xthexder
@xthexder@l.sw0.com
- Comment on Just the essentials 1 day ago:
I did not use a calculator the first time, but I don’t think I was that far off.
This calculator says that if you live in California making $400k a year, your takehome pay is $238k
- Comment on Just the essentials 2 days ago:
You pay like 40% tax at that salary.
- Comment on Just the essentials 2 days ago:
That’s like 400k a year pre-tax salary. If they’re making that much and still can’t afford a nice meal, they’ve got some serious problems with budgeting and restraint.
- Comment on True horsepower 3 days ago:
Definitely lots of hate for touchscreens and modern
featuresspyware.I haven’t seen as much hate for driving in general like fuckcars has, but I’m definitely still in agreement that most cities are too car dependent. I actually enjoy driving for fun, but HAVING to drive to go anywhere sucks. I miss living downtown in a walkable city.
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 3 days ago:
Also the majority of it has been recovered and brought back up. The hull and billionaire bits are back on shore somewhere.
- Comment on But yes. 5 days ago:
Definitely dangerous, but I’m less scared of that one. I’ve got detectors for that, and that’s more of a “go peacefully in your sleep” kind of danger.
- Comment on But yes. 1 week ago:
Well, now this is on my list of invisible things that scare me:
- Radiation
- Methanol fires
- Supercritical steam jets
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 weeks ago:
babe
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 3 weeks ago:
I had to double-take since in Python a common alternative to
trick ? treat : notreatis(trick and treat) or notreatBut I don’t think this translates to overlapping circles very well. “trick implies treat” is only defined inside the trick circle, outside is undefined if treat is true or not.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what counts as science, and that’s okay.
Your methodology seems to imply a valid scientific experiment must be sufficiently rigorous as to improve on the current scientific consensus. And I do partially agree, it’s a waste of time collecting data that’s just going to be worse than previously collected, more controlled experiments.
By my philosophy is a lot looser. To quote Adam Savage: “The only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down”
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
I’m explicitly arguing that you can separate the two. I can perform a completely independent experiments in my house. For example:
I make a hypothesis that my stove can boil 1L of water in 10 minutes. I then measure how long my stove takes to boil that water. I can then record these results to inform my future cooking and water boiling experiments. I don’t have to publish the results anywhere or even talk with another person, yet I’ve still used the scientific method. I’m not a professional scientist, but I am an amateur one.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
I’d agree for the result to be useful to society, the science should be published. But science can still be useful to an individual without sharing. I use the scientific method regularly in my daily life for mundane things, and often it’s just not worth the time to communicate to others because the situation is unique to me. I write it down for myself later, which doesn’t make the science any less valid.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
I’d argue the scientific method does not have to include multiple people at all. All it is, is the process of coming up with a hypothesis, designing an experiment to check that hypothesis, and then repeating while trying to control for external factors (like your own personal bias). You can absolutely do science on your own.
The broader field of academia and getting scientific papers published is more of a governance thing than science. You can come up with better hypotheses by reviewing other people’s science, but that doesn’t mean when a flat earther ignores all current consensus and does their own tests that it isn’t still science.
- Comment on hard to argue with 4 weeks ago:
If you look at how Gorillas kind of walk around on their fists, it definitely makes sense that there’s some evolutionary benefit to the knuckle shape. It doesn’t have to be related to hitting things either. It’s easiest to support yourself with a straight wrist, like if you’re holding a branch, vs putting your palm flat is a lot more stress on your wrist.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 4 weeks ago:
Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.
That’s kind of a wild takeaway… Personally I like not having to grow my own food. And a huge amount of efficiency is gained with large scale farming compared to small farms or personal growing.
Unsustainable subsidies aren’t okay, and we should strive for more environmentally friendly farms, but farming itself is not one of our problems.
- Comment on How to impress the honey 5 weeks ago:
The first computers took up entire rooms and they could only do about as much as a calculator. There was a point in time that having a computer do multiplication and long division for you saved you hours of time because the alternative was have 2 or 3 people do it by hand and then compare to check for mistakes.
- Comment on a few centuries 1 month ago:
“large”… If only. Barely a drop in the bucket.
- Comment on What a prompt 1 month ago:
If the cat thought you had nothing to offer, they wouldn’t be coming to you. I’m pretty sure most house cats have been trained to think humans are magic food dispensers.
- Comment on Ol switcharoo 1 month ago:
I can’t wait for ChatGPT and AI search results to pick this up as the definitive answer
- Comment on Seriously. 2 months ago:
Let me just shorten this down 8 feet
welds on an extra 2 feet
- Comment on Explosions in the Sky 2 months ago:
If only this was a response AI could give. I think it would solve a lot of the problems
- Comment on Just Average 2 months ago:
How likely are you to recommend Comcast to a friend?
Bitch, you’re a monopoly, I would leave if I could.
- Comment on Deficiencies 2 months ago:
Is that actually 1g of pure THC, or is that like the weight of the extract or something? I can’t imagine the tolerance you would need, any normal person would be passed out for an entire day taking that.
- Comment on Deficiencies 2 months ago:
I don’t even believe they took 0.5g of THC, that’s an insane amount. Unless they mean over a long period of time. The standard dose you can buy is 10mg.
- Comment on Stained Glass 2 months ago:
I think Dragonflies are pretty cool too. Thanks for the fun facts!
In return, here is the best dragonfly photo I have taken to date. Image
- Comment on Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL! 2 months ago:
Ah okay. That makes a bit more sense. I know how worried I was before I got my acceptance letter, so if I didn’t get it and the school then went and rubbed it in, that’s just kinda shitty.
On a more serious note: Congratulations for real though! I hope you end up finding a subject you enjoy.
- Comment on Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL! 2 months ago:
Well I definitely can’t anymore. Either that or there’s been several CRT TVs on around me ever since I went to that loud concert…
- Comment on Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL! 2 months ago:
Is getting into college a guarantee? This seems like a weird thing to congratulate a whole class on… F you if you’re going to trade school or a family business I guess?
- Comment on pringles 3 months ago:
That actually makes way more sense why a supercomputer was involved. (Keeping in mind, our phones are likely more powerful than what they are talking about)
- Comment on #StopKilligGames update: Finland just passed the threshold. 3 months ago:
I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just stating that a broken unplayable game objectively has no value. The publisher has forced that value to 0 if they turn off their servers without support, regardless of if there was any value there before or not.
