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C^hris L^osinger22-Oct-19 1:52

C^hris L^osinger

22-Oct-19 1:52

To eat different things. For the same reason you might eat a turkey, shrimp or venison burger.

Mycroft Holmes21-Oct-19 11:33

Mycroft Holmes

21-Oct-19 11:33

I do wonder if fast food is a young persons life style. I have not eaten fast food (burgers, fish and chips, subways etc) for decades. Being retired I now have the time an patience to cook my own.

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dandy7221-Oct-19 12:29

dandy72

21-Oct-19 12:29

Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I do wonder if fast food is a young persons life style.

My mother's got Alzheimer's, and she's become a ridiculously fussy eater--but for the worst. The only things she'll eat at any restaurant, no matter how fancy the place, are burgers, fries or pizza. My folks hadn't been at a McDonald's in 20+ years. These days during weekends (the only time they leave the house) they only alternate between that and A&W (which IMO is even worse than Mickey Dee's). Anything else will be left on the plate mostly untouched.

I can't imagine what they'll do with her once we have no choice but to bring her to a nursing home.

charlieg21-Oct-19 12:56

charlieg

21-Oct-19 12:56

Well I BK burgers tend to haunt me for the rest of the afternoon, but when I see these veggie burgers advertised, the first thing I want to know - what crap are they putting in the mix to make them taste like burgers. Am I going to eat magic flat stuff to save the planet?

Not a chance.

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Roger Wright21-Oct-19 17:55

Roger Wright

21-Oct-19 17:55

charlieg wrote:
what crap are they putting in the mix to make them taste like burgers

Leftover vegemite and Soylent Green that the pigs won't eat.

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charlieg22-Oct-19 2:26

charlieg

22-Oct-19 2:26

exactly

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter21-Oct-19 21:05

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

21-Oct-19 21:05

I've tried 3 things...
* Burger patty - it smell and taste like chicken sausage... I hate that so I will skip it next time
* Kebab - it was good, but nothing special... However as vegetarian I will probably buy it more to make my food intake more diverse
* 'Meat'balls - far the best - I already made it several times, as my carnivore wife and kids like it very much too...

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Rage21-Oct-19 23:04

21-Oct-19 23:04

I do not understand the concept. Either you eat meat, or you don't, but eating things without meat that have to look and taste like meat, what's the point ??

ZurdoDev22-Oct-19 1:14

ZurdoDev

22-Oct-19 1:14

Rage wrote:
what's the point ??

Because the taste and texture is pleasing but some people don't want to actually eat animals. Seems obvious to me.

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Rage22-Oct-19 1:16

22-Oct-19 1:16

When you do not want to eat animals, then eat something else. But do not try to rebuild artificially something you do not want to eat.

ZurdoDev22-Oct-19 1:18

ZurdoDev

22-Oct-19 1:18

Rage wrote:
But do not try to rebuild artificially something you do not want to eat.

Why?

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Rage22-Oct-19 1:25

22-Oct-19 1:25

So I do not want to eat chocolate cake, but like the taste. And I like apples. Should I mix apples with other stuff, that needs to be done in a factory, needs transportation, and is anything but natural, but tastes like chocolate cake, or should I simply eat apples ?

ZurdoDev22-Oct-19 2:27

ZurdoDev

22-Oct-19 2:27

Eat whatever you want. Even if it seems nonsensical to someone else. If there's a market for it, go for it and make some money.

Rage wrote:
eat apples ?

Apples that taste like chocolate cake? Oh heck ya! Sign me up. All the great flavor of chocolate cake without the negative side effects? Yep!

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Dan Neely22-Oct-19 2:43

Dan Neely

22-Oct-19 2:43

I tried an Impossible Whopper a month ago and was underwhelmed. It tasted beefy more or less; but in a subtlety not quite right way like a low quality patty with cheaper additives/filler. Texture was a bigger fail, it was way too smooth and homogeneous.

Big Mac < Impossible Whopper < Other Fast Food Chain Burgers < Good Sit Down Restaurant/Home Cooked Burgers

or on a separate axis

Bad Garden Burgers < Impossible Whopper < Good Veggie Burgers

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Long Lines

PeejayAdams21-Oct-19 4:44

PeejayAdams

21-Oct-19 4:44

Sometimes you find yourself writing a stupidly long line of code, in my case:

OutputImage(file, allFaces.Where(f => f.Proportion > double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LowerBound"].ToString()) && f.Proportion < double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UpperBound"].ToString())).ToList().OrderBy(f => f.Proportion).ThenByDescending(f => f.Rectangle.Height).FirstOrDefault());

That will auto-wrap on here but you get the idea.

Well, obviously I can shorten that line (but lengthen the code slightly) by splitting out the config setting retrievals:

double lowerBound = double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LowerBound"].ToString());
double upperBound = double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UpperBound"].ToString());

reducing the "offending" line to:

OutputImage(file, allFaces.Where(f => f.Proportion > lowerBound && f.Proportion < upperBound).ToList().OrderBy(f => f.Proportion).ThenByDescending(f => f.Rectangle.Height).FirstOrDefault());

But given that I'm not using those settings more than once, should I really be doing that? Two short-lived variables aren't going to make too much difference but I'm still doing it for cosmetic reasons and that can't be good ...

Either way, it's easy enough to split a method call where there are half a ton of arguments over several lines of text but what about when it's just one of the arguments that's causing the thing to scroll for miles? (Lambdas being a common cause of this).

Hardly a matter of life and death but I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of others on this.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

F-ES Sitecore21-Oct-19 4:53

F-ES Sitecore

21-Oct-19 4:53

I'd split it as you have done to improve readability and not worry about short-lived variables, the compiler optimisation will take care of that and in-line your code for you.

PeejayAdams21-Oct-19 23:03

PeejayAdams

21-Oct-19 23:03

Yes, I'd agree with that.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Rage21-Oct-19 23:05

21-Oct-19 23:05

Exactly that. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

CodeWraith21-Oct-19 5:01

CodeWraith

21-Oct-19 5:01

Strange. Much of my code looks like this:

Quote:

SEX R6
BN4 LOOP
INP 04
OUT 04
B4 LOOP
LDA R6
SDI 0F
BNE LOOP
NOP

The lines don't get too long, even if I use the old 64 x 64 pixel screen resolution. Smile | :)

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Richard MacCutchan21-Oct-19 6:00

Richard MacCutchan

21-Oct-19 6:00

CodeWraith wrote:
SEX R6

Writing a porn app then?

CodeWraith21-Oct-19 7:42

CodeWraith

21-Oct-19 7:42

Just setting the X register to a new value. This means that the value in register 6 is now the new stack pointer.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

Brisingr Aerowing21-Oct-19 13:25

Brisingr Aerowing

21-Oct-19 13:25

I think Richard was making a joke.

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

Roger Wright21-Oct-19 17:57

Roger Wright

21-Oct-19 17:57

Now that makes me miss programming! Smile | :)

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jsc4221-Oct-19 5:07

jsc42

21-Oct-19 5:07

My personal style (which I suspect will not agree with anyone else's ideas) is ...

OutputImage(
    file, 
    allFaces
        .Where(
            f => 
                f.Proportion > double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LowerBound"].ToString()) 
                && f.Proportion < double.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UpperBound"].ToString())
            )
        .List()
        .OrderBy(f => f.Proportion)
        .ThenByDescending(f => f.Rectangle.Height)
        .FirstOrDefault()
    );