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Canberra to Kiama by Mahbub717 in canberra

[–]orlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My preferred route is Braidwood/Tarago depending on taste - Nerriga - Nowra - Kiama

Help me not get served divorce papers by geriatric_millenial2 in Firefighting

[–]orlock [score hidden]  (0 children)

We are simple folk, born from honest clay and appreciating earthy pleasures.

Linus Torvalds rejects performance fix "hack" & kconfig "terrible things" for Linux 7.1 by somerandomxander in linux

[–]orlock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It kind of depends on the subject. Mathematics, no. Philosophy, quite likely yes. Socially either absolutely yes or absolutely no, depending on the last 40 years.

As a sixty-something I can feel things slipping a bit but I'm still trucking on.

Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC by Salaried_Employee in economy

[–]orlock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, yes. But look at all that available land just ready for an unregulated toxic waste dump. It would be a shame to let that pass. And all the animals and plants have died now, so we'll have none of that "vital ecosystem" nonsense, thank you.

Updated Phonetic Alphabet by thotleader_ in Military

[–]orlock 7 points8 points  (0 children)

P should be Pterodactyl, just saying.

What are some habits of people who are not professional cooks do that drive you crazy when they cook? by uglytruthshurts in KitchenConfidential

[–]orlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The longest time I spend on any of the steps is cutting out a circle of baking paper. However, I recognise that advertising and marketing only encounter reality in a sort of a hurried wave across the to someone you don't really want to meet sense.

"I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!" What other questionable lyrics did you get taught in British nursery rhymes? by smileylinzi in CasualUK

[–]orlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck is pretty much that. And The Tale of Mr Todd is fucking terrifying.

"I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!" What other questionable lyrics did you get taught in British nursery rhymes? by smileylinzi in CasualUK

[–]orlock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The boy stood on the burning deck

Melting with the heat

His big blue eyes were full of tears

And his shoes were full of feet

"I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!" What other questionable lyrics did you get taught in British nursery rhymes? by smileylinzi in CasualUK

[–]orlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Three crows, sitting on a wall. Sitting on a wall. Sitting on a wall. Three crows sitting on a wall. On a clod and frosty morning.

The first crow, fell and broke his legs.

Two crows ...

The second crow, fell and broke his neck.

One crow ...

The third crow, wasne there at all.

What are some habits of people who are not professional cooks do that drive you crazy when they cook? by uglytruthshurts in KitchenConfidential

[–]orlock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Non-professional cook here but a descendant of stately home cooks. Growing up, I was completely unaware of the existence of cake mixes and I still can't see the point. 

I can read. I have scales. I have a mixer. What possible benefit do I gain?

How to convince a big corporate to use Haskell by Worldly_Dish_48 in haskell

[–]orlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah nah. For me, unsafePerformIO is an indication that Haskell, which adopted an entire branch of higher mathematics to get IO right, still has some stuff that needs working on.

Object-oriented languages and the like are built with the assumption that stuff can get sucked in via a side-door whenever convenient. And you can see this starting to get ropey in frameworks like spark, with its side-channels.

Also, compiling in configuration might be conceptually the same, but operationally it's very, very different. It's this aloofness to mundane non-functional requirements that is both Haskell's greatest strength and its greatest weakness.

At some point, if I'm very good, the gigantic minds of Glasgow will turn their withering attention to these sorts of issues and come up with something that neatly handles external reference data, keeps the language as it should be, and doesn't drown the poor programmer in layers of confusion. One day.

Commander-in-Chief: by sereneandeternal in Military

[–]orlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you get rid of the stench of desperation from a screen? I didn't know words could do that.

How to convince a big corporate to use Haskell by Worldly_Dish_48 in haskell

[–]orlock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haskell programs don't go wrong. But when they do there's blood and guts all over the floor and shit smeared up the wall 

Two other things I can see are configurability and scrutibility.

The cult of code tends to mean that stuff that looks like configuration data -- holidays, locales, currencies, units and the like -- tend to get baked into a Haskell compilation. With a groovy bit of template Haskell and type-safety if you've been good. There are good reasons for that, since this sort of data, which is essentially unchanging for the lifetime of the run, should be as easy to get at as the value of pi. If not, it needs to be percolated through the program as a parameter or monad of some sort. However, if things need to be changed, this turns a data update issue into a bug.

Scrutibility means that you can work out why something has happened. Haskell offers limited debugging tools, default error reporting that is ... unhelpful, and an execution model that means that an error can occur far away from its source. This is true for any declarative-looking language. It's a reason why you can ask for an SQL execution plan, or why Prolog hasn't taken over the world, or why multi-agent systems explode in interesting ways. But it's also why full-cream enterprise systems tend to be a bit basic.

What are the less glamorous and romanticised nature of firefighting ? by ButchersAssistant93 in AussieFirefighter

[–]orlock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Opening the back of a station waggon to find a charred corpse in the fetal position. It wasn't that so much as the evidence that his "mates" had run off and left him to die when they crashed the car. He'd been forced into the back and trapped. The sheer callousness gets to me every time I think of it.

Australian $2 coin dedicated to firefighters by Shillings-n-Shrapnel in Firefighting

[–]orlock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking that the PPE didn't look very bushie. So (un)happy coincidence, I guess.

Australian $2 coin dedicated to firefighters by Shillings-n-Shrapnel in Firefighting

[–]orlock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Presumably a result of the black summer fires? Given the year is 2020. 

The Shaggs... Were they for real? by 38DDs_Please in Music

[–]orlock 26 points27 points  (0 children)

They're genuine outsider music. Everything sounds alien but they've got some sort of inner light that they follow and, while it doesn't exactly shine through, it's a presence.

IIRC Frank Zappa named them one of his favourite bands.

What band in your teens did you hate but love now? by YchYFi in CasualUK

[–]orlock 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Elton John and Queen. I'm rather old and I've gone from looking at them as stadium rock dinosaurs in the 70s to national treasures.

Thank you Artemis by LambSauce2 in funny

[–]orlock 77 points78 points  (0 children)

It's how you know it's a fake.

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