psycotica0

@psycotica0@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the deal with IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I’ve been in math, computer science, and computer programming for 20 years in English (Canada) and I’ve never heard “denary”. It’s cute, but never once heard anyone say it. So they’re not interchangeable to me 😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are getting paid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could check out “FAR: Lone Sails”. It’s a pretty chill game where you have a machine that you’re sailing/driving through platforming actions to the right. It has cinematic feel and a kind of environmental plot, but I don’t think there’s any way to lose or anything…

  And if you like it, there’s a sequel “FAR: Changing Tides” that is very similar, but longer and with a more complicated machine to manage.

  I could see people being bored with it, there are “puzzles” but they’re super light, but maintaining the machine scratches something within me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depluralize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A Single Extraordinary Gentleman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depluralize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dirty Individual

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depluralize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scott Pilgrim vs Himself

  ~(which actually is kinda accurate)~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depluralize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Only Element

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are better than people and unfortunately die so young compared to us⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t shit, you’re shit!

  ~Muhfuckin shitpost my ass…~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coping mechanisms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m expecting too much from a shitpost… or maybe it’s an accent thing, but for me “cope-in-hay-again” doesn’t sound a lot like how I say Copenhagen…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yours is, I think, the only account I check in on by name on this platform. I’ll sometimes be like “what’s that wild girlie cookin’ today”!

  So, like, don’t keep posting just for me if it’s not fun anymore, but block the haters and keep cruisin’!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the timing of this post, being right after the “I just had my first 3some” one. I like to imagine you finish getting plowed and being like “wow, that was amazing”, and then one of the guys being like “oh, you think that was amazing? You know what’s amazing is these pandas with bucket on their heads” and then the other guy being like “yo, after that there’s this great video I’ve got to show you” and squishing you in the middle and you’re like “nooooooooooo…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forensic Poetry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m confused about the current state of things, but I thought we weren’t 100% sure Will Shakespeare was even a real guy, or a single guy, but now we’re testing residue off the inside of a clay pipe we know was his and attributing plays to that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tuff enuff⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics tends to treat numbers as inputs, outputs, and sometimes constants which are also inputs, but more like calibration to make the math describe our world. Like, c could have any value and the math would be math, but in our universe there’s a particular value that produces useful outputs and all others don’t. So we use that one.

  As for whether or not it’s worth studying, I think that depends on you. Basically no physicist in the last 50 years does any real calculating in their head. We have tools for that, and they do a fine job. So if you can’t memorize your multiplication tables, who cares. Not important.

  But the reasoning part is important. The problem solving part of figuring out how to put pieces together, or how to model something, is important, and also is a skill and mindset. Also, what I didn’t cover is algebra, which is a set of rules for transforming an input into an output, transforming one tool into another, while keeping all the relationships intact. Still not numbers, but again, it is a mindset. Like a language, you have to learn it and become adept at it, and it takes practice to get used to it. And that is very important.

  So! The good news is there’s nothing stopping you! You can lookup a list of, like, highschool physics equations and constants, some highschool problems, and see if you can get some answers! Use a calculator, use Excel, whatever! Play around with stuff, get a feel for how it handles. The numbers aren’t the interesting part, the equations are, and how they’re used. For you, the numbers will just be something you punch in at the end to see if you got your reasoning right.

  So yeah, give it a shot, there are no rules, and try not to get discouraged! 😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Friend 🫂⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man’s leggiest tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tuff enuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Math, or at least this part of it, is all about relationships between values. Let’s ignore numbers for a bit. If you take a long stick and put a big rock under it, then when you move your side of the stick down, the other side will move up. And if you were to measure how much you moved your side versus how much the other side moved, you’d notice that unless you put the rock right in the dead middle, the other side would move a different amount. This isn’t because something is magically making this happen, it just a property of the construction of your system. The other side just does move more or less, and it’s different depending on where the pivot point is.

  Similarly, if you have two gear wheels with different numbers of teeth, and you mesh them together, and you turn one and count how many times you’ve turned it, and also count how far the other one has turned, you’ll find a relationship there too! And again, this relationship is just built into the way these objects interact. It’s just the way this system works.

  Okay, so, stay with me now, saying y = 2x + 5 is the same. It’s defining a relationship, it’s building a system that’s says the value we’re calling “y”, chosen arbitrarily it could be any name, is always twice as big as “x” (also chosen arbitrarily), and then 5 more than that. It’s a system we’ve built, just like the levers or gears, that produces a relationship we want to express for some reason. And you can put them together in any way, and they’ll always describe some relationship, even if it’s not a useful one.

  Now, people have spent hundreds of years, depending on how you want to count, trying to find relationships that also happen to have predictive power. They’ve built systems where the relationship between “d” and “t” is modeled to be the same as the relationship between “the distance that rock flew from me” and “the time since I threw that rock”. And what’s nice about finding these relationships is that now that you know what the relationship is, now that you’ve built the system of levers and pulleys and gears that turn in just the right way, you can start guessing about the rocks before you even throw them, because this relationship you’ve got on the page is similar to the one you’ve seen in real life with the rock and the stopwatch.

  Once you’ve got a bunch of these, picking the right one and combining them because more like a puzzle or a maze. I’ve got these things I know, like the weight of the rock, and the size of the Earth, and how stiff the metal in the spring I’m using to launch this thing is. And I’m trying to figure out its top speed. And I’ve got a bag of relationships I know are battle-tested. So all I have to do now is start finding relationships that depend on stuff I know to get me stuff I don’t know. And if I can link them together like a Rube Goldberg machine, I can figure out something I didn’t know using this one relationship, which is handy because this other relationship I’d quite like to use needed that thing I didn’t know before but do now.

  And so I can work through a chain of relating things to things until I can get to the point where I have enough to use one of the relationships I do know that predicts speed. And once I’ve got that, I’m done! I trust the relationships I’ve used, presumably I used them properly and didn’t make any dumb mistakes, and so I followed a chain of things I knew, through tools that used those things, to tools that used the things the other tools produced, until I found a path to my goal.

  The only thing stopping you from there is the complexity of the relationship, the accuracy of the relationship to the real situation, and how accurately you can measure the things you know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨phonetic alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, so L could be “lead”!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨phonetic alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nevermind” or “Next” would be pretty good.

  L could maybe be “Lagos” because there’s two cities named that and they’re pronounced differently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say “isn’t Motorola owned by Google though?”, but then I looked it up. They’re owned by Lenovo. But they were owned by Google! In 2014, which is 12 years ago and I’m going to go crumble to dust now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this keeps happening⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  violet08: Something something if they like stress, the rockclimbers should come climb me.

  Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here until I’m not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hmmm, I’m going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but I don’t wear shoes in my own home. I’m not asking them to do anything I’m not doing. I’d also like them to not piss in my plants, despite them being a guest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, sometimes we’ll be in the grocery store, and my wife will look at something that clearly says $7.99 and she’ll say “oh it’s only seven dollars”. Every time. I can’t believe how well that works on her. If I didn’t like her so much, I don’t know if I could handle it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was pretty expensive then too. He’d already done the Star Treks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Luke, I am your *second* father"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And in a roundabout, indirect sense, Darth Vader did kill Uncle Owen. He just might not even know it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thank you fb⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention, given the labels on that one map, they seem to think Google satellite view is, like, a live camera feed from space or something they just overlay roads and borders and stuff onto?

  And that it would mean anything at all for the map to just suddenly have a big snake in it unexpectedly…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was like “haha, that’s funny” and then accidentally spent like 10 minutes finding stuff because I was curious where the binoculars could be. So… thanks I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too late⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chatta-newfy-doofy-poopy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right!? It’d be like if you were eating a banana and you just threw the peel away. It’s against nature!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Challenge accepted⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!