what I have learned today.

[hatler]

I've had a letter from 23andme telling me that unlike 83% of their customers I have Neanderthal DNA.
Not sure how I feel about that.

Huh ? 

[Mrs Pingu]

That the glass in my oven door isn't tinted. It was just dirty. Student dirty. Mr Muscle could only do so much. I had to take a stanley knife blade to it.

I bet you feel brilliant now though

[nobby]

I've had a letter from 23andme telling me that unlike 83% of their customers I have Neanderthal DNA.
Not sure how I feel about that.

Huh ? 

Exactly.
Should I be able to ride a bike?

[Paul]

That the glass in my oven door isn't tinted. It was just dirty. Student dirty. Mr Muscle could only do so much. I had to take a stanley knife blade to it.

I bet you feel brilliant now though

Smug, in fact.
 

[Pingu]

Thanks to today's Grauniad prize crossword I've learnt what a snollygoster is.

[Mr Larrington]

Thanks to today's Grauniad prize crossword I've learnt what a snollygoster is.

It's a word specifically forbidden to TV's *** Boulting.

[cycleman]

I've had a letter from 23andme telling me that unlike 83% of their customers I have Neanderthal DNA.
Not sure how I feel about that.

Huh ? 

Exactly.
Should I be able to ride a bike?

Yes but hunched 😉

[Cudzoziemiec]

That women served in the front line on both sides of the 1918-20 Polish-Bolshevik War but, on the Polish side at least, the only items of military uniform made available were boots in smaller sizes. They made do with a mixture of men's jackets etc and civilian clothing. Some fought in skirts.

[ian]

That Julia Hartley-Brewer isn't a comedian doing a parody act (honestly, she'd almost indistinguishable from the marvellously funny Rosie Holt).

[Mr Larrington]

Writes for the Daily Fail.  'nuff said.

[FifeingEejit]

Someone who's spent twice the amount of their life as me working in healthcare IT had never learnt that medics should never be given the need to click more than once or ever touch a scroll bar lest they have a hissy fit.
Said colleague expressed surprise at a function of the system we're writing requiring 3 mouse clicks should be recorded as a "show stopper" UAT issue...

A lesson that should apply well beyond healthcare.

If I had my way, application developers would have their mice confiscated for one day a week on general principle.

I suppose medics etc. could even enjoy tabbing between buttons & memorizing CTRL codes.  We could make the machines play early 80s rock at the same time.

Forgot I'd posted in here and dingied it.
It's really about writing a decent flowing ui structure.

All they really need is for the form to be componentised ideally saving and moving them onto the next input component with reasonable fanfare followed by a save and a sign off option.

But I suspect that would go down as well as my suggestion that a file with 3000 lines of coldfusion markup isn't clever* and  was the cause of subversion merge hell.

It briefly went down to 2700 lines when I did a bit of refactoring to extract functions to other files for stuff I was changing, but then someone went and wrote new functions to do those things putting the file up to 3250 loc**.

* that's the polite version
** today I found 9 different alert box definitions in one file that all show the same message...

I think I'm just going to have to Boss the merge request approve button when I get us onto git.

This is the rant about colleagues thread yeah?

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[fuaran]

That women served in the front line on both sides of the 1918-20 Polish-Bolshevik War but, on the Polish side at least, the only items of military uniform made available were boots in smaller sizes. They made do with a mixture of men's jackets etc and civilian clothing. Some fought in skirts.

Just learnt about the 'Night Witches', an all female bomber regiment in the Soviet Air Force, during WW2. Apparently similar issue with jackets and boots that didn't fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

[hbunnet]

My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6  in Scotland.
Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak. 

I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That women served in the front line on both sides of the 1918-20 Polish-Bolshevik War but, on the Polish side at least, the only items of military uniform made available were boots in smaller sizes. They made do with a mixture of men's jackets etc and civilian clothing. Some fought in skirts.

Just learnt about the 'Night Witches', an all female bomber regiment in the Soviet Air Force, during WW2. Apparently similar issue with jackets and boots that didn't fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

Mechanics Raisa Kharitonova and Tamara Frolova were sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for dismantling a flare (used by navigators to illuminate bombing targets) and using the small silk parachute to sew undergarments.

!

[fimm]

"Some of the same genes that cause prostate cancer are shared with breast cancer. If you have a mother or sister with breast cancer, it does increase your risk of prostate cancer. So you can actually inherit a gene from your mother that increases your risk of a male cancer."

[ian]

"Some of the same genes that cause prostate cancer are shared with breast cancer. If you have a mother or sister with breast cancer, it does increase your risk of prostate cancer. So you can actually inherit a gene from your mother that increases your risk of a male cancer."

To be fair, you inherit half your genes for everything from your mother.

These two genes are BRCA1 and BRCA2 (they produce two unrelated proteins involved in chromosomal and DNA repair). When faulty they cause a high risk of developing certain cancers in certain tissues, yet it's not absolute, and the mystery is why generally there's only a risk of specific cancer. Why not a general effect? If have a BRCA fault, it doesn't increase your risk for bowel or blood or lung cancer.

[citoyen]

I read somewhere recently that most* men these days die with prostate cancer - one of the side effects of an ageing population, and the risk of prostate cancer being high enough that it will get all of us eventually. But obviously that's not the same as dying from prostate cancer.


*might not actually have been <most>, but it was <significant number>

[ian]

Yes, we're mostly riddled with cancers, fortunately, the majority of them sit around and do much other than slowly reproduce themselves (generally, a cancer cell is one that's not doing a good job of following the rules). By the age of 80, over 80% of men will have cancerous cells in their prostate. Generally, if you look for cancerous cells, you will find them. This is of significant clinical relevance, especially in the context of screening, because it may lead to medical interventions – serious medical interventions like surgery – that are not actually necessary. Or drug treatments that kill these slow and dull cancerous cells and leave behind the aggressive and metatastic cells. These then have free rein.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

That the UK police have their own air force.

[nicknack]

That the phrase "in the offing" has a nautical origin. The offing is the part of the sea that can be seen from the land but excluding the nearmost part. So if a ship was in the offing then it would be arriving soonish but not immediately.

[hatler]

Here's a few more - https://www.crewseekers.net/notices/three-sheets-wind-nautical-slang-common-usage/

[Mr Larrington]

That the Nazis banned the novels of Sax Rohmer* because they assumed he was Jewish.

* born Arthur Ward, in Birmingham, to Irish parents

[Paul]

* born Arthur Ward, in Birmingham, to Irish parents

Him, me and Dan Martin.
Select.
 

[Pingu]

My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6  in Scotland.
Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak. 

I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.

I could've told you that  I wonder if he remembers the ghastly school song 

[hbunnet]

My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6  in Scotland.
Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak. 

I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.

I could've told you that  I wonder if he remembers the ghastly school song 

I had heard the local name I just hadn't connected the two alternative pronunciations with the same person. I've been chuckling about my mistake all weekend.
I dread to think of which school but probably not Phd Academy