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  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Shivahn wrote: »
    What does "eight logic gates in a byte" mean?

    I feel like this is something I should know, but.. don't. Does it mean you can define a byte using e.g. eight XOR operations?

    It's weird and doesn't mean anything. A basic logic gate takes one or two bits as input and outputs a bit, and there are 8 bits to a byte. Therefore, eight logic gates produce a byte of data. That's what they're getting at.

    But this doesn't really make sense here. You can't define a tweet in those terms. You don't say "the first bit of the first letter of the tweet is 0 XOR 1". It doesn't make sense to talk about it that way (even if that bit actually is 1!).

    What we're really talking about is memory. You do create memory with logic gates. But it's more than one per bit. If you want a 1, you're not going to use one gate to produce that 1, you're going to use four gates to create a simple flip-flop, and then you use that flip-flop to store a 1.

    Do you not define characters bitwise using only OR and AND?

    I always refer to myself, in little endian, as OR 1 AND 0 AND 0 OR 1 AND 0 AND 0 OR 1 AND 0

  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    Chu if I don't see CSI and NCIS with at least 2 independant psychic/wizard consultants within the hour i am telling your boss!

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    The Enterprise makes first contact with an an AI that is a planetwide network of gross crabs; Wesley tries to learn to paint, with disastrous results

    Happiness is within reach!
  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Enterprise makes first contact with an an AI that is a planetwide network of gross crabs; Wesley tries to learn to paint, with disastrous results

    Riker fucks a crab princess

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Enterprise makes first contact with an an AI that is a planetwide network of gross crabs; Wesley tries to learn to paint, with disastrous results

    Ironically they're not in the crab nebula.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    chu start calling him Javert see if he gets it

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    crabs are xor gates

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I just got into it with our security guard. He is so invested in stopping theft and I’m like- listen, I will do the things I’m empowered to do. That list of things is very small. And he kept using verbiage like, well, I *notified* you so I’m not sure what else I can do *crossed arms*

    Nothing! Same as me! We have strict non confrontation policies. We are insured against theft. Fucking… stop acting like you did your job by telling me and now I’m ignoring it or shirking my job duties. You giant self important asshole.

    I flipped out on a greeter once who stopped me to search my cart and I feel really shitty about it still.

    At walmart you don't have to stop

    But it makes them real mad

    But like, I ain't standing in line for you to check that I didn't steal anything. I mean I'm also not shopping at walmart anymore, the pandemic broke that habit finally.

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    This shade from an investor group about Bobby Kotick's 200m "bonus" is great
    The use of video games as one of the few entertainment options available amid the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, has been a boon to many companies in the gaming industry irrespective of executive talent or strategic decisions."

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Man my Stash account is just taking a bath right now. I hope people figure this short stuff out soon.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    Sir we informed them crab based processing has inherent floating decimal point errors at the -23rd power.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I just got into it with our security guard. He is so invested in stopping theft and I’m like- listen, I will do the things I’m empowered to do. That list of things is very small. And he kept using verbiage like, well, I *notified* you so I’m not sure what else I can do *crossed arms*

    Nothing! Same as me! We have strict non confrontation policies. We are insured against theft. Fucking… stop acting like you did your job by telling me and now I’m ignoring it or shirking my job duties. You giant self important asshole.

    I flipped out on a greeter once who stopped me to search my cart and I feel really shitty about it still.

    At walmart you don't have to stop

    But it makes them real mad

    But like, I ain't standing in line for you to check that I didn't steal anything. I mean I'm also not shopping at walmart anymore, the pandemic broke that habit finally.

    Yeah I should have done that but instead I turned it into a Curb Your Enthusiasm bit where I got to be Larry David only after it was over I didn't get to go home and be a millionaire.

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    It's not even illegal to steal from Walmart

    Happiness is within reach!
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    navgoose wrote: »
    Sir we informed them crab based processing has inherent floating decimal point errors at the -23rd power.

    They've set pincers to lethal

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  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Enterprise makes first contact with an an AI that is a planetwide network of gross crabs; Wesley tries to learn to paint, with disastrous results

    Ironically they're not in the crab nebula.

    They were kicked out of the crab nebula after Riker managed to make it extremely literal

  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    Oh you guys found the crab computing paper didn’t you

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Coinage wrote: »
    The Enterprise makes first contact with an an AI that is a planetwide network of gross crabs; Wesley tries to learn to paint, with disastrous results

    Ironically they're not in the crab nebula.

    They were kicked out of the crab nebula after Riker managed to make it extremely literal

    That's why they call it an away mission, because you walk away from it carrying a space STD.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Picard gives an impassioned monolog about how humanity shook off capitalism and how the crabs can do the same with crabitalisn

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Worf loses a fight with a crab

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Did they ever amend first contact protocol after Riker and Kirk? Cause you'd think part of it would be "don't put your dick in the local fauna"

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Picard gives an impassioned monolog about how humanity shook off capitalism and how the crabs can do the same with crabitalisn

    crab-tabalism has made us this way
    hey, you, what-dya see
    something beautiful something free

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Did they ever amend first contact protocol after Riker and Kirk? Cause you'd think part of it would be "don't put your dick in the local fauna"

    They stay pretty quiet about it after Riker accidently depopulated a planet by carrying an std he was immune to across 8 lightyears.

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  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Did they ever amend first contact protocol after Riker and Kirk? Cause you'd think part of it would be "don't put your dick in the local fauna"

    If this was a rule no one would join starfleet

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    The crabs construct their own Data which is a horrifying humanoid figure made of hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Did they ever amend first contact protocol after Riker and Kirk? Cause you'd think part of it would be "don't put your dick in the local fauna"

    I watched an episode last night where Picard straight up had a relationship with a science officer, asked the ship's counselor if it was appropriate, was told HELL YEAH GO FOR IT MAN and then after she got put into danger, she transferred to another ship rather than have to deal with the unfortunate power dynamics of her boyfriend sending her into life and death situations.

    And then another episode where Picard hit a guy with the saddle he keeps on the enterprise.

    Season 6 is both good and super weird.

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Picard gives an impassioned monolog about how humanity shook off capitalism and how the crabs can do the same with crabitalisn
    Oh no Picard didn't have the cultural context to understand the anti-crabitalism poster was crab racist

    Happiness is within reach!
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    The crabs construct their own Data which is a horrifying humanoid figure made of hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs.

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    SPOT

    WHERE ARE YOU SPOT

  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    fun fact: eventually all electrical engineering evolves into crab

  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Did they ever amend first contact protocol after Riker and Kirk? Cause you'd think part of it would be "don't put your dick in the local fauna"

    I watched an episode last night where Picard straight up had a relationship with a science officer, asked the ship's counselor if it was appropriate, was told HELL YEAH GO FOR IT MAN and then after she got put into danger, she transferred to another ship rather than have to deal with the unfortunate power dynamics of her boyfriend sending her into life and death situations.

    And then another episode where Picard hit a guy with the saddle he keeps on the enterprise.

    Season 6 is both good and super weird.

    I mean the saddle is the payoff to the bit about him pawning a profoundly annoying diplomat off on Data by claiming he'll need to go get his saddle if they're to go riding later.

    Which is itself super weird, but it still plays.

  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Minor diplomatic incident when Crusher mentions Riker's ongoing treatment for crabs within earshot of the crab delegation.

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    right, i am a mandated reporter, and always have been. But were you say that my job was reporting instances of abuse or assault, i would say that it most certainly is not my job. It's something i'm required to do but it isn't my job. Maybe it's just that I tend to sort my responsibilities. So my responsibilities qua teacher, are different than my responsibilities qua school employee generally, which are different than my responsibilities qua human being. I don't think that anything is gained by conflating all of those and saying anything that involves my work in any way is my job.

    I fail to imagine how this is anything but pedantic hairsplitting.

    Fine. It's not your job. It's still your responsibility, which is the exact word that started the conversation, and I don't recall me using the phrase "it's your job." But I'm not going to go back and check, because even if I did use that phrase, it doesn't matter, because this is pedantic hairsplitting.

    You have a job. That job confers a responsibility (reporting instances of abuse or assault). The proximal reason you have that responsibility is because you work a job that confers that responsibility. If you quit your job, you would no longer have a responsibility as a mandated reporter. Most people would refer to this as a "job responsibility." Trying to argue something akin to 'it's my responsibility as a school employee but it's not my job' is such masturbatory pedantic hairsplitting that I'm genuinely annoyed at myself for responding to your post with anything but

    https://i.gifer.com/Srzz.gifv

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    It's my job to set adventurers on fire. It's my responsibility to make sure adventurers don't get into the next dungeon level.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Did they ever amend first contact protocol after Riker and Kirk? Cause you'd think part of it would be "don't put your dick in the local fauna"

    I watched an episode last night where Picard straight up had a relationship with a science officer, asked the ship's counselor if it was appropriate, was told HELL YEAH GO FOR IT MAN and then after she got put into danger, she transferred to another ship rather than have to deal with the unfortunate power dynamics of her boyfriend sending her into life and death situations.

    And then another episode where Picard hit a guy with the saddle he keeps on the enterprise.

    Season 6 is both good and super weird.

    I just spend five goddamn minutes trying to find the clip from Necessary Roughness where Scott Bakula gets pushed aside by a saddle so I could make a Captain Archer joke and youtube didn't fucking have the clip.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    It's my job to set adventurers on fire. It's my responsibility to make sure adventurers don't get into the next dungeon level.

    I think it wouldn't be your responsibility, once they're on fire?

    Like your job really ends when combustion begins, you dont have jurisdiction to release the boulders, let alone direct the area boss

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    The crabs construct their own Data which is a horrifying humanoid figure made of hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs.
    This happened in Kingdom Hearts one time.

  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    It's my job to set adventurers on fire. It's my responsibility to make sure adventurers don't get into the next dungeon level.

    I think it wouldn't be your responsibility, once they're on fire?

    Like your job really ends when combustion begins, you dont have jurisdiction to release the boulders, let alone direct the area boss

    But if they take the treasure then there won't be any more adventurers wandering in for me to set fire to.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    Tumin wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    It's my job to set adventurers on fire. It's my responsibility to make sure adventurers don't get into the next dungeon level.

    I think it wouldn't be your responsibility, once they're on fire?

    Like your job really ends when combustion begins, you dont have jurisdiction to release the boulders, let alone direct the area boss
    Give an adventurer a fire, they can cook for a day. Set an adventurer on fire, and they will cook for the rest of their life.

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  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    It's my job to set adventurers on fire. It's my responsibility to make sure adventurers don't get into the next dungeon level.

    I think it wouldn't be your responsibility, once they're on fire?

    Like your job really ends when combustion begins, you dont have jurisdiction to release the boulders, let alone direct the area boss

    But if they take the treasure then there won't be any more adventurers wandering in for me to set fire to.

    Right, but that's a systems problem. Your organization failing to procure combustibles is a matter of logistical inefficiency.

  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Auralynx wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    It's my job to set adventurers on fire. It's my responsibility to make sure adventurers don't get into the next dungeon level.

    I think it wouldn't be your responsibility, once they're on fire?

    Like your job really ends when combustion begins, you dont have jurisdiction to release the boulders, let alone direct the area boss

    But if they take the treasure then there won't be any more adventurers wandering in for me to set fire to.

    Right, but that's a systems problem. Your organization failing to procure combustibles is a matter of logistical inefficiency.

    But the lich is using the logistics people as a screaming bone gate.

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