🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
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.
Or it could just be a difference in supported video codecs.
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@rhywden said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@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.
Well, I guess the main difference is that you skip the crunchy shell with lobsters and shrimp, but it is an integral part of the spider experience as I understand it. The main blocker towards eating them would be that they're poisonous methinks. Although from watching Ashens and Barry try it, they were not that impressed with the taste. Especially not when Barry bit into the "spider nut" (abdomen), which considering its contents would be like eating spider haggis I guess.
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@atazhaia said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
which considering its contents would be like eating spider haggis I guess.
and? Haggis is great.
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@pie_flavor Just an observation. I've never had haggis so I can't comment on it.
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@pie_flavor said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Haggis is great.
It is. Haggis made of spider guts OTOH…
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Artsy man makes PDF consisting entirely of black pixels - 2568 pages of them
, enough to cover a square kilometer- then prints it because we can.Trigger warning: Vice.com link
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@cvi said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@jbert said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
PDF consisting ... of black pixels
Found the WTF.
Yeah! It's a single black pixel! Such slander!
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A square km is a million square metres. Something doesn't add up here.
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@boner said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A square km is a million square metres. Something doesn't add up here.
To cover 1'000'000 m2 with just 2568 pages you would need each page to be 390 m2.
If we use a common A4 size, the whole document is just 160 square meters.
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@obeselymorbid
The US of A doesn't do metric page sizes.
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@luhmann said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid
The US of A doesn't do metric page sizes.I know but I'm not researching Letter, Legal and whatever other nonsense they have just for a pedantry post.
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@luhmann said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid
The US of A doesn't do metric page sizes.I know but I'm not researching Letter, Legal and whatever other nonsense they have just for a pedantry post.
I think most of them are somewhere between A3 and A6.
A square kilometer would be 16 million sheets of A4.
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@obeselymorbid Letter is 8.5×11 inches; nothing else is really relevant. That's 93.5 square inches. 93.5*.0254*.0254 to get m2. No research, but too to pull up a calculator.
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@pleegwat As a different comparison, at standard paper quality this is 80 metric tonnes of paper.
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boner said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A square km is a million square metres. Something doesn't add up here.
To cover 1'000'000 m2 with just 2568 pages you would need each page to be 390 m2.
If we use a common A4 size, the whole document is just 160 square meters.The PDF page size is 8.5" x 11". If you generously ignore the fact that the pages aren't totally black (they have half inch margins or so, it looks like), 2,568 pages is about 154.9 m2, or about 0.01549% of a km2.
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@anotherusername Just maybe the author never intended "square kilometer" to be taken literally and was using it as hyperbole for "really big area," and we're all just being a bunch of pedantic dickweeds about nothing.
Filed under: We'd never do that!
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@hardwaregeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anotherusername Just maybe the author never intended "square kilometer" to be taken literally and was using it as hyperbole for "really big area," and we're all just being a bunch of pedantic dickweeds about nothing.
I'm still convinced the term "unobtainium" in Avatar wasn't meant to say the mineral was literally called unobtainium in that universe.
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One time I made a Microsoft Word document containing the base64 encoding of some gigantic file.
Microsoft Word complained that the document must be corrupt because of how many pages it had, but was able to successfully open the document.
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@boner I wonder if he qualifies for a darwin award.
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@pleegwat Based on the information in the article, I would say yes.
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@hardwaregeek The one sticking point, not addressed by the article, is whether he already has kids.
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@pleegwat The closest thing I've seen to an "official" Darwin Award site specifically excludes that as a consideration, because it's too difficult to verify. So whether the candidate has already reproduced is irrelevant as long as no further reproduction is possible.
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@gąska said in Seriously Word, WTF:
@tsaukpaetra they could've saved electricity by dropping it at the sender.
Bad idea: Encoding feedback submissions into the Blockchain.
Maybe this should have been in Quixotic Ideas instead, actually...
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@obeselymorbid said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boner said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A square km is a million square metres. Something doesn't add up here.
To cover 1'000'000 m2 with just 2568 pages you would need each page to be 390 m2.
If we use a common A4 size, the whole document is just 160 square meters.You can print the same document several times, maybe that's where the author guessed he would need to replace the printer before continuing or something.
(it would also be a good point to rethink if you really wanna do this and WTF are you doing)
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@sockpuppet7 said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
You can print the same document several times
You can also print 2568 copies of a single page document.
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@boner
Can we nominate people for the Darwin awards?
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@boner I'm sorry, when you're 22 you're an adult not a "young man". I think what they meant to type was "stupid man knifed himself".
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@blakeyrat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I'm sorry, when you're 22 you're an adult not a "young man".
To my parents, even a 40 year old financial adviser is “young man”…
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@dkf said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@blakeyrat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I'm sorry, when you're 22 you're an adult not a "young man".
To my parents, even a 40 year old financial adviser is “young man”…
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@blakeyrat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boner I'm sorry, when you're 22 you're an adult not a "young man". I think what they meant to type was "stupid man knifed himself".
Biologically speaking there's still some way to go until you're 25.
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@blakeyrat said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I'm sorry, when you're 22 you're an adult not a "young man".
Some people never become adults, no matter how long they live.
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@luhmann said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boner
Can we nominate people for the Darwin awards?There is one for a guy who thought his jacket was knife proof:
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Article @boomzilla linked said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The designer of the “Uritrottoir” - a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement - said it offered an “eco solution to public peeing”.
Is this a problem in France?
“They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt,” said Gwendoline Coipeault of French feminist group Femmes Solidaires. “The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort.”
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Article @boomzilla linked said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The designer of the “Uritrottoir” - a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement - said it offered an “eco solution to public peeing”.
Is this a problem in France?
“They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt,” said Gwendoline Coipeault of French feminist group Femmes Solidaires. “The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort.”
LOL I was thinking they were going to go with that it is sexist because women can't use them.
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@Karla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Article @boomzilla linked said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The designer of the “Uritrottoir” - a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement - said it offered an “eco solution to public peeing”.
Is this a problem in France?
“They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt,” said Gwendoline Coipeault of French feminist group Femmes Solidaires. “The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort.”
LOL I was thinking they were going to go with that it is sexist because women can't use them.
Who says they can't?
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@Karla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Article @boomzilla linked said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The designer of the “Uritrottoir” - a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement - said it offered an “eco solution to public peeing”.
Is this a problem in France?
“They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt,” said Gwendoline Coipeault of French feminist group Femmes Solidaires. “The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort.”
LOL I was thinking they were going to go with that it is sexist because women can't use them.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Karla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Article @boomzilla linked said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The designer of the “Uritrottoir” - a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement - said it offered an “eco solution to public peeing”.
Is this a problem in France?
“They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt,” said Gwendoline Coipeault of French feminist group Femmes Solidaires. “The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort.”
LOL I was thinking they were going to go with that it is sexist because women can't use them.
Who says they can't?
It would seem a bit awkward but I suppose that is the case most of the time women need pee outside their own homes.
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@Tsaukpaetra when accused of being sexist, redirecting to your own anti-semitism isn't the best plan
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@ben_lubar said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra when accused of being sexist, redirecting to your own anti-semitism isn't the best plan
I... see.... I guess...?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ben_lubar said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra when accused of being sexist, redirecting to your own anti-semitism isn't the best plan
I... see.... I guess...?
I guess there was some earlier (not in the linked series of tweets) accusation of sexism, and his response was ad hominem targeted at Shoshana Weissmann being Jewish.
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@HardwareGeek said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Shoshana Weissmann
It's not the first time I see her tweets linked here and I still have no idea whether it's a real person or a satirical account.
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@obeselymorbid No, it's definitely a real person.