Random thought of the day
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ELI5 description of a crypto tumbler: Bitcoin goes in, bitcoin goes out. You can't explain that.
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@anonymous234 Just take a textual one and pipe it into a speech synthesizer.
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While I am probably best described as non-binary, there are times I really think I need to go through physical transition. Not necessarily SRS, but feminizing hormone replacement threatments like estradiol and spiro, at least.
OTOH, not only have I been really timid in experimenting with changing my presentation so far, more significantly, my emotional stability is already marginal at best. Going through six months of Puberty 2: This Time It's Deliberate, followed by 40 years' worth of PMS crammed into one year, 24/7? I'm not ready for that.
Maybe some day, though.
Filed Under: Yeah, I know, the thread is over there
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@cursorkeys said in 🐝 The synergistic thread of data-driven agile community-based buzzwords leveraged to present a business and personal advantage:
Save bandwidth and just loop this locally for an authentic experience:
someone_from_another_department_having_a_loud_call_by_your_desk.wavSUDDEN IDEA: can you use something like a markov chain, but to generate sound? You know, take a bunch of sound files, analyze them, then be able generate an infinite stream of audio with the same patterns.
I have wondered in the past if you could produce Beethovenesque symphonies in this manner. I used to use something called QuasiFractal Composer which was the closest approach to this. Well, maybe it didn't use a markov chain, but you could produce random music based on a pattern of numbers.
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@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
I have wondered in the past if you could produce Beethovenesque symphonies in this manner.
I'm not sure about Beethovenesque, but perhaps Mozartian; he is believed to have created a Musikalisches Würfelspiel (musical dice game). Quite a few other, especially 20th century, composers have used various forms of randomization in composition and/or performance.
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@hardwaregeek said in Random thought of the day:
@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
I have wondered in the past if you could produce Beethovenesque symphonies in this manner.
I'm not sure about Beethovenesque, but perhaps Mozartian; he is believed to have created a Musikalisches Würfelspiel (musical dice game). Quite a few other, especially 20th century, composers have used various forms of randomization in composition and/or performance.
I'm not sure leaving something to the determination of the performers is quite the same as randomization. Though it does display a high opinion of the musicians, that their judgment is so worthless it might as well be chance.
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@chozang No, it's not — unless the performers use some random method to select the performance element(s); it wouldn't surprise me at all if some composer directed the performers to do that — but it is out of the control of the composer, who does not know in advance what the result will be. Even if the performers' judgement is excellent, it might as well be random from the viewpoint of the composer, since he/she cannot predict the outcome.
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qAAUpORr0jdcRbF2ng40f2a7v1bsZCBWmKP8DWdptuQJr6ZQVL2rCpUsFCPkA01
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@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
lXqIu7f0RCAaubCxJFPNhX38sGkOpW0SoxfCnvUqeBO8FY37Sc6k7wx4B5KgUiY
qAAUpORr0jdcRbF2ng40f2a7v1bsZCBWmKP8DWdptuQJr6ZQVL2rCpUsFCPkA01
qu4kQqSO3HfFSt15BijWP7rbhImwnDwmvOffPHtEYr1Qk6YdjPt8vtxxxS75prH
THhYHLbURlk7JazCAKVtbWLAIciIeq30AzqQZYYOK0s8bOKRsrp7OTZL0xnpyTaI had a similar thought the other day, though personally I'd've used a dictionary.
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@zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
lXqIu7f0RCAaubCxJFPNhX38sGkOpW0SoxfCnvUqeBO8FY37Sc6k7wx4B5KgUiY
qAAUpORr0jdcRbF2ng40f2a7v1bsZCBWmKP8DWdptuQJr6ZQVL2rCpUsFCPkA01
qu4kQqSO3HfFSt15BijWP7rbhImwnDwmvOffPHtEYr1Qk6YdjPt8vtxxxS75prH
THhYHLbURlk7JazCAKVtbWLAIciIeq30AzqQZYYOK0s8bOKRsrp7OTZL0xnpyTaI had a similar thought the other day, though personally I'd've used a dictionary.
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@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
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The raw says there's supposed to be a link (I think), but it doesn't seem to be orkng....
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
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The raw says there's supposed to be a link (I think), but it doesn't seem to be orkng....
Nah, I just had to have more than 1 byte in the post.
I'm referencing this:
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@ben_lubar Didn't we have a challenge thread for posts that apparently had no content and very little raw?
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@Tsaukpaetra I'd like a challenge thread for a post with the most content per character, with embeds disabled.
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The success of WebKit and decline of Gecko is a textbook example of how important encapsulation and separation of software components are.
They're both open source, they both render web pretty much the same, but Gecko can't be easily separated from the rest of Firefox. So if you want to embed a web renderer in your own program or OS? You'll go for WebKit.
If Mozilla had kept Gecko properly separated and easy to port (and good, but that's kinda implied), it might have been adopted by some platforms. Imagine if Android had picked Gecko instead of WebKit. Mozilla would certainly be in a much better position.
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I saw this in my twitter feed because @ben_lubar liked it:
That is actually an awesome poem. Most of the stuff that @ben_lubar likes on twitter just makes me shake or scratch my head, but he picked a winner this time.
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@hardwaregeek said in Random thought of the day:
@chozang No, it's not — unless the performers use some random method to select the performance element(s); it wouldn't surprise me at all if some composer directed the performers to do that — but it is out of the control of the composer, who does not know in advance what the result will be. Even if the performers' judgement is excellent, it might as well be random from the viewpoint of the composer, since he/she cannot predict the outcome.
I'm not sure the inability to predict the outcome is the same as randomness, especially if it's only done a small number of times.
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@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
lXqIu7f0RCAaubCxJFPNhX38sGkOpW0SoxfCnvUqeBO8FY37Sc6k7wx4B5KgUiY
qAAUpORr0jdcRbF2ng40f2a7v1bsZCBWmKP8DWdptuQJr6ZQVL2rCpUsFCPkA01
qu4kQqSO3HfFSt15BijWP7rbhImwnDwmvOffPHtEYr1Qk6YdjPt8vtxxxS75prH
THhYHLbURlk7JazCAKVtbWLAIciIeq30AzqQZYYOK0s8bOKRsrp7OTZL0xnpyTaIs this encrypted, or is it a randomly generated thought?
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@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
lXqIu7f0RCAaubCxJFPNhX38sGkOpW0SoxfCnvUqeBO8FY37Sc6k7wx4B5KgUiY
qAAUpORr0jdcRbF2ng40f2a7v1bsZCBWmKP8DWdptuQJr6ZQVL2rCpUsFCPkA01
qu4kQqSO3HfFSt15BijWP7rbhImwnDwmvOffPHtEYr1Qk6YdjPt8vtxxxS75prH
THhYHLbURlk7JazCAKVtbWLAIciIeq30AzqQZYYOK0s8bOKRsrp7OTZL0xnpyTaIs this encrypted, or is it a randomly generated thought?
They're from https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
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@benjamin-hall I think the main problem people have with it is the holes in it. It seems to work really well, but we still don't know how gravity works. But everything anyone tries to do to figure out how it works and come up with a theory that deals with it ends up having one foot on something that breaks under actual observation.
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You know how when you're really in trouble, you get called by your full name?
It just occurred to me that my cat probably thinks his full name consists of a lot of four-letter words.
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@chozang said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
lXqIu7f0RCAaubCxJFPNhX38sGkOpW0SoxfCnvUqeBO8FY37Sc6k7wx4B5KgUiY
qAAUpORr0jdcRbF2ng40f2a7v1bsZCBWmKP8DWdptuQJr6ZQVL2rCpUsFCPkA01
qu4kQqSO3HfFSt15BijWP7rbhImwnDwmvOffPHtEYr1Qk6YdjPt8vtxxxS75prH
THhYHLbURlk7JazCAKVtbWLAIciIeq30AzqQZYYOK0s8bOKRsrp7OTZL0xnpyTaIs this encrypted, or is it a randomly generated thought?
With a one-time pad, who knows the difference?
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
a circlejerk is certainly something we could get together, too.
Random thought of the day: I believe a circlejerk is intended for males. What is the term for the same but for females?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
What is the term for the same but for females?
It doesn't happen, it will always end in a bitch fight.
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@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…
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@heterodox said in Random thought of the day:
You know how when you're really in trouble, you get called by your full name?
It just occurred to me that my cat probably thinks his full name consists of a lot of four-letter words.
Like… love?
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@heterodox said in Random thought of the day:
@kt_ said in Random thought of the day:
Like… love?
Like cunt.
I was thinking twat.
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@luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
What is the term for the same but for females?
It doesn't happen, it will always end in a bitch fight.
One can dream.
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@heterodox said in Random thought of the day:
@kt_ said in Random thought of the day:
Like… love?
Like cunt.
Me too. Me like cunt.
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@kt_ said in Random thought of the day:
Ah, Zidane, he was the greatest dribbler…
His head game was pretty impressive too
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@kt_ said in Random thought of the day:
Zidane
I have a small suspicion this imagery might have been doctored.
Edit: and then I saw the post preceding mine.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar Didn't we have a challenge thread for posts that apparently had no content and very little raw?
I had a post that apparently had no content or raw content. It was made up entirely of invisible characters.
Also the invisible characters have a one-to-one mapping with ASCII (by spec) so it's trivially possible to translate it to or from ASCII.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
a circlejerk is certainly something we could get together, too.
Random thought of the day: I believe a circlejerk is intended for males. What is the term for the same but for females?
For the sort of female who would engage in one, it is also referred to as a circlejerk.
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@pie_flavor were you going to say something, or...?
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@anotherusername All I see is an empty post.
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@pie_flavor oh, so you don't see this?
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@anotherusername Well, that's a quote of a post followed by an empty post. But I call moderator ae
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@pie_flavor said in Random thought of the day:
I call moderator ae
I deny it! Wait, which moderator am I accused of abusing?
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@anotherusername Wait, if you're not a moderator then why can you see the post?
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@pie_flavor Javascript.
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@pie_flavor I have a userscript.
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@anotherusername, @pie_flavor Well I don't have a userscript and I too see the post.
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@zecc Is this a joke because I posted a screenshot of it, or...?
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@anotherusername I thought you were talking about @pie_flavor's deleted post. Never mind.
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@zecc I was.