Well? XD
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Why is Whippets’ avatar a white dog?
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That’s an easy one… It’s a white and fawn whippet dog with daft ears, and a wtf-is-going-on-over-there expression 
Why is darkhog’s avatar not? That is, not a dark hog?
–Eric
It was, but it looked like $#!+, so I’ve took selfie of myself and cartoonized it using some filters, then cropped to avatar dimensions…
Oh, I think I know this one. It’s because of safety focused bureaucracy gone mad!
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why did we need a thread about this…
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Because @Kiwasi joked about it in another thread.
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“I like turtles.” - Throwback Thursday Memes.
Gigi
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Didn’t we already discuss avatars and feels?
Actually when he complained about me dreaming up fixes for things. I realised that he actually lives in a Universe without entropy (think about it) and therefore he has to wear a special suit.
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He he. The guy is me.
My day job is a production engineer at a chemical packaging facility. Occasionally there is a need to do low voltage switching. Typically throwing a 415v breaker, under no load, and without any exposed terminals. PPE is a leather glove and that’s it.
So out parent company has riles and standards that say if you touch anything above 50v you have to be trained right up to 10,000, or there abouts. So in order to put on the leather glove I have to complete modules about working under high voltage power lines and high voltage switching. And honestly, not bad things to know if you are on a small site like mine, where experts are hard to come by.
What’s crazy is I also had to demonstrate donning and doffing the arc flash suit, and my ability to comply with local regulations regarding it’s use. Local regulations say “only registered electricians can use the arc flash suit”.
While I enjoy the pay check from working for a large corporate, sometimes the box checking and compliance culture gets frustrating. One size fits all approaches don’t really work for the little guys.
In a futile attempt to drag this back to unity, it looks like this in code.
public bool DonArcSuit (){
// do complex initialisation
bool result = resultOfComplexCalculation;
if (true) return false;
return result;
}
Any compiler with any sense would protest about unreachable code.
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I wonder if Unity’s compiler has a pedantic setting.
Arc Flash sounds like some sort of Wipeout clone…
Shhh that’s what programmers are for, don’t automate us out of a job!
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Here are some videos of the hazard, plucked at random from YouTube. Edit: This video shows actual footage of explosions, often with people involved. They may well have been fatal. Watch at your own discretion, and keep out of reach of children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1diE6FZv4
Every ones is being automated out of a job. Trick to thrive is to be the one who can do the automation. After all, compilers basically destroyed writing in assembly. Unity has basically destroyed writing engines. Both of these used to be significant jobs for programmers. Yet someone still has to write compilers, and know how they work.
There is pragma strict, for JavaScript. C# is already pretty pedantic on its own. But I’m pretty sure the code I typed above will throw a warning about unreachable code.
It is a standard feature of all code editors. And a preferred state for coders.
I think this thread outlived its usefulness (BoredMormon answered question posed), unless we change it into “Why user X has avatar Y” and turn into the forum game (which probably won’t happen as it is known fact that coders hate fun, even if they are making games for a living 
).
So… could one of the mods close it?
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Some of those were horrible to watch - especially near the end. Wasn’t prepared for that at all 
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Sorry, I’ll add a disclaimer to the post. I forget sometimes once I get talking about it that most people don’t deal with these things on a day to day basis.
I get paid to think about them and make sure they don’t happen, so regular people don’t have to worry about them.
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