? In case you need to stand WAY OVER THERE to light your campfire?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Git for savegames.
Or Open Container Images.
The principle is similar, layers are identified by sha256 hashes, just lower granularity and less semantics atached.The associated protocol is actually pretty good for general data where you want to avoid duplication.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
And 5 miles range? Why mention that? In case you need to stand WAY OVER THERE to light your campfire?
They've probably met @Polygeekery
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@Benjamin-Hall Pet peeve: 10,000 happy people who create interesting non-everyday apparel. Which is very different than 10,000 happy people who have purchased the product.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Heck, even if they got the capitalization wrong and meant to put 50000 mW, that's still 50W. Which for a handheld (or even table-bound) laser is quite a lot.
Yeah, for reference this desktop laser:
Will easily cut 1/4" materials.
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50W handheld (?) laser
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You have never seen anything that powerful!... and will never again.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Git for savegames.
I did that for CAD files. Had to tell it to treat them like binary blobs. Even though the format was text-based, I did not want to try doing any merges on them.
And now I'm wondering what's the best tool for keeping version history on
binary blobsCAD files.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
And 5 miles range? Why mention that? In case you need to stand WAY OVER THERE to light your campfire?
After that, the general ionization of the atmosphere will be overwhelming even to the 50GW laser. And with that much power going through, I'd be very happy to bet on there being plenty of ionization.
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@dkf Obligatory XKCDs:
The last one also settles the "is Pluto a planet?" ing going on elsewhere (in the , I think):
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@remi Meanwhile:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/pluto-planet-debate-rages-rcna8848
“We think there’s probably over 150 planets in our solar system,” said Philip Metzger, the study’s lead author and a planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida.
Edit to say: probably also elsewhere. I fact I figure I heard about this from over there.
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The last chapter of Half-Life, Xen, but everything's backwards. You're playing as an alien, and The Factory is actually an Amazon warehouse.
(Doubly so if it's Black Mesa: Source. There are a couple episodes where the vortigaunts go "I'm not paid to deal with this shit, let's just let Freeman in and keep pretending he's been there before my shift started". I usually roleplay an "I'm the new manager and we'll be seeing a lot of improvements" attitude in that chapter.)
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@boomzilla I'd say since wolves don't have any lights it's a fairly good idea…
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@boomzilla Unwittingly preventing natural selection from producing its own reflective deer.
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Self-contained countertop shochu distiller using takeout rice as feedstock. Available in Small and Large.
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@Zecc said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@boomzilla Unwittingly preventing natural selection from producing its own reflective deer.
Or! Inducing unrealistic expectations and thus a decrease in procreation, thus only artificially-inshininated deer will be able to breed!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
artificially-inshininated deer will be able to breed
You're doing what with deer shins?
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
artificially-inshininated deer will be able to breed
You're doing what with deer shins?
Shininating! With the doofenshmirtz-patented inshininator!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
doofenshmirtz-patented
that would explain why your surroundings tend to disintegrate ... Perry probably just passed by ...
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Embed turned out better than expected, but here's the book cover anyway
Probably evil.
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@Zecc We don't have a batshit crazy ideas thread so evil will have to do.
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@antiquarian said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Zecc We don't have a batshit crazy ideas thread so evil will have to do.
it's the "Batshit Insane Ideas" thread.