The Quixotic Ideas Thread
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@pjh said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@pjh I see your credit cards use the "Linux file name" standard of allowed characters.
The spaces? I put them in to make it more readable...
I've never seen a non-Arabic-decimal credit card number before.
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@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@pjh said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@pjh I see your credit cards use the "Linux file name" standard of allowed characters.
The spaces? I put them in to make it more readable...
I've never seen a non-Arabic-decimal credit card number before.
Roman numerals make it interesting...
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@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@pjh said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@pjh I see your credit cards use the "Linux file name" standard of allowed characters.
The spaces? I put them in to make it more readable...
I've never seen a non-Arabic-decimal credit card number before.
I considered using Braille as well.
After I'd posted.
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@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
We're not picky about which 4 digits.
How about these digits?
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@zecc That looks like a @blubar type of project if ever I saw one.
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@zecc 0/10, no accompanying
libbase💯
crate for people who need to use the library.
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I just saw an ad for the following product:
Wendy's Giant Junior Bacon Cheeseburger
...why?
Why not just make a normal bacon cheeseburger? Why do you need to make a small version of a bacon cheeseburger and then double its height?
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The Scientifically Sound Paleo Diet
- Eat only foods that a paleontologist would eat.
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If you have red hair, you can continue shaving after you've fully removed your facial hair to undo the shaving.
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@boomzilla said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
but we'll manufacture it from algae or something instead of refining it from petroleum.
you know..... there's an interesting idea..... because presumably the algae would require carbon dioxide to create the complex hyrocarbons.... if we could manage to make such an operation have significant efficiency, say 20% or less energy losses in the creation process, and be cheap enough we could replace oil drilling with this sort of technology and stabilize CO2 levels.... because we keep recycling our carbon instead of digging it up.
it's an interesting enough idea that i'd be interested to help fund some research in that direction....
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@accalia said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
it's an interesting enough idea that i'd be interested to help fund some research in that direction....
Well, keep paying your taxes, I guess...
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taxes.......
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flee?
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@zecc said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
creating a phone simulator
Thanks for reminding me of the horrors of the IBM software that came preinstalled on my first computer. Although I did try making phonecall with that phone program once. And I received a fax with the fax program. And I ran away from the horrors of Lotus very fast.
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I don't know about you, but I for one am tired of leaving my keys just laying around on a flat surface like a caveman, so I came up with this new system to store small metallic objects:
- Line the ceiling with a bunch of small electromagnetic plates
- Set up a Kinect-like camera system that can recognize your position and gestures
Now you can simply throw your keys up in the air and have them stick to the ceiling. When you want them back, simply open your hand underneath them, the system will detect that and disable the electromagnet, dropping them right into your hand.
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
dropping them right
into your handon your head.
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@luhmann said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
dropping them right
into your handon your head.And all over the place, if you're the type to talk with your hands. Or anyone else in the household is.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Or anyone else in the household is a dick.
I'm starting to like this idea ...
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@anonymous234 How about a "Jump to Your Keys" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different keys on it that you could JUMP TO.
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@luhmann Might as well skip the electromagnets and just place turret-mounted BB guns on every room. Now you can program an AI to detect naughty behavior (such as not washing your hands in the toilet, eating too many cookies or plotting rebellion against your AI overlord) and fire a punishment round at you.
I think this should go in "the dystopic ideas thread".
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@atazhaia said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@zecc said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
creating a phone simulator
Thanks for reminding me of the horrors of the IBM software that came preinstalled on my first computer. Although I did try making phonecall with that phone program once. And I received a fax with the fax program. And I ran away from the horrors of Lotus very fast.
TIL that there are still several mirrors of the Interface Hall of Shame article on IBM Realphone from 1997.
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Now you can program an AI to detect naughty behavior (such as not washing your hands in the toilet ...)
Wait, wait, what?
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@masonwheeler Bathroom. Mistake.
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@anonymous234 OK, that makes more sense.
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Quixotic idea of the day: rather than complicated taxes to slowly take everyone's money, the government should simply take all property every 50 years.
That's an interesting twist on the Jewish Jubilee year...
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@pjh said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Please enter 4 digits of a credit card number.
We're not picky about which 4 digits.
Or which credit card.٣ VI 0xA 四
"3 6 10 4"
...wait, 10 is a digit?
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Now you can simply throw your keys up in the air and have them stick to the ceiling.
Except that most keys are made of brass, which is not attracted to magnets. In fact, brass is diamagnetic, meaning it is (very, very, very slightly) repelled by a magnetic field (unless the brass alloy is contaminated by iron, in which case it may be very, very slightly attracted — on the order of 0.000000001 as much as iron is attracted).
The key ring may stick, if the keys aren't too heavy, but the keys themselves, mostly not.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Now you can simply throw your keys up in the air and have them stick to the ceiling.
Except that most keys are made of brass, which is not attracted to magnets. In fact, brass is diamagnetic, meaning it is (very, very, very slightly) repelled by a magnetic field (unless the brass alloy is contaminated by iron, in which case it may be very, very slightly attracted — on the order of 0.000000001 as much as iron is attracted).
The key ring may stick, if the keys aren't too heavy, but the keys themselves, mostly not.
Yes, I take advantage of that myself. I have a magnet recovered from a failed hard drive that I use as a toss point for my keys, works great! And since it's just the ring, it's not too hard to pull back off.
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@anotherusername said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@pjh said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Please enter 4 digits of a credit card number.
We're not picky about which 4 digits.
Or which credit card.٣ VI 0xA 四
"3 6 10 4"
...wait, 10 is a digit?
In hexadecimal, yes. 35 is a single digit in hexatridecimal. 61 is a single digit in duosexagesimal.
This really shouldn't be news to you....
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@pjh in hex it's one digit, but it represents two digits of the credit card number. Credit card numbers consist of decimal digits on every credit card I've ever seen.
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@pjh Hex 10 is decimal 16. Different numeral systems (almost) always use different glyphs for numbers above 9.
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@pleegwat said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@pjh Hex 10 is decimal 16.
... and? We were talking about 1010 not 1016
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Apparently this has been going on for a few years, people doing marathon sessions for charity using the intentionally created worst game ever:
For those who don't know the game being played at that event: it's a simulator of driving a bus through a desolate landscape and it must be played for 8+ hours in one sitting. It was made as a statement that games which are 100% absolutely non-offensive and 100% reflecting reality would be boring.
Case in point: the bus pulls to the right and you can't pause the game, so if you leave game alone the bus crashes on the right side of the road and you need to be towed back to the starting line:
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Idea: A Twitter bot that randomly selects tweets and replies to them with zero-information responses like "huge if true" or "it was inevitable".
Idea: A Twitter bot that pedantically corrects the spelling of a word that was not used in the entire thread of tweets it is replying to.
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Idea: This product is brought to you by Machine Learning, Al, and Al's friend Bob.
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@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Idea: A Twitter bot that randomly selects tweets from Donald Trump and replies to them with zero-information responses like "huge if true" or "it was inevitable".
I improved it!
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@ben_lubar said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
A Twitter bot that randomly selects tweets and replies to them with zero-information responses like "huge if true"
Speaking of:
"The meth doesn't make me crazy, man," the Sheriff's Department says the man told the deputy. "The lizard people are real!"
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Question for Dark Souls fans:
Does Steve Bannon have too little humanity or too much?
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@boomzilla said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
:O Did he recently move in from Florida or something?
"The meth doesn't make me crazy, man," the Sheriff's Department says the man told the deputy. "The lizard people are real!"
...oh. Meth. Yeah, that'll do it.
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idea: a device that presents a SATA or IDE interface to the host, sourced by an iSCSI connection (either by Wi-Fi or Ethernet). Essentially, enabling iSCSI at the hardware level.
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@tsaukpaetra
This would qualify for either the Bad or Evil Ideas threads, but it's a little out of place here...
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@izzion said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
This would qualify for either the Bad or Evil Ideas threads, but it's a little out of place here...I refer the OP
@antiquarian said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
This thread is for well-intentioned ideas that for whatever reason, have little or no chance at widespread adoption,
The intention is well-meaning, enabling any device with a SATA or IDE input to have a bootable network-based drive (I was working on a similar project using iPXE that worked fairly well, actually) with no hassle (unless the network was down).
Won't be adopted because who boots stuff off the Internet?
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Because I am every but as crazy as Geri or ~, but at least I now have the experience to recognize it in myself.
That, and I didn't assume that it was a great idea, even 20 years ago - I was floating it as an idea worth considering, not something that needed to be done right this second. I have since learned a tiny bit about real-world CPU architecture, and have at least an inkling of the flaws in the idea, but even then, I knew it probably had flaws.
And yes, as I said elsewhere, this was me kinda-sorta grasping towards something similar to the 'belt machine' model of the Mill, but... well, stupidly and not very well.
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Re: The Linux command line sucks
TDWTF designs and implements an operating system.
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@zecc The Holy Shit That's A Great Idea Thread is over there
/flrrd
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A movie about a baseball player named Bruce who is angry at an arachnologist named Peter.
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@ben_lubar I guess the sequel could then feature Clark the gas station attendant.
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Man glues matches into a sphere:
https://imgur.com/gallery/RXbEb
Sets it on fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxRnodaKzE
One commenter asked the important question though:
It kills me you didn't light that by rubbing the striking pad on the ball.
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@jbert Cue the John Williams soundtrack sting.
This is the alternate universe in which Dr. Fermi won the bet. Too bad he couldn't collect on it.
Also, this is even funnier if you have seen certain pictures of Uranus in which the outer cloud deck looks greenish rather than blue-ish:
WORST. HEMORRHOIDS. EVER.I am impressed with the structural integrity of the sphere, though, holding together even after the tips of the matches had mostly burned away.