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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
Due to the vagaries of the New Zealand accent I believed for about 15 years that it was called "Chicken Charmaine"
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:How do you know I'm not Guy's friend because goons don't have friends
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slinkimalinki posted:Due to the vagaries of the New Zealand accent I believed for about 15 years that it was called "Chicken Charmaine" Reminds me of this bit in Flight Of The Conchords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9Z5yr9aU4
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:How do you know I'm not Guy's friend You're not his friend, buddy!
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You can multiply any binary number by two by adding a 0 to the right of it. And you can divide even binary numbers by two by removing the last 0. If the last digit isn't 0, you can't divide by two because the number is odd. How I didn't learn or figure out this earlier I really don't know.
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Jerry Cotton posted:You can multiply any binary number by two by adding a 0 to the right of it. And you can divide even binary numbers by two by removing the last 0. If the last digit isn't 0, you can't divide by two because the number is odd. Yeah, it's the same as with base 10 but, you know, for 2.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, it's the same as with base 10 but, you know, for 2. You can't multiply any decimal number by 2 by adding a 0 to the right though? Or the other way around 
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Jerry Cotton posted:You can't multiply any decimal number by 2 by adding a 0 to the right though? Or the other way around You can multiply any base 10 number by 10 by adding a zero to the end.
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Jerry Cotton posted:You can't multiply any decimal number by 2 by adding a 0 to the right though? Or the other way around Binary is two though, so ‘like you can in base 10, but with 2’
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I just realized that Lex Luthor from the Justice League cartoon kinda looks like he was modeled after his voice actor Clancy Brown. Coincidence? Probably. https://i.imgur.com/JS91hFA.jpg
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Snake Maze posted:You can multiply any base 10 number by 10 by adding a zero to the end. It's there any base value where you don't multiply any number by the base value by adding a zero? By that same logic any number is divided by the base value by removing a zero at the end, but the higher the base value the less likely the number is to end in a zero. Of course, all you're really doing is moving the decimal point over and dropping the zero after the decimal point.
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rydiafan posted:It's there any base value where you don't multiply any number by the base value by adding a zero? No, that's a mathematical property of all bases. (i haven't looked up if it still works with weird poo poo like bases that are negative, complex numbers, etc)
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Pneub posted:I just realized that Lex Luthor from the Justice League cartoon kinda looks like he was modeled after his voice actor Clancy Brown. Coincidence? Probably.  Telly Savelas was the inspiration according to the animators
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Sweevo posted:No, that's a mathematical property of all bases. (i haven't looked up if it still works with weird poo poo like bases that are negative, complex numbers, etc) whoa i never thought about non-integral bases. just imagining them makes my brain feel weird
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Sweevo posted:No, that's a mathematical property of all bases. (i haven't looked up if it still works with weird poo poo like bases that are negative, complex numbers, etc) Exactly. In base 10: 1 x 10 = 10 In base 2: 1 x 10 = 10 In base 16: 1 x 10 = 10 Or, converted to in base 10: 1x2^0 x 1x2^1 = 1x2^1 1x16^0 x 1x16^1 = 1x16^1 The exponent is the number of digits from the rightmost place. e: if you want to talk nerdy binary fun: you can count to 15 on one hand. 255 on both hands. 1023 if you're dexterous enough to not need your thumb to hold fingers down. ee: oops, went with 2 x whatever, but that doesn't demonstrate the point in base 2... Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 12:00 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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The song that goes ‘Put me in coach, I’m ready to play’ is not a random background noise song made for a baseball stadium by some lazy jackoff, it’s actually a very popular song by the guy that sang in CCR called ‘Centerfield’. It remains the most vapid song I’ve ever heard in my life.
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Captain Monkey posted:The song that goes ‘Put me in coach, I’m ready to play’ is not a random background noise song made for a baseball stadium by some lazy jackoff, it’s actually a very popular song by the guy that sang in CCR called ‘Centerfield’. I just found out it's not "Put me in cold, I'm ready to face the day". Thanks I guess.
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I just realized that Willow, Labyrinth, and Dark Crystal aren't all the same thing. I guess I just lumped them all in as "creepy 80s puppet poo poo I stay far away from."
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Waiting until you find out Willow is a person with a long and storied career and not a puppet.
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Captain Monkey posted:It remains the most vapid song I’ve ever heard in my life. Same and thanks for putting it in my head dammit packetmantis posted:I just realized that Willow, Labyrinth, and Dark Crystal aren't all the same thing. I guess I just lumped them all in as "creepy 80s puppet poo poo I stay far away from." The Dark Crystal is is by far the creepiest of those, though it is quite good. The funny thing is my adult self got more skeeved by it when I gave it a spin awhile ago. It's exactly the kind of movie the PG-13 rating is for.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:The Dark Crystal is is by far the creepiest of those, though it is quite good. The funny thing is my adult self got more skeeved by it when I gave it a spin awhile ago. It's exactly the kind of movie the PG-13 rating is for. Try watching the new series. The number of times I turned to the person watching with me in horror and we sarcastic quipped "you know, for kids!" was astounding. Watching a puppet get covered in arterial spray as it bludgeons a helpless character you've known for the entire series to death sure is a thing you don't see often.
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I’m not convinced that the Netflix series based on the popular 1980s puppet movie is for kids.
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I just found out that "hard disk drive" refers only to those magnetic drives - with the literal metal disks in them - and that the term does not include SSDs. I had always been thinking of SSDs as a subcategory of HDD. Sure they use chips instead of magnetic disks, but they're still a kind of hard disk drive, right? Nope, apparently not.
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They're both non-volatile memory but yes, SSDs are flash memory storage, compared to HDDs and their magnetic storage.
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Tesseraction posted:They're both non-volatile memory but yes, SSDs are flash memory storage, compared to HDDs and their magnetic storage. Right. But I thought that any non-removable storage device was called a "hard disk", and that the term encompassed SSDs. Apparently that's not the case.
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It might not technically be correct, but at this point I'd say the term "hard disk" is generic enough that it does include SSDs.
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I'd agree with that. Or "hard drive," depending on what part of the world you're in.
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"Hard" drive as opposed to "floppy" drive is the way I learned it, back when the school's Apple IIE's and my family's 386 took 5-1/4 discs I'll call an internal SSD a hard drive all day long because it lives in the chassis and does a hard drive's job Which, I suspect, is also why 3.5 discs were "floppies" despite not being floppy at all
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Strictly speaking, HDDs and SSDs are both types of "fixed disks". As a practical matter, caring about the distinction is like being the kind of person who uses "Datum" unironically. Ninja Edit: Or "GNU/Linux".
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Phy posted:"Hard" drive as opposed to "floppy" drive is the way I learned it, back when the school's Apple IIE's and my family's 386 took 5-1/4 discs It makes sense if hard/floppy refers to the magnetic media itself, ie the hard platters vs the floppy plastic, regardless of containment.
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Random trivia: the SD card logo looks like it has an optical disc in it because they just re-used the logo from another failed format: https://youtu.be/VeLvdE8lNW4
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Neito posted:Strictly speaking, HDDs and SSDs are both types of "fixed disks". I think the crucial bit is that an SSD is not a kind of HDD.
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Pneub posted:Random trivia: the SD card logo looks like it has an optical disc in it because they just re-used the logo from another failed format: Well drat. Never once noticed that.
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Neito posted:Strictly speaking, HDDs and SSDs are both types of "fixed disks". Is the G in GNU/Linux pronounced like the g in garage or the g in garage 
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It's the same as the g in champagne.
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Ah, Ynu.
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Well, I just screamed "WHAT?!" loud enough to wake the dead. ...finally, at age 34, I am a Triple Man.
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Queen Combat posted:Who? Beth from Neighbours.
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A lot of hits were covers, especially in the sixties through eighties. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is a cover, and the original is a bitchin' power pop tune. Same with Hanging On The Telephone.
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