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- Comment on That's me 33 minutes ago:
I just wish they made toddler clothes in my size.
- Comment on Held back no longer 1 day ago:
Do you still start in 1st? Do you skip gears?
- Comment on Technically the truth 1 day ago:
Left pedal looks more like a dead pedal to me.
And as others have said, change in direction is still acceleration. That’s part of Newton’s (apocryphal?) apple story — he witnessed an apple falling, and wondered why the moon doesn’t also fall. His amazing insight is that it does fall (accelerate), it’s just that it falls in such a way that it orbits, rather than hits, the Earth (for timescales relevant to a human).
- Comment on Misunderstood the assignment… 2 days ago:
“Can you hold it” was meant as “abstain from pooping for just a little longer,” but was instead interpreted as, “poop, and then hold the poop in your hands.”
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 days ago:
If you lose power, you can use one of these cables to power your house (or at least, the part of your house on that phase).
This is not how you should do this, but it can work. It is not a good idea (possibly illegal?).
- Comment on *play imagine being sung by random white celeb* 3 days ago:
You said that no one…
I don’t think that was the parent commenter though…
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
You experience the passage of time as ever increasing in speed, and before long the universe has died, leaving you — immortal and sentient — alone in the cold, dead cosmos, for eternity.
- Comment on There's a spider in my bathroom 4 days ago:
Most of the time that leads to them dying.
Well, squishing has a 100% chance of them dying. With a toddler and a baby, having them run loose sadly isn’t an option.
We live in a very mild climate, and there’s under-deck and fence space around our house, in addition to bushes, trees, and underbrush — fairly suitable for a variety of arachnids. It’s not the same as indoors, and survival rate certainly isn’t 100%, but it’s not the death sentence of going from a climate controlled house to below-freezing outdoors.
- Comment on There's a spider in my bathroom 4 days ago:
Because I can trap mine in a jar and take it outside instead.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 5 days ago:
I think large planes “look” like they can’t work because their “relative speed” is really low — that is, their speed relative to their length. We’re used to seeing birds cover tens of lengths per second, whereas a large airliner covers ~1ish per second at takeoff.
Or not, but this always seemed like a plausible explanation as to why planes look impossible. (Though given that hovering birds don’t look funny, maybe this is a silly observation…).
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 2 weeks ago:
That…is not how most people view breaks. Especially if you’re into sports, which a pretty large chunk of the world is (just a hunch, but I’m guessing you’re not).
- Comment on Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jesus? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:
“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: ‘Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church.”
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 2 weeks ago:
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it. - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I just wish we’d have neither inflation nor deflation.
Some tech has followed this pattern. For example: entry level Mac laptop in ~2000 was the iBook, priced at $1599 ($3k+ in today’s dollars). The current entry level Mac laptop (M4 Air) starts at $999 — cheaper in absolute dollars, and way cheaper in relative dollars.
(Macs are just an example since Apple doesn’t have a very extensive product list, so there’s only one “entry level” laptop to choose from. And yes it’s fair to ask if the relative specs have just gotten worse, but I think this is also the opposite — the iBook was iirc criticized as being underpowered, whereas the M4 Air is afaik well regarded.)
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 3 weeks ago:
I am the Walrus?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, TIL — thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Books has become e-books.
To some extent — but have you been to a hip bookstore recently? They exist, and are very much alive.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Cashless requires power all the way from PoS to wherever the servers live.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 3 weeks ago:
It makes for a mean cappuccino, and is environmentally much, much lower impact.
- Comment on To whom it may concern 4 weeks ago:
I could be wrong but I think these are prepaid, not paid on receipt…
- Comment on It's a fun new game 4 weeks ago:
CC “debt” that’s paid off in full every month is debt in the same sense that eating at a typical restaurant puts you in debt.
Don’t get me wrong, unmanageable CC debt is a real thing, but that’s not what we’re talking about.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
A lot of non-graphical utilities — basically the *NIX coreutils, plus stuff like rsync, ssh, compression/archival tools (tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.), grep, and the like. Git also comes to mind.
I think part of this is that the UNIX philosophy is “developer friendly” — tell a good dev they need to make a compression utility that follows this protocol, and they will make a compression utility that follows the protocol.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 1 month ago:
It’s not all bad — remote work policy is now a major topic. You’d be laughed out of any number of job interviews for asking about remote work policy, whereas now it’s a completely fair question.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 month ago:
Having a CC doesn’t mean you have debt…
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 1 month ago:
“Why the HELL should I have to press 2 for English?”
— bumper sticker I would see on my bike commute back in the day.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 1 month ago:
With coherent detection I think the separation between eyes would allow for this.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 1 month ago:
Except that this problem doesn’t specify distance between horseman, so I think it’s a bit bogus — no.need to resolve an individual person to be able to tell that they’re there. And for hair color, if you make assumptions about the clothes being worn, you could perhaps infer color of hair, even if the hair isn’t resolvable (a person being a “single pixel” would have a different hue depending).
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 1 month ago:
Dipoles are, effectively, not — so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.
The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 month ago:
This is the real big brain hack with decibels — you can use a linear scale, it’s just that the units are logarithmic instead.
- Comment on Security Breaches Can Be Fixed. People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted. 1 month ago:
This sounds like something Gowron would say…