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- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 2 weeks ago:
The think the objection is that this is specifically targeted at women, and it’s something that someone might be self conscious about.
“Free coffee to shortest/tallest/skinniest/fattest man” would be also be offensive IMHO, because it’s singling out people for a trait for which they maybe don’t want to be singled out.
Crude humor is great, if all parties are in on the joke; I believe the point that parent was making was that all parties are not necessarily in on the joke.
- Comment on Jesus gets the job done 3 weeks ago:
I once took a Lyft and the push alert was, “Look for Jesus in a white Toyota Camry.”
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 5 weeks 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 month 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 month ago:
No doubt related to Johnson noise.
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
(…I think you may have gotten whooshed…)
- Comment on Planck units 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s missing the text, “…then the Planck X would be…” for the first two.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months 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 2 months ago:
And a big plastics shill, unfortunately.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 2 months 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 months ago:
Pretty sure those “horrible little scalawags” play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome…
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 3 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] 3 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 3 months ago:
Awesome, thanks for the detailed answer!
- Comment on Anon goes camping 3 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! 3 months ago:
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 3 months ago:
In my head it was definitely Cave.
- Comment on Devices (fanmade, obviously) 3 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 3 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. 3 months ago:
Because not all humans strive for honor.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 3 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 3 months ago:
I just wish they made toddler clothes in my size.
- Comment on Held back no longer 3 months ago:
Do you still start in 1st? Do you skip gears?
- Comment on Technically the truth 3 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).