Random thought of the day
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@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
taking a smoking break to smoke a turkey
taking a smoking break to smoke a blood
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https://imgur.com/gallery/5rs55rr
How quickly...
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@ben_lubar You don't know how true it is. Our microwave oven at home is a few years old, and the insulation is not what it used to be. And for those that don't know, the frequency of a microwave oven is 2.45 GHz, while the frequency of my wi-fi router is 2.4 GHz. So guess what happens when you turn on the microwave at my home?
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
So guess what happens when you turn on the microwave at my home?
Your phone connects and starts downloading app updates through it?
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@Zecc No, I only get ads for new microwaves
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar You don't know how true it is. Our microwave oven at home is a few years old, and the insulation is not what it used to be. And for those that don't know, the frequency of a microwave oven is 2.45 GHz, while the frequency of my wi-fi router is 2.4 GHz. So guess what happens when you turn on the microwave at my home?
Also - since 2.45GHz is almost harmonic to 5GHz, doesn't it interfere with 5G Wi-Fi as well? I'm not claiming it does - I'm asking a question.
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
with no internet
and no porn
I don't know about that. Things do get quite hot and steamy in there...
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Your phone connects and starts downloading app updates through it?
Worse. Windows 10 starts downloading app updates. And succeeds!!
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
and no porn
Depends, you can see breasts if you're heating chicken
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Your phone connects and starts downloading app updates through it?
Worse. Windows 10 starts downloading app updates. And succeeds!!
The microwave reboots without warning?
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@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Your phone connects and starts downloading app updates through it?
Worse. Windows 10 starts downloading app updates. And succeeds!!
The microwave reboots without warning?
No, it tries to reboot while cooking. RIP whatever you were heating up...
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https://i.imgur.com/9mFl4sv.jpg
Tl;dr: Humans are insane.
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Nintendo should really release a remake of Hey You, Pikachu. Speech recognition is a billion times better now than it was in 1998.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
How am I going to catch a mouse that no longer comes out of the walls?
Pull it out by its USB cable
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@Tsaukpaetra When the Vulcans look at humans, I imagine they're thinking something like "but in their universe, all the people on the Minnow are Gilligan."
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Unique constraints on a table are themselves unique.
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There really aren't enough 3D platformers these days. You've got Yooka-Laylee, A Hat in Time, and then everything else is a Mario title.
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Any machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.
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@pie_flavor said in Random thought of the day:
Any machine is a
one time smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.
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@pie_flavor
Eh, you have to stand on a lot of platforms to complete Metroid Prime.
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Random thought of the day in the shower: huh, I need to work on my gag reflex control...
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@Tsaukpaetra Random UNWANTED thought of the day: What @Tsaukpaetra might have been doing in the shower to cause him to think about his need to control his gag reflex.
Filed under: Brain bleach
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Random UNWANTED thought of the day: What @Tsaukpaetra might have been doing in the shower to cause him to think about his need to control his gag reflex.
Filed under: Brain bleach
Your thoughts are not my thoughts. :P
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@Tsaukpaetra Random thought of the day: what's a gag reflex?
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Random thought of the day: what's a gag reflex?
It's a knee-jerk reaction to private data being exposed in public in an attempt to stop squawking. Or something.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Speech recognition is a billion times better now than it was in 1998
Which still puts it at about a million times worse than it needs to be to be useable
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@Jaloopa Not for a game that only needs to tell the difference between "hello Pikachu" and "acorn".
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@anonymous234 the only experience I have with voice control in games is Nintendogs, where I spent a good 10 minutes trying to get my puppy to react to its name, then got bored
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@Jaloopa Maybe the game just gave you a deaf dog.
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@JBert
Or a cat.
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Random thought (related to the current bad ideas thread topic):
The easiest way for a robot to autonomously move around a city is to place an order with a shipping company (or one of those "gig economy" services) to pick it up and drop it somewhere else.
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We could bypass the Roche limit by wrapping the entire moon in graphene. Then it could orbit as close as it wanted.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
We could bypass the Roche limit by wrapping the entire moon in graphene. Then it could orbit as close as it wanted.
Furthermore, it could be hollowed out afterwards so it doesn't rip up the Earth's surface via tidal effects once we lower its orbit.
I'd love to look up in the night sky and see the moon 20X bigger.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Random thought (related to the current bad ideas thread topic):
The easiest way for a robot to autonomously move around a city is to place an order with a shipping company (or one of those "gig economy" services) to pick it up and drop it somewhere else.Also known as taxi.
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@mott555 How fast would it have to move across the sky though not to collide with the earth?
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@JBert said in Random thought of the day:
@mott555 How fast would it have to move across the sky though not to collide with the earth?
Assuming a perfectly circular orbit because , the current orbit of the moon is about 385,000 kilometers away at ~ 1 km/sec. For a 20X increase in visual size, it would need to be 20X closer, which puts it at 19,250 kilometers and an orbital velocity of ~4.5 km/sec. The moon would orbit the earth 3 times per day, or once every 8 hours, and it would cross the sky in about 4 hours.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/orbital-velocity with mass/orbital values looked up from Wikipedia.
EDIT: Apparently the Roche limit for Earth is 6400 km, so we could get quite a bit closer if we wanted. So just for fun, let's put the moon at 1000 km, which is well within the Roche limit and skimming across the top of the exosphere. Now the moon's orbital velocity is 20 km/sec and it orbits the Earth every 5.21 minutes! And now I believe the calculator is wrong, because that's a further orbit than the International Space Station which makes an orbit about every 90 minutes, so ignore this entire post because it's probably all wrong.
EDIT 2: I am a dumb-dumb and forgot to include the Earth's radius in the orbital distance. For 1000 km above sea level, the moon actually orbits at 7400 km. At that distance, its orbital velocity is ~7.4 km/sec and it orbits every 105 minutes. It should appear about 52 times as large in the sky.
EDIT 3: The moon has a radius of ~1700 km. So it would be colliding with the earth at that distance. Oops.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Not to be confused with the Rocher limit, which is defined as how close I can get to gold-wrapped chocolates without eating them.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
taxi
A french guy in a white Peugeot driving ridiculously fast?
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@Luhmann is he chasing Santa Claus?
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@Gąska
But only from 9 to 11:30 and if santa stole the cheese again. And there is no strike.
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@Gąska Yes, but for robots.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Not to be confused with the Rocher limit, which is defined as how close I can get to gold-wrapped chocolates without eating them.
Infinitely close. You'd turn them into not-gold-wrapped chocolates before eating them.
Which leads to my random though of the day: where is yourself when comparing distance? I.e. What point in space would be considered the origin for "you"?
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A lot of stuff in Guild Wars 2 makes less sense when you explain what it means.
For example, a fractal is a location that's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The last three fractals of the mists tell the story of a man who finds out through science that neither he nor his mother exist.
Here's the dialogue from that second one:
"there's a chance we will see each other again" is such a sad dialogue line because they will see each other again many times, but it will be exactly the same as this time every time they meet.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Which leads to my random though of the day: where is yourself when comparing distance? I.e. What point in space would be considered the origin for "you"?
Maybe I'm too nerdy and I read too much physics, but I'd say there's a chance of finding "you" in any region of space covered by your body's de Broglie wavelength, and it's impossible to confine/define your body to a region smaller than that wavelength.
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@Tsaukpaetra
He said you're a massive particle.