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I know! Stoopink question. But, yes, I've looked.
Basically, I have a tip/trick I want to share which isn't enough for an article. So how do I do that?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Articles Menu -> Post your Article or Tip -> Change the dropdown to Tip/Trick.
Not that hard, eh?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Nope. Funny I had just found it there. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's useful information.
You should post it in the ti..
I know: Shut up, Mark!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Shut up, Mark!
Please don't. I've caught myself swifting through threads, and getting excited by just reading your name because I knew that there's something funny to come.
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Funny?!?
Me?!?
WTF?!?
I am never less than perfectly serious and sober, you insulting ratbag!
The very idea!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I am never less than perfectly serious and sober, you insulting ratbag!
Yeah, sure 
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Submit a new Article[^]
Pick 'Tip/Trick' at 'Post your:' and hit 'Start writing'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX
We probably all heard about it... And I'm not asking you to look the math up in Google, but I would like to have a good verbal explanation of it... Mostly about the paradox thing...
I'm specially interested in 23 - does it a special number in any way? Does it mean, that after passing the age 23, half of the people will celebrate their birthday on the same day I do?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 8-Mar-17 15:35pm.
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Because if the answer was 42 (the right answer), a year would be about 1270-some days, and that's WAAAY too long.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Exactly my problem... As the ultimate answer is 42, how that the maths say 23?! Something have to be wrong, but I can't find it... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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There's nothing special about 23, and it's certainly not a paradox; it's just the number where it is statistically 50-50 likely/unlikely.
40 is the point where it becomes statistically unlikely that there won't be* two people with the same birthday.
Probability calculation is easy; you'll pick it up in minutes. Try working the numbers yourself.
* It's better to work it out that way around, e.g. you could say that an intersection is an absolute certainty if there are 366 people, but that's not very useful -- you have to look into how unlikely it is that there would be only one intersection.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The R channel of my circa 1981 Sony Walkman headphones[^] just died. 
I'm devastated.
/ravi
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I have a similar pair to those to go with my unused Walkman from about the same time. 
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I have a replacement somewhere... but you know the thing with supply and demand 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Brand new model available on EBay[^] for $20. Too bad the seller won't ship to Canada. And it's not worth the hassle to have him ship to NY state and drive across the border. 
/ravi
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Still under warranty? 
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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/ravi
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Just be grateful that they died before they installed a rootkit in your brain.
... Or did they?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: 1981
Dude, you got your money's worth.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Dude, you got your money's worth.
Yes, I suppose so. Things tend to last with me.
One of my cars (driven daily) is a little over 25 years old (I bought her new in '91). My Black & Decker toaster oven is 26 years old and works perfectly, as does my circa '91 Casio watch[^]. Almost all my furniture (Scandinavian teak) is also more than 25 years and still looks good. I don't recall ever buying an extended warranty.
/ravi
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Clearly, you have the gift of longevity. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Yes, I think my brother and I were both brought up this way (preserve and protect).
/ravi
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