Posts made by ijij
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RE: Poll: clean?
Wise, then, you are. Continue.
Subtle protip: he is "doing" - you are "helping". (And defining what to do.)
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RE: Poll: clean?
@Intercourse said:
Or if you have are married with a toddler:
Now his training begins. < /Darth Vader>Honestly. Now.
Now is too late. Train him to pick up.
If he doesn't, you will end up writing inscrutable polls on whatever passes for the internet in 2030.
If well he learns, he may find himself cleaning grad students instead.
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RE: Poll: clean?
The real wtf are these poll options.
Admittedly.
Still want the mouse back.
Also, if you've got options, let's hear them.
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RE: Poll: clean?
I think there's a legit grammar that would get us to:
"your husband cleans the grad student?"
French, or Italian, maybe.
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RE: Poll: clean?
Nice.
But, oh, look, can't edit the options. (But I knew that).
Maybe we'll get clean.v2.Obviously, mostly, I wanted to vent.
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RE: Sexy Shibboleths
Also, can we stop putting "sexy" in front of everything? It's long past getting tedious.
It also alliterates alot.
But not always.
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RE: Poll: clean?
Gotta admit. I was stumped for clean-ish options.
Figured THX-1138 and "Intel comes to my house to make IC's" were pretty close to each other.
But, srsly, why would you take the 3-prong converter off of the cable? Why.
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RE: Sexy Shibboleths
"pass me the woo, worch., screw it, pass the A-1 steak sauce.:"
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RE: More power to the Hard Disk Array!!!one.
There's this fantastic thing called YouTube.
But my records don't have pictures!
Actually some did. And those cardboards that the records came in.
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RE: More power to the Hard Disk Array!!!one.
No but I might be riding the crazy train.
How'd you get a, like, a record, on the inter-thingy?
Also filed under: lousy kids and their needles
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RE: Sexy Shibboleths
Filed under: .. people try to pronounce "Worcestershire Sauce";
What's-this-here-sauce.
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RE: More power to the Hard Disk Array!!!one.
More a simple fact of reality, I'm not a Canadian with a Scottish accent.
Yea, but are you riding the wild horse? 'Cuz, if you are, I know a dude...
Filed under: lousy kids and their needles
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Plus Fred Grandy!
And +1 intermemes.
Filed under: I am too old. Didn't even need wikiimdbgoogle-fu.
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RE: More power to the Hard Disk Array!!!one.
Cap'n! I cannae get a fix!
um, hey, I know a dude..., who knows another dude,...he can hook you up.
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Poll: clean?
OK. So I get home. Want to 'compute'. Actually, 'want' to do sysadmin stuff to keep the laptop up and running so homework can be done and grades checked.
"Family, where is the laptop?"
"...under the chair..."
"Family, where is the mouse?"
"...dunno..."
"Family, it has little power, where is the charger?"
"...in the toybox, right there."
"..and the 3-prong converter doohicky?"
"...??... the kitchen outlets are grounded."Thanks.
So. How neat and clean are your homes, houses, flats or caves?
- I was the set designer for THX1138
- TLAgency and I have a deal - they can poke around but they have to vacuum and dust
- Laundry? That's what overstock.com is for, right?
- No problem, Mom keeps the place really tidy.
- Place is perfect - Fred Sanford[1] was my grandfather.
- No problem, I move or am evicted every few months.
- Those NBA dudes with dogs... who just replace the carpets every few weeks,... because they can.
- FILE_NOT_FOUND: no really, where is the dang file?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
How hard is it to look to the lane next to you before you move into it? Almost got merged into again this morning. Quick reflexes and strong brakes saved me.
Hey! Me too! Closest call in a longgg time.
Also, as pointed out above by Blakeythe turn signal comes on BEFORE you START to change lanes.
Oh, wait, it's not illegal in MD to change w/o signaling (TRWTF), so that split-second warning I got was actually a gift.
Less than a mile past the spot from my spin-out story. (dry today tho).
Filed under: OK, probably avoidable on my part since I was passing[1] on the right. At least knowing I was being sketchy made me keep an eye on the dude, so I was ready.
[1] two three-lane highways merging - I was in the fast lane of the RH highway (lane 4 after the merge) and he was in the slow lane of LH highway (lane 3 after the merge)(lane 1 being the left-est lane). Pretty much a giant game of chicken every single day - ~200,000 cars a day.
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RE: How To Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies
Once you're there, you might as well organize things on their desk and separate small bills from large bills in their wallet too. What's the big deal? You're only being helpful.
...and, yea, I thought you might need some change for that $100, and the 7-11 doesn't like to just make change, so I bought some stuff, but you can't eat all that at once, so we're sharing this coffee and some Cheetos. THX.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
The nophone:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nophone-usa/nophone-0I call "foul". That's just a 2001-Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure with rounded corners.
Filed under: Phone makers and their Reality Distortion Fields
I'm waiting for NoPhone2.
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RE: This site design made me say WTF
blakeyrat:
Using a debugger The Second Amendment is what allows a programmer to be high-caliber.Strictly speaking, prohibits the USG from making laws restricting your right to be a high caliber programmer.
But what about the militia thing? Are OS projects programmers' militia?
EDIT: Oh; forgot. Blakey's avatar went where?... Discurse.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
I (and the link) already noted that it is way more prominent on NEW roads where the oil from new asphalt hasn't washed away yet. Or extremely high traffic areas that have long dry spells...
Does an average daily traffic of 250,000 vehicles count as high?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
The laws of physics and shit work differently around him.
Well, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt.
As I said, I pretty much knew about slickness thing before, in my head.
Now I understand it.
Also, it was cool I impressed my son with my Jedi car-control powers.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Don't your tiny-ass East Coast states have those nasty car inspections? But dripping oil ain't no thang?
We'll try this: "greases and oils" on the road.
Better?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Equally nice are the people parking second row in a street where stopping (not merely parking) is absolutely forbidden. And they usually think that turning on the warning flashers makes it all good.
Saw in NYC, truck had triple-parked, and the ve-hicle that had been double parked had left... yep, flashers made that all good.
Actually NYC is a decent place to drive... you never get complacent about what's gonna happen next.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
WTF kind of shitty-ass cars are people driving there. Or are we talking like a decade with no rain?
We had about 2.5-3 solid months of no rain this summer, and I didn't see any evidence of slick roads when it did come down.
I assume that's because Ballmer has a fleet of of oil-skimming trucks scouring the highways - he used the profits to buy the Clippers.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Darn you with your references and facts.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
See, unlike in Seattle, we actually have long stretches, where there is NO rain.
So the minor oil dripping/oozing from cars builds up, and then when you get that first rain, there's this ultra-slick oil-water layer on the road. Happens especially when that first rain is light.
I knew that before, and was driving carefully that day, but now, I KNOW it for sure .
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
And an extra +1.
I should look around for a whole entire cake to give you, too.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
And a story:
Topside of the Outer Loop of the DC beltway, a snaking nightmare of 4-lane highway. Non-work day with very light traffic[1] , driving with my son in the car.
It was dim and foggy morning...it had been dry for days, and overnight rained enough to lift the oil off the road... slick enough that I backed off to around 50 - and I still felt a little sliding going on.
Get past the Mormon Temple curve. Oh look, red-lights, firetrucks, ah, a spin-out involving three cars...
Back to highway speed, taking the left split in the road and whoosh... guy whips past me, a mile from the curve with the 20' high 50 MPH sign...
I tell my son: "Man, I know I'm going too fast... what's he doing... he's not going to make this..."
He come's loose, somehow hits the inside barrier first, outside barrier, inside barrier, and back to the outside... spinning the whole time.
"Dad, you are AWESOME!!"
[1] by any standard, not just DC-beltway standards
This is by far not the worst thing I've seen, just on this stretch of road - just the best story.
And...people wonder why if I'm up at 3am, I go ahead and go to work.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
This is impossible to narrow down. A new one.
Parking, no, not in the handicapped spot,.. in the hashed area BETWEEN the handicapped spots.
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RE: IM NOT DIGGING FURTHER If you have a bug you need reported, check here.
ben_lubar:
I swear it used to have two activity columns, one for "first" and one for "last".Sort of. Both were displayed, but even then, I recall it only sorting on last activity.
My recollection - hazy at best - it defaulted to sort by last, but I would swear it was possible to sort by creation. I was happy of it, because that was like how I used CS.
YMMV (your memory may vary)
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RE: Closed Poll: New project, git or svn
I've tried bug tracking, but it is very hard... they run to the loo and jump into the streams of water and then I cannot follow them any more.
Filed under: saw that trick in an old Western.
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RE: Closed Poll: New project, git or svn
I don't always use Source Control, but when I do, I use a crusty old pile of sticky notes.
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RE: Closed Poll: New project, git or svn
Send zipped files through e-mail is not a barrier to FILE_NOT_FOUND
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RE: Making the best of MS Office files
Har, har. "Unit train" is actually a term for "this train takes one kind of lading (say coal or autos) from one origin to one destination, not being broken up in yards along the way".
- Woooooosh. (Edit: Where's the thing he quoted. Dang. Sigh. Anyhow "unit train" = one engine + one car is pretty funny to math people. Unit.)
Point B.) This reminds me of one of my favo-rite stories (waves cane)...
The folks at the company that became Xerox were trying to decide whether or not this nifty "Copier" thing would be a good business decision.
Back in the day there was "copying" but it was an expensive photographic-based process - IIRC the paper was like a dollar a sheet - in the '50s.
They had a guy wander down to the main IRS office loading dock, and, just casual-like, ask how much of that paper they used. The answer was:
"In what units? Boxcars-per-week, or what??"
Filed under: "So, yea, I bet we can some money from that..."
Edit: Actually, '50's tone: "Good news, sir! We can safely predict strong demand for our new product!" -
RE: Discourse is the best thing since sliced bread
Well, just so we're clear then...I think something in my head segfaulted when I read about farting into one's own bloodstream, sort of a brain BSOD or something. Maybe another cup of coffee will help it reboot.
No. Don't try to reboot from this. A clean re-install is required.
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RE: How not to comment
I am well aware of the difference, I was more observing the difference between orienting and orientating.
And somewhere around here is "orienteering"...
Also: pirating, privateering and privatizing...
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RE: Entity Framework 6 vs. Third-Party SPROC
cartman82 said:
Try telling nuget to set you up with EF5, just to TEST it out?No point to that, since the project has to use EF6. The workaround at this point is to run it using plain ol' ADO.net.
Keyword: - test. Might help you narrow it down. Might give you the political capital to not use EF6.
YMMV
(For all I know it may be just as easy to just go ahead and do it in ADO as it is set up EF5).
Filed under: a sincere suggestion.
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RE: This site design made me say WTF
You haven't lived until you've heard 1812 performed with actual artillery instead of an orchestra.
FTFY
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RE: This site design made me say WTF
I say that to prop-up my own ego and impress chicks.
...you always leave an impression on folks
Flagged for "Thread derailed": suddenly we're talking about the War of 1812.
At least I am.
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RE: The Naming thread - names given to networks, used for test data, etc.
* Roy Hinkley - The Professor from Gilligan's Island
Only one I semi-recognized (brain-farted melded with Chet Huntley - David Brinkley)
What do you mean he's not real?? I SAW him on the magic box!!
"You kids get off of my island!!"
At least I'm not as old as Boom-er
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RE: How To Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies
chubertdev said:
They're all "walked in on parents getting it on in bedroom" looks now.eww.
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RE: Discourse DMZ
Seafood sandwich sounds terrible.
Crabcake sandwich, bro? Soft-shelled crab on a roll?
Bro? Bro'mzilla?
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
I'm certainly not about to go building spacecraft for the Amish.
Why not? Horses in horsey-space-suits to pull the space ship along...
...that would be cool!
I'm using that one, somewhere, sometime.
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
The main challenge comes when all that domain knowledge is locked up in the head of someone who can't, or won't, get past ground zero. Some people would never be interested in even the slightest whit of scripting, no matter how much easier their lives would be made by it.
Wait, it looks to me like you're arguing both sides of the fence??
Anyway, re; autopilots and ashclouds (wasn't that a song by Joni Mitchell?), both an old-school Classic A/P and a newfangled "better*" A/P would route you right through it... doesn't refute that a "better" A/P could help sometimes.
I guess my point is that it's good to dream a little bit about Ideal
- Better, but not completely omniscient about, say, weather.
Yes Blakey I'm agreeing with you - have some free links
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
On the other hand, you might have a better idea......to do about the latter?
(Again, I'm just discussing, I have no horse in this race. AND, you clearly know what you're talking about.)Re: ash cloud - what A/P would prevent you from plotting around it?
(But, yes, a well-informed pilot is better than some noob who wouldn't think to check on conditions)Re: detailed climbing and descent examples: wouldn't a good A/P GUI help to point these issues out quicker? Particularly at the margins?
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
Three words from a comment whose poster has been lost to the sands of time: "Ditch The Dog". No autopilot's going to save you when you snap your elevator cables during the takeoff roll, have to do an all-engines-out landing whether it be on the Hudson or an abandoned airstrip in the Canadian prairie, find out the hard way that your pitot heat's kicked the bucket without telling you about it, or experience what it's like to fly a very, very large J-3 Cub thanks to an unexpected shower in the electronics bay.
As I mentioned above - INAP - but I understand each of those references.
I'm just flogging your analogy. Just because Real Pilots don't need a better A/P GUI, doesn't mean we can't ask what could make an A/P GUI better.
"Ideally", the A/P would catch on to the derp-derp "pilot" who just kept punching things in until his flight plan was accepted. ;)
Because even Real Pilots are sometimes turn out to be just pilots and then - CFIT.
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
The problem comes when you command the A/P to do something that makes no sense given the plane's state...
INAP - I'm just playing the "think oustide the box game" - but the A/P, instantaneously, may have a better idea of what "makes no sense" than you do. The A/P can be aware that your plan to land at altitude in Denver won't work out well because there's a heat wave and it's 20deg hotter than normal (and the last time you went it was cold and you were light).
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RE: Explicating the survival of the Shell as default OSS UI
No matter how intuitive you make the autopilot UI, it will still require you to have some understanding of the fundamental concepts and relationships of flight ...
I'm not so sure... why shouldn't the autopilot catch the issues with the course you're planning and work you through fixing your plan?
Not that I'd be in favor of having pilots who aren't qualified to fly manually