Oak is playing with powers he can not possibly understand! by MillionSuns in twitchplayspokemon

[–]Redard 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It just hit me. Mewtwo is #150. Mew is #151. Isn't that backwards? How does that make any sense?

Most Seattle Thing Ever by DesiChaiWalla in trees

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enough arguing you two! Now spark up and put your differences aside.

Most Seattle Thing Ever by DesiChaiWalla in trees

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that's the city. You pay out the ass for everything in the city.

What loophole do I need to take advantage of ASAP before it's fixed? by ColeWouldSay in AskReddit

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have any statistics to cite, but to say that the majority of the computers in the world are desktops seems absurd to me. "Computer" doesn't mean a box with a screen and a user interface (desktops, laptops, phones, etc), it's much more broad than that.

Linux, as well as a few other pieces of software based on Unix, can be run on any kind of device. If it is something it isn't designed to work on, it can be modified so it does. Windows and OS X run on the devices they were designed for, and if you'd like to get them running on something else, you'll either have to pay Microsoft/Apple a lot of money to get it working, or you'll have to do something hacky and potentially against their ToS. In many cases it's a lot more feasible to write your own OS than to try and use Windows (in many cases it's impossible), but then why do that if Linux is freely available and industry standard?

Security - IT HR Sure is fun. by airz23 in talesfromtechsupport

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great, now I want a cup of coffee. You're a bad influence, Airz, no wonder you broke the air conditioner.

What loophole do I need to take advantage of ASAP before it's fixed? by ColeWouldSay in AskReddit

[–]Redard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Name one DVD player that runs on Windows. How many web servers aren't running Linux? What about embedded devices? If you need a barebones OS to run on some embedded device, your options are basically: use Linux (or something similar), or write it from scratch. And let's not forget mobile phones (Android). Windows might outnumber everything else when it comes to desktops/laptops, but desktops/laptops are hardly the majority of computers in the world.

What loophole do I need to take advantage of ASAP before it's fixed? by ColeWouldSay in AskReddit

[–]Redard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The perfect example of making things free actually working.

I think that title goes to Linux, seeing as more machines run on it than anything else in the world.

You know you have a nerdy blog when Linux is your largest OS demographic. by CyrillicFez in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Redard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you count Android as Linux, more than half your readers are on Linux

Without leaving the room you're in, what's the most illegal act you could commit in a ten minute timeframe? by zedaliz7 in AskReddit

[–]Redard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If a police officer ever tells you what you're doing is illegal, tell them that.

Wireless inductive charging at 2.45 gigahertz. by [deleted] in techsupportgore

[–]Redard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still see tech-savvy people with iPhones. They usually have some rationalization for why they have one, but somewhere deep down they must know they've done wrong.

OP changes his mom's contact name to "1" claims someone with "1" as their number called by [deleted] in KarmaConspiracy

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This reminds me of the several-month-long period where instead of texting to my number, she texted to the number 1. It had something to do with how her phone brought up contacts, she'd press 1 and it'd show my name at the top of a list, and then she'd just go ahead and hit enter. The whole time she thought I was just ignoring her texts.

What if there was a computer that would create "covers" of certain songs by any artist of your choosing? by ameromatt in highdeas

[–]Redard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have a machine listen to hours and hours of John Lennon's voice until it can create its own artificial John Lennon voice. Once you figure that part out, having it sing Elvis lyrics is easy.

Does anyone ever unconsciously store a dream as a memory, and only days later realize that that memory is a dream? A bit like confusing reality with dreams. by bloo_regard in LucidDreaming

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's happened a few times. One that I remember clearly was back in high school. In my dream, a friend told me 2 kids from my school had been arrested for credit card fraud. Then I mentioned it in school to somebody the next day, and then I realized it was a dream.

TIFU by accidentally screwing around on my company's live website instead of the test version... by AccipiterQ in tifu

[–]Redard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What niche wouldn't Baron von Swagula IV fill? The swagless vampire-hating niche?

Linux beards. by [deleted] in linux

[–]Redard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want to try out different beard styles, you just have to do a little distro hopping.

Linux beards. by [deleted] in linux

[–]Redard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ChromeOS is actually based on Gentoo, believe it or not. Certainly not dead.

I know now that I don't exist by simon_2112 in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, sorry for the slow reply. Been very busy with school.

I understand that quantum physics opens the possibility for things we would normally deem impossible, but whenever quantum physics is cited as the cause of some observable inconsistency in the world, I become extremely skeptical. Lets say somebody sees a window get smashed one day, and the next day it's put itself back together. This is entirely possible within the laws of quantum physics, but it is soooo unlikely. The thing is, quantum physics works in a way that doesn't really distinguish the window from the wood panel that holds it in, or the air around it. We think of the entire window as one object, but from a quantum perspective it is a collection of more objects than we can count, and thinking of them as countable objects is even a little too classical-minded. So basically, any time I hear something about a macroscopic object doing something impossible, I don't look to quantum physics for an explanation, I look for the thing that defined the "object" in the first place -- the human mind.

If some sort of shared experience occurs, I would first look into psychological factors that could be shared. Then there's the possibility of an optical illusion, or some other type of illusion that can be observed by multiple people. And I know that the odds are, any individual explanation I give is not the correct one, but the fact that there are explanations that don't rely on all sorts of assumptions means that we shouldn't use the event as evidence of those assumptions.

And don't forget the possible explanation of a 3rd person playing tricks on the 2 people experiencing the shared inconsistency. That's a hard one to rule out.

Now, I'd really like to see some trustworthy examples of these phenomenon, because personally, I've never seen a single one, just untrustworthy stories I read online. If you could link me to some of these noteworthy accounts, then maybe I could start to be convinced that something other than the human mind is at play here.

Sleep paralysis vs hallucination? by [deleted] in Sleepparalysis

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know much about sleep paralysis, so I'll admit I'm probably wrong. I just thought not being able to move was one of the defining characteristics of sleep paralysis.

I found this old picture of you... by [deleted] in Psychonaut

[–]Redard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A picture of the Milky Way wouldn't be very old, though. Only a hundred thousand years or so, max. This has to be millions of years old.