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- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 3 days ago:
Maybe in the before times, but with the LA residents’ response to the fascist in chief, I think most of us in San Francisco are honored to share the state, and be confused with, Angelenos.
Just keep the Dodger’s in SoCal. This is the Giants’ city.
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
California doesn’t allow “use it or lose it” vacation policies. Vacation rolls over up to a reasonable amount, which apparently isn’t super well defined, but my employers have generally set a limit of 2x annual.
- Comment on Eh close enough 1 week ago:
No doubt related to Johnson noise.
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 2 weeks ago:
I am becoming increasingly more appreciative of the fact that I have root access to “my” company provided work device.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 3 weeks ago:
99 what you did there…
(I know, IC isn’t valid Roman numeral representation of 99, but it was the only joke I could think of.)
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s not an X at the end, it’s a Greek chi. Same with the arXiv preprint distribution — it’s “archive,” not are-ex-iv.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 4 weeks ago:
(…I think you may have gotten whooshed…)
- Comment on Planck units 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s missing the text, “…then the Planck X would be…” for the first two.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 5 weeks ago:
npr.org/…/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-roc…
You’re not just “sticking it to the man” when you do this though — you’re being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 1 month ago:
And a big plastics shill, unfortunately.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Pretty sure those “horrible little scalawags” play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome…
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Awesome, thanks for the detailed answer!
- Comment on Anon goes camping 2 months 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! 2 months ago:
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 2 months ago:
In my head it was definitely Cave.
- Comment on Devices (fanmade, obviously) 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months ago:
Because not all humans strive for honor.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I just wish they made toddler clothes in my size.
- Comment on Held back no longer 2 months ago:
Do you still start in 1st? Do you skip gears?
- Comment on Technically the truth 2 months 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 months 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 months 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?).