The Quixotic Ideas Thread
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Every 50 to 100 years, the government should ban every computer standard that exists: processor architectures, programming languages, file formats, databases, everything. All of that would be redesigned from scratch, with the knowledge acquired during that period.
This would finally eliminate all the bad decisions we have to carry for backward compatibility reasons.
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@anonymous234 It would also mean our processor technology is n*50 years behind other countries'.
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Every 50 to 100 years, the government should ban every computer standard that exists: processor architectures, programming languages, file formats, databases, everything. All of that would be redesigned from scratch, with the knowledge acquired during that period.
This would finally eliminate all the bad decisions we have to carry for backward compatibility reasons.
Yeah, and not only that, they should ban importing from the old format and require all documents under the old format to be destroyed. Books, movies, TV shows, too.
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@CoyneTheDup well, you're the guys with all the nukes...
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@fbmac said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@CoyneTheDup well, you're the guys with all the nukes...
Who needs nukes when we have stupid laws?
Ummm...stupid laws in general, not the one @anonymous234 proposed in particular.
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[Washington DC] Metro’s top officials warned Wednesday that the transit system is in such need of repair that they might shut down entire rail lines for as long as six months for maintenance, potentially snarling thousands of daily commutes and worsening congestion in the already traffic-clogged region.
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So, someone bid to build a plant to produce the electricity with a ridiculously low number.
Developers bid as little as 2.99 cents a kilowatt-hour to develop 800 megawatts of solar-power projects for the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority, the utility for the Persian Gulf emirate, announced on Sunday. That’s 15 percent lower than the previous record set in Mexico last month, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
The lowest priced solar power has plunged almost 50 percent in the past year. Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power International set a record in January 2015 by offering to build a portion of the same Dubai solar park for power priced at 5.85 cents per kilowatt-hour. Records were subsequently set in Peru and Mexico before Dubai reclaimed its mantel as purveyor of the world’s cheapest solar power.
This isn't a price for power until actual power is generated and transmitted.
And the prize for accidental (I think) honesty goes to Jenny Chase:
“This bid tells us that some bidders are willing to risk a lot for the prestige of being the cheapest solar developer,” said Jenny Chase, head of solar analysis at BNEF. “Nobody knows how it’s meant to work.”
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Weird.
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@Buddy You can't get anyone to finance old energy any more.
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@boomzilla yes, but did you see how they quoted themselves as a source of information? Is it just me or is that unnecessary? You don't need to tell people when something is according to you; you just say it, and then people will know that that's your opinion because you're the one saying it.
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Not sure if good or bad idea, so I put it here.
How to turn IKEA bags into a traditional Swedish folk costume.
Also, a site called "IKEA Hackers".
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@Zecc Typical , you still have to assemble it yourself.
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@blakeyrat said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
I'd also argue that Libertarianism isn't "well-intentioned", but now you've thrown the entire thread into doubt! Gasp!
And what about objectivism?
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Statue of David action figure:
Don't worry, there's also Venus de Milo, The Vitruvian Man (both with detachable arms) and Rodin's Thinker:
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@Zecc They have articulation, yes?
I need the Thinker, so I can pose him in a facepalm position and keep on my desk...
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I HAVE ONE.
MarvinBB. A forum where all the UI text mocks you for being stupid and depressed because it's the forum of Marvin The Paranoid Android.
Instead of 'Are you sure you want to delete that thread?' it'll be 'Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and you want me to delete that thread. Call that job satisfaction?'
And where it has the capacity to cope with as many posts as you want - but it will tell you that some of them are stupid, and that you gave it a headache trying to think down to your level.
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@Arantor said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
I HAVE ONE.
MarvinBB. A forum where all the UI text mocks you for being stupid and depressed because it's the forum of Marvin The Paranoid Android.
Instead of 'Are you sure you want to delete that thread?' it'll be 'Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and you want me to delete that thread. Call that job satisfaction?'
And where it has the capacity to cope with as many posts as you want - but it will tell you that some of them are stupid, and that you gave it a headache trying to think down to your level.
We already have a rat for that. It's more than enough most days. ..
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@Tsaukpaetra yes but unlike the rat, it wouldn't then insult you for being on the wrong side of where the goal posts are now.
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@Arantor Then I don't think we would want it here.
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@boomzilla It wouldn't want to deal with such depressingly stupid people as us.
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@anotherusername Yes.
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Sometimes I hate you people.
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@Magus That's OK, I hate me, too.
As for Quixotic Ideas, well, everything I've ever said here probably counts.
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@Magus said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Sometimes I hate you people.
Yeah. Luckily enough, this isn't the Funny Stuff thread, so I can really complain because it's expected to host images on IMGUR in the FUNNY STUFF THREAD!!!!
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@Fox You try that today on a horse they'll still charge you with DUI. Which probably isn't fair, since the horse is driving. Might be fun to try to fight that one in court. "Your honor, I clearly wasn't driving because I was unconscious."
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A processor that can directly run not Java bytecode, but Java source code.
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@anonymous234 Didn't Burroughs make something like that for Algol-60 sometime around 1966?
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A programming language that compiles to a 3D model of an Analytical Engine, or any other mechanical computer, that is then either run inside a physics simulator or 3D printed.
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
A programming language that compiles to a 3D model of an Analytical Engine, or any other mechanical computer, that is then either run inside a physics simulator or 3D printed.
Already done, sort of. Ada Lovelace created an algorithm (pic below) that was designed to be run by the Analytical Engine. It's a sort of machine code and references variables, so just target that with your compiler.
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
A programming language that compiles to a 3D model of an Analytical Engine, or any other mechanical computer, that is then either run inside a physics simulator or 3D printed.
And then make a talking book with it.
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It's like Uber, but for Uber drivers who need a ride to work.
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California should secede the USA and join the EU.
It's a bit far but we'll make it work.
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@anonymous234 Australia have taken part in Eurovision twice now, and will do so again this year. Also, they finished second last year.
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Millennials expect to retire at 59, two years younger than the working age average of 61.
The survey of over 18,000 people in 16 countries finds that only 10% of Millennials expect to continue working after 65
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@boomzilla said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
only 10% of Millennials expect to continue working after 65
Lol tell me how that goes, k? :D
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I was just looking for a thread like this, but for meta:
I want a delayed-downvote button that will downvote a post as soon as it gets at least one upvote - I don't want to move it to -1 myself but I wouldn't want someone else to move it to 1 that easily...
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@boomzilla Eh, my savings rate is lower than I want it to be right now, but it was at 65% for a few years. And the analyst market is heating up, so I'll get a raise in the next 6 months.
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@boomzilla said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Millennials expect to retire at 59, two years younger than the working age average of 61.
The survey of over 18,000 people in 16 countries finds that only 10% of Millennials expect to continue working after 65
Really?
I think I qualify as a milennial, bring born in 1985, and I fully expect to be working at least until 70. Seems a fair trade for increased life expectancy IMO
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@Jaloopa said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Millennials expect to retire at 59, two years younger than the working age average of 61.
The survey of over 18,000 people in 16 countries finds that only 10% of Millennials expect to continue working after 65
Really?
I think I qualify as a milennial, bring born in 1985, and I fully expect to be working at least until 70. Seems a fair trade for increased life expectancy IMO
Welcome to the 10%!
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@RaceProUK said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
1985 is best year
I rather enjoyed it. No more school!!!
Well, until I went back for my masters a couple years later...
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Are there any Text to Speech programs that correctly pronounce the name "Raymond Luxury Yacht"?
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@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Are there any Text to Speech programs that correctly pronounce the name "Raymond Luxury Yacht"?
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FFS. Fat fingers!
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@jaloopa said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
I think I qualify as a milennial, bring born in 1985, and I fully expect to be working at least until 70. Seems a fair trade for increased life expectancy IMO
I'm very near the dividing line so I dunno who I should blame for things