Random thought of the day
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@M_Adams said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@M_Adams oh, it's Lojban? I thought someone had a field day with zalgo generator.
Lojban ≠ Ẓ͕̫̳̎̅͐̇̊̌̽̏̍́ă̞͚̹̦̖̰̤̜̖̈̄̽ͯ͛͊̋͘l͑͋͏̧̠̗̪̺ͅg͓̰̫̀͂̀ͭ̓̊̅̀o̢͚̻͋ͫ͐͟
For all intensive porpoises, they are.
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@Gąska Are they also for superficial dolphins?
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@HardwareGeek dunno, ask them yourself.
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@HardwareGeek on a more serious note, googling for "superficial dolphins" brought me to "Introduction To Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions".
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@M_Adams oh, it's Lojban? I thought someone had a field day with zalgo generator.
If you read the longest one of those words out loud, I bet you can figure out what it means.
An approved chicken that had just cured allergy was dancing but it fell down on a scythe (boo) and she gave me another post-allergic chicken eee macarena?
you appear to have gotten lojban macarena rolled.
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@M_Adams said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@M_Adams oh, it's Lojban? I thought someone had a field day with zalgo generator.
Lojban ≠ Ẓ͕̫̳̎̅͐̇̊̌̽̏̍́ă̞͚̹̦̖̰̤̜̖̈̄̽ͯ͛͊̋͘l͑͋͏̧̠̗̪̺ͅg͓̰̫̀͂̀ͭ̓̊̅̀o̢͚̻͋ͫ͐͟
For all intensive porpoises, they are.
A difference: you can zalgofy then unzalgofy low-ascii text without destroying anything.
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@Gribnit what?
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@Gąska NO_REPRO
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@HardwareGeek I'm not even slightly surprised. Google is so personalized now that no two people ever get the same results.
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@Gąska Especially since that was such a bizarre result not even slightly related to the search terms.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
no two people ever get the same results
But some people get chicken macarena.
https://youtu.be/anzzNp8HlVQ
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
why are the only alcoholic beverages from fruits made from raisin (wine), apple (cider) or pear (perry)?
There's something of a tradition in England of making hedgerow wines from other fruits. I'm told that peapod wine is particularly potent. I've never made any of these myself.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
But you also pay the company to take your phone calls, digitize them, send them over the same network you're already paying for, reconstruct them on the other end and send them to another phone.
What third world shithole do you live in that you don't have unlimited calls?
A-fucking-merica.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@M_Adams oh, it's Lojban? I thought someone had a field day with zalgo generator.
If you read the longest one of those words out loud, I bet you can figure out what it means.
An approved chicken that had just cured allergy wasdancingbut it fell down on a scythe (boo) and she gave me another post-allergic chicken eeemacarena?You're very close. You just need to skip most of the words in your post.
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@ben_lubar but if I skip most of the words in my post, it's not what it sounds like to me anymore. You should be clearer with your instructions.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar but if I skip most of the words in my post, it's not what it sounds like to me anymore. You should be clearer with your instructions.
it sounds like the macarena song
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@ben_lubar it sounds fairly similar to Polish words for what I described. Especially the "kura po alergii" part that repeats twice.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
But you also pay the company to take your phone calls, digitize them, send them over the same network you're already paying for, reconstruct them on the other end and send them to another phone.
What third world shithole do you live in that you don't have unlimited calls?
Without paying anything?
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@sockpuppet7 chicken after allergy.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
rather cursor, not icons
Aside from the extension, .ico and .cur were identical, IIRC.
Cursors had an optional hot-spot, but it wouldn't surprise me too much if .ICO had the same but just ignored it.
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@kt_ said in Random thought of the day:
@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@hardwaregeek said in Random thought of the day:
are any English footballers actually English?
European major leagues recruit players all around the world. Which includes a lot of South American and African, plus a sprinkling of Europeans, but given that they all move between big clubs easily (England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France mostly, I'd say), the number of players of a given nation playing in the top clubs of that nation is rarely more than 2-3. There is, I think, no significant limit on the number of foreign players in any one club (for European players, I remember a controversy that involved the EU and the principle of free circulation of persons, which lead to the removal of such a rule -- maybe there is still one for non-EU players, I don't know).
Smaller clubs (or smaller leagues) have less money to buy big names, and rely more on their own junior teams to provide them with good players, so they tend to have more local ones. Some clubs are even renowned not so much for their top team, but for their ability to train good new players and sell them to other clubs. But those are likely not the ones you'll see on TV on the other side of the world.
Also, professional football players (like most professional sports) statistically tend to be from relatively poor backgrounds, which usually correlates with immigrants (more or less depending on countries, of course), so even a player of a given nationality may have a name that sounds foreign. For example Zinedine Zidane, a well known top French ex-player, has a clearly Algerian-sounding name but was born in a French suburb and is French.
Ah, Zidane, he was the greatest dribbler…
Um, why is the referee playing in a lot of those clips?
(Also, great choice of music!)
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@dcon said in Random thought of the day:
@gąska said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder if software sucks more with each update
That's what our users say...
because it's based on telemetry data coming only from people who are too stupid to disable telemetry.
We don't allow you to disable telemetry, so .
Does not using your product count as disabling telemetry?
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
If C syntax was consistent, this:
int add(int x, int y) return x+y;
should be a valid function definition.
The so-called "optional" curly braces should never be omitted. Allowing them to be omitted was probably just to appease some old programming geezers who can't imagine writing in anything except assembly (or maybe FORTRAN or COBOL).
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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;
I don't see the big problem with doing these instead, if you really want one-liners that badly:
double i; int type = mycondition ? ((i = getThing()) < 0 ? exit(1) : floor(2*i-1)) : 25;
or
int thing = (setting == THINGS || debug_mode) ? 23 : -1;
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
Well, what I'm wondering is if there's a way to get a signed result out of the [breathalyser], vs a non-verifiable bit.
What puzzles me is why you want it to be signed. If you are expecting to get negative numbers, I think there are greater problems with the device's reliability.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
rather cursor, not icons
Aside from the extension, .ico and .cur were identical, IIRC.
I don't know if it was the editor I used or a part of the file format for color icons and cursors, but the very top-left pixel determined the color to be treated as transparent, which allowed me to make icons that used all but one color (usually a shade of pink).
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
If C syntax was consistent, this:
int add(int x, int y) return x+y;
should be a valid function definition.
Rust syntax, of course, is consistent.
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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.
Wrongo.
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@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
If C syntax was consistent, this:
int add(int x, int y) return x+y;
should be a valid function definition.
The so-called "optional" curly braces should never be omitted. Allowing them to be omitted was probably just to appease some old programming geezers who can't imagine writing in anything except assembly (or maybe FORTRAN or COBOL).
On the other hand, if you do exhaustive decomposition down to the partial function level you end up with lots of single-statement functions.
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@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
rather cursor, not icons
Aside from the extension, .ico and .cur were identical, IIRC.
I don't know if it was the editor I used or a part of the file format for color icons and cursors, but the very top-left pixel determined the color to be treated as transparent, which allowed me to make icons that used all but one color (usually a shade of pink).
Definitely the editor. Regular 16-color (4bpp) icon/cursor files had a full 16 colors, plus an extra bit for the opacity of each pixel.
When used as an icon, the opacity channel just made the transparent pixels completely transparent, but when the same file was used as a cursor, the computation was a bit more complex: the color of transparent pixels was actually meaningful, and determined whether/how the pixel would invert.
Suppose you have a 32x32 canvas of background pixels where your cursor is going to be rendered. First, the cursor's opacity channel was used to mask (AND) each opaque pixel's background to black; transparent pixels remained unchanged. Next, each pixel's color was looked up in the color palette, and its RGB values were used to invert (XOR) the bits of the background pixel in order to produce the intended color. If the background pixel was black, then this would simply set the intended bits and produce that color; however, if the background pixel wasn't black (i.e. there was a colored pixel that wasn't masked by the opacity channel), then the XOR operation would invert whichever bits the RGB color set.
So, in order to produce a transparent pixel, you simply used a black pixel without masking the background; the background would then be XOR'd with black,
0x000000
, leaving it unchanged. And to produce an inverted pixel, you used a white pixel without masking the background; the background would then be XOR'd with white,0xffffff
, inverting it. But it was relatively simple math at this point, and actually, any color could be XOR'd with the background.In other words, you had:
(background AND -opacity) XOR color
For example, I created a 32x32 icon/cursor:
Opacity mask
(1bpp, 0 = black = opaque)Color layer
(palette-based, 16 colors)Icon
(simple transparency)Cursor
(over white background)Cursor
(over black background)(all sizes 2x for better visibility)
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@pie_flavor said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
If C syntax was consistent, this:
int add(int x, int y) return x+y;
should be a valid function definition.
Rust syntax, of course, is consistent.
Perhaps, but then you'd be rusty.
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If theism is a belief in a higher power, is God an atheist?
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@pie_flavor said in Random thought of the day:
If theism is a belief in a higher power, is God an atheist?
Dunno. If he doesn't believe in himself and has been around for millennia, is he a depressed millennial?
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Make America Great Again?
I'm all for that.
They haven't really been what you'd call great since "You Can Do Magic" in 1982, and some would say even longer than that. Certainly not as great as a band that once could put out verified classics like "A Horse With No Name", "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man" and "Sister Golden Hair".
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@tharpa said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder if there's any spammers out there doing robocalls but to fax machines.
Yes, in fact, that was the first kind of spam, long before PC's, and it still goes on today. The fax machines I come across still in active use in offices get about half of their faxes as spam.
Our fax spam has actually stopped. We still have to have one because one of our behemoth multinational customers can only send orders via fax
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Seen in my mailroom
My only reference point for the word "Thule" is as a secret society of evildoers. But I don't remember where I've seen it in that context.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
Thule
TL,DD: a fictive land/people in a series of Dutch children's books named after an old mythological name for the high north.
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@Luhmann I think I was thinking of the Thule society (warning: real Nazis)
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Biggest blame fool
in the jungle of Nule
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
Seen in my mailroom
My only reference point for the word "Thule" is as a secret society of evildoers. But I don't remember where I've seen it in that context.
You are thinking of the quasiapocryphal Thule Society, of which Adolf Hitler is rumored to have been a "member" or pawn or something.
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@Benjamin-Hall We have a car luggage carrier by Thule. We've modified it a bit so it says Cthulhu.
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@Gribnit It's interesting how there are still people supporting every shit thing hitler did, but nobody use a mustache like that. That ridiculous mustache is were the neonazists drew the line.
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"You should do this thing I want for free, it will give you exposure" "BOOOO! Pay people for their work!"
"You should contribute to open source projects, it will show future employers that you're a good programmer" "Great idea!"
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann I think I was thinking of the Thule society (warning: real Nazis)
Saw it first in a book
In Invasion, the world is invaded by a mysterious force of armored Nazi soldiers, from the disbanded arcane Thule Society, some of whom are subsequently found not to be human.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit It's interesting how there are still people supporting every shit thing hitler did, but nobody use a mustache like that. That ridiculous mustache is were the neonazists drew the line.
Actually, I wore a nose-width mustache for a little while. Not because of anyone's ideology or anything like that. I just thought it looked interesting. Yeah, I was a dumb, ignorant teenager.
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@pie_flavor said in Random thought of the day:
Ah, right, you were an autistic ignorant teenager, I forgot.