The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
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Simplification:
@Lorne_Kates said:
probability often often comes out heavily weighted
simplifies toprobability is always 1
which allows dispensing with the long-winded analysis of the probability, and is also more accurate, since your weasel-word version allows the possibility that truthfulness. However, if you prefer a version more similar to your original,
@Lorne_Kates said:
that probability
oftenalways comes outheavily weighted againstzero of the candidate beingcompletelyeven slightly truthful at any given moment.Not sure if or :badjoke:
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Overheard: "We better get going before that tu-tu becomes a three-three"
Filed under: Shut up, I'm not that fat!
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In dry deserts, more people drown than die of thirst.
Filed under: Fact or Urban Legend?
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In dry deserts, more people drown than die of thirst.
Filed under: Fact or Urban Legend?
I'd be inclined to believe it. Those who live near deserts are very careful to make sure to always have enough water for drinking. Heavy rainfalls are dangerous since dry deserts often have soil that doesn't quickly absorb water. This leads to flash flooding that can impact areas miles away from the downpour, making it very easy to get caught in a rush of water with no warning.
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If a 610 pound psychic loses 510 pounds, the headline reads: Former Large Medium Small
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I'm so old . . . they discontinued my blood type.
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It'd be a shame to post this without some sort of punchline.
Wooden tit.
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There are two things in life you must never, ever forget:
1. Never, ever forget the two things in life you must never, ever forget
2. Oops, I've forgotten what #2 is
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Well, there is rockmelon. Air and fire may be more difficult...
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Well, there is rockmelon. Air and fire may be more difficult...
Airmelon?
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E_NOT_ACTUAL_MELON
<lower case letters go here>
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E_NOT_ACTUAL_MELON
Big whoop. Neither is watermelon. It's a completely different genus from honeydew, casaba, cantaloupe, and anything else you're likely to find in a "melon medley".
But you know what is a melon? Cucumber.
(See also "strawberry is not a berry, but banana is".)
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It's a completely different genus
TIL. But it's still significantly more closely related to them than your average beach ball is.
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Looks
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https://41.media.tumblr.com/11fa25109d3915fe655512336e10f7e2/tumblr_nde5bdarkh1tia2q6o1_500.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vjxYPr4.jpgNice!
One DiscoHorse for you.
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obObscurePracticalJoke: Putting a label on the Halon release saying AЖ-5. Unfortunately, it was a little too obscure, and everyone just sort of scratched their heads over it.
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everyone just sort of scratched their heads over it.
Hooray! TIL I'm part of Everyone again!
Filed under: Now I just need to figure out how exactly I'm scratching everyone's head
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Putting a label on the Halon release saying AЖ-5
Cyrillic? AZH-5 doesn't mean anything to me either. Go on, put us out of our misery ;)
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That was the name of the SCRAM button on a Soviet-era RBMK reactor.
Funny thing about the RBMK reactors? The control rods were made of boron. Except the tips, which were clad in graphite to prevent them from getting damaged when inserted. The same kind of graphite that was used as a neutron moderator in the same reactors. Uhm, this might just be a bad idea...
Well, we just won't mention this to the reactor technicians, will we? I'm sure no one will do something immensely stupid, like, for example, withdraw all but 12 of the 130 control rods at once, will they?
Yeah, so when the chief engineer orders his operators to do exactly that, and they then scram the reactor in a blind panic to stop the resulting runaway reaction, it would cause a teensy little power surge.
Like the one that blew off the concrete roof of the containment vessel at Chernobyl Reactor 4.
Didn't think that one through too well, did they?
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That was the name of the SCRAM button on a Soviet-era RBMK reactor.
And... you were surprised that people didn't know this?tips, which were clad in graphite
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Yeah, so when the chief engineer orders his operators to do exactly that, and they then scram the reactor in a blind panic to stop the resulting runaway reaction, it would cause a teensy little power surge.
I'm sure the graphite tips had an effect, yes. But it's small...and in this case, given the "runaway reaction" in progress, it was sort of like throwing a lit match into a forest fire.
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That was the name of the SCRAM button on a Soviet-era RBMK reactor.
Oh, fail then on my part. I did a lot of research into the Chernobyl accident so I guess I should know that.
Yeah, so when the chief engineer orders his operators to do exactly that, and they then scram the reactor in a blind panic to stop the resulting runaway reaction, it would cause a teensy little power surge.
To be fair the reactor was already likely prompt-critical before they even tried to scam. There was so much power being generated from void formation and the xenon finally buggering off that they may have had a explosion anyway from the zirconium fuel-cladding oxidising even if the core had successfully scrammed and the steam explosion hadn't occurred.
What fascinates me is the wildly differing accounts about the politics that were going on the control room throughout the event.
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And... you were surprised that people didn't know this?
No, but I was hoping that at least one person might, or at the very least one of them would figure out who had put the label there and ask me about it.
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I don't think I get the punchline in this one.
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I don't think I get the punchline in this one.
In Soviet Russia, [something] [something] you.
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I thought Chernobyl was a spent-fuel explosion and not a reactor explosion? Or am I thinking of something else?
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I thought Chernobyl was a spent-fuel explosion and not a reactor explosion? Or am I thinking of something else?
You might be thinking of the Kyshtym disaster which was a pretty epic failure to manage nuclear waste that contaminated an area the size of Wales (or 5 Rhode Islands if you like that sort of thing).
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That seems to be the one I was thinking of. I'm not sure how I got those two confused because I don't even recognize the name Kyshtym.
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I had a Commodore 64 game that was a Chernobyl nuclear plant simulator.
I never figured it out much but it drew pretty stuff on the screen.
Of course as an adult I look back and... that's kind of amazing. On many levels.
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I had one on the Amiga called Powerplant I think. It was all parallel projection 3D and the main thing I remember is that random corridors would kill you instantly when you entered them...and there was no way of telling which ones (that I found anyway).
Yours looks far better
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Now that's Terminal GUI done right!
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The diagrams are all done with custom characters, I believe. What's weird is that the font in the top screenshot is a custom font, but the one in the bottom screenshot is the C-64 standard characters, so were there two versions of this game? Or did it selectively use custom fonts on some screens and not others?
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custom fonts on some screens and not others?
I could see this.
I'm probably royally screwing up my terminology, but wasn't there a command to switch graphics modes to use custom glyphs?
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On the C-64? The normal way to do it was to copy the character map from the ROM into the RAM, then alter it as needed. C-64 only had two graphic modes, IIRC, and if you were switched to the high-resolution monochrome one you didn't have access to the charmap at all.
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On the C-64
ooohhhh. Yeah, I have no experience in C-64 specs...
/me shuffling away now..
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@blakeyrat said:
On the C-64
ooohhhh. Yeah, I have no experience in C-64 specs...
/me shuffling away now..A friend of mine once wrote a virus for the C64 just for shits'n'giggles. He failed to mark the floppy disc he was storing this one on, though.
One year later he pulled this disc out of the stack...and then had some fun. Because he'd also forgotten to document the registers this thing was using and he now had to desinfect about 50% of his discs.
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Just imagine a NES, except the C-64 had:
- Slightly more pixels
- A much better sound chip
- Worse hardware scrolling (you had to redraw every 8 pixels-- the NES could keep 2 full screens in memory and so could hardware-scroll a lot more before having to redraw anything)
- That strange, almost-entirely-unused, high resolution monochrome drawing mode
But the NES and C-64 were surprisingly similar.
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Come on, that's definitely not as bad as booolean.
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Probably not, but the resultant flood of variations, all of which were just as good, just goes to how that this sort of "bad jokes" should be discouraged and rooted out before it gets a hold.
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My housemate thinks I have boundary issues.
At least that's what she wrote in her diary, anyway.
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I saw a homeless guy in town shouting a lot of random stuff.
It was a vague rant.
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"What shall we call this thing in the middle of the ocean that is land?"
"How about 'island'?"
"No, that's too obvious."
"What if we pronounce it weird?"
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What was it called?
Looks like fun.