(regression testing hooray
At first, I read this as "aggression" testing.... after reading the whole post, maybe I was right after all.
(regression testing hooray
At first, I read this as "aggression" testing.... after reading the whole post, maybe I was right after all.
>whatever(i++) β whatever(i); ++i
OK... this is the argument that officially kills my affection* for post-increment**.
I'll even try to write my for(;;) loops as for(;;++i)
The for loop with an i index lives on for all us math types who live off sequences and sums that are functions of i to begin with.
*affection: n, that sense of familiarity from doing things the way we've always done them. See also "habit"
**Aaah. The horror! I had managed to forget the swaths of our codebase where our Master Complicatorβ’ uses whatever(i,j,k,m,n,p,q,r,s++) ...
Unrelated to bots or cooties....
+1 (re)vote of no confidence...
Somehow Jeffing of posts from the bad jokes thread means I can't read the thread from my regular IE11 browser (yes me trwtf, blah blah IE blah, but still)
Windows closing IE, try debug, etc... until it just gives up.
Switched to Chrome, had a handful of new bad jokes, IE showed 4 gray and 55 blue unread posts - so I'm guessing the Jeffing must be involved... with breaking the thread (for me).
What is Civilization coming to?
It's a dry run for a moon base?
I'm guessing it's massive stress testing for a super-secret PRNG.....
That's what she tells me,
Lucky you... my wife tells me mine are Samuel L. Jackson's.
But that b**** did not rock them to sleep night after night...
I did. That makes them mine.
I always thought that the sum of integers thing was done by Gauss in elementary school.
That's what we were toldβ’ as well... his teacher assigned them the busy-work of adding 1...100 together... and his reaction was Srsly? there's got to be an easy way to do this....
replying to @fwd @boomzilla
The one "good" thing about this sort of analysis is that the downside of how much money you could lose on any one is easily quantifiable - all of it.
See for example - this weekends box office for "The Fantastic Four" was a not-so fantastic $26 million.
--
Potentially useful shilling for a book, website, and github....
(Note that both authors hold doctorates in Nuclear Engineering.)
One of the authors:
I canβt spend all my time ramping students up to be useful researchers. Iβd rather say βHereβs a book. Itβs yours. Come to me if itβs not in the index.β
BTW, Were there black Lego bricks in your childhood? I don't remember them before my teens.
I don't rightly remember... I think so?
I had some 2x2 blocks with grooves for a small axle... they were black, maybe/probably.
I certainly don't remember thinking... "Rats. I wish had black bricks."
During the 1930s, Nazi agents posing as anthropologists and writers on reservations tried to subvert some Indian tribes and learn their language.
They might have known this (from The Great Warβ’)...
>I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when youβre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that's invented between when youβre fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
-- Douglas Adams
Don't let your brain jellify.
Family-unit was starting new Lego project and the spawn were kidding around about how old I am and how primitive Lego was when I was a kid...
Spawn: "...LOL... a Stormtrooper was just a white brick and Darth Vader was a black brick..."
IJIJ: "No...."
Spawn:
IJIJ: "... because Stormtroopers and Darth Vader did not yet exist, my child."
... but otherwise. yes, that would have been all I could do. So. Yea, basically, no people in my Lego childhood.
Status: itching to build this:
He rows, just for one day.
Bonus like and extra - that song is epic.
Filed under: ...when is one direction going to cover it??
no, I can't believe I wrote that and my hands haven't fallen off
It's hard being a one direction fan.
This is my daughter's FWP - her father is continually pointing out 1D stuff and saying things like "Oooh, a one direction poster... do you want a poster? How about this lunch box, or a notebook....?? "
Filed under: "Dad..... Ick."
From research on the Soylent Dude thread...
Carnac: "Sis boom bah.'"
Ed: "SIs. Boom. Bah."
The Card: [spoiler]"Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes." [/spoiler]
Ah! Carnac!
I thought you we're hinting that Carson was somehow famous for not liking his food.
Clearly not an issue for Ed.
TIL Dang - Ed was a Marine Corps spotter plane pilot in Korea...
You are correct, sir. I was gonna put a YouTube of ol' Johnny Carson, but the clip was 6 minute long and I didn't feel like finding the cue.
Wha? This shoots over my head completely... but my belt-onion is tingling... I probably should be getting this.
Dude.
The middle frame of O'Toole as Quixote - Perfect.
Also, Sophia Loren.
Also related:
(Stars Sophia Loren and Charlton Heston the very tiny print )
if the guy was really over the top
Nope - the dry and monotonic important.
For the over-the-top important see for example (warning: not a book)
With Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, and John Gielgud
So far It's a good story, it is said to be her best Poirot novel, I guess I'll find out in about 80 pages.
Christie is reliably entertaining... unfortunately the local library is attempting to pwn me by serving up BBC-Audio dramatizations on 2 or 4 disks instead of the unabridged versions.
Mhh....I personally don't do audiobooks but that seems like a monstrosity. Then again, the book (at least the edition I have) is 1200 pages long...
The reader makes or breaks an audio book...
I'm reading the original spanish version (because spanish is my native language,
AHA! I bet that makes it a lot better. ;)
It's lampooning the entire chivalric novel genre,
If you consume English for pleasure as well...
why window title bars are white in Windows 10. Inside the uDWM.dll file, there is a check which compares the theme file name to aero.msstyles. If it matches aero.msstyles, it ignores the color and sets it to white.
That explains how. Not why.
After all, he saw right through me when I suggested themed summer camps like: Ditch-Digging Camp and Wood-Splitting Camp.
AHA, I see my problem...tech people (me) make EPIC FAIL at Marketingβ’....
Should be:
Hey KIDS!
Prospect for Gold!
Conquer the Northwoods!
Come to our exciting Prospecting CAMP or exclusive Lumberjack CAMP.
Much better.
My son was demonstrating the "balance quarter on your elbow - then catch them in mid-air trick"*
He balanced it, dropped his elbow, and I snatched it.
Other Status:
No, I couldn't do that again if my life depended on it.
[Document Shortening. Cont.] ...saved six lines and id'd the concluding paragraph as candidate for deletion. Haven't heard back from lead author.
Status: Waiting.
Hmm. Maybe my 10-yr old is actually a highly sophisticated and practical economist.
After all, he saw right through me when I suggested themed summer camps like: Ditch-Digging Camp and Wood-Splitting Camp.
Filed under: anybody remember the comic "Shoe" where the school-aged bird Skyler always ended up at a place like Fort Bragg* for summer camp?
*Home of US Army's 82nd Airborne Division
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written
OK. Well, that didn't come through at all in the version I listened to...
I drive a lot and need something to listen to... and I could not finish this.
I mean I just finished, um, 17 discs of "Lawrence in Arabia", which was an absolute laugh riot compared to the version of Cervantes I had.
"Siri. Find Wo Fat"
but I guess it would be hard to stretch that out to a 46 or 50 minute episode, wouldn't it?
I'm slowly making progress with Don Quijote de La Mancha by Cervantes
Good luck with that.
Maybe it was the translation or the guy reading on my CD-Book version, but that was the dullest, slowest thing.... 20-some disks for PART ONE.
TLDR;
Somehow missed the Christie one though - I'll have to look specifically for it at the library.
Not really - it's a already pretty much WALLOFTEXTONANDON just to "answer the mail"
The tough part is deciding how far to go when I can't possibly cut enough to really matter. The doc is 8 pages over - my section is just over 5 pages total.
I think I got maybe 10 lines that are semi-redundant - I have to check those to make sure we've answered the mail before I can kill them - after that I'm stuck. And I will have saved 1/3 of page out of the 8 required!!
FWIW, it's usually not too hard to shorten a document by 10% or so. More than that requires being both creative and very strict.
My quota was "about 10" of the 50 pages.
I've managed to cut almost 40% of my section already.
I. Am. Doomed. ;)
We have 58-page document that needs to be only 50 pages for submission.
Status: my section is 5 pages 9 lines long.
Picture of HAL
TCDC
Unlike some thread creators I do not set "rules" for a thread ;)
... but I was going to "Disallow/FAIL" on HAL...
I mean srsly? It's a hyper futuristic movie in SPACE - of course there's a cool computer! Not unexpected at all!
Upon further review... the unexpected part would be HAL's own version of Original Sin...
Does our pre-occupation with keeping computers working predictably and deterministically prevent us from getting to actual AI?
:canofworms.dmp:
I'll set one "Rule"... one round of actual "positive" opinions prior to any pre-emptive attacks or critique's or trolling...
Sure it wasn't a microfiche? That's how those work(ed).
Nope - they kept tossing around the word "computer"... and hinted at automated search. It was very CSI before CSI.
But the microfiche thing... hmmm.... I had forgotten about those (remembered scrolled film, but not the fiche...)
When I was in elementary school we had this widget that read a magnetically striped card that was more or less punchcard size - and "read" words or phrases...
I wonder if somebody built a microfiche system that had search tags encoded on a mag-stripe on the cards.
Related - in a way:
Skip past the the hyperloop hype ( )
The US Post Office was apparently delivering over 6 Million letters per day in Manhattan via pneumatic tubes. People could actually use it like IM.
see also: debate on High Speed Rail vs. Air Travel; and Star-Topologies
Also: emojii preview y u no view?
The situation room in the movie was nothing like the real one.
But.... I hope they had a Big Board.
NASA had a big board... the Pentagon should have had one too.
Filed under: that is how things work - they have an ice-free Pacific deepwater port, so we should too...
(The same happened with Doctor Strangelove and its B-52 cockpit, which was also still classified at the time of the movie being made.)
Adding to the irony of George C. Scott screaming "BUT HE'LL SEE THE BIG BOARD!!"
So... I was watching Hawaii 5-0 the other day... the original good version.
In an episode from 1972 they using their "computer" to retrieve in real time images of various important files (receipts, photos, pay records, etc..)
So pretty Smartβ’ for 1972 Cop Show ... they figured computers would access images from all over.
But to search them, they sat in a conference room and basically watched a slide show... they could ask the operator for various things, but then they just kind of eyeballed what went up on screen...
Anybody else seen any oddly prescient or weirdly out-of-place use of computers on TV or movies?
Anything including the initials C, I, or S doesn't count. ;)
For additional ForumPOINTZZ:
the episode's featured villain: Johnny Manoa
AKA: Kang
http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/92e7f9ea503373206d51b8aebb30ba860b5c5fab.png
Don't open the package in Monday's Post then.... that way you'll still have plausible deniability. ;)
YEA!
I guess. What does that even mean?
But yea! Go You!
<#I am serious. But also seriously confused.>
That's a familiar sort of shudder inducing quote..The idea is that industry after industry is going to fall at the hands of
programmersplanners whoautomate andrationalize it.
...they automated the Chrysler, but I did not drive a Chrysler, so I said nothing.
Filed under: I seem to be mixing my metaphorsdespots
https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/623744515439001600
This is ironic and surprising on so many levels....
I interpret that to mean that my life long avoidance of fruit was pure genius.
...it at least gives you more leeway for frying chicken.
>When only fructose was consumed, lipid levels were significantly increased.The magical sugar argument always sounded ridiculous to me.
You seem to be overlooking one of "magic sugar" arguments. I.e. straight-up Fructose....