๐ The Evil Ideas thread
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@TimeBandit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
Definitely by manual inspection.
Of course, as soon as you bite it, you'll know which one it is
Well, only because I marked the poison ones.
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@TimeBandit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
Definitely by manual inspection.
Of course, as soon as you bite it, you'll know which one it is
Schrรถdinger's candy, huh?
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@TimeBandit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
Definitely by manual inspection.
Of course, as soon as you bite it, you'll know which one it is
I find those terms unacceptable.
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@Karla said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@TimeBandit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
Definitely by manual inspection.
Of course, as soon as you bite it, you'll know which one it is
I find those terms unacceptable.
How about, the sensual experience of oral interaction with the candy is undeniable.
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Thesis Topic: An Areal Study Of Literary Criticism.
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A half-square-mile or so of concentric switched light rail, carrying tall reinforced concrete shapes, with severe bottom-weighting and long hydraulic outriggers, for the purpose of aiming tornadoes.
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@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
the sensual experience of oral interaction with the candy is undeniable.
She can call me Candy if she want
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@TimeBandit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
the sensual experience of oral interaction with the candy is undeniable.
She can call me Candy if she want
@Karla, does this work as amended?
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Use character mapping tables (collations, i18n, blacklists, whitelists) as a low rate bytewise steganographed exfiltration or c&c channel. Mapping codepoints of high unicode to each other for "legacy compatibility reasons" would establish such a channel, which would probably be free from close observation.
A perpetrator with sufficient savoir faire could even claim it was for security purposes.
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@boomzilla said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
You don't have to go that far. Places that sell Jelly Belly in bulk are set up to encourage random mixing, trusting to the colors to let you sort out the flavors later when you eat them.
Unfortunately, two of my favorite flavors (root beer and coffee) are incompatible to the taste but identical in color.
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@da-Doctah A place I used to work had a 5-pound (or whatever โ big) jar of Jelly Bellyยฎ jelly beans in the break room. (Happily for me, all flavors of Jelly Bellyยฎ are gluten-free, including licorice flavor โ which proves it's just flavor, not real licorice, which is definitely not gluten-free). I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@da-Doctah A place I used to work had a 5-pound (or whatever โ big) jar of Jelly Bellyยฎ jelly beans in the break room. (Happily for me, all flavors of Jelly Bellyยฎ are gluten-free, including licorice flavor โ which proves it's just flavor, not real licorice, which is definitely not gluten-free). I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If I remember, that one is a slight tone variation but they're both solid colors.
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
they're almost impossible to tell apart.
They're supposed to taste different...
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
which proves it's just flavor, not real licorice, which is definitely not gluten-free
Real liquorice is just the extract of the liquorice plant (the root). There isn't any gluten in there. Liquorice candies can then be made in all the ways candies can be made (including the uneatable one i.e. salmiakki), so gluten-free or not, but that's not the liquorice itself.
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@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@da-Doctah A place I used to work had a 5-pound (or whatever โ big) jar of Jelly Bellyยฎ jelly beans in the break room. (Happily for me, all flavors of Jelly Bellyยฎ are gluten-free, including licorice flavor โ which proves it's just flavor, not real licorice, which is definitely not gluten-free). I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If I remember, that one is a slight tone variation but they're both solid colors.
Not to us protanopes.
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If this is a real problem, you might try looking at them under a colored light. Monochromatic lighting makes the color differences stand out, but you may have to try a few colors.
Alternatively, color meters are a thing:
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@remi said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
which proves it's just flavor, not real licorice, which is definitely not gluten-free
Real liquorice is just the extract of the liquorice plant (the root). There isn't any gluten in there. Liquorice candies can then be made in all the ways candies can be made (including the uneatable one i.e. salmiakki), so gluten-free or not, but that's not the liquorice itself.
Salmiak is the food of the gods stolen for mankind.
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@acrow said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If this is a real problem, you might try looking at them under a colored light. Monochromatic lighting makes the color differences stand out, but you may have to try a few colors.
Alternatively, color meters are a thing:
This approach has legs, too. If insanely precise surface color metrics won't do it, the stuff you do with a vaporized sample is still, technically, checking the color, not tasting.
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@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@da-Doctah A place I used to work had a 5-pound (or whatever โ big) jar of Jelly Bellyยฎ jelly beans in the break room. (Happily for me, all flavors of Jelly Bellyยฎ are gluten-free, including licorice flavor โ which proves it's just flavor, not real licorice, which is definitely not gluten-free). I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If I remember, that one is a slight tone variation but they're both solid colors.
Not to us protanopes.
Git gud.
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@acrow said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If this is a real problem, you might try looking at them under a colored light. Monochromatic lighting makes the color differences stand out, but you may have to try a few colors.
Alternatively, color meters are a thing:
Or I can just, you know, taste it and spit it out if it's the one I don't like. Of course, I'd prefer not to do that, but it's much simpler and more practical than colorimetry.
IIRC, there is a difference, more in clarity than color, that I learned to recognize with careful examination. It's rather subtle, though, and not really noticeable at a glance. It takes practice. It's been a couple of years, though, since I had those available on a regular basis, and I'd have to train myself again.
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@acrow said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If this is a real problem, you might try looking at them under a colored light. Monochromatic lighting makes the color differences stand out, but you may have to try a few colors.
Alternatively, color meters are a thing:
Or I can just, you know, taste it and spit it out if it's the one I don't like. Of course, I'd prefer not to do that, but it's much simpler and more practical than colorimetry.
IIRC, there is a difference, more in clarity than color, that I learned to recognize with careful examination. It's rather subtle, though, and not really noticeable at a glance. It takes practice. It's been a couple of years, though, since I had those available on a regular basis, and I'd have to train myself again.
That'll never work. What you'll need is a half-perfect-white, half-vantablack observation box with separably movable intense point sources for at least each additive primary. And if these can't be converged, the implementation is stupid.
Don't forget polarization.
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@acrow said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I like root beer, but I dislike coffee flavor in any form, and you're right, they're almost impossible to tell apart.
If this is a real problem, you might try looking at them under a colored light. Monochromatic lighting makes the color differences stand out, but you may have to try a few colors.
Alternatively, color meters are a thing:
Or I can just, you know, taste it and spit it out if it's the one I don't like. Of course, I'd prefer not to do that, but it's much simpler and more practical than colorimetry.
IIRC, there is a difference, more in clarity than color, that I learned to recognize with careful examination. It's rather subtle, though, and not really noticeable at a glance. It takes practice. It's been a couple of years, though, since I had those available on a regular basis, and I'd have to train myself again.
I only eat jelly beans after my husband and/or kids have eaten all but licorice and cinnamon (though one of my kids likes these).
When I was a kid, trading would occur between siblings to give me all of the licorice because I was the only one that liked.
I am amused that I am picky as hell, but I like a taste that the majority of people don't (at least in the US).
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@Karla said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
but I like a taste that the majority of people don't (at least in the US).
Sounds like a win win situation. We need more like you.
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@Karla It's far from my favorite flavor, but I don't hate it, and I don't throw away the black jelly beans.
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Karla It's far from my favorite flavor, but I don't hate it, and I don't throw away the black jelly beans.
Buttered popcorn and toasted marshmallow may or may not be interchangeable.
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Um, I guess just stab some guy. Total stranger, maybe someplace public without a lot of security cameras. Or whatever. Definitely for no reason. And then I guess just leave.
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@HardwareGeek But you can automate the colorimetry, unlike the taste testing.
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@acrow you can too automate the taste testing! You reduce it to colorimetry, fine, but spectrometry can tell you more or less the taste.
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@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
spectrometry can tell you more or less the taste
Yes, but those machines cost a whole lot more (and some parts of the taste are not very volatile until you chew, which makes everything messy to simulate in the spectrometer; you literally get gunk all over the inside of the system and have to clean it out periodically).
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@acrow said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek But you can automate the colorimetry, unlike the taste testing.
I eat them in color order according to the resistor color code (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white), after equalizing the number of each color in the sample by eating the more numerous ones (also in color order). I am disappoint that black, violet, gray and white M&Ms are not included in the standard color assortment, although TIL you can buy individual colors that include all of the missing colors. I, um, might need to do that someday.
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@acrow said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek But you can automate the colorimetry, unlike the taste testing.
I eat them in color order according to the resistor color code (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white), after equalizing the number of each color in the sample by eating the more numerous ones (also in color order). I am disappoint that black, violet, gray and white M&Ms are not included in the standard color assortment, although TIL you can buy individual colors that include all of the missing colors. I, um, might need to do that someday.
Violet and white are available in the Easter assortment.
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Cross-linking conspiracy theories remains entertaining. Seeing if I can get zombies into the news this year.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Karla said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
but I like a taste that the majority of people don't (at least in the US).
Sounds like a win win situation. We need more like you.
This is why, when I worked in an office where they'd order a variety of pizzas for the occasional launch party, I'd always request one with sausage, mushroom, olives and anchovies.
It's not that I particularly crave anchovies, but unlike other people I can take or leave them, and it keeps others from taking the pizza I like and leaving me with crappy veggie or pineapple abominations.
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@Gribnit said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I eat them in color order according to the resistor color code (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white), after equalizing the number of each color in the sample by eating the more numerous ones (also in color order). I am disappoint that black, violet, gray and white M&Ms are not included in the standard color assortment, although TIL you can buy individual colors that include all of the missing colors. I, um, might need to do that someday.
Violet and white are available in the Easter assortment.
But you still can't get tan, which they eliminated in order to add blue to the palette. Not even as a custom color, although they somehow felt it was necessary to have six different shades of green.
BTW, why resistor color-code order? Why not pool ball color order, or stellar-class color order? Or even Cuisenaire rod color order? (Do synesthetes have different color/number associations depending on which of these sources influenced them early in life?)
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@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
BTW, why resistor color-code order? Why not pool ball color order, or stellar-class color order? Or even Cuisenaire rod color order?
@HardwareGeek's name isn't @PoolhallGeek
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@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I'd always request one with sausage, mushroom, olives and anchovies.
Blherk!
I hate olives and mushrooms.
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@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
Cuisenaire rod color order?
Well I don't remember that. And I'm not going to.
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@dcon said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
BTW, why resistor color-code order? Why not pool ball color order, or stellar-class color order? Or even Cuisenaire rod color order?
@HardwareGeek's name isn't @PoolhallGeek
It's also electromagnetic spectrum order (with black, brown, gray and white tacked onto the ends).
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@HardwareGeek said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@acrow said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@HardwareGeek But you can automate the colorimetry, unlike the taste testing.
I eat them in color order according to the resistor color code (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white), after equalizing the number of each color in the sample by eating the more numerous ones (also in color order). I am disappoint that black, violet, gray and white M&Ms are not included in the standard color assortment, although TIL you can buy individual colors that include all of the missing colors. I, um, might need to do that someday.
I eat them color order by least favorite flavor to favorite flavor. Saving the best for last was something I did since I was a kid.
I do it for anything that comes in multiple flavors.
Always a pet peeve when someone asks me for some and all is left is my favorite flavors.
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@Zecc said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
I'd always request one with sausage, mushroom, olives and anchovies.
Blherk!
I hate olives and mushrooms.
I hate olives but like mushrooms.
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@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
[pizza] with sausage, mushroom, olives and anchovies.
Meat and fish at the same time? Aan odd combination!
It wouldn't be safe from me. Even with mushrooms (normally something I dislike) I'd eat it and be very happy. If you wanted to make it so I won't touch that pizza, you need to also add cheap barbecue sauce. Some things just don't belong on a pizza base ever.
(One of my favourite pizza types is tuna, anchovy and olive. Just thinking about it makes me hungry...)
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@dkf said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
[pizza] with sausage, mushroom, olives and anchovies.
Meat and fish at the same time? Aan odd combination!
Life hack for the poke restaurant: typical menu item is "two proteins". I usually pick ahi and shrimp. Then after they add the dressing, all the further toppings are no charge. So along with my seaweed, sesame seeds, chopped onions, pickled ginger and whatnot, I always ask for masago.
That's fish eggs. And eggs of any kind, being reproductive material, are basically pure protein. So I get three proteins for the price of two.
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@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@dkf said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@da-Doctah said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
[pizza] with sausage, mushroom, olives and anchovies.
Meat and fish at the same time? Aan odd combination!
Life hack for the poke restaurant: typical menu item is "two proteins". I usually pick ahi and shrimp. Then after they add the dressing, all the further toppings are no charge. So along with my seaweed, sesame seeds, chopped onions, pickled ginger and whatnot, I always ask for masago.
That's fish eggs. And eggs of any kind, being reproductive material, are basically pure protein. So I get three proteins for the price of two.
A whole damn can of tuna costs like 75 cents.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Zecc said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
olives
I have to be in the right mood...
Same here. For me, that mood is "awake".
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@Bim-Zively said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
@Zecc said in ๐ The Evil Ideas thread:
olives
I have to be in the right mood...
Same here. For me, that mood is "awake".
California process olives, are bad, please proceed.
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Idea: Gin up a surge of popularity for MUMPS.
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