Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread
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@tsaukpaetra I was going to make a smart comment like "oo, I've seen this gif before. That's from the Gareth Was Here tumblr isn't it?". Then I noticed the watermark.
Anyway: http://garethwashere.tumblr.com/
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@zecc said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I was going to make a smart comment like "oo, I've seen this gif before. That's from the Gareth Was Here tumblr isn't it?". Then I noticed the watermark.
Anyway: http://garethwashere.tumblr.com/
K think you may have just given me a new time waste activity!
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He's a show-off, but at least a very likeable one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dNiLa0IMKg&feature=youtu.be
Now you know how to do it. Please do not do it if you don't know how to do it.
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@jbert said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I actually created one of these intentionally, though I didn't know that's what it was called.
Used this and a tube attached to the bottom that looped up along the handle (the tube was very stiff) and emptied out into a 5-gallon container. The pitcher itself sat in the sink, and filling the whole thing would take about an hour-ish.
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@tsaukpaetra "Siphon" is the generic name, the only special feature for which the cup in the video above deserves it's own name is that the siphon is hidden.
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@jbert said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@tsaukpaetra "Siphon" is the generic name, the only special feature for which the cup in the video above deserves it's own name is that the siphon is hidden.
But, like the cup, mine starts automatically without used input. ;)
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@jbert said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
"Siphon" is the generic name
not true! It's a location
https://www.google.be/maps/@51.2660736,3.2965958,17z
Alright it's called like that because it siphon's water from the lower canal "blinker" below the upper one "stinker" (because it carries waste water) up north
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When he talks about keratosis, where your eyes feel like they have sand in them but you can't do anything about it, that is very real. I once built some cages for reinforcing a concrete structure. Lots of tacking steel together. I was using an automatic welding helmet. One thing you don't realize is that there is a reaction time to the lens. Not a big deal when you are welding long beads, but if you are doing a few thousand tacks it adds up. The next day when I woke up it felt like my eyes were filled with sand. Not fun.
Now I am very cognizant of what I am doing when welding and I keep an old school welding helmet on hand for work like that. Automatic helmet for normal work.
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@polygeekery said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I was using an automatic welding helmet. One thing you don't realize is that there is a reaction time to the lens. Not a big deal when you are welding long beads, but if you are doing a few thousand tacks it adds up.
Huh, TIL. Then I read on the wikipedia page for Welding helmets that there's an ANSI standard which states that they should always block UV and IR to comply, but then there's this:
The standard is voluntary, so buyers should confirm that the helmet is ANSI Z87.1 compliant (indicated by appropriate labeling).
You had one job!
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That's pretty damned fascinating.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-ph-d-thesis-sounds-funky-lets-dance-to-it-1510613621?mod=e2tw
After reading TFA and watching some of the videos, I'm amused.
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This choreography is giving me life while post-grad research is slowly sucking the soul out of me.
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Fascinating.
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@polygeekery At work, can't watch this now. There's a thing where the patterns have a glitch such that there's a point on the level where Pac-Man can sit indefinitely and none of the ghosts will ever reach him; they just keep circling around and around. Does the video show that?
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@masonwheeler said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Does the video show that?
It mentions it and how the competitive Pac-Man players use that for restroom breaks and such.
It goes more in to the algorithms that influence the ghosts behavior. They are influenced by where Pac-Man is and which direction he is facing. An interesting approach influenced by the hardware limitations.
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@Polygeekery I never noticed how each ghost had its own "personality", TIL. Also, I love all this clearly shows that, for all its hype, most of AI is nothing more than finding the clever heuristics (a big pile of "if"s, to paraphrase xkcd) that gives good results!
(at work, with automatic subtitles which somehow only work in the middle of the video so I missed a big chunk of it... funnily, towards the end while the video says "bonus fact" I got one random subtitle that popped up, saying "Pac-Man dies." Kind of sounds like a Harry Potter spoiler!)
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@remi said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I never noticed how each ghost had its own "personality",
I never did either. I always assumed the names were just names and did not know they described traits of the algorithms behind their movements.
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@pie_flavor said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
What's funny is that, due to more enhanced functionality that's been introduced, the emulator can probably be optimized to go much faster than current.
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@tsaukpaetra This man goes dark for weeks, or months, or longer, and then suddenly releases the craziest damn thing you've ever seen. He devised a reliable way to manipulate a save file in Super Mario World, all from within the game, only using techniques a noob could do, such that whenever you loaded it, it would open a hex editor of the game's RAM and viewer for ROM. And then he used them to add support for the SNES mouse and Super Scope. He made a BASIC interpreter in Minecraft. He made an AI that can play Mario Kart.
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@pie_flavor Yeah, I really have to wonder what is his day job is... :D
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Because my post in the "Bad Jokes Thread might need some context.
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@boomzilla I don't know if we have any mechanical engineers here who can provide a discussion of the relevant dampening of oscillations, silicone vs. fat, etc.
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@chozang Don't destroy the beauty.
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@chozang Don't destroy the beauty.
But, but... I assumed you were just posting the video because of the scientific angle. Which, of course, is the same reason she posted it.
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Since I was catching up with Colin Furze's projects I noticed that he apparently was helping Tom Scott and Charles Yarnold to make treasure hunters look outdated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgtYvP6ys4E
Filed under: Typical YouTube preview image abuse - there's no flames in this invention
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@tsaukpaetra Alright, alright, I won't edit it any further.
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@jbert said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Alright, alright, I won't edit it any further.
Nah it's fine, I learned my lesson and New-tabbed it. ;)
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Warning: spoilers if you have not seen The Last Jedi yet:
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Well...that's pretty fucking cool.
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Is it wrong of me that I like watching these CSB incident review videos?
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An interesting bit of history, for me anyway. Trigger warning for Unix h8rs, video depicts sucking off Ken Thompson by remote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w
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Because the one thing people on this forum agree on is that time/date calculations are a Lovecraftian eldritch horror.
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I doubt this is actually random, given how often I share Sterling's videos, and I will leave it to the mods as to whether these are dumb or not
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This series of videos is really quite good, and quite interesting, to me anyway. Some of the case are very well known.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3HivpHP-5I&list=PL26HeTCO57qcMQB6CrU6QRzEi9tt9l1FIhttps://youtu.be/TMy0vJfKvzI
https://youtu.be/NJ7M01jV058
https://youtu.be/vyZWojeVhyA
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Great series, BTW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnSmGFmP8qU&list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5AW7F7lD_cGWqxbWIIWIfup&index=1
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Am I wrong, or has the Great War series on YouTube not actually been posted in this thread yet? If not, that's a ; even if most of the people here dislike the series (I have no idea if they do or not), I would have expected it to be mentioned before.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0xIazk&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxO1lsrC98VOyOzfW0Gn8Tga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew39InPunOY&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxOBRaYtCTZ_MfV1njg2lGX1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHnSqoTXn54&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMIRYolbA2ohBUkaT24d21h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdJjQdA-q-k&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxP4G7pljFCWC9B2t_wo0twt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7UvEaozUm8&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxNShUbgL7z0hWBR49qw1_3n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_Gwo3M-uc&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMnPf1W6yFMInKoPDitA7gC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akDfjifD2DU&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxPxlYnZ1ke-gVBXeDW8tIne
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InRangeTV is doing a series this week on rationing in Britain in WWII. It is pretty interesting so far. They are doing an experiment where they purchased what would have been a week's rations and are cooking solely from what would have been available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5993lPFEwaE
In the episode that was posted today he had a cheese and tomato sandwich on sturdy wheat bread similar to the National Loaf available during WWII. He takes a bite and, "I have to be honest. This is not the most morale boosting thing a person can eat."