The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

sloosecannon · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

frist deuce

JBert · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

This challenge is not about being the first though, this time it's endurance.

RFoxmich · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

Judging by the <!--'s TRWTF is Pennsylvania.

rc4 · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

RFoxmich:
TRWTF is ~~Pennsylvania~~Belgium

FTFY

jkshapiro · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

31 dice in play is enough for anyone.

B. Gates :trolleybus:

operagost · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

I think 31 dice in play is quite enough for most people, especially given the caltrap-like properties of d4s.

Indeed. Perhaps the mage only gets to roll a puny 1d4 in melee, but when the DM gets back from the bathroom he's going to find a surprise on his seat.

operagost · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

Indeed. Only special interests, like the restaurant workers' union (of which the state store workers are members), support the status quo. The majority wants to get rid of the state stores and most of the even dumber restrictions on beer sales, but is utterly disenfranchised.

Zylon · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

Today brings us the fifth and final entry about the Lucky Deuce.

And there was much rejoicing.

Ghandi · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

Using more modern, terse language to get the same thing done.

class DieEnumerator : Die {
    public DieEnumerator(int faces, Random randSource) : base(faces, randSource) {
        Current = 1;
    }

    public int Current { get; private set; }
    public bool Overflow { get; private set; }

    public void Next() {
        Overflow = false;
        if (++Current == faces + 1) {
            Current = 1;
            Overflow = true;
        }
    }
}

Vaire · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

Zylon:
Today brings us the fifth and final entry about the Lucky Deuce.
And there was much rejoicing.

Seriously. I don't care if the site runs a contest, but I do care if the contest takes the place of the articles, a.k.a. the main reason I come to the site.

herby · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

It seems to me that the "Infragistics bonus" is just another "comp". So, how do I get a new computer comped to me. Maybe if I write a program that is sold at some "app store" that the house (which always wins) runs (keeping a small percentage). So, the house needs to calculate the anticipated sales and comp accordingly.

Very enterprisey!

dkf · 2015-09-02 Reply Admin

a state where you can’t even buy beer in grocery stores

Wait, is that a ~~thing~~ place? Not even the weak stuff that's less than 5% alcohol?

Forgotmylogin1 · 2015-09-03 Reply Admin

I think I missed the point of the problem. I thought we were supposed to present analogues for 2,3,7,11,12 in more general dice configurations so the win probabilities worked out in a realistic way for an actual casino game. I derived general expressions for bet success odds and spent an hour trying to come up with useable estimates for the messy dice probability functions I found on Wolfram Mathworld before I decided this was too much effort for a weekend.

HardwareGeek · 2015-09-03 Reply Admin

RFoxmich:
Judging by the <!--'s TRWTF is Pennsylvania. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>Huh. I didn't even notice. The first thing I do when I see a @Remy article is run a bookmarklet that makes HTML comments visible, but then I saw this was about the contest, and didn't bother reading past the first paragraph.</p>

anotherusername · 2015-09-03 Reply Admin

My greasemonkey script never forgets...

ScholRLEA · 2015-09-03 Reply Admin

jkshapiro:
31 dice in play is enough for anyone.- B. Gates

He's obviously never played in a HERO System campaign.

Dan_Neely · 2015-09-05 Reply Admin

It gets more WTF. About 4.5 years ago we elected a governor who campaigned in part on dismantling the state booze monopoly and whose party also had full control of both halves of the state legislature. It turned out that while he was an excellent grandstander (which served well in his last job as state attorney general); he had no clue how to negotiate with legislators to get anything passed. As a result after 4 years during which the house and senate bickered over how big of a nuke they wanted to drop on the state stores without actually agreeing with each other on anything. For his sins, the useless bastard ended up the only governor to ever lose re-election for a second term and we still have the most Utarded booze laws this side of SLC.

RFoxmich · 2015-09-08 Reply Admin

Can't be as bad as a state who's first letter is C and last letter is t. I remember on 8pm Saturday night having to drive across the state line to New York to buy alcohol. There were stores there that were lit up like casinos in Vegas.

dkf · 2015-09-08 Reply Admin

RFoxmich:
There were stores there that were lit up like casinos in Vegas.

That reminds me of going to a border crossing between Sweden and Norway. This small town on the Swedish side had gone absolutely crazy selling cigarettes and alcohol; even the doctor's surgery had a sign out advertising that they were selling those two products.

Blame the Norwegian government's luxury taxation policy. :smile:

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