June 2009
44 posts
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Reality, that which persists after you’re gone Porn, that which bores you after you’ve come
Why free software shouldn't depend on software →
It is dangerous to depend on software, so we need to discourage its use. The problem is not unique to applications; any free implementation of software would raise the same issue. The danger is…
09-06-25 00: 06 < jessta> Mazo: learn to...YA MUM!
09-06-25 00: 07 < Mazo> jessta: learn not to ya dad!
09-06-25 00: 07 < Mazo> lol
09-06-25 00: 07 < Mazo> night all
09-06-25 00: 07 < jessta> night buddy
09-06-25 00: 07 Mazo Quits
09-06-25 00: 07 < jessta> Mazo: you're my night buddy
09-06-25 00: 08 Mazo Joins
09-06-25 00: 08 < dad> and he'll never know
09-06-25 00: 08 < Mazo> who what?
09-06-25 00: 08 < jessta> lol
Genital piercings: tattooists avoid jail for... →
“Two Melbourne tattooists who sexually assaulted girls while performing genital piercings have avoided immediate jail time.”
I think it’s a terrible thing to diluet the horror of sexual assault by using the term to refer to things like this.
The Climate Sceptics - political party... →
Some of the information on this site appears a bit suspect.
But, I’m not a meteorologist so I lack the access to and expertises to interpret the data in any real meaningful way. My position on the matter has always been that whether or not this is an issue a lot of the things that are happening due to the alarmism are things we actually need to do for other reasons.
But people need to...
Speaking of Burkhas
dawnowar:
There was a Juneteenth festival in the park by my house yesterday. There were all kinds of people there of every description, but I did think it interesting when I saw the woman in the burkha… since it was a celebration of The Emancipation Proclamation and all.
…what does The Emancipation Proclamation have to do with a burkha?
Why is the Australian governments plan for...
Points at the Iranian government’s current use of their internet filtering system.
The 25 Commandments
terminally-incoherent:
These are the rules you should live by:
01. Thou shall be awesome 02. Thou shall open your mind 03. Thou shall embrace thy nerd side 04. Thou shall not hate thy computer - it is but a machine 05. Thou shall not be bored - boredom is the domain of the weak minded 06. Thou shall read good quality literature 07. Thou shall not watch reality TV 08. Thou shall remain...
Thought:
Why do we so often name theories and things after the people who discovered them instead of their properties?
Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less... →
“Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.
Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.”
“In the United States, around ten billion animals are slaughtered every year in...”
– Slaughterhouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”
– Edmund Wilson
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than...”
– Thomas Jefferson
The Dark Ages →
“I have added two more projects to my projects page, both of which come from the dark ages. The dark ages is back when I knew nothing about programming and considered myself to be a great programmer. The Dunning-Kruger effect I suppose.”
Everything Sysadmin: 'Gorillas in the Mist' or... →
Sysadmins are the forgotten middle audience. Neither developer nor end user.
Doomsday
09-06-15 12: 45 < jessta> "a recently published paper proposing that ocean currents could account for Earth's magnetic field."
09-06-15 12: 46 < jessta> that would be awesome
09-06-15 12: 46 jessta: that isn't new
09-06-15 12: 46 < Karolina> seems to work
09-06-15 12: 46 < Karolina> our oceans are full of metal shavings?
09-06-15 12: 46 ferrometalic particles, yes
09-06-15 12: 46 < Karolina> zomg
09-06-15 12: 47 but then, we all know seawater is strongly magnetic from earth science 101
09-06-15 12: 47 < jessta> global warming + seas raising + ocean currents slowing + ocean current acccounting for magnetic field = seriously fucked
09-06-15 12: 47 you forgot the == no ozone layer
09-06-15 12: 47 or the
09-06-15 12: 47 == pacific battery shutting off
09-06-15 12: 47 course
09-06-15 12: 47 they are == seriously fucked
09-06-15 12: 48 doomsday theories are fun
09-06-15 12: 48 my favorite one is
09-06-15 12: 48 < Karolina> humans have had more than their fare share of smashing time
09-06-15 12: 48 aliens return to find their domesticated clone bodies have gained something like sentience and have been spending the life support on partying hard and killing each other
09-06-15 12: 49 i am disappointed we have not yet reached it
On ideas
alandipert:
I had an interesting conversation with a friend about the nature of the software and web app brainstorming process. Where do we get our ideas from, why do we think they’re good, and how, as independent developers, can we come up with more viable and profitable ideas?
Fixing My Own Problems
Reflecting on the services and software I’ve independently worked on through completion,...
Well...
knightsofidledays:
I met a girl at a bar while drunk. We went back to her place and one thing quickly led to another. Only problem was my bad case of whiskey dick wasn’t going to let me finish, and after a while I was getting very tired. So a few minutes after she climaxes I decide to fake my own. As I start my acting performance she demands I take off the condom and bust on her face. I just...
Backwards Compatibility and assumptions of... →
I’m a cub scout leader at a local group, this evening another leader was teaching the cubs about the semaphore flag signaling system. That’s something I never learnt as a scout so I paid attention.
Bill may fell Greens chief →
“Then prime minister John Howard and Tasmanian premier Paul Lennon…agreed at about the same time to amend the Tasmanian Regional Forests Agreement. The section in which the state agreed to protect endangered species from logging was rewritten.
In November 2007, the Full Federal Court overturned the earlier decision. In effect, it found that Regional Forests Agreements gave no...
Top 10 Ways to be Screwed by "C" →
Another cool bug
drealmer:
I just discovered yet another really interesting blog about C/C++, the one of Andrew Koenig (link). In one of his posts, he talks about the following piece of code, where a, b and c are all integers:
if ((c = a - b) != 0) printf("%d", c);
Sometimes, this program might print zero. Any idea why?
The answer is here: (link)
yeah, as a programming language, C, was created based on the...
“It costs between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion to run Melbourne’s public...”
– Rich commuters give tickets the flick
I’m amazed the building the ticket system cost the same as providing the service for a whole year.
“Because hacking together a name that mostly fits but doesn’t really work...”
– t3hdoctor comments on Why “Computer Science”? Can’t we just say “Informatics”, like in virtually every other language?
Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » Typing The... →
“…we came up with a theory, in the infinite set of universes, there had to...”
– About… — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
Simpsons 'may prompt' smoking - TV & Radio -... →
This is one of the stupiest things I’ve heard today, kids take up smoking because their friends smoke, and their friend’s smoke because their parents, brother, sister, uncle etc. smokes.
All over influences are so unmeasurable as to be laughable.
“On looping over all frames of a video using cvQueryFrame (highgui) the
memory...”
– SourceForge.net: Open Computer Vision Library: Detail: 2515373 - 1.-linux pre1 (20Oct2008) : Memory leak in cvQueryFrame
May 2009
53 posts
“obeying DRM is a configurable runtime option in Okular, so it’s just a...”
– Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM
