the sheer longevity of some xkcd comic in-jokes is really impressive.
edit: this one is over 15 years old (xkcd 327 - ‘Exploits of a Mom’ - 10/10/2007)
All I’m going to say is I still remember “correcthorsebatterrystaple”…
my spin of it
This actually gave me an idea. Over break I wanted to practice dB design and entity framework. Designing a database and interface for santa to track kids naughty or nice could be a fun/interesting way of doing it.
Good way to get yourself on an FBI tracker too.
Just FYI, LinqPad is a really neat tool for messing around with EFCore. I use it all the time for testing ideas or doing quick tasks that I don’t want to spin up a new project for.
But is naught/nice a binary value?
I think you would have a table of “activities” with a value of how good/bad each is. So like cleaning your room would be +5 but crying in a store because mommy wouldn’t buy you a toy would be - 15. Then you have a table for children and each child starts with 0 in January and then for each activity the child does there naughty/nice value gers adjusted. December 24 Santa runs a query on the dB and gets a list of every child with a positive value.
Keep in mind I currently feel sick and put about 5 minutes of thought into thus.
Actually I think there should be a intermediary table as a history of activities of each child. Like child table is I’d, name, age, address, and naughty/nice value, activities would be Id, description, and good/bad value. Then a history table of ID, child_id, activity_id. So santa can recalculate a child’s naughty/nice value to “check it twice”
This is starting to sound like The Good Place with extra steps…
North Pole Incorporated
bringing all the fun of HR and spreadsheet drudgery to the little boys and girls of the world
I mean in a certain light, christmas presents are a yearly bonus for children and Santa checking his list is a management review of the child’s performance…
Ooh this is actually a good learning example.
Kids will have their wish list that’s another table that we wanna reference. Then of course do we have the name of the toys in the table, or simple reference “Toys” table.
Also need an address table as some kids get Santa gifts at more than one house…
I didn’t even consider incorporating toy distribution… At what levels should kids get a small gift(a toy or game) vs a large gift(bike, game system etc).
In a real world scenario I would probably spilt this between 2 databases… One for kids (“with a nice score of 2 you get a toy of value 4 or less”) and one for toys (“the toys available with a value less than 4 are…”)
Gonna need a whole auto converter thing to make sure that requests for “ps” “play station” and “new play station” all get converted to same thing!
Yeah… Which is 100x more complicated cause Microsoft has no idea how to name consoles
You finally prompted me to create an account for Lemmy just so I could give you an upvote for making me smile.
Welcome. I hope you’ll have a great time here
Santa’s clause will bring the DB down
He maintains when you are sleeping, he backs up while you’re awake. BEGIN TRANS so if your code is no good you can ROLLBACK your mistakes.
Hey!
This is mandatory to be posted every year for Christmas. Always makes me smile and sing along
A true holiday classic
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“Behaved” would fit scansion better.
Hope that the behavior is enum and indexed. …and that the table doesn’t have to many columns …and there aren’t many nice people …god damn it just select only what you need and use limit
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What if the ignorances of the plenty curled up within the masses. But if the time was taken to count, in the end all that is forced will become infinity.
