Tell me, how do you like getting a bill every time you see your doctor?
Actually, fine. My mechanic charges me too.
Tell me, how do you like getting a bill every time you see your doctor?
Actually, fine. My mechanic charges me too.
The Navy dropped the requirement for a gun from the F-4 back in the sixties - since everybody "knew" that all combat would occur at long-range via radar-guided missiles.
That didn't work out very well either, and they re-instituted the requirement.
Also note how the radar-guided Sparrow was developed through normal contracting channels, while the far less expensive and very effective heat-seeking Sidewinder was hacked together by some engineers at China Lake.
Do I even need to bring up the comparison between a fighter plane without a gun and a certain software product we all know...??
Right; and in the process they wronged me.
Would it have helped if there had been a big warning label on Discourse?
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It's not like they changed the number of missions you need to fly in order to get sent home or anything.
That's a familiar sort of shudder inducing quote..The idea is that industry after industry is going to fall at the hands of
programmersplanners whoautomate andrationalize it.
...they automated the Chrysler, but I did not drive a Chrysler, so I said nothing.
Filed under: I seem to be mixing my metaphorsdespots
See? That ! Everybody's a critic ;).
There were a more inexpensive options this year, but we no longer had "Crab Corn"...
I always told the kids - when you have to go for the hard sell - push the Crab Corn - can't find that stuff in the store!
https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/623744515439001600
This is ironic and surprising on so many levels....
This thread has a disappointing amount of Kiss and makeup content.
Read a great article on ESPN about KISS coming in and playing a small High School's Homecoming dance...
They helicoptered in, had a parade, stuck around for an entire day.
At one point a small child in makeup pointed out that Gene Simmons had done his (GS's) makeup wrong...
"and I was like, no way, I AM Gene Simmons, it CAN'T be 'wrong' - then I looked in the mirror... and the little putz was right."
(paraphrasing, but he did say 'little putz' )
Easier to just do it right in the first place.
There's never time to do it right.
There's always time to do it again...
... at least when someone else is deciding what to do with your time.
Or, if... you are the TRWTF.
You got an average of 183k miles out of a clutch?Bullshit.
Minimum.
Got rid of the first two at 163k and 180k, my third is on 230k. No clutches.
...here's a decoder for zoned decimals and packed decimals. No error checking, ....
@ijij said:How does Go feel about Zoned-packed decimal?Done it in Python to deal with some Visa thing (IIRC) --
Well OK then. Now I'm perfectly comfortable with all financial institutions migrating away from COBOL burying my wealth as copper coins in the back yard.
TIL
Less drama than dating someone else.
But forgetfulness is already kicking in, so the drama could easily increase.
And she won't remember which side of her ownself she was arguing and then got mad about.
My wife has covered the hotel pillow with tissues she brought from home to ensure she doesn't get a skin disease from contact with it. I'm... not sure that's a thing that can happen...
If it is... the tissues won't help much... :shudder:
Correct, that's assignment.
Danged ferners and their fern' linguges -
Next thing yuz know I'll be havin to learn Esperantese to read
Anyone know how big the group of people not subscribing to cable is? It's always seemed like the sort of thing that millennial hipsters do,
It's also what cheap old people do. The pictures on my magic box appear out of thin air - as they were meant to.
No cable for 15-odd years.
Yes very odd years.
Upgrading internet and getting back the sports that have migrated off-air, might get me to change my mind.
"Kids, get your minecraft off of my Internet!! I'm trying to work".
:lawn:
I feel certain, societal, pressures that dissuade me from identifying as a black market-eer.
Plus, the pizza is pretty good, and has poor shelf-life.
Filed under: Why am I gaining weight - oh, yeah, I work for peanuts.
Love the train in #7...
#3: "No selfies with Voltron "
It's in the car or on the kitchen counter - at home...
...so I guess I could dial it - just to make it feel better, I suppose.
I think it's best to practice before rolling out everything into prod. Is that the same thing?
You said it again!
Probably a member of the oppressive quali-triarchy
Closer?
The things you learn gathering at the DWTF...
Also, by that picture, Steve Martin and Leslie Nielsen are the same person.
a rocking chair
Great. Now I have to keep track of a chair, too?
That won't fit in a pocket...
I came up 6 years too young - the thing completely ignores gray hair.
Also:
Dr. Phil 36
TOS Spock 51
TOS Scotty 52
Tried ridiculous birdman from ST-Animated Series - no face detected.
(implies Blakey is, or was, ageless!)
:embarrassed.for:
I keep my threads.
Status: Laughing with and at @Polygeekery ... he knows not the forces that he has unleashed...
And I'm finding out the hard way.... well, not about his forces, but the ones I have unleashed, but well you get the picture....
"Siri. Find Wo Fat"
but I guess it would be hard to stretch that out to a 46 or 50 minute episode, wouldn't it?
I like getting up early. Not always at the moment I'm doing it, but overall.
NEVER at that moment.
FTFM
Today: woke up 20 minutes before my alarm, good thing, too... it wasn't set.
/me goes off to tinker
My work here is done.
Filed under: NEED Mr. Burns "exceeeelleeent" emoji,
but Dr.Evil would do.
why window title bars are white in Windows 10. Inside the uDWM.dll file, there is a check which compares the theme file name to aero.msstyles. If it matches aero.msstyles, it ignores the color and sets it to white.
That explains how. Not why.
Oddly my employer prefers that we wear leg coverings (for me, pants. My claymore is at the smithy for maintenance.)
Not oddly, I prefer that my co-workers wear leg coverings, so it's only fair that I do so as well.
Does that mean I have a German lineage? Most recent conquests where all from that side of the Rhine.
I suggest a play-in war: Belgium vs. Australia to see who gets into a nuclear stand-off with the UK.
Disco-meta-booty to Luhmann or Sam, depending.
I have a regular "work" alarm at 05:30 set to Mon-Fri,
What happens Tuesday if you turn it off at 5:20 on Monday?
Ask a Brit.
By my expanded definition, I am. ;)
Besides you're one the sabre-rattling about how they'd blast their own relations.
China? France? Iran (they're so close they might actually have it)? Israel (suspected to be a nuclear power)?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All formerly British territory in some way....
Also - don't forget us / US.
The last three days - anybody else finding it's been nuts out there??
So much butt-clowns.
Aside: I pulled my own this morning, passing a guy semi-slowly on his left while he was coming up on a slow-moving work-truck. Didn't realize the work-truck was doing, I dunno, 50 mph in 65 mph zone - and slowing. (Me: lane 2, Them: lane 3; of 4).
The anti-pattern seen yesterday...
Huge American Intersection... two left turn lanes, let's call them "1" for the left-most, and "2" for the extra one.
Yahoo in the 2nd left turn lane decides to make a U-turn.
which really, really, mad me mad, because the stupid light is like 5 minutes long, and he pulls this stunt as the light is turning yellow RIGHT IN FRONT of MEEEEE!!!!!.
ITS ALL ABOUT ME YOU MORON!!
*adopted from "Road Rage" - performed by DaVinci's Notebook
Nope, not yet:
Wow. We had it shoved down everybody's throat before the ink was dried on the title pages.
Even the people at the schools stared hard and said "Really? New standards in July? Sure, that will work."
Filed under: Yes Blue State County
Last year they were typically pretty good about it. Well, for main-ish roads. Residential streets not so much. It looked like they had pre-treated main roads around here yesterday by about 5pm. I work from home, so I usually don't get involved.
Background: Yesterday, DC-area roadways a nightmare, even with Feds on liberal leave, many school systems first announced 2-hour delays and then switched to closed.
The whole way home yesterday, every highway department and school system kept saying "but, but, the forecast said it was only going to be 1 inch, and then all of you were driving on it and we couldn't fix it!!!"
Filed under: blame shifting and poor requirements.
Hi Sam!
Glad your back.
Thanks for trying to help.
Thanks for not dismissing us with Cat-memes.
Srsly tho, in your position, why would you read THIS forum with your morning coffee?? Someone's bound to be complaining. Enjoy yourself a little first, before taking that chance. ;)
Everyone and his dog can ask a stats package to find a curve that best fits some data. Some Most of what they come up with when they do that is utter BS but their magic stats box tells them that they've got a correlation so it must be correct!
Which is why I pity @Mikael_Svahnberg now....
Journalists make scientists look smart and careful with their data.
You would think it would be easy pickings for Journalists to do that... perhaps (some) of your journalists are better than here.
I had* to point out to a journo in Hawaii that "knots/hour"[1] made no sense...to his credit, he responded: "Oh! I didn't know that - thanks!"
*yes, I know, trying to fix the internet... "I am Don Quixote!..."
EDIT:
[1] Sigh "in the context of writing about the velocity of a boat"
There is really no need. Nature has a tendency to make non-viable life forms sterile. The laptop is running Windows Vista.
I really think you should be more responsible towards the pets under your stewardship...
...you really shouldn't just roll the dice and hope for the best.
But, maybe the alleys in your country aren't crawling with stray animals and vacuum-computer-chimeras....
On further reflection...
Status:worried about Mikael - letting a poor helpless laptop continue to run Vista.
@Someone who has stolen blakeyrat's identity, topic:1673 said:
[@accallia]'s not stupid.
High praise indeed.
[quote="Today's Frontpage Article" via Remy]
We retrospected in the time honored fashion
[/quote]
Filed under: The wiggling of...
Post Can't be Empty
A pop wiggles
Meaningless message
Office is Cold
There is no call for insults and personal attacks. Would you like it if I were to say you were like a pimple on the ass of humanity, or compared you unfavorably to smallpox virus?
If I were indeed pus-fulled and infectious - I might not like it, but I would have to accept the hypothetical and hyperbolic comparison. My dander-fueled vessel of anger would likely be dashed upon the rocks of protected speech in the form of satire, in any case.
Your broaching of the vile term "Philadelphia" as a trademark, when narrowed to the field of lactated-comestibles is a perfectly odious and obvious demonstration of a willful and attorney-like desire to split hairs.
I maintain my appreciative stance towards your pendantry.
...or maybe it's just a hacker's ability to dig out and identify edge-cases before they crash the system.
95% of Habitat for Humanity volunteers already have day jobs, etc, and the houses they build are perfectly average in quality. Or better.
Instead of LOC (debugged, tested, quality-ed) .... they're limited by how many houses that they can build...
And the technology for building a single-family home hasn't been changing as fast...
Filed under: "Dang... they upgraded my lumber from 3.1 to XP and now my old blueprints aren't compatible!!"
(But, I'm with you, the OSS, "it works, you just have to.... install ten new things..." thing is awful)
And... 'd in a very complete way by @accalia
Would it be considered an evil idea to ask who would be providing the cookies or bacon?
Why is that important? I mean, there's a law...
Filed under: That just makes it happen, right?
Two points (that may/not apply to the O-OP):
A) Don't forget HR departments exist..."Here, HR, this is a widely-used test, if they fail this they are utterly incompetent, and we will not hire them under any circumstances no matter what you (HR) think."
ii) This particular test has the virtue of being a conversation starter - there's no perfect solution... and getting the candidate to question you about whether you want a minimal solution, an extensible solution, etc... gets you going.
I was slow-witted today...
"Phone call for Hugh Jass, I'm looking for a Hugh Jass !!"
Filed under: Saying "Hu" to myself I had "heU" sort of as in achoo, not as in the Doctor...
Do Not Want.
So you have said. We move to other things... Tell me about your Mother. </freud>
I am literally a person.
There are rumors to the contrary...
I think you OD'd on the PHP and someone propped the hat and glasses on your long-immobile corpse to hide the fact...
:grassyknoll:
For the record, IMHO:
Best Cola: Jamaica Cola from Canada Dry.
For daily use: Coke Zero, a perky drink with a peppery defiant taste with ebullient afternotes reminiscent of the "Hi-mal-yas".
Preferable to Diet Coke mostly because DC has some mysterious grip on me - if I drink one I want two. It's much easier to stop at one/day with CZ. Although, as noted above, they do taste a bit different.