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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
chaos
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Seriously, Jared was hilarious. That and the jerking scene. "How long would it take you to jerk off every guy in this room? Because I know... and I can prove it."
Sumdain x
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other than dick science...
"what if pied piper was an app that could attract rodents, we're not here to tell you what to do with your rats we're just here to get you rats stat"
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"i just spent 4 days on an oil rig with robot forklifts" "that may be the last time we see him alive"
this show is amazing.
"what if pied piper was an app that could attract rodents, we're not here to tell you what to do with your rats we're just here to get you rats stat"
or
"i just spent 4 days on an oil rig with robot forklifts" "that may be the last time we see him alive"
this show is amazing.
Gask
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That was hilarious.
This show is definitely the best comedy I've watched in years.
They really try to get the industry down, from terminology being real to some of the tools they use. The white boarding of how to jack off 800 people in 10min was the best vision into how a real nerd's mind works I have ever seen on TV. The topic becomes completely irrelevant in the face of solving a problem.
Which is why I thought the episode with The Carver was so strange since version control would have solved all the issues. I understand they need to make concessions for the purpose of fiction but they're usually so good about making sure things fit.
I agree with that one, it didn't fit as well as the rest. They even mentioned Github earlier in the season as well. When at the techcrunch they started talking about a scalable acid database I started yelling at the screen, but I guess that fits in fiction
I wouldn't get so offended by a scalable ACID since they basically have to make shit up that defies computer science for their products. My wife asked me why compression like Pied Piper isn't on the market yet and pretty much the response is basically "We either don't know how to do it like they're doing it or, far more likely, they're disobeying how computers actually operate." I'm fine with them violating computer science for the sake of fiction but ignoring basic and common tools developers use every day I'm a bit less forgiving.I agree with that one, it didn't fit as well as the rest. They even mentioned Github earlier in the season as well. When at the techcrunch they started talking about a scalable acid database I started yelling at the screen, but I guess that fits in fiction
I did come up with a great idea in the shower the other day. So you know how computers can only read 0 and 1. Well what if they could also read 2, or 3, or 8 in the same memory space. So I got to thinking. The boards are laid out in such a way that it can only be either on or off. But what about if we went down to the atomic level? What if we managed to create a device that could add and remove electrons from an atom. Then another device which would be able to read the number of electrons in an atom. Suddenly a single atom could store many numbers which could be used for computational processing. Pretty sure this is just blatant science fiction but it would be cool!
Mist
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Technically you can store data however you want.
You could build a decimal computer where the voltage running down the lines represents a number from 0-9 instead of 0-1. 1 volt lines, 0v=0, 0.1v=1, 0.2v=3, etc. Unfortunately, electricity doesn't like to actually behave like that, so it's impractical from a physical standpoint.
You could make an optical computer where you had ternary values, red=0, green=1 or blue=2.
Unfortunately neither of these ideas are really practical. So many operations a computer performs are boolean operations rather than numerical ones, and all those care about are true or false, two states. The other states would be superfluous most of the time, and for numerical values, conversion from binary works just fine.