Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I think the player has been through. Have you done a headcount to see if any guards went missing?
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
"I told you the physics engine had some numerical issues..."
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
some numerical issues
should have used the metric system
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@nerd4sale said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Stack fault.
Could also be a failure to reestablish a heap condition.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Hackernews trades ghost stories about ___________ then spends the rest of the evening incorrecting one another
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I found a T-shirt for @Tsaukpaetra:
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
"Not 100% sure. But I think it's related to either stacking or unstacking. ...Do you have a preferred crane company, or should I look one up online?"
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@boomzilla Fuckin problems is nothing. Fuckin bugs is where I'll draw the line, however.
Filed under: Leaks during penetration testing
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@Zerosquare my new spirit animal!
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For those who'd like to build it:
https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsvolume2/Dick Smith's Funway into Electronics Volume 1/page/n41/mode/2up
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@Zerosquare said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
For those who'd like to build it:
https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsvolume2/Dick Smith's Funway into Electronics Volume 1/page/n41/mode/2upTIL Dick Smith died long before anyone believed he was fun.
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(edit: me)
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@MrL said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
That's weirdly accurate.
A good cold read tends to be.
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
because most of the time your questions are not as interesting as the questions we ask ourselves, and you're interrupting us, dammit.
I have to remember that one for when I'm the asshole-mood.
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
For example, my wife has the habit of asking me questions like. "Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?" Now to me this is a simple yes or no question. But it requires a yes and a no.
For us it depends upon when I START answering the question:
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?
yesMeans I can wait for dinner.
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can ....
yesMeans I want a snack now.
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@Karla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
For example, my wife has the habit of asking me questions like. "Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?" Now to me this is a simple yes or no question. But it requires a yes and a no.
For us it depends upon when I START answering the question:
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?
yesMeans I can wait for dinner.
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can ....
yesMeans I want a snack now.
Thank you, exactly this.
I don’t answer “yes, no” or “no, yes”, but I hate it when people ask what to me sounds like yes or no questions, but in the described way that the two half-sentences need the opposite answer.
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@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
the two half-sentences need the opposite answer.
I’ve answered “the former” and “the latter,” but guess what? That annoys people too.
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@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
but in the described way that the two half-sentences need the opposite answer.
To be fair:
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?
Has a perfectly acceptable answer of just "Yes". As in, I wouldn't mind a snack now but I can also wait 45 minutes. It doesn't quite work either.
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?
Maybe it's slightly but I would answer "yes": one of those two conditions is true, and the result of the indicated OR operation is therefore also true.
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@error said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?
Maybe it's slightly but I would answer "yes": one of those two conditions is true, and the result of the indicated OR operation is therefore also true.
That's the TDWTF approved default answer.
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@error said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Maybe it's slightly but I would answer "yes": one of those two conditions is true, and the result of the indicated OR operation is therefore also true.
That's the clbuttic OR-pendantry. But you don't need to go there in this case.
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
because most of the time your questions are not as interesting as the questions we ask ourselves, and you're interrupting us, dammit.
I have to remember that one for when I'm the asshole-mood.
There's always a market for juvenalia.
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
but in the described way that the two half-sentences need the opposite answer.
To be fair:
Honey would you like me to fix you a snack now or can you wait 45 minutes to dinner?
Has a perfectly acceptable answer of just "Yes". As in, I wouldn't mind a snack now but I can also wait 45 minutes. It doesn't quite work either.
"That sounds great!" can be briefly effective.
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@Gribnit That's two additional words. And even if you were to omit two words, any choice results in a word that's longer than just "yes".
Not to mention that the exclamation mark at the end indicates some sort of excitement, which takes additional energy to express. (Not saying that it's entirely unwarranted - dinner is great on occasion.)
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gribnit That's two additional words. And even if you were to omit two words, any choice results in a word that's longer than just "yes".
Not to mention that the exclamation mark at the end indicates some sort of excitement, which takes additional energy to express. (Not saying that it's entirely unwarranted - dinner is great on occasion.)
The padding can be applied as an end transform without core compute. The excitement may trip the questioner onto their preferred path. The goal is to clear the distraction in a single interaction.
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@Gribnit said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
The padding can be applied as an end transform without core compute. The excitement may trip the questioner onto their preferred path.
But the questioner may come to expect certain levels of verbosity and enthusiasm in future interactions. The padding isn't quite as cheap for multilingual people, where such transforms require significant memory resources. Also, depending on the language, said transform may hypothetically introduce additional throat-damaging sounds (e.g., Dutch).
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gribnit said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
The padding can be applied as an end transform without core compute. The excitement may trip the questioner onto their preferred path.
But the questioner may come to expect certain levels of verbosity and enthusiasm in future interactions. The padding isn't quite as cheap for multilingual people, where such transforms require significant memory resources. Also, depending on the language, said transform may hypothetically introduce additional throat-damaging sounds (e.g., Dutch).
This is admittedly an ad-hoc technique, not tested past spousal applications. Most systems in spousal environments already have extensive low-cost end transform.
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@Gribnit said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
This is admittedly an ad-hoc technique, not tested past spousal applications. Most systems in spousal environments already have extensive low-cost end transform.
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
introduce additional throat-damaging sounds (e.g., Dutch).
Inconsequential. The Dutch are already irreparably damaged, anyway.
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
introduce additional throat-damaging sounds (e.g., Dutch).
Inconsequential. The Dutch are already irreparably damaged, anyway.
Fascinating engineering context as portion of national identity remains fascinating. But they are a small step from being B*****n.
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@boomzilla Whiskey is between 50%-60% water, so if we go by majority...
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@cvi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla Whiskey is between 50%-60% water, so if we go by majority...
Weak whiskey is indeed coward proofed.
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@Zerosquare said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
You may want to print it on a T-shirt.
On the same subject, I like this drawing as well:
I've actually printed that one out and pinned it next to my desk.
Of course, morons being morons means that now people come to my desk, see the comic, and immediately ask me a question about it instead of whatever other random question they were going to ask me.
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@remi that's perfect. Then you can reply "it means the dumb question you could've answered yourself with 2 minutes of googling cost me 15 minutes in productivity."
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@topspin and then the whole office stood up and clapped, as they did the last time a 3 yo said some deep insightful thing and like that other time it totally wasn't something invented to make you feel good and that only ever happens in our dreams.
:sarkmark:
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