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[Magistrum]

Here we share the best of the best ideas we had today. Or not, I mean, not every idea gets out of the print.
Be nice to each other, not all of your ideas were your best too.
For me, today I thought about creating this economic plan that would simply make my country the most equal of the world, then I remembered that I would never be able to pull that off without being called a socialist and get killed by corporations. Down to the level of the "Coke Tea" idea.

So, here it is, what was the not so great plan of the day?

[Sonlirain]

Well i already posted it in the dream thread but why not here as well.

Had a crack dream where Sony basically turned into Nintendo.
They bought the rights to Sonic & Co along with Axiom Verge and some other nintendo equivalent IPs and just started churning out sequels... AND EVERYONE LOVED IT.

[acetech09]

My dad's a good-humored attorney, he came up with this:

"I should start a kickstarter campaign, for 5 bucks a month. If enough people back it, they'll get a guarantee that a lawyer is taken off the street."

[Cthulufaic]

I had the idea of trying to take Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and turn it into a tabletop, D&D-esque game.

Needless to say, no progress has been made. 

[Tiruin]

I don't think any idea is stupid (going by the literal meaning of stupid instead of the emotional equivalent of labelling it to anything dum :I), but rather impractical, inconvenient, or totally outright not feasible for the current situation instead.

...Like this one idea about hooking a linking switch to our water tank that would check both the internal water level and the main switch for its access...before realizing I could just go upstairs and check it myself. ._.

E: This thread totally needs rules, unless it just conforms to the forum guidelines.

[Sergarr]

Arguing on the internet during a heat wave.

[Spehss _]

I had the idea of trying to take Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and turn it into a tabletop, D&D-esque game.

Needless to say, no progress has been made. 

That would be a pretty cool setting. The actual system may be a bit harder to come up with. Maybe a mix of Call of Cthulhu investigations and DnD class skills and combat? I dunno, I haven't tried making a tabletop game.

Would definitely make for a neat world setting.

[Sergarr]

I had the idea of trying to take Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and turn it into a tabletop, D&D-esque game.

Needless to say, no progress has been made. 

That would be a pretty cool setting. The actual system may be a bit harder to come up with. Maybe a mix of Call of Cthulhu investigations and DnD class skills and combat? I dunno, I haven't tried making a tabletop game.

Would definitely make for a neat world setting.

Funnily enough, I've recently had the idea of fixing fighters by giving them the ability to materialize their spirit around them to serve as a sort of armour and weapons at the same time, with special abilities and being able to send it away temporarily for ranged attacks.

Then I realized how closely that resembled JoJo's stands.

[Eric Blank]

Well, like I posted in the wtf thread, I briefly considered keeping a pet rattlesnake, defanged of course, in the car to deter robberies. Just hearing the snake would deter most sober assholes, hopefully. Maybe not the kids from L.A.

That, and making a mini arc furnace as described on the internet. Nothing could go wrong.

I should just post here everyday.

[Bauglir]

My dad's a good-humored attorney, he came up with this:

"I should start a kickstarter campaign, for 5 bucks a month. If enough people back it, they'll get a guarantee that a lawyer is taken off the street."

Won't work, do a Patreon instead.

[Bohandas]

ptw

[wierd]

dumb idea I have been having recently:

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This is going to be very long and boring, so spoiler.

The reason why data that has already been compressed once before, cannot be compressed again by another algorithm, is because the total entropy of the already compressed file does not really permit further reductions.  However, an intermediary step that re-encodes the data into a more compressible stream could be sandwiched between compression cycles, allowing tighter compression, in theory. Additionally, this process itself may even permit compression of a sort.

Ok-- Now then, the actual idea.

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More long wall of text.


Basically, I have an idea on how to re-encode data using a kind of "value shuffle table".  I have been manually building such a table by hand off and on, and I think it has some interesting properties.

The basic premise is to take a 4 byte or longer string from the already compressed file, then "Find" that string in the shuffle table. It can then be represented with 2 bytes. The first byte codes two values-- the first is which base shuffle table to use, and the second is which interleave shuffle of that table to use.  This gives a very large possible chance of finding any random 4 byte sequence. The second byte encodes what offset in the shuffle table to start at, and how many bytes to read.

First up, the base shuffle tables.

Here's what I have manually cobbled together so far.

Step=1
0123456789ABCDEF
123456789ABCDEF0
23456789ABCDEF01
3456789ABCDEF012
456789ABCDEF0123
56789ABCDEF01234
6789ABCDEF012345
789ABCDEF0123456
89ABCDEF01234567
9ABCDEF012345678
ABCDEF0123456789
BCDEF0123456789A
CDEF0123456789AB
DEF0123456789ABC
EF0123456789ABCD
F0123456789ABCDE

step=2
0123456789ABCDEF
23456789ABCDEF01
456789ABCDEF0123
6789ABCDEF012345
89ABCDEF01234567
ABCDEF0123456789
CDEF0123456789AB
EF0123456789ABCD
123456789ABCDEF0
3456789ABCDEF012
56789ABCDEF01234
789ABCDEF0123456
9ABCDEF012345678
BCDEF0123456789A
DEF0123456789ABC
F0123456789ABCDE

Step=3
0123456789ABCDEF
3456789ABCDEF012
6789ABCDEF012345
9ABCDEF012345678
CDEF0123456789AB
F0123456789ABCDE
123456789ABCDEF0
456789ABCDEF0123
789ABCDEF0123456
ABCDEF0123456789
DEF0123456789ABC
23456789ABCDEF01
56789ABCDEF01234
89ABCDEF01234567
BCDEF0123456789A
EF0123456789ABCD

Step=4
0123456789ABCDEF
456789ABCDEF0123
89ABCDEF01234567
CDEF0123456789AB
123456789ABCDEF0
56789ABCDEF01234
9ABCDEF012345678
DEF0123456789ABC
23456789ABCDEF01
6789ABCDEF012345
ABCDEF0123456789
EF0123456789ABCD
3456789ABCDEF012
789ABCDEF0123456
BCDEF0123456789A
F0123456789ABCDE

"Step" here, indicates how many "line positions" have been used to space the interleaving of the "step=1" table, to get reshuffled tables. Values greater than 16 make no sense for this kind of table, so the high octal of the table bytes defines this base shuffle.

It is important to note that these tables should be viewed as if they were a data tape with the ends glued together. start at the very end of the table, and read passed the end, it loops around to the beginning again. While I have the data presented in a tabular form there, there really wont be line endings. Each table is really just a really long string, that loops around at the ends. This means that as a result of this shuffling, many combinations that would not be found from the "linear counting fill" nature of the initial table, WILL be found in the shuffled strings.

The lower octal of the table ID byte shuffles the table further, with per-position interleaves within that table, ranging from 1 to 16. Each octal appears 16 times in the shuffle tables, so this combination can theoretically produce sequences within the shuffle table that correspond to sequences many bytes long, with a very large portion of the possibility space for the 4 byte sequence's octal stream covered.  By reserving the low octal of the second encoding record byte for the number of octals to read, we can read 16 octals, or up to 8 bytes.

The resulting data from this encoding will have increased compressibility, because there will be many repetitive byte sequences in the output, in addition to having the possibility to compress in and of itself.

It's an interesting but stupid idea.

[itisnotlogical]

Public feeding tubes. For those too indecisive, too intoxicated or too stupid to eat at a normal restaurant without causing undue hassle for staff and fellow patrons, there should be public feeding tubes which dispense a room-temperature slurry of sugar, oats and beef stock. The model can be scaled up and down, from individual home units to an entire wall with dozens of mechanical teats servicing hundreds of barely-functional would-be customers a day. Think of the savings for restaurant owners; instead of many specialized employees, you simply need one civic servant to keep it stocked and shoo people away if they start hogging a tube!

[Yoink]

Non-toxic hempen (or some sort of recycled paper material) floor rugs, so that after a few months/years of smoking over it and spilling [INSERT SUBSTANCE HERE] onto it, you can just roll the entire, grimy rug into a giant joint/cigarette and smoke that, too. Then replace it with a new rug and repeat the process.

[Magistrum]

Smoking a huge, grimy rug seems very confusing when coming from Yonk. The kawaii effect is strong.