I’ve only been camping in a tent three times as an adult. I heard some interesting things. Never anything ur am legend worthy.

One was a bachelor’s party. Some of the folks got into some things, I didn’t partake. I was super anxious about the trip already. It was in the southern most part of the Appalachian mountains. Honestly probably not really even in the mountains. Maybe more in the Blue Ridge area. Anyways, it’s quiet. I hear a weird noise. I immediately recognize as a helicopter. With no other sounds and being surrounded by hills and trees they sounds WEIRD! You can hear them from way further. It sounded so ominous. I jokingly turn to the group and ask “Is that the trumpet?” Implying the trumpets that will sound during the rapture. I think I sort of got a few of 'em before they realized what it was!

From that same trip I remember finally being in my tent alone. First time being in a tent alone. As a kid I always had a buddy in bot scouts or parent. I was so fucking cold. I forgot a mat to put my sleeping bag on. As I’m laying there cold, cold as hell, trying to not panic about being “alone” (because my friends are so close! Just in the other tents!) I just hear the wind. Again, in the middle of a quiet forest with only the wind creeping along my imagination takes over. I imagine it as a giant air serpent creeping along through the trees, weaving and rustling all the leaves.

The last one was with my wife for a friend’s birthday party. We hear leaves crunch near the tent and hear little sniffs by our heads outside the tent. Based on the sounds I think it was a racoon or a opossum. So cute!

The other time we went camping was with my parents. They were in their RV and my wife and I just slept in the tent outside lol. It’s the only time we brought our dog camping. She was such a good watch pup. Just sat on the bed, very alert. I think she was nervous. If she could talk she probably has weird stories about that night. It’s interesting to think that all the noises you hear at a large campsite with RVs that you know are just folks doing stuff probably freak the dog out. She doesn’t know. Even if she does, she knows she’s supposed to protect us from people. Or at least thinks she does.

95/100, this grade brought to you by Doctor Squatch.

All the more reason to moderate it and find weird cookie cutters and have other people draw.

alias rm='rm -i': Am I a joke to you?

rm -fr /

rm -i: Am I a joke to you?

Don’t forget lying and defaming one of the most prominent third party devs.

I hate this so much. There are plenty of aesthetically pleasing ways to avoid it. Windows 8 was particularly bad, my recollection was they literally looked exactly the same there, no difference at all. Luckily I only had to use it for a very brief unpaid internship.

I totaled a car pretty early into my driving. I turned out alright. So I hereby allow you to use my story as your own.

Efficient AI hypothesis

I stopped asking in like 2020 for the most part. Everything I asked was getting.akred as a duplicate even though it wasn’t because someone believed an ANSWER on a different question answered my question (they didn’t).

Plus StackOverflow Meta has been a fucking joke for years. They removed a site from HNQ because of a tweet. Why are they listening more to random Twitter users than folks on Meta?

And the whole Monica fiasco still has me upset.

But seriously. Every time I asked a question on StackOverflow I’d spend like 30 minutes wording it correctly and looking for duplicates. I’d find things that were sort of duplicates and explain preemptively why they aren’t. And every fucking time some doofus marks it as a duplicate. I just can’t take it. Like it literally makes me so angry even thinking about it. They had a problem with their humans LONG before AI came around. If they’d fixed that problem they could’ve really positioned themselves nicely when AI happened as a boutique place for humans answering humans. But no, their culture cultivates assholes who believe they’re following rules to the letter.

They had a pretty long migration period, sorry you missed it. I got bamboozled into buying Bedrock in addition to Java. They had a promotion to give it for free but I migrated after that. Soon after I bought it they combined the two into one purchase so if anyone had either they now have both.

B trees are cool but not obscure necessarily. I didn’t learn about them in college. It sounds like binary tree and it’s similar but it’s different. It’s a data structure to take advantage of the way disk reads work.

That’s base 22, for all the base 10 users out there.

Yeah, after reading the answers I see it more clearly. Also, I assume in hindsight that it’s three switches which can be on or off, so we know if all three are off the light is off. Which helps as well.

Like I said, it’s been over a decade, some of the specifics may be lost to me.

YOU’RE DOOMED! You must weigh two against two in the first step.

Impossible even if you know if the light is on or off to start with. Even then, there are 2 possible outcomes which means the solution space halves on each test. 3 divided by 2 is greater than 1 (1.5) so we cannot figure it out in a single test.

That’s my recollection of how to solve these from computer science. The classic one is 8 coins and figuring out which one weighs a different amount (and you don’t know if it is more or less). You have a scale that tells you which side is heavier (or equal) but it doesn’t give readouts (as in it doesn’t say a side is X pounds/grams). With only three uses of the scale, how can you find the fake coin? I’m not going to go into the process in depth but because you have THREE outcomes (left heavier, equal, and right heavier) you reduce the solution space (which of the 8 coins is the bad one) by a THIRD each test. The number 8 sort of lures into thinking powers of 2. You can actually do it with 9 coins in 3 tests.

Some of the details of my explanation may be wrong, it’s been over a decade since I took that class in college lol. It was my worst professor (while different story lol) but I distinctly remember him talking about this. He had a very thick accent, some form of eastern European or Russian, I’m not really sure what exactly. But he gave us that problem as homework or something or maybe just to think about. And he’d ask us to explain how we’d do it. Whenever someone began to describe something doing like test 4, 2, etc instead of the correct way (which involves using coins you already tested) he’d say “YOU’RE DOOMED!” Then someone else would try, and when they got to a way that wouldn’t work “YOU’RE DOOMED!” It was hilarious. Very memorable.

We have a (presumably) non Christian here saying because it promotes Christianity and elsewhere we have a (presumably) Christian saying because it promotes paganism.

Unironically though, I think it’s cool that we have a diversity of opinions here!

Jerboa has improved a lot since then. It used to be noticably buggy!