bisby
@bisby@lemmy.world
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
In pineapple express they call it “the dopest dope I ever smoked”… But I now realize that movie is almost 20 years old.
- Comment on Hey there gamers 2 weeks ago:
I had the same reaction originally though, because I feel like I had seen this previously as just “bending” the list of 1-100 in half.
1+2+3+4+...+49+50 100+99+98+97+...+52+51 = 101+101+101+...
101 * 50.
So you have to do a bit more thinking to define your equation but the equation takes you straight to S instead of 2S.
And since the meme just has
+ …
instead of showing where the end of the list was, I see how one could easily mix up the 2 approaches. - Comment on the internet 1 month ago:
In my ethics in engineering class, we spent a lot of time talking about things like the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapsing. The takeaway for me was “Depending on what you are doing, people might die if you are too confidently doing things the wrong way.”
Most people, even a lot of engineers, don’t have lives on the line in their day to day. Things means that most people don’t have the “What if I am wrong about this and people die?” part of their brain firing 24/7. For most people, the “consequences of getting things wrong” means either a lecture from their boss, or literally nothing. When people never have to face consequences for being wrong, they feel very empowered to be wrong.
- Comment on You 1 month ago:
I was at a track meet once and the lady running high jump was doing a horrible job. She was finally figuring out what she was doing and said : OK, we got this. Next height will be 5’12"
- Comment on Love 1 month ago:
e^x and 7 were walking down the street having a nice chat, when in the distance, they see a derivative walking towards them. 7 panics, turns and runs in the opposite direction. e^x is smug and walks right up. “Hi, I’m e^x” it boldly declares to the derivative. The derivative smiles back, “Hi, I’m dy/dt”
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales 1 month ago:
The cross platform friend requests bugs mean I still havent been able to play with the friends who convinced me to buy the game in the first place. But yeah, otherwise quite fun.
Its 100x better of a starship troopers game than the actual starship troopers game that came out last year
- Comment on Two distinct eras of television 6 months ago:
“Flat” and “flat screen” arent the same thing. CRT TVs had a curved glass screen. Due to the fact that the rear projection could just project across the curve. With technology advancements they were able to improve picture clarity while flattening the screen. These were still bulky projection style TVs, but were called flat screen. But then when actual “flat” TVs (in the form of LCD, etc) came around people kept using the term. So a flat screen TV could be very thick.