Your pointless thoughts & observations

  On 10/5/2018 at 11:53 PM, Braintree said:

 

  On 10/5/2018 at 8:00 PM, mokz said:

Let's suppose you had to select from two different lifestyles with the same average amount of happiness/misery (zero sum):

1) Life in which you are either mildly happy or content about half of the time and mildly sad the other half on varying days.

2) Life in which you are miserable most of the time but then experience brief moments of almost ecstasy like happiness.

 

Which one would you choose?

 

I think I have a tendency to choose number two when given the chance, but sometimes a need for comfort pushes me towards number one. This is maybe a personality trait?

 

 

Option 2 is just manic depression.

 

Maybe if it was happening involuntarily without direct external factors, but I didn't mean it like that.

Consider them like two different career options, for example:

1) An office job, let's say in sales, where you lose a little or win a little daily and feel happy or sad based on your day to day performance. But highs and lows aren't that big. 

2) Scientist working on a new field. Endless hours, constant stress, complete uncertainty if your work will ever amount to anything or be recognized in any way with moments of success few and far in between. But when you finally succeed in something and break through it's like an ecstatic joy for a while.

  On 10/6/2018 at 5:43 AM, Brisbot said:

pointless thought: In 100-200 years, people will be able to just press a button and an artificial intelligence will make 100x better music than anyone alive today. I wonder if that will make music like beathoven/aphex/oneohtrix point never and so on and so forth obsolete, since music will basically be 'solved'.  WIll musicians basically die out?

 

Instead we'll get people posting curated music to 2150's youtube from AI they 'made' by pressing 'create album'.

 

Or would 'AI' music be looked down upon and not considered music? If that's so, then you'll have these music scandals involved with musicians who claim to make original music but just generate music via AI.

 

Then as the AI becomes better and better, you'll get these esoteric new genres all about subverting the limits of what AI can create.

 

It would also be interesting to see what kind of music AI's would make for each other, assuming they are programmed to like music.

 

naw, there`s always going to be the left-field  . while everyone else hits play they will be banging rocks together...

  On 10/5/2018 at 8:42 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Option 3: irrationally angry half the time, zen-like tranquility the other half.

It me

Here’s a lifehack: you can drink your hangover away

*taps nose*

'Hair of the dog' just delays the rest of the hangover, in my experience.

  On 10/6/2018 at 7:54 PM, Braintree said:

'Hair of the dog' just delays the rest of the hangover, in my experience.

It makes the hangover last longer for sure, but it can smooth out the roughest parts. Really depends on how bad the hangover is and do you just want to get rid of it fast and hard or smooth and over a long time. (haha, sexual)

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the nature pics Windows 10 shows on the startup screen are really cool

Netflix is all filler no killer

  On 10/6/2018 at 7:54 PM, Braintree said:

'Hair of the dog' just delays the rest of the hangover, in my experience.

qft

I basically have a 15yr hangover overdraft at this point

Flying Lotus has become the Rick Moranis of music. 

Martin Shkreli got sent to prison and was reincarnated as Elon Musk. 

Yeah these 

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  On 10/8/2018 at 6:16 AM, Stickfigger said:

 

Ya'll have experience with racist biscuits? 

Yeah, Negerkuss (Negro's kiss)/Mohrenkopf (Moor's head) is now called Dickmann, also kinda looks like a dick

today I found out that Kahn/Joe McGann

is the son of Paul McGann/Golic from Alien 3.

Haven't seen Peace 7 in a minute

Where he at?

I always liked a good post by Peace 7, much entertainment

This AM radio guy whose whole show is just him saying Hail Marys for an hour or so is gonna feel pretty dumb when he meets the pasghetti monster, or whoever, or maybe not, I dunno.

intentionally holding in the morning shits so I save it for work and get paid for shitting

sent from the toilet

motherboard manufacturers' ads are so incredibly full of shit. try wading through this massive mountain of multicoloured bullshit to zero in on something matching your requirements. it's enough to give even the most autistic hardware enthusiast a headache.

best off just using a plain table of Intel chipsets in Wikipedia and searching shops for a model built on that.

i built a new pc last month and was at a complete loss when it came to motherboards. Other than overclocking support and matching your CPU i dont know wtf one's supposed to look for in a motherboard

apart from that and good memory/bandwidth specs, you just want the minimal amount of bullshit, really. motherboards can come packed with useless extras that you don't want (usually multi-GPU support falls in this category for me) so the real hassle is in trying to find a lightweight, affordable one that just does what you want and not anything else. unfortunately, if you want a board that suits the latest lines of CPUs and has overclocking support, then it's assumed you're a "gamer" or "enthusiast" and you want all that other shite.

right now, I want something that is compatible with the next gen of Intel CPUs (Coffee Lake 9xxxx, I'm looking at the i5-9600K) which is about to come out shortly, and I want overclocking support. this restricts me two chipsets, the Z370 and the Z390, and practically all the motherboards based on these come with CrossFire or SLI which I don't care about, as well as things like onboard wifi and blah which I'm also not really bothered about.

maybe I should just get an SLI-capable board now and think about bunging another GPU in it a few years from now to get the most out of it. but I've had one of these before and I went through a lot of trouble trying to make it work with a second card, which pretty much made it a no-go for me ever since.

there might be something in the Z370 line...

I'm a CS major and I still barely know how to navigate PC features/specs. This is partially a result of having a cousin who has been on top of this shit since about 1999; he always knows what the latest nanometer chipsets are coming out, etc... so i just consult with him when it's time to upgrade.

Really, I have no interesting use cases anymore, getting a PCI-E audio card was the last major requirement I had. Thunderbolt on my next laptop maybe? /shrug

A very recent interest in computer generated art/ computer vision may change this, too early to say.

How does Zaphod know Fords name when they first meet on the Heart of Gold? Ford took on the name when he was stranded on Earth, so there's no way Zaphod would know his name unless he met him on Earth, which he didn't.

Businesses should have various hat styles and sizes depending on how high up in the company you are. Like the Catholic church, the bigger and stupider the hat, the higher up you are in the organisation.