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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pluto⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, people have taken the matter way too personal. That’s mostly people who have a nostalgic relationship to their childhood classes about “the 9 planets”.

  As I’ve read, they made the definition in the particular way to remove gray areas of inaccurate meassurements. A celestial body shouldn’t be wrongly classified due to being a few kilometres larger than some limit, then be reclassified later due to better meassurements. Planets need to be somewhat spherical, orbit a star and clear their orbit from significant debris. They made a great system which doesn’t leave big gray areas. A planet is defined in a well thought out way by people way smarter than me.

  And then they go and call the non-planets “dwarf planets”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pluto⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “big” deal is that a ton of celestial bodies of comparable size to pluto would have to be considered either as planets or as general debris. Finding a clear definition which would include pluto as a planet and not include other stuff would be very impractical and possibly nearly impossible.

  But the biggest fuck up was to name a non-planet a “dwarf planet”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨space⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hence how the artist was able to choose that the time machine in this context rewinds time while conserving the universal position(?)… Relative to the center of the universe(??)… assuming eucledian space(???)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handy temperature conversion scale.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So 50°F is perfect room temperature, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨launch him anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides, if you really needed those kinds of speed, you’d obviously have to calculate with relativistic formulas. Energy is asymptotical at the speed of light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: LEGO Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 100% nostalgia, and I hard refuse to ever touch that game again. I’m sure it’s terrible compared to my standards for games now. But the memories remain, and that’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: LEGO Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to love Lego Racers. I knew all the tracks and shortcuts, and I knew exactly how to make my favorite racing car. I remember playing the game at home as well as at my friends’ houses, and I always made the same car design, as I was convinced it was the fastest. What a great game!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck the balloon police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there was a plan B. A lawn chair strapped to 42 balloons doesn’t seem like a project without single points of failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck the balloon police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reaching almost 5000 meters is very impressive, and I love the plan of popping the balloons with a BB-gun to control the descent. I’m almost annoyed that they fined this unique effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing the gloves provide low and consistent friction theoughout the game. It’s probably easy to get either sweaty or dry fingers during a long run, which could probably ruin some precise movements.

  It’s just my guess, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, reaching that screen of the game is a true first for any human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You understand?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The wind resistance shouldn’t be dependant on the mass. Shape of the sleigh would be the real factor.

  But another thing to consider is that the gigantic mass. Given that the sleigh has a good heat distribution, it would take a lot of air resistance to actually make the sleigh combust. I don’t have a decent guess for the average heat capacity, so I don’t actually know if it’s significant enough, but the calculation is more complex than just looking at the speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You understand?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought we agreed that he was in a quantum state, a superposition of all children’s homes, relying on not being observed as it would collapse the quantum state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone didn't think out the implications.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…

  They are divorced, and there was a dispute over several months (or years) to resolve the divorce with several rumors about cheating and other controversies. Not saying that it indicates an physically abusive relationship, but the relationship wasn’t great either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair trade⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disc golf does this. I find it to be the superior golf sport by far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mickey Mouse's 'Steamboat Willie' will become public domain in 2024, along with Minnie and Tigger⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda reminds me of cuphead. Love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This toilet paper at my work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the 120 grit sandpaper some offices use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would have to be a VERY lazy dog to allow a fox to jump over it anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The V is in “oVer” and the S is in the “jumpS” which the poster incorrectly wrote in past tense.

  Or did you mean the second phrase which contain both?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see why 7 day weeks are bad in regard to the number system. We rarely need to divide the days of the week into equal portions. Remembering 1, 8, 15 and 22 as mondays would be trivial after a while.

  You also claim that failure to address the 365th day and leap years is an issue, but your proposal also includes several cycle-breaking days. So the same issue would persist.

  Moon deviation isn’t something I really worry about, but having a period which almost align with the cycle seems useful. It would be easy to just examine the initial phase within the month to chart out the rest of the month.

  However, I think the biggest flaw is that the calendar would be divided into 13 equal parts, which sucks to divide into typical use cases, i.e. into 2 parts. You could split the 7th month, but it’s not really elegant. Dividing the year into 3 or 4 parts would be a mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jragon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure the Swedes would find a way yo fuck it up. “Yeah-ragon” or “Ji-ragon” or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would hope that time and date formats would be redesigned by that point. If we would live to y10k, I’d expect a lot of space colonization. At that point, I’d expect there to be some other point of reference to define timestamps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a stranger ties their dog to your bike.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s right next to the road, so the idea is probably to keep the dog from walking into traffic.

  But that’s a bit of short minded as they introduce the heat of the pavement, inability for the dog to lay down and control their temperature while also blocking someone elses bike. And this is all added onto the fact that you really shouldn’t tie your dog to stuff and leave them for a while anywhere in fairly populated areas.

  The dog owner seriously sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acclaimed roguelike studio behind Slay the Spire releases new deckbuilder after publicly abandoning Unity over fee debacle⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A comment the devs made on the steam announcement (under slay the spire) regarding someone being angry that this was prioritized over slay the spire 2:

  Hi there, this is just a small, free game we made in a few weeks for a game jam in order to get acquainted with the engine that our next big game is currently being ported to. We figured our fans would be interested in knowing what we’re up to as we work on our upcoming title since switching from Unity has extended its development time.

  We’re currently back to work on our next big game, this time refreshed and with lots of new tools under our belt! Hope people have a fun time trying this out if they’d like to!

  So it’s not like this is a big new genre for them, but it’s also not meant to be a commercial for Godot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll save this thread so I know where to look next time grandma chokes on a bone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to propose a girl who doesn't talk much to boys?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your best bet is’); DROP TABLE BOT_TRAINING_DATA;–

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard can you concentrate?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends.

  On a good day with a decent amount of sleep, good food (not too light and not too heavy) and interesting tasks, I find that I can dive my head pretty deep into concentration and really filter out the world around me.

  Doing this takes a lot from me, so it usually only lasts up to around an hour before I need a good break.

  But most days, I don’t end up concentrating that hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how I forgot that! Will edit it in!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From my experience in Norway, these are typical in context of daily speech:

  Weight (gram): tonne (a substitute name for Mg (Mega)), kg, hg, g, mg, μg (mostly in medicine)

  Distance (meter): km, m, dm (kinda rare), cm, mm

  Volume (liter): l, dl, cl, ml

  In my experience, the deca-predix is very rarely used. Most of the missing prefixes are just substituted for numbers, i.e. saying “a thousand kilometers” is much more common that “a megameter”. Of course, this differs depending on context, as a lot of the prefixes become more common within scientific fields where the sizes are common.

  On a separate note, even the numbers can be a bit inconsistent. It has bothered me that it’s often common to say “a thousand milliard” instead of “one billion” (also note that we use the long scale).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even consider equatorial countries. That’s interesting as well. Depending on the season, the literal “sunwise direction” would change, while spring- and autumn equinox wouldn’t translate to any rotation around a vertical axis.

  I used to be a swing dance instructor, and describing rotation as “to the left” or “to the right” always seemed a bit more natural and understandable for the general participant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just made my brain click. I’ve always wondered why clockwise rotation around a vertical axis was commonly agreed. I have never seen a mechanical- or electrical clock installed flat on the ground. So why would we assume that the clock isn’t in the ceiling facing down, which would reverse the direction?

  But now that you mention it in the context of a sundial, it seems so obvious that the clock is just an extension of that, making the sun and clock a common reference.

  But that bids the question if they have another term for it in the southern hemisphere.