The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@anotherusername If you click through to the pictures, they have captions underneath them.
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@hungrier oh. So there are.
He's kind of old to be chasing 13 year olds, I'd think...
edit: upon further reflection, I kinda suspect it's a troll account, and that's the whole point.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There are much more sneaky ways to mess with candy. For that reason a couple years back some group advocated throwing away all candy that didn't come in sealed plastic bags (of major manufacturers).
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@polygeekery I can see that falling foul of the second law if the men are too far from the nice end of the spectrum
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@jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can see that falling foul of the second law if the men are too far from the nice end of the spectrum
I just misread that as “falling foul of the second amendment” which really changes the meaning a lot!
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Boo. Truth is less funny than that tweet. Today they have the kids of the press corps in for trick or treating.
The first minute of today's briefing explains it:
10/27/17: White House Press Briefing – 15:51
— Trump White House ArchivedThe rest of it gets deeply in to political territory, so if you want to discuss that you can take it to the garage.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They focused on Darth Vader?? Pffffbt, there's a freaking zombie bride in the press briefing.
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@polygeekery also, Darth Vader is someone's kid. That went from funny to cute. You can see him at ~11:00 on the video.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Darth Vader is someone's kid
Funny, I always thought he was someone's father ...
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Darth Vader is someone's kid.
12:27, this is adorable.
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With the state of education we have today, I wonder how long it took somebody to realize it was giving wrong answers?
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@dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
With the state of education we have today, I wonder how long it took somebody to realize it was giving wrong answers?
You're doing it wrong. Slow down.
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@dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
With the state of education we have today, I wonder how long it took somebody to realize it was giving wrong answers?
I deliberately tried without RTFA because I wanted to be surprised as to what it'd do. What in the motherfuck? I wasn't even trying to type it quickly. Got 24 as described.
Is it really incapable of registering keypresses while also doing an animation? ... fucking why?
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Today they have the kids of the press corps in for trick or treating.
Huh. I wonder how they handle the security of that. It must give the Secret Service hives.
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@heterodox Meh. They're doing school tours. Can't be worse than that.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@heterodox Meh. They're doing school tours. Can't be worse than that.
Right, but everyone who's going on a tour has to be submitted at least two weeks in advance, presumably so they can do a NACI. Do the members of the press corps have to do the same with their kids? I guess that wouldn't be a problem. Do their kids have to go through the visitor control center whereas members of the press corps typically don't? Or I guess they would have to that day as the kids shouldn't be unaccompanied? Huh.
In any case, I'm sure it's handled perfectly appropriately by heads wiser than mine; I just entertain myself by contemplating the logistics and the worst-case scenarios.
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@heterodox Form over function. It's Apple, after all.
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@magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@heterodox Form over function. It's Apple, after all.
They never used to sacrifice function for form, they've just always placed a higher precedence on form than most. It's definitely not the Steve Jobs era anymore.
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They never used to sacrifice function for form
indeed, some would argue that there were times when they would ignore form completely
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I just entertain myself by contemplating the logistics and the worst-case scenarios.
Yeah, you never can tell with Force users.
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is it really incapable of registering keypresses while also doing an animation? ... fucking why?
Why is it necessary to animate everything? What's the point? Just because you have enough CPU/GPU power to animate every freaking thing in the UI doesn't mean you should.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Boo. Truth is less funny than that tweet. Today they have the kids of the press corps in for trick or treating.
The first minute of today's briefing explains it:
10/27/17: White House Press Briefing – 15:51
— Trump White House ArchivedThe rest of it gets deeply in to political territory, so if you want to discuss that you can take it to the garage.
Ok, I'm just going to say one thing here for now:
If you are a public figure who has a chance of being ridiculed, don't wear a green screen to work. In competitive video games, that's called "feeding".
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They never used to sacrifice function for form, they've just always placed a higher precedence on form than most. It's definitely not the Steve Jobs era anymore.
Which Apple are you talking about? The iPhone had less features than other devices at the time; it had a glass screen that couldn't even sense pressure, and there was no software for it!
Then they brought about the MacBook Air, ushering in a new age of worse machines that looked nicer.
There may have been a time when what you say was true, but it was long before the iPhone.
@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
indeed, some would argue that there were times when they would ignore form completely
Here, the novelty was that you didn't need a separate tower. A really dumb reason to all of us, but the form wins for normal users even in this case.
They've been fooling people into thinking otherwise for years, but form over function is how they've made all their money for decades.
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@magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Which Apple are you talking about? The iPhone had less features than other devices at the time; it had a glass screen that couldn't even sense pressure, and there was no software for it!
I realized I was going to have to clarify on this shortly after I posted it but for once I didn't post-edit it into a mess. By not sacrificing function, I don't mean that Apple had more functionality than its competition, but I mean that they did seem to make damn sure that the functionality they did have worked properly.
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@dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
With the state of education we have today, I wonder how long it took somebody to realize it was giving wrong answers?
It kind of explains why my pupils are not capable of typing in even the most simple of calculations without accidents. And then, of course, there are formulas like these:
FG=γ * m1 * m2 / r2 (Newton's Law of Gravity) where we quite often have values on the order of 1.49 * 1011 m and the like.
Out of my class of 18, there are usually only two(2) which manage to use their calculator correctly on the first try. Of course my pupils also see no reason to try to improve their calculator skills on their own. I have to bludgeon them into doing so.
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They never used to sacrifice function for form
indeed, some would argue that there were times when they would ignore form completely
Yet that perfectly round "hockey puck" mouse is the best example there is.
Also, while the 1998 iMac might look kitschy, you do have to remember that it arrived when beige / off-white and straight lines was still the norm.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Out of my class of 18, there are usually only two(2) which manage to use their calculator correctly on the first try.
They're using the iOS calculator? If so I'm surprised there are even two, for complex formulas. I'd have to type like (number) (operator) (wait, one one thousand) (number) (operator) (wait...) and that would eventually raise my blood pressure so high I'd have an aneurysm in class.
I'll give some credit to Apple; I think people use the calculator on their devices little enough that not much in the way of development effort needed to be targeted there... but if there wasn't enough available to do a good job... just don't update it. Leave it the way it was. They have the meddler's syndrome and that leads to half-baked implementations.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
For everybody else tuning in: the joke is in opening the Instagram profile page and opening the pictures, the first comment on each picture explains the context. Note that newest is first, hence it's recommended to start at the one near the bottom.
So how are you today?
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Meanwhile...
It’s tradition for Delain to launch confetti cannons during their song “The Gathering”. Typically they’ve done this without any incident, but during a show in Birmingham, England last week, bassist Otto Schimmelpenninck found himself taking a shot straight to the groin. Despite the pain and bleeding, Schimmelpenninck finished out the show.
In a subsequent Facebook status, Schimmelpenninck revealed that after the show his scrotum had ballooned up to the size of a grapefruit. He was quickly rushed to a hospital where they removed 500 ML of blood from his scrotum and had his ruptured testicle stitched up. He described the event as “one of the most unpleasant adventures I’ve ever had to endure.”
You can see surprisingly not gruesome footage of the performance below. True to the story, Schimmelpenninck seems initially unfazed by the incident.
Delain - The Gathering - O2 Academy, Birmingham 26/11/2014 – 03:54
— NightRocker
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@arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery -polite-clap- Well-played, KFC, well-played.
Sure...unless they're being literal about what they put in their food...
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
How to never have to deal with trick-or-treaters again
Eh, it's candy. It doesn't have to be good candy. On the other hand, there's bad candy:
Bad candy like candy corn?
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
With the state of education we have today, I wonder how long it took somebody to realize it was giving wrong answers?
It kind of explains why my pupils are not capable of typing in even the most simple of calculations without accidents. And then, of course, there are formulas like these:
FG=γ * m1 * m2 / r2 (Newton's Law of Gravity) where we quite often have values on the order of 1.49 * 1011 m and the like.
Out of my class of 18, there are usually only two(2) which manage to use their calculator correctly on the first try. Of course my pupils also see no reason to try to improve their calculator skills on their own. I have to bludgeon them into doing so.
To be fair, that's an awfully confusing way of writing that equation.
Related note: has anyone looked into getting latex support for yet?
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@dreikin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
has anyone looked into getting latex support for yet?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/16285/mathjax
Also,
@nedfodder said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Mathjax seems to the package of choice.
Didn't we try that on Discourse and discover it was full of holes?
The markdown-ish syntax for mathjax is
$blah$
. When we turned on the mathjax plugin, every post that had a$
in it was suddenly broken. The plugin is unsupported, and no one was going to go back and escape every dollar sign in every Discourse post, so the plugin was removed with prejudice.