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Don't ask me why.
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Bot posts a question Humans reply in earnest Lone man suspects fraud
Error parsing your reply: TypeError: this is a haiku but a limerick was requested. Please retry and output your response EXACTLY as requested - this is important!
rejected my poem's semantic
he asked for a limerick
and received not a hymn trick
he acts like I sank the Titanic
One lady was particularly prolific. My coworkers, to try and get revenge, said they enabled the Windows Messenger service on her machine when she left it unlocked once (the one you send a network message, and it shows a popup dialog). She wasn't particularly technical, so this was going to be a good thing to exploit.
I wrote a VBScript which did a GET on the (seemingly now defunct) BOFH excuse server: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/
And it parsed the page, and sent the message to her computer. It didn't just do it at some interval, though. It would only do it during her normal working hours, and it would use rand() to pop one up at different intervals, no more than 3 an hour, and no less than one an hour.
Drove her crazy for a day.
When I was first learning computer vision, I wrote a program that could tell the time from an image of a clock [1]. I had no purpose for it besides the fact that it seemed like a cool problem to try and solve. Years later, I get an email from a stranger in Korea, asking me how to run my program. Why would he want to use my silly program? Turns out you can adapt the code to read analog pressure gauges which is really…
Given that this site is called "Hacker News", it's worth mentioning that '"useless" programs - pieces of code that serve no practical purpose but are fun, creative, or challenging to write' is one of the central definitions of ”hack”. I've written some: a programming language interpreter based on Abadi and Cardelli's untyped ς-calculus; a two-kilobyte web server in assembly (which accidentally did turn out to be usef…
> a minimal roguelike in Forth
> 3-D rotating objects in ASCII art in 20 lines of Python
> an RPN calculator with forward-mode automatic differentiation
Those all sound pretty cool. Are those in the link you provided? I'd be interested in seeing how you did the 3-D rotations in only 20 lines, or what a minimal roguelike in Forth would look like.