The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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How many more fun variations can we get out of that dude's name?
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ObOnTopic: When the inventor of the USB stick dies they'll gently lower the coffin...
Then pull it back up, turn it the other way, then lower it again.
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ObOnTopic: When the inventor of the USB stick dies they'll gently lower the coffin...
Then pull it back up, turn it the other way, then lower it again.
Cruel, but funny.
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Thrice.
For times is a charm.
Shouldn't they also click the 'it's safe to remove body" icon.
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I seriously had to flip over my flash drive about 10 times this morning before it plugged in. That's a new record for me!
Didn't Apple recently kill some startup that had a new USB plug design that fit and worked both ways without breaking compatibility?
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Didn't Apple recently kill some startup that had a new USB plug design that fit and worked both ways without breaking compatibility?
I wouldn't be surprised. That is one of their defenses to force their own connectors on everybody else.
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new USB plug design that fit and worked both ways without breaking compatibility?
Type-C connectors are supposed to be plugged in either way, but I'm unaware of a backward compatible version with either Type-A or Type-B...
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Error: fourth state FILE_NOT_FOUND not identified.
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The other thing that gets me is that the USB connector is just the right width to fit snugly into an RJ-45 Ethernet port without realizing it's the wrong port. I'm pretty good at plugging everything into my PC without looking, but invariably I get one of my USB devices plugged into the second LAN port by accident.
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Been there.
Also, I did manage to get it into the eSATA connector once. I guess the USB drive was old and beaten enough and the eSATA connector cheap enough for it to work.
It did take some force, but I guess I figured I just got the angle slightly wrong...
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Also, I did manage to get it into the eSATA connector once. I guess the USB drive was old and beaten enough and the eSATA connector cheap enough for it to work.
Or the eSATA port dubbles as an USB port like it does on my laptop.
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Or the eSATA port dubbles as an USB port like it does on my laptop.
Well, this one didn't, because it wouldn't work.
TRWTF is that laptop had only 2 USB ports. Both on the right. Yes, they managed to cram 2 USB ports next to the DVD drive but, nope, no room on the left side. I think they crammed the card reader there.
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you obviously need a 7 in 1 card reader on your laptop. how else are you going to upload your holiday pictures from your kodak digital camera onto myspace?
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[@Onyx] obviously need[s] a 7 in 1 card reader on your laptop.
I've got one of these on my desk - wanna borrow it?
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M Night Shamahimalayallamadingdong tried to plug in his USB stick, but had to turn it around.
#what a twist!
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And that joke flopped as bad as most of his movies.
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You must not watch Robot Chicken.
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You must not watch Robot Chicken.
Sounds like a good rule to me. How do you plan to enforce it?
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Sounds like a good rule to me. How do you plan to enforce it?
It gets canceled every season, so the rule enforces itself.
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And that joke flopped as bad as most of his movies.
I dunno, Sixth Sense wasn't terrible but my then-gf was not impressed that - upon the first time I watched the film - I figured out the twist like 10 minutes in.
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You must not watch Robot Chicken.
I haven't in a while. But you have to admit most of his movies were flops.
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Never seen a single one, not tempted to.
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I dunno, Sixth Sense wasn't terrible but my then-gf was not impressed that - upon the first time I watched the film - I figured out the twist like 10 minutes in.
I watched it a long time ago after everyone else did (and somehow managed to avoid the spoiler). I figured it out pretty quickly as well but then discarded it due to thinking "Nah, that's too simple, there's no way that many people would get so surprised by that, must be something more surprising"
Yeah, I still had faith in human species at that time.
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I watched it a long time ago after everyone else did (and somehow managed to avoid the spoiler). I figured it out pretty quickly as well but then discarded it due to thinking "Nah, that's too simple, there's no way that many people would get so surprised by that, must be something more surprising"
Yeah, I still had faith in human species at that time.
That was pretty much my story too.
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I saw it (The Sixth Sense) before everyone knew there was a twist.
It was a pretty good movie that way.I think a few of his other movies would be better too if everyone didn't know there was a twist from the get go.
But he did a lot of movies that were simply not any good, regardless of expectations or twists.
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I hated when he had Snape kill Dumbledore.
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Well, there's Unbreakable, where you expect the twist and get none...
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Well, there's Unbreakable, where you expect the twist and get none...
He directed that? I guess I have seen one of his films, then.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-fTlr9y2kQ
You didn't expect that, did you?
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What about the Spanish Inquisition?
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The other thing that gets me is that the USB connector is just the right width to fit snugly into an RJ-45 Ethernet port without realizing it's the wrong port.
Only on laptops.On motherboards, the ethernet port is a tiny tiny fraction too small to admit USB.
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Or the eSATA port dubbles as an USB port like it does on my laptop.
Only on laptops.
On motherboards, the ethernet port is a tiny tiny fraction too small to admit USB.
IT'S A CONSPIRACY BY APPLE SO WE ALL HAVE TO USE THEIR CONNECTORS!
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IT'S A CONSPIRACY BY APPLE SO WE ALL HAVE TO USE THEIR CONNECTORS!
Actually I don't find that a problem. USB/HDMI on the other hand...
Sent from my MacBook Pro.
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I've got one of these on my desk - wanna borrow it?
Mine is stuck under the desk:
@dhromed said:On motherboards, the ethernet port is a tiny tiny fraction too small to admit USB.
Not on mine.
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Okay.
What brand is that mobo?
After discovering this way back, I've done various tests at the office, and USB consistently fit into laptops but not desktops.
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I too have an asus and it doesn't fit.
I could stuff it if I shoved it hard, but that's defeating the point. It should have a smooth, oddly natural fit, like the ports on a laptop.
O MYSTERY
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I can see why you might want to write a specialized synthesizer for that, but I don't understand the need for your own language.
That was out of my league at the time. My boss wanted a new language, so he got a new language.
@HardwareGeek said:What constructs did you need that were missing from the standard languages? How long ago was this? Was it before Verilog and VHDL became popular/standardized?
This was in about 1994–2000. My memory's a bit hazy, but I think that the Verilog and VHDL synthesisers at the time were very keen on having clocked logic.
@HardwareGeek said:More fundamentally, why asynchronous self-timed logic? That's way out of the mainstream of modern hardware design; some would even say it's crazy.
I was at a research university. One of the things they do is look at the less explored by-ways.It turns out that asynchronous self-timed logic is much better for some applications (mobile phones and smart cards are the two big use-cases, the former because of the substantially lower noise peaks and the latter because self-timed logic can be made much more resistant to a whole slew of attacks) and the performance penalty is only really a few percent; the speeds we got were competitive with synchronous processors of the same fabrication generation. Naturally, we were a few generations behind the real bleeding edge, but we weren't about to build our own fab!
The real disadvantage of self-timed is that the programming model is much more asynchronous, something which programmers still find hard even now. And the state of tooling even after all my work was hugely behind that available for VHDL and Verilog. Asynchronous software has its own rather special failure modes (weird-ass deadlocks being one of the more common ones) and so we had to invent non-trivial software to analyse the programs; I think we were the first group in the world to apply a CTL* model checker to real programs (given that we were one of the first groups to have a working CTL* model checker in the first place). It made it pretty easy to check the prototype processor for hardware bugs.
Or it would have except we kept running out of memory, despite porting the code to what was one of the Top500 supercomputers at the time, and yes, we were using some fairly exotic memory compression tricks too. When people talk about big data and big compute, I usually quietly chuckle to myself as I know of bigger problems than they do. ;-)
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O MYSTERY
The mystery deepens - I tried plugging an USB cable in the ethernet jack on my ancient Acer laptop, but I'd need considerable force to do it. Of course, the ethernet port is also in the back of the laptop, while all USB ports are on the sides, so there's no way that I'd ever plug a USB-something into it by accident.
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Two windows are meeting.
One says "How is it hanging?"
The other one doesn't respond.Filed Under: It's funny because afair you can't query whether or not another program is still executing or hung itself.
Also Filed Under: Worst joke in this topic award... but at least I made it myself!
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At least you tried. Have a badge for effort.
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Great job one-boxing that image, Discourse.
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I wonder...
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Yes, if that's done with multiple frames with local palettes, you can totally break the 255 colour limit.
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Mine is stuck under the desk:
That won't help...it's where I keep my swivel mounted shotgun.