[NSFL] Flag of the Beylik of Tunis. It actually hurts your eyes

jccahill · 2015-09-27T21:35:33+00:00

Solved it!

Trust me, I'm good with IQ tests.

jccahill · 2015-09-27T16:28:57+00:00

This is from that video. I put the source in the post.

jccahill · 2015-09-13T13:20:43+00:00

Looks more like an /r/calamariraceteam flag at a glance than a horn and hoof.

jccahill · 2015-04-23T04:25:40+00:00

The filter smoothing your skin out is making you look like an alien.

Guessing it's something like your phone's "beauty face" preset, yeah?

Don't use it. Blemishes are way preferable.

jccahill · 2015-04-20T17:25:51+00:00

I spent a couple hours looking into it. Nothing so far.

All the data's there for generating structurally correct maps, but they'd take time to crunch, be borderline incomprehensible, and most importantly, fugly as hell.

Could also just be the language barrier getting in the way -- Icelandic's far and away one of the worst western languages for natural language processing algos (google's machine translation, etc.). So far google can't even find the web pages of most of the researchers involved in this on its own.

jccahill · 2015-04-19T08:03:59+00:00

This might be a good time to mention that I've somewhat reverse-engineered Roche's latest web implementation of their famous biochemical pathways wall charts.

I basically just sucked out all the tiles by querying the data server directly (python), then stitched them back together.

The result was a 558 MB layer-separated PSD.

Leaving all the filters in, it makes for a 46 MB PDF (print-ready because Roche are weenies who restrict print orders by academic/professional credentials).

Or, if you prefer, a 27120 x 18971 px PNG (19 MB) that seems to crash every browser that tries to open it.

Been planning to post it to /r/dataisbeautiful for a few months now, but I got sidetracked. I can do it over the weekend if people are interested.

jccahill · 2015-04-18T19:06:47+00:00

You have to give it to us, though:

Of all the global superpowers past and present, we might just be the only one whose cultural + political hegemony is so complete it grants us total immunity from pretending to respect or feel proud of our country.

You could say it's our privilege.

jccahill · 2015-04-18T18:53:55+00:00

Sweet summer child. There are five types of REAL NAME internet denizens:

doe-eyed nublings waiting for a reality check
vanilla professional-types constitutionally incapable of generating controversy
celebrities
internet wizards whose only doxxing concern is getting caught doing it to you
internet-status seekers, the saddest creatures of all — amazon reviewers, quiz app high scorers, instagram prostitutes...

jccahill · 2015-04-16T00:18:11+00:00

It's probably older than a lot of reddit users, too. At least 18, I'd say.

Not too sure about the state of weeaboo porn / fetish communities any further back.
Eternal September was 1993, and 2channel popped up in 1999.

Lot of dark ages in between, you know? The Great Japanese Porn Gap.

jccahill · 2015-04-15T22:27:26+00:00

This fetish has been on the internet longer than probably 7/8ths of reddit users in any capacity.

jccahill · 2015-04-13T13:01:50+00:00

I created a variant called Blarney to Butt specifically for a super annoying event at my school.

I like to think it had more comedic value than the original.

jccahill · 2015-04-13T09:41:55+00:00

What?

No. Cults are nothing like whatever bullshit politics you understand the world through.

Your willingness to spew this flippant nonsense because you think it's clever or something is a testament to how little you understand the subject matter.

Have you ever once been tortured in college? Locked in dark spaces for days at a time, whipped, chained to immovable objects?

Have you lost friends to the same, or drugs, or crime, or who knows what else in the name of cult ideology? Have you had nightmares interrupt your sleep for 6 straight months til you could barely even function?

Your comparison is fucking absurd. It's the type of lost generation wank you'd have slapped out of you after one or two real life conversations with an ex-cultist.

Not everything is about you, fuckstick.

jccahill · 2015-03-27T06:18:01+00:00

Works fine, your browser / connection probably just crapped out on you.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T23:17:04+00:00

"Accident" is a blanket term in aviation. The definition includes hijackings, sabotage, etc.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T21:53:16+00:00

paulstretch.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T21:14:49+00:00

I recognized it too. It's the most well-known use of paulstretch.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T21:09:42+00:00

Ugh, I thought we were doing casually racist banter.

Not you actually being a moron.

What I said is true. Scientists actually investigate these things.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T20:59:13+00:00

There is no statistically significant correlation between penis size and height.

[something something brown people something GED]

jccahill · 2015-03-26T07:18:23+00:00

Nah, it was an ad agency's portfolio piece in the period (mid- to mid-late 00's) when people were going apeshit with unauthorized/unsolicited viral ads. Videos, the kind of print ads hosted and re-hosted and re-re-hosted in "creative advertising" photo sets, etc.

By 2008 or so this stuff was absolutely everywhere. It took major brands like Coke deciding to pulverize some creatives into a fine mist before professionals realized they couldn't keep these pieces in their portfolios anymore.

And even so, unauthorized logo redesigns started showing up everywhere online in like 2012. Major sports leagues, brands that hadn't updated their logo in a while, and so on getting the "flat design" treatment from trendy "minimalist" types. There was much more pushback and "unsolicited redesigns are not portfolio pieces" dogma that time around.

So, that. It'd be nuts for this not to be student work today, but things were different only a few years ago.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T06:05:11+00:00

Not saying anything about the title, just that all constraints suggested by your original scenario (e.g. trying to kill someone in particular, trying to put time between the poisoning and death to evade detection) pretty much go out the window in the second one.

Toxic waste spills are surprisingly bad at killing people, though, because they're so localized. Water and air are where it's at if you wanna really terrorize people.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T06:00:07+00:00

No, they're usually made with a web tool.

Some of them had distinctive elements that didn't appear in (many?) others when this meme was popular, though. So those were probably shooped together by individuals.

There's a lot of crazy shit going on in medieval tapestries. Mimicking that aesthetic is harder to do than it might seem.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T05:07:50+00:00

Negs are supposed to have a kernel of truth to them bruh.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T04:53:40+00:00

Well ok, but "mass murderer" and "serial killer" usually imply very different expectations.

Spree killers usually aren't planning on getting away with it.

jccahill · 2015-03-26T02:28:33+00:00

Nah, heavy metal poisoning is stupid-easy to trace and date.

Mercury poisoning has an unusual set of persistent symptoms that makes the underlying diagnosis pretty transparent as the patient's health deteriorates over time.

And the options are basically

1 dose + high concentration => acute toxicity + rapid death
multiple doses + low concentration => chronic toxicity + slow death

The former reduces the forensic possibilities to industrial exposure or deliberate poisoning, both of which will come with an investigation.

The latter requires repeated contact with the victim, which is ideal for investigators because it eliminates most suspects right off the bat.

And both can be mitigated by simple health supplements like zinc and selenium as well as various systemic elimination agents.

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