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Post by mjevans »

unoti wrote: post #204
Twisol wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did something that caused Firefox to restart and lose _all_ of my active tabs. (Got them back via sessionstore.bak, thank goodness.)

"How many tabs do you keep open on your browser" would be an interesting question, to me, to see the results on. I'm often mystified by the stories of people who keep 50+ tabs open. I've never understood why, but I guess now that I'm considering it, I'm guessing such people must base their workflows around tabs.

I tend to have about 50 or so tabs, per /window/ (it's time for a new one when I can't see the faveicon anymore).

I tend to have about 250-300 tabs open in total. Various things I mean to get back to, reference material for projects that I've paused working on, etc.

In general when it costs you nothing to keep a photocopy of a reference on your desk, the desktop becomes nothing but photocopies of reference materials.

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Post by M2Ys4U »

rspeer wrote: post #197
lotsofcows wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I thought it was biased toward native USAian speakers. What the fuck is Cilantro?

Coriander leaves. Does this not have its own word in British English? Even given their international cuisine?

We generally just call it coriander.

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Post by M2Ys4U »

lekashman wrote: post #104

I am incredibly excited by this survey specifically because of the question regarding sandwiches. I finally will have some meaningful data for my extensive definition of sandwiches as a structural form!

Relevant blog post about using the definition of 'sandwich' to teach the Platonic Dialogues: https://medium.com/@kmikeym/is-this-a-sandwich-50b1317eb3f5

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by mjevans »

stronglikedan wrote: post #52
brianwawok wrote: post #29

So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.

I do the buying all the same thing for the new, but I don't throw out the old. They go into reserve for when nothing else is clean. I keep them in a separate drawer.

I don't do it on the same basis, but I do have decay batches like that.

I'll buy a bunch of undergarments that are frequently used so that there's a whole generation. When I feel a need based on function I buy a new generation. If the old generation still has some service life it becomes 'houseware' (the 'holy' stuff worn only about the house).

Socks usually get culled completely once they have a hole of any size (evicted from the generation), while new generations tend to happen when parts wear too thin for comfort in shoes.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by mjevans »

Walkman wrote: post #44

"Pick a number from 1 to 100" I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D

As we had to pick /two/ numbers, and eventually the set will be released, I don't want to get too close to identifying my self based on these numbers.

I chose two numbers that had some (basic) meaning to me and quickly came to mind. They were not related in any way to the month or day in month of any birthdays.

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Post by jameshart »

Balgair wrote: post #137

I 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;

This isn't Randall's first rodeo. On his color survey, he mentioned this (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/):

"A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids."

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Post by mjevans »

lekashman wrote: post #104

I am incredibly excited by this survey specifically because of the question regarding sandwiches. I finally will have some meaningful data for my extensive definition of sandwiches as a structural form!

I actually would like to comment here.

My personal definition for (an unqualified) sandwich is that there must be two /isolated/ 'bread' sides surrounding a payload (the 'meat' of the sandwich).

As a quesadilla is often made folded I at first disqualified it; however not /all/ quesadillas are folded. Some are actually made with two individual tortillas. Thus it is close enough to a sandwich to be expressible as a member of that class, while the others that are similarly close are always made with single pieces of bread (cut in the middle) and thus, they are not in fact sandwiches as it is not optional to select different types of bread for the two sides (even though I've /never/ seen anyone do this; it's still /possible/).

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Post by jameshart »

gefh wrote: post #158
Balgair wrote: post #137

I 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.

It's not going to -stay- in a google spreadsheet, though. You have to assume it will get loaded into some other system. there are opportunities to exploit that system, potentially. Kind of a 'stored' injection vulnerability.
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