Two of my bright young coworkers were talking about a messaging protocol.
Meathead1: How many bits in a byte? Four?
Meathead2: Yeah.
Me:*facepalm*
Two of my bright young coworkers were talking about a messaging protocol.
Meathead1: How many bits in a byte? Four?
Meathead2: Yeah.
Me:*facepalm*
@TheMugs said:
@DOA said:It's so dangerous and addictive at the same time ! Everyone I know his addicted to it and the few that try to loose their addiction die ! It's so much worse then cocaine or crack. And to think it's so easily available ! Please somebody think of the children !I can't be bothered with your stupid octopus, I have a dangerous chemical to ban
What's even worse is that in most locations, traces of it can be found throughout the environment, and the Government does nothing about it. In fact, the Government actively tries to maintain higher than natural levels of it in the Western US.
So do you think people will start "ironically" replying to this thread when it's old?
@Renan said:
@dtech said:Please provide at least one current, real-world example of "this". I'll wait.This can actually be true if they were talking about an encoding that carries along 4 bits of information in a byte.This. I would try to find out if it was actually this before giving those guys hell.
Who the fuck had to go and mention characters? char != byte
Just to clarify: Much of what we do involves communicating with an ad hoc collection of devices over different physical layers (Ethernet, RS422, RS232, etc.). We have a common architecture to deal with communications with these devices as a stream of bytes. All enocoding is handled after getting the raw data.
A user named "Earth Exploding Live" has apparently hijacked several Wikipedia articles. I wanted to look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey (don't ask), but instead all I got was a message stating
"Earth Exploding Live sends friendly greetings to readers of this article. This message will be taken down within 24 hours if the link specified gets at least 2000 hits. Thank you."
Apparently this user has done this to several other articles. I wonder if this exploit is related to the mechanism of the SOPA blackout.
This one:
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@blakeyrat said:
But no, actually testing legislation before passing it, using our brilliant system of independent States, that would make too much fucking sense for politicians.
I like this idea. It has the bonus of stimulating the economy due to people migrating from terrible states to states that suck less.
@JasonSykes said:
That means the tools these guys are used to have a file that stores project settings. The IDE doesn't rely on file system magic and assumptions. Source control tools can parse what's in these files and automatically store relevant files. It's a feature worth paying for."The IDE that has no project file so you have no idea what to check into your source control?"What does that sentence mean?
I saw this job on monster.com:
Which made me wonder, "How can I become a member of this exciting profession?". A short google search lead me to this awesome site: Certified Internet Engineer.
@blakeyrat said in The "Huh?!" thread:
Why do you think the ad is associated with a keyword at all?
It's obviously ".com", which is in bold. Duh.
This one:
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Or "FRITS".
That popup almost made me rethink posting, so it's almost doing its job, I guess.
@blakeyrat said:
Are you saying Onyx is a reference to something other than the mineral onyx?Let the boys be boys.
@PSWorx said:
Derp! Nevermind then...It was news to me, too.
@PSWorx said:
I'm not an expert of Wikipedia, but is it normal for trolls to have a whole category dedicated to their sockpuppets?
This one is still jacked up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszka_Arnsztajnowa
Here's a snippet from the "view source":
It's weird, because the old version renders OK now. Maybe the script was disabled, or the link was visited 2000 times?
A user named "Earth Exploding Live" has apparently hijacked several Wikipedia articles. I wanted to look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey (don't ask), but instead all I got was a message stating
"Earth Exploding Live sends friendly greetings to readers of this article. This message will be taken down within 24 hours if the link specified gets at least 2000 hits. Thank you."
Apparently this user has done this to several other articles. I wonder if this exploit is related to the mechanism of the SOPA blackout.