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[Keith_McClary]

Give me a coffee medium.
Well, madame Zelda is busy now...

That belongs in "Lame Jokes".

 

[WWGD]

That belongs in "Lame Jokes".

All my posts, including Math ones belong in Lame Jokes ;).

 

[Ibix]

Kind of weird

There is a surprisingly simpler way of doing this: SELECT Distinct * FROM [Table_Name]

That'll tell you the largest number, but not give you a state (unless I'm misunderstanding what you are doing). That may or may not be what you want.

 

[WWGD]

That'll tell you the largest number, but not give you a state (unless I'm misunderstanding what you are doing). That may or may not be what you want.

My bad, something else I was working on at the moment. It was getting rid of duplicates in a table. I had seen a few convoluted queries to do it , but this one worked fine. Strange that it is commonly mentioned as an interview question.

 

[WWGD]

Scam alert? Lady at coffee shop asks to borrow my phone charger " for an emergency". Charger does not work for her phone. She then proceeds to chow down on a sandwich, pastry and coffee for some 45 minutes, not apparently attending to the emergency. If you prefer to avoid false negatives takes up more thinking.

 

[fresh_42]

Service for those who lost a coffee shop:
https://www.insidehook.com/article/food-drink-new-york/best-coffee-roasters-nyc

 

[nuuskur]

Scam alert? Lady at coffee shop asks to borrow my phone charger " for an emergency"...

So what happened with the charger? Where is a scam involved? Perhaps, she merely has her priorities set 'differently'.

 

[WWGD]

So what happened with the charger? Where is a scam involved? Perhaps, she merely has her priorities set 'differently'.

I offered it to her, she tried it . It did not fit her phone and she returned it to me. I looked at her while she ate a large meal until closing time. I can't think of what kind of scam she may have wanted to pull. The charger is not expensive, so keeping it would not be that big of a deal.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, I did not know about iron-free shirts, pants. Good deal, I don't know how to do ironing anyway.

 

[jbriggs444]

I offered it to her, she tried it . It did not fit her phone and she returned it to me. I looked at her while she ate a large meal until closing time. I can't think of what kind of scam she may have wanted to pull. The charger is not expensive, so keeping it would not be that big of a deal.

The simplest of all possible scams. She wanted to get you to let her use your phone charger. She presumably had a desire to use her phone. Calling it an "emergency" got you to offer your charger. Calling it "I want to tell my girlfriend about this cute skirt I just thought about buying" could have been both less successful and more embarrassing.

 

[nuuskur]

There are two kinds of people: the perverts that enjoy being watched and those who don't.

 

[WWGD]

The simplest of all possible scams. She wanted to get you to let her use your phone charger. She presumably had a desire to use her phone. Calling it an "emergency" got you to offer your charger. Calling it "I want to tell my girlfriend about this cute skirt I just thought about buying" could have been both less successful and more embarrassing.

I have offered my charger to some who have just asked, no need to say it is an energency. But maybe you're right and she believed I ( people in general) would not lend it otherwise.

 

[jbriggs444]

I have offered my charger to some who have just asked, no need to say it is an energency. But maybe you're right and she believed I ( people in general) would not lend it otherwise.

Often we see in others those things that we see in ourselves. Happily that makes your blind spot a good thing. Sadly, it makes her misapprehension a bad one.

 

[WWGD]

It seems rapper Snoop Dogg tried to rent the whole country of Lichstentein to film a video. It seems only problem is he applied too late. Country is around 62 sq miles in area, like, say around 6x10.

 

[Klystron]

There are two kinds of people: the perverts that enjoy being watched and those who don't.

Any overlap in the two kinds?

 

[WWGD]

Any overlap in the two kinds?

Merv the Perv?

 

[WWGD]

Parsing language part n : Not a car database but a new singer: Cardi B $\neq$ Car Db

 

[WWGD]

Fun song:

 

[WWGD]

Good one to use when your losing an argument about the merits of a person:

" If he was so smart, why did he die?"

Seems to throw everyone off.

 

[skyshrimp]

I saw a YouTube vid that showed an American diner serving medium rare hamburgers. I tried it myself at home and preferred it to well done.

If you were to have a bbq and serve a guest a medium rare burger, they'll reject it, thinking they'll get food poisoning.

 

[WWGD]

I saw a YouTube vid that showed an American diner serving medium rare hamburgers. I tried it myself at home and preferred it to well done.

If you were to have a bbq and serve a guest a medium rare burger, they'll reject it, thinking they'll get food poisoning.

I like them medium. Some even like tartare. Do you? For winter I don't consider cold food for the most part.

 

[skyshrimp]

I don't like the thought of eating completely raw mince.

 

[WWGD]

I don't like the thought of eating completely raw mince.

Yes, we as a species discovered fire and its benefits a while back. I am not going back into the caves unless ww3 happens and I make it.

 

[fresh_42]

I'm pleasantly surprised that a hardware store here has an ad with Ai Weiwei.

 

[WWGD]

I'm pleasantly surprised that a hardware store here has an ad with Ai Weiwei.

It is the Weiwei weight factor.

 

[WWGD]

It is the Weiwei weight factor.

Weiwei's way way out of my league because of the Weiwei weight factor.

 

[WWGD]

New way of guaranteeing a place in the subway with space : cough, cough (whisper) Corona, cough , cough.

 

[fresh_42]

New way of guaranteeing a place in the subway with space : cough, cough (whisper) Corona, cough , cough.

Lol, I actually made this once, waiting at a traffic light as pedestrian: "Cough, cough, f*** SARS!" Somebody next to me actually jumped away.

 

[WWGD]

Lol, I actually made this once, waiting at a traffic light as pedestrian: "Cough, cough, f*** SARS!" Somebody next to me actually jumped away.

Though it may backfire andlead to the medics jumping on us and putting us in quarantine for a long time.

 

[fresh_42]

Though it may backfire andlead to the medics jumping on us and putting us in quarantine for a long time.

Two weeks, all inclusive. Why not?

 

[WWGD]

Two weeks, all inclusive. Why not?

Two weeks? How so? Wont they wait until the epidemic is over?

 

[fresh_42]

Two weeks? How so? Wont they wait until the epidemic is over?

Those who were flown out had to stay 2 weeks - incarnation time. However, they kept them in a military base.

 

[WWGD]

Those who were flown out had to stay 2 weeks - incarnation time. However, they kept them in a military base.

Maybe you must be in the right country when this happens. May not be that much fun in others.

 

[jbriggs444]

If one is thrown into quarantine along with other suspected cases, the faked cough could turn real.

 

[Klystron]

Also, I attended basic training at Lackland AFB. Ugh!

 

[WWGD]

20-2-2020 or , in other countries 2-20-2020 coming in a few days.

 

[cosmik debris]

Those who were flown out had to stay 2 weeks - incarnation time. However, they kept them in a military base.

Incarnation time :-) Do you come back as someone else?

Cheers

 

[fresh_42]

Incarnation time :-) Do you come back as someone else?

Cheers

Oh yeah, I knew it sounded strange. Incubation period, of course.

 

[WWGD]

Incarnation time :-) Do you come back as someone else?

Cheers

Incarnation everyone must drive.

 

[DrGreg]

Incarnation everyone must drive.

I thought in Carnation was where Cleopatra spent most of her time.

 

[WWGD]

Words that are confused often: lose and loose . The product " loose skin solution" would become "lose skin solution", an unusual product.

 

[fresh_42]

To write english is a pain. I like Shaw's example: How do you pronounce "ghot"?

 

[WWGD]

To write english is a pain. I like Shaw's example: How do you pronounce "ghot"?

That was the 'fish' thing, right?

 

[fresh_42]

Yes. No wonder you have spelling competitions. All others spell what they hear.

 

[WWGD]

Yes. No wonder you have spelling competitions. All others spell what they hear.

But I do wonder why so many of the winners are Indian ( meaning from India) or 2nd gen India. Maybe from having to learn to pronounce those 15-letter+ names and last names.

 

[fresh_42]

But I do wonder why so many of the winners are Indian ( meaning from India) or 2nd gen India. Maybe from having to learn to pronounce those 15-letter+ names and last names.

Guess there are several reasons for it. E.g. minorities often stress learning and competitions a lot more than members of the majority. And the Indian culture of science is about 5,000 years old, which is funny for people with such a complex variety of gods. It seems there is more than one society which proudly pampers its contradictions.

 

[BillTre]

But I do wonder why so many of the winners are Indian ( meaning from India) or 2nd gen India. Maybe from having to learn to pronounce those 15-letter+ names and last names.

A labmate from India once told me that India has a huge number of different languages and some people (for example him) are able to pick up different languages rapidly and easily. This was useful for interacting with other groups of people.
Not clear if this is a culturally learned capacity or that a genetically endowed ability that might have be adaptive was selected for due to its increased communication abilities.
In either case, such abilities might explain good spelling abilities.

 

[WWGD]

I hope that ability to spell is part of a larger package because it seems like a waste to devote talent only to spell words.

 

[WWGD]

UN report ( can't find the link) claims the world can sustain more than 1 trillion people. I think they assume massive buildup of high-rises but some land just cannot support it and would collapse/implode. It would require such massive rethinking and engineering that its not likely possible for 100s of years from now.

 

[WWGD]

If you have a 24hr cancellation policy: why do you allow #$@ next-day appointments?