FuglyDuck
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- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 1 day ago:
well, it epends on the person’s society and culture that they’re from. Natasha’s, not Catherine’s. If, for example, it was normalized like, say ancient rome- or basically anywhere else more than ~200 years ago- it could still be lawful. A foreign paladin coming from a land that had abolished slaves would be the odd one out; though if they do anything to stop it, they’d tip into neutral or chaotic good.
- Comment on to hell I say 2 days ago:
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 4 days ago:
Somewhere in Poland, there is an ex-Soviet nuclear bunker which was sealed off for radiation. There was a ventilation pipe in which ants would fall down and then become cannibals.
The queen-less colony of worker drowns was about a million strong.
In 2016, they did an experiment, where they installed a wooden board to let them back out to see what would happen.
(I can only assume they did not watch enough trashy c-tier horror flicks, or any kaiju monster flicks, because this is how the world ends. )
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 1 week ago:
There’s an app for that,
- Comment on What's the Bechdel test equivalent for images? 1 week ago:
I don’t think there is one test.
“Images” is too broad of a concept. Like what that judge said… “I’ll know porn when I see it.”
Beyond that, as an is using an attractive woman to sell makeup gonna fail? What if it’s just a totally bland photo of a face, just an attractive one?
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
…. Are you reading what I’m saying?
Yes. For simple, common problems. You are correct.
But sometimes they’re not running simple problems. Sometimes, the run time on servers costs money. Sometimes, there’s no value to be gained by being any more accurate- and it increases those costs.
Now, in those times…. Are you really going to tell me that costing your organization more money without any useful gains…. Is “way more professional”?
Also? Don’t get me wrong, that threshold is getting and higher every year. I have more computing power in my cell phone than they used to put a man on the moon.
None of that changes that astronomers sometimes use 1 instead of pi, and that the barycenter of Jupiter-sun orbit is close enough to say Jupiter orbits the sun.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
Sure.
But sometimes, the problems are complex enough that solve time becomes a concern. When they’re complex enough, you start asking “is everything these precise enough to justify that” and when the answer is “no”, then you don’t do that because runtime on networked clusters like AWS costs money.
And when you’re talking about scales that encompass the galaxy…. Well. There’s just not a lot of precision there to begin with.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
Not when that definition of pi goes to all 300 trillion decimals that we have resolved. (To be fair, I don’t know of any that do… but eh…yeah. And I’m pretty sure it was defined by a masochist if one did.)
That leads to unnecessary time spent calculating even simple equations. That level of precision is almost never actually needed.
With fermi problems, usually that level of precision is moot and potentially a waste of time. (Particularly when the math is requiring some kind network cluster to do.)
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
fermi approximations happen all the time in astronomy. The numbers are frequently so large that the only meaningful quality is how many orders of magnitude it has.
More to the point, using pi makes calculating things much harder. For example, we don’t really need a precise distance for most things; so using “3” makes the calculation unnecessarily spend time in computation.
It’s like the old joke, “what’s the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire?” (“About a billion.”)
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
The reason being, that once you go large enough, a multiplier of three is irrelevant, and they only really care about orders of magnitude. You might be tempted to argue that that doesn’t happen inside the solar system, and you’d be right. Mostly.
Except that astronomy doesn’t concern itself with just our system. So yes. Astronomers do frequently round to 1 because it really doesn’t matter that much in the scheme of things. (particularly talking about distances.) it’s even more so for cosmology.
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 1 week ago:
I’d take that (or sociology or economics,) over whatever batshit-crazy pseudoscience RFKjr is spouting.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
In a field of study where it’s not just acceptable, but prudent to round pi to “1” because the numbers are that big….
I gotta say, it’s close enough to say Jupiter orbits Sol. Just saying.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm.
and I thought my friend accidentally using poison ivy as toilet paper was too painful to be funny. (we were on a canoe trip and he jumped off to take a shit, only he forgot the TP, so he grabbed the nearest bunch of plants. Ooops.) (it was awful.) (it only became hilarious after he didn’t die.)
- Comment on Average plant behavior 2 weeks ago:
I’m really disappointed in the fact that there’s never been a carnivorous plant large enough to eat humans right now.
I was going to make a joke about it being Australian and even the plants trying to kill you.
Ah well. There’s always jokes about the Quoka Mafia plotting world domination.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 2 weeks ago:
uphill. both ways, too.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 2 weeks ago:
“Where am I from? no where in particular.” “you just blew in on the wind, huh?” “Exactly. You get it.”
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on where everyone is in their life. An undergrad shouldn’t be dating someone graduated and in a stable working condition. Once your past a certain age, it becomes fairly useless as a question of appropriateness- with things like life experience, goals and present conditions being more important.
even then; it’s about maintaining a healthy balance of power in the relationship. if it’s a one night stand and everyone involved are consenting adults; that’s none of our business.
- Comment on she retvrned 2 crab 3 weeks ago:
Does it matter?
I mean, c’mon. She was giving those kids the best education they could ever have. Most of the kids were unharmed, even… Usually. they all made it back, really.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 3 weeks ago:
it vastly simplies cleaning up when they start purging their human
overlordsunderlings - Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
MagnetoToad
- Comment on possibilities 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna go with “all three”. That should be exciting.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 4 weeks ago:
However, you should be able to use empirical science to debunk BS ideas and move things along that way.
And that’s what gets them breaking out the pitchforks and torches.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 4 weeks ago:
They’d probably burn you alive for Devil worship or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hallmark, are you taking notes?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be embarrassed. I’d be angry.
Even being set up isn’t a problem- doing so without bothering to ask first is.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 5 weeks ago:
Computer science, I wish to believe, still has doors awaiting exploration.
There was a time where you could grab a walking stick, a cloak, and a pack and go see things no other human has ever recorded seeing; and then that exploration was done and we needed boats or whatever vehicle to get there. Then the boats had to get bigger, and had to be powered by wind rather than oar, then we had to go down, into the depths of the oceans, or up into the vastness of space. We still haven’t explored all of the ocean, seen everything this world has to see.
with each new horizon, there is a new place to explore. a new richness to discover.
This is true, also, of computer science; and all sorts of other frontiers.
I’m not trying to disuade the OP or anyone else. Even if they’re never even close to successful; it’s their time to spend. if they enjoy the work; then by all means. It’s more of a warning… it’s not the kind of thing that’s going to be a weekend project. (“There be dragons,”)
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 5 weeks ago:
sure. But it’s a task that usually takes entire teams of highly competent and experienced people. Computer science, software engineering. Database management, lots of math.
Like ext4 took contributions from several orgs and numerous individuals over the course of years to develop. if a single person can do it, it’s the work of a lifetime.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, short answer is… yes…
But, eh, like. That’s a technicality. Chances are the task is something beyond typical individuals these days.
- Comment on What brush is the human equivalent of a dog slicker brush? 5 weeks ago:
I doubt the dogs care,
- Comment on These shipping tape things 5 weeks ago:
You’re not supposed to lick them.
