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- Comment on Dolph is prime human 2 days ago:
And a big plastics shill, unfortunately.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 2 days ago:
Move ‘em 2 millimeters in the wrong direction and you’ll have a bad time
Are you referring to getting, I dunno, yogurt in places outside the digestive tract?
My understanding was that gut bacteria play a pretty crucial (beneficial) role in overall health, not to mention the whole gut-brain stuff.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 2 days ago:
Pretty sure those “horrible little scalawags” play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome…
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 2 days ago:
Or just a San Francisco resident — these ads are everywhere on BART (+Muni?) right now. (As far as ads go, they’re pretty good I guess — and no, I don’t even use them, much less work for them.)
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
For back-of-the-envelope or mental calculations, pi is often 3 or 10^(1/2).
The latter is better than 1% accurate, and has nice properties when doing order-of-magnitude/log space calculations in base 10.
- Comment on As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave 2 weeks ago:
Not parent, but when a minute isn’t quite enough, 77 seconds might do the trick. Multiples of eleven are quick to enter, and with a simple number with no “minute” button, 66s is easier than 1:00.
- Comment on Hell 4 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it’s in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.
If social anxiety is a factor, that’s a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, though it looks like the cyan (which would be ~500nm) is actually false color UV image, judging by the same color scale as this www.nasa.gov/…/5-3-2024_sdo_x1pt6_flare_131/
- Comment on Held back no longer 4 weeks ago:
Awesome, thanks for the detailed answer!
- Comment on Anon goes camping 4 weeks ago:
Sawyer filter inline with a camelback is awesome. I’d just fill up my camelback in a stream using a (clean) handkerchief to get the large debris out and then let the filter do the rest.
- Comment on this is my hole! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 4 weeks ago:
In my head it was definitely Cave.
- Comment on Devices (fanmade, obviously) 4 weeks ago:
Some numbers are missing…[due to] out of memory error.
The S7+ seems to have 6 or 8GB RAM, but the iPhone 7 only has 2, yet it seems the iPhone ran the test and the S7+ didn’t. I wonder if the iOS implementation is that much better, or Android isn’t set up with any swap, or…?
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 4 weeks ago:
“Full term” pregnancy is ~40w from last menstrual period, or ~38w from conception. There are ~4.345 weeks/month, putting full term at ~8.75 to ~9.2 months. Note the 9.2 months includes ~2 weeks before fertilization.
- Comment on Today is June 1st, the start of Pride Month. This scene from "Blood Oath" weighs heavily on my mind. 4 weeks ago:
Because not all humans strive for honor.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 4 weeks ago:
People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that’s neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don’t see what all the fuss is about.
- Comment on That's me 5 weeks ago:
I just wish they made toddler clothes in my size.
- Comment on Held back no longer 5 weeks ago:
Do you still start in 1st? Do you skip gears?
- Comment on Technically the truth 5 weeks 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… 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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* 5 weeks ago:
You said that no one…
I don’t think that was the parent commenter though…
- Comment on Let's play this game again 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Because I can trap mine in a jar and take it outside instead.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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.)