Random thought of the day
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@MrL said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@MrL said in Random thought of the day:
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@MrL said in Random thought of the day:
@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Whatever happened to tag clouds?
Ours is just sorted now.
GWYNETH
There are no topics with this tag.
Why would there be any? And why is it a tag if there are none?!
You do not have access to the category in which the topic that contains this tag is located (Garage).
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty confident that I have access to Garage.
Do you really?????
OMG, my life is a lie.
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
At Water Loo.
Close enough to Brussels to be a shitty place too
And the last word of that battle was "merde".
So:
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I doubt
parochial
precedesparish
etymologically, but it really, really should have.
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If you give the order before the target is born, it's pretty easy to pass an assassination off as a prophesy.
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I miss boarding guns. Shipboard vs ship-to-ship combat in general is in sad decline of late. Most of today's swashes never even get near a buckle.
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Michael Jackson would have had no problems with .
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Michael Jackson would have had no problems with .
He currently doesn't have any problems with it either.
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All Olympic events should adhere to the original ideal of the classical games and be performed with the athletes in the nude. I don't mind them including sports that weren't around in ancient Greece, but it should be nude figure skating, nude shot put, and nude uneven parallel bars.
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@da-Doctah Especially at the winter Olympics.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
All Olympic events should adhere to the original ideal of the classical games and be performed with the athletes in the nude. I don't mind them including sports that weren't around in ancient Greece, but it should be nude figure skating, nude shot put, and nude uneven parallel bars.
No thanks. We have enough problems with the people who train our gymnastics teams as it is.
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@da-Doctah don’t forget the oil!
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Random thought of the day:
gymnastics
That, of all sports, is the one that should be most done nude. Γυμνος — gymnos, naked.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
All Olympic events should adhere to the original ideal of the classical games and be performed with the athletes in the nude. I don't mind them including sports that weren't around in ancient Greece, but it should be nude figure skating, nude shot put, and nude uneven parallel bars.
I was going to ask if you were willing to open an exception for jump trials because of the unpleasantness of landing on sand, but then I remembered one could make the same claim about women's beach volleyball, so never mind.
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Jammy Jellyfish
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@boomzilla Next Ubuntu version?
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
Jammy Jellyfish
Am I the only one who hears the newsreader say "Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema" and thinks "Munchkin and Cinnamon? Is that something at Dunkin Donuts?"
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Many sites now either recommend or outright require 2FA in form of email/SMS codes. But at the same time, nearly all of them allow resetting the password through the same email/SMS. So it's really just 1-factor authentication with extra steps. At this point I thought, why do we even bother with passwords then? Why not just make the email/SMS code the only required info? Then the user would only ever need their Google password to access everything on the internet... wait I just reinvented OpenID didn't I.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Why not just make the email/SMS code the only required info?
Yeah, as I'm rearchitecting this registration system I was like "Whatever, just send a login link to the registered email, password optional".
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
So it's really just 1-factor authentication with extra steps.
Stealing this
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@sloosecannon said in Random thought of the day:
Stealing this
don't bother, his password is Hunter2
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@Gąska at least that’d be honest and didn’t leave me with the impression of “I know the user name / password for this site, so I can log in.”
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
why do we even bother with passwords then? Why not just make the email/SMS code the only required info?
On some sites I rarely use, I don't even bother storing (or remembering) the password ; I just use the "I forgot my password" feature to get a new one every time, because . I suspect I'm not the only one...
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
why do we even bother with passwords then? Why not just make the email/SMS code the only required info?
On some sites I rarely use, I don't even bother storing (or remembering) the password ; I just use the "I forgot my password" feature to get a new one every time, because . I suspect I'm not the only one...
I put every login into KeePass. Usually because I can't even remember what the login name is, let alone what the password is. While most just use email now, at least half of my logins don't.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
why do we even bother with passwords then? Why not just make the email/SMS code the only required info?
On some sites I rarely use, I don't even bother storing (or remembering) the password ; I just use the "I forgot my password" feature to get a new one every time, because . I suspect I'm not the only one...
There's one site I use regularly that I do that. Not because I don't have the password stored in KeePass; I do. But the site will never accept it to log in (it accepts it just fine to set it; at least there's no user-visible error that some special character is not allowed, or whatever), even though I'm pasting it from KeePass, and it's the same password I've been pasting into the "new password" field for months.
- Click in name (email) field to give it focus.
- Click on KeePass window and find the right entry.
- Press Ctrl+V to auto-type the name (email) and password into the previously focused window.
- Click "Forgot password".
- Back to KeePass. Press Ctrl+B (copy username)
- Click browser window. Press Ctrl+V to paste the username (email).
- Wait a few minutes for the verification code to arrive.
- Copy/paste verification code.
- Copy password from KeePass.
- Paste password into new password field (only one — no second entry that has to match to check for typos in hand-typed passwords).
- Finally, do what I need to do on this site. (No need to log in with new password.)
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What does Chrome's "Aw, Snap!" message look like in other languages?
(Old and somebody else's thought, but )
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(fr) French
The correct spelling is "Aïe", with two dots over the "i".
(pl) Polish
Another mistake. It should be "kurwa", obviously
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@Zerosquare I swear it used to say "kurka wodna" back in the day.
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Nope, turns out it was "kurza twarz".
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Debiliķi... dirsā jums knipis.
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@Applied-Mediocrity literal translation, I presume?
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@Gąska Yep.
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the following languages do feature literal translations (at least according to Google Translate): [...] Portuguese (Brazilian, while pt_PT translates to “Ah, balls!”).
TIL.
I feel like it fits the spirit of the original quite well.
"Balls" means literally game balls, or any spherical/circular shapes, and it's a pretty popular family-friendly curse. (of course it's also slang for testicles, but I don't think most people immediately think of it that way).
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
popular family-friendly curse
Not family-friendly enough for Scopely (Star Trek Fleet Command) chat!
The word
um
is also censored...
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Duran Duran sang:
Girls on Film
Hmm...
I approve of this way to dress.
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Somewhere, in an alternative universe...
The year is 2007. Adobe decides to open source Flash runtime. Not the whole editor, just the runtime. They still get shitloads of money from developers and graphics designers, but all the efforts to replace Flash with something else are halted - instead, browser developers spend time integrating with Flash better and adding more functionality to it. ActionScript replaces JavaScript as the language of the web. jQuery never happens. HTML5 never happens. Angular and React never happen. Node never happens. Mobile apps, instead of being web pages in disguise, are Flash animations in disguise. All is good.
I want to live in that universe.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Somewhere, in an alternative universe...
The year is 2007. Adobe decides to open source Flash runtime. Not the whole editor, just the runtime. They still get shitloads of money from developers and graphics designers, but all the efforts to replace Flash with something else are halted - instead, browser developers spend time integrating with Flash better and adding more functionality to it. ActionScript replaces JavaScript as the language of the web. jQuery never happens. HTML5 never happens. Angular and React never happen. Node never happens. Mobile apps, instead of being web pages in disguise, are Flash animations in disguise. All is good.
I want to live in that universe.
It'll have its own nightmares, as the people who brought forth jQuery, HTML5, Angular, React, and Node are still around.
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@PleegWat yup, so instead we’ll see people writing a compiler/runtime for ActionScript on the server that will have a package management system so libraries can be reused between front and backend.
Then we’ll see polyfills for functionality where older versions of the runtime can’t do things the newer ones can.
Though without the DOM as the principle modelling technique and IE6 not being an implicit hindrance, jQuery might legit not be necessary to get us out of the monoculture. The jQuery folks aren’t inherently dumb, it’s what got built on top of it that was the problem.
The same cannot be said for the Node people.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Somewhere, in an alternative universe...
The year is 2007. Adobe decides to open source Flash runtime. Not the whole editor, just the runtime.
They still get shitloads of money from developers and graphics designers, but all the efforts to replace Flash with something else are halted - instead, browser developers spend time integrating with Flash better and adding more functionality to it.All the people who take more than a glance at the code instantly become completely crazy ; psychatrists are perplexed and can't find a cure. The military snatches it from Adobe to use as a weapon, and Flash is banned from civilian use under penalty of law.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat yup, so instead we’ll see people writing a compiler/runtime for ActionScript on the server
Which wouldn't be such a big deal because ActionScript is a pretty good language overall. The whole reason why people hate server-side JS is because JS sucks as a language.
Cue Blakeyrat ranting how ActionScript is just a superset of JavaScript so they're basically the same thing. Cue my reply comparing it to C and C++.
Then we’ll see polyfills for functionality where older versions of the runtime can’t do things the newer ones can.
I highly doubt that would be the case. The reason polyfills exist is because until ~2015, JS was a woefully incomplete language completely unsuitable for real application development. ActionScript didn't have that problem. Besides, AS3 gets compiled to bytecode ahead of time so browser-supported language version would be much less of an issue.
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@Gąska I think you're missing a nuance here.
The people who bastardise it to run on the server side will break it and do something stupid with it like make it run interpreted - like Node does to JS, it doesn't compile it AOT. I see no reason to assume competence on the part of the folks doing weird things with it.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
like Node does to JS, it doesn't compile it AOT.
Node itself doesn't, but that's why Babel and similar packages exist. Basically every single Node project made over the last five years gets compiled ahead of time. It's just that it gets compiled back to JavaScript. Usually an older version of JS than the one used for development - as an alternative to polyfills.
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@Gąska I have come across Babel and see it mostly an example of hipsterism. You get none of the benefits of compilation this way.
And you just know this is the sort of genius that will be applied in this hypothetical world, that server-side AS3 will be interpreted rather than precompiled, probably for 'convenience' or 'configurability'.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska I have come across Babel and see it mostly an example of hipsterism. You get none of the benefits of compilation this way.
It made more sense back when Chrome and Firefox shipped with JS version that was a woefully incomplete language completely unsuitable for real application development. Now it's used mostly by tradition.
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@JBert said in Random thought of the day:
What does Chrome's "Aw, Snap!" message look like in other languages?
(Old and somebody else's thought, but )
Problem?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
All is good.
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There was a thought fir the day but it’s gone now.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
thought fir
I know several kinds of firs like Picea abies, Abies picea, Abies balsamea, ... Some of them also with their vernacular names, but a
thought fir
is not among them. Can you point me to its scientific description?
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@BernieTheBernie classification “erroneous typographicus”
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@Arantor That's a bad outcome. I'd really appreciate some e.g.
Pseudotsuga sapiens
.
That could be a good combination with thethree wise men
when it is used as an Xmas tree.