I realized it after I posted, but his name presumably gives it away. He works on brolgas.
Posts made by Xyro
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RE: Public Forum WTF
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RE: Public Forum WTF
@OzPeter said:
I'm working on cranes for this project, and as an added bonus if I go to site I could literally be up to my arse in alligators if things go wrong.
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RE: Oauth is awful-- illustrated!
Umm... Actually, -- okay guys, now that Blakyrat isn't reading this post we can communicate in secret. Who's up for a party this weekend!? :D
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RE: The real WTF is...
Don't forget about the dozen or two posts from fake Nagesh entities who think common English-as-a-second-language spelling mistakes make for good and humorous commentary. And the scores of posts explaining the joke as though they've been hit with the insight that there is a WTF described in the story. Then there are always a handful of sometimes-funny posts that build upon the WTF, but those are inevitably followed up by scores of morons who don't pick up on the joke and get all bent out of shape at the unrealistic nature of the given scenario. And, invariably, the file of useless comments about how the TDWTF hasn't been funny since whenever.
Although we get in the forums, too, but in more manageable quantities.
A community moderation system would be cool, but I shudder to think of a possible CS implementation...
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RE: Public Forum WTF
@Speakerphone Dude said:
If you know how to solve all those problems, then there is no problem.
I have a problem with this philosophy. You won't like my solution. -
RE: Nope, wasn't a bad internet connection
This is stupider than a fight over the words "nerd", "geek", and "dork"...
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RE: Lotus Notes: Spearheading the social/mobile web revolution!
Welp. It's been a week. No sign of the advocate. I guess it's over. :(
It was fun while it lasted, and it lasted longer that I had thought. He was no Spectate, but over all, it wasn't bad. 6.8 out of 10.
I'm trying to think of a takeaway here. Best I can come up with is to never get involved in a land war in Asia. Any others?
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RE: Nope, wasn't a bad internet connection
Pardon me for derailing the thread back to the OP, but I can't help but wonder:
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RE: Just happened not 5 minutes ago
@bezking said:
internal IRC server, instead of just transferring me.
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RE: Oops
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
The conclusion the book drew was that if the SEC is protecting people from bogus investments, it's also preventing them from making some profitable investments.
You know, I am okay with that. -
RE: Oops
@Speakerphone Dude said:
Bill of
RightsWrongs
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RE: Oops
Speakerphone, it sounds like you're disagreeing with something, but I can't tell what that something is...
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RE: Agile is simply a scam and doesn't work.
@PJH said:
When did the unobtrusive and unnoticable babelfish/TARDIS universal translator go out of fashion?
Turns out it doesn't work with WS-*...(something about being completely devoid of any actual semantics)
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RE: The 44MB getter
@Ben L. said:
So the program crashes multiple times during its execution?
Oh, so that doesn't get trapped at all? Okay, maybe I should stop posting about a bug in a profile I've never used for a language I've only read about. :X -
RE: Guess what I bought today!?
@blakeyrat said:
Seriously do I have some kind of coating on my fingers where when I touch an electronics device it starts giving out inexplicable errors? Because that happens to me a lot.
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RE: The 44MB getter
If it was the
c.lock.RLock()
statement, wouldn't the profile have flagged that as the issue instead of the function that calls it? And surely that's not the only function that does (otherwise the lock wouldn't be much use).Could it maybe possibly be that the panic() is called more often than you think, and it's creating gigantic stack traces or something?
More likely that the profile is busted.
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
@Ben L. said:
THROW AWAY HEAD
You try to THROW AWAY your HEAD but it is still attached to your BODY!@Onyx said:
PUT GEM IN MOUTH
You put the GEM in your MOUTH. It tastes a lot like onyx.@dhromed said:
WEEP QUIETLY
You are now sobbing. The tears run down your face and fall to the floor, where they run down the jade tiles and accumulate in a opalescent pool nearby. The pool seems to shimmer as your emotions coalesce with its own. The air is crisp. -
RE: Yet another sleep
Whoa, what happened to this thread? Is the game over? Did I die?
Ben, I think we have the same processor. That's kind of neat, I guess.
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
@locallunatic said:
THROW AWAY LEFT EYE
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RE: The 44MB getter
@Ben L. said:
Nope, that gets the element at index
x + z * 16
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Oh, duh, I see it now. Boy I've been Java'ing for so long now that my brain misfires when it sees a field with a capital letter.Yeah, that's pretty weird. There's no way the profiler could be correct. What happens when you split up the line into multiple statements? And that's heap size, you say? Nothing is being allocated... This is a very interesting bug. Suppose the Go folks would like a gander?
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RE: The 44MB getter
The profiler must be mistaken.
@Ben L. said:return c.Biomes[(z&0xF)<<4|(x&0xF)]
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RE: Yet another sleep
CLOSE COMPUTER
RECONNECT COMPUTER
RECONNECT MONITOR
TURN ON COMPUTER
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RE: Cleartext Offender
Try a SQL injection attack in your password. If security is already that bad, it actually may be worse!
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RE: Yet another sleep
KICK DILDO AWAY
PULL SLEEVES OVER HANDS
RECONNECT CONNECTORS
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
@dhromed said:
UNBAN XYRO
As you unban XYRO, you notice the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the bacon is frying, and the Amulet of Yendor is resting around your neck. The internet has awarded you an extra point. You now have 17 internet points. Everything is right in the world.Congratulations! You have won the game!
Would you like to QUIT, REPLAY, or CONTINUOUSLY SPAM YOUR SOCIAL NETWORK FRIENDS ABOUT THIS GAME?
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RE: Yet another sleep
humm..
LOOK DILDO eh I better not
FIX COMPUTER WITH SCREWDRIVER AND INVENTORY
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
@dhromed said:
PUT ON HEADPHONES
Your HEADPHONES are now on your HEAD.@dhromed said:
PLAY MUSIC
Glancing around you, you fire up your file manager and browse to /home/dhromed/.stuff/workflow/Lotus/Notes/.config/morbs/. With much glee, you start playing purpledildo20120712.mp3. The sound of murmuring in the background downed out by the sounds of moans and squeals.@dhromed said:
CLICK REPLY
You click REPLY. Your browser slowly loads the reply form as it downloads 45.9 megabytes of tags. The REPLY FIELD is now ready. -
RE: Yet another sleep
:( :( :(
OPEN COMPUTER WITH SCREWDRIVER
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
@dhromed said:
WRITE POEM
Images and rhythms form into words in your mind... But you have no writing utensil nor open post on which to write!
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
@dhromed said:
BAN USER XYRO
USER XYRO has been banned.You are in a forum of PEDANTIC DICKWEEDS. Exits are LOGOUT and WALK AWAY FROM COMPUTER. You hear a murmur in the background. You have 16 internet points.
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RE: Yet another sleep
All right, fine, let's play along for now...
OPEN COMPUTER WITH SCREWDRIVER
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RE: Not So Friendly Greeting on Wikipedia
Actually, he started it with a quote.
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RE: Yet another sleep
CARVE INITIALS INTO DESK WITH SCREWDRIVER
... I want to see if the artifact will persist after I die...
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RE: Yet another sleep
LOOK ROOM
LOOK DESK...is the monitor bright enough to light up the room? Or, maybe I can just fiddle with the contrast and brightness settings. Wait a second, how on earth does a 486 have a DVI port??? WHERE AM I????
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RE: Yet another sleep
@boomzilla said:
you're already doomed.
:(
@C-Octothorpe said:Xyro is about to be raped by something lurking in the shadows
D:Hey wait, is it a VGA-to-DVI converter or DVI-to-VGA..? The inventory said VGA-to-DVI, but the attaching action said that it put the converter onto the VGA cable of the monitor and plugged it into the DVI port of the computer. Is that backwards?
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RE: Yet another sleep
I thought it already was on, because before it was getting "Signal Out Of Range". There must be a button to make it flip between VGA and DVI or something. Although I had hoped that a monitor that supported DVI would handle that automatically.
uhmm..
PRESS BUTTONS ON MONITOR
and just to make sure,
LOOK COMPUTER
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RE: Yet another sleep
omgomgomg
STAB WITH SCREWDRIVER
FLIP BACK UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS
LOOK ROOM
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RE: Yet another sleep
:(
FLIP OVER UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS
LOOK MONITOR
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RE: Yet another sleep
D: why is it greasy? Where has it been? D:
I better continue. I'm hoping if I can get the monitor working, I can see my surroundings better.
PUT VGA-TO-DVI CONVERTER COMPUTER
... without bending over too much, please.
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RE: Yet another sleep
If we get rid of the picture, the room might brighten. I'd like to type in "EAT UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS", but I don't want to lose the game from poison. Hmm... Maybe if we fix the monitor, there will be more light. I wonder if the picture is a computer printout? If it is, maybe we don't want the monitor on. Okay, let me try something...
PUT VGA-TO-DVI CONVERTER MONITOR
I may have to put it on the computer instead, not sure how this works... This may require a screwdriver... If that doesn't work, we can try disassembling random things, like the drawer as locallunatic said.
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RE: Lotus Notes: Spearheading the social/mobile web revolution!
@MatNewman said:
No contest, I'd roll it
Riiight...The discussion got pretty threaded up yesterday. Let's recap: have we found something that beats Gmail or Outlook yet..?