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- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 1 day ago:
- Comment on geoengineering 3 weeks ago:
People are more than isolated tweets. He’s a man who’s made hundreds of public statements on climate change in the past, only one of which is contained in this tweet.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 2 months ago:
Plus even that isn’t enough: 10/3 has an infinite decimal expansion (in base 10 at least) too, but if π = 10/3, you’d be able to find exact circumferences. Its irrationality is what makes it relevant to this joke.
A mathematician is also perfectly happy with answers like “4π” as exact.
Plus what’s to stop you from having a rational circumference but irrational radius?
Writing this, I feel like I might have accidentally proved your point.
- Comment on Stop Big Geology 2 months ago:
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 3 months ago:
Expanding a bit more on what everyone else says: This strategy works, as long as you never lose n times in a row, where n is the number of bets it takes to bet ALL of the money you currently have.
So the more money you bring with you, the longer you can make this strategy work - but the mote devastating it’ll be once you inevitably lose.
If you go with a doubling strategy instead of a tripling strategy, that means you have to lose floor(log₂(x+1)) times to realize an unrecoverable loss (you don’t have enough to make your next bet), or one more than that to lose absolutely everything. With your tripling strategy the calculation is floor(log₃(2*x+1)). x is the amount of money you had after the last “reset”.
So if you go to the casino with $100,000, your strategy will work as long as you don’t lose 11 times in a row - once you do, you’ve suffered your devastating unrecoverable loss. Every time your money triples you can last one more loss. Tripling your money is very difficult with this strategy, as most of the time when you win, it’s a small amount relative to what you’re holding - you need large losing streaks to make a real difference, and large losing streaks make reaching the threshold of an unrecoverable loss easier, obviously.
Others have said it already, but - you can use this to win in the short term if you have a lot of money and only want to win a little bit more. If you use this strategy in the long term you will lose everything.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 4 months ago:
While some people do fake it or some people may actually be too lazy, on the whole attributing homelessness to personality flaws or moral failings is just a coping strategy for lots of people - lies they tell themselves to make the situation be despicable instead of pitiful. Most homeless people aren’t faking it, and most homeless people wouldn’t be homeless if they had any choice in the matter. Many of them are homeless due to poor or temporary circumstances, many others due to mental health issues combined with lacking a support system.
- Comment on Alright, where do I begin? 6 months ago:
Easy. Start with The Orville, then watch Galaxy Quest.
- Comment on Are there any websites that track upcoming cultural events, with a focus on sports and TV? 8 months ago:
Thanks, this is really cool and pretty close to what I wanted.
- Comment on Are there any websites that track upcoming cultural events, with a focus on sports and TV? 8 months ago:
By “less important” I just meant, for example, games that are in the beginning or middle of their respective league instead of the championship game - or shows for a series that are in the middle of a season, instead of a premiere or finale.
I know every game is vitally important to someone, or that every episode of a given show is important to a dedicated enough viewer - but season/series premieres/finales and sporting league championship games are definitely set apart from the rest. Lots of people watch the Baseball World Series finale games. A lot fewer watch every game leading up to it. Lots of people will watch the series finale for a popular TV show, even if they didn’t happen to catch every episode preceding it. That sort of thing.
I’m not too concerned about the cutoff for “popular”. If the site wants to tell me about the Curling world cup, then by all means.
- Submitted 8 months ago to [deleted] | 5 comments
- Comment on Can I replace my shower controls? 8 months ago:
I do - I’ve used it a few times. The most involved plumbing I’ve done is installing a bidet, and installing a garbage disposal, though. From all the other comments it seems like this has the potential to get significantly more involved.
- Comment on Can I replace my shower controls? 8 months ago:
Thank you for the detailed response.
Is there any way I could accomplish part of my goal without getting into the complex work you described? For example, what if I left the controls alone but tried to replace just the faucet, for the drip issue? Or if I were able to locate the exact same controls, would it still require all of that work to replace them? I ask that question because the pressure knob is slightly broken, after being overtightened in an attempt to slow the drip. I’m concerned it may eventually break more completely.
- Submitted 8 months ago to [deleted] | 30 comments
- Comment on Are there any recurring charges (or other downsides) that come with having a driver's license but not owning a car or regularly driving? 8 months ago:
My post specified where I live.
- Comment on Are there any recurring charges (or other downsides) that come with having a driver's license but not owning a car or regularly driving? 8 months ago:
This applies to the insurance of the person I live with too? They recently changed companies and I know one of the questions they had to answer was “How many members of your household are licensed to drive?”. If I got a license their rate should stay the same? It would be their car I’d drive if a situation ever came up where I needed to drive, but I absolutely do not see it becoming an even twice-a-year thing.
- Submitted 8 months ago to [deleted] | 35 comments
- Comment on Do Multivitamins actually do anything? 8 months ago:
I’ve wondered the same.
I have a poor diet. There are times where I don’t eat enough, and when I do eat it’s often very… not varied.
I know people always say you don’t need vitamins if you just eat better, or that you can just ask your doctor - but my answer to those are “I don’t want to” and “I can’t afford to”, respectively.
Are vitamins a better-safe-than-sorry option if your diet is probably insufficiently varied to give you everything you need, and you have no strong desire to change that, but you have no way of actually figuring out what’s low or not? Or even then are they probably a waste of money?
- Comment on How to unchoke yourself if you're dying alone. | Fire Department Chronicles 8 months ago:
As someone who eats more foods without chewing than I should… Thanks.
Also got a bad habit of eating the kind of food that clogs your throat if you don’t drink, without drinking - like a McDonald’s burger or risotto. Got it so bad with risotto last year that I couldn’t get water down at all, and had to wait it out.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Not really related to your post, just me being nosey: When I go to your account page, your most recent comment was “[ Removed by Reddit ]”. What had you posted?
- Comment on I have just joined lemmy. What should I do next? 9 months ago:
On your homepage, you have some options at the top for what to display.
The first option is Subscribed/Local/All. The default is Local - change it to either Subscribed (If you like subscribing to communities) or All (If you prefer to just see everything). Keeping it on “Local” is a pretty poor way to use Lemmy - it’ll only show you posts from lemmy.world and never from any of the other Lemmy instances. This goes for when you’re searching for communities too - make sure you set the search to “All” and not “Local”.
The second option is how to sort - with the default being “Active”. “Active” is a bit too slow to update for most people’s taste - you might find you like “Hot” a lot more. You can set the default for both of these options to whatever you want on your settings page.
When browsing, if you find a certain community (subreddit) consistently puts posts in your feed that you don’t like, there’s a handy button to block that community if you go to it, in the top right.
Past that, just do your best to be active - more active than you may have been on reddit, because Lemmy is a lot smaller. Upvote posts you like, comment on posts where you have something to add, and post things you find elsewhere.
- Comment on Hollow Knight - 6 Years Later. [Ceave Perspective] [1h31m08s] 9 months ago:
This is a really long video - but I found it very worth the watch. Ceave has almost nothing but good takes - and it’s a fun retrospective for people who played the game years ago, while giving a lot of interesting information on the history and lore of the game. His insights into game design, mechanics, and development border on psychic at times - the guy has a gift.
- Submitted 9 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Is Lemmy.World refederated with Beehaw.org? 9 months ago:
Just doing a quick search of the Beehaw communities I’m subscribed to (I have hope…), I found this post from 3 hours ago and this post from two days ago - note that both were made by lemmy.world members, and you can even see some comments on the second one from lemmy.world users too. I’m guessing this is the sort of thing you saw, going by the last point @CMahaff@lemmy.world mentioned in their reply.
- Comment on Is Lemmy.World refederated with Beehaw.org? 9 months ago:
It was a bit inaccurate: On other instances that are federated with both us and Beehaw, we can interact with Beehaw users and they can interact with us. That’s because in that case it’s the third instance handling the federation - they send the information to both us and Beehaw.
- Comment on Is Lemmy.World refederated with Beehaw.org? 9 months ago:
Was the post you saw created by a member of the beehaw instance or some other instance? Could you link it?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 to Feature as Much as 512 GB of Internal Storage, 8-Inch LCD Screen - Rumor 9 months ago:
Sure - but that’s a gimmick that’s pretty widely enjoyed. It’s not like the 3DS’s 3D that pretty much everyone turned off after giving it a shot, or like the Wii’s motion controls that most people got sick of before the console retired. As far as gimmicks go it’s arguably their most successful ever.
By that I mean the fact that it’s handheld - if you were mostly talking about the detachable joycons then I’d agree at least somewhat, especially since they removed that from the Switch Lite - but it is pretty handy in a lot of situations still.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 to Feature as Much as 512 GB of Internal Storage, 8-Inch LCD Screen - Rumor 9 months ago:
I wish they would focus more on making consoles that LOOK and FEEL good when you’re playing instead of trying to create the next new thing no one will care about in 5 years.
Isn’t this basically what they did with the Switch? It’s very low on gimmicks that never get used (infrared? Touchscreen?), its games on the whole look pretty good (Most first party titles), and people still play it over 6 years later. Also Nintendo has nothing to do with the development of Pokémon - so while shit, they hardly deserve the blame for that.
- Comment on Is there a way to prevent mixed cereals from separating? 9 months ago:
Assuming it comes mixed well at the start - you could try scooping it out with a cup instead of pouring it out, to minimize the agitation that leads to separation.