'Well! I've often seen a fork without a commit,' thought Alice 'but a commit without a fork! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!'
Posts made by da_Doctah
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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RE: 256 is "oddly specific number"...
4b+2 always has 2 as a factor.
...when b is a positive integer. 42 base 1/4 = 3 base 10, which is prime.
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RE: Conversations overheard
@Lorne_Kates said:
Why is your wife represented as a kamikaze pilot in that dialog?
In her spare time she crashes planes into Hawaii.
ground zero, n.phr.. Finely minced Japanese fighter plane.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Saw the "malnourished sea lion pup" story on my local TV news website. Given that the restaurant's meals start at $28, the sea lion was probably malnourished because the waiters were ignoring her.
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RE: Subtitles Failure
1. There's no need to have a subtitle "(Rygel speaking)", since it's fucking obvious he's speaking (even if you were deaf you could see his lips moving quite clearly)2. The "Rygel Speaking" covers up the embedded subtitle that actually says what he's saying
You're using two video features that aren't meant to be used together. The "Why are they Godang Hle like this?" line is in subtitles; "(Rygel speaking)" is in closed captioning. Those of us who can use a little help understanding mumblish actors under loud music are aware that the two don't always include exactly the same content (sometimes one incorporates the lyrics of vocal background music while the other omits it, sometimes one gives the actual words of speech in another language while the other just says "[speaking Russian]" or whatever). Pick one or the other; turn 'em both on and they fight with one another for screen space.
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RE: Did you know it's illegal to have more than 2 decks of cards in a room?
Seems to me like discrimination against sleight-of-hand magicians.
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RE: 🔥 First they came for the incandescent bulbs...
On the matter of the original subject line, GE has come to its senses and decided to stop making CFL bulbs:
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RE: ¿Where do you get your profile image?
@Lorne_Kates said:
Mine's the Community Server default dude, facepalming.
Back when I was still participating in the eBay discussion forums, I stole the default silhouette avatar picture and Paintshopped a pair of Groucho glasses onto it for my own use.
Then someone there found a pic of Ben Turpin for me, added a caption "Well, I look at it this way", and gave it to me for further use.
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RE: O'Reilly covers
It's not just Python where the cover is especially appropriate. This is one of my favorites:
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596006488/cat.gif
And others are also pretty straightforward if you give them some thought:
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596005955/cat.gif
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/0636920024491/cat.gif
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596102357/cat.gif
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596007737/cat.gifOther times they missed an obvious one:
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596155988/cat.gif
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RE: ¿Where do you get your profile image?
A visual representation of the first six words of Psalms 8:2 (King James version).
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
the second largest city in Portugal, known internationally as Oporto, is called Porto locally. "O" is a definite article.
So to us hearing it being called Oporto is a bit like hearing Thelondon, Laparis or Dasdüsseldorf.
Or Thelos Angeles, or Theel Paso, or Thedes Moines....
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Well, what do you get? Tell me! Don't leave me hanging!
You get a cat who has heard one too many of a crow's dumb jokes and is inches away from turning him into crow slaw....
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
When I was little, I named the new kitten Gurp. Flash forward to twelve years of my mother standing in the kitchen door calling her in to din-dins: "Gurp! Gurp!"
It's a wonder she wasn't taken away in one of those nice jackets with the sleeves that tie in back....
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
why did it have to be screenshots of Twitter texts...
Because Joe Craig is maladroit with more than one aspect of modern social practices. Not only does he automatically assume screaming in a parked car can only be from a kidnap victim, he's unable to express himself in 140 characters.
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RE: Talking to Siri...
I decided to us my tablet's voice recognition to save the strain of trying to type on that teeny keyboard. Wanted to look up a minor actor in a movie I was watching on TV, and didn't realize how sensitive the VR was to extraneous voices.
So I ended up searching IMDb for Beach Blanket Bingo Super Beta Prostate Works.
It's nice to know that if I ever get laryngitis, Joe Theisman will be able to control my computer for me.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
I hope this isn't turning into the Emergency Coot Things thread.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
There's two pancakes.
But only one on the bunny's head. The other pancake is on a pancake.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
they told me I'd have to lose most of my excess weight before I could even discuss the possibility of SRS...
So they're enforcing the "no fat chicks" policy?
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RE: 🔥😴 This argument is stupid
One of my frat brothers used to greet visitors to the office by, "Can you be helped?"
I'm saving that for the next time someone asks what's so bad about passive voice.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
My neighbor is a flight attendant. He just posted this photo of someone's "therapy pet," on his flight.
Good. That means I can hold out hope that some day I'll be able to fly with my companion giraffe.
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RE: I'm no meteorologist but I don't think that's a good sign...
Ooh, looks like Perth is getting its Mardi Gras on!
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RE: 🔥 First they came for the incandescent bulbs...
it's probably safe to say that people are more often honest than rational
Most people are mostly honest most of the time
That doesn't matter. You don't lock your house because everybody's a crook, you lock your house because there's at least one crook out there somewhere.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Man tax? How about a five-year-shorter life expectancy?
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
1,100 crickets per bag
Who counted them, I wonder?
They counted the legs and divided by six.
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RE: Dumb and Random Videos Thread
William Tell was Swiss, right? Other than that, I can't imagine what made someone think "here's a thing that needs to exist":
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RE: 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread
That desperately needs a "boop!" sound effect.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
What is this PIV we're talking about?Google just isn't helpful with all these made-up acronyms anymore...
May I recommend http://www.acronymfinder.com, where we learn that PIV returns 22 meanings:
Personal Identity Verification (FIPS 201)
Pentium 4
Particle Image Velocimetry
Personal Identification Verification
Peak Inverse Voltage
Peripheral IV
Phase IV (clinical studies)
Post Indicator Valve (firefighting)
Physical Inventory Verification
Powered Industrial Vehicle
Positively Infinitely Variable (type of gearbox)
positive input ventilation
Post Implementation Verification
Propellant Isolation Valve
Pre-Inventory Visit
Pontoon Implantment Vehicle
Product Improvement Verification
Pressure-Indicating Valve
Position Indicating Valve
Parainfluenza Virus
Plena Ilustrita Vortaro (Esperanto: Full Illustrated Dictionary)
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RE: :fa_youtube_play: Cool Computing Videos
I'm sorry, but I can't look at that thumbnail without singing:
"Amy Palamountain
From a little hill
Amy Palamountain
Least I hope I will".... -
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
But Ava Gina is such a great name!
More family-friendly version: my sister and her husband chose the given names "Amanda Lynn" for their daughter. I've got a niece (now a Doctor of Pharmacy) named after an eight-stringed musical instrument.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
He said "happy birthday". I don't speak Mandarin either, but that's not exactly rocket science.
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RE: 🔥 First they came for the incandescent bulbs...
you can get incandescents again but they cost more.
You need to start shopping at dollar stores.
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RE: "Signs that you're a very special and boring hipster"
or one hell of a slope between one end of the building and the other to have a two floor difference in ground level.
A shopping centre right next to my workplace works a bit like that - you enter it from the street from one side, go two floors up, and exit from the other into a park.
Around here we have the sense to build on level ground instead of into the side of a hill. Whenever I hear a description like yours, I picture this:
http://theschoolmarm.com/wp-content/uploads/Hanging-Monastery-China.jpg
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RE: "Signs that you're a very special and boring hipster"
Can someone here give me a definition of ‘hipster’?
Someone who gets incredibly butt-hurt if you call them "hipster".
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Could have been real. The Tea Party started out calling themselves "Tea-baggers" until someone pointed out what it meant.
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RE: "Signs that you're a very special and boring hipster"
the sheer terrifying unusability of xedit
I got pretty handy with it back in the mid-80s. Certainly scored points over the alternative, which was something called Edgar. Whoever designed that one left it up to the individual developers which paradigm you used for scrolling ("when I say 'up', do I mean stay in place and move the file 'up', or hold the file in place and move my vantage point 'up'?").
And as will always happen in such cases, the people who did "up" and "down" used the opposite paradigm from the people who did "top" and "bottom", so you'd scroll "up" until you reached the "bottom".
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RE: In other news today...
GISing "most random gif on the internet"
http://new3.fjcdn.com/gifs/Random+gif+time+again+post+your+most+random+gifs+below_edd834_4533873.gif
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Kept my mouth shut at Christmas dinner when one guest happened to mention that their new granddaughter was given the name "Emerson".
Just waiting until she develops enough to start hearing "Emerson nice titties you got there".
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RE: "Signs that you're a very special and boring hipster"
I'm guessing the article is referring to the dragon bookMost likely due to it's brief mention in that 90s counter-culture satire movie "hackers"
I had that one, but a much earlier edition that had a chef on the cover.
Maybe he's just anti-Welsh:
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RE: 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
He got trolled into looking up a gibberish address. It's not a positive thing.
I did that once after hearing Wilbert Harrison's song "Kansas City". Decided to find out once and forever just what's so great about "standin' on the corner of Twelfth Street and Vine".
Turns out there's no such intersection, but if it existed it'd be in the middle of a city park. There's some kind of bike rack that looks like a piano keyboard and that's about it.