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  • L Lost User

    Did you ever wonder why a single Ninja in a movie is almost invincible while they drop like flies when a whole army of Ninjas comes? Analogous to energy, Ninjutsu can neither be created nor destroyed. If there is only one Ninja present, all the system's Ninjutsu is concentrated in him, making him invincible. When there is a whole army of them, each Ninja only gets a small share of the Ninjutsu and we all know how that ends. While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Is this yet another conservation law or do we really need the proper amount of Ninjutsu to get to work?

    The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
    This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
    "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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    The road is one big chaos system. The longer it displays a reliable pattern the more likely that the very next moment it will go completely pear shaped. I've gotten in the habit of working from home the first snowfall of the winter every year. It's like freaking clock work. We have decent* enough roads 7-9 months and then the day that snow falls every moron and their dead grandmothers decide that the best way to drive on snow and ice, is to go as fast as they can so they spend as little time on it as possible**! *By "decent" I mean the majority of them are paved, potholes aren't quite big enough to swallow a horse, and they haven't been condemned. They are however rated "poor" by the road committee. **I guess this isn't an entirely inaccurate thought process. If they slide off the road into the ditch, they are no longer technically on said road.

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      The road is one big chaos system. The longer it displays a reliable pattern the more likely that the very next moment it will go completely pear shaped. I've gotten in the habit of working from home the first snowfall of the winter every year. It's like freaking clock work. We have decent* enough roads 7-9 months and then the day that snow falls every moron and their dead grandmothers decide that the best way to drive on snow and ice, is to go as fast as they can so they spend as little time on it as possible**! *By "decent" I mean the majority of them are paved, potholes aren't quite big enough to swallow a horse, and they haven't been condemned. They are however rated "poor" by the road committee. **I guess this isn't an entirely inaccurate thought process. If they slide off the road into the ditch, they are no longer technically on said road.

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      Lost User
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      RJOberg wrote:

      the first snowfall of the winter

      As if this event was a total surprise, but then they are also absolutely surprised when that funny light changes from red to green.

      The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
      This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
      "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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      • L Lost User

        I just took a look and found one which I could build and fly myself.[^] :-)

        The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
        This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
        "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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        PeejayAdams
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        That looks like a lot of fun in a (probably) incredibly expensive kind of way.

        Slogans aren't solutions.

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        • L Lost User

          Did you ever wonder why a single Ninja in a movie is almost invincible while they drop like flies when a whole army of Ninjas comes? Analogous to energy, Ninjutsu can neither be created nor destroyed. If there is only one Ninja present, all the system's Ninjutsu is concentrated in him, making him invincible. When there is a whole army of them, each Ninja only gets a small share of the Ninjutsu and we all know how that ends. While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Is this yet another conservation law or do we really need the proper amount of Ninjutsu to get to work?

          The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
          This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
          "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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          Mark_Wallace
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          That's why we don't have to worry about the 8,327 clones they made of Hitler. One alone managed to conquer most of Europe and start a world war; the 8,327 can't even decide which tiles to play in Scrabble.

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          • P PeejayAdams

            That looks like a lot of fun in a (probably) incredibly expensive kind of way.

            Slogans aren't solutions.

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            Lost User
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            It depends. I'm still building my Huey, which is half the size of this one here. I already had the helicopter, an older T-Rex 450[^], which I got second hand for about 150 bucks. The fuselage[^] cost only 100, but it did not have very much detail. So I have spent a good number of hours on installing the helicopter and adding all kinds of details, like one or another antenna, the tail bar, hatches and panels, rivets and 3D printed weapons. And of course painting it once the details are all done. In the end it's supposed to look like this one[^] and use this model kit[^] as a reference.

            The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
            This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
            "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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            • L Lost User

              This[^] will get you anywhere, any time.

              The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
              This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
              "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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              MarkTJohnson
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              No, THIS[^] will get you anywhere, anytime.

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              • M Mark_Wallace

                That's why we don't have to worry about the 8,327 clones they made of Hitler. One alone managed to conquer most of Europe and start a world war; the 8,327 can't even decide which tiles to play in Scrabble.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                Lost User
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                Uncle Adolf is about the last who I would suspect to have been a Ninja.

                The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                • M MarkTJohnson

                  No, THIS[^] will get you anywhere, anytime.

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                  Lost User
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                  If you can get your hands on one. Mine has the big advantage of being available for a reasonable price in eastern countries.

                  The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                  This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                  "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                  • L Lost User

                    Uncle Adolf is about the last who I would suspect to have been a Ninja.

                    The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                    This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                    "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                    Mark_Wallace
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                    Why do you think his moustache was so meticulously cropped and shaped the way it was? Ninja magic, Man! Rubbing it in particular directions and with particular cadence with the left-hand's thumb and forefinger caused Terrible Things to happen!

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    • L Lost User

                      It depends. I'm still building my Huey, which is half the size of this one here. I already had the helicopter, an older T-Rex 450[^], which I got second hand for about 150 bucks. The fuselage[^] cost only 100, but it did not have very much detail. So I have spent a good number of hours on installing the helicopter and adding all kinds of details, like one or another antenna, the tail bar, hatches and panels, rivets and 3D printed weapons. And of course painting it once the details are all done. In the end it's supposed to look like this one[^] and use this model kit[^] as a reference.

                      The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                      This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                      "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                      PeejayAdams
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                      That looks pretty darned cool!

                      Slogans aren't solutions.

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                      • P PeejayAdams

                        That looks pretty darned cool!

                        Slogans aren't solutions.

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                        Lost User
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                        Then you get a video.[^]. It's the same as mine, but if you look at it closely, you will see why I want more detail and did not just paint it.

                        The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                        This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                        "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                        • L Lost User

                          Did you ever wonder why a single Ninja in a movie is almost invincible while they drop like flies when a whole army of Ninjas comes? Analogous to energy, Ninjutsu can neither be created nor destroyed. If there is only one Ninja present, all the system's Ninjutsu is concentrated in him, making him invincible. When there is a whole army of them, each Ninja only gets a small share of the Ninjutsu and we all know how that ends. While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Is this yet another conservation law or do we really need the proper amount of Ninjutsu to get to work?

                          The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                          This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                          "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                          Bootking
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                          You are a brilliant person.

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                          • L Lost User

                            Did you ever wonder why a single Ninja in a movie is almost invincible while they drop like flies when a whole army of Ninjas comes? Analogous to energy, Ninjutsu can neither be created nor destroyed. If there is only one Ninja present, all the system's Ninjutsu is concentrated in him, making him invincible. When there is a whole army of them, each Ninja only gets a small share of the Ninjutsu and we all know how that ends. While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Is this yet another conservation law or do we really need the proper amount of Ninjutsu to get to work?

                            The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                            This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                            "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                            dandy72
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                            "Nobody drives around here. There's too much traffic." I'm sure somebody will correct me on the exact quote and provide its source.

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                              Did you ever wonder why a single Ninja in a movie is almost invincible while they drop like flies when a whole army of Ninjas comes? Analogous to energy, Ninjutsu can neither be created nor destroyed. If there is only one Ninja present, all the system's Ninjutsu is concentrated in him, making him invincible. When there is a whole army of them, each Ninja only gets a small share of the Ninjutsu and we all know how that ends. While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Is this yet another conservation law or do we really need the proper amount of Ninjutsu to get to work?

                              The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                              This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                              "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                              David Crow
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                              CDP1802 wrote:

                              While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys.

                              Once traffic reaches a critical density, the cumulative effect of gentle braking rushes back over drivers like a wave and leads to a standstill. It's a chain reaction similar to the push and pull of an accordion or Slinky, or the traffic-wave effect.

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                              • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                CDP1802 wrote:

                                I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road

                                That's why I take my bike as much as possible :D Of course I only have a 5,6 km commute :-\

                                Best, Sander arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript SQL Server for C# Developers Succinctly Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                Slow Eddie
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                                Anyone who rides a bike in traffic is a delusional, suicidal hipster. My wife is a nurse at a hospital and they get 3 to 4 broken bike riders a week to try to fix. and that's just the ones that survive... Of course living in New Orleans, where the streets are narrow and in bad condition, the lost tourists are plentiful, and the locals all drive like maniacs may be skewing my beliefs...

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                                  Anyone who rides a bike in traffic is a delusional, suicidal hipster. My wife is a nurse at a hospital and they get 3 to 4 broken bike riders a week to try to fix. and that's just the ones that survive... Of course living in New Orleans, where the streets are narrow and in bad condition, the lost tourists are plentiful, and the locals all drive like maniacs may be skewing my beliefs...

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                                  I live in the Netherlands though[^] :D

                                  Best, Sander arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript SQL Server for C# Developers Succinctly Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                  • L Lost User

                                    Did you ever wonder why a single Ninja in a movie is almost invincible while they drop like flies when a whole army of Ninjas comes? Analogous to energy, Ninjutsu can neither be created nor destroyed. If there is only one Ninja present, all the system's Ninjutsu is concentrated in him, making him invincible. When there is a whole army of them, each Ninja only gets a small share of the Ninjutsu and we all know how that ends. While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Is this yet another conservation law or do we really need the proper amount of Ninjutsu to get to work?

                                    The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                                    This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                                    "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                                    Harrison Pratt
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                                    The same reason that the "good guys" in TV shows are crack shots and the "bad guys" can't hit the broad side of a barn?

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                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      I think it's similar to a committee: "the average IQ of a collection of drivers (a committee) is equal to the lowest IQ of a participant divided by the number of participants." I came to this conclusion many years ago, when I was riding motorcycles in the rush hour, and have seen no reason to modify it. Indeed, I added a corollary: "If you can think of six bloody stupid things for a driver (or a committee) to do in a crisis, he (they) will think of something even stupider, and immediately do it."

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                                      Kirk 10389821
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                                      I am not sure I believe this. But I noticed I braked hard, and turned sharply into the other lane upon reading it. I will call it a coincidence, although the biker is calling it something else indeed! :)

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                                      • L Lost User

                                        This[^] will get you anywhere, any time.

                                        The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                                        This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                                        "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                                        windyforce
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                                        When I read anywhere anytime this is what came to mind. :) [^]

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                                        • L Lost User

                                          Did you ever wonder why a single Ninja in a movie is almost invincible while they drop like flies when a whole army of Ninjas comes? Analogous to energy, Ninjutsu can neither be created nor destroyed. If there is only one Ninja present, all the system's Ninjutsu is concentrated in him, making him invincible. When there is a whole army of them, each Ninja only gets a small share of the Ninjutsu and we all know how that ends. While driving to work this morning, I wondered why everything goes well up to a certain number of cars on the road. After that critical point they all begin to drive like drunken monkeys. Is this yet another conservation law or do we really need the proper amount of Ninjutsu to get to work?

                                          The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                                          This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                                          "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                                          Member_5893260
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                                          I, too, have observed this effect with cars - and with everything else people do. It's fear, you see: crippling, stupefying fear: and let's face it: it doesn't take much to stupefy most people. They're paralyzed by it: it occupies so much of their mind that they literally have no processing power left over to use for anything useful or constructive. It makes them stop moving in the middle of the road, or drive into other cars, or vote for Donald Trump, or void their colons into their trousers (also an option after performing any of the above).

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