My answer to 'Write any 5 random words' : 'Moon landing was a hoax'
I wonder how many entered 'any 5 random words'
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#112Anything for xkcd.
Much respect. salute! o7
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#113"five random words"
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#114Found out that gnome 3 has some keybinding for dynamically changing screen resolution. I don't know which keybinding that is, but I found it during the mash the keyboard test.
Did anyone mash about a fifth of the window, select all, copy, then paste until it filled up and then some?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that is very wasteful. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...
I mean, I run 6 days a week so my running socks get beat up pretty bad. When they are dead, I need to throw them out. So my options are: 1) Buy 1 new pack of socks, throw out 6 old socks - repeat every month. Doing it this way I have to match socks between several different styles. or 2) Put 4 packs of socks, throw out all of my socks, repeat 4x less often. Also I have no matching to do, as all of my socks are the sa…
I'd suggest Darn Tough wool socks. Buy two of them per season if you want. They are guaranteed for life. No, they really are. Return them, and they send you new ones. My wife has returned them twice. I'm still on my first pair and I run and go backpacking. They are awesome. Plus, wool is one of the best materials for not stinking (anti-bacterial) so you don't even have to wash them (every time) if you leave them out to dry.
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#117I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
That's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.
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#118Was it proper thing to stop myself from writing "five random words are here" as a response to "Write five random words"?
Fun anecdote. I took a cryptography exam, where the question was "Progress as far as possible towards decrypting or decoding the following message:", followed by a sequence of letters in alphabetical order- several As, a different number of Bs, and so on. It seemed obvious to me that a message that has been sorted into alphabetical order cannot be reversed without luck and a computer, so I assumed the unencoded versi…
For anyone curious, it looks like this would be what he was shown, assuming spaces omitted and all lower case:
"aaaaabccddddeeeeeeeffggggghiiiilllmnnnoooooooppprrrrrrssssssssstttwwy"
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of them were definitely highly specific jargon to medical fields and the like. I'm betting fewer of them are made up than you think.
Are they un-googleable jargon? I googled all of them, and about half of those searches yielded bupkis. Phoropter was the only medical term I found.
I wonder if there's jargon in the intelligence services that's classified?
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#120I am incredibly excited by this survey specifically because of the question regarding sandwiches. I finally will have some meaningful data for my extensive definition of sandwiches as a structural form!
Woody Allen's essay on the Earl of Sandwich https://youtu.be/bwJkTuer5Zk?t=37m