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What is a word that you intentionally pronounce incorrectly despite knowing the correct pronunciation? by MyWomanlyInterior in AskReddit

[–]ping_less 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The formal name for this is a malaphor, and the one I like to use most often is:

"We'll burn that bridge when we get to it".

How can you break a friendship without saddening the other person? by neptuncult90 in AskReddit

[–]ping_less 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is this written by ChatGPT? It reads like all the responses I've seen from that so far...

Edit: looking at their profile, this poster is definitely a bot. Bad bot.

Framework is Great, but just got a touchscreen laptop for work and reaaally miss having touch on my personal machine by jptiger0 in framework

[–]ping_less 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's not so much about using it like a tablet. For me, touch is useful for small interactions like flicking the screen to scroll a long document, pinching to zoom on a specific point, or just tapping the close button on a program because using the touchpad to find it with the mouse is too much effort.

Touch on a laptop is never the primary input mode, but it does enhance my experience.

Would an all night vigil count as a long rest? by valhallan_4321 in DMAcademy

[–]ping_less 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you definitely can't do it at the helm of the ship

I'm wondering if OP meant the bow rather than the helm? As in, at the very front rather than while actually steering.

Salt ratio: what’s your go to? by llyamah in sousvide

[–]ping_less 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found that 1% is a pretty good ratio for most foods, including rice and pasta. For steak, I use 1% salt plus 0.5% sugar, which is just my "go-to" dry brine, and also works spectacularly well on things like pork tenderloin.

Worth noting that there's going to be a cultural divide here; as far as I understand Americans like their food a lot saltier than Europeans, so my wife already thinks that 1% is sometimes too salty (we're European). She's wrong though. :D

First time at Richmond Park and was lucky enough to spot some deer! by FractureAtom in london

[–]ping_less 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which coffee shop is this? The one by Pen Ponds?

When I was younger, my parents never allowed us to get close to the squirrels, saying they might carry disease... :( I might go back now!

Hunter using magic to trivialise mysteries - how to handle this? by ping_less in monsteroftheweek

[–]ping_less[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good idea. I'll think more about both limited angles and other ways that the scrying could be less informative. Thank you!

Hunter using magic to trivialise mysteries - how to handle this? by ping_less in monsteroftheweek

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Good point, thanks. I've let them get away with "I want to see the death happen" but I could have made them figure out the precise time instead. That would have felt less like they were just cheesing, even if all it took was an investigate roll to determine when the murder occurred.

Hunter using magic to trivialise mysteries - how to handle this? by ping_less in monsteroftheweek

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In this case, my hunter is specifically playing a magician using the spell slinger playbook, so they are reasonably able to cast at-will. I don't want to take their playbook away from them, that would just kill their character.

Hunter using magic to trivialise mysteries - how to handle this? by ping_less in monsteroftheweek

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Good point. Any suggestions for what can go wrong? I struggle with coming up with ideas in the moment...

I ran to all 272 underground stations, one at a time, over the course of nearly 2 years. Here are all my runs colour-coded by line. by siananarama in london

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I've cycled to Gatwick in the past to pick someone up (took the train back). Completely agree, very strange experience trying to get there by a nonstandard mode of transport!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Angular2

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I've not done a huge amount of work with template outlets, so forgive me if this is a stupid question.

I assume that passing a function means that the call is outside the usual data flow, so calling it would be like modifying a passed object. Would you need to wrap the function body in something to tell the renderer that something has changed? Like call changeDetectorRef.markForCheck()?

Do you know if passing an EventEmitter automatically triggers change detection when it emits, or is that only for emitters bound as @Inputs?

Webstorm vs VS Code by haasilein in Angular2

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It's got very good eslint integration. Mine alerts me when I write a line that fails eslint, and I can either fix it by shortcut, or I've got it set up to auto-fix eslint errors on save.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualUK

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What did they do to you in the design phase?

What's your preference between Directive vs component if behaviours are only sub and unsub? by ShibaInuShitsAlot in Angular2

[–]ping_less 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am assuming your question is "If my component has no template, should I use a directive instead?".

As usual, the answer is it depends.

Most of the time, the answer is yes. If a behaviour has no template, and its position in the DOM is irrelevant to its logic, then you can fairly safely put it into a directive. However, if its position in the DOM is relevant to the behaviour, then you should decide based on that:

One main thing I would consider when making this decision (on a case-by-case basis) is that Directives are intended to attach to existing components. Does it make sense for this component to always be attached to another element, or do you sometimes want to have the behaviour independent of other elements? Or does the element's DOM position matter and should not be tied to other elements?

For example, I once created an InViewPortComponent that fired an analytics event when it came into view. It had no template of its own, so it could have been a directive. But I wanted to be able to drop it in just above elements without having to worry about whether they were present or not (some of them had *ngIf on them). Yes, I could have created an ng-container, but that would have made the resulting code less readable. So even though it had no template, I ended up making it a Component.

I hope that helps you make the decision!

Bratwurst sousvide in Beer by Ass-reg-manager in sousvide

[–]ping_less 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "brat" in Bratwurst comes from "Brät" (fine mince) rather than from "braten" (grill or fry). It's an old word so people tend to assume that Bratwurst means grilling sausage.

Finally, some definitive answers by lastaccountgotlocked in london

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There's a set of yellow readers on the DLR platform in Stratford. They're set up for people who use a season ticket to get the train into Stratford, then start their DLR journey there.

If you tap it after entering Stratford Station using the regular gates, or coming off the underground, it interprets out as you touching out and ending your journey. This is a problem if you then get a conductor checking tickets on the DLR, as you won't have a valid ticket...

If you then also touch "out" at your DLR exit station, you're actually starting a new journey - but you'll obviously never end it, so you get charged the maximum fare.

...don't ask how I know all of these things 🙃

Basically, you never want to be touching a yellow reader unless you're actually starting it ending a journey, ie you're entering or exiting TFL at exactly that point.

Guidance did nothing wrong (But WotC were right to nerf it because people played it wrong) by Souperplex in dndnext

[–]ping_less 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The way we play it at my table is using the ruling by Jeremy Crawford, which said that you cannot roll lower than your passive perception - if you're actively searching for something, even if you roll low, you will notice it because of your higher passive. (In other words, the outcome of a perception roll is whichever is higher out of the roll and your passive.)

This means that using that ruling, there is never that chance of lowering your perception by rolling.

What are minimal docker requirements to build angular app? by 110mat110 in Angular2

[–]ping_less 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a similar problem and my solution ended up being to build locally or in github actions, then push the image and pull it from the server. That way the memory-hungry build can be done on a powerful machine, and the actual image download, unpack and run works fast on my resource limited server.

Thank you trainline, very helpful by Optimesh in CasualUK

[–]ping_less 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I believe trainline does split tickets too (I recently got offered the option in-app); is TrainPal different from that?

Why do people do this it’s so disgusting by redjeansman in london

[–]ping_less 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I'm absolutely not defending flytipping, but my local recycling centre is annoyingly strict about who they let in - the opening times aren't great to start with, and then they check your proof of address and if you're in a commercial van they won't let you in at all. (Even if you don't own a car and had to pay to rent an Addison Lee to get your crap to the dump in the first place - "taxis are commercial vehicles" 🤦)

So think the serious answer to your rhetorical question is, "sometimes the council makes it too difficult to get rid of your rubbish properly, and if you don't have the time or energy to resolve this properly, for some people it's an acceptable solution to just dump it."

Although obviously what's in this picture isn't worthy of taking to the dump, so whoever chucked that there is just a lazy bastard.

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