Posts made by Dragoon
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
@Gustav said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Explanation for people without native American accent?
Which one were you thinking of?
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RE: The Cooking Thread
I second and the grilled asparagus,truly delicious. You can do green beans the same way.
Good base:
I usually add at least bell peppers and garlic, but you can add just about anything.
Key thing is that the foil has to be closed tightly so the steam can't escape.
I know you said vegetables but this is also delicious:
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
Does anyone have a relatively straigtforward suggestion for barbecue veggies?
Veggies to go with your BBQ or veggies to be BBQ'ed?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadβ’
For years the passwords that I care about (so don't autogenerate in keepass and never actually know them) have all been perl regexp.
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
I will take the code on the right any day as well. It will allow for the seventh nail, the code on the left will fall apart.
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RE: Why is programming complicated?
@Gustav said in Why is programming complicated?:
@Luhmann what's Belgian for "HIPAA violation"?
Nah, there are things you can do to sanitize it before copy.
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RE: Why is programming complicated?
@jinpa said in Why is programming complicated?:
Much of this is a solved problem, though. If we used dialog boxes that already addressed those questions, they would work in almost all cases.
How many ways are there to count to 100?
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RE: Why is programming complicated?
@jinpa said in Why is programming complicated?:
Is there more to it than that?
Yes, take something as simple as a single dialog box and a button that will just display the text entered.
How many characters do you accept? What char sets do you support? Foreign characters? How does it respond to null inputs? How does it respond to someone entering the entirety of 'War and Peace'? What font is being used? How does everything look at different screen resolutions and DPI scales? Is is written such that tomorrow you can easily add colors/bold/italics/etc...?
That list goes on and on and no. Finally, you hit a request that your original robust framework can't handle. You can't justify rewriting the mountain of code that satisfies everybody else, so you have to find a way to tack this new thing on. Now the real complexity begins.
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RE: In other news today...
Tips trace all the way back to Medieval Europe and serfs being 'tipped' for exceptional service. Tipping for good service was a common practice all over europe in the early 1800's, when rich Americans travelled abroad and noticed the custom. Wanting to be more proper, it was brought to the US. Where it was promptly rejected as being -ist. This mentality spread to Europe and they stopped tipping.
Meanwhile in the US... with the abolishment of slavery, people found a new way to keep 'slaves' by paying them very little for a job and 'allowing' the customer to tip them for their service. Various states did various things to hinder/encourage this tactic. In 1938, it was officially enshrined into law with a before and after tip minimum wage established. Over time, several states have passed law such that tips are additional after minimum wage, but it is up to the states.
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RE: In other news today...
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
But would pride allow America to do what Europe does?
That is why we started tipping in the first place. We stole it from europeans, who promptly turned around and stopped doing it, less someone think they were American.
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RE: In other news today...
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Remember that that tipping culture is born out of βletβs pay people $2.37 an hour or whatever and they can earn the rest of their money through customer generosityβ
When you live in that world, tipping is mandatory by expectation so expectation of tipping even in a totally automated world seems right up there.
That isn't quite how it works. The employer is required to pay them minimum wage. However, they can reduce how much they pay them based on their tips, down to a certain % of minimum wage (typically 50%).
TLDR: If nobody tipped a tipped employee would still make at least minimum wage.
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RE: In other news today...
Yeah, it can certainly be read either way and I did leave off the tag, so totally my fault.
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RE: In other news today...
Didn't see this anywhere else around here:
Good, I can get my name on Discord without the stupid numbers on it, nobody is ever going to have my username there.
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RE: In other news today...
Having seen them let my parents through while presenting each others IDs (two different stations and at different times as we were part of a large group). Yeah, I can totally see this happening.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Ah.
After a quick search it looks like most states have something like that as well. Interesting, our farm (by the time I came along) was very small, only 103 (and about 30% of that was grazeable only, not farmable) acres so I never had a need for something like that.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@Parody said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Farm kids can get a limited license earlier for doing farm work.
In the US, as long as you are on private land you don't need a license at all.
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RE: Password managers
I have used keepass for a long time, I have it as fully standalone but it has an extensive plugin library.
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RE: Sportsball WTF
Yeah, I saw that and I know what they are trying to do, but if self awareness was something that these people had they wouldn't have been acting like this in the first place.
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RE: Sportsball WTF
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
And so this season, Deptford Township Little League is trying out a new rule: if you fight with the umps during a game, you have to volunteer your time to umpire three games before you're allowed back as a spectator.
That sounds like a horrible idea, 99.9999% of the people yelling have no idea about the rules of the game, it is why they are yelling to begin with.
Having been a soccer ref for a long time, and had plenty of abuse hurled at me over the years, there is a really simple solution to the problem.
The home team has the responsibility of the fans, so if they get out of line and don't heed warnings. You end the game via forfeit for the home team.
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RE: In other news today...
Eh, the city admits the work was done in January and it was still unfilled. So the city is arguing semantics if it takes them >4 months to fill a hole that they created.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
You can make it miles better by removing that foul weed cilantro.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Doesn't necessarily need more sensors. If non-destructively removing the panels needed to get to the wiring for the headlights needs the bonnet to be open, then it's already covered by the alarm sensor for the bonnet.
No alarm on my car, but the hood ajar sensor has broken twice, I just ignore it now.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The simplest, and most appropriate, control would be to make sure removing those panels (without the car being unlocked and the hood open button inside being pushed) would trigger the alarm.
Just what I need on my car, more sensors that fail.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
And, crucially, their location on the exterior of a car's underside makes them easy to steal, David Glawe of the NCIB told NPR earlier this year.
Stealing a converter takes just a few minutes and a battery-operated saw. "You slide under the car, slice through your exhaust system, and you're in and out usually within 30 seconds to a minute," Glawe said.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@GOG said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
this refreshingly effervescent mess is the worst cocktail you could ever order at a bar
There is worse.