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- Comment on Lmao 2 days ago:
Definitely read the book. The book is about the existential elation at discovering a solution to a dire problem, so knowing poorly a communicated versions of every solution will likely ruin the book for anyone serious about the hard Sci-Fi.
- Comment on What would you do? 4 days ago:
You know shit’s fucked when The King In Yellow, the very manifestation of the idea that knowledge can kill, is having to defend the value of education.
Ever day we stray
further from godtoward lost Carcosa - Comment on Real 5 days ago:
If you didn’t have plate tectonics, you’d have a lot of problems with the atmosphere, and there’s a decent chance that life wouldn’t evolve, as the energy differentials generated by tectonic activity are those which life hangs onto, from nutrients, to oxidation, to geothermal heat.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree. But I understand. 1 week ago:
Excellent catch. You can also see that both major ticks say 6’
- Comment on The birbs are woke 1 week ago:
Sounds like you would enjoy either “The Hungry Gods” or “Children of Strife” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. If you choose to read Children of strife, you really need to read the first three Children of Time books first, though.
- Comment on It hurts. 1 week ago:
Still a better system than Boston, having navigated both MANY times. To call Boston’s streets a “system” is an insult to the very concept of order.
- Comment on It hurts. 1 week ago:
As someone who drives through Boston often: it’s the worst-planned city I’ve ever seen. I am fairly convinced that the underground tunnel system is actually creating an eldritch sigil of chaos (a last Good Omens), and it is not uncommon to encounter a seven-way intersection, where two of those ways are train lines, but aren’t marked, so at night, you can accidentally find yourself on train tracks. It’s like if someone bargained with the Fey to make a city.
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 2 weeks ago:
I would point out that they also have long asses.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 2 weeks ago:
Nice
- Comment on omg hes just like me 2 weeks ago:
As in “topographically”, which specifically refers to land surfaces?
- Comment on omg hes just like me 2 weeks ago:
*topologically
- Comment on NaRuLe 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s not as clear here that the entire joke relies on these being written out. I personally think this whole joke would actually work best as a person passing notes during a test and trying to cheat THAT way.
- Comment on NaRuLe 3 weeks ago:
Smbc? This is just a compound version of smbc’s original comic: www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2349
- Comment on BAAAAAABY SHARK DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, we were singing it a long time before the internet was a thing accessible to children. It was passed down by those who went to camps along with such songs as “da moose da moose”
- Comment on meat honey 4 weeks ago:
Actually, that’s a really good point to which I really want to know the answer. We have to assume that, since it’s effectively fermented meat, the prion would survive, but maybe they’re really efficient at turning all of the protein into unbound amino acids?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ah, yes, whatever would we do if nobody was stopping international conflicts from getting out of control? If the UN werent there to stop them, we might have the most-heavily-armed nation in the history of humanity actively funding genocide by a client state (with the actual diplomats saying their goal was to start literal Armageddon), kidnapping heads of state, assassinating heads of state, and suborning the second-most-nuke-filled country’s annexation of another country by lifting embargoes! Man, could you imagine if the headquarters of the United Nations were in THAT country, and everybody just… Did nothing? Man, what a crazy world we would live in.
- Comment on Finally, an optimal monitor configuration! 4 weeks ago:
But it reduces the us able space in the middle, as any rectilinearly-designed webpages will have areas on the far left and right that aren’t viewable except in small parts while scrolling.
- Comment on Ray is basic. 4 weeks ago:
Sharks are older than the current rings of Saturn, and I’ll bet that the e-ring or f-ring (whichever one is primarily made of ice spewed out of enceladus) has been around for a few billion years.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 5 weeks ago:
I was just finishing the Card Against Humanity:
- Comment on Firearm Advice 5 weeks ago:
“The fleshy fun bridge”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Padme meme: “you mean all the ram in the computer, right?” Anakin: Padme: you mean all the RAM in the computer, right?
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 weeks ago:
Ah, no, it’s that the more efficient packing takes up less space, so the less efficient square is actually slightly larger than the other, compared to the smaller squares.
If the smaller squares are identical in both sets, then the larger square in the less-efficient set will be slightly larger than the larger square in the more efficient set.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 weeks ago:
Since a link to a wiki article does not an explanation make:
The optimal efficiency (zero interstitial space) is achieved when the ratio of the side length of the larger square to the sides of the shorter squares (called the “packing coefficient”) is precisely equal to the square root of the number of smaller squares. Hence why the case of n=25, with a packing coefficient of 5, is actually more efficient than the packing of n=17 given in the waffle iron, with a packing coefficient of 4.675. Since sqrt(25)=5, that case is a perfectly efficient packing, equivalent to the case of n=16 with coefficient of 4. Since sqrt(17)=4.123, the waffle packing (represented by the orangutan) above is not perfectly efficient, leaving interstices. However, the packing coefficient of the suboptimal solution (represented by the girl) is actually 4.707, slightly further from sqrt(17), and thus less efficient, leaving greater wasted interstitial space.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 5 weeks ago:
Did you try “beyond skyrim: bruma”? Its only one province of the planned entirety of tamriel, but that was many excellent hours of exploration, and it feels like the plotlines are really going somewhere, whenever they get finished with the rest of cyrodiil. Shame there are some places that feel unfinished (because they involve other provinces), but that mystery made it more intriguing, in my opinion.
Also, it has a soundtrack that I actually like more than the original skyrim soundtrack, and that is saying something.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 weeks ago:
Specifically, the optimal area side length of the larger square for any integer n is the square root of n. The closer your larger side length gets to sqrt(n), the more efficient your packing.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 weeks ago:
I was just answering your question of why someone would want to arrange a prime number of squares. The waffle is clearly a meme.
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 1 month ago:
Precisely. Wilhoit’s Law
- Comment on Just one more square bro 1 month ago:
That candy crush story is, as the commenter said, a lie. I don’t know why they would suggest that adding on a lie is in any way good, since we know that this packing was discovered in the late 1990s. It’s on the wikipedia article for square packing (with sources) but I don’t feel like looking it up again.
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 1 month ago:
I would still say it was a country of laws, but that is not the same thing as a country of justice.
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 1 month ago:
The united states has not been a society of laws since 2017, and anyone telling you otherwise is either blind, stupid, lying, or some combination of the three
