maniclucky
@maniclucky@lemmy.world
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
That makes sense. I feel like if you’re at the point where pi is meaningfully involved, you should probably do your math.
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
I suppose. I’m still internally outraged and haven’t run into such a situation before, but I accept this.
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
Excuse me what? I’ve been an engineer for a decade and have never met anyone that would do that. We have calculators.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
I knew what it was, but I was panicked and unable to calm down before it passed. I was deeply affected by not being able to move anything. I imagine other personality/neuro types would handle it differently, but I did not care for it.
That said, I get being curious about experiencing something benign but possibly scary.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had this. No you don’t. It isn’t fun. Experiencing full body paralysis for a minute was a deeply unsettling and terrifying experience. I hated every second. Unless you’re prepared in some way, having the presence of mind to try to sleep again seems difficult.
I didn’t have a hallucination with that one though. I have that with a different parasomnia. I’ve had a hypnopompic (upon walking up) hallucination one time. That was freaky but only lasted a few seconds.
- Comment on Forbidden cats 1 month ago:
And have personalities similar to cats I’ve been told. No idea if that’s true, but I chose to believe it.
- Comment on m'theydy 1 month ago:
I’ve had to stop listening to his review. Not because I don’t like them, but because I’m way to impressionable with negative review and it turns me away from too many things. I miss it.
- Comment on m'theydy 1 month ago:
Yahtzee?
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 1 month ago:
And Rankine is a sin.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 2 months ago:
This was my first thought and then I realized I had been nerd sniped.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 3 months ago:
Because they only thing they value is money. Right now money, not future money. So long as the numbers go up, the sociopaths in the c suite couldn’t possibly give fewer shits.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 3 months ago:
Wrong on a human level. On a corporate level, they didn’t admit it was a layoff and so she can’t sue them or get any benefits. Fucking sociopaths are punishing new employees for being hired after they botched the numbers.
- Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 3 months ago:
Yuuuup. Half the time you’re the expert* in the room and when heads turn to you you have to push the imposter syndrome down and know your shit and convey it well enough that people will listen.
And having the good sense to know when to say “I need to look that up, let me get back to you”.
- Comment on They hated him, for he spoke the truth 4 months ago:
Woof that slope is slippery. The trick is measuring what you can afford, and a lot of people aren’t great at measuring that.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 4 months ago:
Yeah, support for it was cut for my TV sadly. I’ve got the device, but apps are convenient and don’t involve running wires.
- Comment on hmm 5 months ago:
That rather depends on the height I would think.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
Yes, but how thick are you? If you are 7.1 inches thick, your back will move forward into the thing you’re trying to avoid.
- Comment on They want your brain soft 5 months ago:
Hogswatch er… Christmas… is a little lie that helps us to believe the big ones. Things like Love, Justice, Hope, etc.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 5 months ago:
Not to be contrary, but the last line of the summary in the wiki article is:
The hedonic treadmill viewpoint suggests that wealth does not increase the level of happiness
I would infer from that, that increased wealth has increasingly diminishing returns after a certain point.
I did try to follow the link, but Investopedia broke it on their end and I can’t seem to find it (aside: wooof, that is a bad layout). Any good sources for me?
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 5 months ago:
You’re right, I was off on a weird thing. Was thinking about the skew between mean and median indicating this or that, but starting in median keeps us in population counting territory. I was just wrong. Derp.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 5 months ago:
I feel like the mean is rather skewed in the US. It’s almost certainly less than half that are insulated.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week 7 months ago:
I mean, FFXIV has just as much and manages it.
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 7 months ago:
Do you pay on a recurring cycle? Can you function in society without it? If yes to both: subscription.
You need a phone, utilities, rent/mortgage, insurance (if we’re being realistic) so I wouldn’t call them subscriptions.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I sent one to get my history. Took them like a month to send it. I’m in the midwestern US and they never asked me or said anything about it. I imagine it’s different for a more exciting gdpr request (I assume there are other requests).
- Comment on funny because true 9 months ago:
(AreaCode) 867-5309 is your friend in this and for random “Insert your phone number for the rewards program” things.
- Comment on What is the current "favorite" show? 9 months ago:
Warehouse 13 and The Librarians always scratched similar itches for me.
- Comment on What is the current "favorite" show? 9 months ago:
I liked it a bunch, but I’ve told anyone that I don’t recommend it until the next season comes out. That cliffhanger ending was too nasty.