@tsaukpaetra Now all they need is Scrum.
Best posts made by chozang
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not sure this was the second coming we were expecting
Well, a Honda Accord might be the modern equivalent of a donkey.
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RE: 🔗 Quick links thread
@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Playing GTA 'til 3 a.m. is not what successful and happy software architects do. Instead, here is your short list of activities: sports, tourism, and night clubs. Be a normal person — that's the point.
I know that's the goal of my life - to be a normal person.
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RE: In other news today...
@chozang 10 - 20 years ago, I actually anonymously mailed a real human skull I obtained online to a monk. This is not quite as odd as it sounds; many monasteries have real human skeletons on display, but this one did not (just a plastic one), and a whole skeleton was too expensive for me.
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RE: 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread:
I don't recall seeing this one.
I'm not sure whether that's cute or just disturbing.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/220580284842639361/301105853170450434/image.jpg
For those who want to know, but not badly enough to search: It is a real book store. http://wikimapia.org/28162793/Wong-Fook-Hing-Book-Store
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RE: Initiative Q - Money from nowhere?
@blakeyrat said in Initiative Q - Money from nowhere?:
@benjamin-hall Generally speaking, people who have PhDs and crow about it (it's in their voicemail, email footer, etc.) are the dumbest people on Earth.
People who have PhDs but never mention it, those guys are ok.
I have a friend who has a Ph.D. from a top-ranked school, a J.D. and a license to practice law. He never mentions it (unless someone brings it up). His FB page only mentions his bachelors at a middling school. He earns his living by being a host in a restaurant, babysitting, meat-cutting, telemarketing, etc. He rents a room in the home of a hoarder, because that's all he can afford.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Yamikuronue Not compared to today's tech, no. But back in 1801, when the (current) Union Flag was first introduced, we didn't have long-range radios, distress flares, or satellite communications :P
I would bet there were a lot of false alarms. Or genuine distress signals, where the viewer believed it was just a mistake.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Anything <anywhere> can do, we can do ier
How about air that makes me bleed?
That was an AZ specialty. (Although Nevada might be able to pull that off too)New England can do that too, in wintertime.
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RE: The Sad State Of (Atwood's) Web App Deployment
@Lorne_Kates said:
That's my old Lenovo laptop.
The screwdriver is to keep the screen open just wide enough to keep it from hibernating, but not so wide as to turn the screen on. Plus, ventilation. (that's also why it's being propped up by a 500MB hard drive)
You must be a fan of Louis Slotin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident .
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
@HardwareGeek said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
@Karla said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
@M_Adams said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
IIF
Ugh, syntax error makes me twitch...
Was going to put this in the funny stuff thread but seems relevant here.
I'm an introvert...what's your excuse?
That I come from a family of printers and learned to proofread at an early age. I also worked on a school newspaper for two years. Also, I am an introvert. And possibly also a bit of a jerk — online, anyway.
Now I know my excuse. I'm the child of a copywriter and an Anglophile.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Times Newer Roman, where were you when I was in school??!?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But it's still disturbing when you realize you are the adultier adult.
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RE: "Hacking" Teenager in trouble - for downloading public documents
@dkf said in "Hacking" Teenager in trouble - for downloading public documents:
@erufael said in "Hacking" Teenager in trouble - for downloading public documents:
Does that constitute legal permission though?
That in itself doesn't, but uploading the documents to a publicly-accessible location might do. It'd be something for the defence lawyer to try…
Actions are legal by default. So if he was given permission by a 200, it becomes that much harder for the prosecution to claim he wasn't given permission.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity Didn't C.S. Lewis write a book where some astronomer went to Venus and found the people there were like a "beta test" of humanity, then went to Mars and found out that the people there were like holy perfected super-people? Like Venus and Earth were just early wrong versions of what God was actually trying to create? The scientist he was travelling with gets possessed by Satan and he has to fight him.
I wish I could remember the name of that book series...
EDIT: I guess it's just called "The Space Trilogy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Trilogy also I got the order of the planets wrong, Venus is the perfected one.
FWIW, George Burns (as God) said that he created Man because he was disappointed with the monkeys.
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
@pie_flavor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I think they should have a sign with two arrows saying "If you don't care" and "If you do", where the don't-care one points to one big bin and the do-care one points to the trash-recycling-compost bins. Takes up another can's worth of space but cuts down on the people who put stuff in the wrong bin because they don't know where to put it.
Isn't the trash (i.e. non-recycling) bin the "don't care" bin?
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
@pie_flavor said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@chozang Was it about this size?
More like this size:
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RE: In other news today...
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@chozang Gah, put that in a spoiler tag please!
Done. But wouldn't the reader have already read it (if he was going to) by the time he got to my post?
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RE: In other news today...
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
This is a longer read but worth it. Woman has a weird childhood on the run from the "mob".
Wow, that's just... wow.
Just for the sake of due diligence - was the only evidence (apart from the common sense "this couldn't possibly be true) that Stan was delusional the break-in that didn't happen? Certainly the doubles would be hard to accept on face value, but there was any other concrete evidence? -
RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
Not sure if this is the right place for this comment. But I just discovered that users now have the ability to plonk users. This is great! I have sorely felt the need for this feature since I joined ~10 years ago, and have felt that the lack of this feature kept away a lot of people. The people who post a lot on TDWTF tend to have "strong stomachs". That is, they are the type of people who would feel more at home among convicts or longshoreman than among church goers. The ability for users to block users makes it a more pleasant place for all.
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RE: In other news today...
@MZH said in In other news today...:
Condensed-matter physicists are still marketing-level, double-talking bastards, though.
You cannot imagine my hatred for condensed-matter physicists.
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RE: Random thought of the day
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
http://i.imgur.com/NzOX4yo.jpg
Not mine, but a random thought nonetheless.
This assumes that sky is roughly equivalent to atmosphere. That is not what I assumed.
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RE: What is the largest amount of code you added before testing/running anything?
Not very much at all. Maybe 10 lines, more if it's copy-pasted (which happened more earlier in my career). My development style totally relies on the debugger. I'll make a change, see how far it gets, make another change, etc.
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RE: How much of what you do as a programmer requires domain-specific knowledge?
The basic problem is that I'm the only one in the world who knows how to write a ticket, (though many think they do, but don't) and no-one listens to me. The most important point in a ticket is listing the steps so that anyone off of the street could follow the steps, see the result as it is, and state what it is that the result should be. If the ticket includes these steps, then the amount of domain-specific-knowledge required is minimized.
Without those steps, then you have to figure out what you are doing, and domain-specific knowledge can be helpful.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@benjamin-hall regardless, if someone asks you if you would like some cake and then they bring you a brownie you are going to assume they are retarded.
Well...maybe you wouldn't. You are a nicer person than I am. But I would.
I might think they were retarded or I might think they were just the nicest person ever. They tell me they're going to bring me some cake and then they bring me the only thing better than cake instead.
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RE: The Word of the Day Thread
@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
I'm glad you said probably. I have pictures of the chain of command from my boss to the owner on my shrine at home.
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RE: In other news today...
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Careful with that strawman. Be a shame if something were to happen to it...Might not actually be your opinion, but it's not quite a strawman either. Or what do you think of "I get my wages from the taxpayer, but taxes are stealing"?
I think that is pretty hypocritical, FWIW. But I also don't think that taxing wages is the only way for a country to fund its government.
I think the view that it is hypocritical is reasonable, but I disagree with it. I see nothing hypocritical in wanting the rules to be changed but playing by the existing rules. You may think that the Designated Hitter rule (baseball) is a bad rule, but that doesn't mean you're obligated to disadvantage your team by not having one. The position has already been budgeted - if you don't apply (or quit if you're already employed by the government), the only one it hurts is you. You've already paid your share of taxes for it.
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RE: The Word of the Day Thread
@mikael_svahnberg said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Here's a word I saw in an exam I am marking right now:
samlier
as in "Product A and B is same as product C, but A is samlier."
Tell the student that neologisms are a sign of schizophrenia.
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RE: In other news today...
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Making a nice, straight, clean cut (I assume from the context that we're talking about paper here) is actually very easy:
Oddly enough, there's a shortage of those in kindergartens.
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RE: Swedish idioms
@frostcat said in Swedish idioms:
We also have the core of the poodle.
- Ew.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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RE: In other news today...
@karla said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
I guess I won't be travelling to Turkey.
This isn't quite as crazy as it sounds. In the Middle East (as in many countries, even today), eating utensils were not used. The left hand was for personal cleaning (performed with soap and water, not paper), the right hand was for eating.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@jaloopa said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@benjamin-hall said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
we have moral objections to alcohol consumption
Yeah, but I don't get what's immoral about it. Who does it hurt to drink a mouthful of beer?
If you ignore the potential for addiction and the natural consequences of drinking, nothing.
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
I remember having to trace my name in 1st grade. My last name has a 2nd capital letter but no space...what I was given had a space so I would pick up the tracing paper to fix.
Hmm. A lassie.
No space. Typical Irish last name.
I thought those are Scottish.
TIL (assuming I'm even thinking of the right thing)
However "Macs" are more likely to be Scottish.
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RE: 😈 The Evil Ideas thread
@boomzilla said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@chozang It's kind of difficult to see, but the name there says "Peanut Oil Blend." Which probably keeps it legal.
I didn't see that. But still, if someone complained, I bet there are regs about visibility.
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RE: In other news today...
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@tharpa said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
A group of squatters named Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians
Isn't a nation of anarchists an oxymoron?
Anarchists are confusing people. The ones I've encountered on reddit are just (very) authoritarian communists. They don't actually seem to dislike governments, they just want to rename them to something else and suddenly it will be totally different. And they hate anarcho-capitalism above all else, because how can you have real freedom if you don't have someone to enforce intersectional feminist theory?
I did have a coworker who was a free-market anarchist, and (thus?) apparently a true anarchist. He succeeded in converting me to the free-market part, but not anarchism.
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RE: In other news today...
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Karla
The article sounds like someone trying to justify their shortcomings :PI agree with you 1/3. Going to bed late and leaving a mess everywhere aren't shortcomings.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Well, WTDWTF denizens can go over and complain about Discourse, which they can no longer do here.
Who told you that? The discopocalypse thread is still going pretty strong...
I just assumed... I guess they're all suffering from post-Discourse-stress-syndrome.
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RE: Aspie Quiz
@masonwheeler said in Aspie Quiz:
@flabdablet Did you read the article? They didn't just remove it; they replaced it with a 3D-printed prosthesis.
That's right. We have a person walking around today, living a normal life, with an artificial skull! You can't tell me that's not awesome.
Although my wife does not have an entire plastic skull, she does have a plastic forehead, made with a 3-D printer. I think the awesome part was that she walked around for a year without a forehead, before they got around to giving her the prosthesis.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
@gurth said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
Two psychologists run into each other. “You’re fine. How am I doing?”
At least 6 people get that, but I'm not one of them.
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Sorry if it offended you, not my intention. I've changed it to travellers.
Give it a few years and someone will decide that "travellers" is a slur.
I only have any sort of faint clue about what this is about because of Brad Pitt in Snatch.
My first hearing of the word was from Wesley Crusher. It wasn't until a couple of hours ago that I realized that it is a synonym for Gypsy, which, judging by the Wikipedia page for travellers, might now be considered a pejorative by some.
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RE: In other news today...
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
convicted felons
In Canada, inmates can vote
I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I think that inmates who did vote would be more likely to vote liberal (though inmates in general regard both parties as composed of squares), but on the other hand it seems that if you have so many people in prison that their votes are likely to swing elections, then maybe you have too many people in prison.
If your crime falls under common law, then that means that people have always known it was wrong. If your crime falls under statuary law, then maybe your opinion should count.
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
Surely a just-a-few-degrees-the-wrong-temperature-so-its-subtly-annoying would be the worst hell? according to my female coworkers
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RE: Exact Instructions
@RaceProUK said in Exact Instructions:
@chozang said in Exact Instructions:
@RaceProUK said in Exact Instructions:
I must admit, I've never understood the appeal of the PB&J. Then again, I've never actually had one.
You poor child. That explains a lot.
It's never been a thing in the UK. The only reason anyone knows about it here is imported US TV.
Next you're going to tell me you've never had a Fluffernutter.
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@carrievs said in In other news today...:
Roy and Kayla Moore aren't racist:
they have a black friendTo be fair, that one guy is, like, 15% of the Jewish population in Alabama.
I have often felt that the conditioned attitude towards that defense is not quite right. If the statement, "Some of my best friends are Jewish" (or whatever) is true, it would seem to be at least a piece of evidence against at least the most extreme forms of antisemitism (or whatever).