66560 pts ยท April 15, 2012
It's weirdly satisfying when I find a marker that's not on the site yet, submit the text and photos, and it gets accepted. I've added a few dozen markers over the last 3 years or so. But you're right, it takes a certain type of weirdo to find this fun.
I was hesitant to post it because it's a small volunteer run site and I don't want to swamp it, but I doubt my post will lead to 10,000 new users...
I assume you already know about it, but for others, check out hmdb.org - I hit it when I am in a new area and find interesting historical stuff to go walk/drive to.
True but seriously, short of going back 75 years and magically fixing climate change, not much anybody could have done about the smoke.
I know the difference, but in general just let stuff pass these days, for that sort of thing. I don't let spelling go though, on their there they're and the like.
Yes thanks. I also learned that we were supposed to downvote news items.I actually go and browse usersub almost daily for my dose of random and crazy.
A hundred upvotes for this.
Most physicists that are asked the question on a podcast I listen to say "Oh, absolutely, the transporter kills you and builds a new you at the other end." The interesting thing is, at least one of them said "But I'd still use it. Worth it to explore other planets.
My spine and joints pop just walking around and getting up from a chair. Feels awesome.
You need a proofreader.
After a few years I get to where I am pretty much indifferent. Or maybe it's age catching up with me.
OK and now I happened across another post that says we were supposed to downvote news posts.
Here I am on the 30th and finally someone says what the 29th was. I've been around here a long time but it's not like I keep track of this stuff from year to year. I couldn't figure out what was going on yesterday.
"Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge - A large data company has decided that physical books are over and need to go to pure digital (so they can control them). They digitize them by running them through a wood chipper with high speed cameras filming the output - because computers are so fast that they can jigsaw reassemble the books into coherent scans and that's the fastest way to scan them.
That cat is either declawed or very polite.
Glory to your hotdish.
I still haven't figured out what was going on.
I didn't see anything.
Don't believe it. They'll be right back in line with kneepads as soon as he barks at them.
I don't think it's an exclusive feature of the US, but no.
/gallery/beep-beep-im-sheep-full-MbXDgkh
You think you have to go out of your way to find a clogged drain?
One issue would be serialization - datetimes that were written to storage with 32 bit unsigned integers will need conversion when read by the newer compiled code.
If I hear one of my friends being misgendered maliciously, you better believe that person is getting forever misgendered by me.
Insert 26 year old joke about Bill Gates being woken up from cryogenic sleep in 9999...
"Tried" to protect his younger brother. Since apparently the brother didn't die, I'd say he DID protect his younger brother. Give a hero his due.
If it were stored as INT it would have failed long ago. The 2038 bug is for dates stored as epoch dates in 32 bit LONG integers.Most code I've seen (and I did significant programming in 1980-2000) was using the C stdlib datetime structure. Change that structure in stdlib to INT64, recompile.
Mostly solved. Those don't really need code rewrites, just recompiles into 64 bit systems. If the code is using some home-spun data type, that might need changing, but if they used a standard datetime type, just changing that in the library code and recompiling should take care of most of the issues.
Or, we are baffled why anyone would have come up with the idea of God in the first place. It's a symptom of being unable to conceive of the scale of the universe. A human brain being unable to wrap itself around the concept of infinity and deep time does not imply that there does exist an entity that does and had a hand in guiding the randomness of the universe and its existence.
The judge which Trump calls "Highly Respected" if he winds up ruling against him, will then be a "joke and failing loser of a judge"
It's weirdly satisfying when I find a marker that's not on the site yet, submit the text and photos, and it gets accepted. I've added a few dozen markers over the last 3 years or so. But you're right, it takes a certain type of weirdo to find this fun.
I was hesitant to post it because it's a small volunteer run site and I don't want to swamp it, but I doubt my post will lead to 10,000 new users...
I assume you already know about it, but for others, check out hmdb.org - I hit it when I am in a new area and find interesting historical stuff to go walk/drive to.
True but seriously, short of going back 75 years and magically fixing climate change, not much anybody could have done about the smoke.
I know the difference, but in general just let stuff pass these days, for that sort of thing. I don't let spelling go though, on their there they're and the like.
Yes thanks. I also learned that we were supposed to downvote news items.
I actually go and browse usersub almost daily for my dose of random and crazy.
A hundred upvotes for this.
Most physicists that are asked the question on a podcast I listen to say "Oh, absolutely, the transporter kills you and builds a new you at the other end." The interesting thing is, at least one of them said "But I'd still use it. Worth it to explore other planets.
My spine and joints pop just walking around and getting up from a chair. Feels awesome.
You need a proofreader.
After a few years I get to where I am pretty much indifferent. Or maybe it's age catching up with me.
OK and now I happened across another post that says we were supposed to downvote news posts.
Here I am on the 30th and finally someone says what the 29th was. I've been around here a long time but it's not like I keep track of this stuff from year to year. I couldn't figure out what was going on yesterday.
"Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge - A large data company has decided that physical books are over and need to go to pure digital (so they can control them). They digitize them by running them through a wood chipper with high speed cameras filming the output - because computers are so fast that they can jigsaw reassemble the books into coherent scans and that's the fastest way to scan them.
That cat is either declawed or very polite.
Glory to your hotdish.
I still haven't figured out what was going on.
I didn't see anything.
Don't believe it. They'll be right back in line with kneepads as soon as he barks at them.
I don't think it's an exclusive feature of the US, but no.
/gallery/beep-beep-im-sheep-full-MbXDgkh
You think you have to go out of your way to find a clogged drain?
One issue would be serialization - datetimes that were written to storage with 32 bit unsigned integers will need conversion when read by the newer compiled code.
If I hear one of my friends being misgendered maliciously, you better believe that person is getting forever misgendered by me.
Insert 26 year old joke about Bill Gates being woken up from cryogenic sleep in 9999...
"Tried" to protect his younger brother. Since apparently the brother didn't die, I'd say he DID protect his younger brother. Give a hero his due.
If it were stored as INT it would have failed long ago. The 2038 bug is for dates stored as epoch dates in 32 bit LONG integers.
Most code I've seen (and I did significant programming in 1980-2000) was using the C stdlib datetime structure. Change that structure in stdlib to INT64, recompile.
Mostly solved. Those don't really need code rewrites, just recompiles into 64 bit systems. If the code is using some home-spun data type, that might need changing, but if they used a standard datetime type, just changing that in the library code and recompiling should take care of most of the issues.
Or, we are baffled why anyone would have come up with the idea of God in the first place. It's a symptom of being unable to conceive of the scale of the universe. A human brain being unable to wrap itself around the concept of infinity and deep time does not imply that there does exist an entity that does and had a hand in guiding the randomness of the universe and its existence.
The judge which Trump calls "Highly Respected" if he winds up ruling against him, will then be a "joke and failing loser of a judge"