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Hitler seems to pop up a lot here. There's the occasional
political discussion so those inevitably lead to Adolph
being invoked up as a way for people having a friendly
discussion
to guage the opponent they're chatting with, let them
know where they rank on the mass murdering dictator
scale.
The idea is to put up an update when the H man gets
mentioned to guage how long we went without him in
our
lives. The way it would work would be:
1) Somebody says "Hey, I think dogs should have lights on
their collars so people can see them at night."
2) Somebody says "That's just what Hitler would have
said."
3) They go to the "Days Since Hitler Was Mentioned" post,
see the date of the last post, do the math of how many
days it's been (or hours, minutes, seconds) and post the
new starting point.
So it would look like
Jan 1st 2021: "Happy New Year everyody!"
"Screw you Hitler!" (26 days)
Jan 15th: "I like donuts."
"So did Hitler." (15 days)
By the way, not suggesting this as a tool to help mention
Hitler less, I've suggested that debates might consist of
two people just calling each other Hitler as fast as
possible which would be much more entertaining than
most politcal debates.
In honor of the great Mr Godwin
https://en.wikipedi...g/wiki/Godwin's_law
Gotta praise him for pointing out the patently obvious and somehow getting his name attached to it. [doctorremulac3, Oct 11 2020]
Hitler Nutcracker
https://www.cast-ir.../Hitler_nut_cracker
[xenzag, Oct 16 2020]
The North Minehead Byelection
https://www.youtube...watch?v=JTLeBybJhSo
"I am a retired Ouindowcleaner.. und pacifist" [bhumphrys, Oct 29 2020]
Former Nazi Chancellor of Germany mention #1
_22Duck_22_20and_20...ssor_20Verification
Last line of the idea post by doctorremulac3 on 23-NOV-2020 [doctorremulac3, Dec 14 2020]
Former Nazi Chancellor of Germany mention: #2
befriend_20reason
Line #35 by DrBob in thread "befriend reason" on 11-DEC-2020 [doctorremulac3, Dec 14 2020]
Former Nazi Chancellor of Germany mention #3
Calm_20the_20extremists
Line #19 by wjt in thread "Calm the extremists" on 13-DEC-2020 [doctorremulac3, Dec 15 2020]
Fürst annual HalfBakery “Wo ist der Führer ?” programming competition.
F_fcrst_20annual_20...ng_20competition_2e
Related idea. [8th of 7, Dec 16 2020]
Fighting monsters
https://www.goodrea...t-take-care-lest-he
Beware ... [8th of 7, Dec 19 2020]
Hitler in Trump mode, or is it the other way round?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b6rTu-pJFnw
[xenzag, Dec 29 2020]
StackOverflow: Get current time in seconds since the Epoch on Linux, Bash
https://stackoverfl...epoch-on-linux-bash
[zen_tom, Jan 03 2021]
4.10.2023! A new record!!!
Ciao_2c_20chatbots!
[doctorremulac3, Apr 10 2023]
[link]
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-Hitler was a vegetarian, you know. |
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-Pol Pot ate loads of meat, so what? Your love of Trump
places you in the Hitler camp. |
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-Ahh, the Hitler line. Is there any argument it can't win? |
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(6) days without Hitler being mentioned. |
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This is just the sort of idea that Stalin would have come up with. |
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-Hitler proposed something similar for the Autobahn but to
thwart aerial attack while troops and equipment
maneuvered around. Tanks would have torn up the roads and
they moved fine on dirt so the idea was abandoned. |
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(1) Day without Hitler being mentioned. |
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Why not "Days Since Godwin's Law Was Mentioned
Here"? |
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What, like the Class VII C U-boat or something ... ? |
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You know those TV quizzes, 'Did Hitler or Trump Say It...'? |
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It's just a matter of time before modern Trump starts to make Hitler look bad. |
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Ha - Gump is the new "Godwin character" for many
years to come as he replaces a forgotten Hitler. |
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Isn't there a paradox inherent in this idea, in that churning this thread will automatically mention Hitler ? |
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//Why not "Days Since Godwin's Law Was Mentioned
Here"?// Agreed, I might not have been paying
attention, my subjective hunch is that you'd find a
higher Godwin to Führer ratio than you might expect. |
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When did anyone mention him last? I've not seen any
references for a while. Maybe they're so common I've
just filtered them out. |
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Or minutes. Maybe seconds. |
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Anyway, here it is. We're currently at: |
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(0) Days Since Hitler Was Mentioned |
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I'm actually curious what we can get that number
up to. The information is out there. Somebody
could download all the ideas and annotations from
the Halfbakery and using a simple formula see
what the biggest time between mentions was. |
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This was just a joke but now I'm kind of interested. |
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We have the technology. Since The Great Outage of 2018, we routinely scan and download incremental chunks of the latest stuff, largely pages where our username appears - we try to keep the bandwidth demand as low as possible. |
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Getting a bit of shell script to scan the text and squawk when it notes a mention of Der Führer ... it's not even programming, it's just grep and a few arguments. |
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The usual brown envelope of used currency in the usual place will ensure prompt and accurate fulfillment of your request ... |
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I think Hitler warrants his own Halfbakery category. It would be a subheading of Despot, so that there could be "Despot - Hitler", but also "Despot - Moron" to include The Gump, and The Bozo from Brazil |
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We want 8th Hitler of 7 or we're not playing ... |
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I do wonder what my employers would think if they
ever did a keyword search on what I visit. I imagine
some anonymous window in a Covid-abandoned skyscraper
somewhere, blinking with red and amber warning lights
and a muffled Führalert audible only to ambling passers by. |
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//I do wonder what my employers would think if they
ever did a keyword search on what I visit// - they
might have already done this and are now too scared
to fire you. |
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We can confirm that that actually does work (even though we are technically self-employed). |
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Being scary, yet polite, is the ideal way of maintaining good relationships with the client, and yet ensuring that all invoices are settled promptly. If you have a cash flow problem this month, then it's best to make sure that we get paid before anyone else; otherwise, for you, their might not be a next month. |
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And it would look like an "accident", too. |
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Would it count if someone mentioned Chenjerai Hunzvi? |
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And just like that, with a few clicks of the keyboard,
I learned all about Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi. |
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Or Nick Lowe? You people are loco. Another beer, please.
And pass the nuts. |
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(0) days without Hitler being mentioned. |
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Ah, but you see, that was an anti-Hitler, which makes the count (-1). |
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[edit] Or was it an un-mention? |
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I was going to post an idea for a Hitler Boot Camp, where you can go and "learn the ways of Hitler". This would include a make over; a range of clothing; classes in how to carry out Hitler gestures and your chance to feature as Himself at a Nuremberg Rally reinactment. |
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I'll be waving to you from the Chaplin boot camp. (An anti-Hitler could be called a Chaplin. It seems that they were mutually fascinated, and were both very similar and very opposite.) |
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I'm looking forward to posting the first "(1) Day
since
Hitler was mentioned." |
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I've come to the conclusion that Hitler seems to be
the external defibrillator (heart shock paddles) of
conversation and without the invocation of his
name all conversations would have a finite life
span. |
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"The conversation is getting boring! Quick, hit it
with the Hitler analogies!". |
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I've suggested before that all political debates
should just be the two candidates calling each
other "Hitler!" as fast as possible, the numbers
being tallied by computer and once one candidate
gets a full "Hitler!" ahead of the other, the buzzer
sounds, the "debate" stops and a moderator comes
out and attaches one piece of Hitler style
grooming or clothing to the loser of that round
before the bell sounds and the "debate" begins
again. |
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We had a tutor at college who taught on the typesetting trade course. He was known to be dictatorial in nature and sported a small moustache. His name was Alfie McC_ _ _ _ He was naturally known to us as Alf-dolf.... it still makes me laugh as it was so appropriate. |
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[DrRem] serious and genuine question - can you
point at the most recent time this actually
happened please? |
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I know the scenario is a kind of cliche - having
even earned its own "Law", and whilst I recognise
the scenario, to be honest, I've not come across it
all that much, here, or elsewhere. I'd like to know
if that's because of something I'm doing, or just a
differing experience of social/internet media. |
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And while there are other ideas up here right now
ironically sporting the H-word, I'm more interested
in the actual situation you refer to where a point
of view is negatively characterised as being
Adolphian in some way. Out of curiosity, can you
link to the most recent instance here? |
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[edit] Aha found it - Putty de foie gras - Oct 10 2020 - that's 4 days I guess (though to be honest, I think the
reference was used in a ribbing jesticular fashion, and seemed fairly in context having been thematically raised
immediately prior) |
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Gotta admit, I won't be spending a lot of time making sure
my updates are accurate. Perfectly acceptable to view this
as a bad joke, or at least a joke in bad taste. |
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Hitlaws, the most chased in physics. Chappenlines not so much. |
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Cassel's milk is a good drop. |
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Some research reveals many "Hitler products" including this gem. (see link) I do believe however that there's always room for one more... |
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Thankyou, [xenzag], for drawing our attention to that superlative product. |
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It doesn't say what sort of damage ... is it the case that after successfully cracking a number of small nuts, it gets overconfident and invades Russia ? |
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We have refined our algorithm slightly to ensure that only new instantiations of a H-object will be flagged; merely churning an idea containing multiple instances will not trigger a report. |
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Y'know... I don't think I've ever once mentioned Hitler here. |
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And now, practise not thinking of a white horse ... |
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... or possibly a Unicorn running through water ... |
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Do you dream of electric sheep ... ? |
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<Regards [2fries] thoughtfully/> |
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"How can it not know what it is ?" |
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"More human than human" .... |
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Hitler/Gump comparisons are a bit passé after last
night. It's #crazy uncle everyone needs to watch
out for now. Restart the calendar. |
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The Gump became no 1 Crazy Uncle. |
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//The second question is this: Is there a "Hitler version" that
instead of floating around, grips the person with locked
arms, then takes them to the bottom as it rapidly sinks?// |
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(3) Days Since Hitler Was Mentioned |
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No, that's why we did the algorithm testing. |
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Seen, inspected, rejected... |
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Retrospective edits are ignored; only instantiations since the last scan are actioned. |
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There's even a greylist for users who might try to trip up the system (There are corresponding blacklists and whitelists - which is very short, just us and SWMBO). |
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Hitler was last metioned by user:[xenzag]in threadHitler Key on 27-OCT-2020 |
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Link: putfmt(_lvalue required /n/n |
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0Days have elapsed since the previous mention of Der Fuhrer. |
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YAY ! It works ! (sort of). |
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<Fires up editor to fix minor bugs/> |
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Hitler was last mentioned by user:[xenzag]in thread " Zombie Toast "\n on 28-OCT-2020 0x0D 0x0A |
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Link:
https://www.halfbakery.com
/idea/Zombie_20Toast
#1603912092 |
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01.00 Days have elapsed since the previous mention of der Führer . |
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It would be more in keeping with the purpose of this
idea if this automated script didn't itself keep
mentioning H****r. |
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How to cope with the Pythons stealth references (Link)? |
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I'm friends with Mike Godwin on Facebook. |
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He's an interesting character. |
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Hey, UnaBubba, welcome back! |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[RayfordSteele]in thread " Fibonacci birthdays "\n on 31-OCT-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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OK, three days is the current record. |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[spidermother]in thread " Terminator Soup "\n on 02-NOV-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany |
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What's the Seinfeld/Hitler thing spidermother's
referring to? |
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Wait, does mentioning him on this thread count?
OH, I see what you're doing 8th, referring to him
by
another name so it doesn't throw off the tally, got
it. Clever. |
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OK, so future posts I'll say "The former leader of
the National Socialist German Workers Party". |
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So what's spidermother's "Seinfeld / former leader
of the
National Socialist German Workers Party" reference
about? |
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doctorremulac3, it refers to the episode "the soup nazi". |
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An Adolphiform instant ramen would be another soup nazi. |
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I'll check it out, thanks. |
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Spurious precision, shirley? |
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No, it's just a natural consequence of the "It just about works, sod it, it'll do" school of coding. |
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It will be revised into something tidier in the near future. |
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Well, we could generate that, but it would mean scanning the site to a much finer granularity and that would use a proportionately larger amount of bandwidth, which might incur the wrath of SWMBO <Knees tremble, whimpers, cowers in fear/> |
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So for the forseeable future, you'll just have to live with the date-only version. Don't sulk, and don't pout like that. It's not big, and it's not clever. |
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[DSHWMH]: 8 (for instance) might be a new initialism we use
here. |
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Not to imply I see us ever getting to 8, just an example. |
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I'd like to see a meta-metric, giving the number of
days since mentioning H****r was mentioned here |
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We've already addressed (haha) that issue in the exception processing. |
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Actually, looking at the code, it's mostly exception processing, or rather safeguards against one of you lot trying to mess it up. |
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Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice ? But no, your're all* a bunch of spiteful, bitter, twisted little misanthropic misfits with an irresistible compulsion to mischief-making. |
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No wonder we are so at home here .... |
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Ah, you're Spartacus, right ? |
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No, _I'm_ Spart... wait... |
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I think "days since..." IS the right metric. Mentions only
occur on a timescale of every few days or so, so a more
precise measure would be largely redundant. Equally, if a
mention only occurred once every few months, "days since"
would be overkill (yes, I know you are a big fan of
"overkill"...). |
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Months would be a bit more tricky, in that the lengths vary and it would need some overly elaborate* coding to get it to spit out the right "months and days" figure, and if it went over a year ... |
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Hmmm. A possible tweak is that if the last mention of Herr Einkugel is more than 28 days previous, the annotation could be changed to display "The former Nazi Chancellor of Germany was last mentioned on DD-MMM-YYYY". |
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We can probably rob the "days, months, years" from someone else's code but even that sounds like it might involve too much effort, i.e. some effort ... |
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* "overly elaborate" = "anything a tiny bit more than trivially simple, that might involve some sort of actual effort" |
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//some effort//
sp. ANY effort. "I switched on the computer. What more do
you want?" |
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The former; it was simply a handy starting point. You shouldn't be expecting sophistication, it's just rickety, patched-together expedient hacking in shell script, mauled about until it just about delivers the basic functionality (most of the time; haven't tested it across 31 Dec/1 Jan yet...) |
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But don't tell anyone, apple might try to sue us for copyright infringement... |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[doctorremulac3]in thread " "Duck" and "Ducking" Word Processor Verification "\n on 23-NOV-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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//Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the
former Nazi Chancellor of Germany.// - it's "had
elapsed", not "have elapsed"! |
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Don't make the pluperfect the enemy of the good. |
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Yeah, what's past is past. Don't get so tense about it. |
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//it's "had elapsed", not "have elapsed"!// The
“haves and the had nots“ are always with us. In
this case, I’m with the “have‘s”. |
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On the day the script generates the anno, it's "have", because it's the immediate present. If you ask "How many cars now ?" the response is "I have counted six cars.". But if you ask "How many cars did you count yesterday ?" it's "I had seen (or 'saw') eight cars by the time I stopped counting". |
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Both are correct; "have" at the time of annotation, and subsequently "had". Getting the script to go back and edit the previous anno is non-trivial, and therefore near-impossible. |
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"James while John had had had had had had had
had had had had a better effect on the teacher"
Punctuation is everything. |
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^ And how would you punctuate that sentence properly?
(Thinking about the age-old "The teacher said that that
'that', that that boy used, was used correctly.") |
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With a 12-bore; small shot, both barrels. |
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The correct use of a string of "hads" is a well
known punctuation challenge. The answer is
simple. |
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//The answer is simple//
Umm, strike-through at least 9 of them? |
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If you say it out loud with pauses in the right
places, it will make sense and you will get the
punctuation. |
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Nope; you're going to need to go into great detail to
convince me it wasn't a slip of the copy/paste. |
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There's a capitalization in there too. |
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James, while John had had "had had", had had "had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher. |
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"James, while John had had Had, Had had had Had
Had. Had Had had a better effect on the teacher" |
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They're cannibals. One guy named John, one guy named
Had, the other guy named Had Had. Had is a teacher and
when John ate him he got a tummy ache, but previously,
when Had ate Had Had, he didn't get a tummy ache and
could teach that day. Until John ate him. James is the guy
listening to this
story about cannibal teachers. Then he gets eaten too as
a
plot twist. |
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[doc], WHAT IS THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB ? |
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...be sure to tell all your friends? |
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Here's a ten year old blast from the past, from a starry
eyed young man named Intern Remulac the Third. |
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"Bet better better bet better. |
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Better bet better bet better bet. |
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Better better bet better. |
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bet better better better bet." |
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It makes sense, but got a 9 up 6 down vote so it really
tore my heart out. I've been angry and bitter ever since. |
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I also know another sentence with 5 "ands" in a
row. |
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And of course there's the buffalos. |
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Buffalos are nowhere near as useful as Bison, particularly if you're thirsty, or need to cook or wash. |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[DrBob]in thread "befriend reason"\n on 11-DEC-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[wjt]in thread "Calm the extremists"\n on 13-DEC-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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Looking like 18 days might stand as the record for a
while. |
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I think I'll start posting the links and line numbers for
reference. |
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What happens if you mention Hitler in this idea? |
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It's automatically excluded by the algorithm*. |
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It looks for "new" instantiations of Hitler (sorted by date) in all threads, but then specifically ignores this one, as that would be recursive. |
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So - as previously mentioned - going back and editing an anno from a previous date to include Hitler will be screened out. It's quite clever** that way. |
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*"Kludged-up lump of rickety shell script which just about works most days, but obviously hasn't been validated under all possible boundary and error conditions". Watch what happens on 01 Jan ... it may fall over. |
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**For a given value of "clever". |
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I'd like to see as an adjunct idea, "Annotate Days since the
former Nazi Chancellor of Germany was obliquely
referenced here" but don't expect the precision/recall stats
to be much cop. |
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Go right ahead. Linux is a free download for personal use, and we'll email you the existing code. You'll need a machine that either runs 24/7 or boots up at least once a day. |
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C'mon, show us your coding skill. We won't judge you, or make snarky comments, or petty criticisms. Honestly, we won't. Promise. Scout's Honour. |
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(We'll leave that task to [kdf], because he enjoys it and has particular talents in that area.) |
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Have you got a github 8th? I've got a couple of weeks over
the holidays so it might be fun to try something out.
Otherwise yes - happy to receive emails, I'm
myusernamealloneword (without underscores) @ gmail.com. |
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I've got a raspberrypi that's linux and always on (without
costing too much on the electric) doing crontab jobs, which
I assume is a reasonably close fit. |
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We'll, er, tidy it up s bit first, tho. |
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<Wonders if exposing alleged programming "skill" to the harsh light of thr scrutiny of others is entirely wise/> |
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//we'll email you the existing code// |
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Would you be willing to copy me in on that (see my profile
page for address)? |
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//tidy it up s bit first, tho.// and don't worry
about how tidy or otherwise it might be - personally,
my code reads like a bad google translation of a
transcription of a class of 4-year-old's joint
birthday-parties hosted during an accident at a
spaghetti factory during peak tornado season. |
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Also, on more important matters, are we tabs, or
spaces? (It is tabs right.....right?) |
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But it definitely needs cleaning up before it's released into the wild. |
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Is there an opportunity here for a Hitler-spotting competition, [zen] vs. [pert], at dawn outside the hb, line editors at twenty paces ? Could be fun... |
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// Would you be willing to copy me in on that // |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[pocmloc]in thread "Fürst annual HalfBakery “Wo ist der Führer ?” programming competition."\n on 15-DEC-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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//002.00 days// - I love the optimism inherent in this
that
allows three digits for the number of days, inviting the
possibility of no mentions here of the notorious amateur
artist for nearly three years. Also the two digits
after the decimal point suggest future enhancements to
the algorithm to monitor activity on the Halfbakery every
14
minutes.
(As an aside, when the script copies the
idea title into an annotation, I hope it's parsing the text
for characters that need to be sanitised. E.g., if I post an
idea with the name "Idea title<br><br>with
breaks" which also mentions H*tl*r, would these be
rendered in the annotation on this
page as "<br>" or as line breaks? Maybe this should
be part of the competition test suite.) |
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// We'll, er, tidy it up s bit first, tho. |
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Yes, do get rid of the empty soda cans, half-eaten pizza and dirty underwear on the floor. |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[pocmloc]in thread "Hitler"\n on 16-DEC-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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"Notoriety" would be a much more appropriate term. |
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<KennethWilliams>"Infamy, infamy...!"</KennethWilliams> |
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Yes, [poc] would make a very good Hengist Pod ... |
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You don't get comedy writing of that quality any more. |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[zen_tom]in thread "Fishties"\n on 17-DEC-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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This idea needs an autosage. It's somewhat interesting but will be cluttering up the recent posts view forever. |
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I was trying to help 8 by adding links to the DSHWMH posts
but it's kind of hard to keep up with. |
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Yes, we didn't get as far as adding links; just the annotations was enough effort. Hence instituting the competition. |
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Ideally it would be done by adding a strapline somewhere on the RECENT page, but that would mean editing the hb source code, and We Are Not Worthy ... |
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How about editing an existing annotation somewhere on a
page (maybe this one) or a link perhaps where results can
be posted without bumping stuff to the top of recent? |
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Go, do it ... be a hero. It's a good idea. |
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We just bodged something minimal together ... look, it was late and we were tired and it was the drink talking, "It's just shell script and html, c'mon, how hard can it be "? |
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And we found we'd created a monster. |
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Go forth, and strike down the monster. If you succeed, we'll shelve our version. But remember what Nietzsche wrote ... |
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Oh don't worry, I am being given a thorough checkup by
the abyss right now, in fact, it's just putting on it's rubber
gloves and asking me to lie on my side, and I don't like
the look of it! I'm yet to start posting any results i)
because I'm not convinced they're working properly quite
yet and ii) between us all, it'd be a very bumpy bakery if
we were all posting updates all the time. However, I did
setup a github repo where the latest code resides, and
there's nothing stopping us from using the more wiki-style
features of that to collaboratively present results, talk
script details and so on. Anyone pinging me with a
request to collaborate is welcome, equally it's a free and
open resource anyone can setup themselves if that's what
they want to do. |
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I'm ashamed to admit I still dont know how to deal with Gits |
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The received wisdom is that random, violent beatings are a good starting point. |
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After all, it can't do any harm (unless you accidentally catch yourself with the baseball bat or rubber truncheon). |
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To be honest, I'm still getting the hang of it - first time I tried, I managed to
inadvertently
publish a bunch of stuff I didn't want to. You have to be pretty careful - we use
an enterprise
version at work, so this is my first crack at doing anything publically open-
source; which I'm
treating as a learning opportunity. |
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Interestingly, the name GitHub was coined by Linus Torvalds (linux man) who
imagined a place
where a load of curmudgeonly old bastards (gits) could come together and talk
about and
share their code (hub). |
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[Voice] your continued association with this website would suggest you're very
well acquainted with a bunch of gits already, as I suppose we all are. |
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Yes, everyone on the hb is aware of [xenzag] and [kdf]. |
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[kdf]in thread "Custom made hearing protectors"\n on 20-DEC-2020 |
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
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//003.00// - still calculating this to a lot of decimal places I see (see
my 16/12 anno) |
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It's not the calculation, it's the output formatting. Fear not, hopefully someone will come up with some better code soon, and then our version can be honourably retired. |
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Here's some output from today's run - to try and expand
the use-case beyond being a "vegetarian dog lover"
detector, I bunged in a couple of additional topics - the
knowledge extracted to form the cache mentioned
below only goes back to the origination date of this idea. |
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------8<------------8< ------------8<------------8< ------------8<-
----- |
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It has been 4 days since Hitler was last mentioned.
anno found on Fishties by [zen_tom] //to Adolph Hitler
caused me // on 17 Dec 2020 |
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No mention of Idi Amin found in the cache. |
|
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No mention of Genghis Khan found in the cache. |
|
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It has been 5 days since Donald Trump was last
mentioned.
anno found on MentorBubbles; view the internet versions
of the people who are doing well by [xenzag] //someone
like Trump gets endless// on 16 Dec 2020 |
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It has been 19 days since Brexit was last mentioned.
idea found on Swap populations of Scotland and Northern
Ireland by [hippo] //Post-Brexit, when the // on 02 Dec
2020 |
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It has been 14 days since Political Correctness was last
mentioned.
anno found on Big Brother's Mind Numbing Tea Biscuits by
[zen_tom] //compliance and political correctness,
parroting// on 07 Dec 2020 |
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------>8------------>8 ------------>8------------>8 ------------>8-
----- |
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//honourably retired// You know what, this has been tricky to piece
together, lord knows how you managed to do this in shell
script 8th. |
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The discrepancy between your last report 8th and [kdf]'s
last mention of the struggle-inflicted pamphlet
author, is that that anno got deleted. So we're
retrospectively going back to 17th December (or I'm
missing a
hit). |
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Regards dates, I'm rounding down to nearest day -
however that's scraped from the original page, and how
the
current system date is defined, subject to timezones etc. |
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// lord knows how you managed to do this in shell script 8th. // |
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Observational evidence tends to suggest that "Programming virtuosity, skill, experience, and sheer unalloyed genius" might be the answer to that question. |
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And you're surprised that we quit as soon as we had something that sort-of works most of the time ? And what happens ? Yes, you've guessed it, _lusers like [hippo] whinge endlessly about numeric formatting ... ungrateful, we call it. |
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Yes, [kdf] has - as advised - pulled that annotation from the thread. |
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Timezones are always going to be problematic, although if the application is always executed at the same time in the same local zone, the results shoulf be acceptably accurate. There's obviously some latency, because altho our version runs "just before midnight" and correctly spots any new instances on that "day", sometimes the actual annotation it generates is dated the next day. Interesting, but not important (at that level of temporal granularity). |
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Oh, so we did ... thanks for pointing that out. |
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"Programming virtuosity, skill, experience, modesty, and sheer unalloyed genius". |
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Modesty is a good thing; it stops you from becoming a smug, arrogant, misanthropic gloater. You want to watch out for that, [kdf] ... fortunately, we're not at risk. |
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------8<------------8< ------------8<------------8< ------------8<-
----- |
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It has been 5 days since Hitler was last mentioned.
anno found on Fishties by [zen_tom] //to Adolph Hitler
caused me // on 17 Dec 2020 |
|
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No mention of Idi Amin found in the cache. |
|
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It has been 69 days since Genghis Khan was last
mentioned.
anno found on Hitler negative space by [xenzag] //posted
the Genghis Khan-can as an // on 14 Oct 2020 |
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It has been 6 days since Donald Trump was last
mentioned.
anno found on MentorBubbles; view the internet versions
of the people who are doing well by [xenzag] //someone
like Trump gets endless// on 16 Dec 2020 |
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It has been 20 days since Brexit was last mentioned.
idea found on Swap populations of Scotland and Northern
Ireland by [hippo] //Post-Brexit, when the // on 02 Dec
2020 |
|
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It has been 15 days since Political Correctness was last
mentioned.
anno found on Big Brother's Mind Numbing Tea Biscuits by
[zen_tom] //compliance and political correctness,
parroting// on 07 Dec 2020 |
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------>8------------>8 ------------>8------------>8 ------------>8-
----- |
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I had a database error before - when I thought I was going
back to back-fill my cache that was fine, and it was
collecting ~300 ideas. But on making a second connection
for the following run, it was forgetting all the content it
had first stored - turns out I'd forgotten a couple of
"commit" statements here and there. So after that fix,
now some of those additional search terms are coming
back positive as well now. Still no Idi Amin, but outside of
excluded pages, we'd have to go back to 2017 for that -
and this hasn't had that long to build up a cache that goes
back that far (though...it ought to be possible) |
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OK I've just tweaked something relating to this
competition to see it if shows up on participant scans...
might not... |
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Latest scan - after fixing a bug that meant I missed Dub's
recent Brexit mention - now idea
titles and descriptions are included in the search
(previously it was only idea "copy", annos and
link-text). |
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------8<------------8< ------------8<------------8< ------------8<-
----- |
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It has been 9 days since Hitler was last mentioned.
anno found on Fishties by [zen_tom] //to Adolph Hitler
caused me // on 17 Dec 2020 |
|
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No mention of Idi Amin found in the cache. |
|
| |
It has been 73 days since Genghis Khan was last
mentioned.
anno found on Hitler negative space by [xenzag] //posted
the Genghis Khan-can as an // on 14
Oct 2020 |
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It has been 2 days since Donald Trump was last
mentioned.
anno found on Paper Shredder That Sounds Like It's Saying
"YumYumYumYumYumYumYum" by
[DenholmRicshaw] //If it eats Trump's tax returns// on 24
Dec 2020 |
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It has been 1 days since Brexit was last mentioned.
idea_title found on BREXIT Whoopie Cushion by [Dub]
//BREXIT Whoopie Cushion// on 25 Dec
2020 |
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It has been 19 days since Political Correctness was last
mentioned.
anno found on Big Brother's Mind Numbing Tea Biscuits by
[zen_tom] //compliance and political
correctness, parroting// on 07 Dec 2020 |
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------>8------------>8 ------------>8------------>8 ------------>8-
----- |
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This is getting better fast |
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People are probably getting sick of this, but it's still 2020 and there's a great deal else to be sick of still: |
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------8<------------8< ------------8<------------8< ------------8<- ----- |
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It has been 1 days since Hitler was last mentioned.
idea found on Museum of Dubious Delights by [xenzag] //Moustache With Hitler's Comb"// on 28 Dec 2020 |
|
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No mention of Idi Amin found in the cache. |
|
| |
It has been 76 days since Genghis Khan was last mentioned.
anno found on Hitler negative space by [xenzag] //posted the Genghis Khan-can as an // on 14 Oct 2020 |
|
| |
It has been 5 days since Donald Trump was last mentioned.
anno found on Paper Shredder That Sounds Like It's Saying "YumYumYumYumYumYumYum" by [DenholmRicshaw] //If it
eats Trump's tax returns// on 24 Dec 2020 |
|
| |
It has been 4 days since Brexit was last mentioned.
idea_title found on BREXIT Whoopie Cushion by [Dub] //BREXIT Whoopie Cushion// on 25 Dec 2020 |
|
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It has been 22 days since Political Correctness was last mentioned.
anno found on Big Brother's Mind Numbing Tea Biscuits by [zen_tom] //compliance and political correctness,
parroting// on 07 Dec 2020 |
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------>8------------>8 ------------>8------------>8 ------------>8- ----- |
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Could we talk about Genghis Khan more that that other
guy? Now THERE'S an interesting historical figure. Every
bit as nasty as... that other guy. |
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Here's what the Gehgster did when he invaded a city. |
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1- Attack with low skill slave conscripts from previous city
raids.
2- While they were massacred, the defending army
getting a false since of superiority, Gingy's horse soldiers
would encircle the battlefield and sweep in killing
everybody.
3- They'd then kill everybody in the city.
4- They'd leave until people who were hiding either in the
city or outside came back.
5- They'd ride in again and kill everybody who was left. |
|
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Won't get into some of the killing methods but they made
that other guy look positivily humanitarian by
comparison. |
|
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OK, on Dec 25 I amended an old idea, using the H-man in
place of "Hillary". So the H-man scans are only for new
ideas and posts but do not detect changes to existing
content. |
|
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There must be a way of adding Muammar Gaddafi
ideas to the Hitler, Trump, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc list. |
|
| |
Whoever you add, there will always be one more person who is almost as bad, and arguably equally as bad if not slightly more so. |
|
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The only logical conclusion is that every time anyone is mentioned anywhere, that fact has to be logged here. |
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Hi [xenzag] indeed there is, I'll see what I can do - I'd
considered including him, but his names are numerous
and
spread across a distribution of westernised spelling
norms. |
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| |
Ideally, there'd be some standardised online resource
containing commonly accepted western spellings of
recognised bad dictators whose names can serve the
function of being synonymous with ill thought and deed
that
could be downloaded and used for onward processing. If
this
list were ISO approved that would be even better. |
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So this has become kind of a dictator race. OK, that's
interesting. So far it's not even close though. |
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I'm going to root for the Genghinator. More interesting that
the meth head anyway, but there should probably be rules.
You can't just bring up somebody you'd like to see discussed
more, it has to happen via the dictates of the masses. |
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Thank you Zen. This is getting kind of interesting. |
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In that case Mao Zedong must also feature. See
also Hitler/Trump link. Actually it's quite brilliant. |
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Just to let everyone know, we have pulled wiesenthal from the crontab for now to give others a clear run at this thread. |
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It will be back for 31/12 and 01/01 to check for any year rollover issues. |
|
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Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[xenzag]in thread "Museum of Dubious Delights"\n on 28-DEC-2020 |
|
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Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
|
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(checks to see if anybody's into chatting about Ginghy) |
|
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Nope. Somewhere in Hell Adolph is laughing and pointing at
Genghis. "Vere ist dere convasatuns bout you eh Genghis?" |
|
| |
Oh well, happy New Year anyway everybody. |
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------8<------------8< ------------8<------------8< ------------8<- ----- |
|
| |
It has been 4 days since Hitler was last mentioned.
idea found on Museum of Dubious Delights by [xenzag] //Moustache With Hitler's
Comb"// on 28 Dec 2020 |
|
| |
No mention of Idi Amin found in the cache. |
|
| |
It has been 79 days since Genghis Khan was last mentioned.
anno found on Hitler negative space by [xenzag] //posted the Genghis Khan-can
as an // on 14 Oct 2020 |
|
| |
No mention of Muammar Gaddafi found in the cache. |
|
| |
It has been 79 days since Joseph Stalin was last mentioned.
anno found on Hitler negative space by [kdf] //theme. I think Stalin and
Communism// on 14 Oct 2020 |
|
| |
No mention of Pol Pot found in the cache. |
|
| |
No mention of Mao Zedong found in the cache. |
|
| |
No mention of Leopold II of Belgium found in the cache. |
|
| |
No mention of Vlad the Impaler found in the cache. |
|
| |
It has been 3 days since Donald Trump was last mentioned.
anno found on Museum of Dubious Delights by [xenzag] //golf clubs Trump spent
most// on 29 Dec 2020 |
|
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------>8------------>8 ------------>8------------>8 ------------>8- ----- |
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Here's my last run for this, having added a couple of additional dictator types
into the mix. I notice suddenly that my report differs from 8th's slightly in that
his reports the timing of most recent, but also the *penultimate* mention of the
amusingly recaptioned bespectacled shoutyman from Downfall, while mine only
reveals the length of time passed since the most recent mention. |
|
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Yes, each time it notes a new instance, it records the date. On subsequent runs, irrespective of the date of that run, it compares any new instances with the last logged one. |
|
| |
It helped to deal with the issue of edited annotations, by only looking for instances with dates newer than the "previous most recent". |
|
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It still seems to be a valid approach, in that it displays the difference between the "most recent" and "previous most recent". |
|
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If it runs every day, then "days since last mentioned" will be the same as "days before today". But if run intermittently, it only shows the difference. |
|
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It's a not-entirely-unintended consequence. |
|
| |
We are open to suggestions as to whether it's "right" or not, as the User Requirements Specification is, well, more than a bit vague. |
|
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We consider that unfair; in some contexts it might be considered expensive, but we dispute that it is actually unreasonable, and it's comparable with the offers from other service providers. |
|
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The true test for later edits (which I don't directly make either) is an imprecise art. There's no directly
attributable "edit time", so the closest
you can get is to try and do a diff on individual annos. |
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One problem with doing that is giving each anno a primary key. They don't have one. You can infer one using their
sequence, and
later compare which parts of anno n#22 on a particular idea, taken at two different snapshot times, are different
to one another,
and infer an edit sometime between those two snapshot dates - all well and good (assuming you're taking regular
snapshots) Until
someone deletes annotation n#8, and now anno n#22 is now showing up as anno n#21, throwing off your key and
making
comparisons all look like crazy edits. You might be able to tighten that up by assigning your sequence key broken
down by user id,
so anno n#22 becomes [zen_tom]'s anno n#3, this would make the keys more stable, but still be prone to cases
where a user
deletes their own earlier annotations, screwing up the sequencing (this might be infrequent enough to accept
perhaps - but it's a
lot of effort, resting on a rather arbitrary set of assumptions, for not much experienced benefit - since you're
already only picking
up edits that also coincided with an additional anno or link that would "bump" the idea back into your fetch
window) |
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| |
The second consideration is figuring out what the edit did. Commonly, you can break down parts of an edit into a
series of
additions and deletions, there's a command called "diff" and associated methodology that does this, but if an
anno initially
contained the text "Add old photos Harold, it's leaning over!", and you deleted the sequence "d ", "d ", "arold, ", "'s
", "aning ove",
you'd arrive at a matching phrase, having not added anything at all. Does performing nothing more than a series
of strategic
deletions count as mentioning old AH? (Probably the intention was there, and assuming this isn't some cosmic
coincidence, is the
mention to be attributed to the first or second edit? All this is of course stretching the realms of what's likely as
an extreme
example - but goes to show the twisty rabbit holes you can fall into if you don't draw a line somewhere in the
sand of sanity) |
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| |
More simple might be to just scan the latest version of an annotation to see if it contains a matching phrase,
marking off that
annotation (using its generated primary key for later retrieval) as a success or failure. That then leaves the
problem of assigning
the anno an "edit time" somewhere between the previous and current data-fetch as discussed earlier. |
|
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Either way, it's a fair amount more effort than might be strictly necessary or worth the bother, but with the code
online available
for anyone to review and change, I'd leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out for themselves should they
be so inclined. |
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// more effort than might be strictly necessary or worth the bother // |
|
| |
... which is why we stopped development as soon as the requirement had been more or less met. |
|
| |
// What units do you use to quantify vagueness? // |
|
| |
The "picoBiden", or fractions thereof. Like the Tesla and the Farad, the Biden is such a huge unit of vagueness that it has no real application in normal situations. |
|
| |
// there's a command called "diff" and associated methodology that does this // |
|
| |
We started with diff and grep and a few other of the core text stream commands. Having worked out a manual procedure that came close to the desired result, we piped the output to a temp file and then used that to generate the new anno to be copied and pasted (which turned out to be nearly as difficult as spotting new instances of the Austrian Demagogue). |
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If you get a chance, you should take a look at the python code on the github
link, after working with (my) clumsy scripts in *nix for some time, I came across
it only maybe 5 years ago and have been a solid convert ever since. It's
incredibly applicable to real-world situations and there's often a module
already built to perform some domain specific task. The syntax is relatively
straightforward (once you get the hang of the whitespace thing) and in most
situations, should read reasonably clearly. Conversely there are some devilishly
tightly defined conventions (thinking list and other collection "comprehensions"
here) that allow you to one-line things that would often get spread over
multiple lines of code. Neatly too, it's relatively easy to deploy on a *nix box,
and if you're sensible the same code will run happily there, as well as on a
windows, mac or even (if you stick to the earlier Python 2.7 as 3.x I don't think
is available) OS/2 Warp. |
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| |
//picoBiden// reminds me of the scientific unit of braggadocio, the
femtoTrump, a single portion of which is enough to assert that Black is White,
Up is Down, Winning is Losing, and all ghosts of things in the realm of the
impossible are clear and present mundanities. |
|
| |
Der Führer was last mentioned by user:[xenzag]in thread "Museum of Dubious Delights"\n on 28-DEC-2020 |
|
| |
Days have elapsed since the previous mention of the former Nazi Chancellor of Germany. |
|
| |
It's OK. Space-time is curved. And home-made date
arithmetic is easy to fuck up. |
|
| |
It was easy to test month-end rollover, but year rollover is a bit more tricky. |
|
| |
Nevertheless, we will leave the annotation as a warning against the dangers of inadequate testing. |
|
| |
An intervention will probably be needed to get it to work properly today. |
|
| |
Looks like the problem is fairly simple ... however, testing the fix properly will take another 364 days. |
|
| |
So that we don't have to scroll right down to the end
of these annotations, could you put the update in the
title? - e.g. "Days Since Hitler Was Mentioned Here: 3" |
|
| |
I know, but if it's in the title you can get the
important update without having to open the idea |
|
| |
// could you put the update in the title? // |
|
| |
To do that, you need ownership of the thread. |
|
| |
Have a look at the "competition" thread. |
|
| |
// Changing an idea’s title breaks any previous links to it. // |
|
| |
But is that necessary, if the thread's constantly bumped to the top of the recent list ? |
|
| |
// having Doc own the idea and you posting updates limits what you can do. // |
|
| |
Think of it as a technology demonstrator. |
|
| |
Here's my final tech demonstrator, it's been fun, but will probably mothball this for now. |
|
| |
------8<------------8< ------------8<------------8< ------------8<- ----- |
|
| |
It has been 0 days since Hitler was last mentioned.
anno found on Despot Chess by [kdf] //chess sets ... Hitler vs Roosevelt// on 03 Jan 2021 |
|
| |
It has been 0 days since Idi Amin was last mentioned.
idea found on Despot Chess by [xenzag] //despots, such as Idi Amin, Stalin, Trump// on 03 Jan 2021 |
|
| |
It has been 81 days since Genghis Khan was last mentioned.
anno found on Hitler negative space by [xenzag] //posted the Genghis Khan-can as an // on 14 Oct 2020 |
|
| |
It has been 0 days since Muammar Gaddafi was last mentioned.
idea found on Despot Chess by [xenzag] //support from two Gaddafi Rooks, as // on 03 Jan 2021 |
|
| |
It has been 0 days since Joseph Stalin was last mentioned.
idea found on Despot Chess by [xenzag] // Idi Amin, Stalin, Trump, Mussolini// on 03 Jan 2021 |
|
| |
No mention of Pol Pot found in the cache. |
|
| |
No mention of Mao Zedong found in the cache. |
|
| |
No mention of Leopold II of Belgium found in the cache. |
|
| |
No mention of Vlad the Impaler found in the cache. |
|
| |
It has been 0 days since Donald Trump was last mentioned.
idea found on Despot Chess by [xenzag] //Amin, Stalin, Trump, Mussolini// on 03 Jan 2021 |
|
| |
------>8------------>8 ------------>8------------>8 ------------>8- ----- |
|
| |
// probably mothball this for now // |
|
| |
What, you're not going to go for the prize ? |
|
| |
You seem to lack ambition ... |
|
| |
I thought the competition end date had passed, and having
not heard anything through my agent, had quietly assumed
other parties had already been shone upon. However, I do
intend to pivot what I'd already built to a more generalised,
practical end. |
|
| |
// I thought the competition end date had passed // |
|
| |
It does read quite clearly "31 January 2021" ... |
|
| |
You're right, it does - I never was a details person - I'd
conflated the 31st with the big 31st that's just passed
without factoring in the whole January business - ok, as you
were...mothballs can go back in the drawer for the time
being. |
|
| |
// I never was a details person // |
|
| |
That much is obvious. Then again, your algorithm doesn't seem to have made the trifling error of placing the "most recent occurrence" as being 89.77 years in the future .... |
|
| |
Ha, luckily enough no - all my datetimes are handled by a python
module called dateparser - which converts most date formats into a
datetime object without me having to think too hard about it. |
|
| |
Because I'm using a simple database, it doesn't understand these
directly, so I have to convert all the dates into an integer form, and a
convenient approach seemed to be to use the number of seconds since
the last unix epoc (since someone else had written this into the
datetime module), and then finally calculate differences using simple
integer arithmetic: |
|
| |
ddiff = int((now - final_mention['date'])/86400) |
|
| |
Which takes the integer value of the two dates' difference after dividing
by the number of seconds in a day. |
|
| |
That feels quite a unixy thing to do, so I took to googling, and a quick
StackOverflow (link) yields this interesting bit of shell syntax that I'd not
come across before: |
|
| |
date -d "Oct 21 1973" +%s |
|
| |
which apparently does a similar thing - I also tried it as: |
|
| |
date -d "21 Oct 1973" +%s |
|
| |
And it seems capable of parsing both dates (at least it returns the same
number 120006000 in both cases) |
|
| |
I think this might be the first time we've gone actual YEARS without Hitler being mentioned. |
|
| |
The dawn of a golden age maybe? |
|
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