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- Comment on 1 week ago:
I hate separate WC, but i must admit of its practical solution to the poop spray problem
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 1 week ago:
People don’t notice them? I usually don’t see them and my brain immediately starts telling me ~something is weird~ on my arms.
Always takes me way too long to figure it out because the first thoughts are always incredibly rational “what if i got bitten by a giant snake i didn’t notice?” And “where is the crawling bug?” Only then “oh, yeah, the thin spider web…”
- Comment on Your Inner Fish 1 week ago:
I struggle to get behind a video that spend the first 10 minutes saying “you would never believe how game changing….” Sorry, I am out (and I had bookmarked it)
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?? 2 weeks ago:
Two sensation of torment seems too much commitment. I stopped after one volume of the manga… does it really get better? Or just more of the same “I am super smart and remember all of physics exactly perfectly as a high schooler”?
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing, interesting video!
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
That’s even different because what you are describing is brainrot as a social activity, strengthening the bonds with your friends through shared experience
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Quantity is an important factor. A half hour a day of brainrot isn’t a big problem, constant brainrot during all your free time is going to impact your concentration abilities, your mental image of the world, your ability to build meaningful logical connections and so many other mental development elements.
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
Nature is amazing, thanks for the photo
- Comment on Doxxed 2 weeks ago:
What changed a lot is occupancy. It used to be that homes were multi-generational and families were larger. I don’t know in this context, but in Europe until recently, it was common for grandparents-parents-kids to live all together, with sibling of the parents often included and potentially their families too. An apartment occupancy rate around 5-7 was common, while single family homes where unheard of until last century. This strengthened social ties, smoothly provided care for who needed it, and made the family more economically resilient.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 2 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty big one! (Isn’t it?)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes, you achieve good traffic flow by making a city so absurdly difficult to drive in that people give up, park in the outskirts, and take public transport.
Example: Amsterdam. In the city, there is almost no traffic, achieved through insanely twisty road signals, stupid expensive parking spots and no gas stations. And still, almost no traffic doesn’t mean no traffic… I can’t understand people still clinging to a car in such conditions.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
At some point, I got quite some worried/pitiful look because i didn’t own a car but only a (non-motorized) bike. People are weird!
In the other hand, I got along with people wanting to make our own “bike gang”, aka commuting to work together.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
I’m so are you went through that. I remember how surprised my then-boyfriend was when he had a bad day and I helped him out, listened to him, and did not hold it against him. He was utterly shocked, while at the same time he had been helping me deal with much heavier shit that was impacting my daily life…
This ideal that men are 100% tough sucks so much.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
I had very little ethics being taught in my academic career. Most of what i know is high school level philosophy (from a country that still used to care about that stuff but aiming to change it soon). I would have loved more humanity courses. On the other hand, if you had given me the choice between a course in my speciality and a humanity course, I would have chose the specialty one every time
- Comment on gotta blast! 3 weeks ago:
You can extend the dot product to imaginary fields, there are a couple of standard extractions. If I remember correctly (but my quantum physics background is really poor, so I’m ready to be proven wrong) the one compatible with the bra-ket notation is
a dot b := sum_i conj(a)_i b_i
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 3 weeks ago:
I don’t. It’s the sort of thing that is “evident” so no one talks about it much. Plus, professors don’t want to point out how much the whole system sucks
- Comment on number box o number box 3 weeks ago:
Where does this definition come from?
All the geometric definitions of tensors I have met always assumed a base, such that a change of coordinate or of parametrization would change the values of the tensor. Unless you define the tensor by its action instead of its values?
- Comment on number box o number box 3 weeks ago:
Also, but that is because math likes to reuse names like Donald Duck reuses his jacket…
- Comment on Real Talk 3 weeks ago:
I throw ?? (that is also the default error code for LaTeX, so the last sweep of the pdf is always a search for ??)
- Comment on better paying job dealing with egos vs peace of mind job that pays poorly. I'd be taking a 20% financial hit. Worth it? 3 weeks ago:
To build up on it: think long term as well.
Nowadays, it’s a 20% pay reduction. How does it look for long term? Will you have growth options in the new position? Will it sabotage your resume? Will you be able to keep adding to your 401k? How likely it is that a rotten apple coming would spoil the mood in the new job?
And: are you really really absolutely sure that the new job would be more chill for you? Think about yourself and think about how you would feel in that job after 6 months to a year. Would you still appreciate it? Would you get resentful because you have little to do while you could do so much more? What would be your frame of mind after a while?
- Comment on Real Talk 3 weeks ago:
Not like that anymore >.<
- Comment on healthy nutrition 3 weeks ago:
I wish you the best… do vitamins appear? That seems so little for a full day…
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, I have seen many classrooms in which no one was talking to anyone. There would be a break in the lecture, and the lecture hall would be absolutely silent for 10-15 minutes until the lecture resumed. Other classes were a bit more chattery, or even way more. As a teacher now, it seems anecdotally that the problem is getting worse, but that’s what every teacher always said (“these younger generations!! Mumble mumble”)
- Comment on Real Talk 3 weeks ago:
Considering how widespread of a situation it is, I am surprised I haven’t found yet a good LaTeX package that handles temporary sections
- Comment on Real Talk 3 weeks ago:
Me too! That wasn’t even the inly time I got comments on my code. Since then, I make a point of doing at least a cursory check on codes when I review as well
- Comment on Real Talk 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Yes, everything works a-okay. Somehow I fixed the code but never removed the obnoxious, full cap comment…
- Comment on Real Talk 3 weeks ago:
Once, I got a reviewer stating “in the code, I doubt line 43 was supposed to be submitted”
Line 43: FUUUCK, DOES NOT WORK
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 weeks ago:
Succeeded, thanks! That’s uncanny!
- Comment on Electricity Consumption 3 weeks ago:
Somehow, the fact that it’s set in 1507 instead of 1500 really tickles me! Like, you wouldn’t believe how much changed in those 7 years!
- Comment on Wife has COVID and I've had a lung infection for almost 2-weeks. Should I worry? (background in post, mods read the first bit!) 3 weeks ago:
As a general statement: worrying doesn’t help, only raises your stress levels and negatively impact your immune system.
There are here causes for concern, and your fear is justified. Other than isolation from your wife, there is not much to do.
As a side note: being in constant contact with other humans raises your immune responses, because you are constantly trained to fight off mild infections. Coming back from full isolation was really rough on my partner, they kept getting “the flu” (something or other) every time they went to a crowded place, even just the supermarket at rush hour. It took them a year to develop a normal immune response again.