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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
Just make sure you don't put scorpions and snakes and rats in the same pit.
What if you're crossing a river, which ones can you leave alone with each other?
Put them all into a Blendtec, and make a sweet protein shake. It'll give you the energy you need to cross the river.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler See also: early Xbox One adverts that showed off the voice commands
I liked the troll videos where someone would set their name to "XBox sign out" and act like a jerk to get people to say the name.
what the fuck is Xbox Off doi...
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It was an on-off affair apparently...
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@PleegWat Hole in one!
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@PleegWat I wanted to check where my oil leak was !
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@PJH
They were arrested? That seems a little too much
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@Jarry said in In other news today...:
They were arrested? That seems a little too much
"Outraging public decency" is a legal thing apparently.
Even if the only people outraged in an isolated spot are policemen, apparently.
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PCSO: Pretend policeman
He’s just like Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons — always falling asleep with no idea what’s going on around him
A Met police spokesman said: “Senior officers will discuss the circumstances surrounding these images with the officer when he is next on duty."
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat Hole in one!
That's not a hole in one. It's a post turtle! It's not doing it right, though. Keeping 2 feet on the ground is cheating.
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@boomzilla A couple thousand (if not more) spent on lawyers, cops, etc for a $0.65
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@TimeBandit Well, if you read the article, it was more about resisting arrest type stuff when the officer tried to take the kid to the principal's office. But still....yeah.
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@Boner
We need more of this. Maybe even deportation to an island penal colony for annoying vegans.
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@izzion Maybe we could just join them in their quest to save cows.
Save a cow, eat a vegan !!!
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@Jaloopa Someone's gonna post it again, so I might as well get it over with:
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@TimeBandit
Save a cow,
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@izzion Maybe we could just join them in their quest to save cows.
Save a cow, eat a vegan !!!
Have you read the article? Apparently her application was rejected mostly because she's protesting against cowbells. The whole vegan thing is thus only a side effect of her animal rights strife.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Have you read the article?
Yes
Apparently her application was rejected mostly because she's protesting against cowbells. The whole vegan thing is thus only a side effect of her animal rights strife.
They argue that she should respect their traditions.
If the only reason they make the cows carry a 5kg bell around their neck is because "traditions",
THEY SHOULD CHANGE THAT STUPID TRADITION !!!
FileUnder: I'm not trying to defend vegans in general
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
If the only reason they make the cows carry a 5kg bell around their neck is because "traditions",
THEY SHOULD CHANGE THAT STUPID TRADITIONBecause? Bells are bad or something?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because? Bells are bad or something?
Well, as long as I don't have to suffer the noise
But honestly, can you explain what's the point of this 5kg bell ?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
But honestly, can you explain what's the point of this 5kg bell ?
No but I can't explain the point in lots of things, it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with those things.
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@loopback0 And when the only reason for those things is "traditions", I think it's stupid :)
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
But honestly, can you explain what's the point of this 5kg bell ?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
But honestly, can you explain what's the point of this 5kg bell ?
Maybe they secretly want to be rock stars? A surprising number of rock and metal bands make use of cowbells.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Maybe they secretly want to be rock stars? A surprising number of rock and metal bands make use of cowbells.
And you know, of course, what the Swiss are thinking...
"This country needs MORE COWBELLS!"
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 And when the only reason for those things is "traditions", I think it's stupid :)
I regularly sit in chairs because of "tradition"....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I regularly sit in chairs because
of "tradition"....it's practical and comfortableFTFY
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because? Bells are bad or something?
Ms Holten claims that the kind of cowbells used there cause friction burns to the animals' necks. If that is accurate, and there's no pressing need for bells and/or lighter bells that don't cause injury would suffice, then yes, those bells are bad.
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
Ms Holten claims ... If that is accurate
Ms Holten is a vegan animal rights activist; accuracy is not high on my list of expectations.
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More importantly, do the cowbells affect the beef, and if so, can we use heavier ones to make it taste better?
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because? Bells are bad or something?
Ms Holten claims that the kind of cowbells used there cause friction burns to the animals' necks. If that is accurate, and there's no pressing need for bells and/or lighter bells that don't cause injury would suffice, then yes, those bells are bad.
Her suggested alternative, "no bells at all", was clearly unacceptable though.
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When neighboring Ohio last month enacted a law making bestiality a felony, it left Kentucky in the embarrassing position of being one of only nine states where having sex with animals is not a crime.
Now a Republican lawmaker from Richmond is trying to fix that – but with a catch.
House Bill 143 would ban the sexual assault of a pet dog or cat, but it wouldn’t address sex with other animals.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat Hole in one!
That's not a hole in one. It's a post turtle! It's not doing it right, though. Keeping 2 feet on the ground is cheating.
s/Obama/Trump/g
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
A Met police spokesman said: “Senior officers will discuss the circumstances surrounding these images with the officer when he is next on duty."
Not terribly surprising. Would you want your boss to call you in to the office on your off-day to chew you out? There's probably union regs against it, too.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because? Bells are bad or something?
Ms Holten claims that the kind of cowbells used there cause friction burns to the animals' necks. If that is accurate, and there's no pressing need for bells and/or lighter bells that don't cause injury would suffice, then yes, those bells are bad.
Her suggested alternative, "no bells at all", was clearly unacceptable though.
Bells are so last millennium anyways, we need digital collars connected with wifi!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because? Bells are bad or something?
Ms Holten claims that the kind of cowbells used there cause friction burns to the animals' necks. If that is accurate, and there's no pressing need for bells and/or lighter bells that don't cause injury would suffice, then yes, those bells are bad.
Her suggested alternative, "no bells at all", was clearly unacceptable though.
Bells are so last millennium anyways, we need digital collars connected with wifi!
Great! Can the village blacksmith make those?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Because? Bells are bad or something?
Ms Holten claims that the kind of cowbells used there cause friction burns to the animals' necks. If that is accurate, and there's no pressing need for bells and/or lighter bells that don't cause injury would suffice, then yes, those bells are bad.
Her suggested alternative, "no bells at all", was clearly unacceptable though.
Bells are so last millennium anyways, we need digital collars connected with wifi!
Great! Can the village blacksmith make those?
No need! China will ship them to us for free!
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
When I read the article, I wasn't terribly surprised to find that it was just a slip of the tongue.
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Well, I guess Node development is officially dead. It's gotten way too big for any self-overrespecting hipster to utilize in any project xe is starting or maintaining.
Rewrite all the things again!!!!!
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When you get such trivialities as left pad in the registry, why should anyone care that the raw number of packages is large?
Quick everybody: how do you write "hello world" in javascript?npm install hello-world
Heh.
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@izzion Ah yes, I remember the PadLeft debacle. How many projects were left in tattered ruins because devs prefer
npm install [module-that-does-trivial-shit-in-ten-lines]
instead of writing the trivial shit in ten lines?
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@izzion Ah yes, I remember the PadLeft debacle. How many projects were left in tattered ruins because devs prefer
npm install [module-that-does-trivial-shit-in-ten-lines]
instead of writing the trivial shit in ten lines?Or conversely, because the language's standard library failed to provide what should have been an obvious functionality...
Seriously. Most languages' libraries lack a lot of fairly trivial and extremely common operations on the basis that they are simple enough for the dev to implement on their own, while at the same time building up massive libraries for things which are used by a very small part of the client-programmer base. The PadLeft debacle shows the weakness of this view, not because the devs who used PadLeft were lazy or too incompetent to write it themselves, but because, for whatever reasons, having to pad a string is such a common operation that they grabbed onto it as a way of avoiding having to reinvent the wheel several times over.
Consider the classic case of
odd
andeven
predicates. They are remarkably easy to implement, especially if the language has either a modulo operator or bitwise operations, and yet we've seen at least three cases of people bobbling it on TDWTF. Why can't the language library have it as a standard function? Common Lisp's does, why shouldn't C's or Java's?It isn't just laziness (on the part of the client-programmers who need it, or on the part of the library developers who don't deliver it), though Eris knows that's part of it. Designing a good library is hard, and unfortunately, most language libraries are really designed as all, at least not until they get big enough that the whole process becomes a vast ungainly glacier. It was one thing for K&R to wing it in 1970 for a systems language they never expected to escape the confines of Bell Labs, but when it is still happening in 2016 with a language that is 20 years old, something is going to break.
If I were designing a language today - and I am - I would set up a repository mechanism fro the outset. Something like CPAN or npm is a necessity today, and unfortunately, the same mistakes that were made with CPAN are being made again on a much larger scale with npm.
At which point all anyone can do is, in the words of Ben Croshaw, laugh at an industry that never learns anything. But it is a very bitter laughter, to say the least.
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
laugh at an industry that never learns anything
Time to wheel out my old friend's old sig again...
"Those who fail to understand networking protocols are doomed to re-implement them - poorly - over port 80".
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Well, I guess Node development is officially dead. It's gotten way too big for any self-overrespecting hipster to utilize in any project xe is starting or maintaining.
Rewrite all the things again!!!!!
Meanwhile some people are finally rediscovering that dealing with package checksums, concurrent downloading and caching might be a good idea: https://yarnpkg.com/.
You know, stuff that Maven or its client libraries have been doing for years...
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
"Those who fail to understand networking protocols are doomed to re-implement them - poorly - over port 80".
Quite, though we've been using port 22.