Wolf314159
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- Comment on woag 2 days ago:
What a convincing argument. I didn’t realize you had the authority to just decide.
- Comment on woag 2 days ago:
It’s an optical illusion. By definition their isn’t generally anything YOU would call erroneous about any optical illusion, I’d guess. The fact that the text is difficult bordering on impossible to read at some angles is the perceptual error. Stop ignoring obvious interpretations to support your pedantic trolling.
- Comment on woag 3 days ago:
That’s an unhelpfully restrictive definition of illusion that is itself illusory. An illusion is also:
A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
The text is hidden or revealed through a change in perspective. That is the illusion.
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 3 days ago:
Kink shaming is the real mental illness.
- Comment on Number 6 1 week ago:
How is a zig-zag numbering any less valid than any other method? Your mapping a two dimensional space with what is essentially a line. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense for there to be discontinuities in the numbering, as one would have to do if the numbers always incremented in the same direction. Would you prefer that the numbers follow the path of a Hilbert Curve?
To answer your question though, surveyors have been using this method to number sections of land for much longer than you or I have been alive.
- Comment on TFW you open a 160MB math textbook 1 week ago:
Because vector graphics take up much less space. That’s the joke.
Now I’m going to put the joke out of it’s misery.
Most of the illustrations, formula, tables etc. in a math book could be vector graphics, most of them were in 90% of the upper level math text books I’ve ever had, usually in only 2 colors. Many math formulas can be represented and formatted directly using only Tex or LaTex. Mostly physics and math involving more than two dimensions would have more raster images, even color. But it’s not like the publishers are going to be handing out PDFs with original vector graphics embedded. That would make high quality knockoffs trivial.
- Comment on lagomorphs 1 week ago:
Thumper (Bambi) is a rabbit.
Hazel (Watership down) is a hare.
- Comment on Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a Masterpiece, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an Indulgence 2 weeks ago:
Same reason anyone has played any of the thousands of games that predate “the cloud” or games that don’t even have a save feature. Cloud saves? No thanks, never have, maybe never will.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for further proving my point.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
You just repeated your claims without explaining them or backing them up with any details. You sound like someone selling essential oils and crystals as medicine. Try again?
- Comment on DR HANKS 4 weeks ago:
Every university needs a cool bug guy. And no matter what discipline you’re in, your college experience will be better for knowing them. Kind of like the groundskeeper at Starfleet AcadeBoothby.my,
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 5 weeks ago:
I want a shady hammock grove.
- Comment on Congestion Pricing Reduced Traffic. Now It’s Hitting Revenue Goals. | Revenue figures from the Manhattan tolling plan showed that the program is on track to raise billions for mass transit repairs. 1 month ago:
You’d think that the supposedly fiscally conservative and free market loving party would be thrilled that they’ve found a way to let the market pay for road maintenance.
- Comment on Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads 2 months ago:
This is just one of the many reasons that the argument the right keeps repeating about all manner of privacy invasions and infringements of rights and due process that “the good ones have nothing to fear” is complete and utter bullshit.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 2 months ago:
Thanks, although I was able to infer some of the significance from the name, I was confused about how kids were actually dying because something like this has been around for a long time. At least 30 years ago kids this age were making themselves blackout by holding their hands tightly against their necks. Even then, before the age of always on internet, most of the other kids rightly called those kids out as idiots. Adding mechanical devices is just next level evil? Next Level Stupid? I don’t know. I guess that’s what the lawsuit is trying to determine. I can guarantee that it will be used to further erode our privacy rights online as more and more kinds sites are forced to verify their users with government issued identification.
- Comment on No rules!! 2 months ago:
It seems like a pretty good space filling method for a worm. Probably also has something to do with not eating away the leaf your worm body trailing behind you is clutching.
- Comment on F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Sponsorships 2 months ago:
Step one: decrease funding. Step two: wait for them to seek funding elsewhere. Step three: use step two as an excuse to decrease funding even more. Repeat.
This is how they are dismantling democracy.
- Comment on How the Plane and Helicopter Crash in Washington, D.C., Happened: Maps and Graphics 2 months ago:
Individual human failures are often a symptom of broader and larger systemic problems. Pointing out these systemic problems is not over reach.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 2 months ago:
Beginner tutorials exist. Have you even tried looking? Linux has better documentation than anything I’ve seen in any other OS. Man pages, help files, and commented configuration files galore in just about every single Linux distro without any Internet needed, but it sounds like you never even bothered to look for them.
Sure, assholes online exist in Linux communities, but they are EVERYWHERE. We’ve got a couple right right here. That doesn’t exactly distinguish FOSS communities from any other.
Generalizations about all of FOSS based on your limited experience with a few distros is just asinine. FOSS is way more than an operating system.
Expecting a machine to hold your hand through your learning is such a weird form of entitlement and an especially weird distinction to make since no other operating system does that to the level you expect either.
Corporations pay for support services. The code is free (as in speech). No one ever claimed that the support was also (or even should be) free. Microsoft support is a joke. Apple support is mostly just a sales scheme. Linux support forums might be hostile to entitled noobs looking for a handout and a quick fix, but they are fucking heros when given a chance to help those who put in the effort to help themselves.
- Comment on Dad's Coming, 🇧🇷 indie 2d couch co-op action mess simulator 2 months ago:
No, the title is a homophone for a slang term for ejaculation.
- Comment on Dad's Coming, 🇧🇷 indie 2d couch co-op action mess simulator 2 months ago:
They knew what they were doing. Obviously this is (I assume) just more of the same step-family kink fad nobody asked for.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 3 months ago:
They shouldn’t be separate in the first place. It’s just bad design that’s prone to failure. And in this case that failure mode is VERY far from failsafe, it’s potentially deadly.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 3 months ago:
Too bad those “easily accessible manual releases” aren’t the actual door handle and are hidden so well you’d never find them if you were unfamiliar with the vehicle.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 3 months ago:
Sorry, that’s not what I see.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 3 months ago:
Both are measurements of cross-sectional AREA and are defined in terms of square millimeters (mm^2), not mm.
- Comment on Remember the iconic paintings of The Last Supper? This is what it would look like if it happened today 3 months ago:
“Ok Boomer.”
But seriously though. After the proliferation of the printing press, I’m willing to bet, someone made the exact same joke about printed books. And I know that the Boomers’ parents made the same joke about television, and their grandparents made the same joke about radio. And this isn’t even really a Boomer joke, it’s a Gen-X joke. I know because my boomer parents actually made this joke about Gameboys and walk-mans before the Internet (or at least convenient portable Internet) was even really a ubiquitous thing. It’s just that Boomers are living longer and are so damn vocal and numerous that they are STILL making this joke, updated for the modern generation.
What technology will gen-Y and gen-alpha lament about in stale memes?
- Comment on Jared Leto to Play Skeletor in 'Masters of the Universe' Movie 3 months ago:
Calling anything bad weird seems a little judgemental for my taste. I like bad weird. Good weird is boring.
- Comment on Jared Leto to Play Skeletor in 'Masters of the Universe' Movie 3 months ago:
Getting weirder and weirder is the only viable direction a Master of the Universe movie can go for success. Don’t you remember the last movie?
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 3 months ago:
I’m always amazed how some people have no self awareness. They have no concerns for others. And yet if you acted like they did and it affected them they would be so pissed.
Like the person sneaking photos of people in public to ridicule them anonymously on the Internet?
What’s wrong with taking your shoes off before putting them up on the furniture? Seems the polite thing to do so you don’t get snow or mud or whatever other shit is on your shoes on the seat. It’s not like there is someone else using either of those seats opposite at the moment. Maybe you’re just feeling shame about your foot fetish? It’s okay to have a kink about feet, but non-consenting voyeurism is not okay.
