WTF Bites
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I'd generally prefer Wendy's.
I don't know where Wendy's is and can't be knelt to find out.
(I was looking for a "what you did there emoji")
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I'd generally prefer Wendy's.
I don't know where Wendy's is and can't be knelt to find out.
(I was looking for a "what you did there emoji")
No, it's under the obvious
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I'd generally prefer Wendy's.
I don't know where Wendy's is and can't be knelt to find out.
(I was looking for a "what you did there emoji")
No, it's under the obvious
ahhhh
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Kamil-Podlesak Upvote for the pun, tempted to downvote for implying that one should prefer doubles over floats.
I'll take a double-double with no onions, fries, a vanilla shake, and an extra cup so I can secretly make a float later.
OIC. One Tsaukpaetra, two cups.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra am I a heretic if I don't think In-and-Out is all that good? Not bad, but nothing special. I'd generally prefer Wendy's.
Yeah, I've never been overly impressed. If I wanted a burger I'd go to Carl's Jr.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra am I a heretic if I don't think In-and-Out is all that good? Not bad, but nothing special. I'd generally prefer Wendy's.
Yeah, I've never been overly impressed. If I wanted a burger I'd go to Carl's Jr.
With Gatorade?
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@topspin gotta get those electrolytes somehow!
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@topspin gotta get those electrolytes somehow!
Why not get them in a convenient snack-friendly format?
For farming, just stick them in the earth next to the seeds/saplings.
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@cvi Just make sure you stick them in the proper polarity
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For farming, just stick them in the earth next to the seeds/saplings.
But if you put them on the ground, you'll lose all the energy!
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@Zecc It's just proper earthing.
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I googled "CSS color names" because apparently "green" isn't
#ff0000#00ff00 as I would have naively expected. I had a typo in the query, but Google figured out what I meant anyway and the first hit was a site literally called CSS Color Names.I click on it expecting to get a list of names and corresponding colors. Instead, I see this:
"Click to copy the color name to the clipboard"?! Huh, that's unnecessarily complicated, but ok. I click something and nothing happens. Then I read the rest of the page and realize this is just a preview image of a Chrome extension.
Yes, I'm totally going to install an extension for the recurring task of looking up a color name so I can click a color to copy it to the clipboard. This is so much easier than just having a fucking table!
Who wants to bet that this has ads and/or malware, too?
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the first hit was a
siteweb store link literally called CSS Color Names.Also,
E_NO_REPRO
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But if you put them on the ground, you'll lose all the energy!
@Zecc It's just proper earthing.
People should know by now that whenever someone posts anything that has even the slightest potential of becoming a source of bad electric puns, we won't resist no matter how circuitous the wording needs to be.
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"green" isn't #ff0000 as I would have naively expected.
I would have expect it to be #00ff00, personally.
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(I certainly don't want any GRB to be emitted from my LEDs)
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"green" isn't #ff0000 as I would have naively expected.
I would have expect it to be #00ff00, personally.
Of course, silly me.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
the first hit was a
siteweb store link literally called CSS Color Names.Yes, that's what I said. These things are websites.
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"green" isn't #ff0000 as I would have naively expected.
I would have expect it to be #00ff00, personally.
Middle-endian GPU, obviously.
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Heh.
Edit for the colorblind:
#ff0000is in red, #00ff00 is in green, violets are blue.
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CSS color names
Speaking of, there is "LightGray", "LightBlue", "LightGreen", "LightYellow", "LightSalmon", "LightSkyBlue", "LightGolden
ShowerRodYellow", but of course there is no "LightRed".This is quite obviously made for designers. I should keep my hands off it and use hex codes instead, I don't have the required drugs available.
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People should know by now that whenever someone posts anything that has even the slightest potential of becoming a source of bad electric puns, we won't resist no matter how circuitous the wording needs to be.
Such things induce the worst of our punning; we have literally no capacity to hold back or transform it into something more productive. It's simply not something we can rectify.
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This is quite obviously made for designers. I should keep my hands off it and use hex codes instead, I don't have the required drugs available.
:designers: What we want is a elliptical background with the color
#043BAD
with a overlay of0xFFFFFF
at 20% opacity.(except for the background color, this is what our designers really wanted for a disabled button. To give them credit, they listened to reason. I got hex codes.)
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Generally dot product, because cross product is a rather weird animal.
Also because the cross product is only defined in ℝ³, whereas a dot product is applicable to any pair of equal-length vectors. So for a Vector2 or Vector4 or Vector893, scalar product is the only option.
The cross-product is a special case of exterior product by unifying the bivector base components with the orthogonal components of the base space (i.e x̂ŷ = ẑ) so the result is again a 3-vector. Exterior product itself is defined in other dimensions, just the resulting bivector has different structure from the operands—but that's true of a dot product too.
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So I decided to try Collabora Online for Nextcloud, see if it's any amount more workable than fucking OnlyOffice.
Ah, yes...
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm trying to figure out what non-English language has words "browse", "private" and "all".
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@Gąska German
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm trying to figure out what non-English language has words "browse", "private" and "all".
Ponglish
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska German
The obvious follow-up is why @Tsaukpaetra's shit is set to German.
You know what, nevermind. It's @Tsaukpaetra.
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@Tsaukpaetra If we take the correct words only, we get:
a PC in PCs via Not a log in web manage The Android iOS mobile browse, download a mobile a a web in time in private All &
It's weird, like it's trying to send out a coded message but failing hard at it…
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska German
The obvious follow-up is why @Tsaukpaetra's shit is set to German.
You know what, nevermind. It's @Tsaukpaetra.
Two words that should almost certainly never be used in the same sentence: why and @Tsaukpaetra. Because you really don't want to know the answer.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska German
The obvious follow-up is why @Tsaukpaetra's shit is set to German.
Ask Nextcloud. Or Collabora Online. At does have English dictionaries available by default, but chooses German irregardless. There is no apparent way to set the default language.
You know what, nevermind. It's @Tsaukpaetra.
Don't you know it!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
At does have English dictionaries available by default
Obviously, it wasn't used here
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
At does have English dictionaries available by default
Obviously, it wasn't used here
Available, not selected.
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Today's WTF of mine:
Just because you can't predict the exact outcome of something doesn't mean that it's random chance!
Me: Uh, yes, that's exactly the definition of random chance.And then he tried to tell me how evolution is not based on chance because evolutionary pressure is a thing.
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Today's WTF of mine:
Just because you can't predict the exact outcome of something doesn't mean that it's random chance!
Me: Uh, yes, that's exactly the definition of random chance.And then he tried to tell me how evolution is not based on chance because evolutionary pressure is a thing.
Not a gotcha question, but do chaotic systems that depend heavily on starting conditions count as random if you didn't know the starting condition?
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Also, "random chance" is a bit ambiguous. For example, if a process follows a normal law with a low standard deviation, the results are random but can still be predicted reasonably accurately. This is different from, say, dice rolls.
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@error_bot xkcd 1132
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Also, "random chance" is a bit ambiguous. For example, if a process follows a normal law with a low standard deviation, the results are random but can still be predicted reasonably accurately. This is different from, say, dice rolls.
That's still, strictly speaking, random chance. Unless the outcome's probability is 1, you always will have chance involved. Probabilities approaching 1 only allow you to speak of "reasonably certain outcomes".
There's no magic cutoff where a probability of .99 suddenly makes random chance go away. Because otherwise we wouldn't have the guy in the Guiness Book of Records who was struck by lightning.
Seven times.
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Today's WTF of mine:
Just because you can't predict the exact outcome of something doesn't mean that it's random chance!
Me: Uh, yes, that's exactly the definition of random chance.And then he tried to tell me how evolution is not based on chance because evolutionary pressure is a thing.
Not a gotcha question, but do chaotic systems that depend heavily on starting conditions count as random if you didn't know the starting condition?
Good question. If the outcomes are purely deterministic I'd then label it under "pseudorandom".
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That's still, strictly speaking, random chance.
Of course. But so are lots of things in physics that are usually considered deterministic, if you look at a small enough scale. In practice, we usually draw the line somewhere, even if it isn't mathematically justified.
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@Zerosquare Yes. But we also have plenty of stuff creeping in. Just look at the MTBF of harddiscs, for example.
The problem is that you have to draw the line properly due to practicality and not just because it offends your sensibilities as the joker did I was arguing with.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
This is different from, say, dice rolls.
It depends on how many dice rolls you're doing. If you just roll a single (fair) dice, you get a uniform distribution. But if you roll several dice and sum the result, you get a binomial distribution (with the key parameter being the number of dice you rolled). Keep adding in more dice and the result approximates more and more closely a normal distribution; in many ways, a normal distribution just says “there's masses of random factors!”.
The other big distribution that it's useful to know about is the poisson distribution, which is what you use for predicting the timings of non-correlated events. If normal distributions are important in the spatial domain, poisson distributions are just as vital in the temporal domain.
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Today's WTF of mine:
Just because you can't predict the exact outcome of something doesn't mean that it's random chance!
Me: Uh, yes, that's exactly the definition of random chance.I disagree.
The reason why I disagree has been well established by me, so it's no longer random chance.
Therefore you can now predict what it was I was going to post, so I don't have to post it anymore.
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poisson distribution
Something about that smells fishy.
Filed under: Siméon Denis Poisson was French, so he probably smelled bad, too.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Siméon Denis Poisson was French, so he probably smelled bad, too.
Just because someone is French doesn't mean he smell bad.
I know they don't take shower, but they put a lot of perfume
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Filed under: also repels vampires