The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@da-Doctah Maybe go careful with the bananas then.
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@dkf
Or stop smooching up fire hydrants
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I picked up an LED headlamp so I could cross major streets more safely at night. People told me I looked like a Minion.
I hadn't heard that one yet... I've been wearing one for years - makes picking up my pups poop a lot easier.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You had one job!
Clearly not a native speaker. There's only one November on the English calendar. This one November contains multiple days. But of the month itself, there is only one.
Lidl is a German company and putting the day first using the same suffix as for 4 is just what a German would do
They're just trying to subtly rub it in: "Look, the Hun is here and he's fressshhh!"
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Optimist: The glass is 1/2 full.
Pessimist; The glass is 1/2 empty
Excel: The glass is the 2nd of January(I took pity on our imperially challenged friends when doing the date conversion)
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek
I reckonThat the intro to the joke.
There wasn't time to rewrite all the business logic after Brexit. So the end-of-year tally has to be done manually. This is expected to take 2 months per year. But you can't just put December on hold, for everybody needs a peaceful Christmas. Plus, they'll have to stop all business for a month to collect records.
So they decided to add 2 more Novembers to the calendar instead. The New English Calendar goes now thus:
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10-October
11-November: The counting (and fasting)
12-November 2: The reckoning
13-November 3: Business resumes
14-December
...Opening shop on the 3rd November is a smart business move. People will be in a festive mood, just getting out of the year-end calculations.
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I found this at the local gym's café today. Didn't feel like having a sandwich and was too afraid to order any of the other options.
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This Twatter thread starts with a guy making some serious points about why using an AI to make ethical decisions is an abomination—and then instead of debating him, people just start trolling the AI:
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@LaoC: article says:
We identify four underlying challenges towards machine ethics and norms: (1) an understanding of moral precepts and social norms; (2) the ability to perceive real-world situations visually or by reading natural language descriptions; (3) commonsense reasoning to anticipate the outcome of alternative actions in different contexts; (4) most importantly, the ability to make ethical judgments given the interplay between competing values and their grounding in different contexts (e.g., the right to freedom of expression vs. preventing the spread of fake news).
Interesting so far, but obviously an enormous task. That would require actual, strong AI.
Our paper begins to address these questions within the deep learning paradigm.
That’s like building a rocket out of crayons.
Our prototype model, Delphi, demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning, with up to 92.1% accuracy vetted by humans.
Fuck no, it doesn’t.
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@boomzilla they gon' fuk
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla they gon' fuk
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC: article says:
Our prototype model, Delphi, demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning, with up to 92.1% accuracy vetted by humans.
Fuck no, it doesn’t.
Yes it does. “up to 92.1%” can also include 0%…
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC: article says:
Our prototype model, Delphi, demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning, with up to 92.1% accuracy vetted by humans.
Fuck no, it doesn’t.
Yes it does. “up to 92.1%” can also include 0%…
I'm not disputing that whatever random crap they measured is 92% by their own metric, I'm disputing that this "demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning" and that their number is meaningful in any way.
That's like me reading and memorizing lots of multiple-choice questions and answers in a language I don't speak, then somehow managing to get good test results in a test containing the same key words even though I don't even understand the question.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's like me reading and memorizing lots of multiple-choice questions and answers in a language I don't speak
Ah, Searle's Chinese Room argument.
Not that I disagree with you. It most likely applies here.
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@aitap said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's like me reading and memorizing lots of multiple-choice questions and answers in a language I don't speak
Ah, Searle's Chinese Room argument.
Not that I disagree with you. It most likely applies here.
That's what I meant. Forgot the name and too to google, thanks!
(Not saying that this is true in general, as the argument goes, but that it very much is true for their deep-learned )
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@boomzilla Didn't somebody here break by pasting War and Peace as a password? Or was it only discussed as a hypothetical?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla Didn't somebody here break by pasting War and Peace as a password? Or was it only discussed as a hypothetical?
@accalia, as I remember. Might have been here or on meta.d.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@accalia, as I remember.
That's what I was thinking, too, but I wasn't sure. Edit: I don't think it was meta.d; we (mostly) stayed professional and well-behaved over there. (We doesn't include me, because I never registered an account over there, so I neither behaved well nor badly.)
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A government employee was paid our tax money to write this.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A government employee was paid our tax money to write this.
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It's probably fake.
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@DogsB Things that remind you of WTDWTF members thread is
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla Didn't somebody here break by pasting War and Peace as a password? Or was it only discussed as a hypothetical?
@accalia, as I remember. Might have been here or on meta.d.
Yes, it was her:
@accalia said in My Pet Peeve: Maximum Length Passwords:
@Jaloopa said in My Pet Peeve: Maximum Length Passwords:
"Didn't you try to use the text of War and Peace for a password on Discourse?"
not only tried, but succeeded!
until @end got annoyed with me for miniDOSing meta.d every time i logged in.
then they set a limit of.... i think it was a kilobyte? something like that anyway.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A government employee was paid our tax money to write this.
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It's probably fake.
Not necessarily. I've seen dumber requests taken seriously.
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@Gąska They are probably obligated to respond to every official request.
Edit: Provided the whole thing is not fake.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A government employee was paid our tax money to write this.
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It's probably fake.
Not necessarily. I've seen dumber requests taken seriously.
That's not taken seriously. No actual government employee would be that blunt in an official record that gets sent to someone.
If they're going to mock somebody, they'd do a better job of keeping it behind their target's back.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A government employee was paid our tax money to write this.
Worth it.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"I met a man with artificial legs and real feet." -- Steven Wright
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A government employee was paid our tax money to write this.
Ambrose Bierce once had a job at a newspaper that in part required him to respond to any crackpot letter that turned up. In time, he developed a standard bit of boilerplate that I've adopted for occasional use: "Dear Sir, You may be right."
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A government employee was paid our tax money to write this.
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It's probably fake.
Not necessarily. I've seen dumber requests taken seriously.
That's not taken seriously. No actual government employee would be that blunt in an official record that gets sent to someone.
If they're going to mock somebody, they'd do a better job of keeping it behind their target's back.
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Next week:
@NASA: stop sending us mails about using coke + mentos to fly our rockets
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@PJH Don't you usually bleed air at the top of the radiator? Since, you know, air is lighter than water?
I also never turn off the whole system. At most the single radiator I'm bleeding air from.
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@PleegWat
It also looks like they are going to use the water to make some tea after a job well done
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't you usually bleed air at the top of the radiator?
Yes. It's also usually only one radiator in your system that collects most of the air, as the central heating boiler drives the air out of solution and then mostly follows the path of local highest path (i.e., it depends on exactly what the plumber did when installing the pipes) until it collects in a radiator.
Unless you have a different problem and are actually boiling the water. That's Not Good.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't you usually bleed air at the top of the radiator?
Well, yes - hence the funny bit.
A guide to describing how to do something, with a picture of what you should exactly not be doing....
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@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't you usually bleed air at the top of the radiator?
Well, yes - hence the funny bit.
A guide to describing how to do something, with a picture of what you should exactly not be doing....
And the one picture that has the guy screwing with the correct part of the radiator has him doing it with a cordless screwdriver