Sweet baby!

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mackinac-bridge-reopens-after-closure-due-to-bomb-threat-michigan-officials-say/2557725/

Take them out to your grill, shucked, and baste them with salty butter while they cook on medium heat.

Does it hurt when you assume pretzel form?

The biggest enemy our country faces is the democrat party. We have passed the point of trying to reason with them, and they have no desire to reason with anyone. As a nation we must either give the country up, or drive them out of even the smallest position of power.

Hope they release a podcast ... let's see how "insane" the conversation really is. My guess is that it'll be pretty reasonable and interesting.

What do people use Chromebase for? Just a terminal to run the Chrome browser on a big(ger) screen?

And that proves what, exactly? Antifa has made it clear they want to overthrow the government. Yet the democrats support and defend them. BLM has made it clear they want to overthrow the government. Yet the democrats support and defend them. Admitted Socialists are now members of Congress, on the democrat side, who make it clear they want to overthrow the government. Yet you and the rest of the idiots still calling yourselves democrats defend and support them. You find an article where one doofus makes what amounts to just his one opinion and you think it proves something?

@loki said in Food Scams: I’m not sure I understand the economics of the scam. The incremental cost of the product left out is minimal and the real outcome is the people don’t buy the product again. But is the effect on an already-tight profit margin minimal?

@horace said in Today's Deep Thought: @klaus said in Today's Deep Thought: He's talking about TNCR. Link to video We recently hired a senior software developer/architect who's written some books, one of which is about how to interview and advance in your career as a software developer. He was hired in a role with the same job title as most of his co-workers, including myself. I literally thought of that scene when I saw he'd written that book. It's just an e-book though, with like two Amazon reviews. In fairness, he does seem to know his stuff. I just became aware that this guy wrote a book recently about his mental health struggles, suicide attempt, and subsequent involuntary institutionalization. He was in a psych ward less than a year ago, and thought everybody there was so stupid and corrupt that he had to write a book about it, self-published on Amazon. Now I know why he took the job here. Everybody else googled him before making him an offer.

see I like grilled corn on the cob a lot. If you do it with the right things it gets a nice smoky flavor. I don't do it that way very often, but I like it.

@horace said in Most annoying cooking narrator: Reminds me of the optometrist my wife and I saw last week. She had a speaking pattern that went up and down in tone arbitrarily across a sentence. It came off as a mechanical caricature of normal inflection. I figured maybe it was an attempt at distancing, like to keep her job as impersonal as possible. I bet she successfully remembers zero people she treats at the end of the day. I found that the hardest thing about understanding Aussies was not necessarily their accent, but their entirely weird-ass inflections. It threw me off for a very long time.

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Nature is metal.

Lol

Official solution: SOLUTION: Romeo and Juliet can, in advance, label the 16 teams (in alphabetic order, perhaps) by the binary numbers 0000 through 1111. Then, when the time comes, Romeo can send Juliet eight bits: the four bits corresponding to one team, and the four bits corresponding to the other one. Juliet can then send back a 0 if the winning team was the one with the smaller number, and a 1 otherwise. That comes to nine bits, and we can trim that to 8 by noting that the number of unordered pairs of teams is only 16 x 15/2 = 120 which is less than 2 to the seventh power, thus Romeo can code the matchup with only seven bits. But an easier and faster solution is to just have Juliet send Romeo the four bits corresponding to the winning team. Surely, we can't do any better than four bits, right? Amazingly, we can! We can name those four positions in the team codes (leftmost, next-to-left, next-to-right, rightmost) by, say, 00, 01, 10, and 11 respectively. The codes of the two playing teams must differ in at least one of the four positions; Romeo picks such a position and sends its name (two bits) to Juliet. She now only needs to look at the value of the bit in that position of the winning team and send it to Romeo. Three bits total! For example, suppose the playing teams are 0010 and 0110, and 0110 won. The only position where the playing teams differ is the next-to-left, the "01" position, so Romeo must send "01" to Juliet. She checks the next-to-left position of the winning team — it is a "1" — and sends that "1" to Romeo. Done. It can be shown that three bits is unbeatable. Note that in the most efficient communication scheme, more information is passed from the student to the teacher than vice-versa. Is there a lesson to be learned from that? [Devised and communicated to me by Alon Orlitsky, of the University of California, San Diego.]