Random thought of the day
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann whoever chose that name for soda was a freaking genius. Or a psychopath.
It contained cocaine (which comes from coca leaves) before it was made illegal.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann whoever chose that name for soda was a freaking genius. Or a psychopath.
It contained cocaine (which comes from coca leaves) before it was made illegal.
It also contained alcohol before prohibition made that illegal.
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@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann whoever chose that name for soda was a freaking genius. Or a psychopath.
It contained cocaine (which comes from coca leaves) before it was made illegal.
It also contained alcohol before prohibition made that illegal.
Flavored extracts, however, (vanilla, orange, etc.) which are about 160 proof, were allowed to remain during prohibition.
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I do not know how people survive without the Go to Random Link bookmarklet.
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A number of classic TV shows had a recurring but not regular adversary. He'd show up from time to time to bedevil the main characters, but not in every episode, so every time he did appear it was something of a surprise. Examples would be Wo Fat from "Hawaii Five-O", Dr Loveless from "The Wild, Wild West", and in animation, Simon Bar Sinister from "Underdog" and King Chicken from "Duckman".
You might even be able to make a case for Boris and Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows, but you have to get well into season two before you come across a caper that doesn't involve them at some point. I'm not familiar enough with "Cow and Chicken" to know if there were any episodes that didn't involve the character known only as The Red Guy.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
I do not know how people survive without the Go to Random Link bookmarklet.
A petit-mal seizure can do the same thing.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann whoever chose that name for soda was a freaking genius. Or a psychopath.
It contained cocaine (which comes from coca leaves) before it was made illegal.
It also contained alcohol before prohibition made that illegal.
Flavored extracts, however, (vanilla, orange, etc.) which are about 160 proof, were allowed to remain during prohibition.
Also bottled high-sugar juices, they did real real well.
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@da-Doctah huh. Does this imply a split, perhaps, in the perception of the Adversary, into Lewis's divine and earthly? Or does that split properly confine itself to some other aspect (G.K.) of (Chesterton) Lewis' mentality (excuse me, I have a cough). In any case, an oblique or orthogonal angle of attack is effective, but likely to confuse children.
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@da-Doctah Would Siegfried on Get Smart qualify?
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On tenses:
lead
->led
read
->read
red
<-redden
bead
->beaded
bed
->bedded
I hope this has helped to clarify.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
On tenses:
lead
->led
read
->read
red
<-redden
bead
->beaded
bed
->bedded
I hope this has helped to clarify.
"wreak" -> "wrought"
also "work" <- "wrought""sneak" -> "snought"?
and "snork" <- "snought"?
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@Jaloopa said in Random thought of the day:
Weirdly, not everyone went to your school. Or even had a school year called second grade
The second part is surprising. Well, maybe not. There are exceptions to almost everything. But I would have expected that even most home-schooling parents would divide their curriculum by grade. Except for the Amish, perhaps.
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@TimeBandit said in Random thought of the day:
If you go to a kiosk to place an order at McDonald (in Canada) and you select a meatless BigMac, then you customize it and remove everything (including the buns) and it will still let you add it to your order for $4.18 + taxes.
At that point, you just bought an empty BigMac box for less than $5
If you want to do that, why would they stop you? The IRS allows you to pay more than what you owe in order to pay down the national debt.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
classic TV shows
King Chicken from "Duckman".I 100% agree with this opinion
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@da-Doctah
wreck
->wrecked
What has thouwrought
?! <-wreck
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@TimeBandit said in Random thought of the day:
If you go to a kiosk to place an order at McDonald (in Canada) and you select a meatless BigMac, then you customize it and remove everything (including the buns) and it will still let you add it to your order for $4.18 + taxes.
At that point, you just bought an empty BigMac box for less than $5
If you want to do that, why would they stop you? The IRS allows you to pay more than what you owe in order to pay down the national debt.
I thought it went to fund elections publicly.
Their story keeps changing. Some dude probably snuck that on the form and is pocketing it.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Jaloopa said in Random thought of the day:
Weirdly, not everyone went to your school. Or even had a school year called second grade
The second part is surprising. Well, maybe not. There are exceptions to almost everything. But I would have expected that even most home-schooling parents would divide their curriculum by grade. Except for the Amish, perhaps.
My school, and all schools in my country, had reception, year 1 - 11, then optionally two years for doing A levels called either lower and upper 6th form or year 12 and 13. These days, reception seems to have been renamed Early Years Foundation Stage for some reason
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I wonder why nobody has ever marketed a cat toy that consists of a shelf with an assortment of random objects to knock off of it.
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Because cats would ignore it ; playing with the real thing is more fun
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Cats can smell the price of items. If an object is sold for more than $5 then it only becomes interesting when it's sitting near an edge and can be used to draw the nearest servant's attention through gravity-assisted disassembly of said object.
Boxes? Prime real estate because they cost nothing.
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Unit Tests are only useful for detecting broken unit tests.
I have fixed many broken unit tests. I can't recall a failing unit test ever alerting me to something that needed to be fixed in the code.
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@jinpa for this to happen you need to write the tests such that their success sensitively depends on the behavior of the system under test. Otherwise you're not in fact writing tests.
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@jinpa there are those who teach that one must write the tests before the code, such that the tests form part of the specification for the code. These enlightened souls teach that by writing the tests first, you define your expectations and your assumptions and create the code to satisfy them.
Then there are the people who actually ship software and know that the tests will break as soon as the product hits the customer who will demand changes, and thus know not to bother in the first place.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
I have fixed many broken unit tests. I can't recall a failing unit test ever alerting me to something that needed to be fixed in the code.
Do you recall bugs merrily going to production, because people became lazy, because 'we have so many tests'? I do.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
Unit Tests are only useful for detecting broken unit tests.
I have fixed many broken unit tests. I can't recall a failing unit test ever alerting me to something that needed to be fixed in the code.
TBF, I have actually found TDD to be useful when dealing with well-specified bits of functionality of a mathematical/logical sort - the ones where we can specify the set of inputs and its desired mapping to outputs ahead of time.
Needless to say, to date I've found this assumption to be satisfied only on hobby projects.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa there are those who teach that one must write the tests before the code, such that the tests form part of the specification for the code. These enlightened souls teach that by writing the tests first, you define your expectations and your assumptions and create the code to satisfy them.
Then there are the people who actually ship software and know that the tests will break as soon as the product hits the customer who will demand changes, and thus know not to bother in the first place.
Then there are people who know what the fuck they're doing, and can write tests that verify the invariants anyway.
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@GOG said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
Unit Tests are only useful for detecting broken unit tests.
I have fixed many broken unit tests. I can't recall a failing unit test ever alerting me to something that needed to be fixed in the code.
TBF, I have actually found TDD to be useful when dealing with well-specified bits of functionality of a mathematical/logical sort - the ones where we can specify the set of inputs and its desired mapping to outputs ahead of time.
Needless to say, to date I've found this assumption to be satisfied only on hobby projects.
Git gud
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
Unit Tests are only useful for detecting broken unit tests.
They're also useful for finding bits of the code that are festering. Use together with coverage analysis.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
bits of the code that are festering ... coverage analysis
To prevent festering, cover the code author with a roll of carpet and a bag of quicklime
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
bits of the code that are festering ... coverage analysis
To prevent festering, cover the code author with a roll of carpet and a bag of quicklime
That's not how proper coverage analysis works; you forgot the turkey baster.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
cover the code author with a roll of carpet and a bag of quicklime
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@HardwareGeek very classic BOfH there.
Random thought, could have sworn we had the red BOFH phone emoji but alas. It did get suggested but didn’t get accepted?
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@Arantor I think one would actually need to make a proper PR on bughub. Otherwise the will not be moved.
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But neither will mine
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The BBC used to ban songs automatically if the lyrics contained any brand names, in an attempt to curtail product placement (The Kinks' "Lola" was banned not because of its suggestive subject matter but because it mentioned "Coca-Cola"; The Playmates' "Beep Beep" had to change the original mentions of "Cadillac" and "Nash Rambler" to "limousine" and "bubble car" respectively).
Pretty sure this zero-tolerance policy has been lifted or severely modified since its heyday, but I wonder if any band or songwriter ever tried to sabotage their rivals by selecting a random phrase in the competitor's song and registering a trademark from it.
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@da-Doctah High quality shower thought! 10/10!
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@da-Doctah unlikely in the UK at least as trademark registration takes multiple months to complete, by which time any successful song will likely have left the charts.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
The BBC used to ban songs automatically if the lyrics contained any brand names, in an attempt to curtail product placement
French (public? not only, I think) TV does something similar where they blur out most brand names whenever they can. This sometimes even happens in e.g. investigative consumer reporting, so you get reports such as "we went to a big-brand computer shop [and asked them this or that]" where it's absolutely obvious that it's an Apple Store, all the shop layout, products on offer all scream "Apple" but the actual Apple logo is blurred.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder if any band or songwriter ever tried to sabotage their rivals by selecting a random phrase in the competitor's song and registering a trademark from it.
Like Robot Hitler did to the Beetles.
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Sometimes they don't blur, they just mirror the picture horizontally, making it even more obvious.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
all the shop layout, products on offer all scream "Apple" but the actual Apple logo is blurred.
Well, that's to avoid spoilers. Everyone knows by now that only the good guys use Apple products.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
all the shop layout, products on offer all scream "Apple" but the actual Apple logo is blurred.
Well, that's to avoid spoilers. Everyone knows by now that only the good guys use Apple products.
Apple marketing department forbids use of Apple branded equipment by the bad guys.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
all the shop layout, products on offer all scream "Apple" but the actual Apple logo is blurred.
Well, that's to avoid spoilers. Everyone knows by now that only the good guys use Apple products.
Apple marketing department forbids use of Apple branded equipment by the bad guys.
What kind of guys does that make the marketing department?
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@Gribnit shrewd?
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit shrewd?
Huh. Sentiment analysis for shrewd is... tricky.
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Of last night. Orbit is falling, but missing, yes? So couldn't a transitioning turbo/ramjet gain max altitude on turbo, then power-dive at the horizon to achieve ramjet ignition, then maybe even using further dive cycles to get to insertion?
@Tsaukpaetra kerbal this up please.
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People with synesthesia claim to see numbers as colors, and they claim that the specific associations of each number with a particular color are inherent and natural. If this is true, everyone with the condition should associate each number with the same color.
I went looking for documented number-to-color mappings, and found that they're all different. Blue in electronic resistors represents 6; in pool, its the 2 ball that's blue, but in snooker it's the 5. And Cuisenaire rods have blue for the number 9.
Yellow is 4 in resistors, 1 in pool, 2 in snooker, and 5 in Cuisenaire.
So I call shenanigans. (Which is a sort of washed-out green.)
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
A number of classic TV shows had a recurring but not regular adversary. He'd show up from time to time to bedevil the main characters, but not in every episode, so every time he did appear it was something of a surprise. Examples would be Wo Fat from "Hawaii Five-O", Dr Loveless from "The Wild, Wild West", and in animation, Simon Bar Sinister from "Underdog" and King Chicken from "Duckman".
You might even be able to make a case for Boris and Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows, but you have to get well into season two before you come across a caper that doesn't involve them at some point. I'm not familiar enough with "Cow and Chicken" to know if there were any episodes that didn't involve the character known only as The Red Guy.
For a non-"classic TV" example, Sterling from Leverage comes to mind. Popped up once or twice a season to make trouble for the team, and even participated in the series finale, but he was by no means "the regular adversary."
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
If this is true, everyone with the condition should associate each number with the same color.
That's not the case. A friend he was once in a group where two people had synesthesia ; their number/color associations didn't match, and they were both arguing that the other guy was obviously wrong.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
People with synesthesia claim to see numbers as colors,
They do so claim.
and they claim that the specific associations of each number with a particular color are inherent and natural.
This seems an overstatement of
intuitive
If this is true,
It probably isn't, it doesn't quite even exist
everyone with the condition should associate each number with the same color.
Well yes, all horses do have an infinite number of legs, but that
's betide the point.Cuisenaire rods
are definitive in case of disagreement.
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how I tell I'm over the flu: soda tastes right again
how I tell I don't feel broke: DVDs arrive in the mail