Random thought of the day
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@fbmac said in Random thought of the day:
I always think that if cocaine gets your brain used to it and you feel the reverse effect when you're addicted and without it, why isn't there an reverse cocaine that makes you feel like crap immediately, but happier after that.
Well, my brother used to endorse banging your head against the wall, because it feels so good when you stop.
Shortly thereafter, he took up marathoning.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
With just an accelerometer, you only get magnitude, not direction
The direction is down
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@Jaloopa said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
With just an accelerometer, you only get magnitude, not direction
The
directionenemy's gate is downFTFY
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@accalia said in Random thought of the day:
@Jaloopa said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
With just an accelerometer, you only get magnitude, not direction
The
directionenemy's gate is downFTFY
Use the Boost to get through!
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People say securely running untrusted code (sandboxing) is hard. But raw, old-fashioned computer processes already can't do anything but edit their own memory and raise syscalls (short of things like CPU vulnerabilities). So technically it's the easiest thing in the world! All you have to do is nothing.
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http://i.imgur.com/NzOX4yo.jpg
Not mine, but a random thought nonetheless.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
http://i.imgur.com/NzOX4yo.jpg
Not mine, but a random thought nonetheless.
This assumes that sky is roughly equivalent to atmosphere. That is not what I assumed.
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@Zecc looking at this, most people are below me, but they can say the same thing and we'll be both correct
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Most people are perpendicular to each other, to some approximation.
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@wharrgarbl said in Random thought of the day:
most people are
belowbeneath me
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@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
http://i.imgur.com/NzOX4yo.jpg
Not mine, but a random thought nonetheless.
This assumes that sky is roughly equivalent to atmosphere. That is not what I assumed.
I'd assume that "sky" is roughly equivalent to "the part of the atmosphere that you can see". In other words, almost exactly the same as the part above the red line in the diagram.
However, I don't think it's correct to use Cartesian-style coordinates for your concept of "below" when you're actually living in a world where gravity follows a spherical coordinate system.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
http://i.imgur.com/NzOX4yo.jpg
Not mine, but a random thought nonetheless.
This assumes that sky is roughly equivalent to atmosphere. That is not what I assumed.
I'd assume that "sky" is roughly equivalent to "the part of the atmosphere that you can see". In other words, almost exactly the same as the part above the red line in the diagram.
However, I don't think it's correct to use Cartesian-style coordinates for your concept of "below" when you're actually living in a world where gravity follows a spherical coordinate system.
I always assumed that sky was everything beyond earth. Jimi Hendrix did not just kiss all or part of the atmosphere. Also, "the stars in the sky".
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@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
Jimi Hendrix did not just kiss all or part of the atmosphere.
Right, he was just kissing that one guy.
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
Jimi Hendrix did not just kiss all or part of the atmosphere.
Right, he was just kissing that one guy.
Not sure what you're referring to, unless it was his 'Nam dodge. Or G_d.
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Both heating a house and cooling a house take enormous amounts of energy. In fact, they amount to approximately 50% of energy consumption in U.S. homes, which translates to ~115 billion USD per year.
But what do we really want to cool or heat? Generally, just the people in that house.
Heating a massive volume just to get those few spots in them at the correct temperature is clearly just a massive waste. What if you wore the heating and cooling? Even at >30ºC, a small air current inside your shirt is enough to make you feel cool as fuck. Same with heating. Wireless power transfer already exists, so that wouldn't be a problem (it's inefficient, but not as much).
Sounds like a silly idea, but we're talking trillions of dollars in savings worldwide here. So why aren't we doing it?
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
a small air current inside your shirt
But I want to walk around my house with nothing on! Also, it's hard typing on a keyboard with cold fingers.
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@dcon said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
a small air current inside your shirt
But I want to walk around my house with nothing on! Also, it's hard typing on a keyboard with cold fingers.
I concur. Household nudity is the primary advantage of being single.
That said, we racecar folk have been doing this for awhile. Big box full of ice water, a submersible pump and a t-shirt with water hose sewn into it.
Keeps you cool enough to be perfectly content wrapped full body in at least 3 layers of synthetic material in a car where the ambient temperature can easily hit 150. Difficulty is that it isn't particularly portable (though people have absolutely retrofitted them to wagons and towed them around all weekend)
Certain forms of pro endurance racing achieve similar with less weight by installing small air conditioner systems and chilling the lumbar area.
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@Weng said in Random thought of the day:
chilling the lumbar area.
For a moment I wondered why you kept Ben in a fridge
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Weng said in Random thought of the day:
chilling the lumbar area.
For a moment I wondered why you kept Ben in a fridge
I see what you did there
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@dcon said in Random thought of the day:
But I want to walk around my house with nothing on!
New idea: some kind of nozzle installed on the ceiling of each room that would project a jet of warm or cold air directly at you.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
New idea: some kind of nozzle installed on the ceiling of each room that would project a jet of warm or cold air directly at you.
Would fire suppression sprinklers be an acceptable alternative?
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Sounds like a silly idea, but we're talking trillions of dollars in savings worldwide here. So why aren't we doing it?
because wearing clothes on fur feels icky and not at all pleasant.
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@perverted_vixen said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Sounds like a silly idea, but we're talking trillions of dollars in savings worldwide here. So why aren't we doing it?
because wearing clothes on fur feels icky and not at all pleasant.
Doesn't feel weird to me. Though I do find wearing tights or stockings get annoying, as all the fur just sticks through the fabric and looks silly.
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@raceprouk said in Random thought of the day:
the fur just sticks through the fabric and looks silly.
Not even talking about the spikes on your back
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@luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@raceprouk said in Random thought of the day:
the fur just sticks through the fabric and looks silly.
Not even talking about the spikes on your back
Easy: backless dresses :D
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@raceprouk
Please wear the appropriate bra ... Otherwise it really destroyes the dress
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An 8k display can show an impressive 540 NES games at once. That's 75% of its licensed gallery!
Of course, you'd need a pretty beefy PC to run them all at once, but it's doable.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Of course, you'd need a pretty beefy PC to run them all at once, but it's doable.
Or a lot of capture cards and NES consoles
And a beefy PC to stitch the video together
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Of course, you'd need a pretty beefy PC to run them all at once, but it's doable.
Or a lot of capture cards and NES consoles
And a beefy PC to stitch the video together
Sounds like the ultimate Twitch does event!
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Wiktionary quote @scholrlea quoted said in The Word of the Day Thread:
The feeling of joy associated with seeing a loved one love another; contrasted with jealousy.
Does that mean all those who enjoy romance novels are compersationalists?
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Dream #110: An OS built upon the principle of linear debuggability.
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@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
linear debuggability
I have no idea what that means, and neither does Google.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
linear debuggability
I have no idea what that means, and neither does Google.
I am glad Google has no idea, because I invented the idea. (But have no plans on taking the time to implement it, so maybe I'm not glad.)
Are you truly unable to look at the two words, and construct a reasonable meaning from the combination of the two? (That sounds harsher than I intended.)
Consider how often the average programmer has to resort to Google. The reason we have to do web searches for answers to problems is because there's no good debugging process. You should not have to do that, you should be able to debug the problems yourself. Picture yourself in a typical day, trying to figure out what someone else's program is doing. Imagine how much easier it would be, for example, if you could right-click on a button, select, open in debugger, and it would take you to a debugger. You could then set breakpoints, and run the program between breakpoints.
When you try to do that now, there are often too many disconnects that make this difficult. You have to stop and think about different approaches you can take to find the cause of the problem. That is, it's not a linear process. There's not just one approach you can follow to completion.
Imagine if there were an OS designed from the bottom up to make debugging easier. It could be similar to Linux, as far as possible. As it was booting up, the screen output would stop scrolling for a couple of seconds and would have instructions for finding the log of what was going on during the boot process. The information on the log would be relatively easy to read - you would not have to be an expert to interpret it.
Programs that were built for it would be expected to follow certain principles, such as implementing the right-click method given above.
In sum, you would not have to be an expert, or consult the web, to find the cause of a problem. It may sound pie-in-the-sky, but I think it could be done. It would just need a visionary willing to put the time into it, akin to a Torvalds or a Terry A. Davis.
I remember when a scrolling menu was described as "pie in the sky".
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@chozang I suspect the problem is not too few candidates, but too many.
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RTOTD: A shopping site where you only pay when you win.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
A shopping site where you only pay when you win.
How does one win ... at shopping?
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@adynathos It takes a combination of moshing, wrestling and luck of being first in line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlK-V3a8z3M&t=30s
Once you passed the counter though it is generally agreed that you have won and can always take home the prize.
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I've mentioned The Onion's notorious "42 Million Dead In Bloodiest Black Friday Weekend On Record" parody from 2012 - which far, far, too many people took seriously, and which still gets circulated every year after Thanksgiving - but there is also a website called Back Friday Death Count which is a listing of the very, very real deaths (either from violence, accidents, heart attacks and other fatal conditions due to overexertion and stress, etc.) that happen during the Black Friday madness. There aren't very many, fortunately - since 2006 there have been ten recorded deaths and 106 recorded injuries serious enough to require hospitalization - but it does happen.
There are also several videos covering some of the actual fights and stampedes occurring at Black Friday sales, which are the kernel of truth that make The Onion's over-the-top parody so believable (to innumerate idiots).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcVPHqjRIqc
Filed Under: "USV"?
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My RTOTD is something I posted to the comments on Leonard French's livestream today, which discussed (among other things) the bannination of livestreaming of Nintendo games for "Creator Club" members and their stated intention of quashing anyone who does any livestreaming of their games. To wit:
Regarding Nintendo, I still think - as I have stated elsewhere - that the real issue has to do with Nintendo's brand goals, and specifically, the view that the brand goals should not include retention of customers older than their late teens.
They see older customers as a threat to their sales, rather than a source of them; this is a view that reflects (as I have mentioned before) that of US comic book publishers in the 1950s, where they felt that adult customers were too demanding, and that catering to them would undercut the family-positive image they wanted to cultivate following the moral panics hitting the media (both comic books and video games are regularly subject of such attacks; compare Seduction of the Innocent to the 'murder simulators' rhetoric about video games).
Also, again like comic books in the early Code era, they want to be able to re-use storylines, to reduce overhead and to further discourage repeat customers (who would expect new content instead). Just as with early Silver Age comics, they are looking to recycle their storylines at a rate of once every 5-7 years.
In this, Nintendo can be compared to companies such as DC or Archie Comics as they were in the Silver Age, in comparison to companies such as Microsoft and Sony who prefer to target somewhat older markets, just as Marvel and Charleston did in comic books. However, whereas as DC found themselves losing market share in the 1970s and 1980s due to this insistence on catering solely to younger children, at a time when population growth was slowing, Nintendo's market has still not saturated in the age bracket they are targeting.
However, all of this is failing to address the real threat to all of the console manufacturers, which realistically, is growth of both mobile gaming and the increasing convergence of the traditional desktop with things such as television and nano-consoles. The fact is, the technological circumstances that made consoles viable are quickly evaporating. Whereas consoles had had a genuine edge in terms of dedicated video hardware over both mobile devices on the one hand, and desktop systems on the other, desktop has had the advantage for nearly a decade now, and the gap is continuing to grow, while mobile systems are quickly eating away at the gap on the lower end. This is just the most obvious place where consoles are losing ground; the growth of services like Steam have eroded their marketing advantages, and improved auto-configuration has done the same with their simplicity advantages. Nintendo's console market, and everyone else's, is surviving on life support, and won't last much longer unless something dramatic changes.
Oh, WRT the repeated stories:
http://www.superdickery.com/jimmys-death-beds/
and
http://www.superdickery.com/jimmy-as-a-gorilla/
and
http://www.superdickery.com/jimmy-the-wolf-man/Filed Under: Take a shot. Or two shots. Or maybe four, depending on what your counting and whether you count doubles.
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@adynathos said in Random thought of the day:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
A shopping site where you only pay when you win.
How does one win ... at shopping?
I think it involves drinking Power Thirst.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@adynathos said in Random thought of the day:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
A shopping site where you only pay when you win.
How does one win ... at shopping?
I think it involves drinking Power Thirst.
Would either Pow-R 8 or Brawndo do instead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-9g8ET7XY4
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
RTOTD: A shopping site where you only pay when you win.
So.... eBay?
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
RTOTD: A shopping site where you only pay when you win.
So.... eBay?
Shopping in general, really. If you don't pay, you don't get the thing, and therefore lose. If you pay, you win.
It's the original "Pay to win" game. :D
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
If you don't pay, you don't get the thing, and therefore lose.
Depends on how much they're charging, and what for. I can live without paying a couple of thousand for a packet of Oreos.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Shopping in general, really. If you don't pay, you don't get the thing, and therefore lose
Not always true.
Hint: Shopping with someone else's credit card
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Has anyone ever heard a real cowboy/cowgirl complaining (non-satirically) about appropriation of cowboy culture?
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
Has anyone ever heard a real cowboy/cowgirl complaining (non-satirically) about appropriation of cowboy culture?
I am pretty sure that the term 'dude ranch' originated from exactly that.
Filed Under: Where's Jack Palance when you need him?
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
Has anyone ever he
ard a real cowboy/cowgirl complaining
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