BodePlotHole
@BodePlotHole@lemmy.world
- Comment on do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled? 6 days ago:
I used to joke about killing myself all the time.
For a lot of my life I really did want to kill myself.
Now, I still joke all the time about killing myself.
… I have no sincere intention of ever killing myself, and haven’t for almost 10 years now.
Point here is, there’s all kinds of people. If you’re worried enough to ask strangers on the internet, just talk to the motherfucker and find out.
Whether it’s all dark humor or a legit cry for help, most people respond positively to genuine sentiments of care, even from coworkers.
- Comment on what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting? 6 days ago:
Boom Bewm
youtube.com/watch?v=4cfhQYGznAI
Start at 50 seconds in. I couldn’t figure out the link with timecode thing.
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 weeks ago:
Colorado is willing and able to join this western alliance!
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
This is apt. I concur. We are concurrent.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
MEP Electrical Engineer here!
Architects. Boy do I sure hate me some architects.
- Comment on robot slurs 1 month ago:
I concur. We are concurrent.
- Comment on I live in the green part 9 months ago:
Colorado here. You nailed it. We got a lot of these unbearable “health is life” turds.
- Comment on I live in the green part 9 months ago:
Me too. Don’t sweat it. Develop a good personality. Enjoy your life.
- Comment on Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up! 9 months ago:
Orr-cas! In the middle of our fleet!
- Comment on Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up! 9 months ago:
WHOOOSH
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 10 months ago:
I work in MEP and our emails are always considered legal documents as they can be used as evidence if ever we are taken to court. So we always treat them very technical and try to over explain everything so clients/plan reviewers/contractors can’t misinterpret. It’s kind of an old school thing, but the head of our department is an old school guy.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 10 months ago:
Engineer here.
Typically when I type out professional emails or documents that contain numerical values, I write out the number followed by the digits in brackets if it is ten [10] or below for cases of amount, unless I am listing out the counts of items, then I only use digits.
“The updated electrical design will require three [3] new, pad-mount 500kVA transformers to replace the three [3] existing 225kVA transformers,each located on floors four, five, and six.”
- Comment on The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see? 11 months ago:
I see the all-encompassing maw that exists in the place where my soul would go, if I had one…
… Also seals with beach balls…
- Comment on o.O 1 year ago:
- Comment on PDP's New Wireless Guitar Controller Works With Rock Band 4 and, Eventually, Fortnite Festival 1 year ago:
Word is a bunch of the song catalog from RB4 will be ported over to Fartnight. So you might still get your chance.
- Comment on Let's meet those headlines 1 year ago:
Canoes - Volcanoes
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 1 year ago:
NIDHOGG!!!
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 1 year ago:
My partner didn’t “do” video games growing up. Till Stardew.
This is the way.
- Comment on What are the most mindblowing fact in mathematics? 2 years ago:
The utility of Laplace transforms in regards to differential systems.
In engineering school you learn to analyze passive DC circuits early on using not much more than ohms law and Thevenin’s Theoram. This shit can be taught to elementary schoolers.
Then a little while later, you learn how to do non-finear differential equations to help work complex systems, whether it’s electrical, mechanical, thermal, hydrolic, etc. This shit is no walk in the park.
Then Laplace transforms/identities come along and let you turn non-linear problems in time-based space, into much simpler problems in frequency-based space. Shit blows your mind.
THEN a mafacka comes along and teaches you that these tools can be used to turn complex differential system problems (electrical, mechanical, thermal, hydrolic, etc) into simple DC circuits you can analyze/solve in frequency-based space, then convert back into time-based space for the answers.
I know this is super applied calculus shit, but I always love that sweet spot where all the high-concept math finally hits the pavement.