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[OmCheeto]

I am reading it now*, I love** it.
*well, typing about reading it approximately 20s ago...but you get the picture (I don't).
**There you go. Another opinion. I wonder how many opinions the world can hold. A billion? A trillion? Well, I‘ve just added another. But look, the play stays the same. (paraphrased)

Oh! Now I see. That was one of Einstein's lines.

I thought you were making fun of the post I made last week:

...

Of course, to have a solution, you first need to define the problem.

The first problem I see, is that the original post, is full of opinion:

opinion
opinion
see opinion #1
Inspire him for what?
opinion
opinion
Fact! Yay! This is why I think you are not as dumb as you present yourself
opinion
They will supply you with their opinion.
You are quite welcome.

Obviously, the world can hold lots of opinions.

I enjoyed the play. Lots of potty humor.

One of the lines sounded very much like something I once said:

Einstein[to Picasso]: Maybe youʼre an idiot savant. And hold the savant.

 

[DennisN]

Yeah, George Monbiot torpedoes Discovery Channel:
http://www.monbiot.com/2014/02/21/torpedoed/

 

[AlephZero]

Yeah, George Monbiot torpedoes Discovery Channel:

I guess Monbiot is jealous of competition. Read his biography:

... he was also shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked and stung into a poisoned coma by hornets. He came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot

 

[DennisN]

I guess Monbiot is jealous of competition. Read his biography:

Gosh, I really love that sentence:

He came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead...

Is Britain hiring zombies?

 

[AlephZero]

I'd better be careful about Monbiot. If I said what I really think about him, I would probably be instantly banned from PF...

 

[OmCheeto]

I'd better be careful about Monbiot. If I said what I really think about him, I would probably be instantly banned from PF...

You can PM me with your thoughts. I won't ban you.

We have a similar local yokel, who just made Huffington Post. He seems to be very proud of it.

Unfortunately for him, his FB settings aren't set to secret, and I get the feeling he wants to be the next Geraldo Rivera.

What? A slow news day? I'll just make my own then!

I would mention his name, but he's a local terrorist, as far as I can tell. I don't need him burning down my house while I'm at work.

 

[Enigman]

I got my mojo back.
d^_^b

 

[Enigman]

Epiphanies are nice...except they make you feel like an idiot for not already figuring the thing out.

 

[Yanick]

Louis CK is pretty hilarious if a bit vulgar on occasion.

Also, I've had to make so many accounts to various organizations lately that I needed to start a file with my user names and passwords thus invalidatjng the point of a secret password. Damn hackers. Used to be you could make up some word and more or less keep it constant. Nowadays you need numbers and special characters and whatnot.

 

[Evo]

Louis CK is pretty hilarious if a bit vulgar on occasion.

Also, I've had to make so many accounts to various organizations lately that I needed to start a file with my user names and passwords thus invalidatjng the point of a secret password. Damn hackers. Used to be you could make up some word and more or less keep it constant. Nowadays you need numbers and special characters and whatnot.

I have an entire notebook filled with various account names and passwords since each site gets a unique password, no way I can remember them all. I make them all up randomly with no ties to anything in my life, the questions to remember them are all bogus.

 

[Zarqon]

Louis CK is pretty hilarious if a bit vulgar on occasion.

Also, I've had to make so many accounts to various organizations lately that I needed to start a file with my user names and passwords thus invalidatjng the point of a secret password. Damn hackers. Used to be you could make up some word and more or less keep it constant. Nowadays you need numbers and special characters and whatnot.

One trick is to write them down in the form of a rebus, perhaps omitting parts of the word that you know. Maybe you only need to know one letter of a part of a password to know that part, then add the numbers you've put in on top of the letter.

 

[Enigman]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?...rs&f=PasswordSingleBasic.pl\u005f8+characters

 

[collinsmark]

'Coding up my pseudo-random number generator class. It utilizes byte and bit queues for more efficient generation of various data types such as Int64, UInt64, In32, Int16, UInt16, byte and also random bits. It can generate Gaussian normal random numbers too, with user-specified mean and standard deviation.

Presently I'm just inheriting from System.Random and adding stuff on from there. But I'm considering coding up a "Mersenne Twister" algorithm, and using that for the base class instead.

Maybe I'm making this too complicated. I'm just writing it for a program to help me plan which night of the week is spaghetti night.

 

[DennisN]

Maybe I'm making this too complicated. I'm just writing it for a program to help me plan which night of the week is spaghetti night.

Maybe. Beware of spaghettification.

 

[Yanick]

All good suggestions thanks Evo and Zarqon. I was smart enough to use passwords other than my 'core set' which I use for important things.

 

[Enigman]

Bah...dishes smishes...

 

[Enigman]

Img tags don't work as spoilers...

 

[Enigman]

Seems promising...

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[dlgoff]

I'm trying but can't drink beer fast enough to get drunk. WTF?

 

[collinsmark]

Be careful. The beers might be forming a confederacy to hit you all at once.

 

[dlgoff]

Be careful. The beers might be forming a confederacy to hit you all at once.

Hope you're right. :thumbs:

 

[DennisN]

This was pretty fun (don't know anything about the guy, though. Also note: there's one foul word on the page):
http://themetapicture.com/canada-has-hilarious-politicians-this-is-one-of-them/

 

[OmCheeto]

Seems promising...

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:thumbs:

I understood every word of that.

 

[lisab]

:thumbs:

I understood every word of that.

That's fascinating.

I like this part: "After every output, there's a suggestions bar that suggests what you might want to do next." (at ~11:50). I think I might need that .

 

[OmCheeto]

I get to sleep comfortably tonight, as tomorrow, is my third to the last day, I have off.

Though, the kids at the bar, teased me by playing "Enders Game".

So much work to do...

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must save the... :zzz:

 

[collinsmark]

That pseudo-random number generator I'm working on is eating into my brain.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=740504

 

[zoobyshoe]

I hate rusted bolts. I'm afraid I'm going to pop a blood vessel wrestling with this one.

 

[dlgoff]

I hate rusted bolts. I'm afraid I'm going to pop a blood vessel wrestling with this one.

http://www.liquidwrench.com/assets/img/products/penetrating-oil.png

 

[DennisN]

If anyone reading this has ever programmed a computer, you will know what I mean.

 

[lisab]

I hate rusted bolts. I'm afraid I'm going to pop a blood vessel wrestling with this one.

Blood vessels, sure, but also watch your knuckles.

 

[drizzle]

Lol DennisN!

 

[lendav_rott]

1 Get a girl to go hyper, like hyper..no I mean, HYPER!
2 Act all smooth about it, don't give away any emotion when you talk to her
3 watch how they go even more crazy, because you stay calm
4 ..try not to laugh

 

[zoobyshoe]

http://www.liquidwrench.com/assets/img/products/penetrating-oil.png

After I posted that I suddenly (DOH!) remembered I have a cheater bar and I went all Archimedes on that bolt!

Blood vessels, sure, but also watch your knuckles.

It's funny, I rarely scrape my knuckles, but I end up with all kinds of gouges on my arms. I never feel them at the time and don't know what caused them.

 

[jim hardy]

I stumbled across that product when i was thirteen... a steel bolt that's rusted into aluminum casting is daunting.
Wetting them twice a day for a week with that stuff saved my 1951 Johnson outboard.
The heads twisted off but i was able to file the stubs flat and remove them with a parallel jaw machinist's clamp -sorta super-visegrips.

Funny what triggers nostalgia.

 

[drizzle]

what the heck is in the water? My eye are all red now.

 

[BobG]

Something to ponder before deciding to have kids.

If you tell a kid not to jump on the couch 1000 times, once per second, it will take you a little over 15 minutes.

If you tell a kid not to jump on the couch 1 million times, once per second, it will take you almost two weeks. That's actually doable provided you're feeding intravenously and have a catheter, but the difficulty level increases after about 3 to 6 days without sleep when you have to start dealing with hallucinations.

If you tell a kid not to jump on the couch 1 billion times, once per second, it will take you over 30 years. Not only is that not feasible; that's not even desirable. You'd hope the kid would move out of the house after around 20 years or so.

 

[drizzle]

I had a dream last night--I slept thinking about a function and how we got the solution. So I was staring at the screen with a step by step solution to the problem and I heard someone's voice explaining it to me. I got the idea midway and woke up cause I wasn't believing it's real.

Thanks Borek!

 

[Enigman]

'Hell!' said the Duchess.

 

[Enigman]

And hell said I.

 

[dlgoff]

If only television cable "News Channels" were ran like Physics Forums ...

 

[zoobyshoe]

We're having a sort of mini-hurricane here today: rain with strong wind gusts. All kinds of tree limbs down and new ponds and rivers. My umbrella got wrestled and it lost.

 

[drizzle]

I am happy! :D

 

[Lisa!]

This picture's really made me think:

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/1623613_689495754427479_657658531_n.jpg

 

[drizzle]

Lol Lisa!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Here's that mouses's idea of a devil:

 

[Evo]

Awwwwwwww.

 

[Borg]

So that's where Kitty Hawk got its name.

 

[zoobyshoe]

So, here's the irony of the zoobie life: I'm on my way to the hardware store to buy some plastic tubing so I can bleed my brakes when I replace the master cylinder, and this guy rear ends me.

My rear bumper is now a twisted deformity.

It was one of those situations where you're stopped at a light, the light changes, and the guy paces himself according to the line of cars in general, instead of the car right in front of him, which was me. You know, driving by peripheral vision.

He admitted it was his fault, that he wasn't paying attention, and looked pretty miserable.

 

[dlgoff]

So, here's the irony of the zoobie life: I'm on my way to the hardware store to buy some plastic tubing so I can bleed my brakes when I replace the master cylinder, and this guy rear ends me.

My rear bumper is now a twisted deformity.

It was one of those situations where you're stopped at a light, the light changes, and the guy paces himself according to the line of cars in general, instead of the car right in front of him, which was me. You know, driving by peripheral vision.

He admitted it was his fault, that he wasn't paying attention, and looked pretty miserable.

Did you get the tubing? :shy:

 

[Evo]

So, here's the irony of the zoobie life: I'm on my way to the hardware store to buy some plastic tubing so I can bleed my brakes when I replace the master cylinder, and this guy rear ends me.

My rear bumper is now a twisted deformity.

It was one of those situations where you're stopped at a light, the light changes, and the guy paces himself according to the line of cars in general, instead of the car right in front of him, which was me. You know, driving by peripheral vision.

He admitted it was his fault, that he wasn't paying attention, and looked pretty miserable.

Does he have insurance and did he admit being at fault to the authorities?

I had a neighbor back into me, admit to me it was his fault, gave me his insurance info, so I didn't call the cops, Then I found out that when my ins co contacted his ins co, he said that I backed into him! I told them to look at the damage and where my house was in relation to his and how within the laws of physics what he said could be true. Turns out he had lost his job, his house was being foreclosed on and he left the state in the middle of the night. Took 4 years, but my ins co found him and I finally got a check for the deductable I had to pay for the damage.