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2019-07-12, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
You haven't heard of the very awkward Vanilla Ice vehicle known as Cool as Ice? I envy YOUR life.
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2019-07-12, 07:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-07-12, 07:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-07-12, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-07-12, 07:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Somehow in all of today's conversation this is the most wrong thing I've ever heard.
Vanilla Ice's ****ty romance-comedy and a bunch of dumb****s violenceing each other are not better then a really good comedy movie. How could you think that?
big Bang Theory is a group of four friends not a pair, and that aside you've described the basic premise of every sitcom. I've SEEN The IT Crowd, and it's not even remotely similar.Last edited by LaZodiac; 2019-07-12 at 07:33 PM.
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2019-07-12, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I mean, I imagine it has something to do with one's personal tastes. My brother holds up Dumb and Dumber as some highlight of comedy, while to me it is the only movie that I've watched (I was forced to do so, by the way - I was told "no, you can't go to bed instead") and felt that I would have actively stared at a wall for two hours and had that be a better use of my time.
So... it's just that opinions are subjective, I suppose.Last edited by DataNinja; 2019-07-12 at 07:43 PM.
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2019-07-12, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-07-12, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Yes, I'm in the USA.
Well, to be truly pedantic, I was talking about allergens rather than all intolerance triggers. Wheat allergy is a thing, but most people who need to avoid gluten are doing so for reasons of non-allergic intolerances. (Do we have a color-code for excessive pedantry? I feel this paragraph needs one.)
That, or I'm actually not sure which is harder. Both suffer from the problems of "clueless people not realizing that the thing is in the thing" pretty badly, but I think a higher percentage of things that contain gluten do so in an "obvious" way than things containing soy, at least in the American diet. Both of them also have a ton of places they're included sneakily, but there are more dishes where wheat is featured as an intentional ingredient than soy, which is almost always not the featured food in the dish.
Like, if I'm trying to figure out which things don't have gluten, I don't even need to read the labels on a random package of cookies - if it doesn't say gluten free in big letters on the front, it'll totally have gluten in it and there's no need to double-check that assumption by reading the label. With soy, I pretty much have to ask about each individual thing that isn't tofu since it's all equally likely to contain soy and the exceptions are neither obvious nor marketed as such. (I currently have some imported French chocolate-dipped butter cookies made with sunflower lecithin, but the only reason I have them is because I keep reading labels on everything for that one time out of 50 or 100 that I'll actually be able to eat the thing.)
On the other hand, since gluten doesn't have to be called out (as opposed to wheat or whatever other gluten-containing grain being called out by name) and cross-contamination is a bigger issue, there's a whole separate set of problems there. On an additional hand, at least there is a large enough market for gluten free foods that you can find things called out as specifically for that, which does not seem to be a thing with soy-free foods.
On the whole, I am envious of a college friend of mine. Her only food allergy is to pork. At least two different religions specifically don't eat that, plus vegetarians don't either. It still limits her food choices, but she has a much, much easier time than I do in finding safe food.
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2019-07-12, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Oh, I absolutely agree. They are, however, significantly better than Anchorman.
Wull Ferrell has had the starring role in exactly two good movies - Stranger than Fiction and Your Welcome, America, both of which were phenomenally funny and had two starkly different characters. He has, separately, played the exact same painfully unfunny character as the starring role in a shockingly large number of other, very bad movies - painfully unfunny idiot as a newscaster, painfully unfunny idiot as a race car driver, painfully unfunny idiot at Christmas, etc etc.
Other movies where he's a supporting character or part of an ensamble cast he does great, notably because he plays an actually different character in each of those. But the one-trick-pony character made a ton of money so they kept Maki. G those movies. Shame, that.
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2019-07-12, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I disagree, though I have not seen You're Welcome America and the unstated movies you mentioned are bad. Stranger Than Fiction is absolutely choice though.
The Other Guys was legit good though, as was Get Hard in a very stupid sort of way, and both at least had very cool and fun credit sequences where the film reminds you that the real enemy is the rich so I'm always going to appreciate that.
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2019-07-12, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Although I've only read the Wikipedia article for it, I already know for a fact that Anchorman is both:
- Terrible
- better than Freddy Got Fingered
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2019-07-12, 08:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-07-13, 01:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 03:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
From my experiences with the Germans and the sexy enemy, the humor is the bigger factor there. Not that English isn't closer to German, but the German sense of humour is so close to the English that I've honestly never had to explain a joke to a German.
Also German accents are adorable.
Which clearly makes the book (which I am currently reading) 323 times better. But I have fond memories of seeing the film when I was twelvish, I really need to relocate it.
In all seriousness I'm finding myself hating what's been done to Bigwig, and I'm not overly impressed with Holly. Fiver though is not bad, and the main problem is that it's just not as good as the old film or the book. If those didn't exist it would be okay, but they do exist.
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2019-07-13, 04:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 05:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Since late May, I've been working on writing code to do data analysis of water temperature in a river to detect and analysis Super-Cooling (water drops below freezing, and ice forms in the river).
Yesterday I compiled everything into one script with the main functions and sub function list*. It came out to just over 2,100 lines of code. Accounting for comments, white spacing and the function I took from a file share, it adds up to my personal work coming to around 1,600 lines of code generated through trial and error through 3 months of ~60 hours a week.
TLDR: I am damn well taking today off to enjoy the sunshine.
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2019-07-13, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I actual kind of want to re-watch that movie now and see if I like it any better, because I did giggle at that just now. No small part of my intense, burning rage at it was the trailer I saw was, IIRC, composed entirely of scenes cut from the final movie, so not only did they advertise a movie I didn't see, those bits actually were funny! Slap in the face, I tells ya!
I'll never re-watch Elf, though. That movie can stay in the dumpster where it belongs.
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2019-07-13, 06:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I think New York City have a blackout.
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2019-07-13, 06:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 06:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 08:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Hmm, reading this, I realise I completely lack a concept of how many lines of code one is expected to write per day. Doing the maths on your numbers, it seems like you had a speed of 2-2.5 lines per hour, which honestly doesn't sound very impressive, but I wouldn't be too surprised if some of my hardest projects have progressed about the same speed. It is, after all, hard to write code while reading documentation, and some weeks I do nothing but read documentation and other's code...
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2019-07-13, 09:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-13, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-14, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I remember learning that the ideal coding speed is about 2-3 lines every hour, because of everything else you have to do (in my experience that's getting it to actually compile, but I don't code for a living).
I still remember learning to code at university. I actually got annoyed at how difficult it was to format columns with cout due to being so used to printf.
So I rewatched Watership Down yesterday, and it's still a great film. The animation is beautiful, the story is streamlined, and scenes aren't actioned up compared to the book (I'm looking at you BBC rivet crossing!). Plus the casting is great, everybody sounds right, and the bunnies are properly bunny-like. And Bigwig is his calm, Hazel-supporting but experienced self.
I give it four out of uncountable stars.
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2019-07-14, 11:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-14, 02:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I remember hearing once that the average for fully debugged and documented code was something like 4 lines per day.
I don't think I've ever come across anyone that slow, but I don't think I've ever come across fully debugged and documented code either, not that I've seen a lot of code.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.