Random thought of the day
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@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
@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.
But it's easier to save it when it's untitled, right?
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Dangerous machinery should have a sensor to shut it down when it detects loud screams of pain.
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A man, a fort, rofanama!
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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?
If there's any alcohol left in their mouth it'll really throw off the result. They're not supposed to be used until you can verify that the subject hasn't drank any alcohol within the last 15 minutes.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe PNG should add a special opposite of background layer color.
ICO had that.
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@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe PNG should add a special opposite of background layer color.
ICO had that.
Yay inverted icons!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe PNG should add a special opposite of background layer color.
ICO had that.
Yay inverted icons!
I once worked on hardware for that — rather cursor, not icons; whatever. 2 bits-per-pixel: 0x0 = black; 0x1 = white (or vice versa, I don't remember); 0x2 = transparent; 0x3 = inverted.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@anotherusername said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe PNG should add a special opposite of background layer color.
ICO had that.
Yay inverted icons!
I once worked on hardware for that — rather cursor, not icons; whatever. 2 bits-per-pixel: 0x0 = black; 0x1 = white (or vice versa, I don't remember); 0x2 = transparent; 0x3 = inverted.
My WindowsTI (For Ti-83+ calculator, written in TI BASIC) did this in software. Yes, it was fucking slow because interpreted language on a low-power processor is slow.
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@Tsaukpaetra y'know you can also read the pixel values from the screen...
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra y'know you can also read the pixel values from the screen...
How do you think I applied the transparency?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Yes, it was fucking slow because interpreted language on a low-power processor is slow.
You haven't tried CASIO BASIC. It runs at like 5 instructions per second at best.
The good thing is you get every mathematical operation you could want!
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Wondering about all the recent thread necrophilia...
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@M_Adams I'm guessing @loopback0 just got bored.
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Well, some of it’s a nice stroll down memory lane.
I miss Morbs. Morbs would have driven Fox into being sedated in an institution with in a week.
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@M_Adams said in Random thought of the day:
Wondering about all the recent thread necrophilia...
Therapy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@M_Adams said in Random thought of the day:
Wondering about all the recent thread necrophilia...
Therapy.
I’m sure someone needs some, but not quite sure what you meaning in this context...
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
2 bits-per-pixel: 0x0 = black; 0x1 = white (or vice versa, I don't remember); 0x2 = transparent; 0x3 = inverted.
It was common with black-and-white displays; one bit was used as a mask to apply with binary AND and the other bit was then applied with binary XOR; the inversion effect dropped out naturally. It fell out of favour on displays with more bit depth, where the inversion effect was often very unsatisfying. That was especially true on display modes with a 256 colour palette, where the inverted colour was often totally unrelated to the original one… By the time full colour displays became the norm, the tendency to use inversion as a technique had gone despite the fact that the hardware was able to support it more meaningfully again (outside of greys in centre of the range).
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
That was especially true on display modes with a 256 colour palette
IIRC — and this would have been around 1999, so details are a bit fuzzy — the cursor was processed in RGB after the palette look-up, if any. In the 2-bpp mode, the cursor bits controlled a 24-bit-wide 4-to-1 mux, selecting 0x000000, 0xffffff, frame buffer RGB, or frame buffer RGB XOR 0xffffff. It had a whole bunch of modes, including 1-bpp, 2-bpp, maybe an 8-bpp (?), 15/16-bpp, 24-bpp packed into consecutive bytes (that mode was fun to unpack) and 24-bpp in a 32-bit word (i.e., 32-bpp, but the upper 8 bits unused).
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
the cursor was processed in RGB after the palette look-up, if any
Only for hardware mouse pointers. Windows didn't assume that that was what you could do (because those bits of the OS dated from much earlier, when hardware accelerated graphics wasn't a thing) and that caused all sorts of trouble, as software mouse pointers needed to be drawn in memory and go through palette lookup. The key is that the inversion effect sucked hard for a while and people stopped designing cursors that used it.
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
Only for hardware mouse pointers.
Yes...
@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
I once worked on hardware for that — rather cursor
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I wonder if there's any spammers out there doing robocalls but to fax machines.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
doing robocalls but to fax machines.
Maybe not spammers, but hackers
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder if there's any spammers out there doing robocalls but to fax machines.
Our fax has been hit a few times.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
rather cursor, not icons
Aside from the extension, .ico and .cur were identical, IIRC.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder if there's any spammers out there doing robocalls but to fax machines.
Yes.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder if there's any spammers out there doing robocalls but to fax machines.
Yes, and they print out advertisements. With OUR MONEY! The nerve!
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@anotherusername I'll take your word for it. I never dealt with anything other than raw 32x32, 64x64 or, in the case of 1 bpp, 128x128 pixel data somewhere in memory. The pixel data from the frame buffer flowed through the cursor hardware on the way to the display. The cursor hardware was aware of the row/column of the pixel being processed and the cursor position on (or off) the screen. If the pixel's position was inside the cursor's bounding box and the cursor pixel wasn't transparent, the hardware replaced the frame buffer pixel with the cursor pixel.
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@anonymous234
Yes. I once worked with an app that also could be used for outbound calls. Smart people configured fax tone detection at the start of outbound calls to throw out fax machines.
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status: sleeping with two bitches. A twin-size bed isn't really big enough to do this comfortably, especially since they're not into snuggling up top...
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@Tsaukpaetra Wrong thread!
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RToTD: just write "for novelty purposes only" on the side of a gun and you can bypass all gun control laws.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
RToTD: just write "for novelty purposes only" on the side of a gun and you can bypass all gun control laws.
Worth a try!
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Some Reddit user noticed that "Patreon" is anagram of "not rape".
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RTotD: why are the only alcoholic beverages from fruits made from raisin (wine), apple (cider) or pear (perry)? Why are all other fruit-based wines (cherry, blackberry...) just regular wine/cider mixed with other fruits, rather than pure fermented fruit juice like wine/cider/perry?
(I'm not talking about strong distilled alcohols, nor about alcohols made from grains e.g. beer or sake, even though I'm sure someone will me and say that grains are fruits)
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@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.
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
RTotD: why are the only alcoholic beverages from fruits made from raisin (wine), apple (cider) or pear (perry)? Why are all other fruit-based wines (cherry, blackberry...) just regular wine/cider mixed with other fruits, rather than pure fermented fruit juice like wine/cider/perry?
Apparently you're unfamiliar with jumpsteady, homemade prison wine. This is made with any available fruit.
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@tharpa said in Random thought of the day:
Apparently you're unfamiliar with jumpsteady, homemade prison wine. This is made with any available fruit.
Two words out of three that don't bode well for the quality of the result... There might be a reason why I've never heard of that.
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Dumb things you can do:
DNS over Twitter
You can also send a DNS query like that (
AAAA
by default if no record type is given) tolookup@resolver.email
. Because DNS over SMTP/POP3/IMAP makes total sense.
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What if we implement UBI using Q instead of real money?
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Dangerous machinery should have a sensor to shut it down when it detects loud screams of pain.
OK Google, stop sawing my arm off!
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przekroczenie prędkości = speeding
działalność gospodarcza = business
osoba towarzysząca = +1English speakers are lazy.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
przekroczenie prędkości = speeding
działalność gospodarcza = business
osoba towarzysząca = +1English speakers are lazy.
sizyseltelkiknunselcpakezykezysminabmi
samjavyfonxypliduskemjuglerci'analka'ebi'ojaxyja'e
zdalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarenaketukuuerpo'espadarle'alegriiakosabuuenadalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarena'eimakarena
cimnyterjuntasucyxe'idaiseldi'e
kalca'osrumu'askakemsloskajavburjoiri'o
jbojevysofkemsuzgugje'ake'eborkemfaipaltrusi'oke'ekemgubyseltru
mlirumjvesimjonxonslanybafkemclenykukrypaxryja'i
xonslanykemymlirumjvesimjonkepkemclenykukrypaxryja'i
ki'a'au'u'au'i
ci'au'u'au'i
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@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
przekroczenie prędkości = speeding
działalność gospodarcza = business
osoba towarzysząca = +1English speakers are lazy.
sizyseltelkiknunselcpakezykezysminabmi
samjavyfonxypliduskemjuglerci'analka'ebi'ojaxyja'e
zdalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarenaketukuuerpo'espadarle'alegriiakosabuuenadalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarena'eimakarena
cimnyterjuntasucyxe'idaiseldi'e
kalca'osrumu'askakemsloskajavburjoiri'o
jbojevysofkemsuzgugje'ake'eborkemfaipaltrusi'oke'ekemgubyseltru
mlirumjvesimjonxonslanybafkemclenykukrypaxryja'i
xonslanykemymlirumjvesimjonkepkemclenykukrypaxryja'i
ki'a'au'u'au'i
ci'au'u'au'i@Gąska now look at what you caused. We ended up with logjam all over this thread.
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In 1960, when you paid for a telephone call, you were paying for access to the big telephone network that companies maintained.
Today, that network doesn't exist. It's been replaced by the internet network, which you pay for access to. 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.
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@M_Adams oh, it's Lojban? I thought someone had a field day with zalgo generator.
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@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.
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@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?
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@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
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@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?