pimento64
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- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 1 week ago:
Is there a reason you can’t use a Playstation controller?
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000, and yours is the eutectic system. Read my other comment if you don’t feel like looking into it.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
Do you not understand humanism in context, or are you just under the impression that the Fahrenheit scale was invented arbitrarily and with no particular meaning in mind? Obviously it was not, and even calling it “totally incomprehensible” belies the folly of believing that people in the past were less intelligent. The Fahrenheit scale was an evolution of earlier scientific work, the Rømer scale, and it was intended to make sense for applications needed at the time; it wouldn’t have been developed at all otherwise.
The placement of 0° for Fahrenheit makes perfect sense from the perspective of the limitations of contemporary technology: the scale has to start somewhere, after all, and it has to be reproducible. Scientists had already tried working backwards from the boiling point of water or other materials and it didn’t produce consistent, reproducible results due to the endless trouble caused by atmospheric pressure, altitude, and so on. The freezing point of water was also not consistent enough. That sounds like unnecessary quibbling from people who also commonly thought alchemy was real, but the fact is that scientific needs had already evolved past the point where a temperature scale could have variable criteria; Rømer was actually motivated to develop a reproducible temperature scale for the specific purpose of measuring, and correcting for, thermal expansion of tools when making astronomical measurements.
Keep in mind that scientists were limited by 17th-century technology, so the best method available to them to establish a consistent and reproducible temperature was to use a eutectic system, because it stabilizes its own temperature more independently of its outside environment, and a eutectic system of ammonium chloride brine was the coldest one they had access to. Therefore, the melting point of ammonium chloride brine was the 0° of many systems, including being 0°Rø. Like most decent scientists of his day, Ole Rømer recognized the inherent superiority of sexagesimal, and set the boiling point of water at 60°Rø. Also like the majority of scientists, Rømer considered it most useful for practical applications to establish multiple points of explicit secondary definition for his temperature scale, explicitly stating the freezing point of water is exactly 7½° and the internal temperature of the human body is 22½°.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who was strongly influenced by (and in some ways a protégé of) Ole Rømer, wanted to develop a derivative system and improve on it because of the widespread demand for accurate thermometers, and he also developed the first practical mercury thermometer. What he settled on was to start at 0°Rø but multiply everything by 4, because it would make calculations much easier, and because it would make the scale easier to interpret than using fractions (temperatures were usually given in terms like 13⅔° at the time, not decimals). That would put the freezing point of water at 30°, the internal temperature of the human body at 90°, and the boiling point of water—which Fahrenheit wasn’t quite as concerned about, because it was outside the scope of what he wanted to accomplish with thermometers—at 240°F. Fahrenheit wanted these numbers to be easier to work with, however, so he then adjusted the scale so that the freezing point of water would be 32, also putting the approximate measurement of human body temperature at 96. This gives you a temperatere scale with lots of whole numbers to work with, where the important “yardstick” numbers the factors of 2, 4, 8, and 16. What’s more, because the primary reference points for the scale line up with multiple aspects of the environment that humans have evolved to survive, this meant that people who encountered the Fahrenheit scale at the time it was developed lived in an environment where it’s likely to get near but not typically below 0°F on a winter night, and near but not usually above 100°F on a summer day. Considering that, and considering it was easy to do arithmetic with Fahrenheit, and considering further that Fahrenheit’s mercury thermometers also literally worked better than anyone else’s at the time, it’s not hard to see why it managed to get such a deep foothold on regular people by the time better scales based on more accurate and sophisticed calibration arose. As better methods arose for controlling for the variability of water’s freezing point, the scientific community’s need for Fahrenheit diminished, but it was still popular.
Note on the boiling point: the Fahrenheit scale was adjusted by the Royal Society decades after his death to drop the boiling point of water to exactly 212°, for the sole purpose of making the boiling and freezing points of water exactly 180° apart for calculation purposes. That’s why the approximate human body temperature in Fahrenheit is now 98.6°F instead of 96°F. This also means the eutectic system of ammonium chloride brine is no longer 0°F but is near 4°F, which is a fascinating insight into the evolving needs of science.
That’s what I mean by humanism. Fahrenheit was a scale designed to be reproducible as possible, in a way that was agnostic as possible of environmental factors with simple technology, using numbers that were easy to calculate, which in turn made sense to ordinary people and corresponded largely with the experiences of their daily lives.
It is not an attack on scientific principles nor on non-American cultures to describe Fahrenheit as a humanistic system, it is the accurate use of a term. The connotations you get from that are the ones you bring with you.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
Luck has nothing to do with it, I’m just that good.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
Celsius is the only SI unit I don’t like. I get that it’s more objective than Fahrenheit, but it has worse vibes and isn’t pleasant because it’s the worst of both worlds between the actual objectivity of Kelvin and the humanism of Fahrenheit.
- Comment on We live in a society or smth 2 weeks ago:
Yes, among other scandals. That’s why it has been captured and is being debased. The Washington Post is now like Hector’s corpse being dragged and abused in grisly triumph, except there’s no Aphrodite to keep it from rotting.
- Comment on Drama man 3 weeks ago:
You’re on the bus, in a seat, but if the bus driver finishes the day and left his hat behind, his hat is in the bus on a seat. Active/private/static vs passive/public/transitory. You’re generally in buildings but on vehicles, unless that vehicle is both private and enclosed. It’s not much more complicated than in[side] vs on [top of]; just keep in mind that it’s predicated on whether or not the encapsulatory nature of the object is necessary to its identity. For instance, you could also ride on a flat parade float without walls on roof, and putting a box on it to make it a bus doesn’t change that, so it remains ‘on’.
- Comment on [Ashens] 80-Year-Old Dried Fruit | 10:19 3 weeks ago:
Stuart Ashen is the only indie filmmaker I can think of who’s lucky to not be dead from botulism.
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- Comment on Drama man 3 weeks ago:
I try not to be a grammar Nazi, but at this point, the next time I hear someone confuse “in” and “on”, or use “floor” when they mean “ground”, I hope they stub their toe so hard the entire nail gets ripped out.
- Comment on Jordon Hudson admits to identity ‘erasure’ while dating Bill Belichick as she confirms huge career move in emotional letter 1 month ago:
Being a sports celebrity is on the same level as being in commercials.
- Comment on Jordon Hudson admits to identity ‘erasure’ while dating Bill Belichick as she confirms huge career move in emotional letter 1 month ago:
That’s my point: not celebrities
- Comment on Jordon Hudson admits to identity ‘erasure’ while dating Bill Belichick as she confirms huge career move in emotional letter 1 month ago:
So as far as celebrity news goes,
In other words, no.
- Comment on Jordon Hudson admits to identity ‘erasure’ while dating Bill Belichick as she confirms huge career move in emotional letter 1 month ago:
Is this in any sense newsworthy
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 1 month ago:
That’ll be neat when, not if, it breaks.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 2 months ago:
/thread
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 2 months ago:
TLDR; I believe Generations is the best of the TNG films and easily in the top 5 classic films, even if the TNG film series as a whole falls short.
“TL;DR I think ketchup and mayonnaise makes the best sauce for ice cream”
Thanks for saving me the time because I did not read farther. - Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 3 months ago:
V is easily the weakest TOS movie but it at least still has interesting ideas in it, unlike the completely null achievements of the Next Gen movies. It’s the sixth-best Star Trek movie by a country mile.
- Comment on Second Wave Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Includes ‘Generations’ Kirk, Sailor Worf And Geordi, And More 3 months ago:
Who wouldn’t want to spend money on a physical reminder of Star Trek’s equivalent of The Phantom Menace?
- Comment on Jonathan Majors has addressed the rumors he'll return as Kang in the MCU and revealed that Kevin Feige didn't respond to the letter he sent him shortly after his trial 3 months ago:
Maybe instead of jumping to conclusions and making shit up, you could calm down and stay in your lane instead.
- Comment on Jonathan Majors has addressed the rumors he'll return as Kang in the MCU and revealed that Kevin Feige didn't respond to the letter he sent him shortly after his trial 3 months ago:
I need there to be literally nothing new produced that has superheroes in it for, let’s say, about 35 years. And let’s toss the entire horror genre in there too. We need a cleansing moratorium on the two biggest forms of direct-to-dumpster entertainment.
- Comment on my avatar 3 months ago:
He looks like that one Homestar Runner fan’s unintentional dumpy Robert Smith costume
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 months ago:
Offer alternatives such as all-beef radio, or turkey radio.
Insert “soy radio” / [radio station you dislike] joke here
- Comment on Set reasonable expectations 3 months ago:
Needless to say, any gap time is spent jelqing and mewing while spamming racism online with your other hand.
- Comment on Set reasonable expectations 3 months ago:
It’s all part of the grindset.
4:00 AM: wake up
4:01 AM: ice cold shower. Use Lava soap on your entire body. Does it hurt? Good.
4:06 AM: breakfast. Blend 6 raw egg yolks, 1L scoop of Mazuri Primate Growth & Repro gorilla feed, one can of Monster Ultra Zero, and 4x the recommended creatine for your weight
4:09 AM: sprint around your house punching walls and letting out defeating kiai
4:29 AM: inject steroids
4:30 AM: lift. 120 sets of two half-reps back, arms, chest.
5:30 AM: rest 5:30:30 AM: that’s enough rest, soy boy. Legs and squats, 120 sets of two half-reps.
6:00 AM: get dressed in a Big Dogs T-shirt and jorts.
6:02 AM: leave for work. On foot. In the street. Barefoot. Take a pocket full of sparkplugs and smash the windows of every car that gets within arm’s length.
6:45 AM: arrive at office. Visit every break room and throw away any donuts or cakes you find. Inspect lunches.
7:00 AM: clock in
7:01 AM: do email. Berate everyone you come into contact with. If they haven’t made any mistakes, bring up old ones. Assert your dominance.
7:10 AM: go AWOL with an autoclicker running and hit the gym
7:11 AM: inject steroids
7:12 AM: start deadlifting. If you’re not comfortable with the weight, lift it till you are. If you’re comfortable with your weight, add more. Don’t be a fucking pussy. Make sure to throw the weight at the floor every time, don’t just drop it like a beta.
1:25 PM: leave gym. Scream as loud as you can directly into a cardio bunny’s ear on the way out.
1:30 PM: lunch. Boiled chicken with broccoli and oatmeal. You don’t eat rice anymore. Add one full bottle of Carolina reaper sauce. If you don’t use the whole bottle, put the leftovers in your fucking purse.
1:35 PM: start shitting to expel breakfast. I didn’t say go be an obedient little boy who meekly goes poopy in the toilet like society commands, be a fucking man and shit where you please without warning.
1:40 PM: use a coworker’s desk phone to call in a bomb threat to a random police station.
1:42 PM: push-ups to failure.
2:00 PM: get money. Close deals and make decisions.
3:45 PM: leave early. Tell the receptionist to clock you out later or you’ll piss in her car’s air intake again.
3:46 PM: piss in her car’s air intake anyway
3:47 PM: inject steroids
3:48 PM: start listening to the Bible in Georgian in your left ear and Wagner in your night ear, and hit the gym
3:50 PM: nude squats. Fart boisterously.
4:50 PM: leave for home.
5:35 PM: arrive home and enter through the highest window. Free climb your house to get there.
5:36 PM: start gooning
3:55 AM: go to sleep - Comment on this is a cry for help 3 months ago:
Why is there a circle around 90% of the text? It would have taken less time in the same editing screen to crop out the introduction if it isn’t relevant.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 3 months ago:
Folly. You’re living proof.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 3 months ago:
Don’t use inexact language if you don’t mean it. Think carefully— do you mean everything?
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 months ago:
But iphones can’t use Firefox with uBlockOrigin and NoScript
- Comment on Kingdom Come Dev Believes Unreal Is Ill-Suited For Open World Games, And Is Slowing Down Work On Witcher 4 4 months ago:
Oh wow, Unreal is a mediocre engine? Who could have guessed?