Random thought of the day
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit
in your ass, duhThat doesn't narrow it down much, since @Gribnit is entirely ass.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit
in your ass, duhThat doesn't narrow it down much, since @Gribnit is entirely ass.
This is so that when I tell you to eat my entire ass you have to do set theory.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@cabrito I think it stands for Donkey Kong (float version).
He prefers to use fixed point.
Unless optimising for energy use, no. Fixed point is quite a bit more difficult to use; you actually have to think about the scale of the values that you're working with.
Fixed point math is integer math with some bonus shifts; shifts are virtually free, especially on ARM. Floating point math is more complex and energy-hungry because it does a bunch of extra stuff, but that in turn means you don't need to think so carefully about the details. How much this matters depends extremely much on the details of the algorithm and the data.
If you only need to do addition and subtraction, I think BCD is good choice too. It's basically the same as integer addition after you pad-right the numbers to align the decimal points.
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@cheong said in Random thought of the day:
If you only need to do addition and subtraction, I think BCD is good choice too. It's basically the same as integer addition after you pad-right the numbers to align the decimal points.
Only if you've got hardware support. Otherwise you will be doing futzing around with carries. (You don't want to use BCD on ARM or 64-bit x86 variants.)
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
Otherwise you will be doing futzing around with carries
That's nothing. Blend-a-Med will help you with that.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
Otherwise you will be doing futzing around with carries
That's nothing. Blend-a-Med will help you with that.
Teach me the ways of this superior incomprehensibility.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Teach me the ways of this superior incomprehensibility.
Masters can't be taught
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Stupid thought, but, if I (as a rational person) were hired to do a job I wanted to do (and have been doing, technically), but found myself at an "Access Denied" screen when using a tool critical to the functioning of said job, would it be reasonable for me to sit silently for months and not say anything? Keeping in mind I want to do this job and know that I do need access, and know who to talk to about getting the access, but simply don't?
Trying to puzzle out a mind and I'm... at a loss.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Stupid thought, but, if I (as a rational person) were hired to do a job I wanted to do (and have been doing, technically), but found myself at an "Access Denied" screen when using a tool critical to the functioning of said job, would it be reasonable for me to sit silently for months and not say anything? Keeping in mind I want to do this job and know that I do need access, and know who to talk to about getting the access, but simply don't?
Trying to puzzle out a mind and I'm... at a loss.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin up and dn are rotational isomers
The end of this sentence is umop apisdn
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@cheong said in Random thought of the day:
Since there is GB2312+Big5+UTF8 encoding difference for Chinese characters, we seldom uses Chinese characters as password.
You guys still suffering the pre-Unicode mess? I remember that from dealing with Russians around 20 years ago, back when they still tended to just say “install this font” instead of thinking about what characters mean. It's really truly horrible, and Unicode is the best way out (for all that it's horrible in its own ways).
In the earlier days of email and internet, I remember trying to setup KOI-8 or something like that. It ended up being easier for everyone to just type Russian with English letters.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
In the earlier days of email and internet
And not so early, too...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I (as a rational person)
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@HardwareGeek are you questioning "rational" or "person"?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Stupid thought, but, if I (as a rational person) were hired to do a job I wanted to do (and have been doing, technically), but found myself at an "Access Denied" screen when using a tool critical to the functioning of said job, would it be reasonable for me to sit silently for months and not say anything? Keeping in mind I want to do this job and know that I do need access, and know who to talk to about getting the access, but simply don't?
Trying to puzzle out a mind and I'm... at a loss.
It would be unreasonable work to orders. Is the patient French?
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@Gąska Yes
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I (as a rational person)
I was speaking hypothetically!
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Random thought: if you have an habit of interrupting other people's discussions to correct their language, does that make you a context-free grammar nazi?
Filed under: paging @HardwareGeek
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Random thought: if you have an habit of interrupting other people's discussions to correct their language, does that make you a context-free grammar nazi?
Filed under: paging @HardwareGeek
Only if you are, if you're not it won't.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I (as a rational person)
I was speaking hypothetically!
For a friend...
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I (as a rational person)
I was speaking hypothetically!
For a friend...
Oh trust me, this is definitely about to be not a friend if things keep going like they are...
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@Tsaukpaetra Are you still speaking hypothetically?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Are you still speaking hypothetically?
No.
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@Tsaukpaetra We-ell, it's not like you're going to feed 'em to Moloch afterwards...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
if I mentally prepended the word "fucking" to this tweet?
What about appended?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Am I a bad person if I mentally prepended the word "fucking" to this tweet?
You're a bad person because that's a fox.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
if I mentally prepended the word "fucking" to this tweet?
What about appended?
Both is good,
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra We-ell, it's not like you're going to feed 'em to Moloch afterwards...
Am I a bad person if I understood that reference?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra We-ell, it's not like you're going to feed 'em to Moloch afterwards...
Am I a bad person if I understood that reference?
Only if you fail to deliver the child.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Am I a bad person if I understood that reference?
I was kind of counting on it.
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Tried to use voice recognition to enter an address into Google Maps tonight. Address I wanted was something like "3838 East Herrera Drive". Pronounced it carefully and it interpreted the street name as "Potato Drive". Tried it again saying "Hair Airrah" like some doofus gringo from Nebraska and it got it right away. Apparently GM can't handle rolled R's.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Tried to use voice recognition to enter an address into Google Maps tonight. Address I wanted was something like "3838 East Herrera Drive". Pronounced it carefully and it interpreted the street name as "Potato Drive". Tried it again saying "Hair Airrah" like some doofus gringo from Nebraska and it got it right away. Apparently GM can't handle rolled R's.
Nope, it's trained on Vanilla Midwesturn afaict. Beats Southern.
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What are you supposed to do with a jigsaw puzzle after you've finished it? Mount it and hang it on the wall? Leave it out to impress visitors? Or break it up and take it to Goodwill for someone else to work on?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
What are you supposed to do with a jigsaw puzzle after you've finished it? Mount it and hang it on the wall? Leave it out to impress visitors? Or break it up and take it to Goodwill for someone else to work on?
They're supposed to be burned or buried.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
What are you supposed to do with a jigsaw puzzle after you've finished it? Mount it and hang it on the wall? Leave it out to impress visitors? Or break it up and take it to Goodwill for someone else to work on?
Yes.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
What are you supposed to do with a jigsaw puzzle after you've finished it? Mount it and hang it on the wall? Leave it out to impress visitors? Or break it up and take it to Goodwill for someone else to work on?
I carefully divide it into even pieces that fit in the box and put them on top of each other there.
This way if I ever want to reassemble the picture it will take mere minutes.
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@MrL said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
What are you supposed to do with a jigsaw puzzle after you've finished it? Mount it and hang it on the wall? Leave it out to impress visitors? Or break it up and take it to Goodwill for someone else to work on?
I carefully divide it into even pieces that fit in the box and put them on top of each other there.
This way if I ever want to reassemble the picture it will take mere minutes.This is obviously the most efficient and therefore correct way.
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@MrL said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
What are you supposed to do with a jigsaw puzzle after you've finished it? Mount it and hang it on the wall? Leave it out to impress visitors? Or break it up and take it to Goodwill for someone else to work on?
I carefully divide it into even pieces that fit in the box and put them on top of each other there.
This way if I ever want to reassemble the picture it will take mere minutes.*shakes box vigorously*
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@MrL said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
What are you supposed to do with a jigsaw puzzle after you've finished it? Mount it and hang it on the wall? Leave it out to impress visitors? Or break it up and take it to Goodwill for someone else to work on?
I carefully divide it into even pieces that fit in the box and put them on top of each other there.
This way if I ever want to reassemble the picture it will take mere minutes.*shakes box vigorously*
Asking what's in it, is considered polite, while or after shaking any over, say, 500 pieces.
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Willem Dafoe fully summarizes the inherent challenge of the American cultural landscape.
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I wonder if I was created because there was a tonne of porn of my likeness somewhere...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
there was a tonne of porn of my likeness somewhere...
You wish!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder if I was created because there was a tonne of porn of my likeness somewhere...
That's how I came into being. The
Demon Hunter
series, iirc.
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Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour used to have this picture on its menu:
This is cute. Two attractive young people fall in love over a sweet dessert.
Thing is, the image is lifted directly from a 1903 illustration by Charles Dana Gibson, he of the "Gibson Girl" archetype, a turn-of-the-previous-century equivalent of the 1980s Patrick Nagel Girl (look at the women in both sets of illustrations and tell me I'm just imagining a resemblance).
Gibson's original contains no ice cream. The couple are shown playing chess. And unless I'm mistaken, the young woman has just won the game.
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As sort of a joke, they called Caroline Rhea "America's sweetheart" when she was a regular on Hollywood Squares. A joke because Ms Rhea is Canadian.
But maybe a cleverer joke than they realize, since the sobriquet historically applies to silent-film star Mary Pickford.
Who was also Canadian.
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@da-Doctah The writers are usually less vapid than the performers. Even odds, they wrote it, laughed about it, laughed about not telling the performers the background, and then didn't tell the performers the background because, why would they, and also performers don't talk to writers, writers are ugly.