Buddahriffic
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- Comment on Anon does well in school 5 days ago:
It’s kinda funny because that larger trend is paralleled by my own personal trend. Back in grade school, I thought the math answer keys were useful information, useful enough to make learning it unnecessary.
Later on, I realized that the answers were meaningless without the context of the problem and put equal importance on the process as the solution.
These days, the solutions themselves are mostly just curiosities and it’s all in the process, which parallels life itself nicely.
Or in the context of video games, one frame displayed on the screen shows millions of results of a bunch of math being repetitively done as you play. Those solutions only matter for a brief instant before new ones are needed and the previous ones often just discarded, though occasionally saved and even sent out to the world for others to appreciate the brief moment they are relevant.
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 5 days ago:
Logically it’s just fluid dynamics. If you dive into a pool, you’ll go deeper quicker than if you belly flop. You can’t really swim in air, but it’s the same principle. No I don’t have the math, you’d need a wind tunnel to measure each of the actual coefficients of drag, but something as simple as hand position could have a big impact on drag, which impacts both the acceleration and the terminal velocity.
So what I’m picturing is diving (like a swim dive) off the building, then rolling into a horizontal position after some time with the higher acceleration. It should at least lower the expected height you’d need to jump from to reach the horizontal terminal velocity.
That said, the height to reach diving terminal velocity would be even higher than your first number (unless the drag coefficient you used was actually for the vertical position).
Get a wing suit and the difference between a dive and glide is even more extreme (to the point where terminal velocity might need to be described as lift instead).
- Comment on card game shop 6 days ago:
Then you come in with basically an expertly placed, “what if medical science has no solution to their uncontrollable stench?”
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 1 week ago:
You’ve gotta either interest someone with the knowledge to pursue it or actually go to the college and gain the knowledge yourself. Because the truth is, unless you can motivate someone to do your thing, your thing isn’t going to be as interesting to others as it is to you, even if it would be revolutionary. There’s a good chance the idea relies on phenomena that only exist because of a lack of understanding (if you aren’t able to go from idea to proof of concept), or maybe require a solution to a very hard problem just hiding below the surface.
Plus, even with the motivation, if you don’t know enough to do the thing and aren’t in a financial position to control the operation’s finances, there’s a good chance you’ll be discarded once you are no longer needed, which in this case is once they understand your idea. That “sorry, not interested” might actually be a “go away, this is interesting but I don’t think you’ll add anything more to this, so I’ll do it alone”.
So instead of thinking “this is cool but I have no idea how”, think, “what do I need to learn to better understand my idea and its execution?” Hell, even being able to break it up into discrete and complete steps would be a great start because then you can start hiring out those different steps if you can’t do them, without having to give away the whole thing.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
Yeah, those were CDs. I don’t think I got to the DVDs, since my sense of urgency faded after I saw the older ones seemed ok. I’ll have to check them out after you said that, though lol.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it’s been drinking.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
I recently learned of MDisc (there’s a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.
While I haven’t verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn’t see any issues. Also didn’t get any errors. I was surprised because I’ve had some of them for over 20 years now and didn’t do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn’t even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.
Only disc I wasn’t able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there’s still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn’t able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can’t find anything. Though it’s possible that corruption is really what happened here because I’d expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.
Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
Is that last bit a dig at German humour?
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
Winamp! (Winamp!) Winamp! It really whips the lamma’s ass!
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
One time I rented a uhaul van and it had a backup camera that would show up in the rear view mirror. Not the whole thing mirror, but it had a little screen embedded in it.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 1 week ago:
Stats require a sample from a smaller population that represents the entire population. Phone polls don’t include people a) without phones b) who ignore unknown calls c) who decline to reply to poll calls and d) who lie to poll calls (at least not accurately). I know I’ve been tempted to lie when someone reaches out on behalf of a politician I don’t like, though usually I just ignore the texts.
Exit polls can be similarly affected, though the dynamics are a bit different.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 weeks ago:
On brand for much of the corporate world.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 weeks ago:
There’s at least one individual inside the company that was involved in that decision. They should all have liability here, as individuals.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 weeks ago:
I used to occasionally watch the all MXC channel. Brings me back to 2002.
- Comment on Fucking math... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, as I understand it, the elevator will refuse to move instead of collapse, and hopefully you’re not between floors when it happens because it was close and someone shifted their weight or bounced slightly or they might write a sitcom episode about what happens next (and the reality will be far more boring).
- Comment on There's one in every crowd 2 weeks ago:
What is with this art style that makes it look both really good and really bad at the same time? Is it just the poor understanding of anatomy putting the poses into the uncanny valley while shading looks good or is there more to it?
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 2 weeks ago:
So far I’ve been impressed with what AI can do with coding. I had it write some scripts for me on one of my previous work tasks and it did the majority of the code writing and even majorly assisted the debug process.
And now I’m using it for another task and it’s already improved significantly since the last one. You can now interrupt it if if gets stuck in some kind of loop and the required debug phases are fewer. Hell, it’s even reading between the lines of my prompts effectively and implemented a verbosity feature in a second script just because I had requested it in the first one.
With the first task, I was holding its hand as far as data structures and such were concerned. This time, I’m instructing it at a higher level. And while it does help that I can understand the code it generates, I said last time that it was good enough to start replacing interns, I think at this point it’s ready to start replacing junior programming positions.
- Comment on God did not intend for us to fold fitted sheets, and if you can it's witchcraft. 2 weeks ago:
Look for the corner that goes on the top part of the matress and use that as the corner and treat the extra bit with the elastic like frilly trim to ignore. It’s not perfect but I’ve been able to consistently get something that resembles a rectangle out of it instead of a ball.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 2 weeks ago:
That’s at least 18 horsepower!
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
On that note, I find diamonds to be the most boring gemstone. Any of the ones with colour are far more interesting to me, I don’t get why anyone would want to pay more for diamonds (outside of their industrial purposes) even if they were actually rarer.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
Not doubting what you’re saying (because I’ve heard it many times already) but that picture looks misleading because of the different light hitting each stone. These marketing tricks are so obvious that at this point they can even make the truth look like a lie.
- Comment on Priorities 3 weeks ago:
Maybe he’s lashing out because someone else turned him into a pterosaur when he wanted to be a dinosaur.
- Comment on Priorities 3 weeks ago:
That one that looks like a lizard with a giant sail on its back wasn’t a dinosaur either.
- Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 3 weeks ago:
Would be funny if that failed star was actually an alien megaproject but we think it’s a natural explanation that means a planet teeming with ancient life is assumed to be barren like the rest of them.
Is there a name for that, when something very interesting is mistaken for something very uninteresting? Not that a failed star full of biosignature molecules sounds uninteresting, do they have any explanation for that?
- Comment on Not everyone has what it takes 3 weeks ago:
Oh, the possibility that he knew about Colbert but ate the onion hadn’t occurred to me.
- Comment on Not everyone has what it takes 3 weeks ago:
Did he (and whatever agents were involved in setting that up) really not know who Colbert was 10 years ago? Though it is hard to tell with the energy he had there, whether he was just playing along or genuinely didn’t know that Colbert’s whole thing is playing an ignorant conservative white dude.
- Comment on I c it! 3 weeks ago:
If you didn’t intend to imply that, it’s on how you communicated, not how they interpreted it. The way you listed what each does implied you were saying that’s how their images worked.
- Comment on I c it! 3 weeks ago:
You can glance at the sun but don’t stare at it. Even when it’s only 1% visible, it’s putting out enough light to strain or damage your eyes.
Though it’s fine to look at the eclipse with naked eyes when it’s total. You can’t really see the cool effect surrounding the moon during totality with the eclipse glasses on because it’s way dimmer than the sun usually is.
Your eyes will tell you if it’s safe to look. If it’s uncomfortably bright, then you shouldn’t power through that discomfort (and that applies to things other than the sun). If it feels like looking at anything else, then it’s probably fine.
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 3 weeks ago:
And who else didn’t need an article because they were there when it happened?
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Oh nice, infinite pixel version.