I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
I kept going because the questions were entertaining.
The xkcd survey
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#154I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
That's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.
I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.:
- cat
- "cat"
- 'cat'
- panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?)
- [one could type "cat" in one's terminal]
- "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat)
then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more or less totally random, given that it's an open question (thus e.g. "no", or "How are you?", or whatever).
So, not that stupid a question I thought initially :)
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put yes for this because I've heard the funny sounding slang phrase 'on fleek' (similar to on point) before, but I'm not sure if it actually is an OED word.
What are a couple of different ways you would use "fleek" in a sentence? Only, I want to start using it but don't want to sound like a fool.
You must accept that you will sound like a fool just for using this word. You can use it for anything you want to show satisfaction/approval for. React.js on fleek, eyebrows on fleek, uptime on fleek
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put yes for this because I've heard the funny sounding slang phrase 'on fleek' (similar to on point) before, but I'm not sure if it actually is an OED word.
What are a couple of different ways you would use "fleek" in a sentence? Only, I want to start using it but don't want to sound like a fool.
You must accept that you will sound like a fool just for using this word. You can use it for anything you want to show satisfaction/approval for. React.js on fleek, eyebrows on fleek, uptime on fleek
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put yes for this because I've heard the funny sounding slang phrase 'on fleek' (similar to on point) before, but I'm not sure if it actually is an OED word.
What are a couple of different ways you would use "fleek" in a sentence? Only, I want to start using it but don't want to sound like a fool.
You must accept that you will sound like a fool just for using this word. You can use it for anything you want to show satisfaction/approval for. React.js on fleek, eyebrows on fleek, uptime on fleek
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#158I wonder how many responses of : Cantaloupe');DROP TABLE Food;-- ol' Randal is going to get (or some permutation thereof). Figuring that Randal is pretty smart, I bet he has a piece of code to parse out that. Still, anyone here have a good hack that can just nuke days of his time whilst completing this form? Only other one I can think of him using is (for Matlab): Cantaloupe'); clear all; clc; close all;
The data gets collated in a Google sheet, so I think he'll be fine. Or at least if he finds a bug, it'll get fixed.
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#159Found out that gnome 3 has some keybinding for dynamically changing screen resolution. I don't know which keybinding that is, but I found it during the mash the keyboard test.
I discovered that SOME combination while mashing would close my tab in Chrome. Fortunately, ctrl-shift-t brought back not just the form, but __saved_responses__. What a pleasant surprise. I wonder if that saving is done by the browser, or by the website (local storage?).
Probably Ctrl-W, and the browser does the saving. It also works with back.
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but if you curl them after drying, you have a much smaller pool to find the pair from, the just washed socks (which will be the socks you use the most anyway). So it's faster that way, than to mix them all up and only then match.
My wife has about twenty pairs of socks, and no more than a few of the pairs are the same variety. It's like some masochistic combinatorics problem every single time I fold socks. My kid and I literally were playing "sock go fish" a few times to get him to help (except ... I was more interested in the pairing, rather than taking turns. Doh.) Laundry-folding happiness is increased significantly when I don't have to pl…
Sock go-fish is _genius_