The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier the reader, after reading that exchange, is looking for a discord alternative.
I can't imaging Skype would be a good alternative to Twitter...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier the reader, after reading that exchange, is looking for a discord alternative.
I can't imaging Skype would be a good alternative to Twitter...
I don't think you can read the discord twitter account from Skype, at least
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@topspin To be fair, expressing that in milli-washing machines would have been ridiculous.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This guy gets it:
Except for the Y and Z axes being swapped.
I know, that's the way OpenGL defines them. That doesn't make it right.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Except for the Y and Z axes being swapped.
I know, that's the way OpenGL defines them. That doesn't make it right.Eh?
Cartesian coordinates are rectilinear two- or three-dimensional coordinates (and therefore a special case of curvilinear coordinates) which are also called rectangular coordinates. The two axes of two-dimensional Cartesian coordinates, conventionally denoted the x- and y-axes (a notation due to Descartes), are chosen to be linear and mutually perpendicular. Typically, the x-axis is thought of as the "left and right" or horizontal axis while the y-axis is thought of as the "up and down" or vertical axis. In two dimensions, the coordinates x and y may lie anywhere in the interval (-infty,infty), and an ordered pair (x,y) in two-dimensional Cartesian coordinates is often called a point or a 2-vector.
The three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system is a natural extension of the two-dimensional version formed by the addition of a third "in and out" axis mutually perpendicular to the x- and y-axes defined above. This new axis is conventionally referred to as the z-axis and the coordinate z may lie anywhere in the interval (-infty,infty). An ordered triple (x,y,z) in three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates is often called a point or a 3-vector.
Seems right to me.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This guy gets it:
Except for the Y and Z axes being swapped.
I know, that's the way OpenGL defines them. That doesn't make it right.
And every other window system (cf. z order). When you’re only talking about two dimensional things (e.g. graphs) you’re usually using x/y. I know some engineers actually label two-dimensional graphs as x/z, but that’s just weird.
So it makes sense to keep the x-/y-coordinates as they are when adding a third dimension and making the new dimension the z one.Anyways, as long as your system is right-handed, it shouldn’t really matter.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Anyways, as long as your system is right-handed, it shouldn’t really matter.
That depends on the camera operator doesn't it?
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And every other window system (cf. z order). When you’re only talking about two dimensional things (e.g. graphs) you’re usually using x/y.
For screen/window coordinates, yes, it makes a certain amount of sense. But the context was movement in the real world. XY plane is the surface over which humans typically move, i. e., the local earth surface. The 3rd dimension is the one in which humans have only very limited movement, up/down.
Although, come to think of it, the 3D software I use does define the camera object's local Z axis pointing opposite the camera's direction of view (i.e., out of the screen), so camera movements in the camera's own, local coordinate system are as defined by the engineering student, but the global coordinate system (which I tend to use 90%+ of the time) still uses the XY plane as the "floor" and Z as vertical.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Here's a version so people like me can actually see it:
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No, only with things that are essentially uniform in size, like washing machines. Or, as George Carlin once pointed out, frozen peas.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I assume that's length and not depth?
(as they're not giving the measurement in fridges)
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@Zecc
Isn't depth measured in dryers?
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No, only with things that are essentially uniform in size, like washing machines.
Coincidentally, Americans measure the size of washing machines in loads.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Americans measure the size of washing machines in loads
And a load being defined as a single pair of American size jeans
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No, only with things that are essentially uniform in size, like washing machines.
Coincidentally, Americans measure the size of washing machines in loads.
Next you'll be telling me they measure shoe sizes in feet.
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@PleegWat Well yeah, shoe size is usually 1. But since that measurement varies from person to person, they have to use a universally consistent measurement like washing machines to express the size of sinkholes.
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It's true that he was ahead of his time
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It was a good try.
The ones that work are like.
"You can feel your tongue inside your mouth and are aware of it now."
And
"You now feel the need to breathe and are aware of every breath."
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error_bot !xkcd November
Fucking hell it's broken again? Goddammit.
Get @error some free hosting then!
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@Gąska summoned @error_bot, but even so it did not appear.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's true that he was ahead of his time
Why doth William - who shaketh his spear - use such a vernacular language?
Methinks a man like him ought to speak in more elaborate words.Oh loh! Thou user of the internets!
An error hath occured
when the secure connection layer
was scheduled to be established.
Behold! And takest thou duly care:
Thy computer and the server -
they are unsecurely connected.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska summoned @error_bot, but even so it did not appear.
Well, I did it more to have an excuse to complain rather than to post the comic that everyone already knows anyway. (Note the lack of edits.)
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
[link to bare xkcd .png]
Damn you, now you made me google it just so I can read the alt text. Hope your happy, destroyer of
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@ixvedeusi I know it's too late for you, but I've fixed that for others.
Filed under: Mutual destruction.
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It seems like just undocking my laptop is enough to permanently disconnect socket.io.
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It seems like just undocking my laptop is enough to permanently disconnect socket.io.
Let me guess, you have a wired network hookup?
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@Tsaukpaetra @Polygeekery must be around
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@PJH There is now a level 0.
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@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
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I'm "had a Geocities page with a blinking star background under dark green font" years old.
Also, "Still had a rotary phone as a kid" years old
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@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
Me too! We must be twins!
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@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a
YahooAOL email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.Well I used to, it seems. GuideUKPJ no longer exists...
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@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
I'm "I have a bigfoot address because Yahoo didn't exist yet" years old. (At least I think I still do - assuming they still exist)