Gustephan
@Gustephan@lemmy.world
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 3 hours ago:
I have literally designed and implemented aircraft parts based on inspiration I got listening to somebody infodump about an animal they were studying. Learn the things other people care about. It will make you better at what you care about and probably a better person in the process
- Comment on Gotta Smash 2 days ago:
I still vote we do it. Guaranteed Nature publication for whoever figures out the infrastructure required to pull it off
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 3 days ago:
(…) of uniform density in a neutral vacuum.
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 4 days ago:
Vibes. I look at it and try to guess and submit a number within 5 or 10 seconds. It may not be as accurate but I feel like I get more benefit training my ability to estimate at a glance than I do training my ability to do math and spatial reasoning assisted by math. Im already really good at math and math assisted spatial reasoning
- Comment on YOLO 6 days ago:
“Unsolvable” integral? Analytical math in shambles
- Comment on irl shiny 6 days ago:
Context tells me that was probably a joke, but if youre actually having trouble spraying palmetto bugs try spraying them with windex. They actually breath through their carapace, and the surface tension of windex makes it so they almost immediately stop getting oxygen --> stop moving. Gruesome, but you stop thinking about that the first time you wake up to one of those fuckers in your bed
- Comment on 6 days ago:
www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/9/4278
TLDR: modeling traffic as a gas leads to fairly accurate predictions. If that doesnt mean anything to you, here’s a decent visualization of how gasses move around in a system. In this analogy, each of the gas particles models a car on the road. youtu.be/Hr5Baj3lXFA
- Comment on 2hot2handle 6 days ago:
Indeed, the behaviour does need to be examined. You are actively confusing that examination if you are inaccurate when calling out the behaviour (again, with no intention of defending the situation in the OP, purely disagreeing with your “I dont care about being accurate when calling people out” statements)
- Comment on 2hot2handle 6 days ago:
It’s not about making a value judgement on a person, its about calling out a specific behaviour. As a thought experiment, would you have engaged with me if I came at you like “you’re an idiot” (making a value judgement on you as a person) rather than specifically addressing the behaviour you exhibited that I disagree with?
To be clear, I have no negative opinions of you and I absolutely do not think you’re an idiot. That was posed purely as a hypothetical to illustrate the difference in communication effectiveness between making a value judgement about a person and addressing a specific behaviour.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 6 days ago:
Yes, it would. It’s also not related to the comment I replied to, in which you stated that you dont care about being accurate when calling somebody out. My point is that you should care about accuracy when youre calling out bad behaviour, I’m not trying to defend Mr “actually it would be spontaneous” from the image
- Comment on 2hot2handle 6 days ago:
You kinda should. The entire value of shaming people is to show a person that somebody else or a group of somebody elses do not approve of their behaviour. If you dont care about being accurate in calling out antisocial behaviour, how do you think the person expressing said antisocial behaviour will understand that interaction? Do you think they’ll be able to understand what they did wrong? Obviously thats not always relevant, some people just want to mudwrestle and they’ll never hear you no matter what you say. It’s worth it to be accurate in case they are the type of person who might remotely consider your words though
- Comment on I'll take care of it Alfred 1 week ago:
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 1 week ago:
Image both sides of the original meme are wrong, cmv
- Comment on I know I get excited when I see NFLD mentioned 1 week ago:
I love it. It gives me a chance to tell some of the deep and storied history of Anonymous Proxy
- Comment on These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous.. 1 week ago:
If this thing is emitting light that appears blue to you, you’re about to have a monumentally bad time
- Comment on BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE 1 week ago:
What’s the difference between a phd mathematician and a large pizza?
The pizza can feed a family of four.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 week ago:
Curie three times. Her work was so groundbreaking that she got name recognition on the same level as the rest of them as a woman in the late 1800s. Based on my experiences with modern women in stem, I’d expect she worked way harder to get where she did than any of the rest of them and as such I’d expect her insight to hold a lot more value. I’d pick Pierre too if he was also on the list
- Comment on W̶̊ͅe̴͔̕ ̵̬̇à̵͙ř̷̥e̸̛̬ ̵̯̓t̸̛̩h̴̗͑ę̴͌ ̸̭͊s̴̼̆i̸̠͐m̴̩̄ũ̴ͅḻ̵͛ä̴͎́ṱ̶͛í̶̢ö̴͎ň̶̺.̴̗̄ ̷͔͛ 3 weeks ago:
This is what happens when you use regex to parse [X]HTML
- Comment on Anon goes on a diet 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been on a glp1 medication to treat obesity for about 2 months now, and its wild how well it works. Im down about 25 lbs. The most striking part to me is that I took a week off during month 2 because I needed a break from feeling sick and fatigued all the time, and during my break week I was getting full on just under half the food I’d eat in a sitting prior to starting the medication.
All that being said, im still convinced that the most effective part of ozempic is how fucking sick it makes you feel all the time. In my case its gotten to the point that the threat of digestive pain caused by eating while on ozempic is a bigger motivator than hunger; 5 days a week lately my food intake is “enough greens to make fibrous poop, enough crackers to absorb some of the excess stomach acid and mitigate heartburn, and a multivitamin”
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Beware! Refracted sunlight causes the nefarious gay agenda to appear. Always stares directly into the sun when outside to minimize your chances of viewing EVIL GAY REFRACTED SATANLIGHT
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 3 weeks ago:
None. Just cheat. It will prepare you for the real world better than pretending to respect the authority of morons.
- Comment on Nine out of 10 nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland reject pay award 4 weeks ago:
Yeah turns out two years of above inflation pay rises dont make up for 40 or 50 years of wage stagnation. Fucking wankers
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I just block that community. Not like out of malice or anything but it prevents me from commenting on a post without looking at the comm name. I try to make a habit of not spending time in places where I am not welcome
- Comment on Shaming Crayfish 5 weeks ago:
I never got this. The people in my life who call themselves sluts are some of the warmest most caring people in my life. I have to remember not to call people slut as a compliment most of the time because of the people I know who choose that title for themselves
- Comment on Anon does the shopping 1 month ago:
Clearly. If we were he’d be advised to hit facebook, delete the lawyer, and hire a gym too
- Comment on bad board games 1 month ago:
My first speeding ticket happened during college. I had to take a few weeks driving course, cut luxuries out of my life for a month, and pick up extra shifts at my job for a month to handle it. It was an overall miserable experience.
My next speeding ticket happened while I was an engineer. I literally paid it off on my phone while the officer was doing paperwork on the side of the road AND gave them an extra $100 because I could do that instead of any kind of driving course. I stopped caring about it at all 10 minutes later. It was fucking wild to see “laws are only for the poors” in action like that
- Comment on cookie combs 1 month ago:
Does it haunt your dreams the same way it haunts mine?
- Comment on cookie combs 1 month ago:
I’ve legit been thinking about this since i posted the comment lol. I think the target area should probably be a minimal regular hexagon, but I honestly dont have the mathematical chops to figure it out myself or to know which would be more interesting.
Intuition tells me to either try to reduce the problem to like convex hull or figure out a reasonable way to generate random packings and just monte carlo it a few million times for a close to optimal solution. A reasonable way to generate random packings feels like it would be way harder to implement than it sounds
- Comment on cookie combs 1 month ago:
I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 month ago:
I used to maintain an excel database along with an ecosystem of internal engineering tools in excel/vba. I worked in a vault, and one day I asked my isso if I could get python on some of the machines in my lab. A full 1.5 years later they got back to me that some security office was finally ready to consider my request and sent me a bunch of paperwork to fill out to justify why I needed python. And separate copies for each individual library I wanted to come with it. Needless to say I went on continuing to maintain my excel database and toolkit
