"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." + "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." implies "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
@JohanLarsson Z=3 occurs in 1 in 5,000 in a normal distribution.
@JohanLarsson Verdict on what?
> dwimmer: DWIM is an acronym for “Do What I Mean”, the principle that something should just do what you want it to do without an undue amount of fuss. A bit of code that does “dwimming” is a “dwimmer”. Dwimming can require a great deal of behind-the-scenes magic, which (if it doesn’t stay properly behind the scenes) is called a dweomer instead.
> dweomer: An enchantment, illusion, phantasm, or jugglery. Said when Perl’s magical dwimmer effects don’t do what you expect, but rather seem to be the product of arcane dweomercraft, sorcery, or wonder working. [From Old English]
> It is ill dealing with such a foe: he is a wizard both cunning and dwimmer-crafty, having many guises.
> Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion!
> It is not to be wondered at: webs of deceit were ever woven in Dwimordene.
> But Éowyn stood still as a figure carven in stone, her hands clenched at her sides, and she watched them until they passed into the shadows under the black Dwimorberg, the Haunted Mountain, in which was the Gate of the Dead.
> magic: Technically speaking, any extra semantics attached to a variable such as $!, $0, %ENV, or %SIG, or to any tied variable. Magical things happen when you diddle those variables.
Magic Variables: Any SV may be magical, that is, it has special features that a normal SV does not have. These features are stored in the SV structure in a linked list of "struct magic"'s, typedef'ed to "MAGIC".
struct magic {
MAGIC* mg_moremagic;
MGVTBL* mg_virtual;
U16 mg_private;
char mg_type;
U8 mg_flags;
I32 mg_len;
SV* mg_obj;
@KitFox Checklist for unannounced demos: 1. Make sure the colors look good, everything else is afterthought. No one can actually read anything, you just need things to vaguely change on the screen 2. No errors. Something hs to happen. It doesn't matter what. The person giving the demo usually doesn't know what's going on anyway (they probably didn't use it before the demo time anyway.
@KitFox "Well, sir, I can create a demo for you, but that work won't actually be part of the product, it'll just be mocking up something that will never be used. So which do you want?"
@MattЭллен There's a rule 34 for words: whatever weird activity that somebody comes up with, there's a word for it that sounds like Old English or German.
@KitFox coffee can damage the invisalign braces and if it gets between the braces and your teeth it can amplify the tooth-damaging/staining properties. You are not supposed to eat or drink non-water while the braces are in your mouth, and you have to wear them 22 hours/day and floss+brush after every meal
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's just one more profession to put in the big pile of jobs I hope I never am forced to do, a long list which includes lumberjack, sewer worker, window washer on skyscrapers, and galley slave, among others.
I think, except for the extremely hot working conditions, that I would enjoy smithing. The problem is that I'm pretty sure that I have negative aptitude for it. If I ever tried to smith something, it'd make the world a worse place.
"How about that bald guy?" "Oh, I never pictured him being bald. He's so confident on the mic." "You can't be bald and confident?" "Your skull is out all the time."
in the old days, people bought stuff in stores. Stores used to send out flattened dead trees with chemically-created visual representations of products. In some cases the products were meant to be worn by humans as clothing, and so they would demonstrate the product's appearance when worn with a visual representation of said product on an actual human.
actually that reminds me of how I used to read OMNI magazine, which was owned by Penthouse, and so I got junk mail for lingerie products and penthouse stuff. That's how I learned of such a thing as "crotchless panties".
HAHAHAHAHA ... the consulting company working for my soon-to-be-ex-employer just broke IE's limit of 20K lines in a single CSS file! I didn't even know such a limit existed, but to break it? I can't even imagine a site that would require 20K lines of CSS.
@Robusto yeah I agree that that's an indicator of a stylesheet gone wild.
and IE 10: A sheet may contain up to 65534 rules A document may use up to 4095 stylesheets @import nesting is limited to 4095 levels (due to the 4095 stylesheet limit)
The defect says only "...our clientlib has hit IE's somewhat arbitrary limit of CSS rules which can exist inside a single file." Word-of-mouth gave me the 20K number.
But whatever, the fact that you would break whatever max limit there is is a sign of a problem in itself.
Anyway I can imagine a site trying to generate a single sheet that has more than 4095 rules in it. That's a pretty low limit, if you try to combine CSS files from different parts of your site, or multiple UI libs, into one sheet, to minimize RTT
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I dunno. Not sure about the internals of the cascade, but it stands to reason that processing would increase geometrically for an arithmetic increase in style rules, doesn't it?
Jquery-UI has ~= 300 lines of css. each line has 1-5 css selectors. So once you include that you are already in danger of running out of selectors for IE. Unless your entire site is nothing but jquery UI themed items.
@Robusto Not really. It depends on what rules you have. Some rules are really fast and other rules are really slow.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What? I don't think we mean the same thing by a "line". I'm looking at the unminified jquery-ui.css file right now and it has only about 300 lines, including comments.
.foo, .bar {border-width: 0; color: #000; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5} is a combinator selector with two selectors, and there are four rules that apply to each.
> A declaration block starts with a left curly brace ({) and ends with the matching right curly brace (}). In between there must be a list of zero or more semicolon-separated (;) declarations.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Ah. I thought you were calling that example jQuery, when in fact it is CSS.
Actually, scratch that 300 lines figure. Expanded, the file is 1177 lines of text, but many of the declaration blocks are themselves expanded, meaning they put each declaration on a separate line.
The second article of in the dead of the night doesn’t sound so good to my modern ear. I would strongly advise skipping it and leaving just in the dead of night.
At most!
Because it turns out you don’t even need that first article, either. You can just write in dead of night and be done with i...
The second article of in the dead of the night doesn’t sound so good to my modern ear. I would strongly advise skipping it and leaving just in the dead of night.
At most!
Because it turns out you don’t even need that first article, either. You can just write in dead of night and be done with i...
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