🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@atazhaia With Rust carefully packing everything together so there is no wasted struct space, I wish it was also able to pack within a byte so you could conceivably
std::mem::transmute
a[bool; 8]
into ani8
for instance.
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@atazhaia said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A full library for doing binary math using boolean arrays for the numbers.
Production bignum libraries are like that, except they tend to use rather larger “digits” (often the size of a
short
orint
) for efficiency.
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@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
often the size of a short or int
If you're going for efficiency, just use the machine word size. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/33eb0633e160460aaf0707b20b12f296159b77a6/src/math/big/arith.go#L13-L26
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"Suspects in an SUV were being chased by police & “decided to drive into NSA’s main entrance to evade capture."
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@boomzilla Maybe they thought it was the National Safehouse Agency?
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@ben_lubar said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If you're going for efficiency, just use the machine word size.
Only if you've got access to the carry bit, which is a detail that's usually concealed from programming languages. In practice, half the machine word size actually works better once you start doing multiplication and division… and you can see the shifting going on further down because they didn't know that this sort of thing actually helps more than they thought.
Also, that Go code really ought to use inline assembler on some platforms rather than relying on the compiler being smart enough to pick it up. Oh, that's in other files in that directory. Good.
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Eh..this seems to be missing the point...
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@boomzilla separate bad idea:
glittery blackface
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@pie_flavor said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla separate bad idea:
glittery blackfaceOMG that's a thing, right? That must be a thing...
yup.
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@jbert Saw that two or three times like 15 years ago with a tram, rather than a bus. I don't think the trams had terribly high top speeds on the segments where I saw it, though.
People did (do) a lot of stupid things like that. I also remember a discussion about people riding trains on the outside, by climbing into the space outside of the door after it has closed. There used to be a non-retractable metal step for boarding/embarking from the train; removing that in newer models helped fix the problem by making that stunt much harder to pull off, I think.
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@cvi said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
making that stunt much harder to pull off, I think.
People find a way...
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@cvi said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@jbert Saw that two or three times like 15 years ago with a tram, rather than a bus. I don't think the trams had terribly high top speeds on the segments where I saw it, though.
People did (do) a lot of stupid things like that. I also remember a discussion about people riding trains on the outside, by climbing into the space outside of the door after it has closed. There used to be a non-retractable metal step for boarding/embarking from the train; removing that in newer models helped fix the problem by making that stunt much harder to pull off, I think.
I recall a recent case in NL where someone posted their trainsurfing accomplishments on facebook or similar, got tracked down, and was fined heavily for endangering railway passengers or something along those lines.
It's not too uncommon for police here to (successfully) investigate alleged crimes after they are boasted on social media.
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@pleegwat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I recall a recent case in NL where someone posted their trainsurfing accomplishments on facebook or similar, got tracked down, and was fined heavily for endangering railway passengers or something along those lines.
This was a bit before social media, so it was harder to combine being stupid in the first place and then being stupider by actually publicly boasting about it. There was a famous case where a guy couldn't hold on to the train due to freezing and falling off (I suppose that he wouldn't really have been in any condition to boast about it himself TBF.)
It's not too uncommon for police here to (successfully) investigate alleged crimes after they are boasted on social media.
Not that I tend to opt for really dumb things, nor do I post on social media, but I guess I'll keep that in mind -- right now, it looks like I'm going to end up spending some time in NL.
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@cvi said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
right now, it looks like I'm going to end up spending some time in NL.
Not as bad an idea as spending time just south of there.
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@chozang said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
But can you send a jelly potato?
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@doctorjones said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
How is that a bad idea? Except maybe a bad economic idea for the manufacturer because of lost sales replacing broken screens?
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@doctorjones said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
How is that a bad idea? Except maybe a bad economic idea for the manufacturer because of lost sales replacing broken screens?
Beats me, I've no idea why kicking the shit out of a TV would be a bad idea.
INB4:Beats meBeats the TV, I've no idea why kicking the shit out of a TV would be a bad idea.
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What happens when your evil kid with an indestructible TV goes to his friend's house?
Hey where's your TV? Watch this!
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@boner amazing, I LOVE the mental image :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:
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@doctorjones But can it resist this?
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@dcon said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@doctorjones But can it resist this?
The great part is is it sounds like he got all the pins with that roll!
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@dcon And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you wear a wrist strap.
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@pie_flavor I don't know if you do or not, but it's definitely why literally every game for the Wii tells you repeatedly to put the wrist strap on while playing.
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@dcon I love how he taps the TV, as if it'll just come back to life.
Sorry pal, I don't think that one's going to buff out. 😂😂😂
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@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@pie_flavor I don't know if you do or not, but it's definitely why literally every game for the Wii tells you repeatedly to put the wrist strap on while playing.
It was kind of annoying
"You are about to move the controller around. Please wear your wrist strap, equip the protective silicone sleeve and clear the room! For the love of god, don't get hurt playing our games you clumsy oaf! It costs us money! Also take a break from playing every 30 minutes and eat plenty of vegetables"
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
It was kind of annoying
equally annoying was the assumption that you'd actually want to play the game with its half-assed waggle controls instead of the normal control scheme
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@anonymous234 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Also take a break from playing every 30 minutes and eat plenty of vegetables
Guild Wars 1 tells you how long you've been logged in every hour. After the second hour, it adds "Please take a break." to the message.
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@boomzilla might just have posted this Twitter account in another thread, but I'll be damned if this thread isn't a better fit:
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@jbert It is a quite brillant account.
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Is that a Brillo® pad?
@tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Used to be not a terrible idea, actually...
That would be a terrible idea. A Brillo® pad is steel wool, which would leave shreds of electrically conductive metal hiding in various places.
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Is that a Brillo® pad?
@tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Used to be not a terrible idea, actually...
That would be a terrible idea. A Brillo® pad is steel wool, which would leave shreds of electrically conductive metal hiding in various places.
Looks like a standard sponge to me.
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@tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Used to be not a terrible idea, actually...
Decades ago, I knew someone who washed their radio every day.
They said it made it sound cleaner.
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@boomzilla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't tarantulas fling their irritating leg hairs at attackers? I hope those hairs don't irritate the stomach...
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@potatoengineer They won't irritate my stomach!
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@potatoengineer said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't tarantulas fling their irritating leg hairs at attackers? I hope those hairs don't irritate the stomach...
When you cook spiders you burn away all the hair for that exact reason. Not burning the hair off would be very .
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Big Clive presents yet another bad idea:
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@atazhaia said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@potatoengineer said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't tarantulas fling their irritating leg hairs at attackers? I hope those hairs don't irritate the stomach...
When you cook spiders you burn away all the hair for that exact reason. Not burning the hair off would be very .
Cooking spiders, regardless of how you do it, is very .
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I don't seem to be able to get the video to embed, so here without further comment is the link to the FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/failarmy/videos/1789479621149192/
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@atazhaia said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@potatoengineer said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Don't tarantulas fling their irritating leg hairs at attackers? I hope those hairs don't irritate the stomach...
When you cook spiders you burn away all the hair for that exact reason. Not burning the hair off would be very .
Cooking spiders, regardless of how you do it, is very .
It's no different than eating lobsters or shrimp when you think about it.
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I don't seem to be able to get the video to embed, so here is the video, embedded.
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@ben_lubar Huh, DWOMM:
Chrome 65.0.3325.181 on Win7Edit: Works on my phone, though — Chrome (numbers) on Android (numbers). A lot of stuff embeds on my phone that doesn't on my desktop.
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@hardwaregeek Corporate firewall?
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@pleegwat Home. And my phone is using the same wifi. More likely that one of the Chrome plugins I have on the desktop machine but not the phone (Ghostery?) is interfering with FB and maybe some other sites embedding.