Best posts made by CoyneTheDup
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:tv: Computer for Apollo
This is a long but (I thought) really interesting documentary on the building of the Apollo spacecraft computers. The first part is introductory, but then it gets right down into nitty-gritty details of how the fixed program was wired into the system and the equivalent of a circuit board was done.
...in a time before LSI, before MSI, before printed-circuit boards, almost before transistors.
Well worth the watch how they did "it" almost before "it" was a thing.
Computer for Apollo – 29:06
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RE: Trufuel WTF (not technology related)
How does anyone think this is a good product or a good business model? They are removing all of the economies of scale from fuel distribution and packaging ethanol-free fuel in quart bottles and shipping it by truck. And people actually buy this stuff?
Well, it kind of depends on your perspective. I'm sure Trufuel is looking at a rosy future of 95% profit, since the probably make and distribute this stuff for $1.40/gallon. Of course they have problems to overcome, which leads us to the second perspective...
...which is that of the flood of reviewers. Why should they care? They're being paid good $$$ to make and show all those infomer$ial$. And a lot of those are, because Trufuel needs those to accomplish the next step which is to...
...get enough environmentalists enthusiastic, so that they will prevail upon the government to mandate Trufuel. Which leads us to ...
...win for Trufuel. Probably an environmental loss and a loss for everyone's pocketbook, but hey, Trufuel investors and executives will win. That's what matters, right?
I mentioned "environmental loss": I'm to lazy to dig the details out now, but a while back NASA was touting their grand new fuel of the future, which would be much better for the environment than hydrazine, which is so dangerous, y'know. Because it only took about one liter of the new fuel to achieve the same power as 30 liters of hydrazine or so.
So I dug around to learn about the new fuel, which was really hard because--odd thing--no one seemed to want to discuss the details.
When I finally got an overview, I found out why: For every liter of the new fuel produced, the manufacturing process yields 200 liters (!!!!) of hydrazine as a waste byproduct. Now how's that for an environmental win?
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
is wrong with "Tasteless"? That's the whole internet, isn't it?
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RE: Empty Stadium
why do the rioters (NB: don't confuse this with peaceful protestors who are focusing on that stuff) loot and burn private property instead of government stuff?
It's typical of crowd psychology. As I understand it, because there is too little organization for overall direction, the crowd tends to break into small groups, each with a leader who may not have any idea how to achieve the real goal (or even what it is) and so may choose inappropriate strategies. Or may even have other motives ("I want a color TV, let's raid that store.).
Worse, people in the mob become convinced what they are doing is right, because it is what everyone else is doing. This can have feedback cycles as well, and so the activities of mobs tend to get worse over time.
The picture is a perfect example: We're hungry. We need food. Let's get food. If the store owner resists in any way, he becomes [part of the problem/a surrogate for the government that's hard to reach] and so...robbed/hurt/killed/looted.
Mobs are capricious and produce some of the worst crimes and destruction humanity is capable of. Somewhere long ago, I saw them compared to a forest fire. (Which was very apt, because fires are also capricious and destructive.)
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RE: Frontpagify this code snippit and win a prize!
Code snippet prompts investigation
A dangerously incompetent code snippet discovered by @accalia in a production environment has prompted an investigation into coding practices at an organization. The snippet not only implemented a loop using non-standard algorithmic strategies, but also involved an apparently illegal combination of operators.
@accalia is reported to have said that she felt justified in , "...turning around and unloading an entire clip [...] at the developer who wrote that."* Other developers reported similar feelings; one suggested the use of "a highly modified RapidStrike CS-18". The news asked authorities for more information about this weapon but did not receive a response by deadline.
The Code [city] police are seeking to identify the unnamed developer who created the snippet. There is also an investigation into whether the entire incident is the result of a conspiracy; and a separate inquiry into whether any of the developer threats constitute a crime. Also, the FBI is considering whether any of these events are of national security concern.
A bounty of $40 has been offered for an information related to an appropriate analysis of the snippet.
* It is true that @accalia did not exactly say this, but what is a front page story without a deliberate misquoting?
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RE: COBOL Quick Guide
Also it has "paragraphs" and GO TO as the primary way to structure a program:
Where the hell did you find this example? This practice went out with button shoes. Best practice is to use PERFORM THRU with EXIT paragraphs. Summary of some rules at our shop:
- Every paragraph must have a corresponding EXIT paragraph.
- PERFORM THRU is mandatory and may perform one paragraph through its corresponding EXIT.
- GO TO DEPENDING ON is prohibited, as well as (shudder) ALTER (using the latter might well be a career decision).
- GO TO is permitted only to the EXIT paragraph of the paragraph in which it is contained, which makes it functionally equivalent to C/C++/C# "return" statement.
- Use of structured blocks, with indentation, is mandatory.
- Use of period except at the end of a paragraph is prohibited. Periods are no longer needed to separate verbs; the verb reserved-word identifies the start of the next clause.
- NEXT SENTENCE is prohibited.
- The program begins with a main paragraph that ends with the STOP RUN. In normal operation, the program may end only by executing the STOP RUN at the end of that first paragraph.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. HELLO. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 WS-A PIC 9 VALUE 2. PROCEDURE DIVISION. A-PARA. DISPLAY 'IN A-PARA' PERFORM B-PARA THRU B-PARA-EXIT STOP RUN . A-PARA-EXIT. EXIT. B-PARA. DISPLAY 'IN B-PARA ' IF WS-A = 1 PERFORM C-PARA THRU C-PARA-EXIT ELSE PERFORM D-PARA THRU D-PARA-EXIT END-IF EVALUATE WS-A WHEN 1 PERFORM C-PARA THRU C-PARA-EXIT WHEN 2 PERFORM D-PARA THRU D-PARA-EXIT WHEN OTHER PERFORM D-PARA THRU D-PARA-EXIT END-EVALUATE . B-PARA-EXIT. EXIT. C-PARA. DISPLAY 'IN C-PARA ' . C-PARA-EXIT EXIT. D-PARA. DISPLAY 'IN D-PARA ' . D-PARA-EXIT. EXIT.
No GO TO at all. I demonstrated both block format IF and the EVALUATE statement, which is similar to SWITCH or CASE (actually the best designed such statement in any language IMHO).
The language generally sucks, I agree, and I regard it as a dead language (even though it is my mainstay). But the people using the examples similar to that presented in the intro, are getting them from stone age archaeological digs.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Comic in That's Jake not available on web, as close as I can remember it.
Neighbor, about the guard alligator in their back yard: "We don't think we've had any burglars since we got him. Of course, we'd have to cut him open to find out."
Continuing, "As a watch-animal, he's got a pit bull beat all to shucks. Matter of fact, he ate the pit bull next door."
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Clbuttic filter error at Macy's: Leonard Slutsky finds that their system doesn't like his name or his email address.
When we reached out to Macy’s, a company spokesman said it was hard to know what triggered the “invalid” message in this case, suggesting that something about the combination of “t” and “s” in Leonard’s last name made the computer believe it was a typographical error that should be “st.”
Right. Apparently there are also clbuttic filters on statements made by Macy's spokespersons.
Also, in other news, going to http://JebBush.com redirects you to https://www.DonaldJTrump.com/.
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RE: 📖 Teh Official Discopædia (Forums Dictionary)
Belgium
banned proper noun
At the moment, one of apparently only three words that are filtered with the Dischorse ban list. (The others areelgiu
andb.....m
.) Due to Discoursistency, it is not filtered if it is wrapped in code tags. It was added as a test word and remains because @PJH finds it funny. (Also, @Luhmann claims he volunteered "the good name of [his] country".)
Citations:
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Office 364.5 Word cloud glitch
So I asked to save my new Microsoft Office 365 Word document. Word immediately asked me to give my account for the cloud.
It should know that; I'm logged into the domain. Not only that, but I don't want to save my document on the cloud anyway, I want to save it on the shared drive. Sigh.
So, naturally, I immediately typo my account name. (Sigh.) I am also a I guess.
It is important to note at this point that Word presented a dialog specifically to ask for the account--and only the account. When I clicked next, after typoing the account, it presented a second dialog to ask me for the password, which I gave. Wrong, "Sorry, can't find your credentials."
It is at this point that I see the typo, so I want to fix it. No can do: that field is locked on this dialog. No "back" button, either. Aren't products that don't offer an opportunity to correct typos wonderful?
Sigh.
Click "cancel". Immediate response: "Sorry, we can't sign you on, another account is already active on this computer."
? Isn't this something you would normally check before asking someone to sign in?
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Jack: Suppose there are two web sites, and one leads to beautiful thoughtful sayings and pictures, and the other leads to a site that will give you a virus. There are two netizens you can ask a question of, but only one question, and only of one of them. How will you find out which site contains the virus?
Jill: Ask which site has the virus and, whichever site the netizen indicates, go to the other one.
Jack: No, wait, I said one netizen always lies and one tells the truth...
Jill: (cutting Jack off) and that's obviously a trick, because no one tells the truth on the web!
Jack: Well, say there were, and you really want to go to the beautiful...
Jill: (cuts Jack off again) and that's also a trick, because there are only crappy sites on the web! What kind of a stupid logic problem is this?
Jack: You're right, what was I thinking: there is no logic in the web.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Q: What do you call a cow who just recently calved?
A: [spoiler]Decalfinated.[/spoiler]
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
I think if he reads the fine print, he'd find out they promised him "up to 150 Mbps." I'm sure they would proudly confirm that 2 Mbps meets their contractual obligations and that he's getting "...everything he paid for.".
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Jarry said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Luhmann you're colourblind?
quick!
what colour is this dress?
It's purple and green. Anyone can see t hat.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Something more complicated than that happened. They could have just exchanged lines: France and Canada. But, no, turn the entire rest of the document into toilet paper.
Reminds me of this:
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RE: The Off By One Thread
Slight cheat but too good to pass up:
Hot & Horny Shingles In Your Area!
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RE: 🔥 Yore driving, Deez roasted Nuts! 🔥
> Under the rules oven gloves will be tested to show they "possess an appropriate coefficient of transmission of incident heat flux and be sufficiently incombustible to preclude any risk of spontaneous ignition under the foreseeable conditions of use".
Well, darn. No more manufacturing cheap paper-thin nitrocellulose gloves for us...
In case you did not know, merging should be done as late as possible.
You...are part of the problem.
Merge means, "Match speed and move into an opening in the adjacent lane." Not, "Quick, floor it down to the end of the merge lane to get ahead of four whole cars; then be forced to stop; then wind up with everyone else having to stop (making everyone late) when some
suckerkindly soul stops to let your insufferable tail in."You're lucky everyone else isn't me, because if everyone were me you'd sit at the end of that lane until they moved the cones or your car disintegrated into a rusty puddle (whichever came first).
(I lie, because soft-hearted ol' me frequently winds up being the kindly soul who lets people like that in.)
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RE: COBOL Quick Guide
How are while loops done? (I bet it won't be by recursion… )
(A side note to @Unixwolf: Modern COBOL is case-insensitive. One of the stupid-rules I have do deal with is my organization mandates upper case statements. I'll do pendantic lower case in these examples.)
Looping is not by recursion, no. The equivalent of a
while
loop is a variation of theperform
statement (except that it is performed until-true instead of until-false):move 1 to ws-a move 0 to ws-t perform until ws-a > 20 compute ws-t = ws-t + ws-a display ' Cumulative sum of 1 to ' ws-a ' is ' ws-t '.' compute ws-a = ws-a + 1 end-perform
(Well, one thing leaps out right away: The COBOL highlighting seems to be unaware that modern COBOL is case insensitive. Dizzycourse!!!)
The
perform
can also be executed as thedo - until
form by changing when the test is performed:move 1 to ws-a move 0 to ws-t perform with test after until ws-a > 20 compute ws-t = ws-t + ws-a display ' Cumulative sum of 1 to ' ws-a ' is ' ws-t '.' compute ws-a = ws-a + 1 end-perform
Normally, the test is executed before executing the
PERFORM
body, as inwhile
; thewith test after
clause causes the body to always execute once, even if the test is initially true. (It's uncommon to actually need this clause.)The
varying
clause allows a variable to be incremented similar tofor
:move 0 to ws-t perform varying ws-a from 1 by 1 until ws-a > 20 compute ws-t = ws-t + ws-a display ' Cumulative sum of 1 to ' ws-a ' is ' ws-t '.' end-perform
There are two ways to execute a sub-paragraph as a loop. This is the block form (with the
perform - thru
in the body of the loopingperform
):move 0 to ws-t perform varying ws-a from 1 by 1 until ws-a > 20 perform b-para thru b-para-exit end-perform
Then there is the option to loop a
perform - thru
statement form (which I avoid myself, since it tends to hide thevarying - until
(note the absence of the closingend-perform
), In this example, the entireperform - thru - varying - until
is one statement:move 0 to ws-t perform b-para thru b-para-exit varying ws-a from 1 by 1 until ws-a > 20
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@CoyneTheDup said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
he appears to have had sufficient protection.
Although I'm going to guess from the way he took off his gloves quickly and threw them that some of the metal stuck to the gloves and solidified there. Even the best gloves won't protect your hands from the heat for very long.
I agree. Probably why he shed them so fast.
Reminds me of a joke. The setting was one of those old west ghost towns turned into a tourist attraction. The guy that was running the blacksmith shop had taken a horseshoe out of the forge and it had just had long enough to stop showing red when a tourist picked it up to look at it...and put it down again really fast.
The proprietor asked, concerned, "Burn yourself?"
The tourist replied, "No, I was just done looking at it, that's all."
Same with the gloves: after having molten metal spattered onto them, he was just through with them, that's all.
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Belgium, that country supposedly `twixt France and the Netherlands, does not exist
Continuing the discussion from The Fallen of World War II:
There is the Bielefeld Conspiracy...
I found from the article above, which links this, why typing the name Belgium in Daily doesn't work. It's because Belgium doesn't really exist. All rumors of its existence are part of the Belgium conspiracy; if anyone tells you it does exist, they're obviously an evil conspirator.
[spoiler]Number one rule of the thread is: Anyone who claims it does exist is a conspirator.[/spoiler]
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
How many tea party patriots does it take to change a lightbulb?
[spoiler]Ten million and five: One to go to Wal-Mart and buy a lightbulb (and a gun because he’s going to the store anyway), one to scoff at global climate change, one to draw a rally poster making fun of Joe Biden, one to complain about the socialist conspiracy to bring light to all Americans, one to change the bulb, and 10 million to sit in the dark even though the light is on.[/spoiler]
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@chozang said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@EvanED said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
People who see a pedestrian at the intersection they are approaching and stop just after the third line - the first being the one they're supposed to stop at, the second and third being the crosswalk.
I wish it was explicitly legal to climb onto the hood of cars that do that and walk across them, provided you remain within the boundaries you'd get if you extended the crosswalk lines upward in space.I walk in back of them, and then just after I've passed them, I gently slap the side of their car. Just enough to make a thud on their beloved car.
I've heard two other variations that people pulled:
Walked around the front (not the back) and popped the hood on the way by. Cop witnessed the whole thing, did nothing but laugh.
Opened the back door, climbed in and slid across the back seat, opened the other back door, climbed out and walked on, leaving both back doors open. (Caution: probably gets you busted these days.)
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RE: Valid JPG and HTML in one file
It's clever, yes it is. But somehow I think this belongs on the BAD IDEAS thread.
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What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?
To borrow from a post: @TimeBandit said in I'm getting tired of this npm shit:
@blakeyrat said in I'm getting tired of this npm shit:
Users deserve more respect than that.
Like this ?
This isn't the first time I've noticed this usage, "Your _____ ran into a problem." Is a "problem" now a physical object? As in (from the above), "Your computer ran into a [tree / truck / pothole / mudhole / rock / sign / cliff / lake]?" That kind of real, physical object?
We so PC now we can't say, "The operating system on your computer has failed?" So much so that we have to use "ran into a problem" as a euphemism for failed?
I swear I can hear the future exchanges now now:
- Cop: You shot sixteen people! Perp: Well, yeah, I ran into a problem.
- Investigator: The bridge you built collapsed. Architect: It ran into a problem.
- Adjuster: How did you total your car? Insured: Ran it into a problem.
is the deal?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
See, it depends on the color of light under which the dress is viewed....never mind.
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RE: Organic Farm Denies Use of Dihydrogen Monoxide
@Dreikin said in Organic Farm Denies Use of Dihydrogen Monoxide:
It's like defining a human
A "plucked chicken"?
When Plato gave Socrates's definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, \"Behold! I've brought you a man.\" After this incident, "with broad flat nails" was added to Plato's definition. -
John Glenn's short, short life
I was on the phone with my Mom and she mentioned that, back in 1962 when John Glenn was slated to go into orbit, there were concerns that it would shorten his life. Well, it turns out to be fact: if he hadn't gone on that space flight he would have lived to 105. Instead of dying at a mere 95.
July 18, 1921 to December 8, 2016
Pass it on: spacewalks shorten your life. John Glenn is the proof.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Transformers: Revenge of the fallen.
Think maybe they should have mounted that thing more solidly?
Reminds me of something I saw one time in Lincoln, NE. First there was the loud sound that arcing high voltage makes:
BOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV...
I looked to see what was happening, and there was a power company bucket truck parked near a power pole, with the support arms down. The pad on the support arms was outlined in the glaring white of electric discharge.
BOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV...for about 20 seconds total, then it stopped.
And in the ensuing silence comes a loud but laconic voice, "You think maybe we ought to ground that thang?"
He was referring to the fact that power company equipment is supposed to be hard-clipped to a ground rod or ground wire. That way, if the bucket truck (for example) accidentally gets tangled in the high voltage, the circuit will trip immediately instead of arcing for 20 seconds and maybe killing someone. Grounding is safety policy, so they were already in violation. -
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Or 4+?
Too simple, obviously...otherwise they wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to print 99. (Idiots.)
I would have gone with the real world data - look up the human age record in the Guinness book and use that.Update as necessary.
Don't need to. Bible. Methuselah. 969: record.
[spoiler]Or did you think I came up with that number by accident? Yes, I know that's "suspect" in some people's view, but round up to 999 and no updating will be required.[/spoiler]Lacks implication that Lego is enjoyable in the ages past single digits.
Not to me, as a computer programmer. I would write the test as:
if (age >= 4)
Funny thing, that works for ages 100, 1000, and even 33,871,663,818,281.
But then, I'm a programmer and we look at the world wrong or something.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
Several. And I replaced our thermostat months ago. Just wanted to make sure I did it correctly. ;)
So...just curious...while installing it, did you wear the proper gold bikini?
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
@obeselymorbid said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
A teenage guy comes home very sad. Father asks him what's wrong.
"Well I met this girl today. I liked her very much. I tried to ask her out, but she interrupted me with a series of questions: "Do you have a Rolex?" I had to admit I don't. "Do you drive a Mercedes" - "No" - "Do you have a three storey villa?" - "No". Then she said she doesn't want anything to do with me."
Father thinks about it a bit:
"All right.
If she doesn't appreciate your Piaget watch, I'll give you my old Rolex.
You can sell your Bentley and buy a couple Mercedes cars.
But I can tell you straight away: no woman on this earth is worth demolishing fourth and fifth floors of our house."I thought it should be different...
A guy tried to ask a girl out, but she interrupted him with a series of questions: "Do you have a Rolex?" He had to admit he didn't. "Do you drive a Mercedes" - "No" - "Do you have a three story villa?"
He had fallen into kind of a trance, but now he gathered himself and said, "No, my $6 million villa is 5 stories, I'm afraid. And this is a $35,000 Audemars Piguet watch. When I leave, my chauffeur will bring around my $250,000 Bentley. It's been great discovering your priorities. Good day."
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RE: Google's latest Unitard - Arsenic Manipulation Pathologically
A goal of the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is to ensure effective ad monetization on the mobile web while embracing a user-centric approach. With that context, the objective is to provide support for a comprehensive range of ad formats, ad networks and technologies in Accelerated Mobile Pages. As part of that, those involved with the project are also engaged in crafting Sustainable Ad Practices to insure that ads in AMP files are fast, safe, compelling and effective for users.
I vote this as a leading contender for weasel-buzz-management-deception-worded crap of the year.
A goal of the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is to ensure
effective ad monetization onshoving every ad possible onto the mobile web while embracing auser-centricad-targeted-to-browsing user approach. With that context, the objective is to provide support fora comprehensive range of ad formats, ad networks and technologiesany f*****g thing advertisers can think up in Accelerated Mobile Pages. As part of that, those involved with the project are also engaged in craftingSustainable,inescapable, Ad Practices to insure that ads in AMP files are fast-er than the desired content, safe from user blocking, compellinguser viewing and effective forusersadvertisers (the other users).Sorry, cynic here.
Addendum: Everyone seen those pages that web sites lead you to, that lead you through 20 pages, each of which has 20 ads and a twelve-word paragraph? That's what AMP means. Except now you won't be able to read the paragraph without clicking through the 20 ads.
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RE: A small button for 'go to first unread' ?
@anotherusername said:
I would actually prefer if the link on the topic list would jump me to the first unread post in the thread so I didn't have to click anything extra. I pretty much always want to continue reading wherever I left off.
I vote with @anotherusername . It's only about 1% of the time I want to restart at the top of the thread and read all 2,000 posts again. It's only about 1% of the time I want to go to the end of the thread and then try to scroll back and find which post I read last. Both top and end of thread are 1 click away if I do want them.
But that means that 98% of the time I want to pick up where I left off, with the first post I didn't read. Why put me at the wrong place 98% of the time and make me select something to go to where I want to be?
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RE: Microsoft's helpful error message
Nah, this is just Microsoft. My all time favorite message from a product of theirs was from Outlook:
"The action failed to complete. The action failed to complete."
See, the great thing about that message, is it would work for your problem, too. You try to sign in: "The action failed to complete." And why would that be? Well, because, "The action failed to complete." Now you know everything you ever need to know...almost.
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RE: Quora argues about Windows registry
Uh, why exactly are you griping this much over Win.ini?
In case you lost your calendar, it's late 2015.
It should be obvious: because win.ini was the "root of all evil." It was never a good idea to encourage every application in existence to add sections to win.ini; Applications should generally maintain their own configuration in separate configuration files. In a by-user system, the files should be organized by user, perhaps in the "appdata" structure. The advantages of such a structure from the perspective of isolation should be obvious; the downsides are relatively minimal.
But from the beginnings of Windows 2 (at least, not familiar with Windows 1) Microsoft encouraged the use of the one configuration file to rule them all. It's not hard to see why they did that, either: it was because the result was one file that ruled them all. (I suppose you could make a case it was a "growed up" config.sys, but content of the latter was always tightly regulated. Win.ini content was not.)
The result was a win.ini file in the megabyte range, easily corrupted by a stupid application so it wouldn't work for any other application, and confusing to the max.
So, was Microsoft's solution to correct the broken strategy and go to a more manageable per-application file configuration? Of course not: their solution was the database to rule them all, which they call the registry. The structural problems have gone away, because everything has to go through regedit or the Windows API. But the profusion of junk; the confusion in structure; the monolithic versioning; and the exposure to malice by misbehaving apps (apps that want to become your default browser, for example)...bad as ever.
And all the problems trace back to win.ini, so no wonder it draws a gripe or two.
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RE: 256 is "oddly specific number"...
I'm sure the authors would explain it if asked, probably something along the lines of:
"Well actually, groups used to be limited to 16 people. But we were able to expand that now that we live in an age of 8-bit computers."
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Text message (based on 08/01 Frank and Ernest):
Cave woman, holding boulder as caveman struts away: "I'd like to think that, someday, when a man wants to get married, he'll offer more than just a rock."
Response:
Personally, I think she just feels taken for granite.
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RE: Shell WTF
I honestly believe the whole Gnome team just went mad by this point. They have "everything's a webpage" brainworms. Hamburgers everywhere.
Actually, it looks to me more like they have "everything's a cell phone" syndrome. Same as Microsoft. As indicated by
- "everything must be big, so it can be read because the display is small"
- "everything must be on one view because the display is small"
- "lots of features are bad because the memory is small"
Essentially, these people place several devices side-by-side: A PC, a laptop, a pad, and a cellphone. Then they boldly make false assumptions:
- All users are too stupid to learn to use multiple devices.
- Therefore our software must work identically on every device.
Then they look at the devices and realize that, advanced as they are getting, cell phones are the most restrictive device. Therefore:
- All software must be designed for the cell phone.
- Who would want anything else?
It's driving me crazy.
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RE: How To Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies
Today's way to demoralize employees: schedule a requirements gathering meeting outside of normal working hours.
Variation: New manager schedules a mandatory meeting to meet the troops and lay out strategy...at 7 AM. To which said manager is 35 minutes late.
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Nevermind the bollocks, here's another religion topic
That sounds like a good idea. Maybe call it the Church of Progressive Science and make Das Kapital and An Inconvenient Truth two of the primary sacred texts.
Along with whichever science text is used in Texas. Yeah, that would be an absolute blast, to watch the court fight.@anotherusername said:
And again, it's none of anybody's fucking business what religion the students practiced at home. You can't assume that none of the students were Muslim any more than you can assume that all of them were Christian.
And yet, how many times have we seen schools present Bible verses for the kids to learn, while assuming that none of the kids were atheist or Muslim? It happens at least several times every year.
In reality, the only reason there's a dispute is because the text was OMG Muslim and not Christian. Schools are always and forever sneaking through Christian teachings, texts, assignments, and thoughts. Every once in a while, they encounter an atheist's kid, the parent sues, and everyone is all like " is wrong with these atheists?"
It's kind of funny to see a Muslim text cause the same "everyone" to say, " how dare the school teach my kid to be a Muslim?" Particularly when there's zero reason to believe the school was actually doing that...which brings us to...
@CoyneTheDup said:
So these kids copied an Arabic expression of faith, that they couldn't read, but now they're all little Muslims.
Who said they're all Muslims now? Come on.
I said it. This type of statement is called satire, which is a literary form. You can tell in this case because it is not in quotes, and it is an exaggeration and a mockery of the parent's overreaction; their evident belief that copying a text the kids can't read must somehow be contaminating them.
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RE: 🔥 First they came for the incandescent bulbs...
Early adopter = shit won't work. No exceptions.
That's a rather shallow interpretation of the situation. Yes, when you're on the bleeding edge, you tend to get cut. You don't expect the provider to take a machete to you.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Anteater: I can't sleep. I have indigestion from eating all those fire ants before bed.
Wife: You'd better take an ant acid.
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RE: Yellowstone Park advises against selfies with bison
To give you an idea of the average intelligence level...my dad told a story about when he and my mother were in Yellowstone for their honeymoon.
This guy was teasing a bear cub with a doughnut, holding it up, trying to get the cub to stand up. The bear cub was trying to reach up and pull his arm down. They met in the middle, one claw hooked in the guy's long sleeve, which the cub then slit from wrist to arm pit in one slick sweep, just like a razor blade.
Dad said the guy backed off, looked at the cub askance, then shrugged and went back to teasing it.
Cause and effect is too much for some people to handle.
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Why is it "disgusting" to drink breast milk?
Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4tu0ir/stay_away_from_the_coffee_creamer_at_work/
The last post by "pelrun" struck me as particularly apt:
Do... do you worry about whether the cow the regular milk came from was pretty?
The general reaction seems to be that drinking some random woman's breast milk is "disgusting." With a huge swerve into a, "It depends on whether she was a 6 or above..."
Even my first reaction was in the realm of: "Ewwww...!"
But then we come back to the pelrun comment and, seriously, is it worse to drink milk from a random woman than from a random cow? Perhaps a cow that is a "5 or below"? Think about it: Cows and humans are mammals; the formula is different, but the fundamental design...is the same.
Hmmmmm....
I think maybe a few Disgust-O-Meters need adjusted, not excluding mine.
I mean, think about it...do you know where eggs come from?