Random thought of the day
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
suction cup
Apparently Amazon doesn't suck enough to try it.
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More like a random question than a thought...
Why is it that showers heads (mostly of the overhead ones, although it does also happen with hand-held ones) often spurt a bit of water a few minutes after you've stopped them? I've noticed it on a variety of showers in a variety of houses (so it's definitely not just a quirk of my home shower or pipes), you take your shower, then get out, then a bit later hear some water trickling from the shower head.
I'm guessing this might have to do with hot water cooling down (maybe something that contracts and creates some pressure?), although I haven't tried taking a cold shower to see if the same happens.
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@remi I've wondered about that too. Also, when there's no water trickling anymore, but you move the shower head, it starts dripping again. I could understand if it happened when you lowered it, but it also happens when it's lying on the floor and you pick it up and place high on the wall.
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@remi I tend to think along the same lines as this stackexchange answer: water gets trapped in the head and hose at a slightly higher point than the nozzles, but surface tension and a partial vacuum can keep it there when the tap has just run.
Once it starts cooling or drying the volume of water will shrink until air can enter freely through a nozzle. At that point there's no longer any partial vacuum so a little bit of water can drip out.
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@JBert I should have guessed there would have been a SO question about that...
Anyway, that sounds a likely explanation. I guess if someone really wanted to get rid of it (it doesn't bother me that much, it's just curiosity) they could add some venting point at the highest point of the system (for maximum efficiency -- anywhere on the shower head would probably work in practice) but then it would have to open only when not using the shower, or manually but by design it wouldn't be easy to reach, and it would have to be kept clean and so on... At this point, you might as well fondle the nozzles for a few seconds after showering to break the vacuum and get the same result.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
might as well fondle the nozzles for a few seconds
Oh my...
Extract the liquids now, or just wait for it to drizzle out naturally... Choices choices...
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@Tsaukpaetra this wasn't a random thought I wanted in my head right now.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra this wasn't a random thought I wanted in my head right now.
Save it for later then. 😉
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Save it for later then.
So ... stop fondling the nozzles?
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There should be semicolon and ellipsis variants of exclamation and question marks.
You see "…?" a fair bit, but imagine if that were the top part of the question mark above the middle of "…"
And the reason I had this thought is because I saw "Who knows, certainly not us." There needs to be a question-semicolon (semiqueston?) replacing that comma.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
imagine if that were the top part of the question mark above the middle of "…"
.?.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
And the reason I had this thought is because I saw "Who knows, certainly not us." There needs to be a question-semicolon (semiqueston?) replacing that comma.
"Who knows? Certainly not us" is fine.
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@loopback0 But a semicolon would be better!!1
Since when did "random thoughts" have to be well thought-out anyway?
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@kazitor Why would anyone need to invent new punctuation signs‽‽
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I see they've stopped trying to sell it since a few years ago.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@kazitor Why would anyone need to invent new punctuation signs‽‽
Who knows, certainly not me.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
You see "…?" a fair bit, but imagine if that were the top part of the question mark above the middle of "…"
But how would we differentiate between "...?" and "?..." then?
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@Gąska Who ever uses the latter?
(you lost points for typing "..." rather than "…")
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@kazitor Who could have guessed such an idea would fail...
(oops, now they're going to sue me for using it without permission!)
(how do I specify a size for an image and can it be relative to text height to make it look like a regular symbol?)
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@kazitor Who could have guessed such an idea would fail...
(oops, now they're going to sue me for using it without permission!)
(how do I specify a size for an image and can it be relative to text height to make it look like a regular symbol?)
Hmm, even making it an emoji class doesn't quite work. Oh well...
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@Tsaukpaetra Works for me:
Sample line of text for spacing blah blah blah
No class:
Sample line of text for spacing blah blah blahalthough direct CSS styles are stripped
edit: oh, I see, it's still slightly too tall. Rendering 22 px high even the the CSS says 20.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska Who ever uses the latter?
People who mean to write "?..." and not "...?"?
(you lost points for typing "..." rather than "…")
Ligatures make me lazy.
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@kazitor The class does seem to make it look like, well, any other emoji. It's still a tad too high indeed, but it's the same for most (all?) emojis, I think
I guess it's the best that can be done.EDIT: I obviously meant
I guess it's the best that can be done.
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@remi
EmojiOne is special™, apparently.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
Since when did "random thoughts" have to be well thought-out anyway?
YMBNH
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
But then why not simply refuse to sell anything that's not in a cuboid box meeting certain specifications?
It's more profitable to sell non-cuboid objects (and deal with the costs arising) than to insist on not doing so. Also, even cuboids don't necessarily help all that much when it comes to packing into a box chosen from a limited range (because having lots of different box sizes is also expensive).
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@kazitor
We should get that as a custom emoji:sarcasm:
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@Luhmann A sarcasm emoji isn't a bad idea, but it needs to be anything but that horrendous "SarcMark™™©™®®®"
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@kazitor
Inverted, flipped, ...:sarcasm:
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@kazitor Who could have guessed such an idea would fail...
(oops, now they're going to sue me for using it without permission!)
(how do I specify a size for an image and can it be relative to text height to make it look like a regular symbol?)
If you don't want to get sued then you could use opensarcasm.
They even have a manifesto!
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@JBert
Standards. We need more of them.℠
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@Applied-Mediocrity
That should be sarcmark instead of sloganmark :P
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The proposition is certainly open for comments. I respect and highly value your contribution.℠
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@JBert What a wonderful idea¡
(meh, doesn't look that good, it's way to low wrt the baseline)
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The fact that consultants are a common thing blows my mind. I mean, it sounds good in theory: hire someone who knows about something you don't know much about. But if you don't know much about something, then you can't tell if someone else does know something or if they're just bullshitting. That's a pretty big practical problem.
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@anonymous234 There is one way where consultants work: when you know what you're doing, but don't have the time to do it, and the amount of time required to do the work is much more than the amount of time you'll spend monitoring the consultants while they do it.
It does happen. I've seen it once…
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
But if you don't know much about something, then you can't tell if someone else does know something or if they're just bullshitting.
May I offer you my services as a bullshitter detector? I'm the real deal, I can assure you*.
*I'm not detecting any bullshit.
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@Zecc The thing is there are certifications and stuff, which are equivalent to one group telling you that the other person is not bullshitting.
But what this means is either they're both real or they're both bullshitters. This can give rise to entire job positions (or academic fields) that are bullshit.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
The fact that consultants are a common thing blows my mind. I mean, it sounds good in theory: hire someone who knows about something you don't know much about. But if you don't know much about something, then you can't tell if someone else does know something or if they're just bullshitting. That's a pretty big practical problem.
Want to get really scared? Think of medical doctors.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
But what this means is either they're both real or they're both bullshitters. This can give rise to entire job positions (or academic fields) that are bullshit.
The whole of academia?
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
But what this means is either they're both real or they're both bullshitters. This can give rise to entire job positions (or academic fields) that are bullshit.
The whole of academia?
You couldn't have picked a discipline, seriously? Literary criticism? String theory? Semiotics (although...)?
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Why haven't other entertainment production industries adopted the patch culture of the software industry? For instance, you insert your pre-ordered BD of Whatever Returns 2, freshly off Amazon, into the player, it has v1.02 written on it in tiny little letters, and you find out it needs to download a 15 GB update before you can watch it. But it's better!
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@Applied-Mediocrity It's called Star Wars.
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It's now less than a year until Windows 7's EOL!
I bet some companies are just now finishing their migration to it from XP.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
I bet some companies are just now finishing their migration to it from XP.
I just released another version of my program for XP yesterday. (This is the 2nd time I've done the "final final release ever". Damn critical bugs that block future configuration updates.)
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@Applied-Mediocrity I'm somewhat certain that's an actual feature of Blu-ray.
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It's disappointing that most standard libraries nowadays have dozens of
random()
variations and yet none of them has a simplebool randomBool(double p)
that returns true with probabilityp
.
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randomBool(0.6) random() < 0.6
That's one fewer character to type! And that's with spaces!
Of course things change if
random
doesn't return [0,1). But I don't think it's hard in any case, really.
Filed under: Why does it assume CSS for that if I don't specify a language?