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[Ultimuh]

Why must things be that complicated??

I thought for a second I was on the wrong forum.

Lately, I just want things to be a bit simpler for once.
Life is complicated enough, so I don't want my entertainment to be as well.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I dunno, there's something charming about Thaumcraft's system. I feel like a real wizard when I play it.

[Flying Dice]

Was idly watching Trick2g's stream while waiting for PVKII to finish downloading. Whispered some guy the answer to a question he asked in chat. Ended up with us befriending each other in LoL and playing a match together. Before and after, we had a prolonged conversation after he asked me for help understanding data analysis, we ended up talking about future careers and how he was going into finance, and about the ins and outs of data analysis, what he could do with software for number crunching, &c.

That was possibly the most unexpected sequence of events I've experienced out of a lazy night/morning in front of the computer in this whole year, haha.

[Sergarr]

Spoiler: what is this bullshit (click to show/hide)

And no, that's not a rounding error, that's apparently a real thing.

[nenjin]

Imgur has changed their upload page for photos, right as I'm in the middle of a huge photo project. And in doing so they doubled the time it takes me to link a thumbnail to a full picture on forums. Ggrrraaaahhhh.

[Jopax]

My mouse seems to be acting up, not sure if it's the surface or the mouse itself. Because I've used it on this kind of table before and it worked fine, but I also used the mouse less than an hour ago and it also worked fine :V

Also one of my professors seems to be a fan of MLP, or maybe has a daughter who is? Since he had a shelf full of them in his office, also some really cool lego constructs.

[Arx]

Spoiler: what is this bullshit (click to show/hide)

And no, that's not a rounding error, that's apparently a real thing.

That's oddly irksome.

[Helgoland]

Well, the Wiki article had an (empirical) explanation: When the sum of the arguments is smaller than one, this works, and else it doesn't.

That's at least a bit less irksome than just randomly having 15 be the border to madness and ugly numbers.

[MagmaMcFry]

Well, the Wiki article had an (empirical) explanation: When the sum of the arguments is smaller than one, this works, and else it doesn't.

That's at least a bit less irksome than just randomly having 15 be the border to madness and ugly numbers.

The Wikipedia article linked to another article that explained it easily, by Fourier transforming the entire thing. The Fourier transform of a sinc function is a symmetrical rectangle function, and the Fourier transform of a product is a convolution, and the integral over a function is just the value of its Fourier transform at 0, so that integral is just half the height of a convolution of symmetrical rectangle functions at 0 (multiplied by some power of pi, depending on the definition of Fourier transform). Now what happens when we convolve some unit-volume rectangle functions? Basically we get a function that is at most as tall as the widest rectangle is, with equality if and only if that rectangle is at least as wide as all other rectangles combined. In the example, we have rectangles of widths 1, 1/3, 1/5, 1/7, etc..., and we find that 1/3 + ... + 1/13 < 1 < 1/3 + ... + 1/15, so this is why the example breaks down there.

[Rolan7]

Well, the Wiki article had an (empirical) explanation: When the sum of the arguments is smaller than one, this works, and else it doesn't.

That's at least a bit less irksome than just randomly having 15 be the border to madness and ugly numbers.

Thanks, this was really bothering me too.  Feels better now.

[Neonivek]

Well The Sims 4 finally did it.

I am finally disinterested in the series... which is an honest accomplishment.

[Yoink]

That moment when someone sends you a message seemingly meant for someone else, you respond telling them so, and they continue the same conversation as though nothing is amiss...

[Arx]

I feel like design in general is moving away from speed and low weight and towards looking pretty and usable for just about anybody. It's an entirely understandable trend, but it periodically seriously annoys me. Like now, I had to navigate through three links on Qt's site before I could find the IDE. And now I have to navigate through a complicated javascript thing to get at the downloads. This should have taken about five seconds.

[Bouchart]

I feel like design in general is moving away from speed and low weight and towards looking pretty and usable for just about anybody. It's an entirely understandable trend, but it periodically seriously annoys me. Like now, I had to navigate through three links on Qt's site before I could find the IDE. And now I have to navigate through a complicated javascript thing to get at the downloads. This should have taken about five seconds.

Things were better in the command-line days, when the only people who could use computers were a handful of Chosen Ones.

[endlessblaze]

Well The Sims 4 finally did it.

I am finally disinterested in the series... which is an honest accomplishment.

What's wrong with it? How has it changed form sims 3.