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@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@ScholRLEA do we need a reason to post here though? I think he just like to talk about his program
And I liked the peculiar shape of the shit I took earlier today, that doesn't mean I should post about it and encourage people to discuss advanced shit-forming techniques.
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
discuss advanced shit-forming techniques.
Starting off, you want to watch what you eat. Properly controlling your ingestion of food objects (or otherwise) is the first step to properly formulating your fecal matter! Other control methods affecting the quality, consistency, form, shape, and other attributes include defecation frequency, physical activities, and surprisingly enough, emotive state!
With proper guidance, you will be producing optimal feces for consumption in no time!...
Don't consider this as encouragement of any form...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
optimal feces for consumption
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@Maciejasjmj said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
optimal feces for consumption
Never said they were for your own consumption!
Wait, no, this has nothing to do with 2G1C!
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@ScholRLEA do we need a reason to post here though? I think he just like to talk about his program
And I liked the peculiar shape of the shit I took earlier today, that doesn't mean I should post about it and encourage people to discuss advanced shit-forming techniques.
ratemypoo.com is a great place for that
Filed Under: Or so I've heard
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@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@ScholRLEA Damn, he is probably our most famous troll then.
Most long-lived perhaps. But, at this point in time I do not think anyone is more famous/infamous than @Fox.
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@mott555 said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
ratemypoo.com
Can we submit Swampy's source code there? Because it certainly looks like it's been shat out...
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Ahm. Wut.
He's made the executable polymorphic so that by renaming it, it will do various different things without having to tell it explicitly.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Ahm. Wut.
He's made the executable polymorphic so that by renaming it, it will do various different things without having to tell it explicitly.
That's...
Uh....
It's.
It's a... featuuuurre?
Maybe?
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@sloosecannon Yes, apparently he views this as an improvement he has made based on our feedback. I don't think this was what any of us had in mind when we said that the system of entering undocumented and undiscoverable sequences of characters at a series of uninformative prompts was hopelessly unintuitive, but I have to admit, it is in one sense a partial solution.
I mean, it's still horribly bad and introduces a whole new raft of weirdness, but in certain specific scenarios it would make using SSDS easier, if for some reason you were forced to use it.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon Yes, apparently he views this as an improvement he has made based on our feedback. I don't think this was what any of us had in mind when we said that the system of entering undocumented and undiscoverable sequences of characters at a series of uninformative prompts was hopelessly unintuitive, but I have to admit, it is in one sense a partial solution.
I mean, it's still horribly bad and introduces a whole new raft of weirdness, but in certain specific scenarios it would make using SSDS easier, if for some reason you were forced to use it.
So in other words, in a way only expressable via
mspaint.exe
,
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@sloosecannon Did you see the trajectory of that thing! It's clearly an alien flyer! Can you play that again and re-shoot it from your monitor display, then play it back really slowly?
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon Did you see the trajectory of that thing! It's clearly an alien flyer! Can you play that again and re-shoot it from your monitor display, then play it back really slowly?
OOoooooh.
It all makes sense now. Everything fits! I see the bigger picture!
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon Did you see the trajectory of that thing! It's clearly an alien flyer! Can you play that again and re-shoot it from your monitor display, then play it back really slowly?
OOoooooh.
It all makes sense now. Everything fits! I see the bigger picture!Oh, I forgot something.
Version 2.0 (revision A)
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Everything fits! I see the bigger picture!
Oh, good! While you're in this state, can you tell us how a really weird desktop search program fits in?
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Everything fits! I see the bigger picture!
Oh, good! While you're in this state, can you tell us how a really weird desktop search program fits in?
Oh that doesn't fit in at all. It's just that I can see why he does the babbling about aliens all the time.
He can visibly see the points he's missing!
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@sloosecannon said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
He can visibly see the points he's missing!
:head_asplode.jpg: Oh my.... I think you may have hit upon something! That... that actually makes sense, and I never thought I'd say that in any discussion about Swampy.
Is it perhaps some bizarre form of synaesthesia, I wonder?
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
He's made the executable polymorphic so that by renaming it, it will do various different things without having to tell it explicitly.
I'm impressed that you understood it, but also concerned for your health. Quick, please take this:
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@clatter said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I'm impressed that you understood it, but also concerned for your health
@Scarlet_Manuka has just been around long enough and he has a good memory. We discussed that a fair amount back in the day.
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@boomzilla said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Scarlet_Manuka has just been around long enough and he has a good memory. We discussed that a fair amount back in the day.
In that case, please return my cookie at your earliest convenience, I like to keep it for emergencies.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@HardwareGeek said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
8 or 10 times normal speed. Can your media player do that
Yes.
For every video file you have?
For any file I happen to want to watch in fast-forward, yes. Believe it or not, I can even watch it at high speed until I see a particular scene, then click a button and it will continue playing at normal speed, or even slow motion!
Or do you mean every as in queue up every file to play one after another? I'm not sure; I've never tried it. I think it probably would, but I can't think of any sane reason I'd want to do that.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
It was the Husband of a local RCMP that called me outside.
When I found out he was for the Police... I decided to stay inside for the safety of those folks...You stayed inside to protect the people against the husband of a police officer? Um, TDEMSYR.
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@sloosecannon avoid renaming it to takeovertheworld.exe
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@boomzilla said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Scarlet_Manuka has just been around long enough and he has a good memory. We discussed that a fair amount back in the day.
Well, yes and no. I came across a mention of it when I was looking for an old post I'd made in this thread, so it was relatively fresh in my memory. I didn't remember it from the old days.
@clatter said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
In that case, please return my cookie at your earliest convenience, I like to keep it for emergencies.
Fortunately I just ate a bunch of shortbread before coming here, so I didn't need your cookie. Here you go:
@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon avoid renaming it to takeovertheworld.exe
I wonder what would happen if we renamed it to dontsuck.exe...
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
I wonder what would happen if we renamed it to dontsuck.exe...
It would totally blow.
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In other news, after looking at SS's profile I've discovered that he has on average 0.003 upvotes per post.
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@bb36e Just this past week, he had a 0 reputation.
Granted, since the vast majority of his posts came in the days of Community Server, it's somewhat of a poor representation of what his reputation should truly be.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@bb36e Just this past week, he had a 0 reputation.
Granted, since the vast majority of his posts came in the days of Community Server, it's somewhat of a poor representation of what his reputation should truly be.
Something closer to @fox's reputation?
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Trollin', Trollin', Trollin',
keep those posters Trollin',
raw bytes!
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@PleegWat said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Something closer to @fox's reputation?
Technically, yes, inasmuch as it should probably be negative, but there is a qualitative difference between Swampy and Fox. Swampy is bat-shit crazy, but he doesn't try to force his crazy world view on others. He mostly ignores people who criticize him, and I think he really doesn't understand why anyone disagrees with him. He is even amusing (in a rather sad, point-and-laugh way).
Fox, OTOH, is less psychotic than Swampy, but his delusions are far more dangerous, he seeks to force his world view on society by force of law, and he argues vociferously with all who disagree. Poor Swampy doesn't deserve nearly the degree of disdain that Fox does.
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@HardwareGeek now now, please, this thread is supposed to be a fun place...
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@HardwareGeek said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
It was the Husband of a local RCMP that called me outside.
When I found out he was for the Police... I decided to stay inside for the safety of those folks...You stayed inside to protect the people against the husband of a police officer? Um, TDEMSYR.
His Wife the RCMP officer was there along with a group of their supporters. Heckling me.
They all probably had guns or tazers. It would have made for great video if a fight had broke out.
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Recently I added a handful of line numbers to identify where in the audio / video playback the MCI error was originating. The code was at least 10 years old and at the time I just jammed and trialed and errored my way through it. My memory isn't that good... A sign of great code is if anyone can understand and make changes.
This source code is older than some of the posters here..Nobody Shares Content Better than This.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Nobody Shares Content Better than This.
Imagine if someone did, though!
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@boomzilla What the not fun is that!?
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Nobody shares computer knowledge better than this
Years ago a friend and mentor (Grant Cook) said that on the next system he developed all the data files would be TEXT only. Forget the integer, real and other numeric formats.
I'm a firm believer in that. When you need to do a data fix, how easy it is to use a simple text edit program like notepad.
I really love line numbers those that are against, don't have any idea how simple they make things. A magical noodle here and there and serendipitous events sometimes happen.
If they take away "goto's" I'm be sunk. Few of the purist programmers would have hired me for my coding methods. I wouldn't hire any of them either.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
Years ago a friend and mentor (Grant Cook) said that on the next system he developed all the data files would be TEXT only. Forget the integer, real and other numeric formats.
I'm a firm believer in that.
So are pretty much ever Unix and Linux developer out there. This isn't exactly a controversial position to be taking.
@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
If they take away "goto's" I'm be sunk.
Actually, they already did, at least in pretty much every language designed after 1977. Visual Basic retained them only for backwards compatibility with very old code, and even then the .NET compilers will give a warning if actually try to use one.
As for not knowing the 'advantages' of
goto
, those of us who are old enough to have coded in AppleSoft BASIC and other languages of that era remember things rather differently, and none of us want to go back to that - no one except you.This isn't purism. This isn't even controversial anymore. Structured programming won,
GoTo
lost. Get over it, or use assembly language where everything is written in the underlying primitives.
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@ScholRLEA I think goto still has valid uses... People can make incomprehensible programs no matter how many tools you remove
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@SpectateSwamp you up in northern Ontario by any chance?
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@bb36e I agree, but those circumstances are few and far between, IME. Also, the general trend has been towards nerfing everything to a degree even I find a bit excessive, so most language designers today just figure it's more trouble to include than it is worth. Finally, the general move towards more declarative languages has made the argument moot, as many of the latest tools don't deal with imperative program flow at all.
That sort of brings up another question for @SpectateSwamp: have you ever looked at any languages in either the Lisp family (Common Lisp, Scheme, Arc, Clojure, etc.), pure-OOP group (Smalltalk, Self, etc.) or pure-FP group (Haskell, Scala, Erlang, CaML, etc.), and if so, what were your impressions?
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@boomzilla said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@Scarlet_Manuka has just been around long enough and he has a good memory. We discussed that a fair amount back in the day.
Well, yes and no. I came across a mention of it when I was looking for an old post I'd made in this thread, so it was relatively fresh in my memory. I didn't remember it from the old days.
@clatter said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
In that case, please return my cookie at your earliest convenience, I like to keep it for emergencies.
Fortunately I just ate a bunch of shortbread before coming here, so I didn't need your cookie. Here you go:
@groo said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@sloosecannon avoid renaming it to takeovertheworld.exe
I wonder what would happen if we renamed it to dontsuck.exe...
Soon there will be a feature if you put "jamit" in the name all doevents that surrender time to the system will be turned off. Then watch SSDS fly. No indexers or disk cleaners to muddle things up. Just pure speed. How great that will be.
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@SpectateSwamp You don't actually understand the concept of 'pre-emptive multitasking', do you?
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Another European Hooded Crow spotted in Osoyoos B.C. by some friends visiting from Vancouver.
This bird may be stalking me. I will be able to tell if it is the same Bird.
The one I videoed in Whitecourt Alberta may have followed me. 1100 klm..
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@ScholRLEA said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp You don't actually understand the concept of 'pre-emptive multitasking', do you?
What good would that be?
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My app can do random groupings of Video segments, Audio segments, Pictures and Text.
Example: As a learning training system.
First screen is a slowed print screen. (large font)
Next screen is a screen capture .bmp of the above screen and display that.
Change the text color to that of the background (aqua)
Print the same text that was on the initial display again and watch the text disappear 1 character at a time. (nothing is worse than reading some text and have it yanked away)Show / play the related video - audio segments...
more text display
next audio video segment... etc etc.- Then get and display the next random grouping...
learning becomes fun, when it is fun.
--- The app can copy any file type to an alternative directory... at the same time identifying bad mp3 files and putting them in another folder.
--- Fast forward - slow motion - Fast reverse - slow reverse.
--- Lots of other capabilities that are important if you have lots of content like I do.
Now I have a 3tb external storage I'll start loading all my videos for archiving. When I had to shuffle them around because of limited space it wasn't worth it.
One solution I discovered was that when I started at a specific point in a video and played back in slow motion... The same segment didn't always play.. Because of other apps running or on a different machine... The solution was to "Begin" the video a second or 2 before the segment that I wanted to see in slow motion playing at full speed then switching to slow motion. It fixed the frustrating playback problems. Stubborn will get you through
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@ScholRLEA said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp You don't actually understand the concept of 'pre-emptive multitasking', do you?
What good would that be?
The correct question was, "how would the fact that Windows has used timesliced pre-emption since Windows 95, and does not give any means for disabling it, affect my claim that I can make SSDS work faster by disabling voluntary sleep/wait?'
The answer, of course, is 'It means that what I just said about doevents is total bullshit.'
Not that it would be any less bullshit if it weren't time-sliced. In most cases, the reason those doevents cede control is because they are waiting on I/O; disabling the sleep() would mean they would be busy-waiting, which has the primary effect of slowing things down and making your CPU overheat even while it is doing nothing.
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@bb36e said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp you up in northern Ontario by any chance?
British Colombia. He refers to Osoyoos, which is almost on the U.S. border, between the Cascades and Rockies, about the east-west mid-point of the province. I'm not sure if that's where he lives, or he just happened to be there recently. He's mentioned participating in local politics, including running for office, probably including the location, but I don't remember where (other than B.C.), and I don't care to search.
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@ScholRLEA said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@ScholRLEA said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
@SpectateSwamp You don't actually understand the concept of 'pre-emptive multitasking', do you?
What good would that be?
The correct question was, "how would the fact that Windows has used timesliced pre-emption since Windows 95, and does not give any means for disabling it, affect my claim that I can make SSDS work faster by disabling voluntary sleep/wait?'
The answer, of course, is 'It means that what I just said about doevents is total bullshit.'
Not that it would be any less bullshit if it weren't time-sliced. In most cases, the reason those doevents cede control is because they are waiting on I/O; disabling the sleep() would mean they would be busy-waiting, which has the primary effect of slowing things down and making your CPU overheat even while it is doing nothing.
Another stupid idea by Microsoft. Right up there after taking away line numbers.
Probably all to speed things up. You have to have slow code to make use of the computer power we have today. SSDS is poised to make good use of quantum computing.. Bring it on.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
You have to have slow code to make use of the computer power we have today.