Random thought of the day
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@Tsaukpaetra No libration point jokes!
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
I’m going to become an increasingly grumpy old man as I watch idiots get more idiotic?
Not necessarily. You could try to move into nowhere, so that you cannot see any other idiots. Hence you won't see that they become more idiotic.
Inner Peas.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
Inner Peas.
I'd want to defrost them in the microwave first.
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@dkf Microwaving the idiots would be much more satisfying, but unfortunately nobody makes microwave ovens that big.
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We need to start The Microwave Challenge: Put Your Head In A Running Microwave!.
(inb4: : Microwave ovens have several redundant safety cutoffs to prevent you from doing that.)
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
We need to start The Microwave Challenge: Put Your Head In A Running Microwave!.
‘I didn’t even think a microwave oven would go on unless the door was closed. What with microwaves oscillating all over, inside. I thought there was like a refrigerator-light or Read-Only-tab-like device.’
‘You seem to be forgetting the technical ingenuity of the person we’re talking about. As we later reconstructed the scene, he’d used a wide-bit drill and small hacksaw to make a head-sized hole in the oven door, then when he’d gotten his head in he’d carefully packed the extra space around his neck with wadded-up aluminum foil. Have you for example, say, ever like baked a potato in a microwave oven? Did you know you have to cut the potato open before you turn the oven on? Do you know why that is?’
‘Jesus.’
‘The B.P.D. field pathologist said the build-up of internal pressures would have been almost instantaneous and equivalent in kg.s.cm. to over two sticks of TNT.’
‘Jesus Christ, Hallie.’
‘Hence the need to reconstruct the scene.’
‘Jesus.’
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@aitap jesus.
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@PleegWat the theme song of these forums.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat the theme song of these forums.
More of a mandate or obligate mode than a dare, although the few taking it as a personal challenge are daring-adjacent.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf Microwaving the idiots would be much more satisfying, but unfortunately nobody makes microwave ovens that big.
I googled "world's largest microwave", but didn't get any interesting results.
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With a peak radiated power of 32 megawatts the Space Force claims it is the most powerful radar in the world,
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@Zerosquare And operates smack in the middle of the Amateur Radio 420–450 MHz band. Of course, the military is the primary user, and Amateur Radio is a secondary allocation — must not cause interference to, and no immunity to interference from, the primary user. There are several other similar, although lower-power and more modern*, radar installations around the US, where use by Amateurs is restricted.
* "However its aging legacy technology, which uses vacuum tubes, gives it high maintenance costs.[12] Its maintenance crew must repair an average of 17 of its 5000 modular transmitter units daily, at an annual cost of $2 million.[12]"
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Assuming we don't have cars/mobility outright taken from us, do you think we'll be forced into accepting autopilot at all times?
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Well, there's the "small" problem of making it work safely first. And getting the auto companies to accept the liability when it goes wrong.
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
do you think we'll be forced into accepting autopilot at all times?
Not certainly. The more likely the more major the urban center, below a certain amount of congestion there's no mileage in closely optimizing the traffic flow. There are definitely folks itching to optimize away the congestion, and it might even work, but it's very likely to require annoyingly high high ratios of participation.
Not this decade.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Well, there's the "small" problem of making it work safely first. And getting the auto companies to accept the liability when it goes wrong.
I don't see either of those being much of a hindrance to forcing drivers to accept it.
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Well, there's the "small" problem of making it work safely first. And getting the auto companies to accept the liability when it goes wrong.
I don't see either of those being much of a hindrance to forcing drivers to accept it.
So what amount of lawyers, guns, or money are we expecting applied tho? Who wants this and can get it?
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@Zenith said in Random thought of the day:
Assuming we don't have cars/mobility outright taken from us, do you think we'll be forced into accepting autopilot at all times?
Eliminating humans from roadways makes self-driving 100x easier. So, yes, and it'll be a good thing in a sense.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Eliminating humans from roadways makes self-driving 100x easier.
You means cars with nobody inside? I agree, it's definitely safer.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Eliminating humans from roadways makes self-driving 100x easier.
You means cars with nobody inside? I agree, it's definitely safer.
On the other hand, your use of the tram car emoji reminds me of the time a tram took off by itself from the service yard and drove quite a distance through the city before it finally failed to make a turn and crashed into a flower booth (luckily, this happened early in the morning, so nobody was hurt).
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@GOG self-driving!
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Given that OK and/or okay and/or ok lack a well-agreed-on point of origin and/or spelling, I'm going to declare that they descend from algorithm characterization.
O(k)
is of course represented asO(1)
there, but does indicate for at least Ok performance.
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I've noticed that I've started using "I don't disagree" for a more neutral "I agree", where I basically am saying "yes, but..." or trying to stop a line of conversation and signal that I'm not disagreeing, but I'm also not fully agreeing. Which leads to many negatives.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
wheel [no idea why that name was picked for pre-built binary library distributions for Python]s
Because it didn't need to be
reinventedrecompiled?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
So it doesn't sound like it's going to clear save data.
It's clearly not. It's asking to save clear data, not clear save data.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
I've noticed that I've started using "I don't disagree" for a more neutral "I agree", where I basically am saying "yes, but..." or trying to stop a line of conversation and signal that I'm not disagreeing, but I'm also not fully agreeing. Which leads to many negatives.
That doesn't seem too bad.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
They didn't typo or mess up the word order. It asks exactly what they meant to ask.
But what are they asking about???
The only way I can make some syntactic sense out of that sentence is by assuming that there is some sort of data produced by the game that is called "clear data" and they're asking you if you want to save that data, but I have no idea what a "clear data" can be.
(I could easily imagine that they're asking you whether you want to save or clear data, but then the whole thing would be wrongly worded and you said it isn't, so I have to assume that's not it)
Completing each stage is called "clearing" it, so it's asking if you want to save your data that shows that you have cleared the game, or delete that data and restart fresh from the beginning.
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@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
There's a popular app here called "Sharesies" for sharemarket trading. There should be a corresponding app for commodities trading.
"Commies"...?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
"Mad" is synonymous with "angry".
"Mad" is sometimes, occasionally, in some contexts synonymous with "angry".
It can sometimes mean "crazy" or "insane," too.
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@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
"Mad" is synonymous with "angry".
"Mad" is sometimes, occasionally, in some contexts synonymous with "angry".
It can sometimes mean "crazy" or "insane," too.
"Crazy" can sometimes mean "angry".
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@Gąska "angry" can sometimes mean "bubbling". "Crazy" usually retains a shot-through-with-cracks overtone.
The intersection? Madness.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
I've noticed that I've started using "I don't disagree" for a more neutral "I agree", where I basically am saying "yes, but..." or trying to stop a line of conversation and signal that I'm not disagreeing, but I'm also not fully agreeing. Which leads to many negatives.
That doesn't seem too bad.
I'd be far from lying if I neglected to deny that I couldn't help but fail to disagree less.
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@da-Doctah's grammar be like
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World news has had this clip bouncing around in my head lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2BwaYiPByg
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
I've noticed that I've started using "I don't disagree" for a more neutral "I agree", where I basically am saying "yes, but..." or trying to stop a line of conversation and signal that I'm not disagreeing, but I'm also not fully agreeing. Which leads to many negatives.
That doesn't seem too bad.
I'd be far from lying if I neglected to deny that I couldn't help but fail to disagree less.
- I'd be far from lying if I neglected to deny that I couldn't help but fail to disagree less.
- I'd be telling the truth if I neglected to deny that I couldn't help but fail to disagree less.
- I'd be telling the truth if I admitted that I couldn't help but fail to disagree less.
- I'd be telling the truth if I admitted that I was compelled to fail to disagree less.
- I'd be telling the truth if I admitted that I was compelled to agree less.
So, I may not disagree, but neither can I completely agree.
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@djls45 well-reasoned, but I cannot entirely approve of this deobfuscation.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@djls45 well-reasoned, but I cannot entirely approve of this deobfuscation.
Litotes is for wimps.
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Why has nobody made movies based on the Myst series of computer games?
BTW, I picture Christopher Walken as Gehn.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Why has nobody made movies based on the Myst series of computer games?
Instead of a movie, I think a slide-show would make more sense.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Christopher Walken
Lance Henrikson
In the third game, Exile, Brad Dourif played the antagonist Saavedro in cut scenes. I have no quarrel whatsoever with casting like that.
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@da-Doctah yeah, he's top-drawer crazy guy. Wish they'd let him branch out a bit more but Billy Bibbitt has been pretty good in each role.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah yeah, he's top-drawer crazy guy. Wish they'd let him branch out a bit more but Billy Bibbitt has been pretty good in each role.
I should probably add him to my list of celebrities you don't want to find doing charity work at your kid's daycare. Along with the likes of Nicolas Cage, Andy Dick and Amanda Bynes.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Why has nobody made movies based on the Myst series of computer games?
Replace the puzzles with some action, and you have basically Stargate. And watching someone else solve puzzles is not very exciting, so it's a replacement you'd actually have to make.
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@da-Doctah Gary Busey loves parties.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Why has nobody made movies based on the Myst series of computer games?
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@acrow said in Random thought of the day:
And watching someone else solve puzzles is not very exciting
They made a couple National Treasure movies and like three Librarian movies and like 20, 30 Sherlock Holmes movies and the entire mystery and detective genre mostly as a sleep aid