Random thought of the day
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
I'm using a measurement called "elapsed time". See @HardwareGeek's post for an example.
So...
>Sender's outbound node to local backbone node (single hop) ~3000 km 2 seconds Local backbone node to company server ~80 km 2 minutes Company server to my inbox 0 m 2 hours @HardwareGeek's inbox to USB drive 0 m ~40 years @da-Doctah's favorite show from TV to theaters 50 years AT LEAST I'm not sure I'd actually call it my favorite, but it's a strong candidate for my favorite among TV shows that haven't yet got the big-screen treatment. (My favorite overall may be something along the lines of Bewitched, for which Will Ferrell must be made to answer.)
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@da-Doctah please fix the formatting, it looks like my opinion.
BTW Bewitched is also pretty high on the took-forever-to-get-feature-movie list (33-42 years depending how you count). I think I see a pattern here. I'm gonna take a wild guess that you like The Avengers (1961) too?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah please fix the formatting, it looks like my opinion.
BTW Bewitched is also pretty high on the took-forever-to-get-feature-movie list (33-42 years depending how you count). I think I see a pattern here. I'm gonna take a wild guess that you like The Avengers (1961) too?
Yeah, but they made two movies with that title. One with Robert Downey Jr and company and another with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman.
Actually, if we're going to include shows that were imported from other countries, I wouldn't mind seeing Fawlty Towers: The Movie. Not sure if Cleese could muster the same manic nastiness at his present age, though.
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@da-Doctah he can muster the nastiness very easily, just not with the manic.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah he can muster the nastiness very easily, just not with the manic.
More of a nasty now.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah he can muster the nastiness very easily, just not with the manic.
More of a nasty now.
There's always stimulants. This becomes more ethical with increase in his age, even. If at any point he tries to do a shop sketch, we could then also arrange for an "accidental" pure dose.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah he can muster the nastiness very easily, just not with the manic.
More of a nasty now.
He's been able to pull that off for at least fifty years now:
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If parallelized solutions successively replace serial-processing solutions in a market shift, has serial killing occurred or not?
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The greatest number of future US presidents living at one time is fifteen. This has happened twice in history. The first time began on March 20, 1833, two weeks into Andrew Jackson's second term, when Benjamin Harrison was born.
At that time, presidents Garfield, Arthur, Hayes, Grant, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Pierce, Fillmore, Polk, Buchanan, Tyler, Taylor, Van Buren and William Henry Harrison were all walking around somewhere. This list is in order of increasing age; note that the youngest and oldest were the grandfather/grandson Harrisons, ages sixty and newborn.
This list held for just under four years until Van Buren took office on March 4, 1837. Two weeks later, on March 18, Richard and Anne Cleveland's fifth child, baby Stephen Grover Cleveland was born, restoring the record count of fifteen future presidents alive at one time, which this time lasted for another four years until William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on March 4, 1841.
In 1893, when former president Hayes died, Grover Cleveland had been re-elected but not yet inaugurated to a second non-consecutive term. It is difficult to say whether this should count as the beginning of a brief period in which there were no living ex-presidents, one living ex-president (Benjamin Harrison who still technically was still in office), or one living ex-president (Cleveland by virtue of his first term which had ended four years prior).
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
If parallelized solutions successively replace serial-processing solutions in a market shift, has serial killing occurred or not?
Serial-processing CAN still happen.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Serial-processing CAN still happen.
I can only process carefully selected cereals.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Serial-processing CAN still happen.
I can only process carefully selected cereals.
I was trying to make a CAN joke, but I see you didn't ACK it as such.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Serial-processing CAN still happen.
I can only process carefully selected cereals.
I was trying to make a CAN joke, but I see you didn't ACK it as such.
Maybe because you canned your sense of humour. Been to Germany lately?
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
Maybe because you canned your sense of humour. Been to Germany lately?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Serial-processing CAN still happen.
I can only process carefully selected cereals.
I was trying to make a CAN joke, but I see you didn't ACK it as such.
This should go to the tinder thread, but you made me do it here:
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
If parallelized solutions successively replace serial-processing solutions in a market shift, has serial killing occurred or not?
Serial-processing CAN still happen.
Well sure we don't require serial killers to achieve Completionist currently.
ed. can't you see he was trying to make an automotive electronics joke?
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@topspin
*twitch*
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@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin
*twitch*Hey, not like he has enough blood to spell correctly and prepare to send TCPs at the same time.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
The greatest number of future US presidents living at one time is fifteen. This has happened twice in history. The first time began on March 20, 1833, two weeks into Andrew Jackson's second term, when Benjamin Harrison was born.
At that time, presidents Garfield, Arthur, Hayes, Grant, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Pierce, Fillmore, Polk, Buchanan, Tyler, Taylor, Van Buren and William Henry Harrison were all walking around somewhere. This list is in order of increasing age; note that the youngest and oldest were the grandfather/grandson Harrisons, ages sixty and newborn.
This list held for just under four years until Van Buren took office on March 4, 1837. Two weeks later, on March 18, Richard and Anne Cleveland's fifth child, baby Stephen Grover Cleveland was born, restoring the record count of fifteen future presidents alive at one time, which this time lasted for another four years until William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on March 4, 1841.
In 1893, when former president Hayes died, Grover Cleveland had been re-elected but not yet inaugurated to a second non-consecutive term. It is difficult to say whether this should count as the beginning of a brief period in which there were no living ex-presidents, one living ex-president (Benjamin Harrison who still technically was still in office), or one living ex-president (Cleveland by virtue of his first term which had ended four years prior).
I was bored so I made a spreadsheet with English monarchs. I went by Wikipedia's list for this purpose, only excluding Ælfweard as it was just 2 weeks and it's just hearsay anyway.
The greatest number of current, future, past, and disputed English monarchs living at one time is 7: Charles II, James II, William III, George I, Mary II, Anne and newly born George II on 10/30/1683. It only lasted a year and a half, with Charles II dying on 2/6/1685. Excluding that period, it remained steadily at 6 for almost thirty years, between birth of Anne and death of Mary II.
The only other time there were 6 CFPD English monarchs living at the same time was between birth of Edward VI in December 1537 and death of Henry VIII on January 1547 - almost exactly nine years. 5 CFPD monarchs was surprisingly common - happened in 11th, 15th, 16th, 17th and most recently at the end of 19th century, between the birth of George VI in 1895 and death of Victoria on 1/22/1901. So technically there were three weeks in 20th century too.
Since Edward VIII's death in 1972 we're down to 1, although it can retroactively jump up to 2 if Prince Charles succeeds the throne.
Bonus fact: so far, Elizabeth II is the only British monarch to be born in 20th century. With 99% confidence, the final total will be either 2 or 3.
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More facts about Elizabeth II:
- If nothing bad happens, in 2 weeks she'll hit a major milestone: 70 years of reign.
- If nothing bad happens, later this year she'll surpass Johann II of Liechtenstein and Rama IX of Thailand and become 2nd longest reigning sovereign monarch in history.
- If nothing bad happens, 2 years from now she'll surpass Louis XIV and become THE longest reigning sovereign monarch in history.
- If nothing bad happens, another 2 years later she'll celebrate her 100th birthday.
- If nothing bad happens, another 2 years later she'll become the oldest woman to be ever called queen of England, surpassing her mother.
- If nothing bad happens, another 2 years later she'll reach top 4 longest reigning monarchs overall (behind 2 HRE princes and a king of a former British protectorate in Africa).
- If nothing bad happens, another 2 years later she'll celebrate 80 years of reign.
- If nothing bad happens, another 2 years later she'll become THE longest reigning monarch ever in recorded history, becoming the ultimate winner in the game of life and maybe then start thinking about retirement. Maybe.
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@Gąska That's a lot of ifs. I sincerely wish her continued health and long life (not least because AIUI it's pretty widely believed that the reign of Charles III will be a disaster and may bring about the end of the British monarchy), but every year I can't help wondering if this will be the year she ends up in the death pool thread.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
THE longest reigning monarch ever in recorded history
Jesus' reign will be 1000 years in the Millennium as recorded in Revelation 20.
But it hasn't happened yet.
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@djls45 prophecies aren't history. Pretty much by definition.
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@Gąska Ooooor it was written by someone outside time, so it's actually history, but it just looks like prophecy to us because of our limited perspective of time.
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@djls45 or maybe it was about Queen Elizabeth all along and it's her reign that'll last 1000 years
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@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
THE longest reigning monarch ever in recorded history
Jesus' reign will be 1000 years in the Millennium as recorded in Revelation 20.
But it hasn't happened yet.
The FSM has reigned for billions of years and will continue for trillions to come.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
The FSM has reigned for billions of years and will continue for trillions to come.
Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych isn't that old.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
- If nothing bad happens, another 2 years later she'll become THE longest reigning monarch ever in recorded history, becoming the ultimate winner in the game of life and maybe then start thinking about retirement. Maybe.
Of course, since she was replaced by a robot double some time in the early 1990s, this is pretty much a moot point now.
Adding on another random thought of similar form:
When Alaska was admitted to the union as a state in 1959, there had been 48 states for 17,125 days, the longest stretch without a new state being added since 1836 when Arkansas was admitted, 5,423 days after the until-then newest state of Missouri.
We've now been frozen at fifty states for 22,801 days (we tied the old record on July 10, 2006, and I'll bet there was nothing about it in your newspaper that day).
I think about this whenever I watch an old movie with a 48-star flag somewhere on display, since all the flags around me as a child already had the 50-star version that's still current. I was born during the brief period (230 days) that there were 49 states.
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@da-Doctah I can't wait for DC/Puerto Rico to become a state. Just so I can watch the flag-related shitshow.
Somewhat related - Paradox Development Studio is making a new video game, Victoria 3; a long awaited sequel to Victoria 2. To those unfamiliar, it's a historically-accurate-ish-at-least-at-the-beginning strategy game where you control a country's government throughout the 19th century. Oh who am I kidding. It's a game about world conquest. You conquer the world, or die trying.
They're known for putting shitton of country-specific fluff that doesn't matter from gameplay perspective but shows off their attention to detail. One of the new gimmicks is dynamic country flags, and their flagship example is the United States of America. The flag will dynamically gain stars for each new state incorporated. They claim it can go up to 100.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
One of the new gimmicks is dynamic country flags, and their flagship example is the United States of America. The flag will dynamically gain stars for each new state incorporated. They claim it can go up to 80.
It'll be a good way to measure the size of the US's pokedex.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
The FSM has reigned for billions of years and will continue for trillions to come.
But isn't technically a monarch. Deities have a different scale.
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@dkf every monotheistic god is a monarch. That's kinda the whole point.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
THE longest reigning monarch ever in recorded history
Jesus' reign will be 1000 years in the Millennium as recorded in Revelation 20.
But it hasn't happened yet.
The FSM has reigned for billions of years and will continue for trillions to come.
Heretic! Thousands so far, only.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf every monotheistic god is a monarch. That's kinda the whole point.
Well you gotcher temporally uninvolveds.
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Do biologists use bug trackers?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Do biologists use bug trackers?
It appears so:
https://entomology.tamu.edu/2018/07/09/professor-uses-radio-tracking-technology-to-locate-elusive-kissing-bugs/
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
The FSM has reigned for billions of years and will continue for trillions to come.
Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych isn't that old.
But the Female Seeking Male is.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Do biologists use bug trackers?
Yes.
Some of them even write programs, usually in Python, using their specialist knowledge of the area of biology that they're working. I'm sorry this is so boring an answer.
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@dkf are any of these bug trackers as cool as the Pokédex?
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
I'm sorry this is so boring an answer.
Nice work adding a <details> tag to build up expectations. :-J
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@Gąska Are there any dynamic country flags other than the US flag? This of course excludes once-off changes because someone felt like it.
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@Vault_Dweller
the black bar on grows as we go insane
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@Vault_Dweller the game isn't out yet so can't say for sure. But from what I understand, most of the colonial world will have changing flags depending on which European power is in charge. And since it's 19th century, flags represent rulers more than countries so changing a dynasty will in some cases change the country flag too.
It's also fully moddable so modders will be able to add their own flag rules.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf are any of these bug trackers as cool as the Pokédex?
I don't think that anyone will ever make Jira as cool as the Pokedex. Or even as cool as someone's dad dancing while drunk.
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller
the black bar on grows as we go insane
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@topspin
see ... we still have plenty room for more crazy ...
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
I don't think that anyone will ever make Jira as cool as the Pokedex. Or even as cool as someone's dad dancing while drunk.
Nobody will ever be as cool as this:
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller
the black bar on grows as we go insaneThe number of blue shields in (not visible at this distance) varies with the number of Jesus Christ's stygmata.
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@Arantor I found a snippet of a newspaper article (it was on the back of the actual clipping) from 1948 that discussed a project in Englad (Harpenden) where capsules of radium were fixed under the wings of click beetles.