Isn't the problem with "starting to find animals attractive" the fact that you aren't by yourself? Or is it more the dog likes it 'ruff'?
Posts made by locallunatic
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RE: You're not alone...
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Weng said in The Cooking Thread
The primary problem I have to solve is scaling down to 'Single dude cooking for himself'. The Same Meal All Week freezer plan lets me skip that part, but locks me into stuff that will not turn into Soylent Food (or is at least palatable if ill-textured Soylent Food) when frozen and reheated.
Something that doesn't work for lunch but does for dinner is to do a batch of ravioli (or other noodle) with a lotta sauce and leave it in the fridge. Is a good side thing for thinish porkchops/chicken and those take 10 minutes while the side is reheating. With a fresh chop it tastes close to all fresh and just slightly longer than just reheating dinner.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Chili.
A small cornbread will keep as well and is a good addition to chili. Plus if you are portioning them out in tupperware then it is put a piece in and smother the fucker in chili, just remember to stir it up mid reheat (though this will lose some of the varied texture of not turning it into a big mush).
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RE: Old tag memes
Incidentally, I think that's how
klatyzarc
became a tag, as you can see in the screenshot above: it was designed to take advantage of someone doing that.Yeppers, it was. Pretty sure I was the only one using it; as it didn't have a space in it I could actually use the tag to find posts I had made.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
if I had accepted it? Still a little fuzzy on the rules...
Your arguing about it being a needs to be more whiny for it to count based on the examples I remember. -
RE: Stupid Psycho/Morale Test Questions
[quote="ben_lubar, post:2, topic:55506]
unless you count the water heater.
[/quote]At least it isn't a rock.
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RE: Stupid Psycho/Morale Test Questions
I took it to mean "you have a coworker you prefer over the others" rather than a "you have a good friend who is also a coworker". Other
twothree who voted, how's about you?ben got in a vote and reply
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RE: Political Litmus Test
Ended up a smidge right of center pretty far down libertarian, which surprised the fuck out of me as I generally think of myself as socially liberal. But I guess things like not assuming corporations are necessarily evil or that they should be acting in their economic interests skewed me.
Also this went to different people talking passed each other after not long so prolly going to mute.
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RE: Discourse pricing
@RaceProUK said:
Which just makes it even more of a waste of money, since we got that experience for free
I get the feeling that everyone gets that "experience", regardless of whether they paid for it or even asked for it.
But I bet you don't lose that experience (like we did) if you are paying them actual moneys.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Got told I was being laid off just before daily scrum meeting. I think one of the new guys on my team doesn't understand some things.
So what are you doing before the next meeting?
Filling in the deploy paperwork for something that just went to QA so someone can do it for me as I get laid off if I don't find somewhere else (in a company that is doing layoffs) to go.
You what?
ο Congrats!
[thinking] probably a ESL thing
Oh, OK there should be an email going around at some point letting people know but I'm not getting any more projects done.
Uh...
I recommend talking to the On Call organizer cause I'm scheduled as secondary right now, first next week, then second the week after. [stuff about running trainings]after the meeting
ο Congrats again!
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
The proposed law calls for the repeal of multiple pieces of legislation in order to allow consensual sex between siblings over the age of 15.
That part is creepy.The proposed laws would also allow for people to βbequeathβ their dead bodies for intercourse by giving consent while they are still alive.
But I don't really see the complaint for this one. They aren't using it anymore and if someone is saying it is OK (by donating it) then you aren't offending their religious sensibilities. -
RE: Hedgy want webcomics!
And hey, Ghastly's Ghastly Comic (NSFW) has been updating again from time to time.
It has? Holy crap I need to check that!
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RE: Wintergatan - Marble Machine
Ball bearings that are permanent magnets are great fun, by all accounts. But also dangerous and illegal.
Well maybe it's only the tiny ones. I was thinking of Buckyballs.
I think some of the over protective places said you can't make them toys cause kids will eat them or something like that. They are still sold though so maybe that is what you were thinking of.
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RE: I got promoted to senior developer - YAY!
@karla, note that some of the long threads are funny or interesting (like good ideas, bad ideas, and funny stuff) so you may want to actually try looking at things there. The Status thread is a good one to skip stuff on if you've not been keeping up on it as old stuff is old and no longer that relevant.
Though you have something like 7k posts to "read" so maybe you want to do a skippy "hold down page down" thing on a couple of the threads.
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RE: I got promoted to senior developer - YAY!
What do I have to do to get to the lounge?!?!?!
message @shadowmod with "trust [username]" and it will tell you
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RE: I got promoted to senior developer - YAY!
The cupcakes thread is basically:
Yay thingy!
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RE: :fa_envelope: Google Inbox fucks up your inbox
Oh, making that label work with other things probably isn't set up. It looks to be using their label sorting thingy assuming that if you are using Inbox, that is the only way you are using GMail. My explanation was just to get things back using the normal GMail interface after Inbox crapped all over them.
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RE: :fa_envelope: Google Inbox fucks up your inbox
I should be able to find them somewhere still
When I first tried out Inbox and saw they didn't show in Inbox anymore I located them a put them back with the search. IIRC it is a search using "label:done" then you need to put the "inbox" label back on them.
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RE: I got promoted to senior developer - YAY!
Promotion sounds like it is a "to the cupcakes thread with you!" thing.
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RE: :beer: The Beer Status Thread
Olive Garden ... pasta
Based on how badly they overcook things I wouldn't really call them pasta dishes. If you screw up the main ingredient as badly as they do it needs a new name.
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RE: Has /your/ pussy been shaved?
I could see animal cruelty, but things generally need to go real far before that gets used on someone. Is easier to make it its own statute.
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RE: The "Project" "Manager"
OK, that is less bad. Many of us are used to no compensation even with no warning (though things like never hired back would still happen), so it seemed very wrong to have to pay an employer if you quit suddenly. The power imbalance between employee and employer still makes it seem a bit off, but going both ways it is less so.
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RE: The "Project" "Manager"
In Hong Kong, if you have worked there for 1 - 3 month you need to pay "In lieu of notice" equal to 7 workdays of your current monthly wage. If you work for 3+ months, you need to pay "In lieu of notice" equal to 1 month of your current monthly wage.
If you loose your job suddenly do they have to pay you by the same schedule? Cause that is the only way to balance that kind of bullshit I can think of, either both can end at either time or if penalties then they apply to both.
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RE: :beer: The Beer Status Thread
Ophelia Hoppy Wheat. It is passible, but nothing to look for.
500 error
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RE: Consider Changing Your Password?
A hash is a smaller set of bytes to represent something. A "fingerprint" is a smaller set of bytes to represent something. There are also some things about hard to reverse for a hash that also held true for fingerprint ones when I last mucked about with them (a decade ago, were both called hashes at the time).
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RE: Consider Changing Your Password?
It can be useful for comparing something like sound recordings to find "probably has this with an overlay, bad recording of the first thingy, etc.". There are actual uses for them (the uses aren't cryptographic though).
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RE: Consider Changing Your Password?
unless they're storing plaintext forever
Technically there are hashing methods that are designed to give similar results from similar inputs which could let you fake it (though it also makes cracking those hashes easier), but really would you be surprised that a large company was storing passwords in plaintext?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Gods damn it Ben I was drunk enough to actually click that link (on mobile none the less). Put up warnings for those of us too inebriated to tell we shouldn't click it.
EDIT: maybe something like TISC
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RE: Use a comment in code as revision tracking while using SVN
And is it normal to keep a log within your source code in the form of a comment along with the above information?
Some older programs at my work do it but not all. It is frustrating because you can't trust everything to be there (someone doesn't update the log with a change they made), but my work has also repeatedly changed source control systems (including upgrading versions of TFS) without preserving the change logs. So it is annoying and stupid, but can protect at least notes on changes from other annoying and stupid things.
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RE: TAB_ANAL_RET_TEST people! :fa_spoon: :point_down: :fist:
I've seen people do tables with something like "TAB_" because each create script was named for what it made and all in the same folder (so all the stored procedure scripts started with "SP_", views with "VW_", indexes with "IN_"). In that case it works to keep them different from each other, but the organization would be better to put the scripts in different folders (or name them slightly different from what they were making or combine indexes with the table they were on or lots of other things). Basically, yes I've seen it but the problem they are trying to fix should have been fixed at a different level.
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RE: But Lorne, you've already whored yourself out to office 2007 why not whore yourself out annually?
Office 365 is cheaper.
For three years (at four it is ~$50 more without discounting future payments). The complaint from some about it is that they don't upgrade office every 5 years or so, so it would work out to be more expensive with the yearly fee (with a high discount rate for the future this may not happen, but it would need to be pretty high).
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RE: A Game of WTF
I think I need to sit down and work out which races I want to go with and the overarching major stuff that can't really be changed once dev is really on the go.
If you are doing species flavor to make them different from each other, but don't concentrate on interaction between them (or only mildly; something like "A is like this, B is like this" rather than "A and B will be like this to each other") then you could pick a few for your base set and then once you have structure of the rest of the game more worked out later on add in C, D, E, and so on.
It could help you manage scale of what you are looking to deal in. Or at least you have a few to test things out with, but are leaving things expandable for when you need a break from whichever sub section you are working on (Combat, Research, Exploring..) you can say "time to do another species".
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RE: CCG for total n00b
@locallunatic said:
Deck building is probably something you want to avoid with a 6 year old.
And with a close-to-40 years old.The game doesn't involved collecting cards and making a deck of them before play, rather each turn you can buy a card to add into your deck. Some cards are really good to get early on during play and others are very powerful but only likely to be afforded near the end of play and so on. Long term strategy is not something 6 year olds are good at (though you should hopefully be better able to deal with).
Thus I'd not recommend Dominion for what you were looking for.
@locallunatic said:
If you want casually more than CCG then something like Fluxx may be a better choice for kids.
Nice one, I'll give it a look, although it seems bland (no story and stuff).You are correct on the no story, though the themed versions are tied together better. The big thing with it is that there is enough randomness that lack of strategy isn't a big hindrance, but it can still teach tactics and rules interaction (much of the game involves changing rules and the end goal) which is useful for eventually leading to more interesting and involved games.
It is quick and easy (starts with the rule "draw one card, play one card" no win condition) if you are distracted which is the only way to play it with just adults (beverages should also be involved if just adults). But it does work for teaching kids and can hold attention due to the constant changes.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Threadβ’
Then could you explain what [image of "We don't know And not knowing is the first step"] has to do in the good ideas thread?
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RE: CCG for total n00b
I'm looking for some CCG I can play casually with my 6 yo son.
If you want casually more than CCG then something like Fluxx may be a better choice for kids. It can help get them used to the idea of more rules, and how rules can be combined to help you out (a basic skill for a lot of more complex games). Plus there are a bunch of different versions so you may find something that helps hold attention (though most games are shortish so shouldn't be that big an issue).
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RE: CCG for total n00b
Deck building is probably something you want to avoid with a 6 year old. Most of the planning/cards that are good early vs late/and so on seems like a bit much. Or at least for many of the 6 year olds I've met, if you've been playing more complex board games and such with them already then they might be able to handle it.
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
She could also be using it upside down (thumbs on the function keys).
Edit: OK this one looks like it did post.
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RE: Bill and Ted and Cartman's Maccellent Adventure
Then dump the soon to be corpse from the project. They can't be central (or if they are it already is a huge WTF) to it.
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RE: Bill and Ted and Cartman's Maccellent Adventure
they're 79.
Then it won't be a problem for much longer. Hand off dealing with them to a junior and forget about it.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
It just takes some time dicking around at work rather than working to get caught up. That's how I did it.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
So it is a proper curry? If it is problematicly spicy just use more rice when packing the lunches.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
The liver is evil and must be punished.
Grab a cigar to get the lungs too, you know how those L organs scheme together.
Filed under: dunno how to get the lymph nodes though
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: the "beer summit" I had with former coworkers went pretty good. There was talk of making it a monthly thing which could be fun as it doesn't include current coworkers that I'm learning to hate. One problem is that I was the only one that didn't speak Bulgarian so I missed some of the conversation, hopefully they weren't bad mouthing me during those bits.
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RE: John McAfee offers to eat shoe.
John McAfee is... special.
Filed under: Surprisingly he's not a politician
In case you don't want to hit his site:
EDIT: apparently by @kt_, it showed @Cursorkeys's post but not his before I reloaded the page