Random Thought of the Day
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@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah words come from somewhere? Good God, I must inform anyone who hasn't found this out yet.
The idea of you interacting with a child is making me uncomfortable.
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@Zecc ignore the children, I'm uncomfortable with the idea of such interactions with adults!
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@Arantor We're talking about @Gribnitwit. Any interaction with him necessarily involves at least one non-adult.
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@HardwareGeek it's more the effect on the other party I'm concerned about, in case whateverthatis is infectious.
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@Arantor It should be safe if the other party has one of these:
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@HardwareGeek not worth bothering with, complete false advertising.
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@HardwareGeek this is true, and surprisingly insightful of you to admit, but I try to condescend to the needs of the more deserving of the less advanced that I encounter. One day you may be one of these.
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@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
Of berry names ending in
berry
, the prefix is either a color name or makes no actual sense, without apparent exception.You've not encountered the cloudberry before?
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@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
Of berry names ending in
berry
, the prefix is either a color name or makes no actual sense, without apparent exception.To make matters more confusing, the dingleberry shrub (of genus Vaccinium which has nothing to do with vaccines nor cows) produces not dingleberries but cranberries, bearberries or mountain blueberries, depending on who you ask.
The dangleberry OTOH is an altogether transparently formed word.
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@dkf fair point, as in, in contact with the pole but not leaning on it, it took me a bit to get past the "clawworm vomiting bubbles" impression. Is that poisonous or hideously poisonous? But the bit in the middle is a cloud sort of shape.
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
in case whateverthatis is infectious.
About that... well, I wouldn't worry about it. Actually, whatever you do, do not worry about it, that's how it reproduces.
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@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
@LaoC said in Random Thought of the Day:
the dingleberry shrub
And Dingle is in Ireland.
It’s quite pretty. A+, would visit again.
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Got me a feature, GitHub doesn't know
Pushed hotfix changes, then went back in flow
Didn't mess with the Groovy and conflicts are low
Don't care about merge, gonna grow up to be a rebaser
Rebaser! (rebaser...)
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@topspin said in Random Thought of the Day:
@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
@LaoC said in Random Thought of the Day:
the dingleberry shrub
And Dingle is in Ireland.
It’s quite pretty. A+, would visit again.
That's a particular dingle, but they can occur anywhere conditions allow.
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@Gribnit for some reason now I have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_LLwQ7Pck stuck in my head, thanks.
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@Arantor Haha! Bastard. You never gonna fool me with that one
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@Applied-Mediocrity why, don't you want a dose of 1980 disco/funk to start your Saturday morning off with?
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@Arantor Huh, whaddya know... it's alright.
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
don't you want a dose of 1980 disco/funk to start your Saturday morning
There are worse ways to start a Saturday morning. Not many, but some. Heart attack. Emergency root canal. ...
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
funk
As a fully derearticulated and licensed funkatician, I am both required and gots to warn you, no funk has been detected on the other side of that link.
No, I didn't have to go over the link to find out.
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@Gribnit I dunno, I thought Sheila B. Devotion was at least a little bit funky.
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Saw this picture reposted on Reddit and it makes me wonder...
I'm not old enough to have ever used half of these port types, but I'm pretty sure there's no power delivery in there? The dongle has no way of working.
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@Gąska Every single step in that whole chain is wrong
:grumpy_luke:
USB to PS/2 cannot work, because it's not a converter. The USB input device must support the PS/2 mode to use
use DATA- pin for external clock.In the Mini-DIN to DB-9 the clock pin goes to ground instead, so there's no differential signal (which USB needs). Also, Data Out goes to serial RX only. USB is bidirectional.
DB-9 to DB-25 is straightforward, but DB-25 to LPT is once again, not a converter to parallel.
LPT most certainly has different pinout since it has 8 data pins, therefore DB-9 cannot provide. I believe magic smoke should appear if two powered devices are connected that way since driven pins will go straight to ground. Resident
s should be around to
about that shortly. Shortly, heheheh, geddit?
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@Applied-Mediocrity I am sad I can only
once.
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This is the third year in my lifetime with three of the same digits in it. Beats my mother's record by one (she died in 2007). My grandmother (born 1913, died 1989) never lived in a year with three of the same digit. Her mother (born 1888, died 1973) also made two such years, although only a few weeks of the first one.
Most people born in the next few years will see no such years unless they can hang on until 2111.
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"I work at Amazon" sounds much less impressive than it should.
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@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
"I work at Amazon" sounds much less impressive than it should.
Also much more.
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@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
"I work at Amazon" sounds much less impressive than it should.
"Yeah, you and a million other people."
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How much of a "correct" title do you need for it to be accepted in pub trivia for a work that's more commonly referred to by an alternative title? Can I get away with Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, or do I have to add in Four Parts or even by Lemuel Gulliver? Can I just say The Beatles when the quizmaster clearly expects the answer The White Album?
Will they accept a title in the work's original language for something like Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours for Around the World in Eighty Days, Война и мир for War and Peace, or 臥虎藏龍 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
(Seriously, this does come up. I once had a question where the answer involved Old English, but I couldn't get our team leader to agree to turning in the answer slip written in elder futhark.
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@da-Doctah depends how much of a shit the quizmaster is.
The dickhead ones tend towards the oblique and pedantically correct answers.
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah depends how much of a shit the quizmaster is.
The dickhead ones tend towards the oblique and pedantically correct answers.
We had one of the other kind. Asked who wrote Cinderella and marked us wrong for answering Charles Perrault. We challenged, pulling up Wikipedia to show her that, while the Brothers Grimm (the answer she had on her score sheet) had published a version, Perrault's was something like 125 years earlier. And some form of the same story actually went back to ancient Egypt.
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@da-Doctah ah, the pedantically wrong quizmaster. They’re always fun, especially in the pre-Wikipedia era.
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ed. his punchline cometh and that right soon.
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Superhero concept: The Hyperhobo. More hobo than you believed even a hobo could be. An update of the Hobo King concept for modern times. Also, fast and spazzy, because subtlety is all very well but shtick actually works.
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@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
Superhero concept: The Hyperhobo. More hobo than you believed even a hobo could be. An update of the Hobo King concept for modern times. Also, fast and spazzy, because subtlety is all very well but shtick actually works.
Able to leap speeding locomotives in a single bound?
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@Watson said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
Superhero concept: The Hyperhobo. More hobo than you believed even a hobo could be. An update of the Hobo King concept for modern times. Also, fast and spazzy, because subtlety is all very well but shtick actually works.
Able to leap speeding locomotives in a single bound?
Onto, yes, or off of. Over is kinda OOC.
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Address survey bias by asking the respondent to select the answer they find most biased, instead of asking them for an answer at all.
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- Public Forum
- a hole everyone yells in
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It seems the case, and/or readily observable, that a societal or cultural age culminates by bringing an achievement and is brought to dissipation via metaapplication of that achievement. For instance,
- the temporal ascendancy of the Roman church culminating with the spread of faith with the side-effect of that faith becoming an end in itself in rebuke of their Founder.
- the skepticism that was characteristic of the Modern age being invalidly turned on itself, leading to the cynicism which is the achievement of this postmodern age.
I wonder what cynicism upon cynicism will yield.
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Does it say something about the current state of Star Wars that, when the JNDI exploit was discovered, not one single person thought of calling it "JNDI mind trick"?
The only thing that comes up is this spam text generator
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@hungrier said in Random Thought of the Day:
Does it say something about the current state of Star Wars that
I've seen VII to IX, and other than Grumpy Luke's "amazing! every word you just said was wrong" I can't remember a single quotable line
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@hungrier said in Random Thought of the Day:
Does it say something about the current state of Star Wars that, when the JNDI exploit was discovered, not one single person thought of calling it "JNDI mind trick"?
No. For this to be a mind trick, there had to be at least one mind involved in implementing that feature.
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Also - the sequel trilogy is so bad even Grey's Anatomy is shit talking it in the most recent episode.
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@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
Also - the sequel trilogy is so bad even Grey's Anatomy is shit talking it in the most recent episode.
Perfectly understandable. Not enough arms/hands getting chopped off.
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@Applied-Mediocrity The only other actual line of dialogue that has stuck with me at all was the whole 'let the past die - kill it, if you have to' and even that wasn't the whole quote.
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@Arantor weirdly meta.
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@Gąska not surprising. It was from TLJ where Rian was off trying to do his own thing and get out from under the mystery boxes that JJ put in TFA that everyone knew wouldn't go anywhere good.
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In which millions of posts were posted in error and were suddenly jeffed
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@Applied-Mediocrity I've got a bad feeling about this....