Random thought of the day
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PIN supposedly stands for Personal Identification Number, but it's never used for identification, it's used for authentication.
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@anonymous234
"Identification" comes from the ancient Greek for Authentication.
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Remaking old games seems like an often neglected business opportunity.
Think about it: there are lots of old games out there with good "world building" and overall design, but outdated graphics and game engines (that generally have trouble running in modern computers). They generally go for 5€ on Steam.
Take the levels and stuff, port them to a modern engine (which are surprisingly cheap and good), remake the main 3D models. You've got a brand "new" game for 1/4th the cost it would take to actually make it from scratch.
This is even more true for the games that got ruined by some particular detail like bad controls, camera, loading times, sidekick characters with terrible AI...
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@benjamin-hall I've read that fanfic.
(Actually not kidding, someone wrote a pretty damn good MLP fanfic series where the ponies end up as allies of the Iron Warriors against first some Tau, then an Ork horde)
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@anonymous234 That's what Nightdive Studios does like... exactly.
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In the movies I don't think I've ever seen a zombie in a wheelchair or using crutches.
Is it because zombification would solve walking disabilities?
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@zecc said in Random thought of the day:
In the movies I don't think I've ever seen a zombie in a wheelchair or using crutches.
I've seen lots of zombies without legs. They just crawl around with their arms.
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If C syntax was consistent, this:
int add(int x, int y) return x+y;
should be a valid function definition.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
If C syntax was consistent
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I've been noticing for a while that low and middle end prebuilt computers still don't come with SSDs, even though they are absolutely worth the price (a 128GB one costs like 35€), and instead pack 1TB drives that no regular user will ever fill 10% of.
I think I just figured out why: stores put the size of the hard drive in the title. "HP somethingsomething - 1TB memory". People will always buy the one with the number 10 times bigger.
Also probably because of Windows refusing to let you put the default folders on different drives. So if computers came with a small SSD and a big spinning drive, literally nothing would get saved to that one.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Also probably because of Windows refusing to let you put the default folders on different drives. So if computers came with a small SSD and a big spinning drive, literally nothing would get saved to that one.
All domain-joined computers at home redirect the Documents, Pictures, Videos, and Desktop folders to the NAS. Almost nobody notices. The ones that do notice take their desktop PCs between places homes (yes, there's a story behind that), and I've added them to the exceptions.
I will admit I'm special.
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@timebandit said in Random thought of the day:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
I will admit I'm special.
We already knew that
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
The ones that do notice take their desktop PCs between places homes ...
I will admit I'm special.Do you admit to posting from mobile?
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@hardwaregeek said in Random thought of the day:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
The ones that do notice take their desktop PCs between places homes ...
I will admit I'm special.Do you admit to posting from mobile?
... Yes?
What does that have to do with Windows folder redirec--- oh.....
Yes, I think I may have hit an arrow in the key...
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Why can't blocks and conditionals in C be expressions and have a value? Then they could get rid of the ternary operator.
Likeint type = if(mycondition) { double i = getThing(); if(i < 0) exit(1); //Fatal error floor(2*i-1); //last statement is value. Alternatively make a new keyword similar to "return" } else 25;
or
int thing = if (setting == THINGS || debug_mode) 23 else -1;
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Why can't blocks and conditionals in C be expressions and have a value? Then they could get rid of the ternary operator.
Likeint type = if(mycondition) { double i = getThing(); if(i < 0) exit(1); //Fatal error floor(2*i-1); //last statement is value. Alternatively make a new keyword similar to "return" } else 25;
or
int thing = if (setting == THINGS || debug_mode) 23 else -1;
As a gnu C extension:
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RTOTD: Is it really a discount if the only time an item is available is when it's on sale for said discount?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
RTOTD: Is it really a discount if the only time an item is available is when it's on sale for said discount?
Yes. The price outside of that period is
+INFINITY
. Any finite value is a discount.
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@benjamin-hall The business practice of doing that, remains arguably deceptive, or at least smacks of bad faith.
In other news, I recently used Javascript's infinity in anger, in a semantically correct way. Never thought that would happen.
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@gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
The business practice of doing that, remains arguably deceptive, or at least smacks of bad faith.
Yeah, most of the "Exclusive limited-time-only" in-app-purchasable items are marked as discounted, and said discount ends a the end of the sale (naturally), but availability also ends at the same time, so you can't buy it except at the "discount" price...
Ugh....
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When you're a student facing a math problem, and you know the solution but don't know the notation needed to write down your thoughts, you're forced to think up some other solution, with notation you know.
When you're a professor facing a math problem, and you know the solution but don't know the notation, you just make up your own notation on the fly.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
The business practice of doing that, remains arguably deceptive, or at least smacks of bad faith.
There's a furniture store in Tyson's Corner (Virginia) that has a tradition of always having going out of business sales (as one does). I drove through there the other day and saw an ad for the latest one, but it also said that the property had been bought and was being redeveloped or something, so maybe they're not lying this time.
It's right next to a new metro stop and the whole area is undergoing a lot of redevelopment so the reason is very plausible.
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"Pull starting" a lawnmower is like punching someone but in reverse.
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Half of the questions I have for co-workers I really don't need them for - I just need to use their computer to compare how things are working on their computer to how they're not working on mine.
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I want to start a social network just for drunk people. Does a breathalyzer produce a verifiable result, or just a result?
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
I want to start a social network just for drunk people. Does a breathalyzer produce a verifiable result, or just a result?
Causation is not correlation?
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@Tsaukpaetra Well, what I'm wondering is if there's a way to get a signed result out of the device, vs a non-verifiable bit.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Well, what I'm wondering is if there's a way to get a signed result out of the device, vs a non-verifiable bit.
Probably. They make chips for that, right?
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@Tsaukpaetra ... preferably from an off-the-shelf device. This seems like the sort of thing that would be core functionality but the primary customers have been law enforcement and they will also buy dowsing rods, so, ??.
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@Gribnit Verifiable results from any device is pretty close to impossible.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
"Pull starting" a lawnmower is like punching someone but in reverse.
As an ESL, at first I've had no idea what you mean by "pull starting", and thought you mean some kind of push start - then wondered just how exactly you push start a lawnmower (assuming small consumer-grade one, not those human-sized-car-with-blades ones).
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
"Pull starting" a lawnmower is like punching someone but in reverse.
As an ESL, at first I've had no idea what you mean by "pull starting", and thought you mean some kind of push start - then wondered just how exactly you push start a lawnmower (assuming small consumer-grade one, not those human-sized-car-with-blades ones).
Yeah, that would probably be quite difficult, even the ones that have motor-driven wheels...
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
I want to start a social network just for drunk people. Does a breathalyzer produce a verifiable result, or just a result?
You're concerned that you would have sober moles?
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@tharpa But would that be a mole of moles?
That many moles would frighten even Avogadro.
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@tharpa Guacamole thread is
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@tharpa But would that be a mole of moles?
Dammit, stop being so transparent!
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@Tsaukpaetra
RESOLVED: WORKSFORME
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@Tsaukpaetra Maybe PNG should add a special opposite of background layer color.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe PNG should add a special opposite of background layer color.
With this crowd, they'll just set their background colour to #808080 and keep complaining.
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The menu key hasn't gotten much love, to the point that it has mostly disappeared[citation needed]. It was mostly redundant given that it was just an alternative to a right-click anyway, and therefore pretty much useless.
I think it was a lost opportunity of creating something similar to the Win key, but per application.
What if instead of having disparate keyboard shortcuts in select applications — such as
Ctrl+Shift+P
in VSCode,Space
in Blender andCtrl+Shift+A
in IntelliJ — this was a standard key in all applications to bring up an autocompleting command launcher?
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
The menu key hasn't gotten much love, to the point that it has mostly disappeared[citation needed]. It was mostly redundant given that it was just an alternative to a right-click anyway, and therefore pretty much useless.
I think it was a lost opportunity of creating something similar to the Win key, but per application.
What if instead of having disparate keyboard shortcuts in select applications — such as
Ctrl+Shift+P
in VSCode,Space
in Blender andCtrl+Shift+A
in IntelliJ — this was a standard key in all applications to bring up an autocompleting command launcher?I use the context menu button to autocorrect spelling miitakes all the time.
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With VR glasses, you can probably easily manipulate the wearer's sense of balance into them falling over.
It would be a good way for the developer (or a hacker) to troll the person.
Multiplayer games could charge $200 to let you to do it to any other player.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
With VR glasses, you can probably easily manipulate the wearer's sense of balance into them falling over.
This happens on accident VERY easily, actually. Lone Echo specifically has a setting that locks your rotation to a single (perceptible) axis for this exact reason.
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
It would be a good way for the developer (or a hacker) to troll the person.
Multiplayer games could charge $200 to let you to do it to any other player.*Jots notes* Good idea! I'll add "Title the world" as a mod action!
We had this happen on accident when teleporting incorrectly, but with a little tweaking we could make this happen on demand!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Title the world
From the context, I'm guessing you meant Tilt the world?
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Title the world
From the context, I'm guessing you meant Tilt the world?
*Weeping* I miss my keyboard's learning so much...
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Title the world
From the context, I'm guessing you meant Tilt the world?
No, "titling" was correct. Selling the world is a real pain, let me tell you, because it's untitled.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
The menu key hasn't gotten much love, to the point that it has mostly disappeared[citation needed]. It was mostly redundant given that it was just an alternative to a right-click anyway, and therefore pretty much useless.
I think it was a lost opportunity of creating something similar to the Win key, but per application.
What if instead of having disparate keyboard shortcuts in select applications — such as
Ctrl+Shift+P
in VSCode,Space
in Blender andCtrl+Shift+A
in IntelliJ — this was a standard key in all applications to bring up an autocompleting command launcher?I use the context menu button to autocorrect spelling miitakes all the time.
I have it set as the compose key as it’s in a convenient spot for touch typing.