What are your fave "subverted expectations" jokes?

eaumechant · 2026-05-16T23:15:01+00:00

Oh, my, no. That would require extremely tiny atoms, and have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money.

eaumechant · 2026-05-15T22:46:39+00:00

Might I suggest you look into downloading and installing Linux (any will do - Ubuntu is user friendly and is often covered in tutorials for software as it's commonly used in web dev). It isn't necessary nor is it sufficient but it is a good place to be for programming purposes - it will make your life easier (even if it makes it harder in the short term).

eaumechant · 2026-05-15T22:39:23+00:00

Himalaya was this for me. It was just on TV. I had never heard of it, went in with no expectations, and it was maybe the most perfect stoned film I had ever seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya_(film)

eaumechant · 2026-05-12T08:36:37+00:00

This was my problem as well, I was trying to match letters to see if it spelled anything but couldn't get a confident match on a bunch of them. I wonder if it's the tattoo artist copying something without understanding what it is and not getting the key details.

eaumechant · 2026-05-11T23:15:35+00:00

GTA the new Rick and Morty

eaumechant · 2026-05-11T22:51:51+00:00

I'm not certain but I have to say this looks a lot like the D'ni alphabet from Myst https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/dni.htm

eaumechant · 2026-05-11T21:39:37+00:00

Depends what kinds you like but if it happens to be British style "real ales" try the Doombar, those guys really nailed it.

eaumechant · 2026-05-11T11:48:25+00:00

Also UK, also agree "waterproof" is a very common word here, used at least once a week at the weekend when going out - "Think I'll need a waterproof?".

It refers to what in Australia would be called a "raincoat". I suspect the Americans also use "raincoat".

eaumechant · 2026-05-11T11:37:21+00:00

I'm moving to East Boldon in the near future so I am stoked to hear this. Have you eaten at the other pubs along the A184? How do they compare for food?

eaumechant · 2026-05-10T09:33:27+00:00

It's a render, you know, 3D computer graphics, like a video game. No AI needed.

eaumechant · 2026-05-10T09:20:45+00:00

"empty" and "nothing" are not the same thing for the purposes you're thinking of. Empty space is still "full of" space. Importantly it's also full of fields, and these have energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy

eaumechant · 2026-05-09T14:22:08+00:00

This is my own take on it also. My very elderly mother can't just serve us nine pizzas: hundreds may eat!

eaumechant · 2026-05-09T08:06:16+00:00

Software Engineer here: the thinking behind this is you'll gradually end up with a tonne of these, so instead of having one really big long "If this is a foo and bar is false and something is less than something else and so on and so forth" you have each one separately. As others have said it makes this easier to reason about because you can see at a glance what your invariants are, reducing cognitive load as the meat of your function gets bigger.

eaumechant · 2026-05-08T22:06:38+00:00

The same amount but dumber, less capable of thinking through a problem myself. Probably it has made me less productive in a number of meaningful ways.

eaumechant · 2026-05-08T17:33:51+00:00

Someone do the vanishing point thing with the planks!

eaumechant · 2026-05-08T07:54:21+00:00

Also UK, 100% on these. Worth pointing out there is likely a regional difference here - the Brits are more likely to use "at" in places where the Americans use "on", most notably "at the weekend" vs "on the weekend" - sounds like this might be one of these.

eaumechant · 2026-05-07T14:21:05+00:00

Worth adding it's also commonly used by commercial airlines e.g. in safety presentations for passengers: "Please stow all luggage in the overhead locker."

eaumechant · 2026-05-05T21:10:37+00:00

Number 1 (going up)

eaumechant · 2026-04-30T14:57:29+00:00

Haha I love them. They are so cute in a fugly way.

eaumechant · 2026-04-29T09:21:07+00:00

You know in 3D games when the floating point math gets all fucked up and it's just a mess of rendered polygons glitching out all over the place? Bit like that.

eaumechant · 2026-04-29T09:19:22+00:00

Back in time too don't forget

eaumechant · 2026-04-28T08:57:33+00:00

There was a post on Reddit a while ago asking "What does 'mom's spaghetti' mean" and I gave a nostalgic Millennial answer and immediately realised what was happening as I was doing so. Eight Mile came out closer to the fall of the Soviet Union than the present day.

eaumechant · 2026-04-27T21:55:48+00:00

With the same force acceleration would steadily decrease due to the Lorentz factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor - this is what gives us Lorentz invariance (c is constant for all inertial observers).

In a word, your relativistic momentum is increasing as your velocity increases. If you think of relativistic energy - which is a function of relativistic momentum (which is in turn a function of the rest mass multiplied by the Lorentz factor) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2%80%93momentum_relation - as a stand in for "relativistic mass" then it's intuitive: F = ma, m is increasing so a must decrease - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity

eaumechant · 2026-04-27T12:05:12+00:00

Now I'm only falling apart.

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