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I'm not sure which is better, butt loans or rear end-based morality.
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# ? May 14, 2024 04:51 |
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quote:The store page says you can touch the one girl's butt but the truth is you can actually touch almost any NPC butt. Even cats and dogs. Touch-butt on the bork. Touch-bork in the park. Someone go kick the UFC thread. Matt Lindland can do better.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 00:47 |
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Pick posted:How can this be the case when software engineers, as they'll tell you, are the most smarterest people in the world? No matter how smart you are software engineering involves thinking in ways that meat brains are badly equipped for. Like yeah a stupid person probably can't do it but those that really get it acknowledge that there is no such thing as good code. One if the things that skews opinions is that it's far easier to write code than it is to read it. It's very easy to fall into a trap of "everybody else's work is bad but mine is amazing. What do you mean you don't know what it does? It's obvious to me!" Coupled with narcissistic bro coder culture and "well I make six figures so I MUST be brilliant!" bullshit and...yeah. Like yeah a software developer probably has a decent education and isn't a dingus but not all of them are super ultra geniuses making breakthroughs that rewrite entire academic fields. Then again they keep getting pushed to be that by investors that want to disrupt all the money into their bank accounts so eh.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 01:16 |
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my morality system is also butt based
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 01:18 |
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Proteus Jones posted:Is that a Robin Reliant? Trabant posted:They figured two wrongs might make a Wright.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 02:48 |
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I'm getting strong duck tales MMO vibes from that butt game.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 03:17 |
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Jeza posted:my morality system is also butt based Hello new thread title!
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 03:37 |
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Steam game by Tina Belcher.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 07:07 |
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spog posted:I am guessing that when referring to the pair of you, you are known as 'the smart one' Nah he just didn't take after our dad, who is a contractor. He'll call me, our other brother, or my dad if something is wrong. I bought a hell trailer years ago that I completely renovated through past experience and YouTube, so I know a bit about home improvement and almost dying in electrical fires. I still live in my hell trailer. The roof actually blew off about a month ago, but other than that it's a great little trailer.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 07:09 |
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boner confessor posted:i used to hang out at this one bar with my buddy all the time. we had the same waitress too, she was flirty, too flirty, but neither of us were really into her so it never progressed. i guess she got mad about it because one day we go to settle the tab and the guest name on the ticket is "homobros"
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 08:15 |
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It was another invitation. She's just into watching guy on guy action.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 08:36 |
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funmanguy posted:I'm getting strong duck tales MMO vibes from that butt game. That sounds like a saga.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 09:40 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That sounds like a saga. Bunner Saga?
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 12:14 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That sounds like a saga. Maybe I am misremembering, but I thought there was a thread with people talking about the duck tales mmo beta. total bullshit and really funny until people came in who hate fun.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 12:27 |
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Hjalmar posted:takoyaki is extremely good, yes, but i feel a little uncomfortable eating animals that are more intelligent than some humans. i wonder if there's a good vegan alternative... surely it can't be too hard to replicate that rubbery texture BovineFury posted:Being a little harsh on vegans aren't you?
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 13:44 |
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When I first started posting my roommate was desperately trying to get accepted in FYAD and would do this and add like a "lol" or something , and the entire reason why I bought an account was because he asked me to empty quote him to increase his exposure or something. All it does is ascends you to white noise status which isn't exactly hard, unless you gently caress up and empty quote something they end up not finding funny and you can't convincingly explain that you did it ironically, then you get made fun of. Lacey posted:going to fyad like follow me and bring your emptyquoting scarf
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 19:02 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Steam game by Tina Belcher. And now that music is in my head
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 19:24 |
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Iron Crowned posted:And now that music is in my head Eeeeeeeennnnnnnhhhhhhhh
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 21:01 |
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The awful secret behind software development is that the customer has no idea what they actually want, the sales people have no idea what is technically possible, the project managers don't understand the tech and the developers are bitter and jaded and don't give a gently caress. As a developer, I have a saying: "The customer gets what the customer wants, because that is what the customer deserves. "
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 22:26 |
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Software development is an inherently slow, tedious, and unpredictable thing. Unfortunately the customer wants their new features last week I mean really you should have just known that I would needed that feature and no I don't care that I neither asked for nor paid for it you guys are too expensive how hard is programming anyway? I could do that in excel and visual basic in like two hours. Meanwhile every programmer that can hear said customer just died a little more inside at the mention of excel and vb. Then sales who never understands technical anything and doesn't want to makes impossible promises to a customer to get the sale because the programmers can just do whatever, right? I mean they like coding so it isn't a problem if this takes a bit of crunch to get out the door. Then it turns out they told somebody something like yes we will totally solve the travelling salesman problem in three weeks for you. Meanwhile c level pressure caused a feature to be rushed. This led it to be released in a horribly buggy state in a spaghettified mess the developers planned on fixing but then the same c level person declared that time spent fixing bugs doesn't lead to new features and only new features lead to sales so don't fix or reactor it. Sales just promised you'd solve the travelling salesman problem again so hop to it! What do you mean you can't? You're supposed to be good at your job? Why am I paying so much for a negative person who can't do some things? Programmers solve problems. Now solve this one or you're fired. ...why are you handing me your two week notice?
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 22:42 |
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Does anyone have the quote from SA about libertarianism? It was a story about how the writer wakes up with all the benefits of regulation to go on the internet to post about liberalism. There was also one where there was a bleak libertarian world where you had to fight people and pay cops and junk. I'd like to see 'em again if anyone knows what I'm talking about.
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 22:53 |
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Mr.Tophat posted:Does anyone have the quote from SA about libertarianism? It was a story about how the writer wakes up with all the benefits of regulation to go on the internet to post about liberalism. I remember that second one ended with them discovering that someone was a mailman before society collapsed and having him executed for being a tool of the government Maybe that helps someone find it!
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# ? Jun 20, 2018 22:56 |
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Mr.Tophat posted:Does anyone have the quote from SA about libertarianism? It was a story about how the writer wakes up with all the benefits of regulation to go on the internet to post about liberalism. quote:A typical day in Doug's life... e: And here's the other one; buddhanc posted:i sat in my living room sipping my cup of chicory and looking out my window and pondering my choices. overhead flocks of ghang gliders soared through the soot, taking advantage of the unregulated skies to make their morning commute. i shifted, somewhat uncomfrtable. i needed to make a decision soon, before my neighbor rumbled out of his driveway in his abrams tank and the vibrations from the tearing of pavement made the decision for me darthbob88 has a new favorite as of 23:13 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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My sincerest gratitude, quoting so I might find it again in future easilydarthbob88 posted:Pretty sure it's not original to SA, but here's one form.
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 00:52 |
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the first variant is the one i remember second one is very apocalypse now
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 00:59 |
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cda posted:I wonder what it's like being a dead American soldier and looking up from Hell to see that you fight and died so that people could make this movie
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 02:28 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:the travelling salesman problem again What is this?
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 08:11 |
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shut up blegum posted:What is this? Imagine you have a map, with lots of cities and roads between them, and each road has a particular time it will take you to travel along it. You want to visit all the cities, with as little time spent driving between them as possible. The Travelling Salesman Problem is about figuring out what order you should visit those cities in order to get the absolute lowest possible amount of travel time. You could figure out the answer by looking at every possible order you could visit those cities, work out the travel time for each of them, and see which has the lowest. The problem there is that, as you add cities, the number of routes you have to check grows exponentially - adding city #1000 multiplies the number of routes you need to check by 1000, and it all gets out of hand very quickly. Often with this sort of problem there's a clever mathematical trick you can use to solve it much faster. The reason the Traveling Salesman Problem is notable is that there actually isn't a better way - every way to solve the problem that you can come up with has the same issue of taking exponentially longer the more cities you add. (Either that or P=NP and chaos reigns). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 08:37 |
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And although that sounds like a fairly esoteric and specific problem, there are tons of other mathematical problems that are just traveling salesman problems wearing different pants. The whole reason phylogenetics is such a hard field is that it basically amounts to a huge traveling salesman problem, and it's one where we don't just want a "good enough" answer; we want the RIGHT answer if possible. That's difficult to guarantee for phylogenies of thousands of species, when for even ~100 species you have more possible solutions than there are fundamental particles in the observable universe.
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 09:56 |
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Trig Discipline posted:That's difficult to guarantee for phylogenies of thousands of species, when for even ~100 species you have more possible solutions than there are fundamental particles in the observable universe. Sounds like someone’s afraid of a little hard work.
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 09:58 |
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Tetracube posted:Are we not going to mention how Lakynn's brother is named loving TITAN Pham Nuwen posted:Also those kids look so Mormon it hurts. I swear they've been running a Bene Gesserit style breeding program in Utah except instead of the Kwisatch Haderach they're just trying to make credulous blondes.
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 14:04 |
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Does anyone remember a short story post about some guy discovering a civilization of sentient mice in his basement? He kinda helps them along and keeps them secret from his wife at first, but then she discovers them on her own and is just as enchanted by it as he is? There's no huge twist to it or anything, they just live in that house for decades and become this mouse tribe's guardians cause for the mice it's several generations. I'm only about 80% sure this was an SA thing but I've been thinking about it forever.
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 16:05 |
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Subjunctive posted:Sounds like someone’s afraid of a little hard work. Goddamn millennials
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 16:19 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Does anyone remember a short story post about some guy discovering a civilization of sentient mice in his basement? He kinda helps them along and keeps them secret from his wife at first, but then she discovers them on her own and is just as enchanted by it as he is? There's no huge twist to it or anything, they just live in that house for decades and become this mouse tribe's guardians cause for the mice it's several generations. I'm only about 80% sure this was an SA thing but I've been thinking about it forever. I think that's Microcosmic God by Sturgeon.
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 17:37 |
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Jabor posted:Imagine you have a map, with lots of cities and roads between them, and each road has a particular time it will take you to travel along it. You want to visit all the cities, with as little time spent driving between them as possible. The Travelling Salesman Problem is about figuring out what order you should visit those cities in order to get the absolute lowest possible amount of travel time. This, basically. It's one if the classical problems in computer science. It's easy to solve in that the algorithm is pretty obvious. It just becomes very computationally expensive very quickly. It can be very difficult to explain that no you can't just keep throwing more hardware at it as you can end up calculating quintillions of paths. Nor can you do some programmer magic or just miracle away the problems. The number of routes to calculate is (n - 1)!/2. That's fine if you have like 6 places to visit but the real world is rarely that simple. Even 25 cities is insane. That's a bit over 3.1 x 10^23 routes to calculate. Now if you pick a starting point and an ending point you can use various pathfinding algorithms to find the best path between them but that won't necessarily get you the best path overall. Note that 10^23 is in the sextillions. Finding the best way to visit 25 cities has that many possible paths. Every salesperson ever would love to have this kind of program handy but it just isn't happening any time soon. Unfortunately it isn't easy for somebody that doesn't have a math or cs background to readily see why it isn't solvable in any easy way. It also isn't always easy to explain it because you get people saying "but there's a way, right? What if you..." no. Just no. Anybody that solved it would go down in history it's that big a deal.
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 19:59 |
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Teach posted:I think that's Microcosmic God by Sturgeon. e: at least that's the way I remember it
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# ? Jun 21, 2018 20:04 |
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This and the halting problem are the kings of "Hilariously complicated CS problems that sound easy".
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Neito posted:This and the halting problem are the kings of "Hilariously complicated CS problems that sound easy". The halting problem being as follows: You cannot determine if a given algorithm will complete, or will run forever. Here's why. Let's say you can. There is a sequence of steps you can take to determine if an algorithm will complete or run forever. This is the solver. I build an algorithm that runs that solver. If it says that the algorithm that it is inside will complete, it does runs the solver again on the same algorithm, leading to an infinite loop. If it says my algorithm will not complete, it completes immediately. What does your solver say about my algorithm as a whole?
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# ? May 14, 2024 04:51 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Does anyone remember a short story post about some guy discovering a civilization of sentient mice in his basement? He kinda helps them along and keeps them secret from his wife at first, but then she discovers them on her own and is just as enchanted by it as he is? There's no huge twist to it or anything, they just live in that house for decades and become this mouse tribe's guardians cause for the mice it's several generations. I'm only about 80% sure this was an SA thing but I've been thinking about it forever. oh man i know exactly what you're talking about, and yeah, it was fantastic and adorable, i just don't have a link handy bc im phone posting
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