Random thought of the day
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@Gąska which is exactly as many as the frailest npc has, you mean.
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Watching videos of cats and considering how much time they spend asleep, I wonder if they think dreams are the "real world", and the world they experience when they're awake is the strange "other realm" that doesn't really exist.
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@error and @zerosquare are talking about some kind of old-ass “iPaq” phone / pocket PC thing. Since everybody today knows the iPad, this makes me wonder about the existence of the more mythical products iPap and iPab.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Watching videos of cats and considering how much time they spend asleep, I wonder if they think dreams are the "real world", and the world they experience when they're awake is the strange "other realm" that doesn't really exist.
"Why is this stupid human not obeying to me?! Oh wait, it's probably just a bad dream."
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@da-Doctah reading this wanton anthropomorphization, I wonder if a being that experienced states of consciousness qualitatively unlike our own would make this truly asinine statement with greater or lower probability.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@error and @zerosquare are talking about some kind of old-ass “iPaq” phone / pocket PC thing. Since everybody today knows the iPad, this makes me wonder about the existence of the more mythical products iPap and iPab.
Loading overlays. Standby.
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@topspin up and dn are rotational isomers
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin up and dn are rotational isomers
irk and vex are not only synonyms, but ROT-13 reciprocals.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Watching videos of cats and considering how much time they spend asleep, I wonder if they think dreams are the "real world", and the world they experience when they're awake is the strange "other realm" that doesn't really exist.
If so, the dream world includes chicken and that's no bad thing.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Watching videos of cats and considering how much time they spend asleep, I wonder if they think dreams are the "real world", and the world they experience when they're awake is the strange "other realm" that doesn't really exist.
If so, the dream world includes chicken and that's no bad thing.
I would immediately give up all chicken if a blander meat were found.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Watching videos of cats and considering how much time they spend asleep, I wonder if they think dreams are the "real world", and the world they experience when they're awake is the strange "other realm" that doesn't really exist.
If so, the dream world includes chicken and that's no bad thing.
I would immediately give up all chicken if a blander meat were found.
Not my own evaluation, but some people would say tilapia would suit your requirements.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
I would immediately give up all chicken if a blander meat were found.
The cats don't agree.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
I would immediately give up all chicken if a blander meat were found.
The cats don't agree.
Have you seen them eat sardines?
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
I would immediately give up all chicken if a blander meat were found.
The cats don't agree.
Have you seen them eat sardines?
Some go out of their way for sardines, and others don't seem interested in them at all. Much the same as people.
The wind blew my plate of bacon on the ground earlier, and I just left it. Came back a couple of hours later and the feral cats were sitting near where the strips of bacon were but apparently hadn't done anything at all with them.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
feral cats were sitting near where the strips of bacon were but apparently hadn't done anything at all with them.
Proof that cats are not the brightest of creatures.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
feral cats were sitting near where the strips of bacon were but apparently hadn't done anything at all with them.
Proof that cats are not the brightest of creatures.
I've never seen these two eating anything. They use my patio as a dormitory but someone else apparently feeds them. They're certainly not starving, and in the past I've seen their pathetic attempts at hunting so I know they're not slaughtering birds or anything.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Have you seen them eat sardines?
Yes. Those are popular too, but chicken is favourite according to the way they hold their tails up in excitement.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
Proof that cats are not the brightest of creatures.
*roars at @HardwareGeek*
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
feral cats were sitting near where the strips of bacon were but apparently hadn't done anything at all with them.
Proof that cats are not the brightest of creatures.
I've never seen these two eating anything. They use my patio as a dormitory but someone else apparently feeds them. They're certainly not starving, and in the past I've seen their pathetic attempts at hunting so I know they're not slaughtering birds or anything.
Sounds like you're actively harboring communists.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Sounds like you're actively harboring communists.
He definitely has a bed, yes. He must weigh the same amount as a duck!
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
The wind blew my plate of bacon on the ground earlier, and I just left it.
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There is no constant and no literal. Everything is a memoized function result.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
Proof that cats are not the brightest of creatures.
*roars at @HardwareGeek*
Have you seen the colour of your fur???
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Do Chinese websites also require 8 character passwords?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Do Chinese websites also require 8 character passwords?
@cheong ?
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@Zecc Most websites uses standard upper+lower+numeric+"maybe special characters" rule, and they uses RegEx copied from other part of the web so they don't accept Chinese input.
Since there is GB2312+Big5+UTF8 encoding difference for Chinese characters, we seldom uses Chinese characters as password.
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@cheong said in Random thought of the day:
Since there is GB2312+Big5+UTF8 encoding difference for Chinese characters, we seldom uses Chinese characters as password.
You guys still suffering the pre-Unicode mess? I remember that from dealing with Russians around 20 years ago, back when they still tended to just say “install this font” instead of thinking about what characters mean. It's really truly horrible, and Unicode is the best way out (for all that it's horrible in its own ways).
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@cheong said in Random thought of the day:
Since there is GB2312+Big5+UTF8 encoding difference for Chinese characters, we seldom uses Chinese characters as password.
You guys still suffering the pre-Unicode mess? I remember that from dealing with Russians around 20 years ago, back when they still tended to just say “install this font” instead of thinking about what characters mean. It's really truly horrible, and Unicode is the best way out (for all that it's horrible in its own ways).
Everyone is. We still have Word to deal with.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Everyone is. We still have Word to deal with.
That was largely fixed with the switch to DOCX, as that's really just zipped XML (plus attachments for images, etc.) and XML's always been Unicode in its basic character model.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Everyone is. We still have Word to deal with.
That was largely fixed with the switch to DOCX, as that's really just zipped XML (plus attachments for images, etc.) and XML's always been Unicode in its basic character model.
the capacity for correction is half the battle if that. paste from word still breaks workflows daily.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
paste from word still breaks workflows daily
Oh, paste. That's Different!™
Pastes depend on which clipboard format is negotiated between the originating application and the consuming application, and that's its own special ball of complexity.
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Every process may be viewed as a cybernetic process whose operative set is variably known and variably tractable.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
that's its own special ball of complexity.
That's a lot of letters to spell dung:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7-APvaPdbk
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@cheong said in Random thought of the day:
Since there is GB2312+Big5+UTF8 encoding difference for Chinese characters, we seldom uses Chinese characters as password.
You guys still suffering the pre-Unicode mess? I remember that from dealing with Russians around 20 years ago, back when they still tended to just say “install this font” instead of thinking about what characters mean. It's really truly horrible, and Unicode is the best way out (for all that it's horrible in its own ways).
That's a bit more than simply code page.
You see, UTF-8 supports Simplified/Traditional Chinese as well as Japanese Kanji glyphs. (e.g.: (ZH/CH)舍 (JP)舎) This don't affect reading but the fact that they have different code point can create usage problem when code point matters and the user is using an IME that needs character selection.
Talking about character selection, character selection do not work well in password boxes also contributes to the problem. (Not that it won't work, just you cannot see the word you just typed to see the typing is done correctly)
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It is likely that anathema rightly refers to an acknowledgement vs a declaration.
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What if dkf stands for Dr Kung Fu?
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@cabrito I think it stands for Donkey Kong (float version).
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Donkey Kong (
floatfuck version)
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@cabrito I think it stands for Donkey Kong (float version).
He prefers to use fixed point.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@cabrito I think it stands for Donkey Kong (float version).
He prefers to use fixed point.
Unless optimising for energy use, no. Fixed point is quite a bit more difficult to use; you actually have to think about the scale of the values that you're working with.
Fixed point math is integer math with some bonus shifts; shifts are virtually free, especially on ARM. Floating point math is more complex and energy-hungry because it does a bunch of extra stuff, but that in turn means you don't need to think so carefully about the details. How much this matters depends extremely much on the details of the algorithm and the data.
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Donkey Kong (
floatfuck version)The princess is in another castle. Surely you know that.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Do Chinese websites also require 8 character passwords?
"8" is a lucky number for Chinese, so you can assume they'll use 8 characters even if not required. Especially "88888888" - which is a typical wifi password in chinese hotels.
In contrast to "4" which is linked to death. No chinese would use 4 characters, Or stay in room number 4, or in the 4th floor, ...
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@cabrito I think it stands for Donkey Kong (float version).
He prefers to use fixed point.
Well that's fine too!
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
The princess is in another castle. Surely you know that.
A princess is an optional accessory
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
The princess is in another castle. Surely you know that.
A princess is an optional accessory
Not for those of us who are not into bestiality.
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@dkf
I guess you where looking for Dong-ie Kong then
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf
I guess you where looking for Dong-ie Kong thenAnd the location is?
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@Gribnit
in your ass, duh
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit
in your ass, duhThat explains the excessive length and difficulty of this current shit.