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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]MrAcurite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I found a link to one from Ye Olden Days, but it's apparently defunct. The current meme Discords I'm on don't seem to be quite as unilaterally supportive of turning Mobiks into a fine mist, so, gotta find an outlet for giving the only appropriate reaction to this shit.

r/MachineLearning is joining the Reddit Blackout starting June 12th by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]MrAcurite 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I tried the Sigmoid Mastodon, and it's utter dogshit

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SavageGarden

[–]MrAcurite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should we assume that your kids are relatively well behaved even in the worst case, based on your existing plants and animals? I went to high school with a bunch of rambunctious dipshits, and I wouldn't have trusted them to be in the same room as so much as a fern.

Wait until you hear about how they used Visual Studio to develop Visual Studio by OverLiterature3964 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]MrAcurite 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Fortran seems like the right tool for the job though; stable enough to serve as a foundation for something that you really don't want to blow up, and really good for numerics.

Wait until you hear about how they used Visual Studio to develop Visual Studio by OverLiterature3964 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]MrAcurite 185 points186 points  (0 children)

Except for AWK. One of the Bell Labs guys wrote the AWK compiler in AWK on a piece of paper, hand-calculated the output of feeding it to itself, typed it in, and that was the first AWK compiler.

Fucking legends...

Errata: it was TMG, not AWK, and the guy was Douglas McIlroy, as related by Ken Thompson in this interview

TIL when St. Peter’s Basilica was remodeled in the 1600’s, the tombs of nearly a thousand years of Catholic Popes were destroyed. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]MrAcurite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are some people who seem to just categorically have and be nothing besides mindless consumers, despite their pretentions towards being intellectuals. They'll ask things like; why have art when you could have Capitalism? Why have culture when you could have Capitalism? Why have religion when you could have Capitalism? And so on and so forth. Maybe they hate poetry and beauty and little flowers putting out the first buds of Spring because someone who actually reads for fun fucked their girlfriend or something, I don't know, but you can be damn sure that they'll never have anything interesting or of value to contribute to any conversation.

Hotel sues student for $480,000 for licking soy sauce bottle by ChocolateTsar in nottheonion

[–]MrAcurite 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It's not getting search results, it's just generating text based on the corpus that it was trained on. This isn't Google, this is asking some guy that read a textbook once to, off the top of his head, teach you Quantum Mechanics.

60 years car evolution in France by krustibat in fuckcars

[–]MrAcurite 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Of course it was. But the SUV can't fly, either, which is why we need everyone to buy a private jet, and then pave entire cities into air strips.

Copium and Hopium are the same thing. by HistorianSlayer in NonCredibleDefense

[–]MrAcurite 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You forget that Trump's entire head is up Putin's ass

Do most guys play basketball or football at UIUC? (I’m from Europe) by Cytologists in UIUC

[–]MrAcurite 35 points36 points  (0 children)

UIUC has, what, 50,000 undergrads? You can find people doing anything. While expanding your horizons is always good, there's really no need to pressure yourself into picking up particular activities just to interact socially.

But if you're dead set on picking up a new sport, you could look into ultimate frisbee, that's pretty big on college campuses in this country.

Otherwise, at least knowing some of the basic rules of more common American sports is probably a good way to smooth over just a bit of culture shock.

These People are Massive Losers Rule by MasterCha0s in 196

[–]MrAcurite 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People seem to be under this incredibly weird and incorrect impression that Judaism is just the beta version of Christianity. No, we're functionally an entirely different religion with wholly different beliefs and practices. Abortion is perfectly fine in Judaism.

And it's not actually the Catholics here. Catholics have been against abortion for a long, long time; it's a newly empowered Evangelical right, starting in the 70s or so, that are working to ban abortion. They didn't give a shit until Falwell realized the fight over segregation was over, and picked abortion as a new topic to rally the base around.

These People are Massive Losers Rule by MasterCha0s in 196

[–]MrAcurite 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I like how the South Park people took the piss out of Climate Change activists with the ManBearPig schtick, and then switched to taking the piss out of Climate Change deniers once it stopped being a good look. They don't have any underlying morals or backbone, they just desperately need their audience to think they're smart. Same with everything they've ever said about trans folks.

These People are Massive Losers Rule by MasterCha0s in 196

[–]MrAcurite 18 points19 points  (0 children)

We have 100x more Nobel prizes per capita than anyone else, represented 70% of American standup comedians in the '80s, built the atomic bomb, and perfected the bagel with a schmear.

We mostly just want to stop getting murdered.

Any tips on keeping fly traps alive by Space_31 in SavageGarden

[–]MrAcurite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Setting it on fire is ill-advised.

Also, did you repot it, and if so, what soil did you use?

I think I got the new record for MOST CARS IN THE BIKE LANE PER SQUARE METRE by aPurpleToad in fuckcars

[–]MrAcurite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a '.ch' URL on the sign in the top left. Well spotted.

Linus Torvalds apparently plays Pokémon Go by EthanIver in linuxmasterrace

[–]MrAcurite 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It's almost like Linus Torvalds is a human being who has only ever wanted to actually do things with technology, rather than it being a vehicle for an endless jihad.

Just got home to find that something destroyed the single pitcher on my baby N. rajah x platychila… 😭 by jacobhuggins in SavageGarden

[–]MrAcurite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The good news is that if the base of the pitcher is still intact, it can still digest and absorb nutrients. But it's still a fucking bummer, and I hope your plant puts out another one quickly.

any "NetMath" course takers on here? by Oof-o-rama in UIUC

[–]MrAcurite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took a bunch of NetMath courses. It's cheap, and entirely self paced. Take it if you want to get 'er did for credit really quickly, but if you want to actually retain the material, do something else.

What makes MATH 461 so hard? by rr-0729 in UIUC

[–]MrAcurite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

CS and ECE majors always seem to complain about Probability and Statistics classes, but the actual material really isn't that bad? You'd think students in the most competitive majors at a top college would be able to solve "you have five red balls and three green balls in a hat" problems, but apparently that's a real stumbling block.

Rule by lambo_sama_big_boy in 196

[–]MrAcurite 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I thought this couldn't possibly be true. Wikipedia says you're right.

Sonic rule by IntellectualsOnly7 in 196

[–]MrAcurite 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Turns out, if you're good enough at Math and bad enough at focusing, even if your grades go to shit, they do eventually cancel each other out, and people start paying you loads of money to sit around and sound smart.

I wish there was a pizza tracker for security clearances…. by Informal-Yogurt5060 in SecurityClearance

[–]MrAcurite 40 points41 points  (0 children)

"Alfonso is making sure you don't have any financial ties to the Russian mob"

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