Best posts made by GOG
-
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Paging Alanis Morissette, Ms. Morissette to the socially distanced, sanitised, white courtesy phone please...
Even the friggin pigeons are smarter than that.
That's a seagull.
-
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What's going on here?
At least they know how to hold it.
Discovery of the fascinating things a soldering iron might do to plastic bits seems like the kind of thing one might do at that age.
-
RE: WTF Bites
Hey kids! How would you implement a boolean column in your relational database?
Today's WTF comes courtesy of Polish Social Insurance, who - for years - have been providing a dedicated program for filing declarations, etc. Its reputation as a source of is legendary, both among the users, and people such as myself who sometimes interact with the nuts and bolts.
As you might have guessed, I needed to read a boolean type (as opposed to boolean-typed) column from the program's database (SQL Server). Normally, I'd expect this to be a bit column, to be read with
IDataRecord.GetBoolean
or some such. Not here.Instead, someone thought it an excellent idea to store the answer to a true/false question as
char(1), null
.Being nullable is understandable, I guess, because they're adding columns to a long-running table to account for the law changing. Most of the previous years' records won't and can't have data. So, I'm guessing the
char(1)
takes'T'
or'F'
?Wrong. It takes
'X'
- for true.So,
NULL
isfalse
and'X'
marks the spot.
Latest posts made by GOG
-
RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Tsaukpaetra You're a disgrace to this community.
-
RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Bulb Exactly. 747-400s are cringe, lame, fake, and gay.
-
RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Bulb said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
All the while it's so easy to get a recent photo of the exact aircraft
Yeah, but it's not a 747-200, is it?
-
RE: How is this exiting?
@Watson said in How is this exiting?:
just wondering what "goes through twice" might mean.
Wild-ass guessing, but possibly:
this.VHP(hp, provPass); base.VHP(hp, provPass);
-
RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@TimeBandit said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
I love the caption on that photo:
"Yes, I know that is a 747-200 and not a 747-400. Please be nerds somewhere else."
I mostly clicked on the article cause I was like "Hey, that's a 747-200! You don't see many of those these days!"
-
RE: I, ChatGPT
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
@GOG said in I, ChatGPT:
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
We announced GPT-4 Turbo, our most advanced model. It offers a 128K context window and knowledge of world events up to April 2023.
Does it know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"?
More importantly, can it differentiate, visually, between a Mauser rifle and a javelin?
It's multimodal, so one can hope.
-
RE: I, ChatGPT
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
We announced GPT-4 Turbo, our most advanced model. It offers a 128K context window and knowledge of world events up to April 2023.
Does it know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"?
-
RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@kazitor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If you find yourself going to an event that looks anything like this... You have bigger problems than eye damage.
I think that "Bored Ape Yacht Club" was a stronger, pre-existing indicator.
-
RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
@Arantor That would be a display of the famed, dry, British humour, yes?