Random thought of the day
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@boomzilla Sometimes, Google is really bad at its job. However, sometimes it's quite impressive:
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@hungrier
Abraham was his vampire slayer name
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@mott555 said in Random thought of the day:
@hungrier At the risk of , Abraham Lincoln.
100% True Fact: His name was actually "Daveraham" but historians said "Nah, nobody would believe someone with a ridiculous name like that would ever become president"
Filed under: King Benjamin
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If video codecs added a way to represent "contiguous regions of arbitrary shape with the exact same color" they'd be able to losslessly represent most vector animations. No artifacts, no need to convert to pixels.
Filters kinda complicate everything though.
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The day advanced robots gain human rights will be the day any technological progress stops. I just don't trust politicians to wait until actual AI is achieved.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
If video codecs added a way to represent "contiguous regions of arbitrary shape with the exact same color" they'd be able to losslessly represent most vector animations. No artifacts, no need to convert to pixels.
Congratulations, you just invented vector animations.
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@Gąska No, I've unified them with non-vector animations.
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@anonymous234 congratulations, you've invented Flash.
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@Gąska
Sounds more like Silverlight
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@Gąska I've put Flash inside MP4 files so it works on all media players.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 congratulations, you've invented Flash.
:nuke_it_from_orbit.swf:
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Another example of stream-of-thought searching where Google nailed it:
(it was the first search result after some videos, a map and some questions)
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So, Newspeak is a very simplified English that goes away with most of the vocabulary, especially the redundant words - synonyms and near-synonyms. Intensity of description isn't passed through the choice of words, but by combining basic words with modifier words and prefixes - sometimes several at once. The end result is nothing like any natural language. And some seemingly trivial things are straight out impossible to express, often by design...
Newspeak is a programming language.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Newspeak is a very simplified English that goes away with most of the vocabulary, especially the redundant words - synonyms and near-synonyms
So you mean PHP isn't a programming language?
...makes sense.
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Has anyone tried using standard issue trackers (github, bugzilla) as to-do lists for daily chores and general life improvement?
I mean if it works for software issues it should work for the general case, right?
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@anonymous234 What about Discourse?
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Has anyone tried using standard issue trackers (github, bugzilla) as to-do lists for daily chores and general life improvement?
I mean if it works for software issues it should work for the general case, right?
Confluence would be especially interesting here. You can create subtasks, etc.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Has anyone tried using standard issue trackers (github, bugzilla) as to-do lists for daily chores and general life improvement?
I mean if it works for software issues it should work for the general case, right?
Confluence would be especially interesting here. You can create subtasks, etc.
I guess then cleaning the bathroom would become an Epic…
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Topologically speaking, I am an inner tube that turns anything that passes through its hole into shit.
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@brie Not so fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ
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Is it a good idea (or even practical) to run all my music through something that will force the volume to be within the same average band? I listen to music mostly shuffled from my phone in the car. And some songs are really really quiet (so I have to turn it up to hear over road noise) and then the next song will be ear-blastingly loud.
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Yes, and it's a solved problem:
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Yes, and it's a solved problem:
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGainThanks!
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@brie Not so fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQI confess, I skimmed through the video.
My takeaway from this is:
You'd have to spelunk in your sinuses to know for sure.
And that's beautiful isn't it?
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Status: @anonymous234's current avatar makes me want to hump a llama....
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@Tsaukpaetra Hump a llama? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
https://youtu.be/zoTevRomRFg
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
How Many Holes Does a Human Have?
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Hump a llama? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I haven't the foggiest.
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@Tsaukpaetra How about this new one? I call him Frank.
(Don't worry, by the way, I save all my old avatars)
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Welcome to the forums, @anonymous234 !
Filed under: I never forget a face, but I'm not good with names.
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@Zecc same here. Both online and in real life.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra How about this new one? I call him Frank.
(Don't worry, by the way, I save all my old avatars)
Makes me want to self-pleasure while bitterly crying.
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The NSFW thread is
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
The NSFW thread is
I went to
TheNSF~1
thread and well... says right there, it's not safe for one. So I went away, bitterly crying.
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Status: Horse. Udders.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Horse. Udders.
You shouldn't post your passphrases publicly.
Filed under Correct: Horse. Battery? Staple!
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Status: Horse. Udders.
You shouldn't post your passphrases publicly.
Filed under Correct: Horse. Battery? Staple!
I've been compromised by more than a dozen leaks, I have no fear.
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What are Blastoise's cannons made of?
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@Gąska Pokémon.
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What I wish:
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I would send away my wife to stay with relatives for a couple of weeks.
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I would have a vial of COVID-19 delivered to my house.
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I would infect myself.
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I would take the <= 4% chance I would die from it. Most likely I would just get mildly sick.
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I would stay home without visitors until I was recovered and non-infectious.
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I would get an official certificate that I was immune and non-infectious.
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I could then go anywhere without fear.
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I would rent myself out to the highest bidder to go places they were afraid to go. "Greetings. I am The Immune and Non-Infectious Emissary of His Royal Majesty King Bezos the Vulnerable, and He wants to convey his best wishes to you and your people."
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Nice plan. Unfortunately, we're not sure getting sick once gives you immunity.
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@jinpa from a purely “for the greater good” perspective, it might actually have been beneficent for society if a high percentage of medical personell had gotten it early on so that they’d be recovered (and not transmitting it) by the time the peak hits.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Isn't bacon typically fried?
And fries are boiled (in hot fat).
I'm not aware of any edible forms of boil, so I wouldn't know how those are prepared.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
I am The Immune and Non-Infectious Emissary of His Royal Majesty King Bezos the Vulnerable
T.I.N.I.E.H.R.M.K.B.V
...
You almost had it going, but then ruined it!!!
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Nice plan. Unfortunately, we're not sure getting sick once gives you immunity.
Maybe not?
Edit: But of course, many reasons why it may be considered re-infection but not actually have been reinfection.
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I have an idea of what the "word of the year" could be.
Alas, not "impeachment".
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
I have an idea of what the "word of the year" could be.
Alas, not "impeachment".
Phrase of the year could be, "Attempted coup".