@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
to pull one more or less at random...
I like your random number generator.
@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
to pull one more or less at random...
I like your random number generator.
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
a no-brainer for backers
Is that some english syntax I am not familiar that means "the backers have no brains"?
@Gribnit That would be if the word written was "palette". What he was referring to was people who are using meat to build platforms for placing other objects on when shipping them.
All that as opposed to "palate", referring to how people perceive the taste of food.
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Seems like this guy is the big winner in the Bitcoin biz.
@jinpa said in Random Question of the Day:
Is it unreasonable to expect that tickets/stories about bugs/defects include a working example on how to replicate the bug, exceptions not withstanding?
There have been times when I would have been happy just to receive an example of what the supposed problem is.
"The administration page is not working" is not a sufficient bug report in my dream world. Especially when the page comes up with no glaring error messages.
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
...Foxconn...Mexican facility...
Boy, that's got to piss the Chinese off huh, their jobs being stolen by offshore workers?
@error said in Database misstep:
If only each vehicle had a unique identifier, call it a Vehicle Identification Number.
Exactly what I thought.
And I can just hear all the users whining about how it's 17 characters long, "that's too much to enter".
@boomzilla That's an unfortunate name, when sans-serif type makes it look like a synonym for "idiot".
edit: The concept of it would have solved a design dilemma this morning, actually.
@CodeJunkie said in WTF (What-the-Fun) Project: Dust Sucker:
So is the Dust Sucker bagless?
When you disconnect the Dust Receptacle(r), it plugs directly into the Dust Repository(r) which removes the dust into bags especially designed to contain the extracted dust. Until plugged into the Dust Repository, the Dust Receptacle remains completely sealed so you are safe from the extracted dust.
Why yes, the Dust Receptacle is ordered separately. The bags? Surprisingly reasonably priced. :)
@PotatoEngineer said in Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate:
Welp, now I've installed the Russian keyboard.
Wait until you accidentally discover the keystroke combination that switches keyboard mapping. And then try to figure how to switch back, using Google on a Russian keyboard.
@acrow said in A fool and his actual money are soon parted:
@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his actual money are soon parted:
If I ever read that, I've long forgotten it, but I quite liked Dune when I read it decades ago.
And I liked The Belgariad when I was a teen. Turns out, young people like crap.
@Bim-Zively said in A fool and his actual money are soon parted:
Herbert, IMO great ideas but poor execution.
The only idea of his that I know to have been adopted to other fiction was sandworms. Were there any others?
Don't know, but someone ought to adapt the Gowachin legal system.
@Mason_Wheeler said in A fool and his actual money are soon parted:
@MrL said in A fool and his actual money are soon parted:
@Rhywden said in A fool and his actual money are soon parted:
@GOG said in A fool and his actual money are soon parted:
@Medinoc Instructions unclear. Ten years before movie was in the works I was arguing with friends about whether making a cinematic trilogy would be feasible.
The recent Dune happened despite of that. Granted, it's only two parts but still.
Yeah, but it's also awful, unlike LotR.
Toby Faire, so was the book. It's gotta be the most tedious work of sci-fi I've ever read.
Read others of Herbert's work, and you might reevaluate your feelings about "Dune". The one that broke my camel's back was "The Jesus Incident", I could never make it through that one.
Herbert, IMO great ideas but poor execution.
@Gribnit That would be if the word written was "palette". What he was referring to was people who are using meat to build platforms for placing other objects on when shipping them.
All that as opposed to "palate", referring to how people perceive the taste of food.
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@jinpa said in Random Question of the Day:
Is it unreasonable to expect that tickets/stories about bugs/defects include a working example on how to replicate the bug, exceptions not withstanding?
There have been times when I would have been happy just to receive an example of what the supposed problem is.
"The administration page is not working" is not a sufficient bug report in my dream world. Especially when the page comes up with no glaring error messages.
@boomzilla said in Joinphobia:
Does anyone really use anything other than the
dbo
schema in SQL Server?
I was lead on an application that had an absolute shit-ton of features, that easily divided into groups, many tables and even more stored procedures. It became much easier to find objects belonging to a particular feature (e.g. "weather") when I gave each feature its own schema name.
I hate that SQL Server calls them schema though. To me the schema (schemata) of database objects is the struction, like ID INT NOT NULL for a column.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
And replace it with something even more bizarre and inexplicable?
My vote is for 1401 Autocoder.
@DogsB I'm a huge fan of truck analogies, been using them for years.
The complaint I have with that analogy is that I'd expect a lot of people, when they think of "moving van", to be thinking of one of the semi-trucks that moving companies use. "So that analogy means WiFi7 is a different color than before?"
I like comparing pickup trucks to semis, pretty much everyone knows that difference.
@boomzilla said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Or I go to Lowe's and buy 4 dumb garage door openers (the 4th bay which is my workshop does not currently have a garage door opener on it) and put these pieces of shit on craigslist and possibly get murdered by the latest craigslist killer.
My local police station has a couple of parking spots in front of the station with a camera pointed at them specifically to give people a place to make these exchanges without getting murdered by said craigslist killer.
That's a really cool idea. I don't think my local police have such a facility, so I would probably arrange to meet the killer craigslist buyer inside the police station.
If that's unacceptable to them, just means I need to remove the strikethrough above.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
and carry the phone in your purse. Well, I don't have such bullshit.
Well if you are going to go out of your way to not go along with the program, you can't blame Apple for your discomfort. /applefanboi
That ipad suggestion is a good one. I assumed that the 5G ipad would be much more expensive, but it isn't. If I were a purse-carrier and an iphone user, I would consider that.
@Arantor >But also, the Trash album linear disagrees
I think it was Roger Waters who observed that not once ever did the album production people ask him what the words were to one of his songs. They apparently just listen to the song and do their best.