totm nov 2023 Thread to discuss negative things in a very general way, just see where it goes y'know?

[cubinator]

1 hour ago, richfiles said:

Edit! It shows reputation again! Was this just a temporary glitch? just recent updates? A change? Regardless, woo hoo! 

The forum gods updated something. I saw it on another forum too.

[Admiral Fluffy]

1 hour ago, cubinator said:

The forum gods updated something. I saw it on another forum too.

Yeah, that lapse was annoying.

[Dientus]

31 minutes ago, Admiral Fluffy said:

Yeah, that lapse was annoying.

Did you see it on mobile? No graphics besides large avatars at all, just words with links. I thought my browser was messed up until I realized there had to be some type of maintenance or upgrade involved. Warning would have been nice.

[Admiral Fluffy]

1 minute ago, Dientus said:

Did you see it on mobile? No graphics besides large avatars at all, just words with links. I thought my browser was messed up until I realized there had to be some type of maintenance or upgrade involved. Warning would have been nice.

Yeah, it was confusing.

I argee with the warning 

[kerbiloid]

The location is hidden.
To hide, who's E.T. here.

But a rank badge is added.
And it's clickable.
(Nothing happens on clicking, but you can click on it. It's not locked.)

[StrandedonEarth]

14 hours ago, richfiles said:

Also, a word of advice... don't lie under a truck, face up, when someone uses an impact wrench on a bolt on said truck... that's a good way to get a face full of road dust.

It took me too long to learn to wear safety glasses when working under a vehicle. But for an older, dirtier vehicle, you may need this:

Bonus: It would have protected you from the puppy licks:

Spoiler

 

But yeah, if someone is doing some work for me, I introduce my dog, then lock her in a room until she settles down.

 

[kerbiloid]

21 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

don't lie under a truck

being interrogated by the road police.

Tell only truth.

[DDE]

The MIC has teasers now?

The MIC has teasers now.

49 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

being interrogated by the road police.

Tell only truth.

Does the cop have the Lasso of Truth?

Edited July 13, 2021 by DDE

[kerbiloid]

49 minutes ago, DDE said:

Does the cop have the Lasso of Truth?

According to the quote, they use trucks.

[TheSaint]

And then the garage door spring broke. 

 

[YNM]

Black Death is really upon us, not the cries of a certain part of the professional world anymore.

Edited July 15, 2021 by YNM

[Delay]

I could complain that calculating a 16384x16384 image of the Mandelbrot set with 63000 iterations takes a ridiculously long amount of time. I could complain about my ludicrously inefficient code (literally just iterating long doubles without any optimizations) , or that I'm using bmp as an output format (768MB) because it is the simplest. And I do know that there is much better software that does the exact same thing a lot faster. I just wanted my own.

Instead, I'm just going complain about myself wanting such an image without any sane reason behind it. Why am I doing this to myself poor computer?

 

Edit: the image is done. After 10 HOURS and 28 minutes. I need to learn how to write better code!

Edited July 16, 2021 by Delay

[kerbiloid]

Did you check the 25 748th iteration result? It looks strabge.

[Dr. Kerbal]

I dont like calculating the circumference of a circle.

[kerbiloid]

Try measuring it with a ruler.

[adsii1970]

11 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Try measuring it with a ruler.

Wouldn't a tape measure, like one uses for sewing, be better than a ruler? A ruler doesn't bend. And a sewing tape measure can.

 

[kerbiloid]

1 minute ago, adsii1970 said:

Wouldn't a tape measure, like one uses for sewing, be better than a ruler?

Too easy.

1 minute ago, adsii1970 said:

A ruler doesn't bend. And a sewing tape measure can.

How can we trust to the one who is bending?

[adsii1970]

16 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

How can we trust to the one who is bending?

I'm not even sure I know what that means.

[kerbiloid]

35 minutes ago, adsii1970 said:

I'm not even sure I know what that means.

The ruler is always showing the distance, while the tape is wheedling and shows the number you want to see.

[Ben J. Kerman]

1 hour ago, adsii1970 said:

1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

How can we trust to the one who is bending?

I'm not even sure I know what that means.

[DDE]

45 minutes ago, Ben J. Kerman said:

And also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostap_Bender

[Dr. Kerbal]

2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Try measuring it with a ruler.

Impossible. 

[kerbiloid]

6 hours ago, Dr. Kerbal said:

Impossible. 

Possible. But requires diligence and commitment.

That's how the integrals appeared. Lazy but smart people got tired of doing this.

Edited July 16, 2021 by kerbiloid

[DDE]

XKCD IRL

Spoiler

 

 

[kerbiloid]

1. Wiki usually requires sources.

2. Sivkov.