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  1. ShakyJake

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Fat fingering CTRL-C when trying to CTRL-V.
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    Interstellar (2014)

    Yeah, I don't know it is that pissed me off so much. A lot of the science annoyed me but the almighty Kip Thorne apparently says all is a-okay so whatever.
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    Interstellar (2014)

    Super weird. I love science fiction AND science. My top 10 favorite movies of all time include Contact and 2010. But I fucking hated this movie.
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    iZombie

    Kinda wish they had more of an origin story. Her entire back-story was covered in under 5 minutes. And, honestly, she's more like a vampire than a "zombie". I know her boss mumbled something about her brain being intact unlike the other victims (or something like that). Even still, a...
  5. ShakyJake

    Better Call Saul

    I say fuck those motherfuckers. They've had ample opportunity to watch Breaking Bad. It's not like it's 10 seasons of 22 episodes each to catch up on. A person could blow through the entire series in a week if they wanted.
  6. ShakyJake

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    About the only rule that I doggedly pursue is not to repeat myself.
  7. ShakyJake

    Computer Issues

    Screen "stuck" (as in the mouse doesn't move, no response to keyboard input. Have to hard reset). Although I've occasionally gotten a blue screen. System is running Windows 8. It's really random and is definitely a hardware issue. Just odd that two of the same boards is exhibiting the...
  8. ShakyJake

    Desktop Computers

    I bought a Seagate 1TB drive 6 months ago and it died on me last week. I generally stick with WD but the Seagate was on special. Oh well, nothing significant lost but still annoying. I have an old WD 250GB 7200RPM drive I bought back in 2007. Thing still hums right along.
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    Desktop Computers

    How the fuck is a brick and mortar store FAR less than NewEgg? Zero sense.
  10. ShakyJake

    Desktop Computers

    Eh, nearest Microcenter is 75 miles away and in-store only. Even still, that's a good $40-50 savings.
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    Desktop Computers

    Has anyone noticed about how often the i7-4790K go on sale? I've been watching NewEgg and Amazon for quite some time now and have yet to see them with a discount.
  12. ShakyJake

    Computer Issues

    I've suspected memory, but I've swapped it out with another pair of sticks and same issue. It's still possible the motherboard isn't properly detecting the timings of the RAM. What's odd is that the freezing only occurs during high bandwidthinternetactivity. For example, I can stream video...
  13. ShakyJake

    King of the Nerds

    Yes she should have immediately known this. Unless, I suppose, her knowledge is more about engineering than stellar dynamics. But I knew it and I'm just an armchair astronomer. This may have been my favorite season. I really enjoyed most of the challenges.
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    Computer Issues

    Weird problem: A a few weeks back I bought a replacement motherboard to use with my old AMD Phenom II 965 chip. The board is the ASUS M5A97 LE 2.0. The thing seemingly froze up randomly. I sent it back, got a replacement and this one is doing the exact same fucking thing. Previously I...
  15. ShakyJake

    The 100

    12 Monkeys.
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    Desktop Computers

    oops. wrong thread.
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    Episodes

    That's crazy!
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    The 100

    I watch Empire and it's really only for Taraji Henson since I liked her on Person of Interest. No fucking clue why the ratings are so huge. I guess it's the hip-hop shit? It's FOX's equivalent of ABC's Nashville. Hopefully CW will marathon The 100 over summer. Maybe pick up more viewers...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I do know you're not supposed to use exceptions to determine program flow. I don't see any of that, but I have witnessed huge swaths of code wrapped in try/catches. That annoys me. The problem with several of my team's engineers is that they will mindlessly hammer out dozens (literally!) of...
  20. ShakyJake

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    What's "bad programming"? I don't consider myself a mastermind or anything, but the people around me who (apparently) have way more experience are HORRIBLE coders in my opinion. And that's the thing: "In my opinion." -- I'm starting to wonder is it just me? Is it just a "style" people adopt...
  21. ShakyJake

    Justified

    "You shot me in the back!" "You wanted to get hit in the front, you should've run toward me." Gonna miss this show.
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    House of Cards

    Haha yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Dude hangs himself with her scarf like 5 feet away and she's lying there sawing logs.
  23. ShakyJake

    TV show recommendation thread

    I think a lot of American shows want to pump out a ton of episodes in order to get it into syndication. I think you need something like 60 episodes in order for it to sell into syndication.
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    TV show recommendation thread

    I really enjoyedHappy Valley. Ireallywanted to see the antagonist die a horrible, horrible death. Fucking hated that guy. Anyway, BBC One series and, as with most British shows, is very short. 6 eps and you're done. But I believe a second series has been commissioned.
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    Bates Motel

    I suspect Charlie told Norman to drive her Porche back to the motel, since she would be whoring it up with some dude later that night.
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    Bates Motel

    This is back as of last night.
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    House of Cards

    Why? Do you think he was burying a red-haired mannequin? I don't even recall the reason why hehadto kill her. I know she was Corey Stoll's call girl. But did she actuallyknowanything? Can't remember. Season was pretty 'meh'. I didn't really understand his motivation for pushing...
  28. ShakyJake

    The Last Man on Earth

    I thought the first half was mildly amusing. But I had my doubts that the show would have longevity with just Will Forte talking to Wilsons. Then Kristen Schaal showed up and things really picked up -- two years of no human contact then finally discovering another living person - only to find...
  29. ShakyJake

    The 100

    Durrr. Just realized "Ton DC" is Washington DC. Only one episode left. Hope Arlo makes things right.
  30. ShakyJake

    The Walking Dead

    If there's one thing I learned this episode is that Carol has a great smile.
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    RIP Spock. I actually liked the Voyager ending -- except the shoehorned Chakotay and Seven of Nine romance. That came out of nowhere. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't great like TNG's. But it was fun watching a future-fitted Voyager kick Borg ass.
  32. ShakyJake

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Look at those game prices! $69.99?! Remember this is back in the early 90s.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Personally, I'm now more interested in other JVM languages, such as Groovy or Scala. I've heard cool things about Groovy -- about how it removes a lot of the "gunk" you have to deal with in Java.
  34. ShakyJake

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I don't have any professional experience with Java, but I did read two giant tomes on Java 8 just recently. The impression I got was that it's very similar to C# - very easy to learn if one knows the other. Java often requires more boilerplate code to do the same thing, though (e.g. no auto...
  35. ShakyJake

    RIP Leonard Nimoy

    Damn
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    The Blacklist

    And it's really not doing too well in it's new time slot.
  37. ShakyJake

    The future, what will it hold for us?

    Oh, I'm sorry. By "future" do we just mean 5 years from now?
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    The future, what will it hold for us?

    Perhaps not the same physical body but the possibility exists for your consciousness to be "downloaded" into a new vessel.
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    The future, what will it hold for us?

    Actually, barring accidents, I can foresee us extending life indefinitely. Hell, "backing up" the contents of our brains and downloading into a new body is a frequent subject in science fiction. Of course this brings up the whole debate about the "soul" and what not, but it doesn't remove the...
  40. ShakyJake

    Mad Men

    Haha, from that season 7.5 video, they definitely look like they're in the 70s. Jessica Par? is so hot...even with those teeth.