Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work
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@blakeyrat Without bothering to click through before responding (although I will do so afterwards), how does he expect to work, with wires running out the fridge? That's going to break the seal.
Why not spend $20 and buy one of those fan tray things that you put under the laptop, or have a fan blowing across it?
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@Yamikuronue said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
If Chrome alone is enough to overheat your macbook, your macbook is broken.
I want to know why "hundreds of tabs" is a "must" for him. Even if Chrome in and of itself isn't a problem, "hundreds of tabs" probably is his problem.
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@FrostCat Facebook, Reddit, twitter, the dailywtf, 25 buzzfeed articles, 25 stackoverflow questions that I must absolutely need to know right now, 15 search windows for stuff css and html stuff. It all must absolutely be open at all times.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@theBread said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
The same place they kept the Argo.
The Argo fits inside a shuttle that seemed to be specifically designed to drop-off the Argo and do nothing else.
As the Red Letter Review says, they have this shuttle which can hover, use scanners, has transporters, go mach whatever, etc. And the only thing they use it for is to deliver a FAR LESS CAPABLE vehicle.
So I posted a question about this the other day on sci-fi (thanks for that sweet, sweet reputation points) and it turns out the Argo is the name of both the shuttle and the dune-buggy.
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@theBread It's also the name of a real life company that makes ATVs and very stupidly choose to use Star Trek: Nemesis as product placement.
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@Yamikuronue said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
If Chrome alone is enough to overheat your macbook, your macbook is broken.
Or he's reading meta.dā¦
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Top answer: OMG PANIC HAX HAX CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS WORLD'S ENDING OMGOMG OMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGO
Real answer: Some developer made an oops and pushed up the wrong domain name, probably
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@fbmac said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
failing the robot duel.
If I was setting this up I'm make a robot expensive enough to field so that there'd be no GDP left for a real army.
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Ever wonder who that asshole is on the freeway driving super-slow in the passing lane and pissing everybody off?
It's this guy.
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@blakeyrat To be fair, they must not teach that in Washington either, since jerks seem content to just cruise in all lanes going either right below or barely at the speed limit.
The fallacy here is calling it the 'fast lane'. It's the passing lane, and if you're not passing then get out of that lane. I've seen people get pulled over for driving in the passing lane when they weren't passing (though this was at the end of the month when those police officers were trying to make their quota that they say don't exist).
According to California law that driver was violating the law by not passing and driving in the left lane
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@theBread Those assholes are in every state.
This guy didn't take the hint even after a POLICE CRUISER honked at him. He's a double-asshole.
Washington State is one of the States where the left lane is officially for "passing only". Oh, and if there are more than 2 names, tractor-trailers are prohibited from entering the left lane at all. That was a recent addition. (That never stops them.)
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@blakeyrat Maybe they should toll that lane too, and may prevent people from using those lanes. Since it obviously works on 405 :/
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
This guy didn't take the hint even after a POLICE CRUISER honked at him. He's a double-asshole.
And then morons like @fbmac tell us that it's a bad thing to have a gun in your car for situations like this.
Sheesh.
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@fbmac said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@boomzilla quote where I said that
He didn't say you said that, he said "morons like you" say that.
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@fbmac said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@boomzilla quote where I said that
Says the guy who deletes all his posts. Classy.
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@boomzilla said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
And then morons like @fbmac tell us that it's a bad thing to have a gun in your car for situations like this
what, for shooting police who want you to speed up?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@fbmac said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@boomzilla quote where I said that
He didn't say you said that, he said "morons like you" say that.
This being a blakey-thread, I choose to believe that he was trying to get into the spirit of things.
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In (the movie) Planet of the Apes, the apes had like 19th century technology. They had rifles, but rode horses. We see no evidence that they even had, for example, steam engines.
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You don't need aircraft to be immune to the cavemen; the wizards could just as easily build a tank. Even a WWII tank (and WWII nations didn't have plasma-firing guns) would be entirely immune to the cavemen-- the only way it could be defeated is by them hiding from it until it runs out of fuel and ammo, then build a fire under it and kill the crew as they escape.
And it's a shitload easier to build than a helicopter.
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@blakeyrat If we use Futurama as a reliable source, then neaderthals can easily overwhelm a small futuristic army
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@blakeyrat they could build a lot of traps. like big holes in the ground covered with weak wood sticks that would break with the tank's weight.
shooting the driver when he gets out of the tank for eating, or it runs out of fuel like you said is easier tough
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@Yamikuronue said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Says the guy who deletes all his posts. Classy.
This is why we want the quotebot!
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@Yamikuronue said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Stop using Google Chrome for Mac
If Chrome alone is enough to overheat your macbook, your macbook is broken.
................................................................................................................................. disocurse
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@FrostCat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
This is why we want the quotebot!
- Post a "."
- Wait for quotebot to do his quoting
- Edit the post to whatever I wanted to say
- Realize it was a lame thing to post
- Delete it
On hindsight, maybe I would figure the post is stupid before step 3 and just leave it as a dot
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@fbmac said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@FrostCat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
This is why we want the quotebot!
- Post a "."
- be banned immediately by the "anti-@fbmac" firewall
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@ben_lubar Are you already drunk with power of being an admin?
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Even a WWII tank
I think even the WW1 tanks ā the very first ever made ā would have been immune to the cavemen. For that matter, an armoured knight on horseback would have been devastating too, or a brigade of crossbowmen or longbowmen.
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@dkf said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
I think even the WW1 tanks ā the very first ever made ā would have been immune to the cavemen.
Not sure about that. They were REAL slow, and had lots of places you could drop fire on them to cause tank BBQs.
Additionally, they weren't good in forests, lacking the horsepower to push down trees. Poor vision slits would make them more vulnerable to tank traps.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
They were REAL slow
True, but it's not like they were unarmed.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
You don't need aircraft to be immune to the cavemen; the wizards could just as easily build a tank. Even a WWII tank (and WWII nations didn't have plasma-firing guns) would be entirely immune to the cavemen-- the only way it could be defeated is by them hiding from it until it runs out of fuel and ammo, then build a fire under it and kill the crew as they escape.
And it's a shitload easier to build than a helicopter.
There's some real life examples too which involved some back and forth.
The movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_(1964_film)
Reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke's_Drift
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Boom, a question I can answer better than the official answer.
Awhile back I read a great article (which, natch, I can no longer find) about a man's history in pen-and-paper RPGs, and he interestingly pointed out that long before Dungeons and Dragons was available, there were pen-and-paper baseball game simulators on the market. I mean, these are basically RPGs by a different name.
There interesting thing about baseball is: every player has stats. Not STR or INT or HP, though. Now-- most of these are counters. (Errors, RBIs, etc.) but some are genuine stats: batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage.
EDIT: oh I think I finally found it here: http://wnst.net/baltimore-sports/dice-baseball-a-memory/
If you read the article and do some Googlin', you'll find All Star Baseball was around in the 1950s and Strat-O-Matic baseball was available in 1961. Long predating Dungeon and Dragon's 1974, or Chainmail in 1971.
So there, I am smarter than the StackOverflow collective. Fuck them.
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@blakeyrat Put your money where your mouth is and answer the question with that information then.
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@theBread Pay me.
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@blakeyrat I'll pay you in magic rep points and wtf upvotes.
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@theBread I do not want the goods you are offering me.
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@blakeyrat so instead of posting there to show off how awesome you are, and get free internet forumpointzzzzzz, you post here and are received with mild amusement rather than being able to bask in the glow of smug righteousness. Uh huh.
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@Arantor Both of the things I am receiving are worth nothing and kind of annoy me.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
Both of the things I am receiving are worth nothing and kind of annoy me.
If you collect enough of them maybe you can trade them in for a better prize, like a stuffed animal.
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@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work:
@Arantor Both of the things I am receiving are worth nothing and kind of annoy me.
Well spoken. Here's a for you.
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@blakeyrat we didn't need to pay you to post it here. is there something that you hate on stackexchange?
other than Jeff, stupid closing useful questions, and... oh, nevermind
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@blakeyrat Reminds me of back in the 486 days when people would put computers into the fridge to try to get the highest overclock.
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@slapout1
please ... BIID and filleted penises only in the Guacamole thread
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@slapout1 Did Eunuch run UNIX, or was run by Eunuchs?
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In The Abyss, the underwater miniature scenes (the submarine chase, etc) were generally filmed in a (dry) room full of smoke.
(The underwater scenes involving people were of course actually filmed in large tanks of water.)
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@blakeyrat As a technical diver most underwater scenes have my eyes rolling round to the back of my head. Luckily, these are relatively few compared to the IT abuses seen so often.
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@coldandtired The Abyss could probably get a little leeway there because it's science fiction, although it's not like "super laser spaceship warp drive" science fiction...
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@blakeyrat Ships/submarines/submersibles aren't too bad (or possibly I don't know enough about them) but whenever it's a person in a suit, flailing about like he's swum into a spider web...
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@coldandtired Indeed, such a thing is likely to make them both cold and tired.