WTF Bites
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And fuck you for linking to mobile Wikipedia.
Nah, it's fine because "m." is actually a trivial subdomin, even when it appears in the middle like that.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
For example, there's a Kansas City, Missouri and a Kansas City, Kansas. The one in Missouri is bigger. (It's really the same city, separated by a state line/river).
So when you cross the state line/river, you simultaneously are and are not in Kansas anymore?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
One of my biggest pet peeves about fantasy (and science fiction) writers is when they just make up their own words for things that are, at their core, regular "earth" things. No, that's not a Q'ark'ls'vdsa, it's a cow.
Although it's definitely not for everyone, Neal Stephenson did something like this deliberately in Anathem. But the point was that they...weren't regular earth things.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I would think screens have a similar situation. Bigger ones cost more per area because they're more difficult to make. Also, perhaps, because they sell fewer of them, so manufacturing doesn't benefit from the economy of scale that the smaller sizes do.
also, as I found out, factories that are even capable of producing >65in LCD panels are very few and far between. We should expect a massive drop in prices of 65-75in TVs by 2021, like we've had recently with 55in. This is a very bad time to buy a large TV.
How many of us have actually read the originally-linked article? It went into some detail about this stuff.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How many of us have actually read the originally-linked article? It went into some detail about this stuff.
After that introduction, I'm very cautious of trusting anything in that article. Lies can be very detailed too.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Edit: Oh, and we Americans often copy our own names in different places. For example, there's a Kansas City, Missouri and a Kansas City, Kansas. The one in Missouri is bigger. (It's really the same city, separated by a state line/river).
No, it's really two separate cities, which happen to be on opposite sides of a state line/river.
Early residents of the area found inspiration for the word Kansas from the Kanza Native American tribe. KCMO was incorporated in 1853, even before Kansas became a state, in 1861. In October 1872 small towns around present-day KCK joined up to form Kansas City, Kan.
They used the same name as the neighboring KCMO in an attempt to attract visitors who thought they were traveling to the more booming KCMO, Beat said.
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KCMO was incorporated in 1853, even before Kansas became a state, in 1861. In October 1872 small towns around present-day KCK joined up to form Kansas City, Kan.
They used the same name as the neighboring KCMO in an attempt to attract visitors who thought they were traveling to the more booming KCMO, Beat said.
Americans are fucked up.
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@TimeBandit theoretically.
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I was once at a concert in Kansas City, MO where the crowd kept booing Iron Maiden (who are British) for calling everyone Kansas.
Pretty much every single little city in my area is named after a larger, more famous city somewhere else. When I talk to out-of-state friends and say "Hey, I'm going to such-and-such for the day" they always think I'm going on a thousand-mile road trip, or even flying to another country, and then wonder why it's for such a short period of time. It's frustrating. I shouldn't have to append the state I live in to the name of every city I mention.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
That's why most names, if you actually look at them are either
a) duplicates
or
b) describe physical features, frequently redundantly (the famous Torpenhow Hall "Hall on top of the hill hill") or River Avon (river river)
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@hungrier bonus fun when you remember it was originally named New Amsterdam.
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@hungrier bonus fun when you remember it was originally named New Amsterdam.
Flagged for getting that song stuck in my head...
Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, Constantinople...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
b) prone to making things that sound like bad words (I mostly play with teenagers...)
I can't remember a single RPG PC that my group created when we were teens and that wasn't hopelessly mocked by the rest for some stupid pun. It sometimes took a couple of sessions to get there and the player was usually quite proud of finally having found an original and unmockable name, but it always ended there.
It was even worse for NPCs given how many the GM had to create, sometimes on a whim, but they usually didn't stay around for too long, so that was less of an issue. Plus, they were usually mocked for whatever character/speech trait the GM tried to give them to make them memorable, so the name was the least mocked bit.
So yeah, naming is hard.
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@mott555
It takes about 40 minutes by car to get from the Toledo (Ohio) Express Airport to Florida, or 65 minutes to get to Cuba.Both cities in Northwestern Ohio, of course.
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@mott555
It takes about 40 minutes by car to get from the Toledo (Ohio) Express Airport to Florida, or 65 minutes to get to Cuba.Both cities in Northwestern Ohio, of course.
This sort of thing was a gag in American Gods.
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@izzion I can get to Peru in about an hour, and Mexico in about five.
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@Benjamin-Hall
You also can run into some really fun things when you try to come up with names only to find out they're already taken.Tipp City, Ohio (in the Dayton area, West Central Ohio) has a pretty good reason for their name.
- When the city originally incorporated, they voted to name the city Tippecanoe City, to memorialize the battle of Tippecanoe, which was a fairly important battle in the American-Indian war and Ohio's history in general. Of course, said battle occurred hundreds of miles to the east in what is now West Central Indiana, but hey.
- But, it turns out, there's another unincorporated village in East Central Ohio (hundreds of miles even further east of the battle site) that has been using the name Tippecanoe, and it's been using the name even longer.
- In the 1930s, the US Post Office abbreviated Tippecanoe City's name because it was creating a conflict with mail delivery to Tippecanoe, Ohio, thus renaming the city to Tipp City
Nobody in town really cares, but when their teenagers go
on their rumspringaoff to college, they become the butt of quite a few jokes (is everyone in your hometown a drunk?). Hence, the guy on my freshman dorm floor from Tipp City usually introduced himself as being from Dayton.
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@mott555
How does it take you 4 hours to go 6 miles up Old US 31?
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Americans are fucked up.
That's just a natural consequence of Americans being a subset of Humans.
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@izzion That's the wrong Mexico and/or Peru.
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Americans are fucked up.
That's just a natural consequence of Americans being a subset of Humans.
With the emphasis on "sub".
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
TV Tropes need a time-waster warning!
I haven't been to TV Tropes in a long time, because when I do, that's the end of my productivity for the rest of the day. Unlike TDWTF, which ... um ... kills my productivity before I even start.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How many of us have actually read the originally-linked article?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska probably because the people that named those city came from Europe
INB4 New New York.
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@DCoder
An explosive revelation, if true
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@DCoder I sometimes dream of having my own little banana state to lord over. I would make a law that legalizes hacking of foreign targets for the express purpose of removing vulnerable devices from the Internet. If those devices were a part of a third party's botnet, I'd pay the hacker(s) offing it a bonus.
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@acrow the next day, someone would find out you "have" nuclear weapons in your basement. Couple days later, democracy arrives.
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@DCoder
An explosive revelation, if trueUnfortunately, it's likely not.
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@DCoder Aaaaand, of course, it's not doing https.
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I try to print a document on a network printer, but Windows says it couldn't send the document because it's offline.
I check the network settings, I check the printer list... still offline.
I go check the printer and... the document is there, already printed .
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@DCoder It's OK, it needs a username and password. No way anyone is getting past that.
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@Tsaukpaetra Well, it's using an invalid cert. That counts as "not doing https" in my book.
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@Benjamin-Hall
You also can run into some really fun things when you try to come up with names only to find out they're already taken.Tipp City, Ohio (in the Dayton area, West Central Ohio) has a pretty good reason for their name.
- When the city originally incorporated, they voted to name the city Tippecanoe City, to memorialize the battle of Tippecanoe, which was a fairly important battle in the American-Indian war and Ohio's history in general. Of course, said battle occurred hundreds of miles to the east in what is now West Central Indiana, but hey.
- But, it turns out, there's another unincorporated village in East Central Ohio (hundreds of miles even further east of the battle site) that has been using the name Tippecanoe, and it's been using the name even longer.
- In the 1930s, the US Post Office abbreviated Tippecanoe City's name because it was creating a conflict with mail delivery to Tippecanoe, Ohio, thus renaming the city to Tipp City
Nobody in town really cares, but when their teenagers go
on their rumspringaoff to college, they become the butt of quite a few jokes (is everyone in your hometown a drunk?). Hence, the guy on my freshman dorm floor from Tipp City usually introduced himself as being from Dayton.I was going to ask how you knew so much about a really random city in Ohio but then I got to the end.
I'm actually from Dayton proper, so
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@Tsaukpaetra Well, it's using an invalid cert. That counts as "not doing https" in my book.
Well, your book is wrong.
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@pie_flavor if you had a bit larger screen, we could call it a WTF Byte.
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@pie_flavor You should really avoid scrolling too far down on /recent.
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@sloosecannon
There’s also Wikipedia
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@pie_flavor you data it invalid
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@pie_flavor your data is invalid
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@pie_flavor if you had a bit larger screen, we could call it a WTF Byte.
He uses 7bit encoding.
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@BernieTheBernie WTF ASCII?
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Me and my wife went on a Sunday afternoon stroll around our neighbourhood yesterday. While we were walking, the following conversation happened:
: I'm impressed with my printer, it printed everything I needed to print, it didn't run out of ink or anything.
: That's good to hear. Btw, what did you need to print?
: It's a few forms I need to send for an application I'm doing. CV, etc.
: But if you are going to send them via email, why did you need to print them out?
: The application requirements are to send everything as a single document, so I printed them out so that I can scan them in as a single PDF. How else am I going to save everything as a single PDF?
: Does it need to be a single PDF, or does it only specify single document?
: Single document.
: So can't you just put everything together in a single zip file?
: You can zip multiple files as a single zip file?
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@Vault_Dweller
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