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- Comment on Calculatable 2 weeks ago:
I love that you bring a great technical and insightful answer and then just leave with that my calculator is probably posessed.
- Comment on Calculatable 2 weeks ago:
I discovered that hitting something like C, CE and 0 simultaneously for some reason worked as an instant power off for my school calculator. Do calculators have such hidden off-buttons? Because I have discovered other calculators with other combinations.
- Comment on Yeah but the one accessory she usually removed was the little swastika pin. 2 weeks ago:
For me, the problem is different 🤔 I work in an environment with young people 👶 Young people who speak with emojis 💯 and they expect others to speak with emojis as well 🤝 So when I write a message or a mail 📩 Then I need to figure out which emoji I need to replace the periods with 😅 And the minefield is kinda terrible, since some of the “regular” emojis are considered highly passive agressive 🙂
- Comment on Please be patient. 3 weeks ago:
It’s one of those things which would be pretty much impossible to prove, but it holds well with the effects we currently see. Electrons can annihilate by colliding with positrons. But the collision we see could be a single electron changing from moving forwards in time to moving backwards in time. It holds that it’s the same particle in the equations by cancelling out the minus sign of the charge with the minus sign in the time. So while we see a collision, the electron would just see itself changing charge and start moving backwards in time instead.
It’s a beautiful hypothesis, and fills me with chills to think about the electron “experiencing” all of history an unimmaginable amount of times.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 4 weeks ago:
I very often sit down to pee, but not exclusively. Some times I feel like standing.
No follow-up questions, thanks.
- Comment on It's too early 5 weeks ago:
Year 12, month 30, day of month 2023. What’s unclear?
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 weeks ago:
Since the distribution of male/female is roughly 1:1, that wouldn’t really do anything (except for positively being more accepting). The real solution would be to unlock one of the two last digits, but you can bet that a ton of systems will break as they validate those digits.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 weeks ago:
Norawy is facing a similar issue. Even though the national identification number is 11 digits, the first 6 are reserved for birth date. The 7th digit has some set of rules derived from which century the birth was (something like 5-9 is reserved for year 2000 and beyond). The 9th digit is even for women and odd for men. The 10th and 11th digit are fixed and derived from the rest of the numbers.
In conclusion, the system only leaves room for around 240 people per date of birth per gender (yes this system assumes 2 genders). So if the birth rate would have a spike, even just for a day, the system could be in trouble.
- Comment on Science fact 1 month ago:
Not if you count Taylor Swift
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
I’m also bothered by very detailed QR codes. Milk cartons in my country had a QR-code for their website. It would be a ~10 letter url, maybe with a short path. But for some reason, the QR code was extremely detailed, as if it contained several kilobytes of data. I’m not sure if there were a large number of tracking-related parameters in the url, but it was very obviously unreasonably large.
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
My VW Passat hybrid has carried more material on the roof rack than I’d be happy to admit.
- Comment on Black Widows 2 months ago:
It’s like almond milk, oat milk or soy milk. But when milking spaghetti, the liquid is so clear that we just call it spaghetti water.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
Gravity assist with one of the larger planets to make a very narrow orbit seems to be the most efficient way. But you need the planets to align correctly to have an efficient route.
“I’ll launch you into the sun once there is an appropriate transfer window to Jupiter” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
The vessel would still have a lot of speed after escaping earth’s orbit, so the trajectory would become a large orbit around the sun. You still have to slow down by about ~30km/s (or ~100 000 km/h) to make that orbit intercept with the sun’s surface.
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 months ago:
Same in Norway with “gift”. Also, the same word is used for “married”.
- Comment on Choose Option 2 months ago:
Buy new gf
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
In Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, the number of thieves wasn’t really necessarily 40. The number was likely just chosen because 40 was an exaggerated number, much like when we’d say “I’ve told you a hundred million times”. So 40 as a shorthand for “a huge amount” seems fitting in celcius.
- Comment on Jackhammer 2 months ago:
Evolution might just block out certain frequencies. No need to go completely deaf.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 2 months ago:
I hope I recall correctly: I was watching an episode of wan-show where they looked into a backpack returned from a miner after heavy wear, but little real damage. Live on the show they wanted to showcase the double bottom, so they cut into it (can’t recall if this was in the miners backpack or another one) and were surprized to realize there wasn’t a double bottom. Linus quickly assured, still live, that this would be handled for all customers.
LMG did blame the manifactures of the backpack for removing a layer in a late stage design adjustment, but LMG have also alledegly taken a huge cost on assuring customers that they can receive a new backpack for free if the bottom fails for any reason.
My memoery of this might be fuzzy, and the story I have heard comes fully from LMGs perspective, so take everything with a grain of salt.
- Comment on Mandalorian 2 months ago:
I just don’t get why Disney would go to that extent when the lawsuit should have easily been disregarded as not applicable to them. Digging up an old Disney+ membership to find some terms which could apply seems like a terrible PR move for their service.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s a good point.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 3 months ago:
I really don’t have a clue, but calculating averages might yield results which don’t represent a directly applicable value. If some people lose tens of years due to dramatic complications, it could weigh up a lot for people who barely lose any life length.
Again, I’m just guessing wildly, but anything which scares people away from smoking is good in my opinion.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 3 months ago:
It’s a very rough approximation which was used in anti-smoking campaigns, at least in the 90s/00s.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 3 months ago:
When you want to create the atmosphere of the 60s without having to smoke anything yourself?
- Comment on Sign of the times? 3 months ago:
One inhalation on a single cigarette is said to reduce your life by 7 minutes. How does this apply here? Is the scale linear or exponential?
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
There are a variety of reasons, and of course there exists people who are in full control of their weight, but decide to not do anything about it. What I’m hinting at is that there are also a lot of people who suffer with deeper psycological issues. We don’t really tease depressed people with nick names and expect them to just snap out of it at any time. Hence I feel like we should generally treat heavier people with respect instead of assuming that it’s their active choice.
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
Yep, the same way people can take full control of their depression, alcoholism or other psycological issues. It’s all about just rolling up those sleeves and deciding not to have the issues. So we can safely assume that all heavier people are a result of them actively choosing to become heavy, so we should always treat them as such.
- Comment on Knife vs. Gun Control? 3 months ago:
Similarly to religion and the bible, words mean whatever people want them to mean.
- Comment on Suffering 3 months ago:
That trolley problem is intense: would you direct the trolley onto a track as driving_crooner described or let the trolley run on an empty track?
- Comment on Why does the urge to go to the bathroom increase when we get home? 3 months ago:
Having stress related bowel issues, I can assure you that you are in luck that it works that way for you and not the other way around like it seems to work for me.