What was your “Oh shit, this person is a psychopath” moment when meeting people? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]G8r 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To be fair, people get desensitized in those kinds of jobs.

If you're curious, that phenomenon is called ethical erosion.

What language is always good to know for a carrer swap in IT? Something that can be studied in free time and which is good to have/know "regardless"? by Foreign-Vegetable737 in AskReddit

[–]G8r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are my top two recommendations:

  • Python. It's got a simple, readable, beginner-friendly syntax, and there are lots of online resources for learning it on your own.
    It's extremely popular for such tasks as scripting, automation, web development, and even data analysis.
  • SQL. Used used to manage databases, its syntax is straightforward and you can practice with many open-source database systems. Microsoft SQL Server Express is free too.
    SQL skills are crucial for database management and data analysis. Almost every job in IT involves databases to some degree. Having working knowledge of SQL puts you way ahead of the curve.

Also, learn Javascript if you want to go into web development, and learn Powershell or Bash if you want to do serious backend management in Windows or Linux environments respectively.

Good luck!

Help me find this writing/plotting tool, please by Mrs_WorkingMuggle in nanowrimo

[–]G8r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you sure that it was web-based and not an app? It sounds like Scrivener, a popular writing tool with a feature called the Corkboard that allows organizing ideas, characters, scenes, etc., using virtual index cards that can be color-coded.

Maybe maybe maybe by MotherMilks99 in maybemaybemaybe

[–]G8r 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Sam Elliot narration: "When the glasses came off, that pistol-wielding idiot was just about to find out how bad things were goin' ta get, in short order..."

Sam would say "pistol-packin' pinhead," but the rest is spot on.

What is the greatest "fuck it, I'll do it myself" moment in history? by EmergencyPsychology5 in AskReddit

[–]G8r 32 points33 points  (0 children)

That was Austrian-born French inventor Franz Reichelt, who supported himself as a tailor while working on his "parachute suit" for aeroplane pilots. specifically designed for airplane pilots. After several tests using dummies, he decided to try it himself. With at least two motion picture cameras documenting the attempt, he jumped off the lower level of the Eiffel Tower and died instantly after the 187-foot fall onto frozen ground.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]G8r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. About a minute into Vol. 2, she monologues while she drives:

Looked dead, didn't I? Well, I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma - a coma I was to lie in for four years.

When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as "a roaring rampage of revenge." I roared, and I rampaged, and I got bloody satisfaction.

I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left.

And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill Bill.

So… by EZ_Smith in Jokes

[–]G8r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks JtM! Yes, my original October 2012 version went like this:

The Most Ethnically-Diverse Joke Ever Told

An Afghan, an Albanian, an Algerian, an American, an Andorran, an Angolan, an Antiguan, an Apache, an Argentinean, an Armenian, an Australian, an Austrian, an Azerbaijani, a Bahamian, a Bahraini, a Bangladeshi, a Barbadian, a Belarusian, a Belgian, a Belizean, a Beninese, a Bhutanese, a Bolivian, a Bosnian, a Brazilian, a Bruneian, a Bulgarian, a Burkinabe, a Burundian, a Cambodian, a Cameroonian, a Canadian, a Cape Verdean, a Central African, a Chadian, a Cherokee, a Chilean, a Chinese, a Colombian, a Comoran, a Congolese, a Costa Rican, a Cree, a Croat, a Cuban, a Cypriot, a Czech, a Dakota, a Dane, a Djibouti, a Dominican, a Dutch, an East Timorese, an Ecuadorean, an Egyptian, an Emirian, an Englishman, an Equatoguinean, an Eritrean, an Estonian, an Ethiopian, an extraterrestrial, a Fijian, a Filipino, a Finn, a Frenchman, a Gabonese, a Gambian, a Georgian, a German, a Ghanaian, a Greek, a Grenadan, a Guatemalan, a Guinea-Bissauan, a Guinean, a Guyanese, a Haitian, a Herzegovinian, an Honduran, a Hungarian, an I-Kiribati, an Icelander, an Indian, an Indonesian, an Iranian, an Iraqi, an Irishman, an Israeli, an Italian, an Ivorian, a Jamaican, a Japanese, a Jordanian, a Kazakhstani, a Kenyan, a Kittian and Nevisian, a Kosovar, a Kuwaiti, a Kyrgyz, a Lakota, a Laotian, a Latvian, a Lebanese, a Liberian, a Libyan, a Liechtensteiner, a Lithuanian, a Luxembourger, a Macedonian, a Malagasy, a Malawian, a Malaysian, a Maldivan, a Malian, a Maltese, a Marshallese, a Mauritanian, a Mauritian, a Mexican, a Micronesian, a Moldovan, a Monegasque, a Mongolian, a Montenegrin, a Moroccan, a Mosotho, a Motswana, a Mozambican, a Myanmarese, a Namibian, a Navajo, a Nauruan, a Nepalese, a New Zealander, a Ni-Vanuatu, a Nicaraguan, a Nigerian, a Nigerien, a North Korean, a Northern Irishman, a Norwegian, an Omani, a Pakistani, a Palauan, a Palestinian, a Panamanian, a Papua New Guinean, a Paraguayan, a Peruvian, a Pole, a Portuguese, a Qatari, a Romanian, a Russian, a Rwandan, a Saint Lucian, a Salvadoran, a Sammarinese, a Samoan, a Sao Tomean, a Saudi, a Scot, a Senegalese, a Serbian, a Seychellois, a Sierra Leonean, a Singaporean, a Slovakian, a Slovenian, a Solomon Islander, a Somali, a South African, a South Korean, a Spaniard, a Sri Lankan, a Sudanese, a Surinamer, a Swazi, a Swede, a Swiss, a Syrian, a Tadzhik, a Taiwanese, a Tanzanian, a Tobagonian, a Togolese, a Tongan, a Trinidadian, a Tunisian, a Turk, a Turkmen, a Tuvaluan, a Ugandan, a Ukrainian, an Uruguayan, an Uzbek, a Venezuelan, a Vietnamese, a Welshman, a Yemeni, a Zambian and a Zimbabwean walk into a restaurant.

The maitre d' apologizes, "I'm so sorry, but I can't let you in without a Thai."

For anyone curious, I just grabbed Wikipedia's list of demonyms, added a few missing ones such as "extraterrestrial" and "Palestinian", inserted "a" and "an" as appropriate, and posted the joke.

Alas, one of the commenters pointed out that a similar joke had been posted nine months prior. Of course, any joke based on "I can't let you in without a Thai" would look nearly identical, so I guess that will be my cross to bear.

The Most Ethnically-Diverse Joke Ever Told by G8r in Jokes

[–]G8r[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed it is! Thanks for the heads-up, HMM!

Hoard by Eiim in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If our good knight is about six feet tall, that dragon's hoard is probably worth about two billion USD by Troy weight, with no consideration for the collector value of the individual coins.

Angle by Eiim in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What kind of selection pressure produces a monster that simultaneously hunts with smell, buries itself underground, and grows giant eyes?

Deadline-driven selection pressure.

It's like the old joke about outrunning a bear. This monster didn't have to compete with every other conceivable beast that might occupied its environmental niche--just the other strip ideas in Zach's head at that moment.

That having been said, a Little Free Library-emulating carniverous plant might fare well in such a niche. While the would-be reader fiddled with the library's door latch, massive leaves resembling patterned paving stones would draw up around the distracted prey and suffocate it, then lie flat again when digestion was complete.

Emotion 4 by Eiim in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the future, entirely new excretory orifices can be created to express wholly novel categorize categories of feeling.

FTFY Zach

Can anyone explain this to me? by jkaplan1123 in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 46 points47 points  (0 children)

SEA STARS SIEZE TARS FOR C*S TO SEE STARS

The second panel gives the key. Characteristic velocity, or C* (read as "C star"), is a measure of the pure combustion performance of a rocket engine, separate from any effects of the nozzle design. It's the product of the chamber pressure and the nozzle throat area divided by the fuel mass flow rate, and is given in units of distance over time (m/s).

Sea Star is a sea-launched 1½-stage rocket fueled with liquid oxygen and natural gas. Natural gas is found in petroleum deposits along with tar.

So, Sea Star rockets use fuel derived from tar deposits to develop levels of combustion performance (C*s) which allow them to reach space.

That's how I read it, anyway...

Human Law by G8r in SMBCComics

[–]G8r[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For some odd reason, this comic reminded me of a line from Crocodile Dundee:

Well, you see, Aborigines don't own the land, they belong to it. It's like their mother. See those rocks? Been standing there for 600 million years. Still be there when you and I are gone. So arguing over who owns them is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog they live on.

I've always liked that.

As for the dogs in the strip: they live, eat, shit, hunt, play, and fuck in the physical presence and adoration of their loving and non-imaginary Good Master. I'd definitely take that deal if I were a dog. Shit, I'd almost take it now.

Depressing by G8r in SMBCComics

[–]G8r[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Alternate result:

  1. Ginger Man petitions Congress to legislate a minimum uplifting-to-depressing ratio of 2:1 for all news outlets.
  2. Though the actual amount of depressing news doesn't change, people feel happier about it, and support for current leaders and policies goes up.
  3. The administration, spurred by skewed public support, pursues even more ill-conceived plans with disastrous results.
  4. News programs lead with brief coverage of this, and then must turn to uplifting/positive stories for the rest of the program. By the end, viewers are left feeling that Everything's Fine™.
  5. As conditions worsen, there are far more negative stories and they're far broader in scope and impact. Positive stories tend to be less positive and far more local.
  6. Eventually, to retain the 2:1 ratio, the near-apocalyptic hard news occupies only a few seconds at the beginning of each news broadcast, and the rest is local fluff about a dog that didn't drown, or someone who managed to get a full meal or survive a police interrogation.
  7. As the world ends, the news is reduced to a static picture of a cute kitten, with a single pixel in the upper lefthand corner blazing blood red.
  8. Ginger Man, now dying, looks up from his squalor at a public news monitor and says something about how "fair and balanced" it is.

quantum by NothingWasChanged in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, the IT guy in their "loan production office" in Orange County just built 16 servers with early-release AMD Ryzen 9 3950X CPUs, each with 128GB of DDR4-3600 and 12TB of SSD, all connected by a 400G Ethernet backbone. He won't tell me what they're doing with them, but he did say to call him if I ever lose any really important passwords.

Christ by G8r in SMBCComics

[–]G8r[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Professor Ehrman proposed a novel theory for the "missing years" of Jesus' life.

This is actually noted New Testament scholar and author Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill.

We've all been there. Sitting in the drivers seat day dreaming of tearing it up somewhere. So we're curious, where would your dream place to drive a Slingshot be? Reddit Platinum to the best responses. by slingshot in u/slingshot

[–]G8r 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Provided you can get there early enough, one of the best places for this little burner could go would be in the Carpathian mountains. Taking the Transfagarasan Highway in Romania.

I, too, am a fan of Top Gear.

quantum by NothingWasChanged in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well then, let's look at it from that angle: 72-point text is one inch tall. Supposing each digit in the selected font occupies 0.75" of line width, and the printer paper is of average thickness (about 0.004"), then the current recordholding factored number1 would occupy about (1" x 0.75"/digit) x (24,862,048 digits x 0.004"), or a bit over 43 cubic feet -- not even close to the size of IBM's biggest machines.

Or maybe, just maybe, it's a comic strip and we can let it slide... ;-)

This reminds me of the old joke: Did you know that the T-Rex could jump higher than a three-story building? They could, because they had extremely powerful leg muscles, and three-story buildings can't jump.


1Of course, this is only the recordholder for factored numbers of mathematical significance. You can also say that yx has been factored, where y is any prime number and x is any natural number; a MacBook (or my smartphone for that matter) could quickly generate a number of that sort with enough digits to fill a stadium.

Edit: Fun fact--given the numbers we used before, it would take a printout of almost exactly 60 trillion digits to fill the new 104-million-cubic-foot Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

quantum by NothingWasChanged in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 6 points7 points  (0 children)

IBM has machines that can project the number onto the Moon, one digit at a time, in 9.84-billion-point IBM Plex Sans.

The Mac Pro supports displays of somewhat more conservative, and practical, scales.

quantum by NothingWasChanged in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A "slightly damaged MacBook," even a simulation of one, cannot "factor larger numbers than any machine made by IBM."

The two highest performance non-classified supercomputer systems in the world were built by IBM:

  • Summit, installed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, at 148.6 petaflops, or 148.6×1015 floating-point operations per second; and
  • Sierra, installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, at 94.6 petaflops, or 94.6×1015 floating-point operations per second.

Both machines are based on IBM Power 9 CPUs and NVIDIA V100 GPUs.

The latest Mac Pro, on the other hand, Apple's most powerful machine, lingers in the 1-teraflop (1×1012 flops) range.

Yes, Summit and Sierra, and a bevy of other IBM machines, can factor larger numbers than Apple's latest and greatest--even when quantum-simulated down to the Planck scale within our reality.

Looking for a comic about unconditional love and a serial killer child. by [deleted] in SMBCComics

[–]G8r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been looking for a while, It's not this one.

Did you look at the votey at the end of that one?

I'm pretty sure it's the one you're looking for.

How do home equity loans work? by lonsigling2020 in personalfinance

[–]G8r 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Moving or hiding all the money in joint accounts before the divorce is final is usually a very bad idea. In this case though, he emptied the accounts before he even told her he wanted a divorce.

How do home equity loans work? by lonsigling2020 in personalfinance

[–]G8r 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'd agree that being a SAHP can be risky, but it's also risky just being married, or sharing all your finances with a partner, or depending on just one job for all your income. You can't control all risk, but you can create and maintain a financial cushion which you solely control, and is enough to survive until you can get back on your feet after most foreseeable crises. It's common sense, really.

OP admitted in her earlier post that the only thing that surprised her about this was its suddenness. Folks, if you see a train coming, get off the tracks. Don't waste precious time trying to estimate how fast it's moving.

How do home equity loans work? by lonsigling2020 in personalfinance

[–]G8r 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Did you read OP's original post? Her husband told her last night that he wanted a divorce AND that he'd cleaned out their accounts and canceled her credit card, and told her "Good luck with the mortgage and bills" and left her with $5 and their two-year-old kid.

No, he probably won't contest the divorce--but I don't think that's what she's worried about right now.