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[TD1]

My takeaway is that nerds were a mistake, not the internet.

[methylatedspirit]

Nerds exist everywhere, even before the Internet. It's just that the Internet catalyzed the hellish coalescence of nerds, so I think nerds were a mistake, but the Internet is even more of a mistake for accelerating it. And you know who made the Internet? Nerds! Mistakes breed mistakes. The Internet is proof.

...and I'm saying this on the Internet. This must be what it feels like to watch those inspirational "social media bad" videos on Facebook, then liking and sharing said videos, on Facebook.

[scriver]

In time, nerds will cause the Great Singularity, and we will all become the Interneardth

[EuchreJack]

I am a nerd.

What is lacking is a brief history of nerddom.  I'll attempt to illustrate, since some of these events may predate some of our nerdlings.  I'm sure others will fill in the gaps.

Prior to Bill Gates becoming a Millionaire, nerds did not out themselves in high school settings.  They did however find some solace in College.  Bill Gates becoming a Millionaire, and more, was the start of Nerd acceptance.

Nerds in these early days were still social outcasts, but they could socialize without suffering beatdowns from other students (mostly).  School staff started protecting them.

Because this generation of Nerds was still heavily mistreated by their peers, they tended to mistreat one another for not being the right sort of nerd.  You could get harassed because you didn't like the right kind of anime, for example.

Fast forward to 2007 and the Big Bang Theory.  Finally, nerds were mainstream.  They were given a role model for how to interact in public.  You start to have people who are NOT nerds claiming to be nerds.

...my biggest fear is the pushback, the correction.  That time when society inevitably goes back the other way, and the nerd harassment returns.

[King Zultan]

Damn nerds thinking they're so great, well they're not there are way better candies out there than them!

[methylatedspirit]

Damn nerds thinking they're so great, well they're not there are way better candies out there than them!

I may be mixing up my candies here, but Nerds taste like flavored chalk. Barely-flavored chalk. I don't know who the target audience is, but it sure as hell ain't me. I prefer breath mints myself, entirely for the taste. That sensation of having my tongue "burn" from the mint flavor is addictive.

[Frumple]

Definitely mixing them up. Nerds are the tiny crunchy ones, quite sweet. You might be thinking of stuff like Pez, the ones with a variety of fancy dispensers, which did indeed have something of a chalky taste.

[TheSteppeWolf]

What happened to Naturegirl? I mostly lurk but I liked her.

[Enemy post]

I think she mentioned that college was taking up more of her time lately.

[methylatedspirit]

Yeah, in a PM, she said that she needed to focus on her studies more, so she had to cut Bay12 out, at least for the time being. Considering her frankly-incredible post rate before she had to leave, yeah, I think that was justified. I'd imagine playing pretty much every forum game that pops up is a massive distraction.

[methylatedspirit]

If I wanted to release some very small Python scripts (which are essentially working as cross-platform shell scripts), should I bother to package them up as self-contained executables for release, or should I just tell people to download their own copy of Python to run them? The 'packaging' option would need me to compile for at least Windows, Linux and MacOS for completeness, and I don't have a MacOS machine on hand (Linux is easy enough; I have WSL). I'd have to get an entire VM up and running for that.

[Superdorf]

I feel like the sort of people who'd be interested in that sort of download, are the sort of people who're plenty capable of setting up a Python system to run it.

[Frumple]

... anyone know of something that would make it fairly painless to make like a meal randomizer? Basically something where you can input a number of components (individual ingredients, frozen meals, whatever) with their nutrition stats, set a few limits on total amounts of certain things (say only 60 carbs total, or a certain amount of salt or calories or somethin'), and then have it toss things together up to the limits.

I'm pretty sure it would be possible to do with a spreadsheet, but it'd be a time consuming pain in the ass and if there's an easier way it'd be nice to know about.

[wierd]

That's something that you need an actual programming language for, IMO--

You would need multi-dimensional arrays, ingredient data with meta tags appended, and then logic to evaluate nutritional information with-- then more logic to exclude ingredients based on their meta tags.


I would use a CSV file, just for ease of integration/modification, as the data source to populate the array with, and maybe also to set some values for the nutritional suggestion logic.  Other than that, any actual, real programming language that can deal with multi-dimensional arrays, and which can present a cogent UI to the user to select what they have in their kitchen would suffice.

Hell, Javascript in a simplistic web form would work.

[EuchreJack]

My google fu is weak right now, but I'd suggest looking for one online.  I mean, I'm pretty sure there is a paid one offered through weight loss companies, so there must be a free opensource version somewhere.

Or Excel.  You can do anything with Excel.  ANYTHING.