ook_the_librarian
@ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
It was stupid to use a kids show as an example. That episode aired in 2002. Only a small slice of people born 1980 to 2000 would care.
The other examples had an audience with a much wider age range.
- Comment on I can't argue with his point. 11 months ago:
And yet theyehad purple onions. Curious.
- Comment on Portal Paradox 11 months ago:
That’s only in direction of motion. The height still won’t fit. Of course, all hell breaks loose if they touch even if they don’t pass all the way through.
- Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled? 11 months ago:
Also, you only decompile to level of basic instructions that the processor understands. When you compile code to add two numbers, well, the processor only adds bytes. There are a quite a few steps that the compiler has to fill in.
Ok, all that is not a big deal. But then you deal with compiler optimization. Optimizing basically tells the compiler to take its time and find some clever ways to save machine steps. So now the “standard way” for a compiler to implement adding numbers may have other stuff rolled into it because the compiler may see an opportunity to save steps in a seemly unrelated calculation by inserting steps into the addition it is implementing. Now it’s basically unrecognizable. A human didn’t write, and wouldn’t have written that mess that the decompiler gives.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 11 months ago:
He’s 2 dimensional. There is no delta P.
- Comment on How is it possible that a laptop can read a CD flawlessly, but every other device I've tried the CD on skips at certain parts? 11 months ago:
I don’t really know. I suspect they might have error correction codes of differing sophistication. Even if that’s not right here is a cool video on Hamming codes anyway.
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
That negative number comes from taking a logarithm of a number less than one. Not from a negative scalar.
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
None of those scales have negative scalars.
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
It’s the only way this meme makes sense. It’s a complaint that humans don’t like the average of the temperates that produce the feelings of extreme hot and extreme cold. You’d have to change math, change physiology, or lose linearity.
- Comment on Ohio attorney suspended for throwing poop filled Pringles can 11 months ago:
Well I feel a bit better about America seeing how my mind added the word “general” after “attorney” and I still wasn’t that surprised.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 11 months ago:
instantly hits a nerve in my head
Agreed. But, it is supposed to. We are wired for it.
[Facetious content warning: cheesy “as a parent” talk] Having a kid completely changed how the wires hit your empathy-center. The fact something you love inexplicably more than anything makes that sound, is looking at you for relief, and then you provide it (sometimes), it changes you. And other people’s babies don’t really bother you anymore. It fires up a different nerve center.
When I hear parents apologize to strangers about their baby and they get the response “it’s ok, I’m a parent, too.”, I take it as shorthand that they mean “our brains have been rewired too. We get it. So if your baby cries, we’ll just frown with our bottom lip way down. We don’t know why. There is no control anymore. The wires, they’re all fucked up. Oh god why? Will I ever be normal again?”. Then they catch themselves, and hide that instant of self-awareness by cooing at the baby. Tale as old as time.
- Comment on If someone pleads not guilty in court and is then found guilty of the crime anyway, does perjury get added to the list of crimes as well? 11 months ago:
Plus prosecutors don’t want to hold another trial (because that is what is required) if they already proved what they wanted to.
They will (likely) only charge perjury if you fuck up a third party’s trial or if your lies are provable and got you off the hook otherwise.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 11 months ago:
You had a Sudden Clarity Clarence moment, but you don’t think in memes.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
Realize that when you are in a group of people, the (set-theoretic) intersection of knowledge only decreases as you add members. But you are likely to assign individual ignorances to the group as whole. “He doesn’t know this; she doesn’t know that” equates to “these people don’t know anything”.
- Comment on Electrician job 11 months ago:
I like gifs that end with a twist.
- Comment on we're still trying to figure out if they go to the same floor or not. 1 year ago:
Ah. So, P≠NP, but NP=F. This elevator is inside an atom.
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 1 year ago:
You know if they changed a meter to equal a yard, they would have to change what an amp is. Americans use amps. So it just bites us in the ass anyway.
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 1 year ago:
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 1 year ago:
Like I’m going two weld two dimes into a cross for the screw slot when I have a wrench already.
- Comment on She broke it so she could baguette properly.... 1 year ago:
Ha. I don’t think I even read the title. I didn’t even see the pun until I read your comment. So I’m glad you cited your source.
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 1 year ago:
In our world, the lack of split screen was a feature. It was less co-op as in play together, in more like play as a team. We enjoy fighting about meaningless stuff like whether to collect studs or whether to hurry along. I’d imagine if I tried playing with a sibling, there would be blood.
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 1 year ago:
Cool. Actually, if you remember, could let me know how that goes? (provided that you in fact try it.) I haven’t tried that one.
- Comment on Analog problems require kickass solutions 1 year ago:
Relevant xkcd alt-text 841.
For years, I took the wrong lesson from that Monster Cable experiment and only listened to my music through alligator-clipped coat hangers.
- Comment on I bet Rockstar is thinking twice about *checks notes* making a normal looking female character. 1 year ago:
I know it’s not relevant here, but since we’re talking globe etiquette: if your graphic of a globe shows New Zealand, be sure to shop it out to not reveal its location. At least cover it with a spoiler tag.
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 1 year ago:
My partner and I like to play the Lego games together. Lego Star Wars (2005ish) was a favorite, but the newer ones are fun too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Right, the true cost of the plastic isn’t something a business has to pay. They buy straws by the gross for pennies and there is no disposal fee.
The disposal problem isn’t free but no restaurant would willingly pay one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Except any annoying kitchen task that can solved by specialized but not crazy expensive equipment will be.
Like, I don’t think a kitchen would bother trying to automate silverware rolling. (I just looked it up. Equipment exists, but not published prices. I’ve seen pleny of staff doing by hand though.) I have, however, seen a thing that looked like 4 mini vertically spinning carwash-spinning-pole-of-towels thingies that bartenders were using to wipe the insides of glasses. (I just looked that up too. I think I found the model for $810 US.) No one would have that in their home, but not many people use any sort of straw at home.
So what I’m saying is that a specialized dishwasher for durable steel straws doesn’t seem hard to design or expensive to manufacturer. I feel OP was hoping for more innovation.
- Comment on They knew all the wicked hits 1 year ago:
These guys had nothing on the Showbiz Pizza Gang.
- Comment on They knew all the wicked hits 1 year ago:
It’s Charles Entertainment Cheese to the rest.
- Comment on At some point, you start to forget how old you are 1 year ago:
I don’t understand. Are you saying you born in 20(-04)?
