The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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@anonymous234 I think rotating mouse cursors belong in the Quixotic Ideas Thread.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
A mouse with two sensors, so it can detect rotation, and rotate the cursor on the screen at the same speed.
The Wii does this. It's not as impressive as it sounds...
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@anonymous234 the Wiimote cursor does that.
It's amusing for 5 seconds but functionally pointless.
fake edit: damnit, 'd
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@anonymous234 the Wiimote cursor does that.
It's amusing for 5 seconds but functionally pointless.
fake edit: damnit, 'd
You just had to...
Eh, WTH, have a like anyways.
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@anotherusername Cows are generally vegetarian, so it's a burger made of vegetarians.
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@mott555 I don't even remember where in the world Vegetaria is.
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@coldandtired uh, I don't get it...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
uh, I don't get it...
Filed under: questions you don't ask because you're pretty sure you won't like the answer
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@coldandtired said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
So wait, did someone get ripped out of their cubicle?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@coldandtired uh, I don't get it...
A round tube at chair height, a box of tissues and a tube of something that might be "personal lubricant" on the floor beside it. It suggests something I don't really want to know about was going on in that office.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@coldandtired uh, I don't get it...
Sometimes a man loves his computer very much...
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I wonder how it manages to not get one's pants wet, but...
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I wonder how it manages to not get one's pants wet, but...
It doesn't, if you read the article. It gets them wet, then dries them with a blast of hot air. Which if it's as effective as the hot-air hand dryers, is equivalent to drying them by turning a firehose on them.
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@boomzilla It's just an immigrant child in a box.
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The future of men's hi-tech toilet accessories has never looked with this smart urinal
Either they accidentally a word there, or it's some clever wordplay on 'the future of men's hi-tech toilets' is about not looking at another man's junk accidentally. Since it's clear that the urinal won't be looking what it's doing.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I wonder how it manages to not get one's pants wet, but...
@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It doesn't, if you read the article. It gets them wet, then dries them with a blast of hot air. Which if it's as effective as the hot-air hand dryers, is equivalent to drying them by turning a firehose on them.
It said in the article...
If this wasn’t enough, the smart urinal will also take into account your height and the size of your bishop, and adjust accordingly so it doesn’t accidentally spitz on your pants.
:bishop:
Filed under: We need a bishop emoji
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™
Filed under: We need a bishop emoji
Here, have two: ♗ and ♝
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@Arantor said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@DoctorJones said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™
Filed under: We need a bishop emoji
Here, have two: ♗ and ♝
♿♘ ⚭ ⛼ ⚡
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
We need a bishop emoji
Also, king, queen, rook, knight and pawn, in case anyone else ever posts in the chess patzers thread. XD
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
(handicapped-man horse marriage grave-with-headstone lightning-bolt (yeah, I had to use google to help me decipher some of that))Uh, some handicapped guy married his horse, and God struck them both dead with lightning?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
(handicapped-man horse marriage grave-with-headstone lightning-bolt (yeah, I had to use google to help me decipher some of that))Uh, some handicapped guy married his horse, and God struck them both dead with lightning?
Huh. That was a Triforce on my phone.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Huh. That was a Triforce on my phone.
Nope. It looks like one, but it's not:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
♿
Worst chess piece ever.
"How does the bishop move?"
Any number of spaces, in a diagonal line"And how does the wheelchair guy move?"
He doesn't.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
"And how does the wheelchair guy move?"
He doesn't.I'll have you know that setting the wheel locks on someone's wheelchair is cruel. And not at all funny. Really, I mean it. Stop laughing.
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I think this is technically qualified?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
"And how does the wheelchair guy move?"
He doesn't.On the other hand other pieces aren't allowed to occupy its space; or they'll be fined if caught.
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
"And how does the wheelchair guy move?"
He doesn't.On the other hand other pieces aren't allowed to occupy their space; or they'll be fined if caught.
If you'll permit me some thread leakage, I think the peasants need trigger warnings that there may be horses on the chessboard.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
If you'll permit me some thread leakage
You might want to attend to that shilling spot, Grandpa.
Filed under: things only a friend would tell you
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I think the peasants need trigger warnings that there may be horses on the chessboard.
Just checking, but, , right?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I think the peasants need trigger warnings that there may be horses on the chessboard.
Just checking, but, , right?
Dude! That would be the bishops.
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Obviousplant is brillant as ever.
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@Arantor said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I got a good idea: that it never occurred to CDCK to include sound with notifications in Discourse.
And then it happened.
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@Zecc That's wonderful. Don't have the right sort of garage door at home…
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@r10pez10 Some really nasty hacks out there. For example, the "modal" pops up when tabbed on (surprise, a click is not the only way to focus an element). And the lightbox has a very wacky clickable area.
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/2f9367a3f1bc731e1cae19edfa3b89bc18071093
TL;DR: you can now do this in Chrome 51+:
document.querySelectorAll('div').forEach(div => { console.log("OMG! NodeLists are iterable now and they even gave them some of the Array methods!"); });
About damn time.
Now also landed in Firefox 50.0 (latest in Release channel).
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An actual small mechanical computer, designed and built with modern techniques, that's powerful enough to run simple programs like Tetris in real time, with all the parts visible. It would make a neat piece of art, in addition to being useful to explain the general concepts behind computers.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
An actual small mechanical computer, designed and built with modern techniques
Our machine tools are a lot better than in the 19th Century, but the requirement to keep everything visible greatly restricts the use of modern techniques; most of the really high-quality manufacturing systems are microscopic-level or smaller now.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
An actual small mechanical computer, designed and built with modern techniques, that's powerful enough to run simple programs like Tetris in real time, with all the parts visible. It would make a neat piece of art, in addition to being useful to explain the general concepts behind computers.
Assuming we confine ourselves to non-electrical mechanisms, I wonder how much better we could get than the analytical engine.
Luigi Federico Menabrea reported in Sketch of the Analytical Engine: "Mr. Babbage believes he can, by his engine, form the product of two numbers, each containing twenty figures, in three minutes".[36] By comparison the Harvard Mark I could perform the same task in just six seconds. A modern PC can do the same thing in well under a millionth of a second. It should be noted however, that the Analytical Machine was described by Babbage more than one hundred years before any of the aforementioned computational devices and therefore, it is no surprise that it was much slower.
Moore's law: still working even in reverse.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Assuming we confine ourselves to non-electrical mechanisms, I wonder how much better we could get than the analytical engine.
As I said, our machine tools are much better. For things on the scale of Analytical Engine parts (e.g., brass cogs of about an inch in diameter) we've been able to do nearly perfect reproduction since the early 20th century, maybe a bit before. Babbage was working in the mid 19th century though.
However, if we miniaturise and switch materials, we should be able to do much better with photolithographic techniques. Making the whole system out of micrometer-scale silicon would be an interesting challenge, and I've no idea what the outcome would look like. (What would happen to friction and electrostatic forces? Would it be possible to assemble with reasonable effort? How small could we actually go? What questions should I ask that I'm totally not aware of? ;))