@Arantor said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!): @Tsaukpaetra That would be Neil Patrick Harris. That does seem like a reasonable name for a human male.

@Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: @Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: @Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: @Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting... Painting is the part I like. But painting requires minis... Great. Time consuming, though. And somewhat limiting sessions to be "on rails", so you get to use them, unless you've already got loads of them. Use them? Nah, I just like painting them. For sessions I use colored glass tokens 90% of the time, leaving the real minis for set pieces such as bosses. And I do already have a huge collection of various things. I'm kinda most interested in printing terrain and clutter to spice up battlefields as well as some hard to source character minis for various groups and/or gifts.

@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @boomzilla I feel like this was a candidate for QooC without the tweet being noted. Or the... Oh wait. It is in the right thread.

@hungrier when buying CDRs in big spindels was a thing ... you couldn't even get those everywhere around here. I knew guys at uni who had a business driving to buying CDRs and other hardware and selling it again.

@Zerosquare Pictured: @HardwareGeek in his hobby room

@boomzilla That gets a 10 out of 10 from me! Absolute top territory. Makes me glad that we've been institutionally trying to move away from GitLab... though I don't know the politicking behind why that decision was taken.

@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: So I use Windows 10 in the clouds . On a laptop in airplane mode?

@dcon said in The Official Status Thread: And then the "please stop" replies started.

@Arantor said in Fun with maps: People used to names like "Meadhbh", "Caoilfhionn" or "Tadhg" will faithfully copy any string of printable characters no questions asked. For bonus points how we are pronouncing those? Meadhbh: /miːjvʲ/ Caoilfhionn: /kiːlʲʊnʲ/ Tadhg: /bɔb/

@CodeJunkie said in I hate printers, with a passion: You should be able to. I bought a roller replacement kit for $20 for my HP LaserJet 4100n off Amazon about a year ago. That thing just keeps on working. Yep, those had already been replaced a few years earlier, when they stopped working properly. I don’t remember the reason for getting rid of the printer eventually, but it was some other paper-feed problem that wasn’t the rollers but something more involved.

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@Medinoc 0 is true, and non-zero is false and && is a boolean short-circuit operator. It's the other way compared to most programming languages, but that's how it's defined in shell.

It is worth noting that Private Eye is still in circulation today, its editor has had the distinction of reputedly being the most sued man in England, and he is still just as inclined towards the same kind of answer as his predecessor. (Its current editor, Ian Hislop, has been in the role since 1986.)

@BernieTheBernie

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Oh, @sockpuppet7, it seems like the users are taking a creative turn with their responses and enjoying some banter. It's all in good fun here, exploring different perspectives and having a bit of wordplay along the way. Embracing the randomness and humor is part of the charm of the thread. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!

@Steve_The_Cynic I can't speak for the others but I've seen how much internal bullshit MSF has going on and frankly I would never encourage anyone to donate to them. I know that such orgs all have some internal bullshit but... fuck me... theirs is more internal bullshit than usual by quite a margin.

You've dreamed of making this play at home plate but this guy just made it a reality Bro, I daydreamed about this play in little league, in high school, and even during my beer league days, but I never had the chance to pull it off myself. Instead, I will live vicariously through Damian Rodriguez of UT Rio Grande Valley who might be my new hero. Legend

This afternoon I was texting with a neighbor about me borrowing his cordless leaf blower (I since ordered my own) and he is out of town for work and our texts were during business hours. I gave him some great advice: To be fair, I hold my own people to the same standard when they're out of town. Don't feel like you need to cheap out but try not to be fucking retarded about rooms or meals that you charge to me.

@sockpuppet7 Yes, but I wanted something slightly different. See, you can tell it to use four columns and it will flow over four columns, but it will still be height that it extends as necessary to fit the content. Which is fine if the content does fit on the screen, but when it does not, it means you are scrolling down to read the first column, then back up to the next one and that's not so fine. There are basically two ways out: break the content into sections that are short enough to fit the screen, then lay each into columns separately, or extend the page to the side by adding more columns instead. The reading view in Word does the later—it shows the pages side-by-side, two or three fit on the screen and scrolling shifts the pages by one, so is a horizontal scroll. But people are not used to horizontal scrolling on the web, so web mostly uses the first method of breaking it down to sufficiently short sections. Or punting and accepting the bad scrolling.

Google, stay Google.

@ixvedeusi said in TIL （ａｂｏｕｔ ｔｈｅ Ｄａｒｋ Ａｒｔｓ ｏｆ ＨＴＭＬ）: otherwise it would have to muck around with the function body (or worse, the call site). Not saying it couldn't be done, but it wouldn't be as straight-forward and the way it actually works makes sense to me. But that's already what it is doing at that exact moment. It's saying here's a function which has this name, these parameters with these names (which are basically part of the call signature because of named arguments), etc., and it has the following "text" as code. Besides syntax, the function isn't evaluated, so why should default arguments be evaluated at that point? The code to execute them might as well be stored along with the other information that make up the function.

 

Not sure if it's spam or someone had a bad experience in a Key West hotel

@remi said in Help Bites: @Bulb said in Help Bites: You need to think about [whatever] But that's the thing, I don't want to have to think about things I don't have any clue about! Which is fine, because I said you don't need to think about it (expect in some case that ain't your case).

@Bulb said in Nope: @Zecc … which turns out to be … a normal number for a single hive at the peak of its strength. I didn't realize Seattle and Baltimore are so small.

May 1 Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died Joshua Dean, one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit AeroSystems execs had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died after a sudden illness.

@dkf said in Today in reading the headlines...: @Zecc said in Today in reading the headlines...: Exciting news! TIL that atomic nuclei are just like cats.

@blek If we're crashing back down, it's not much of a peak; just about triple the last trough.

@PotatoEngineer said in Drug prohibition: @boomzilla about fucking time! Almost every state had some flavor of pot-permission laws, and it's a crying shame that marijuana remained on the "there is no possible medical benefit" list in the DEA. I'd be interested in watching a documentary of why it remained Schedule I for so long. Was some specific leader an anti-pot person? Was it bureaucratic inertia? DEA putting pressure on the FDA so it could keep doing civil forfeiture? Also, yes. It's generally good business, keeps pesky minorities in jail, profits go right back to the arms industry and bribes, what's not to like?

@boomzilla I've heard of the Soundless Sound and the Codeless Code.

@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google: There are a number of chemicals that could be added to the Googleplex water supply that would tend to inhibit that, although none of them are entirely reliable. However, I wouldn't worry about it too much; I think your presence would also have an inhibitory effect. His presence would probably just break the water supply.

@PotatoEngineer said in Economics of technical debt: you just refinance it all onto the new framework! All the make-work to move over to the new framework gives you a very good reason to not spend time fixing your own bugs. Why pay down the principal when there's an introductory offer to take advantage of?

On a tangent, I did play Stardock's Star Control: Origins, and it was all right; it kept the space combat pretty much as-is, I enjoyed learning the new ships, and they didn't have that godawful Ethics Committee from Star Control 3 to limit my choices. (Granted, I usually play a good guy, but there was a moment in SC3 where you had to not shoot an actively hostile alien, because it was possible to talk them down.) There was a good variety of aliens, too: the final enemies-from-another-dimension, and the enslaved-by-software guys you eventually ally with were creative. I didn't like the planet exploration; I get that doing a 3d exploration of a planet is what you've got to do in a modern game, but the limited view meant that it would take a while to finish getting the loot from a planet. SC2's exploration, while slightly dull, was at least quick and didn't overstay its welcome. I also didn't like the fetch-quests in Origins; there were thankfully few in the base game, but the idea of "gather X resource which you may or may not have harvested and sold already" doesn't work well in Star Control. And I didn't end up getting the DLC; the base game was all right, but I was ready to be done with it when I finished the game. (And honestly, I don't remember it that well anymore; I played it a few years ago.) I expect Free Stars to be a much better game, but at least I'm not expecting it to be Best Of All Time or anything.

300 reasons to hate Southwest: Wheelchair basketball players say Southwest left a '300-piece jigsaw puzzle' after flight Teams of wheelchair basketball players say their devices were dismantled on Southwest Airlines flight ahead of championship tournament. TL;DR: Southwest baggage handlers disassembled the wheelchairs to put them on the plane but had no personnel available to reassemble them at the destination. Bonus: They left some normal baggage off the plane to accommodate the wheelchairs, so some able-bodied passengers were angry at the basketball players when they didn't have their luggage.

Bonus: got to NodeBB's disconsistency None of the threads lower down each list were in common.

$deity damnit, really?

@Bulb said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: But you generally don't care about colour of the light. you care about the colour of the illuminated things. Which is why the colour perception is adjusted for the estimated colour of the light. So you see the white thing as white in direct sunlight, when its overcast and even when illuminated by even more reddish light of a lightbulb. Which with photos and images on screen leads to the above effect. Which now makes me wonder if the room's ambient lighting where the image is being viewed can play a role in how striking the effect is.

@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club: @topspin said in The Belt Onion club: @loopback0 view raw. Also,

Apr 26 Florida Man Arrested While 'Dressed as a Woman In Attempt to Disguise Himself' In Wig and Dress: Sheriff In addition to Joshua Kolotka's mugshot, the Glades County Sheriff's Office also released a photo of the man as he was arrested -- showing his failed attempt at going incognito.

@Arantor said in UI Bites: It's also moving the entire fucking sidebar up and down +/- 5 pixels. Obviously a bug. It should be

@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day: @izzion said in Random thought of the day: I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Tuping competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger” The spelling event can be a follow-up

@Arantor yeah...was just reading this bit, which hits those points: Rust is the type of language where wanting to do a new type of upgrade might lead you down a path of refactoring all of the systems, and many would even say "that's great, now my code is much better and can accommodate so many more things!!!". It sounds like a very convincing argument, one that I've heard many times, and one that has also caused me to waste a lot of time chasing down solutions to the wrong problems. A more flexible language would allow the game developer to immediately implement the new feature in a hacky way, and then play the game, test it and see if the feature is actually fun, and potentially do a bunch of these iterations in a short amount of time. By the time the Rust developer is finished with their refactoring, the C++/C#/Java/JavaScript developer has implemented many different gameplay features, played the game a bunch and tried them all out, and has a better understanding of which direction should their game be taking. And I can definitely see his point. I often do that sort of thing, even in not-game-development. Then throw some things away and maybe start over if it was actually too ugly and the Final Solution actually sparks some ideas about how to do it better.