⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
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Well, the idea was that you could have negative karma, hence the signed bit. That part they got right.
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Whatever it was, someone fucked up slightly when setting up the DB: the karma field was an 8bit signed integer...
Clearly it should have been a 9¾-bit signed integer…
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Yeah, that could have been SMF, though if it was SMF, they used smallints to represent both positive and negative separately. At least it was from 1.0.5 onwards, can 't verify before that without effort.
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Clearly it should have been a 9¾-bit signed integer…
That took a while to connect in my brain. Damn imperial units...
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I see no AT-ATs or stormtroopers?
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Yeah, that could have been SMF, though if it was SMF, they used smallints to represent both positive and negative separately.
That seems appropriate. Good karma doesn't cancel out bad karma, IIRC. You have to get through it all before Nirvana.
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You have to get through it all before Nirvana.
Too late. Nirvana started in 1987 and ended in 1994.
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I'm hoping for a comeback tour soon.
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I'm hoping for a comeback tour soon.
It happened with Alice in Chains.
Unlike Nirvana, Alice in Chains is actually good music...mostly
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I'm hoping for a comeback tour soon.
Apparently, the surviving members are still
cashing in on their notorietyperforming together occasionally, if not actually touring.Unlike Nirvana, Alice in Chains is actually good music
I wouldn't know; neither of them are anywhere near my preferred styles of music. Were it not for the fact that I now live in the Seattle area, I probably wouldn't even know who Nirvana were.
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neither of them are anywhere near my preferred styles of music
Same here, however I like Alice in Chains' hits. They also have some real crap too.
Nirvana makes me change the radio station. I think all the local rock/metal stations conspire against me because they all play Nirvana at the same time and then I just turn the radio off. And I'm really annoyed that the classic rock station plays Nirvana and Pearl Jam now. They aren't classic rock!!!!!
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I was on a Nirvana kick the past month or so.
Welp time to listen to Lithium again.
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classic rock
Is about as nebulous of a term as "alternative <whatever>".
So if it becomes popular in a few years, what then? They magically transformed into a different genre while still playing the same kind of music?
Filed under: Future pop
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'Classic Rock' basically means rock old enough to no longer need an MOT ;)
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You could just say inspection and then everyone would know what you're talking about instead of having to googol it.
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'Classic Rock' basically means rock old enough
Considering people who weren't even born when Cobain died are now old enough to drink legally in even the most restrictive jurisdictions, I think it probably qualifies.
to no longer need an MOT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mot_(Semitic_god)
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What's the connection again?
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What's the connection again?
Ministry Of Transport inspection. I'm not sure what that has to do with being old. I guess old cars don't need them, or something.
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So what you're saying is that the sports car topic is leaking over here for some reason?
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TRWTF is you don't require yearly inspections until 3 years have passed.
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TRWTF is you don't require yearly inspections until 3 years have passed.
Who is this "you" that you speak of?
Filed Under: Provincial is as blakeyrat does
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Ministry Of Transport inspection
Motor Ordinance Test. Old enough cars don't need one
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UK
Actually, TRWTF is all the states in grey and only yellow here:
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Motor Ordnance Test.
That's how I read it in the first place. Today is not starting out to be a good day for reading comprehension.
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I wouldn't know; neither of them are anywhere near my preferred styles of music. Were it not for the fact that I now live in the Seattle area, I probably wouldn't even know who Nirvana were.
I'm sorry, the Seattle area has decided to unilaterally reject you.
It's illegal to not like Nirvana.
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Washington shouldn't be all yellow, only some counties have emission inspections.
EDIT: oh nevermind, the key is correct "inspections in SOME areas". The dark mustard yellow is for states that require it in all areas.
Now I'd love to hear why that's a WTF.
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Maybe I'm just whining because I have to fork out $30/year to do this.
That or I'd make a good politician.
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Now I'd love to hear why that's a WTF.
An annual inspection of the vehicle to see if the basic safety features (e.g., brakes, mirrors) are up to scratch is not a bad idea at all. Unless the vehicle isn't on the public highway, in which case who cares? Having it enforced by law is only necessary because some jerkwads wouldn't otherwise get their brakes checked and would end up a hazard to everyone else. (There will still be some of those stupid asses about, but there'll be fewer.)
Or so the theory goes. I can't be bothered to check if there are figures for if it is true or not.
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Most vehicle "inspections" I've had involved a transfer of money and a transfer of a little legally-required plastic sticker, and no inspection.
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Last time I had my car inspected a very disgruntled worker made me get out of my car and stand inside a very small yellow square for 5 minutes while they plugged into the ODB-II port and did whatever else.
Yet another thing that makes me glad I moved to a Sufficiently Rural™ part of Snohomish County and don't have to deal with that crap anymore.
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a very disgruntled worker made me get out of my car and stand inside a very small yellow square for 5 minutes while they plugged into the ODB-II port and did whatever else.
I've lived here a sufficiently short time that I've only had to do that once (well, twice if you count that it failed the first time and I had to come back for a reinspection). At least the yellow square was big enough to have a chair in it, so that I could sit down while the worker did the inspection.
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Most vehicle "inspections" I've had involved a transfer of money and a transfer of a little legally-required plastic sticker, and no inspection.
Ah, I've see you've spent time in Massachusetts!
Here in Texas, the process seems a little less corrupt.
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stand inside a very small yellow square
Were there four large capital S's on your receipt or something?
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Just heard a commercial for a newspaper on the radio. Went something like "When did you last read an article all the way through?"
I was seriously considering trolling them by suggesting Infiniscroll™ for a minute there.
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ah... love that movie.
sci-fi, absolutely bonkers plot. deliciously bad acting, a wonderful mix of brilliant and terrible special effects, tons of hidden homages and cameos... it's glorious!
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YKYBSTMTOTDWTFW you dream of creating forum software and one of the features is a FTFY button which will wrap the selected text with a <del> tag and leave the text cursor after it (surrounded by a <ins> tag).
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Ooooh!
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
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Bonus points if you manage to inject it into the quote reply thingy too.
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That might look weird, even if I do.
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Yet another thing that makes me glad I moved to a Sufficiently Rural™ part of Snohomish County and don't have to deal with that crap anymore.
All of Snohomish County requires emissions.
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Just heard a commercial for a newspaper on the radio.
Does the newspaper run ads for home ice delivery?
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Does the newspaper run ads for home ice delivery?
Just look it up in the Yellow Pages.
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All of Snohomish County requires emissions.
Negative: http://www.emissiontestwa.com/e/ZipCodes/Zip_codes07.pdf from here For example Monroe (98272), Sultan (98294) and Index (98256) are not on the list.