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Kerlin:
--- Quote from: xrunner on January 28, 2024, 03:04:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: cv007 on January 28, 2024, 02:38:07 pm ---
People are already brain-trained to know what type of "variable" the foods in a menu are
If you think of programming, then menu "variables" in people minds are these types
main_meal
side_dish
drink
dessert
So we have these variables already set up in people's wetware (brain) and the brain knows what to do with them when a menu is read -
main_meal fishAndChips;
side_dish salad, vegetables;
drink coke, tea, water;
So when they see
Fish and chips with salad or vegetables
They know what the variable types are already and can decode it easily.
It decodes to -
main_meal + (side_dish || side dish);
Sortof like that. It's already set up in the brain (for most people).
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This man wins, makes sense to me.
Thanks to all the irrelevant posters V V V
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harerod:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on February 01, 2024, 09:26:50 pm ---...
You haven't heard true abuse of the English language until you have heard me say "bi'cycle" (for bicycle) in my Finnish Rally English. I also like to pronounce the c in "miscellaneous" as a k. In Finnish, I pronounce "lastenkodinkadulla" as "las tenko dinka dulla".
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Note to myself: as soon as I get bored with Japanese, I'll look into Finnish.
Hydro:
--- Quote from: Hydro on January 30, 2024, 04:33:30 am ---
--- Quote from: electr_peter on January 29, 2024, 04:37:54 pm ---IMO, "Fish and chips and salad or vegetables" translates to "Fish and chips" AND ("salad" OR "vegetables"), i.e. main AND (side OR side). "Fish and chips" is a dish by itself, "and" in the middle is not logical operation - it should be interpreted as a frase from 3 words.
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Being a programmer, I know several jokes.
First one.
The wife says to her programmer husband, “Dear, go to the store and buy one piece of sausage.
and IF there are eggs, THEN buy a dozen"
The programmer husband returns and brings eleven pieces of sausage.
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The next joke.
When a programmer goes to bed, he puts two glasses on the bedside table
- one with water - if he wants to drink
- and the other is empty - if he does NOT want to drink
larrybud:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on January 26, 2024, 05:31:40 am ---Am I the only one who always reads POS (point-of-sales) as piece-of-shit? ???
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About 20 years ago I got a job writing software which gave companies an online presence for bill pay applications. It wasn't THAT popular back then, so we did one off projects. I made a suggestion that we standardize the application (even if it was a "separate" application for each customer), so that our development time was cut way down. We could then just configure a bunch of settings for the particular customer installation. Not exactly a genius idea now, but back then "software as a service" was coming into it's own.
Anyway, our "Director of IT" was a moron. She was a terrible boss, zero people skills, lied to customers constantly (one of the reasons I ended up leaving). But it was up to her to give our new product a name....
Yes, you guess it, she called it "Point of sales". I said, no way, you are not calling something I wrote "Point of sales". She didn't know why. I said "POS?? You aren't familiar with that term?". She was not.
RJSV:
My little quirk, TV REMOTE doesn't control the (whole) World:
Neighbor's friend looking 'cute', walking by, there. NICE ! Like to check that out again:
PRESSED the 'BACK - REWIND button, before I realized the folly...
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