Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Can't you also trade community hall points for it? Perhaps I am mistaken.

You can get executive membership with the points, but you can't change your name to a specific color or anything like that.

Thanks guys.

Melanieb: I can see how getting your first job got rid of your anxiety. For a while it was like that for me at a new job I started when I moved here. I made so many friends and for like a year and a half I didn't ever feel that social anxiety, much anyway. I don't work anymore though and the only times I go out now are to take my son to the park, grocery shopping, other errands, and school. So, you see, my classes are the only place for me to really make any new friends. If I could get a job, that would be great, but everything around the house would fall apart because I would be doing school, housework, taking care of my son, and working. I'd love to have a busy life, but I don't wanna lose time with my son either. And god knows my husband wouldn't clean.

Link: I don't blame the guy for being attracted to me or whatever (not to sound stuck up) but he knows I'm married and he still follows me around. I really think he just wants to be friends, and I know I sound like an ass right now, but I really don't think I could. He's the kind of guy that talks aloud to himself during class so that everyone can hear what he's thinking. He's not like... and I know this sounds hypocritical considering what my rant was about, but he's not retarded. He's just a little slow when it comes to carrying on a real conversation. He sounds like someone who browses the titles of articles and pretends he knows everything about it.

It's quite annoying and completely obvious.

GAVIN: be careful and don't get caught! I think that's bad ass though! I looked it up to figure out what you were talking about lol but it sounds like something worth trying.

Sorry this was a long response.

Side rant: My in-laws hate me. :/

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

Maybe if you drop another f-bomb you'll get your way. Try it!

Please tell me you see the sarcasm in my posts. :/

Originally Posted by Suena

Link: I don't blame the guy for being attracted to me or whatever (not to sound stuck up) but he knows I'm married and he still follows me around. I really think he just wants to be friends, and I know I sound like an ass right now, but I really don't think I could. He's the kind of guy that talks aloud to himself during class so that everyone can hear what he's thinking. He's not like... and I know this sounds hypocritical considering what my rant was about, but he's not retarded.

Don't worry about hypocrisy, it's inevitable because everyone has their own set of ideals and convictions.

There has to be a reason why he's loud-mouthed, probably doesn't get the attention from family, so he has to find someway to get acknowledged.

He's the epitome of what a person would think as annoying and clearly predictable yes, but do know this.

The more you know about a person, the harder it is to go against them, to ignore them, to wish they were gone.

But it's better to know that than going against them blindly.

I'm not saying you're ignorant nor am I using this to insult you in anyway, I'm just saying when you see people for they are, which is hard because people just don't open themselves up like that, all we can do is just presume.

So don't feel bad when you think you're contradicting what you're saying.

It's easy for me to tell you this because I've accepted how I can be a hypocrite as well, so maybe what I'm saying might not be helpful at all, lol. :x

He's just a little slow when it comes to carrying on a real conversation. He sounds like someone who browses the titles of articles and pretends he knows everything about it.

It's quite annoying and completely obvious.

I guess when he gets someone to talk to him, he stumbles, because he's probably used to people not talking to him much anyway.

I used to be loud-mouthed and talked a lot when I was a child, but after a few things that happened to me, just seeing things differently, I started to become more quiet and reserved.

He's probably just going through the phase of hiding his insecurities with a visage of a horrible bravado.

It's really hard trying to understand people without them opening themselves to you, but when you see why they're doing it, seeing their story, it honestly helps with alleviating the stress of them being predictable.

I've met a lot of annoying people like that in my life as well, and they always end up turning over to a new leaf, trying to become my friend.

I guess the fact is that you're more mature with him, so it'll take him a while to realize what he's doing to you.

Hope things turn out okay, Suena, a beautiful girl woman like you doesn't need this type of stress.

You're kind of like me, you observe people, and you can clearly see the falseness they're exhibiting, that's a really good trait to have. Not a lot of people take the time to actually see a person's behavior.

Originally Posted by Blunt

Please tell me you see the sarcasm in my posts. :/

He's greenhavoc, you'll learn eventually.

Originally Posted by Suena

Thanks guys.

Melanieb: I can see how getting your first job got rid of your anxiety. For a while it was like that for me at a new job I started when I moved here. I made so many friends and for like a year and a half I didn't ever feel that social anxiety, much anyway. I don't work anymore though and the only times I go out now are to take my son to the park, grocery shopping, other errands, and school. So, you see, my classes are the only place for me to really make any new friends. If I could get a job, that would be great, but everything around the house would fall apart because I would be doing school, housework, taking care of my son, and working. I'd love to have a busy life, but I don't wanna lose time with my son either. And god knows my husband wouldn't clean.

Side rant: My in-laws hate me. :/

Stupid in-laws. Mine hated me, but got used to me.

I don't work either. I was a victim of a lay-off three years ago and have been spending the time with my daughter during her early years of school and life. It has been nice.

Remember that you have friends here, as well as IRL.

It is hard maintaining a busy life, but you sound like a strong person. *hug*

Biked 27 miles today... I should have brought some food with though. My energy tank was empty the last few miles. Came home, made a protein shake, and crashed on the couch. Feel like a truck hit me. Kinda half-dosed off on the couch for an hour, and finally peeled myself up. Started some rice and took a shower. Rice will be done soon (throwin some turkey sausage and veggies on in a minute), so I should be feeling better once I eat.

Ugh, lesson learned. I'll stock up on some cliff bars to take on rides from now on.

Did NOT sleep last night, and I had a 10 hour shift today. The rockstar helped me pretty good for a few hours, then it was a gradual decline.

Going to take a good old diphenhydramine tonight, and hit the sack earlier. I have 2 more 10-hour shifts to go.

On the upside, I'm grilling another london broil and I made grilled bruschetta with fresh buffalo mozzarella melted on top. Was heaven. And no picture, all gone.

I had a rant earlier but I forgot it already.

Can I rant about that? It's really annoying.

about 70% of the time I leave the DV chat pissed off. I have no idea why I keep going back there.

DV chat is just a collection of many people with many views.

Add instant messaging to the equation, and you have the equivalent experience of hell.

But I still come back to it as well sometimes, you can't escape it, man! Once you get into it, there's no turning back.

Originally Posted by dave1701

about 70% of the time I leave the DV chat pissed off. I have no idea why I keep going back there.

Seconded. I'm loving the actual #lucid dreaming chat room more and more these days

There was a question on StackOverflow the other day. The person wanted to invert a dictionary. Different keys could have the same value so it's not as easy as a simple inversion. Instead, each value in the new dictionary was going to have to be a list. This is a common situation. One will often write a function to do it. It's just like "inverting" a surjective function by mapping into subsets of its domain rather than into the domain itself.

The top voted answer used defaultdict from the collections module. On a failed key access, it will just set the key to that value to some specified default. The code looked something like this.

Code:

import collections

def invert_dict(dct):
    new_d = collections.defaultdict(list)
    for key, value in dct.items():
        new_d[value].append(key)
    return new_d

There are serious problems with this. The big one is that you're not returning a dictionary, you're returning a defaultdict. This means that subsequent key accesses that should fail and signify an error in the program will instead insert a list into it. That sort of thing sucks and can lead to some very gnarly and difficult to track down bugs.

I suggested pretty much the same answer but using a usual dictionary and its setdefault method. It looked like this.

Code:

def invert_dict(dct):
    new_d = {}  
    for key, value in dct.items():
        new_d[value].setdefault(key, [])
    return new_d

Note the lack of imports and the fact that we return a usual dictionary. This will fail on key accesses to non-existent keys and will do so as soon as you expect the key to be there, i.e. if not at the point of the bug then much closer to it. The bug will be more transparent. Even if the other answerer converted the defaultdict to a regular dict before returning it, then he's still building two dicts (and one of them a fancy, i.e. expensive kind) where one would suffice. And he as to type more to get his answer than mine.

Also, note the lack of imports.

Yet his got voted up and I actually got a downvote on mine. It wasn't enough to cancel the one upvote but still. People are just stupid sometimes. Especially on SO. The Python tag used to be were a lot of the smart people hung out. It still is to an extent but there are a lot more idiots now.

Thanks for listening guys. If you have any questions, just let me know.

*dies*

I just assumed that the "non-existent key" would manifest itself as a sort of bug-buffer.

Then the source of imports would be increased.

Seriously fucked up mad at everything, I'm sick of people's fucking bullshit these days.
Mad and sad 4 lyfe.

Erii

Seriously fucked up mad at everything, I'm sick of people's fucking bullshit these days.
Mad and sad 4 lyfe

Would you care for some of my Vanilla Coke? *HUGS*

Cherry coke >:3

Absolute came out with a vanilla vodka. You can poor it in regular coke and it tastes just like vanilla coke. Soooo good.

I've surprisingly never had vanilla vodka o-o is it very sweet?

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

Absolute came out with a vanilla vodka. You can poor it in regular coke and it tastes just like vanilla coke. Soooo good.

Whilst only you knows its real secret.

Sadly, I've given hourly presentations whilst calmly sipping Ribena throughout... that was actually red wine. I still think those were the best and most humorous presentations.

Originally Posted by Blunt

Please tell me you see the sarcasm in my posts. :/

I don't see sarcasm, I see a rude person trying to save face.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Whilst only you knows its real secret.
Sadly, I've given hourly presentations whilst calmly sipping Ribena throughout... that was actually red wine. I still think those were the best and most humorous presentations.

Whilst this is an interesting post...

lol I am utterly confused.

I looked at the post, and the only word that stood out was 'sadly' - but I think the way I use it might be chiefly British.