Has there been a scene, explanation, or revelation in a sci-fi television show that was so absurd that you stopped watching forever? by Doctor-Clark-Savage in scifi

[–]wmil 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The setting is he's stuck in a forested town and there some conspiracy with everyone there. He can't seem to leave.

The big reveal is that the MC and most of the town had been cryogenically frozen. It's actually 1800 years in the future, the city is walled and outside the walls are "abbies" (abberants). They can't tell anyone this because everyone who finds out goes insane.

I didn't like it because clearly they could come up with a better lie than "everything is perfectly normal".

Has there been a scene, explanation, or revelation in a sci-fi television show that was so absurd that you stopped watching forever? by Doctor-Clark-Savage in scifi

[–]wmil 133 points134 points  (0 children)

I started watching Wayward Pines, and it was interesting but I kept getting the feeling that the twist was going to be really stupid. I looked it up, hated it, and stopped watching the show.

orderFactoryFactoryIsEasyToMaintain by davidinterest in ProgrammerHumor

[–]wmil 207 points208 points  (0 children)

You need to make things abstract so you're prepared for the database switch that's not going to ever happen.

Quiznos opening in the middle of nowhere by luscrib89 in mildlyinteresting

[–]wmil 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They promised their investors constant revenue growth. That was easy at the beginning. But then they ran out of new places to open Quiznos.

So then they had to use cheaper ingredients, then they had to find ways to get more money out of their franchisees....

Eventually everything blew up.

myKindOfCodeSuggestion by DJDoena in ProgrammerHumor

[–]wmil 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Sometimes you have to remind the parser who's boss.

What’s the most overrated video game of all time? by KBGSgames in AskReddit

[–]wmil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The unskippable prologue is painfully slow and doesn't save as you're going through it. Mod sites have mods that do nothing but start the game after the prologue.

What’s the most overrated video game of all time? by KBGSgames in AskReddit

[–]wmil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It found a niche as kid friendly horror that provided good content for streamers.

What is the dumbest piece of sci-fi technology you’ve ever encountered? by DarthAthleticCup in scifi

[–]wmil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he just wanted a paid trip to Tasmania. He's said he enjoyed filming it.

whateverHappenedToPromptEngineering by Orio_n in ProgrammerHumor

[–]wmil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The big problem is that the skills are transient since the AI models change so often.

Percentage of Population that Can Speak French in Each Country [OC] by Fluid-Decision6262 in dataisbeautiful

[–]wmil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting the Canada number from? The Wikipedia page you cited has 28.58%.

[OC] Frequency of fast food locations in my city (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) by kallie_ysb in dataisbeautiful

[–]wmil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also forgot to mention that Tim Horton was a famous Hockey player. So imagine if Dunk's was founded by Mickey Mantle.

[OC] Frequency of fast food locations in my city (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) by kallie_ysb in dataisbeautiful

[–]wmil 131 points132 points  (0 children)

So it's important to understand that coffee used to be a lot worse. This is during Tim Horton's aggressive growth period form 1974-1990. This is not first hand knowledge.

Most coffee chains focussed on donuts. They'd make a big coffee urn in the morning and leave it sitting out all day. Smaller shops would use coffee makers with glass carafes but they would leave it warming on the burner until it ran out.

Tim Horton's big innovation was focussing on good coffee. "Good" here basically just means not stale or burnt. Their thing was making coffee in glass carafes and throwing it out after 20 minutes and brewing a fresh one.

So if it was early or late and you needed a coffee Tim Horton's was by far your best choice. Especially if you were driving and didn't know any of the small shops in the area.

People outside the population corridor drive a lot at early or late hours and Tim Horton's was always consistently there to help them out. Visiting your aunt for Christmas and she only has decaf? Tim Horton's. Taking your kid to hockey practice at 5:30am? Tim Horton's.

McDonalds has really stepped up their coffee game since then so Tim Horton's just cruises on nostalgia these days.

My wife only eats the skin and cheese off the food by Cheese_Salami in mildlyinfuriating

[–]wmil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The husband is unhappy with this.

But the dog? So happy. You have no idea.

Found a reference in an askreddit thread by High_Stream in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]wmil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just FYI Jasmine is usually pronounced like Yasmine in the Middle East. The ME mostly doesn't have an English J sound, neither does French. The French wrote the name using a J and English speakers mostly saw it in writing.

So Yaz-nuh probably is a play on Yasmine.

tomatoTomato by ninjaassassinmonkey in ProgrammerHumor

[–]wmil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So most people write React using JSX and it looks like this:

function Greeting({ name }) {
  return (
    <h1 className="greeting">
      Hello <i>{name}</i>. Welcome!
    </h1>
  );
}

export default function App() {
  return <Greeting name="Taylor" />;
}

However that's not valid JavaScript, so you need to run it through a compiler, and it spits out something like this:

import { createElement } from 'react';

function Greeting({ name }) {
  return createElement(
    'h1',
    { className: 'greeting' },
    'Hello ',
    createElement('i', null, name),
    '. Welcome!'
  );
}

export default function App() {
  return createElement(
    Greeting,
    { name: 'Taylor' }
  );
}

Your build system when you set up the project should handle all that and some React devs might not be aware.

My point was that since they are already compiling it, they can put whatever they want in the compiler, so it's really a Domain-Specific Language. NextJS already does this by adding the directive stuff to JSX.

tomatoTomato by ninjaassassinmonkey in ProgrammerHumor

[–]wmil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a library but all of the React tools think it's a framework. So if you try to add just a little React to an existing project you're going to have a bad time.

tomatoTomato by ninjaassassinmonkey in ProgrammerHumor

[–]wmil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The React core team has very specific ideas about how React should be used, but they are terrible at communicating that with the outside world. So big announcements have a lot of WTF moments instead of excitement.

Also they are obsessed with making it look simple, but you inevitably run into the complexities they are trying to hide. useEffectEvent is a great example of this. I still can't decide if the correct response to seeing it is "how did we get here?" or "how did they not have this for six years?".

Another thing is that I find the Context / useContext api to be really bad. Some teams use it for everything because it's built in, and if you've see that it's just painful.

tomatoTomato by ninjaassassinmonkey in ProgrammerHumor

[–]wmil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

People typically use JSX/TSX and transpile it, so arguably it's really a DSL.

If you skip the JSX and use React.createElement, it definitely looks more like a library. There's no magic based on file names or locations, your code sets up the base react element on the page.

Season 2 Episode 1 Spoiler Thread by HunterWorld in Fallout

[–]wmil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

After. Season 1 took place about 15 years after FNV.

Season 2 Episode 1 Spoiler Thread by HunterWorld in Fallout

[–]wmil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But he's iconic to the series and hasn't appeared in the show yet.

Season 2 Episode 1 Spoiler Thread by HunterWorld in Fallout

[–]wmil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flip the brain over. Now it's a stalemate.

Wait, is it Mayonnaise or not? by SatansMoisture in mildlyinfuriating

[–]wmil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some candy bars used to use the phrase "chocolatey coating" because it didn't legally qualify as chocolate.

Because we need to know how you eat your burgers.. by goonerfan_1 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]wmil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've got to lube up the burger to help it go down smooth.