I'm at TCAF in Toronto today! Table 105, in the first floor roundy windows! You can see my butt from the outside! Come see me! And my butt! Hurry
I'm at TCAF in Toronto today! Table 105, in the first floor roundy windows! You can see my butt from the outside! Come see me! And my butt!
198 thoughts on “Hurry”
Ana Chronistic
“hey, don’t ask questions for which you don’t want to know the answer”
Tan
She did not technically ask a question
Bash
And she certainly didn’t ask about Sal.
Nicoleandmaggie
Particularly not Danny.
Mark
She didn’t complete the question.
Needfuldoer
“Don’t ask me no questions, and I won’t tell you no lies.”
– Some guy named Lynyrd
Kazuma Taichi
I’ve learned that when people ask me questions that I’ve eventually learned trial and error that my answers are TMI for, I just respond with “are you sure that’s an answer you want”
NGPZ
Good thing it just an integer.
Floating point math is harder than undoing a bra XD
RassilonTDavros
I minored in math and I have no clue what a floating point is. I’m guessing it’s something computery?
BarerMender
It has to do with how computers handle numbers.
Dara
Ah, math minor! Good. Floating point numbers are representations of rational numbers in computing hardware. The “floating point” refers to the decimal point, because it can move around within a range of digits of precision available to the hardware.
(In theory, they’re representations of all real numbers, but since they have finite precision, they cannot represent numbers such as e or pi in a true theoretical sense; they can only store adequate approximations.)
HueSatLight
rational numbers are approximated too. And sometimes integers. Like if you have a really huge integer, it’s not going to be precise.
Dara
Yes, yes, you are technically correct, I did note the finite nature in my note on limits of precision.
Mark
Nah, if you had the time and the patience you could count all of the atoms in the universe, and then you’d have a huuuuge integer that is precise all the way to the units column.
Floating-point representation is a notation that trades precision for range by using something akin to “scientific notation” so that a small fixed-size storage element can hold (approximations of) very large numbers. See a discussion of IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic for one way of doing it.
Jamie
Here’s a video from jan misali about floating point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQhj5RGtag0
Kazuma Taichi
I was gonna find pannenkoek’s video where he tangents into floating points for a bit, but honestly having jan misali with a video strictly on the topic is a better call regardless
someone
Floating point is why sometimes computers will fail to perform math correctly.
Computers do not work with real numbers, at their core they only work with integers. Even just making them work with signed integers requires a bit of a kludge — one of the bits will be used as a sign bit. Imagine if instead of writing -10, for example, you’d write like 50000010 because by convention, “fifty million” meant “negative”.
So when you need decimal points, more kludges are needed. Floating point is how computer represent real numbers, or rather a subset of rational numbers. There’s a sign bit, as above, followed by an exponent, and finally the mantissa. The base, obviously, is base 2, not base 10 as we use in daily life.
Anyways long story short, Pi for your computer is stored as something like 13176795 * 2^-22, at least in basic floats (the “single-precision” representation, that only uses 32 bits).
clif
Floating point numbers are imaginary numbers in the sense we choose to imagine that they let computers handle real numbers.
cbwroses
I’m sure it is since I don’t even know what you’re talking about, but I used to be able to undo a bra one handed (I’m out of practice so I don’t know if I still have the skill).
NGPZ
Wow talk about a lucky break.
Floating point values are how most computer hardware store and represent decimal point values (like 6.9) in binary.
Except it’s not equal to exactly that, something more like 6.900000095
their innate imprecision is something that must be accounted for when using them for coding software including games
Dara
I’ve long kind of felt that losing processor support for BCD mathematics, while it was done for entirely understandable reasons, created enough problems that keeping it around and improving it might well’ve been worthwhile. At least in some applications.
(The fact that I’ve actually had to implement BCD mathematics a project probably ties into this. It would’ve been a lot faster with processor support, obviously.)
clif
Converting between BCD and binary is easy and fast enough that I can’t imagine what problems and applications you mean. The only place we need decimal is human compatible input and output. Now I can see a (somewhat weak) argument that we should have gone with two part rational representations in the machine, treating everything as fractions, but I’m clueless what operating in pretend decimal would have bought us. Yes, there can be some imprecision in converting between decimal and binary fractions, but the extra bits of precision not tied up in a less space efficient BCD representation more than make up for it.
thejeff
Not sure what real uses BCD has, but I still occasionally work with fixed point arithmetic when we need both defined precision and decimal values.
Dara
Arbitrarily large and exact precision mathematics is the use case. What you then want to use that for, I mean, clearly, there aren’t enough cases for people to bother keeping it around. (Or I wouldn’t’ve been tasked with writing a maths library for it.) In this case I know they were testing to 80 digits of precision but was also told they only really needed 20 most (MOST) of the time, but it _always_ needed be digit accurate.
(And one of the people involved was literally ex-NASA so I’m presuming they had sound reasons.)
I mean obviously this can be managed, the solution is bring in someone like me to write them a library. But given that sometimes you need your precision to be really precise, I’ve always been a little “shoulda kept BCD as an operations option in the processor.”
thejeff
Right. Makes sense. Fixed point gets you the precision, but doesn’t get you the arbitrarily large at the same time.
Chaucer59
Agreed. I never understood what all the fuss is about. Bras are easy to undo. All it takes is a two-finger grip and a sharp tug in the right direction.
ValdVin
“We were both clothed equally a positive
integeramount to three decimal places!”MacareuxMoine
Given the fact that the English language identifies single items of clothing by plural terms, floating point numbers wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Sharaku
Programming perspective:
2, 14, 1000 and -95737 are integers
2.1, 14.557, 1000.00 and -95737.00001 are floats
Sirksome
This friend group is weirdly open about their sexual activity. Like maybe you talk about doing it but do you really talk about other people fucking too. I wonder if Jennifer got railed today? Has Ethan been pounding lately? This is normal.
Thag Simmons
I mean contextually it doesn’t seem that weird to mention why you got kicked out of your room, although Joyce is perhaps being overly detailed about it.
furubatsu
Joyce is being Joyce in that even with her progress it still flusters her, but most people would mention they’ve been sexiled by their roommate
Taffy
Seems pretty normal to me.
Yeet
dorothy and joyce definitely have less than clear boundaries towards each other
morleuca
My friend group is definitely this open about most of life’s events, sex included. Of course a lot of have been with each other at least once or twice in the past, so we have to come up with different ways of making each other uncomfortable.
thejeff
Part of it here is just Joyce being flustered by Dorothy thinking they might have just had sex and not being able to stop thinking about Sal and Danny doing it.
Millicent Bystander
And desperately wanting to watch. (I think Joyce wants to personally observe friends having sex in order to work up her courage to try it herself some day.)
Rose by Any Other Name
Kinda depends on the friend group.
I currently belong to two very different friend groups IRL.
In one, it would be weird if we didn’t talk about our recent sexual exploits. One of the friends in that group actively streams herself having sex.
Meanwhile, the Other friend group – I don’t think we’ve ever mentioned having sex at all. The only way any of us know any of the others in that group have had sex is because we all have kids.
pope suburban
It was pretty common to let others know you’d been sexiled when I was in college. It happens, and can prevent a really awkward entry into a dorm room should the door not be locked.
Ana Chronistic
weirdly open is when we were buying condoms and a friend of ours was working the checkout
(this was before the florious advent of self-checkout)
RassilonTDavros
Seriously though, Joyce is rocking that shirt.
Agemegos
That’s more than I can say for Dorothy, whose outfit I do not care for.
Schpoonman
The sweater vest is throwing me.
Steelbright
I actually think the outfit is quite cute. I’m wondering if Dorothy decided to wear it open like that on purpose after their night out, though… she usually doesn’t show cleavage, does she? Maybe she’s trying something new.
Joyce in Joe’s shirt is really phenomenal though, ofc
bemisawa
Yeah, it’s a good shirt. I don’t recall seeing him wearing it, but it’s kind of delightfully, unnecessarily loud.
Vanessa
I thought Dorothy looked quite fetching and kind of sexy.
Rabbit
I feel like we’ve seen that shirt or a variant on it pre- tryingtobebetter joe
Needfuldoer
She’s worn it before.
clif
Thank you for your research.
Agemegos
I know, right. Does it have tank-top straps?
zee
The sweater vest/cleavage combo is hot
Jo_cubstar
Hey Willis, If you’re gonna be at 105, why is 146 circled on the map?
Taffy
My guess: To trick stupid people into visiting an unrelated booth and see how long it takes them to notice.
clif
Well, that’s what you and I would do. But Willis is likely better than that, and just used pre-existing map art so he could better use the time to lavish more loving attention on his daily gift to us, the readers.
Jo_cubstar
I’m just confused cause the circling for both tables looks similar
HueSatLight
There were also both wearing socks, like deviants.
Chaucer59
I used to think leaving your socks on during sex was kind of dorky. Then I married a woman who found it erotic. If it floats your partner’s boat, why fight it?
ValdVin
My late wife had literal (but not metaphorical) cold feet and wore socks to bed about half the year, and would leave them on during sex. Every so often I’d give her a present of cute socks. We took to calling them “sex socks”.
zee
Depends on how high the socks go. Once they reach the knee or thigh most people find that erotic.
Ophidiophile
I think socks are more footwear than clothes.
Taffy
This has the same energy as “Is soup a sandwich?” and I can’t elaborate on why.
CianM1301
I agree with the idea that socks could be considered footwear rather than clothes, since socks aren’t entirely necessary when wearing shoes (but do increase the comfort of wearing shoes), and can be worn on their own like other footwear such as slippers, sandals, etc.
But how on God’s Green Earth is soup a sandwich?
clif
Trust me, a soup sandwich tastes much better than socks.
Somewhat messy, but you can’t have everything. It wouldn’t fit on a sandwich.
thejeff
If we’re dealing with categorization why is “footwear” distinct from “clothes”?
I’d argue they’re both.
CianM1301
I would consider acceptance of being worn in public is what distinguishes footwear from clothes.
In this scenario, while socks and shoes are both footwear, shoes could be considered clothes because wearing just socks on your feet in public would be considered more unusual than wearing shoes without socks.
The same can also be applied for my former examples of slippers and sandals. While they can be worn in public, they’re not the social norm (except in specific circumstances like sandals being more acceptable to wear in coastal or beachside cities).
thejeff
Are you suggesting that shoes are clothes, but socks not?
Would this mean that underwear also aren’t clothes?
Or am I misunderstanding you completely?
Schpoonman
“Your ex’s scalding hot twin is boning your other ex.”
Yeah, not a great day to be Dorothy.
jeffepp
She has no other choice. She must seduce Sal now. It’s the only option.
Schpoonman
Hey, that was Danny’s reaction to Walky hooking up with Amber after he had broken up with Dorothy, and it worked for him.
Steelbright
OMG there’s too many parallels. Illuminati confirmed
Sajuuk-Khar
Dorothy: SAL! I demand you teach me to be a lesbian, that I may seduce Joyce!
Sal: That’s gonna be real difficult seeing’ as Ah ain’t, and Ah can prove it, in fact Ah’m provin’ it right now.
Danny: Dorothy congratulations but can we do this another time?
Michael Steamweed
Lesbianification is probably out for both of them. But bisexualization is still a possibility! Research into this is called for.
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