Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work
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@dkf said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
if they hadn't gone in with daggers drawn, stuff could have been worked out.
If you enter Microsoft without your dagger, you're eaten alive by grues.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
no he has not discovered jack shit.
Actually, he discovered a disused cornfield from the early 2000s. So he discovered something!
Let's talk methods. Point one: the mayan constellations are unknown. Point two: mapping stars onto terrestrial coordinates is insane for a number of reasons. Mayan civilization didn't cover a whole lot of the earth's surface, so you're either limited to the window they eclipse one day a year at a specific time OR you just cheat and translate/rotate/scale constellations until they fit over mayan city layouts. If A you don't find shit because there aren't enough stars visible with the naked eye. If B you find lots of shit, but none of it is real.
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@AyGeePlus said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
there aren't enough stars visible with the naked eye
You're aware that once you get away from bright lights, there's really a very large number of stars visible with the naked eye? Yes, it's peanuts by comparison to what you can see with a good telescope, but you can still see a very large number of stars if you're somewhere properly dark.
And if your eyesight isn't crap. :(
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I heard this thing could happen, but I don't believe it, but then I came across this incident which was thoroughly investigated and has several trustworthy witnesses which says quite clearly that it happened.
Can it happen?
WTF is up with this question. Is he really asking whether all those air crew are liars?
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37 celcuis? That wouldn't be an acceptable temperature for a steel mill, much less a typical office.
I'm thinking this guy almost has to be a troll. For one thing, it's NEWER buildings that have windows that don't open-- old buildings where air conditioning was expensive/unreliable almost invariably have windows that can be opened.
EDIT: Bonus MRA comment:
@Matadeleo I hear you brother, that is precisely the same behavior I observe. The 'shivering', the public comments about how cold it is, the ostentatious donning of the cardigan, all the passive-aggressive tricks to keep us in an oven. – TheMathemagician 3 hours ago
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I believe that's called the "ripping off Sergio Leone" technique.
He invented that technique to introduce his 3 main characters, and it's such a good and popular film it's been homaged a million times since.
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@blakeyrat I see you have used an "e" character. That was invented by arghblargh at 8548BC. You're ripping arghblargh off.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At rWork:
37 celcuis? That wouldn't be an acceptable temperature for a steel mill, much less a typical office.
I'm thinking this guy almost has to be a troll. For one thing, it's NEWER buildings that have windows that don't open-- old buildings where air conditioning was expensive/unreliable almost invariably have windows that can be opened.I wamted to post more about how quickly I'd resign in such environment, but im not typing any more into this shit ui.
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The Commodore 64 did "reserve" memory for BASIC (actually on startup, it merely copied the entire ROM to RAM, which is why your 64k machine started up with only about 38k available), but if your application wanted that memory they could simply write over it. All they had to do was... uh... write over it. There was no memory protection.
Since ROM became RAM and therefore malleable, you could also do fun things like overwrite the ROM's character set with your own. Some video games used this to create graphic elements.
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@blakeyrat IIRC the C64 had ROM(s), RAM and IO memory mapped, with a location to write a byte selecting which one will show in each of the overlapping areas. No memory copy at startup. A quick google show descriptions matching, by example
C64 memory layoutNice memory of small computers.
other trivia: I remember DOS was copying the bios to RAM (shadow rom), because ram was faster than rom.
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@cartman82 said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
im not typing any more into this shit ui.
Just make it a few pixels wider
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
The Commodore 64 did "reserve" memory for BASIC (actually on startup, it merely copied the entire ROM to RAM, which is why your 64k machine started up with only about 38k available), but if your application wanted that memory they could simply write over it. All they had to do was... uh... write over it. There was no memory protection.
Actually, it didn't do that. The ROM was located at $A000, and the bottom of BASIC memory in the default memory map was $0800 (just above the default screen memory) so $0800-$9FFF = your 38911 bytes of RAM for BASIC's programs (stored from the bottom up) and variables (from the top down).
You could copy the ROM to RAM, turn off the ROM, and rewrite BASIC if you wanted, or just turn the ROM off and have everything from $0800 to $CFFF for whatever machine language program you'd written, or all sorts of other fun stuff with the memory mapping. You could even turn off the I/O and use the RAM under that, though it's a pain if you want to interact with the world.
I did enjoy making my own character sets, thanks to an editor program I typed in from a magazine.
Times have changed.
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@Parody said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
I did enjoy making my own character sets, thanks to an editor program I typed in from a magazine.
Yeah, I remember a program like that. It would use that feature and you could draw frames to make animations. It would do its best to de-duplicate the customer characters, since they were limited.
Good times.
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@Parody COMPUTE!'s Gazette?
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@boomzilla said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Good times.
Indeed! :)
@JazzyJosh said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@Parody COMPUTE!'s Gazette?
I think so; it seems too Commodore-specific for COMPUTE! proper and I wasn't a subscriber to Run.
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(There always seems to be a featured Star Trek question...)
It's well-established in the Next Gen universe that:
- Data was made without emotions on purpose, because Lore's instability scared the colonists he lived among (it wasn't that his creator couldn't do it-- Lore's the counter-example-- it's that he didn't do it on purpose)
- Holograms, when left on too long, become sentient (seriously. This is insane. But established Trek lore.)
Now that said, that doesn't explain why the EMH is grumpy when he's first turned-on, but it is worth noting that he was programmed by a guy who was really grumpy all the time. So.
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Hi I'm a StackOverflow user and:
Delete delete delete why isn't everything deleted at all time fuck people who post content DELETE IT ALL IMMEDIATELY! DOWNVOTE! DELETE! DELETE! DOWNVOTE! DESTROY ALL THE CONTENT!!!!!
Seriously, what the fuck is up with these people?
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@blakeyrat
To the poster of that question: Jeff, is that you?
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@blakeyrat Instead, accounts of users who have done too many downvotes should be deleted.
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@Adynathos Seriously. At least PRETEND you're excited about getting new users and new content. Sheesh.
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@blakeyrat
Nah, for the poster of that question, user content is not even worth that few kB of StackOverflow's disk space:they are just wasting precious space on Stack Overflow's servers
In contrast, I use a similar question/answer system for Unreal Engine and have never seen anyone commenting "this question is wrong and should not be here".
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@Adynathos I like the replies that point out they use soft-deletes, so no disk is saved.
But there's obviously many people who think the question is worthwhile-- they answered it! And the answers got upvotes! It seems that alone is evidence it shouldn't be deleted.
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Atwood tries to explain why a question, "where is Java installed on OS X?" is acceptable while the question, "where does the Anaconda Python distribution install on Windows?" isn't.
(Apparently such questions are only acceptable if "research" is done... huh?)
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@blakeyrat My experience supports that, majority of useful answers I find on StackOverflow are closed, downvoted, marked as duplicate.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Delete delete delete why isn't everything deleted at all time fuck people who post content DELETE IT ALL IMMEDIATELY! DOWNVOTE! DELETE! DELETE! DOWNVOTE! DESTROY ALL THE CONTENT!!!!!
I like the way you think
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The topmost comment on the question pretty succinctly answers the question.
Although a better answer might be, "duh!"
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@blakeyrat a better question would've been more along the lines of "I read that this stock pays dividends of 38 cents per share. Is that just an indicator of past activity, or are they somewhat expected to continue paying the same dividends in the future? Can they just stop paying the dividends whenever they feel like it, or is there some process required for them to stop or change the paying of these dividends? If so, are the shareholders notified of the change? If they're notified, when and how?"
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@anotherusername Well yeah. Something like, "how much advance notice is required for a company to stop offering dividends?" would be a question without an answer of "duh".
I thought it was funny that he used Apple as his example when Apple is a stock that in the past stopped paying dividends.
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Ok this guy isn't really answering the question as-asked, but I like his little comics so I'm linking him anyway.
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@blakeyrat Those comics are wonderful.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Hi I'm a StackOverflow user and:
Delete delete delete why isn't everything deleted at all time fuck people who post content DELETE IT ALL IMMEDIATELY! DOWNVOTE! DELETE! DELETE! DOWNVOTE! DESTROY ALL THE CONTENT!!!!!
Seriously, what the fuck is up with these people?
At this point I'm pretty sure downvote means, "I don't understand the question, and I don't know enough about the topic to formulate a comment asking for clarification," or possibly, "This isn't a coding question I can answer before I finish reading the question. It's a real question that requires thought and consideration and thinking about the problem instead of barfing up the obvious code."
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@BaconBits There's also “This asker is a lazy bastard who ought to learn how to use Google”. Always a popular number…
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@BaconBits said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
"This isn't a coding question I can answer before I finish reading the question. It's a real question that requires thought and consideration and thinking about the problem instead of barfing up the obvious code."
Nah, those linger around with zero votes and answers, eventually earning you a Tumbleweed badge.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Tumbleweed badge.
I checked, I have that from a 2012 question that is then deleted by Community in 2013!
Also, the title of this thread is misleading, it should be "Blakeyrat Reads StackExchange
OverflowWhile Bored At Work". I demand the thread to be deleted to keep the community clean and content quality high.
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@dse You'd think blakey would have already flagged those off topic posts of his to get them out of here.
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Also The Purple Cloud (1901), with a slight variation: instead of sleeping through the apocalypse, the protagonist is the only survivor of an arctic expedition and is at the north pole at the time the poison gas is released.
INTERESTING SIDE NOTE: The Purple Cloud is barely sci-fi, except for one element: ships in the novel are powered by compressed-air instead of steam engines. Why? Because the writer had to come up with some feasible way a single person could operate an entire ship using 1901 technology.
This has been: Blakeyrat brags about having read turn-of-the-last-century sci-fi books.
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ANOTHER MASON WHEELER SIGHTING!
Seriously, StackOverflow people, answer me this: why do so many people answer the question in the comments? Are the consciously avoiding getting reputation points? And if so, why? I don't get it, and it goes against everything I understand about the type of people who like to use gamified sites.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
ANOTHER MASON WHEELER SIGHTING!
Seriously, StackOverflow people, answer me this: why do so many people answer the question in the comments? Are the consciously avoiding getting reputation points? And if so, why? I don't get it, and it goes against everything I understand about the type of people who like to use gamified sites.
Bonus bit: the bottom "answer" is from some git calling themselves "Bill Knows Best" responding to Mason Wheeler's comment - by going on about whether the 'u' is part of the proper spelling of Labour and not at all answering the question.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
WTF is up with this question. Is he really asking whether all those air crew are liars?
It may be more a case of "I know sometimes news outlets inadvertently print fake or joke articles as actual news, and I've often been told this thing couldn't happen, so is it legit?"
Or, of course, it may not.
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@blakeyrat wasn't the original Rip Van Winkle fable set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@blakeyrat wasn't the original Rip Van Winkle fable set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland?
I don't think America c. the time of the revolution quite matches that description, even for the laughs.
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@Lorne-Kates No. No it was not.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
why do so many people answer the question in the comments? Are the consciously avoiding getting reputation points?
The opposite. Since downvotes cost you reputation, and on SO reasons for downvotes range from "it's not exactly 100% complete" to "it's Thursday", if you're not 100% certain you're an Einstein of B movies, you avoid getting your answer downvoted to hell and back.
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@Maciejasjmj Then why write the comment at all?
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Then why
write the commentuse SO at all?FTFY
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Then why write the comment at all?
And not be heard?
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Then why write the comment at all?
Let's say the question is "what is the earliest movie in which a person is killed by a sentient tomato?". Now, you see this question and you're pretty sure the answer is "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", and even if it's not, it's still an informative example of an early movie with murderous tomatoes.
Now, you can post it as an answer - but since StackExchange does not treat failure gently, it's pretty much inevitable that in 10 to 15 minutes someone will post "actually, you'd think it was true, but there's a 1920 arthouse German movie called Muss ich mit meinen Katzenjammer sich allein befassen? where the protagonist chokes on a tomato after talking to it for an hour". And you get -50 to reputation because now you're wrong and stupid and should die in a fire.
You can also not post anything at all, but most... well, some people have enough empathy to want to help someone to the best of their abilities. So you post it as a comment, where "I'm not 100% sure, but..."-style answers don't attract flames and rage.
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Surfing StackOverflow while my laptop is patching. I found:
A redirect loop! Wooooo! Good job.
... wait, how was the OneBox code able to load that?
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
A redirect loop! Wooooo! Good job.
No repro.
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@ben_lubar Still "works" for me:
Maybe they cookied me with a bum cookie.