The Quixotic Ideas Thread
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A browser plugin that automatically tries to detect steganographically-hidden images, on the off chance you come across one.
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@kazitor I like it. I will start making steganographed images if that gets around.
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@kazitor How often do you see pictures with a hidden dinosaur, though?
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@hungrier Well, there's this:
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@kazitor Alternate ending:
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@hungrier Better ending:
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@antiquarian At the end of every civil court session, require each party to accurately and to reasonable precision summarize their expenses so far on the case
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@PleegWat said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
I'm not sure whether to be fascinated or horrified.
Yes?
Well, actually that depends on what it's made with. Metal or plastic. And how much twisting can it take.
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@dcon said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
I'm not sure whether to be fascinated or horrified.
Yes?
Well, actually that depends on what it's made with. Metal or plastic. And how much twisting can it take.
Looking at those pictures: both, none.
It's neat to see we've gone back to what we had with PCMCIA cards, though. I'd suggest including a dongle instead of a pop-out port, but I think the USB folks have that market covered.
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@Parody said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@dcon said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
I'm not sure whether to be fascinated or horrified.
Yes?
Well, actually that depends on what it's made with. Metal or plastic. And how much twisting can it take.
Looking at those pictures: both, none.
It's neat to see we've gone back to what we had with PCMCIA cards, though. I'd suggest including a dongle instead of a pop-out port, but I think the USB folks have that market covered.
Well, with M.2 in theory....
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@Tsaukpaetra Oooooo, the digital version of a Talking Stick!
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@boomzilla I think that's just a bad idea.
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@kazitor
I'm dissapointed he failed at making it as a Darwin Award nominee
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@boomzilla I think we have greatly different ideas of what "quixotic" means.
Also... if I'm reading the article correctly, it sounds like his problem was basically an abscess that developed due to him inadvertently injecting air along with the semen?
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@brie said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
I think we have greatly different ideas of what "quixotic" means.
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Possessing or acting with the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality; exceedingly idealistic.
Injecting semen into your arm because it sounds like a good idea and you think it'll cure your back pain sounds like it matches zero of those things.
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@brie said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Possessing or acting with the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality; exceedingly idealistic.
Injecting semen into your arm because it sounds like a good idea and you think it'll cure your back pain sounds like it matches zero of those things.
it matches a lack of thought of realism or practicality.
Obviously should have been injecting it into his back.
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@Gribnit have you ever tried giving yourself an injection in your own back? It's not easy...
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SublimeText doesn't appear to support C trigraphs. Perhaps I should submit a PR.
Haha just kidding the included syntaxes are a mess.
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@kazitor You still have to support non-ascii/unicode systems? Poor you.
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@PleegWat I don't, fortunately. Earlier I saw mention of them and was just curious whether Sublime could handle it. I vaguely recall trying it some time ago too.
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@kazitor said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Haha just kidding the included syntaxes are a mess.
It just occurred to me: syntax highlighting/parsing in Sublime Text is done via regex. Now what have we heard about parsing things with regular expressions?
There are a fair few lookahead expressions too. Ouch. IMHO some sort of EBNF-like grammar would be best, though I don't know how difficult that would make it for the matching engine.
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@kazitor Well it's not too surprising if it doesn't because the only reason to use trigraphs is if your character set doesn't include the actual glyphs. IIRC the main case was EBCDIC. Practically everything these days uses either something ascii-compatible (iso-latin-* or utf8) or utf-16. Neither of which have the problem.
Even bloody
vim
doesn't support trigraphs.
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@kazitor said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
SublimeText doesn't appear to support C trigraphs.
I don't support them either.
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Digital clock made out of ping pong balls & eyescorching leds:
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@izzion eh...it'll happen. Is happening.
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@boomzilla Online gamers aren't going to like the ping times, though — 2600 ms round-trip to the moon, 400000 ms round-trip to Mars.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@boomzilla Online gamers aren't going to like the ping times, though — 2600 ms round-trip to the moon, 400000 ms round-trip to Mars.
Even Ben has better ping's than that. Usually.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
the ping times
Just make the window massive, it will be alright, right?
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So there's some code in place to detect posting screenshots of the lounge, mafia and something else, right?
There should be something similar which identifies the theme in use for any screenshots of the forum, and adjusts those images to match the viewer's theme.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
the ping times
Just make the window massive, it will be alright, right?
Yeah, TCP with inflated window sizes and possibly increased IP maximum transit time would work fine to the moon. Response will always be more sluggish than on earth, but to significant degree it will work.
Mars is a different matter, and will likely require different transit protocols for the interplanetary stretch, and possibly use of forward-caching protocols like nntp.
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@PleegWat said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Mars is a different matter, and will likely require different transit protocols for the interplanetary stretch, and possibly use of forward-caching protocols like nntp.
Given the bandwidth and latency, it'd be just like using uucp all over again.
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A vehicle sharing service like those "Lime bikes", only it's in the entire world. Start by leaving 50 in every major city and let people take them wherever they want. You can park them in the middle of the Amazon forest if you want, it's all good, they have GPS.
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@anonymous234 They're all in the impound lot, because they were parked illegally.
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@PleegWat You can still drive them around the impound lot if you unlock them with the app.
Alternatively, put a high power laser on each bike so it can cut its way out of the impound lot and also kill any law enforcement agents that try to grab it or disarm it or contain it.
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@anonymous234 said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@PleegWat You can still drive them around the impound lot if you unlock them with the app.
Alternatively, put a high power laser on each bike so it can cut its way out of the impound lot and also kill any law enforcement agents that try to grab it or disarm it or contain it.
You want Skynet? This is how you get Skynet.
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Donkey Hote
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
Donkey Hote
Yeah that's a thing, I think you misspelled it though.
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Quixotic idea: machine that records dreams, so when you dream about working it can be replayed and you actually get work done while sleeping, leaving you free to do not-work when awake.
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@Tsaukpaetra If I had to pick a type of dream to make real, work dreams would not be at the top of my list, but that may be just me.
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@hungrier said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra If I had to pick a type of dream to make real, work dreams would not be at the top of my list, but that may be just me.
The idea is inversion of expectation. Do your obligations while sleeping so that by the time you're awake you can make what would normally be your dreams into actual reality.
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@Tsaukpaetra But then you run into problems when you come into work without pants on, and for some reason your work is at your old high school and instead of work it's a test on a book you haven't read