🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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But RAM doesn't let you access random locations in memory. It lets you access arbitrary locations in memory.
...in random order, if you want.
And certainly you can load a random address into an offset register and then read the address at that location, which seems like accessing random locations in memory to me.
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"When she finished she spat into a tissue"
Bitch.
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...in random order, if you want.
No, in an arbitrary order. Arbitrary means you get to choose. Random means nobody gets to choose.
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Random means nobody gets to choose.
And that's what I described next. Are you going to go all dickweed pendantry and make me add that the random addresses come from an RNG? And in this case, not your everyday pRNG, but a hardware module that produces true randomness.
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Does your RAM contain a hardware RNG?
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Does your RAM contain a hardware RNG?
I have been looking for one of those for ages but can never find one. Please tell me if you see one.
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This is
randomunrelated, but is your avatar a man with testicles growing out of his neck or a very small man in front of a red triangle?
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GIS says it's a crop of this:
If you allow that "person with testicles growing out of his neck" isn't normal--and you're also ignoring possibilities like gout--then we can examine the possibility it's someone drawn super-deformed.
Plus the caption says it's a cape.
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This is randomunrelated, but is your avatar a man with testicles growing out of his neck
Now I can never see it any other way.
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@ben_lubar said:
This is randomunrelated, but is your avatar a man with testicles growing out of his neck
Now I can never see it any other way.
The Binding of Isaac did that for me loooong ago.
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No, in an arbitrary order. Arbitrary means you get to choose. Random means nobody gets to choose.
Obligatory
XKCDDilbert:
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Yup that's what it is. Vimrod could be quite brillant sometimes. Actually most of the time.
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@DogsB said:
http://www.lastlemon.com/dailydose/Vimrod
First I'd heard of it--I hadn't tried to read that tiny text at the bottom.
They've moved on from vimrod. Apparently daily free comics don't always pay the rent.
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This forum was perfectly civilized discoursing until a certain vulpine showed up.
I know, right? Goddammit, @accalia, you broke everything!
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Wrong vulpine.
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@Arantor said:
AGAIN!This forum was perfectly civilized discoursing until a certain vulpine showed up.
I know, right? Goddammit, @accalia, you broke everything!
On topic... : Something if preying on my mind.
I was debugging yesterday and hadn't realized I'd strayed into a third party library codebase. Unfortunately I've found code there that would be perfect for what I need. It's covered in restrictions but it is actually public so its not like I have to do too much to access it. It's part of the library's internals which makes it even more iffy. The library hasn't been updated in over three years and we're not likely to update anyway so if I create a dependancy I'm not likely to be clocked by an update.It solves the problem nicely but it just reaks of coming back to bite me on the arse.
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Incubus (1966) - starring William Shatner & filmed entirely in Esperanto.
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I know, right? Goddammit, @accalia, you broke everything!
oi oi oi!
i can't have broken everything, otherwise we'd be dead cause the universe stopped working!
also....
Wrong vulpine.
what he said.
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I agree. The universe was broken long before accalia. We are, after all, on the beta channel of it -- even if the updates are a bit slow currently...
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One of the books in the Elder Scrolls universe is in Esperanto. IIRC, when you translate it, it's something silly like VCR instructions. EDIT: no it's some information about a newsletter published on the web.
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One of the books in the Elder Scrolls universe is in Esperanto. IIRC, when you translate it, it's something silly like VCR instructions. EDIT: no it's some information about a newsletter published on the web.
I'm surprised they never worked Esperanto into the original Star Trek, since Shatner already had some experience. After all, Esperanto was supposed to be the universal language of the future.
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It's what the South Sea island natives sing their fertility songs in, in Hope and Crosby's Road to Singapore.
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we'd be dead cause the universe stopped working!
yeah, no. no universe means no dead, no nothing.
you can't be dead if there's no such thing as "be"
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When you change the definition of existence, a lot of things stop working.
So don't.
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aaaaawwwww =(
she started changing it.
mumble mumble nothing is cointained into all mumble mumble
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There should be some punctuation mark for "I'm agreeing with you by restating your point".
mumble mumble nothing is co
intained into all mumble mumbleIn Cool, Nothing is a type that is a child of every type, but has no possible values at runtime. Not to be confused with Null, which is a child of most types (other than Nothing, Unit, Boolean, and Int) and has one possible value at runtime that will crash your program if you do anything with it.
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interesting, but, what is its use case?
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Nothing is returned by anything that crashes your program. So IO.abort, for example. It means you can call IO.abort in the middle of some complex conditional expression, since Cool doesn't have a concept of "statements".
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And no source code means no bugs!
BRB, writing email to boss about having fixed all the bugs.
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Nothing is returned by anything that crashes your program.
Technically, it's the result type of any expression whose evaluation does not terminate (in a normal computational sense). It's equivalent in C and C++ are the functions that you'd annotate (in a compiler-specific way, alas) as not returning.
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Well, that's actually a type analysis error. HTH!
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There should be some punctuation mark for "I'm agreeing with you by restating your point".
^^^
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That's a bad idea all right. Maybe that should be considered an evil idea.
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All they'd have to do is have one kid who looked Spanish
That's stupid. How do you "look" Spanish? By wearing some Zara jacket or a Real Madrid shirt? Maybe some bull fighter clothes? Oh wait! The Spanish one is probably the not-300lb-fat-guy-with-the-baseball-cap yelling "Ole!".
BTW, Spain is the country all the way east of the Atlantic ocean, not the U.S. sweat shops at the south.
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That's stupid. How do you "look" Spanish? By wearing some Zara jacket or a Real Madrid shirt? Maybe some bull fighter clothes? Oh wait! The Spanish one is probably the not-300lb-fat-guy-with-the-baseball-cap yelling "Ole!".
Two of the Three Tenors look Spanish, and they are. The "fat guy" is the Italian one.
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Nice playing but he seems to be German ...
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Funny, I've always thought he was a Cockney...
But he's the most obvious choice if you are looking for someone who is really good at "looking Spanish". From Barcelona, to be precise.
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I've always thought he was a Cockney...
Wrong bit of London, although most Londoners sound the same to people who aren't from London.
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This woman got shot:
If she'd watched the following video, maybe her shooting could have been prevented:
https://youtu.be/a5w_7D70bbAHere's the lead up to her getting shot:
https://youtu.be/WLnHN_ZDP7E
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But he's the most obvious choice if you are looking for someone who is really good at "looking Spanish". From Barcelona, to be precise.
Funnily, a number of people I know from Barcelona would claim to be Catalan, not Spanish…
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I don't know if he looks Spanish. I do know that he looks over-JPEG-compressed…
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the alternative was posting a giant image, for a joke only 2 or 3 members of this forum will understand
Funnily, a number of people I know from Barcelona would claim to be Catalan, not Spanish…
Catalans and Euskadi[s|es] take offence if you say they are Spanish....
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Amazing. Try to stab a cop, get surprised when he shoots you.