🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Oblig XKCD: http://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
The surfaces of Mars and Venus are scoured clean by the waves of incredibly high-energy plasma.
But what about Mercury? Won't somebody think of Mercury?!
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Forgetting to occasionally "open in new tab" while using Discourse:
The tab crashed after that navigation.
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i almost always come into work in the morning and my discourse tab has crashed.
Discourse has a memory leak...
anyone want to make book on how long its going to take to fix?
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anyone want to make book on how long its going to take to fix?
Pass. I don't like the odds.
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anyone want to make book on how long its going to take to fix?
Infinity doesn't work well for over/under bets.
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My new i7 laptop with 8GB won't wake up from suspend if I commited the sin of leaving Discourse open in a Chrome tab. Hell, I can have Eclipse, Tomcat and some docker images running without a problem, but Discourse kills it.
I also get the Xubuntu "Chrome crashed, leave closed?" When I come back from lunch and Discourse open.
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So, I trolled the owner of that site.
You only show 8 planets. But if you include the dwarf planets (5 of them), it's more than nine.
Can you show me how to get 9 from 8 + 5?
I saw this math question in school that said get 10 from 8 +5. Maybe you could help me.
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/kid-looks-like-a-genius-shows-exactly-why-common-core-math-doesnt-add-upWhen the site was first created Pluto was a planet, hence 9 planets.
Regards
ScottWhat happened to it?
The IAU has changed the definition of "planet" so that Pluto no longer qualifies
Regards
Scott
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One of the commenters on the article is claiming that the new definition isn't useful. So a reply basically used a tautology by saying Pluto doesn't "clear it's neighborhood". The original commenter says that Pluto is more like a planet than it is the neighborhood objects it didn't clear. And the replier basically repeats the tautology and says that science only states facts as they are presented.
It's these kinds of things that has me frustrated with science. Science doesn't state fact, it states human perception of reality. Words like planets are just words that humans can change the meaning of as it is useful or not useful.
Maybe we'll find out that quantum states aren't suspended states, but simply when we observe and cause a "collapse", we're merely changing the past. It's all becoming borderline pseudo science anymore. Maybe a trait isn't necessary unless it has an impact, which is eerily efficient for a simulated system.
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Science doesn't state fact, it states human perception of reality.
Yeah, in that usage, we're just talking about knowledge, which is what it means. Specifically, it's used to refer to knowledge about how stuff works.
But we've confused things by reusing it as the scientific method (similar to the free as in beer / speech stuff). And so sloppy thinkers (all of us at some point, but some moreso than others) confuse the discovery of scientific knowledge with what we consider to be fact. I hate people.
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You can't refute fact. As such, facts aren't all that useful.
Because if you can't change fact in order to match our perception, then people can't perceive those facts anyway.If we find out that everything we think is real is just a 3d projection of a warped spherical surface area, and that spherical surface area isn't perceivable by some form of measurement, then the fact isn't useful at all.
Now if we can measure it in such a way that it allows us to travel instantaneously anywhere in space, then it's useful because we can then perceive/measure its effects.
Thus ideas like superposition aren't that useful unless we can circumvent it and measure without altering the traits of the object. But if we could measure it, it would no longer truly be superposition, because it always had a true measurement, and not "both" measurements. Thus unqualifying the concept. As a fact, it isn't all that useful at all.
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So a reply basically used a tautology by saying Pluto doesn't "clear it's neighborhood".
Including the grammatical errors?
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JAVA OBJECTIFIES WOMEN
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Being the pedestrian here (or, based on dashcam evidence, pretty much "being Russian.")
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Snapchat now lets you transfer money through their app. Am I the only person who thinks this will just lead to guys paying for nudes?
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WTF? Instead of one-boxing it, or just putting a link, Dicsores decided to insert literally all of the copy and images on the webpage???
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@Intercourse - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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I was wondering about the formatting...
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Let's try that in a One Post...
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I remember seeing this before. Can't recall if it was techcrunch, but it was definitely something that @PJH posted.
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but it was definitely something that @PJH posted
...I'm fairly certain it was someone's else's post I screen-shot using my local stylesheet showing how crap it looked...
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No, someone definitely posted an article and had the contents barfed out on the page.
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No, someone definitely posted an article and had the contents barfed out on the page.
Oh - I remember it - I'm just denying it was me
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I'm pretty sure it was you. :facepunch:
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...I'm fairly certain it was someone's else's post I screen-shot using my local stylesheet showing how crap it looked...
Well, could be. I thought it was your post, but I don't see it in your list of topics, and I thought it was an OP but I guess it's not that big of a deal so we can probably forget all about it because it will almost certainly happen again this being discourse and all and really it may be the fault of the website in how they implement the thing that tells discourse what to sandbox.
/takes a breath
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Next up: Holding a funeral for a pre-packaged chicken in a supermarket.
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Ace of Spades blog points out they shoplifted that chicken.
Edit: Apparently it wasn't there, because I can't find the link. But in the video, which I didn't bother watching, apparently they grab the chicken, throw it in a fake coffin, thjen leave when the store threatens to call the police, and don't bother to give back the chicken.
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Next up: Holding a funeral for a pre-packaged chicken in a supermarket.
How unoriginal. Many people say a prayer before every meal.
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Ace of Spades blog points out they liberated by the Words of Almighty Gaia that chicken.
FTFY
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HER NAME IS SNOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfRMeU6pQ8
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On a lighter note, this interface is a bad idea:
Ignoring the Discoursian amount of empty space, can anyone tell me what I'm downloading or how long it will take?
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can anyone tell me what I'm downloading or how long it will take?
It says right there, "Windows Features", so probably poorly-encoded pictures of eyes and noses. It will take an additional time that's roughly equal to 2/3 of how long it's been so far.
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I haven't ordered a Papa John's pizza for some time, but this is very tempting. You're a terrible person for putting that in this thread.
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I think this was posted with the byline "At what point is it just dumping Fritos on other food?"
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I think this was posted with the byline "At what point is it just dumping Fritos on other food?"
"Frito chili pizza" is definitely on the far side of that point.
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I think this was posted with the byline "At what point is it just dumping Fritos on other food?"
Well, the fritos and chili is a good combination. The pizza is an odd delivery mechanism.
"Frito chili pizza" is definitely on the far side of that point.
Look, I don't want to shock you guys too much or anything, but...
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I like your pink shirt in that commercial.
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That's how I used to meet chicks.
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Were there any Fritos in that commercial?
Was your picture's bald stripe caused by someone flinging a Frito at the top of your skull at high speed?
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Frito-pult?
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That's how I used to meet chicks.
Let me guess, you were the blue-shirted guy in the background handing out roofie-laced candy.
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Let me guess, you were the blue-shirted guy in the background handing out roofie-laced candy.
Like you had a better strategy.
Were there any Fritos in that commercial?
Should there have been?
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Next: "Fining" your customers £100 ($156, €124) for leaving a bad review on Trip Advisor.
The room for the stay cost £36.
Trading Standards are investigating.
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can anyone tell me what I'm downloading
Irrelevant (see below).
or how long it will take?
Given your connection from Milwaukee PC, I guess ∞.