Random thought of the day
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@TimeBandit said in Random thought of the day:
@pie_flavor said in Random thought of the day:
Git? Subversion? These are not good product names
Git is perfectly named
I always assumed it was descriptive of the author. Also
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
I always assumed it was descriptive of the author.
Why the 'git' name?
Quoting Linus: "I'm an egotistical ***, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'".
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@Kian said in Random thought of the day:
@pie_flavor naming is hard, ok? That's why management leaves it to the programmers, who are already dealing with all the other hard things. Unfortunately programmers are too honest when naming the products they're working on.
Lol you think there's a management.
Git and Mercurial were both started and named by single FOSS developers on their spare time. Subversion, surprisingly, was started by a company, but a developer had already picked the name before.
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I'm almost tempted to tell someone I roleplay as an alternate account on a medium-sized forum with only one user
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I just realized why the way OOP is generally taught (or at least, how it was taught to me) always bothered me.
Normally, they use examples such as a parent Animal class which is inherited by Cat and Dog, or Shape with Circle and Square. In common speech, when we think of categories, we think of the more general thing containing the more specific things. The specific being a more constrained form of the general. But in OOP taxonomies it's the other way around. The parent is the more constrained thing, and the child expands on what the parent can do, as well as providing specific implementations of the common behavior.
In common speech, the general category is the union of all the specific things it contains, so we can say that animals can fly, swim and walk because different things in the category display those behaviors, but in programming it's the opposite. The general thing only shows the intersection of the behaviors of all the things that inherit from it, and it excludes any behavior that is not shared. And professors rarely explain this very important detail, which is why students write such horrible inheritance diagrams.
Wasn't ever able to put this discrepancy in words until just now.
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@Kian said in Random thought of the day:
In common speech, the general category is the union of all the specific things it contains, so we can say that animals can fly, swim and walk because different things in the category display those behaviors, but in programming it's the opposite. The general thing only shows the intersection of the behaviors of all the things that inherit from it, and it excludes any behavior that is not shared. And professors rarely explain this very important detail, which is why students write such horrible inheritance diagrams.
This comes down to whether you've got an open world or a closed world in your type hierarchy. In a closed world, you know all the possible subclasses a class can have, and can make all sorts of nice assumptions about what is and isn't possible. In an open world, you only know some of the possible subclasses of a class, and have to deal with the fact that there's always going to be things going on that you've not thought of. (This means that closed worlds let you use classical logic but only intuitionistic logic is sound with open worlds; in intuitionistic logic, you don't know whether everything that is either
A
or¬A
.)Reality is very much open world.
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To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I just learned that milk can come in a bag
It usually does... originally
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@Tsaukpaetra I know that in some Central American countries drinks are often sold in bags because hard plastic bottles are expensive (the drink in question might only be a few cents).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
Poland here, but it's almost the same. Yes, bagged milk exists, and yes, it is bad - for the same reason bottled milk is bad: it's not UHT, so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
Reminds me of 'bag in box' wine, which has the advantage over bottles that the wine inside the bag does not come into contact with the air.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I just learned that milk can come in a bag
Yes, the 4L ones do
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
(you lost points for typing "..." rather than "…")
Or you could have gotten some nerd points for knowing …
Or you could have gotten some emoji points for knowing
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@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...)?
Computer science?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Why are Marines fighting in desert?
Desert close to ocean?
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@djls45 debatable.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
It's common where I live. You put the bags into jugs and cut the corner, and pour from there.
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@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Why are Marines fighting in desert?
Desert close to ocean?
I've heard that the ocean is a desert with its life underground, and a perfect disguise above
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Why are Marines fighting in desert?
Desert close to ocean?
I've heard that the ocean is a desert with its life underground, and a perfect disguise above
Great group. Or at least they once were. Be nice if we could Make America Great Again.
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@e4tmyl33t said in Random thought of the day:
@mott555 I'm the opposite. My left pinky has more independent motion, though I have to consciously keep my ring finger from curling when I curl the pinky. With my right, I can't curl the pinky independently at all.
My hands are about the same between left and right: the pinky can move and curl independently of the ring finger (with conscious thought to keep the ring finger immobile), but the middle finger can bend at either the two end joints or the joint right at the hand, but not both, without the ring finger moving too.
Actually, holding the ring finger and either finger adjacent to it in a kind of manual splint and then trying to curl the other one shows which are more connected. For me, holding the ring and pinky together and curling the middle one causes a bit of pain, just like stretching a muscle, on the inside middle of my forearm. When I hold my ring and middle fingers together, my pinky is free to move around as I please.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
It's common where I live. You put the bags into jugs and cut the corner, and pour from there.
TIL, I knew about the containers but I assumed you poured the milk into them, not left it in the bag. That just seems odd for some reason.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
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@Cursorkeys said in Random thought of the day:
That just seems odd for some reason.
Eh. Easier to clean? And you already have a container in the bag, no point in transferring it to another vessel when it's already the same volume.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
To my Canadian friends: I just learned that milk can come in a bag, and that apparently Americans think this is bad (or something). Can anyone verify this?
The convenience stores around here sold milk in bags starting in the late 80s/early 90s, but I haven't seen them for a while.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Cursorkeys said in Random thought of the day:
That just seems odd for some reason.
Eh. Easier to clean? And you already have a container in the bag, no point in transferring it to another vessel when it's already the same volume.
And also you only have the tiny corner exposed to the air, rather than the whole opening of the pitcher.
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@Tsaukpaetra Lots of people. UHT milk lasts from 6 to 9 months.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Lots of people. UHT milk lasts from 6 to 9 months.
Huh. I guess I never tried. A gallon of milk seldom lasts more than three days in this household...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
Someone who drinks less than 1 glass of milk per week on average?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
Someone who drinks less than 1 glass of milk per week on average?
Sorry, sorry, forgot to put the rhetorical-mark there.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
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@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
But that's in a box, not a bag.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
I've heard that the ocean is a desert
Some parts, yes. Other bits are like great forests or oases.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
Someone who drinks less than 1 glass of milk per week on average?
Sorry, sorry, forgot to put the rhetorical-mark there.
Wouldn't help. I'd still get mad at your assumption that everyone's lifestyle matches yours.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
Someone who drinks less than 1 glass of milk per week on average?
Sorry, sorry, forgot to put the rhetorical-mark there.
Wouldn't help. I'd still get mad at your assumption that everyone's lifestyle matches yours.
Where is my assumption that everyone's lifestyle matches my own? Unless you're projecting your own opinions I said no such thing.
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@Tsaukpaetra whatever.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
so you can't buy one and stash it in cabinet and forget about for 3 months.
Wait! That raises more questions! Who the fuck stashes milk in a cupboard for three months??!?
Someone who drinks less than 1 glass of milk per week on average?
But:
- UHT milk is not exactly delicious
- "Regular" milk is, such that you should be having heaps of it
therefore
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@kazitor I don't see a difference
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@Gąska Wow, you're
worse than I anticipated.
You're meant to drink milk, not stare at it!
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
I don't see a difference
You're not supposed to see it, you're supposed to taste it
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
UHT milk is not exactly delicious
It seems to be getting better (or maybe the brand matters), I took a load with us when we went racing in Germany last year and I'd have been hard pressed to tell the difference between it and semi-skimmed.
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@TimeBandit said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
I don't see a difference
You're not supposed to see it, you're supposed to taste it
That explains everything.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@TimeBandit said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
I don't see a difference
You're not supposed to see it, you're supposed to taste it
That explains everything.
Not sure if candidate for Nope thread or NSFW thread or...
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@Cursorkeys said in Random thought of the day:
semi-skimmed.
There's the problem. (well, I drink 2%. Can't do 1% tho.)
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@boomzilla I'm @boomzilla.
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@Gąska Will the real @boomzilla please stand up.
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