Pentium100

2 minutes ago, Thankful Brony 42 said:

38 minutes ago, Pentium100 said:

Would you like to everyone speak as if they were writing a contract? 

Yes.

I wouldn't. Contracts are difficult to read and understand, but at least I do not have to to that very often. It would really suck if everyday speech was like that - not only difficult to understand, but tedious and time consuming as well.

On 2021-11-19 at 9:14 PM, Thankful Brony 42 said:

Is it implied that X follows the NOT?

Yes. 

Unlike programming languages, a lot of stuff in human languages is taken from context. Think of it as "compression". There is no point in saying something if everyone can understand the sentence without it. The exception is legal documents (contracts, laws) - since people would be very interested in finding alternate meanings in such documents, the language used has to have only one possible meaning. Would you like to everyone speak as if they were writing a contract? 

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I have different dishes and cups that I like to use for specific things. 

I am the opposite, I can use my favorite cup for everything. Tea, coffee, coca-cola etc. The cup is stainless steel, I like it for two reasons - more difficult to break and the tea inside it cools down faster (I can make it cool down even faster by putting the cup in a pot with cold water).

The cup looks similar to this one :

The only downside is that if the liquid inside is hot, then the sides of the cup will be hot as well, so I have to use the handle.

Probably you can use plastic cups, just not for years, they probably make the plastic degrade on purpose (so if someone throws it on the ground, it does not stay there for 1000 years).

9 hours ago, Splashee said:

Radians are kinda having that problem like with your real number infinite decimal problem, since Pi goes on forever, it is hard to slice things up evenly, and get nice numbers to work with.

You can always do what we used to do in school - keep pi as a constant (until you need to use it). For example, a right angle in radians is pi/2. If you need to add or subtract angles, you can add or subtract them as multiples of pi. I assume that various libraries require radians and it would be tedious to convert to/from degrees all the time.

Or you can use higher precision floating point variables. At some point there should be enough precision. 

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 If during that exception, yet another division by 0 happens, the CPU enters a "Triple Fault" exception and shuts down. (That means what it means. If the CPU of the computer is in charge of a critical operation, such as a nuclear facility or worse, that's truly the end)

Which is why safety critical systems have mechanical safeguards (fuses and such). While it may not be division by zero, there are multiple ways for software to either crash or just behave incorrectly, having a mechanical safeguard (which relies on the laws of physics and material properties to operate) is a good thing.

My favorite from this movie is "gonna be my day".

It could also be that some changes made by the time traveler are below the "noise level" and do not really impact anything.

Also, for it to be a paradox, the change has to be something that would affect the traveler. For example, if I go to the past and kill a famous person, the news of his murder would be in newspapers and I should have known about it before I went to the past. If he was alive in my original timeline, that's a change that affects me (I know information that was valid, but is no longer valid because I changed the past).

On the other hand, if I go to the past, stay in the middle of nowhere for a while and come back, the past would now have a little bit less oxygen and a little bit more carbon dioxide, but the change would be below "noise level" and, while it may affect the "present" in some small way, it would not affect me or my knowledge (unless I had the exact composition of air measured down to the molecule).

The same probably applies to going to the future - if I go to the future and bring back lottery numbers, it would probably be a paradox, because I could have read an article in the future about the lottery and it could mention someone else winning it (but now I'm going to at least share the jackpot with him). On the other hand, if I bring back stock price charts, I probably could invest some money and get good returns without actually affecting the prices that much (if I buy $20k of Apple shares, it would not really move the price, especially if I brought back the cart that shows a price increase because of some event - new phone announcement etc).

At least that's pretty much how fiction operates, there is no way to know how "real" time travel to the past would work. 

There are chemicals that help remove the sticky goo. WD40 can sometimes be used for that as well.

The shop probably aded those stickers without any thought. Basically, there probably is a requirement that every item should have a description, the description probably comes from the manufacturer (and then may be translated to the local language OR maybe the manufacturer supplies the translated version too). Nobody reads it, just prints it and puts it on the item.

This is similar to various health warnings like "may contain peanuts" on a pack of peanuts - well I sure hope it contains peanuts.

Are there any problems with the sticker? Most likely not. Anyone is free to ignore it and buy the transformers toy for his daughter and MLP toy for his son (or himself). Maybe someone really does not know what the target audience is for both toys and wants to choose the "right" present for his niece or friends kid.

I used this for my mpegts segmenter (one value behaves like a counter, but is 33 bits, so I had to use a 64bit variable to hold it anyway).

If you cannot use 64bit variables, you can probably do something like this:

if (newts < oldts) {
			dif=UINT_MAX - oldts;
  			dif=dif + newts + 1;
} else {
  dif=newts-oldts;

So, what you are trying to do is not just ignore when the counter wraps around (so the difference always stays positive), but you are actually interested in the modulo of the difference and not the difference itself? Did I understand this correctly? 

Can you have a 64bit temporary variable? IF so, you could do something like this to always get a positive diffference.

if ( newts < oldts ) { //assuming that if both values are equal it means the counter wrapped around.
                 dif=newts-oldts;
                  } else {
                    dif=(newts+(((uint64_t)1) << 32))-oldts;
                  }

2 hours ago, Splashee said:

34 seconds is a very small timing window for networking.

Definitely, though that specification was made at a time when 10mbps was really fast.

3 hours ago, Splashee said:

Have you any idea how to "path up" modulo?

What is wrong with changing what you are subtracting based on which value is bigger? I somehow don't think that it would be slower than a mod operation, then again, maybe for modern CPUs mod is faster.

It looks to me more complicated than it should be. By the way, I think modulo for negative numbers has weird behavior.

This is a problem with other counters as well, for example how many bytes or packets were transferred. If you know that the counter can only go up then it is easy to detect when it wraps around and figure out the difference, though you have to have a separate check to see if the device has not restarted (since those counters are reset on reboot).

However, it leaves the problem of the counter overflowing multiple times between checks. For example, a 32bit counter of bytes transferred will overflow every ~34 seconds when the transfer rate is 1gbps. If you check it every minute, you'll get nonsense data because while it is possible to detect that the counter has overflowed, there is no way to know how many times it has overflowed (or even if it has overflowed if the new value if bigger than the old value).

Newer switches and such just use 64bit counters.

5 hours ago, Justin_Case001 said:

This is often the case with software as well.

Oh yeah. IMO this is what happens when graphic designers create the "look", but they do not use the software and do not ask the users of the software what how they like it.

Add to that the fact that some newer devices devices (VCR, STB) can only be controlled by the remote control, which is not very convenient if the device itself is close.

Why do they do this? I guess it's to make the design look "modern" by hiding buttons and to make it cheaper to make by reducing the number of buttons. 

Then again, all of this just makes it easier for me to avoid buying new devices.

When watching a movie that was originally made in a language I cannot understand, my order of preference is:

1. Subtitles - the best. I hear the voices of the original actors, in some cases (if I know some words of the original language) I can pick out some words.
2. Voice-over translation - this is when the translation is spoken over the original soundrtack, usually by one or two (one man and one woman) voice actors. This is how it is done on TV in my country (because it's cheaper for the TV station), but I like it - not as good as subtitles, but OK.
3. Dubbing - this is when a group of voice actors fully replace the voices of the original actors - it's almost as if the movie was made in the different language. I dislike this. If I know how the original voices sound it's annoying. Even if I don't, since it is impossible for the translated text and the original text to take up the same amount of time (because diferent languages use different length sentences/words to express the same thing), sync between the video and audio is awful and it really annoys me to the point where I cannot really watch it.

However, Netflix should show the country the movie was made in and whether it has subtitles or some other version of translation.

Slow motion is funny in some cases (at least for me). Sometimes the real-time speed event happens too fast and it's impossible to see the persons reaction etc, while it is properly visible in slow motion.

People are lazy. It's as simpel as that. 

However, most people at least attempt to do the right thing, so, if there is a garbage bin nearby , they will use it. However, if the government (or the company if this is a private place) saved on garbage bins, then some people will throw the trash on the ground because they can't be bothered to carry it a long distance to a bin. If the bin is full, then expect to find some trash near it.

With your wish for mass death though, well, have you considered wearing a red armband and running for office?  

1 hour ago, Justin_Case001 said:

And while we're on the subject, how about the fact that all of the animals (meaning the animal animals, non-sapient) in FIM have more normal names than the ponies.

Oh yeah. Though, I guess, in questria names like Sandra are considered to be "for animals", similar to how humans have names for their pets that they would not use for another human (I hope).

However, pony names are not that bad by themselves, I just don't like that they match the pony too well. It feels like the pony is a character, created for a story (wihch, of course, they are) with their name, profession, appearance and personality determined at the same time, instead of someone real, who was born, given name by their parents and only later developed personality and chose a profession. Or do ponies go "well, my name is Dust Bin, I guess I should be a janitor"? But then it raises the question what kind of parents name their child "Dust Bin".

14 hours ago, Justin_Case001 said:

I always wished that more of the G4 names had been actual names, and not just descriptions of their personalities or even just their literal cutie mark, things that their parents wouldn't, and couldn't, have known when they were born.  I mean, I don't want the ponies to just be named Steve, Bill, Mary, Susan, Karen, Ashley, etc. 

Or even names like in the show that do not match. For example, switch the personalities of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, but keep their names. Otherwise, yeah, it seems too fitting as if naming the ponies would influence what they will be good at and their personalities. 

14 hours ago, Justin_Case001 said:

Bingo.  I feel like the writers just took a look around and said, "Whelp, the world is riven by politics and everyone is divided and hates everyone else, so let's just do that!"  Bad idea.

Oh yeah, I wonder if there's going to be a reference to Trump (or, well, a pony who loosk like Trump) as being the reasons everyone is so divided.

I really do not want real-world politics in a fantasy show about cute ponies. I can watch the news for real-real world politics or I can watch TV shows that do make politics one of the main themes (Babylon 5, Deep Space 9, The Expanse).

I agree, I don't like that they just changed the sad (for me), but good ending of G4 into sad and awful future. I can't think of a reason to to that, that is, a reason that I would like. I can only come up with reasons that I don't like (say, putting real-world politics into the show).

G4 had nothing to do with previous generations, why has G5 to be in the same universe as G4?

One thing I like about G5 is the names of the characters - the names in G4 were too "fitting" and, as such, unrealistic.

Oh yeah, I despise UI changes, they all seem to be for the worse. OK, maybe the change from Windows 3.11 to 95 was for the better. 

I hate the modern "flat design" where I can't know if something is just text or is actually a button (Windows 8 or 10 design).

Or the way Firefox devs fight against my wish to have a status bar. 

The changes to this forum though, I don't really care.

I would love to buy a bluray box-set of MLP I have bought blurays of the movie and EG series), but, since it's not available, well, I can still watch the show with no internet connection...

51 minutes ago, Justin_Case001 said:

Haha, speak for yourself!  I SWITCHED EVERYTHING TO LINUX!!  MWA HA HAA!! 

But not many people did. Microsoft is still making huge amounts of money from Windows 10 and continuing to push the boundaries - ads in the start menu etc. At some point enough people push back (like it happened with the Start screen in Win8) that Microsoft reconsiders.

It's probably because not enough people hate that decision. For example - when Apple removed the headphone jack from whatever model of iPhone - a lot of people were against that decision, but many more people bought the phone regardless. So, Apple most likely made more money removing the headphone jack and selling wireless headphones.

Same is probably true with Mozilla as well - probably a lot of people continue to use the browser regardless or find some way around the change 

On the other hand, the backlash sometimes works. Microsoft put Start menu back in Window after the backlash against the "tablet-style" screen. However, compare that to the forced updates that are untested (and sometimes crash PCs). People hate them, but not enough to just switch to Linux or downgrade to an older version of Windows and Microsoft saves a lot of money by using users as beta-testers for their updates.