Humor Random Comments Thread

[Gerdih]

I should hate to say this, but I love how engineering exams makes me sweat blood.
The satisfaction to see sometimes that the corrected exam is identical to mine worth it.

 

[orb]

Universe Today: Space-O-Lanterns: 7 Minutes of Terror/Dragon Edition

 

[Quick_Nick]

 

[Scav]

(Programming languages cartoon)

My Linux professor a) looks almost exactly like the professor in that cartoon, right down to the glasses and facial hair, and b) acts in almost exactly the same manner.

I'm sending that to him. He'll get a kick out of that.

 

[jedidia]

Interesting. C++ I know, HTML I at least bothered with once, I have no practical expierience with all the other languages (well ok, it's not so hard to reduce from C++ to C).

Yet, the C++ and the HTML jokes are the only ones I don't get. What gives?

 

[Urwumpe]

I am also not really sure on the Java one. I know Java pretty well, but compared to C++/STL, you don't really need to think in other dimensions to get a result. Like all OOP languages, it has the tendency that you describe the jungle first if you are asked to describe a gorilla. Unless you can "import earth.biotopes.Jungle;".

And what about Haskell then? :lol:

 

[Izack]

And what about Haskell then? :lol:

"My god, it's full of stars!!"

 

[Loru]

Random fact: My nokia doesn't like hot coffee with milk and sugar. At least touchscreen doesn't like it. It stopped working :/

 

[RisingFury]

Random fact: My nokia doesn't like hot coffee with milk and sugar. At least touchscreen doesn't like it. It stopped working :/

Coffee and quantum physics don't mix. Isn't that Dirac's first law?

 

[MattBaker]

And an iPhone dislikes being dropped into beer, a German would have known that this happens sooner or later...

 

[Urwumpe]

And an iPhone dislikes being dropped into beer, a German would have known that this happens sooner or later...

Which is one of the aspects why the iPhone is not designed by Germans. Another aspect is the fact that it also permits to reduce the loudness.

 

[n122vu]

Just code-bombed a friend via email:

<div id="Psy" style="gangnam:1;">
Gotcha!
</div>

 

[mojoey]

I am also not really sure on the Java one. I know Java pretty well, but compared to C++/STL, you don't really need to think in other dimensions to get a result. Like all OOP languages, it has the tendency that you describe the jungle first if you are asked to describe a gorilla. Unless you can "import earth.biotopes.Jungle;".

And what about Haskell then? :lol:

Or Rope-core memory. Yeah...

 

[Artlav]

Magnetic core memory?
That's cool stuff.

Especially modern variants called FRAM - with it you can literally make a computer that can be completely powered down, and when re-plugged it would continue from the same spot it left.
The dream of the 80's nearing at last.

Combining the best of EEPROM and DRAM.
The price tag kinda hurts though, and density is still low-ish.

 

[mojoey]

More like the sixties IIRC, the AGC ran off of rope-core memory.

 

[Notebook]

Pigeon news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20164591

N.

 

[Pipcard]

The U.S. could have put the first object into Earth orbit. But it would just be a nose cone.

The function of Jupiter-C was to hurl experimental nose cones 1,500 to 3,000 miles down the Atlantic Missile Range to see if they could survive their fiery re-entry into the atmosphere. However, von Braun and William Pickering, director of J.P.L., carefully calculated weights and thrusts so that if the Jupiter-C's fourth stage were loaded and fired, the nose cone would overshoot the testing range and fly into orbit. In September, 1956, with its fourth stage unfueled, Jupiter-C made a record flight of 3,700 miles.

(source)

 

[Linguofreak]

Sign error in boot code -> Trying to put a 4 GB - 4kB array (instead of an 4 kB array) onto a few kB of stack -> triple fault.

 

[Astronut25]

Last week my monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 206BW) started acting funny, flikering on and off for a few seconds then turn on. I was afraid that something major broke. Thankfully it was just a trio of capacitors on the PSU that died, which is a $5 fix.

Always research for possible fix before replacing broken stuff, it could save a lot of $$$.

 

[Pipcard]

Raocow is one of my favorite Youtubers. I like his voice and his non-sequitur video game commentary.