@izzion said in Can someone crowdfund this, please?:
Hope the return clerk ain't quick on the uptake
@izzion said in Can someone crowdfund this, please?:
Hope the return clerk ain't quick on the uptake
@karla buy a dozen bottles, dump all the vitamins out, put the strawberry ones into 1 bottle, return 11 bottles of vitamins.
@karla said in what your superpower it is:
sleep on demand
That superpower I've got figured out - I call it, "down a shot or two of vodka and fall asleep."
I am not sure if that's more or less healthy than getting hooked on sleeping pills. I mix the vodka with milk, which is healthy, so that counts for something, right?
@dkf i also think the floof was good, especially when it had a random connection to the content of the post.
@boomzilla said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
Like I said, everyone is going to have a different deplorable line.
Also do note, you injected the "not worth discussing" part... nowhere did I say that in my original statement. My point was that the offensiveness of the statement is not that some think being gay "isn't that bad", it's that they've defined it as bad at all. There are things you can dislike without having to determine they are inherently bad.
Like tomatoes. Which are VERY close to inherently bad.
@boomzilla If you wanted to be even in the ballpark of acceptably objectionable, it would be more like
Likes tomatoes
Wears a weave
Owns a poodle
Licks the bowl
@boomzilla said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
Are you saying that it's not even worth discussing with someone who disagrees about that?
If one was willing to admit that their objection is merely personal bias that should have no impact on another's standing in the community, that'd be something at least. Everyone has personal biases, part of being a decent human being is trying not to let them impact your life and actions.
Otherwise, what is there to discuss? Someone is going to bargain you down on how much you object to them as a person? Where it becomes a problem is when people of authority take actions due to those personal objections - like lawmakers allowing people to be fired from their jobs, preventing them from adopting, preventing them from being able to make legal decisions as a couple, making alternative forms of sex illegal, etc.
@boomzilla said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
Are you saying that people have no free will?
Of course there's free will. Some could choose to be miserable and conform for plusgodpoints. Others could choose not to attempt to legislate or discriminate against things they don't like that are not illegal or damaging.
@boomzilla said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
Now, what if that "alternative lifestyle" is something like bestiality? Pedophila?
The slippery slope argument. One of the 3 things is legal and involves consenting adults. Societal law dictates against the other 2 things because in those cases an unwilling party is being caused harm.
We could slippery slope the other direction? In a good part of the southeast, mixed race relationships are still frowned upon as objectionable. Others find someone simply being Jewish to be objectionable, which must be another perfectly understandable view, right? Those people are like the kind of people that would leave the toilet seat up I guess.
@boomzilla said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
Is it wrong to have compassion for someone with pedophilic urges but to abhor and punish those who act out on those urges? Will you read this and interpret it as a slur against the sorts of alternate lifestyles you were thinking about when you wrote your post?
Not really. Now you're just being absurd too.
@boomzilla said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
I'm going to say that a lot of political disagreements have a root in fundamental disagreements about the nature of humanity.
That is pretty much the root of it.
I feel i may be too harsh, requiring of the floofs. Do know that I tried hard to be restrained and purely passive in idealizing.
@yamikuronue the purple unicorns rounded up all the purple unicorns and put them in purple unicorns, where they would eventually be purple unicorned to death.
actually... i think that's more offensive than leaving the real words in....
@yamikuronue I feel like at least some forum-goers got to learn about possible shared values with other forum members that they wouldn't normally have seen.
@boomzilla said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
OK, let's remove the "sin" part and just consider some objectionable choice.
That, in reference to gays or any other so-called "alternative lifestyle", is the problem, not whether said person finds anything to be within their so-called acceptable level of objectionableness. It belies a fundamental disagreement about the nature of humanity.
@sloosecannon said in Results of Dangerous Experimentation:
hopefully we can have good discussions on these issues without all the flames.
sounds like a lot of work for mods. must require floof.
Also, automatically replace anytime someone says nazi, right-wing, left-wing, liberal, fascist, conservative, BLM, antifa, white supremacist, racist, lgbtq, etc with a purple unicorn instead, so you can't tell which side is being complained about.
@ben_lubar said in what your superpower it is:
Including or excluding clothes?
That's part of on-demand.
Whatever I want and whenever I want it.
@lorne-kates said in What the fuck, Apple?:
Go on an 8 hour drive with a 14 month old child in the back.
We went on consecutive days of 8 hours drives, twice in a 10 day span (16 hour trip there and back) with a 14 month old.... but we timed it where they'd be asleep for 75% of the trip and didn't have much issue.
@boomzilla me too....
I'm sad they only built up the pyramid on one side and didn't LEFT JOIN their way back down the other side
@anotherusername said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
@darkmatter said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
technically you can mangle a series of SQLs together to sort of work like a program if you use inserts/updates to add rows that become the clock, but you can't loop without the stored procedure extensions.
Trigger on insert?
At first I thought you meant my INSERT statement triggered you. Then I realized that you, sir, are the fucker of butts. And I feel like there has already been a debate on this forum before about whether triggers count as sql or stored procedure.
@blakeyrat said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
Is there a spec in programming more shat upon than the SQL spec? I think not.
What do HTML and SQL have in common?
Both their specs are used as toilets by the designers of the engines that run them.
@blakeyrat said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
I'd be very interested in a discussion of why HTML is not a programming language but plain SQL (as Boomzilla already brought up) is
it's not. It's a querying language that can feed programming languages (plsql, tsql, etc)
technically you can mangle a series of SQLs together to sort of work like a program if you use inserts/updates to add rows that become the clock, but you can't loop without the stored procedure extensions.
d of course.
@pie_flavor said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
You can't just claim it's wrong, you have to say why.
YMBNH
@ben_lubar
so... two word answer, Guild Wars?
@ben_lubar so... two word answer, Guild Wars? (also, fuck this topic misappropriation linkage)
@ben_lubar the weird part is that you seem to mix enough lojban with things I can't translate that i can sort of figure out you're going on about. Maybe it's all real? Maybe it's maybelline.
Also, what game is it that's got you sucked in at all hours of the night?
@darkmatter video games are the root of all evil after all?
@ben_lubar
makes sense I guess.
not too different from why I'm up posting at these ungodly hours.
@ben_lubar oif wlaf, zbweai aeof zoi aodfj aifo owea afbxanc*
*why is that you're always up so late posting?
@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Nashville hot chicken
If you're in Nashville for reals, hit up Hattie B's for some ridiculously hot chicken. I ate it up, but it was causing visible physical reaction - my head was pouring sweat and anywhere the sauce touched skin around my lips, it would turn bright red.
I've eaten Bhut Jolokia, Habaneros, Red Savinias straight... there comes a point where it doesn't even matter anymore, you can't tell the difference in hotness. And this chicken was at that point.
Downside is... that place has a line every night stretching a full block down the road.
I posted a screesnhot of my current stats, so that really shouldn't be necessary.
yeah - i went to check my own stats to see if i was having the same inflation thing happening to me, but i post mainly in the trolley land so i doubt there's much bot-visible activity from me.
dunno. i don't hang out with kids much anymore because @Perverted_Vixen keeps stopping by and there's nothing like the furry of an outrageous parent........
ftfy
@mikael_svahnberg said in Selenium:
EyeStore
oh wait... that's actually part of their background image, not a real search input. designed that
quite an eyesore.
@aapis said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
These
litesticles are always, always, terrible and stupid.
at least, that's what I read.
@ben_lubar said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
If I open Microsoft Word and type some text into it, by your definition, I have just created a computer program that displays the text I typed.
Actually, Word created the program part for you via autogenerated code with your input text as the only difference from generic garbage.
It's exactly like Visual Basic, amirite?
@masonwheeler wasn't supposed to be real ruby code, just English as a programming language
@pie_flavor said in Apparently, JavaScript is easy to learn, and HTML is a programming language:
This is an instruction to do something with data:
Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
That looks like data to me.
echo ' Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");';
There we go
@boomzilla so how long were you going to troll him before you told him that what he's probably thinking of as the "bar" is Turing-complete programming languages.
@darkmatter
isn't that supposedly what ruby wanted to be anyway? English as a programming language.
things equals a plus b
do things for five times inputting 5 and 7
:> 60
@pie_flavor interpreted it into what exactly? If it's interpreted into a program, then yes!
@pie_flavor simply be truly pedantic and specify only Turing-complete programming languages.
HTML itself isn't, you need CSS3 (last I recall anyway)
basically, "here's a list of programming languages that don't require manual memory management and have built in garbage collection. oh and HTML."
@izzion how many isnulls would you nest before acquiescing to the coalescing?
@jaloopa said in Right join! Huh! What is it good for?:
Has anyone ever encountered a genuine reason to use a full outer join?
yes
and it made good use of coalesce() as well.
@boomzilla said in Goodbye:
It often seems to mean "good," including the scare quotes.
what happens if it's in scare quotes itself.... damn "hipsters"?
Recently, the word "hipster" started meaning "good".
i think you're behind the times, hipster meant good for a while and now means bad again
@wharrgarbl said in Bossiness:
without it being approved by QA
he probably meant more along the lines of UAT anyway.
@boomzilla or maybe he meant a nested query pyramid. But the thing I posted was the only thing I could think of that would be relevant to left vs right joins. Probably my fault for thinking it must be relevant.
@boomzilla oops, I listed the left and right joins backwards for the pyramid I'll have to fix that. the pyramid is that instead of putting the main table first and left joining it to everything, (or last and right joined), they build up to it and then back down from it, kind of like a pyramid.
Fixed here
tablea
Right join tableb on ...
Right join tablec on ...
join tabled on ...
Left join tablee on ...
Left join tablef on ...
I think that's what Blakey was talking about anyway
@boomzilla said in Right join! Huh! What is it good for?:
Sorry, I'm not familiar with what you're describing here.
tablea
Right join tableb on ...
Right join tablec on ...
join tabled on ...
Left join tablee on ...
Left join tablef on ...
because hate.