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- Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:05 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 89854
- Views: 7246698
Re: Thoughts for ships
As processors get faster, memory access speed gets relatively slower, due to the speed of light (and the physical distance between the CPU and RAM) staying constant.
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:50 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Police misbehavior thread
- Replies: 5953
- Views: 819727
Re: Police misbehavior thread
Hands up, still shot. On Wednesday, WSVN aired a cell phone video reportedly taken moments before caregiver Charles Kinsey was shot by North Miami police. In it, Kinsey, who survived, can be see lying on the ground with his hands raised, explaining that him and the autistic man he was assisting are...
- Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:16 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: ACA Lives For Another Year
- Replies: 93
- Views: 16441
Re: ACA Lives For Another Year
Opus_723 wrote:evidence-based diet experts ( what the heck are those called, anyway?)
Dietitians.
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:10 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: ACA Lives For Another Year
- Replies: 93
- Views: 16441
Re: ACA Lives For Another Year
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/01/british-couple-hospital-bill-baby-born-new-york A British couple say they could be in for a $200,000 (£130,000) hospital bill, after traveling to New York City for a five-day vacation, only for their baby boy to be born 11 weeks premature. Any updates...
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:18 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Toothbrush, glasses, and clock
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3470
Re: Toothbrush, glasses, and clock
I think this explains the phenomenon.
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:30 pm UTC
- Forum: Coding
- Topic: Coding: Fleeting Thoughts
- Replies: 9848
- Views: 1682017
Re: Coding: Fleeting Thoughts
Xenomortis, can you define some kind of local function do_things :: BaseClass -> Object with overloads for the specific classes? (The program will still call the most specific overload, regardless of whether the object was bound to a variable of a superclass type in between, right?) Pretty sure Jav...
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:58 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: The Reverse of how colors work: how would it look?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2687
Re: The Reverse of how colors work: how would it look?
If it absorbed red and reflected all other colors, it would look cyan.
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 12:49 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: The Darker Side of the News
- Replies: 3648
- Views: 441149
Re: The Darker Side of the News
Poachers break into French zoo, kill a rhino, and steal its horn Police, who were investigating the crime, said the rhino had been shot three times in the head and one of its horns had been sawn off, probably with a chainsaw. . . . The poachers broke through a gate at the wildlife park during the n...
- Sat Mar 04, 2017 12:05 am UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Escape the Frictionless Circle
- Replies: 156
- Views: 40897
Re: Escape the Frictionless Circle
From conservation of angular momentum, I predict that your rate of counterspinning will be by far the most notable and, edicts against permanent personal injuries aside, you would more obviously be centripetally flattened out (or worse!) beyond the frictionless surface limit. So maybe that's when y...
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:13 pm UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Escape the Frictionless Circle
- Replies: 156
- Views: 40897
Re: Escape the Frictionless Circle
Stand to top of the block. Spin in place, causing the block to spin in the opposite direction, conserving angular momentum. Keep spinning faster and faster, until the gold block flattens and expands outwards far enough to reach the edge of the circle. This assumes the rope won't be twisted up in the...
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 3:27 pm UTC
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: advice: external cd/dvd
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3802
Re: advice: external cd/dvd
Assuming this is the right one, it says it has 3 expansion bays, but you'll most likely have to remove the front panel to use them.
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:09 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: WoW: A Strange Game. The only way to win is not to play.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2268
Re: WoW: A Strange Game. The only way to win is not to play.
Meteoric wrote:Priority lists are usually arrived at by taking a few initial guesses, and simming a lot of permutations. I suppose you could try to automatically generate all possible permutations, but this sounds inefficient.
Sounds like a good use for an evolutionary algorithm.
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:44 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lucky Ten Thousand (TIL)
- Replies: 13359
- Views: 1369026
Re: Today I Learned
A few days ago, I learned that the peace sign is a combo of the flag semaphore signs for N and D, standing for "nuclear disarmament." http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/delicate-sketches-of-the-original-peace-symbol-to-be-exhibited-in-london/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols...
- Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:19 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Blistering blue barnacles
- Replies: 28352
- Views: 2824492
Re: ANGRY NATTERINGS
I keep a metal coffee can in the fridge for oil/grease disposal (e.g. from browning ground beef). When it gets full, it goes in the trash and is replaced with a new can.
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 3:29 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Miscellaneous Science Questions
- Replies: 2863
- Views: 602272
Re: RELATIVITY QUESTIONS! (and other common queries)
It's a little ironic that the rubber sheet model of gravity relies on gravity to work.
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:30 am UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Favorite math jokes
- Replies: 1452
- Views: 450480
Re: Favorite math jokes
The Romans could never have invented algebra, because they always thought X = 10.
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 3:18 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Combinatorics with constraint
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3356
Re: Combinatorics with constraint
There are a lot of things syntactically wrong with that code.
Edit: I think anything between <angle> brackets may have been filtered out. That would account for the blank #includes and some missing template parameters.
Edit: I think anything between <angle> brackets may have been filtered out. That would account for the blank #includes and some missing template parameters.
Re: Undertale
Finally got around to playing this, so I could watch (most of) the Pacifist speedrun at AGDQ this year ( Twitch VOD , run starts at 38:43:25). I was able to watch the run until it caught up to where I was at about a hour in (Neutral ending, befriending Undyne). Just beat the Pacifist ending last nig...
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:40 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: The Darker Side of the News
- Replies: 3648
- Views: 441149
Re: The Darker Side of the News
speising wrote:I just found it funny that the article ends with that, as if every reader would know where Charlotte is located. (I just assume it's a somewhat bigger place)
It is the largest city in the state.
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:30 am UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: Language fleeting thoughts
- Replies: 76
- Views: 15120
Re: Language fleeting thoughts
Derek wrote:gd1 wrote:You know what Germany said to France in WW2 when they conquered it? Allemagne.
I don't get it.
"All mine"
- Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:57 pm UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: Thinking in words, and noticing errors
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6326
Re: Thinking in words, and noticing errors
flicky1991 wrote:When you have a thought, do you tend to think it in words and sentences?: Yes
When reading a story, do you automatically picture the locations and characters in your mind's eye?: Yes
Do you typically tend to notice errors in spelling, whether your own or other people's?: Yes
- Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:46 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Combinatoric commanders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2158
Re: Combinatoric commanders
PM 2Ring wrote:I'll represent the colors by their initials, except I'll use the printers' convention of using K for black, so our colors in color-wheel order are WBKRG.
The official convention is to use B for black and U for blue.
- Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:36 am UTC
- Forum: Logic Puzzles
- Topic: Paper and Pencil Game Puzzle
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3566
Re: Paper and Pencil Game Puzzle
Some questions:
Do the lines connecting dots have to be straight, or are they free-form?
How thick are the lines?
Do they have to go between the centers of the dots, (i.e. perpendicular to the edge of the dot), or can they come out at any angle?
Do the lines connecting dots have to be straight, or are they free-form?
How thick are the lines?
Do they have to go between the centers of the dots, (i.e. perpendicular to the edge of the dot), or can they come out at any angle?
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 4:35 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Star Wars Episode 3.5: Roguey One Kenobe
- Replies: 96
- Views: 15459
Re: Star Wars Episode 3.5: Roguey One Kenobe
Robuts: @Tyndmyr R2 and C3P0 are dicks, having known where the secret rebel base on Yavin was all along. What makes them dicks for knowing that? Before they were stranded on Tatooine, the next stop for the Tantive IV after picking up Kenobi was Alderaan, not the base on Yavin. Before Scarif, it'...
- Mon Dec 26, 2016 4:01 pm UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Gaming fleeting thoughts
- Replies: 623
- Views: 86415
Re: Gaming fleeting thoughts
It's a thumbnailed version of an image hosted on photobucket. EVERYTHING wants Javascript these days, probably to track how many times each image gets viewed and from what countries. Here: ScreenShot00191 Big skull.jpg THAT. I last saw that being herded across the dunes of Tatooine by sand-people. ...
- Mon Dec 26, 2016 4:24 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: how do you pronounce 2016?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11746
Re: how do you pronounce 2016?
Mega85 wrote:Lazar wrote:I've even retrospectively started saying (e.g.) "twenty oh four", even though I didn't at the time.
what about the year 2000? how would you say it? "two thousand"? "twenty hundred"?
"twenty oh nought"?
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 1:30 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: What is up with the ASCII capital phi?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3159
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:36 am UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: What to Do With a Nearby Black Hole
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3553
Re: What to Do With a Nearby Black Hole
gmalivuk wrote:What's the problem you think "one of these" has?
I think it's the massist language they're objecting to.
Or should it be "radiist"?
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 4:18 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Gamergate
- Replies: 700
- Views: 127648
Re: Gamergate
I believe KrytenKoro's argument is this: 1. Gamergate had a campaign to get advertisers to stop doing business with Gawker. By doing this, they are implicitly declaring that this is a valid tactic. 2. Kellogg's recently stopped doing business with Breitbart. In response, Breitbart called this "...
- Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:59 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: In other news... (humorous news items)
- Replies: 14458
- Views: 2106510
Re: In other news... (humorous news items)
I think I'm not alone in misreading "patent" as "patient".
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:09 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Dinosaur feathers and colours found in amber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4588
Re: Dinosaur feathers and colours found in amber
Horribly written article. Absolutely no discussion about cloning or the movie 'Jurassic Park'? Those should be the bulk of the headline, and at the lead-in to the article should be something like "'Jurassic Park' fossil found: Dinosaur material found in amber could lead the way to cloning of d...
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:21 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Gamergate
- Replies: 700
- Views: 127648
Re: Gamergate
I would be surprised if a vast majority of gamergaters are not also Trump supporters, especially given that both movements are supported by Breitbart.
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:33 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1766: "Apple Spectrum"
- Replies: 92
- Views: 14904
- Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:18 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Odd or Even?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4108
Re: Odd or Even?
a = b
a2 = ab
a2 - b2 = ab - b2
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
a + b = b
2b = b
2 = 1
Since 2 is even, and 2 = 1, then 1 must be even.
a2 = ab
a2 - b2 = ab - b2
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
a + b = b
2b = b
2 = 1
Since 2 is even, and 2 = 1, then 1 must be even.
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:15 am UTC
- Forum: Serious Business
- Topic: Problem about free will
- Replies: 126
- Views: 20774
Re: Problem about free will
Does MarI/O have free will?
- Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:52 pm UTC
- Forum: Serious Business
- Topic: Problem about free will
- Replies: 126
- Views: 20774
Re: Problem about free will
Greatest I am wrote:We can know, if a human takes my little test, that he or she is allowing me to manipulate their will which of course would show that they do have a free will.
Greatest I am wrote:The fact that you refuse says that you have a free will to not play.
If an experiment can't fail, it's not a very good experiment.
- Wed Nov 09, 2016 4:39 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 864857
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
What are the chances of faithless electors swinging the vote away from Trump (whether it be to a Hillary majority, or no majority resulting in a House vote)?
- Wed Oct 26, 2016 4:55 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 864857
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
Liberal arts is not the humanities. That stereotype is perpetuated by elitist conservatives who want to equate liberals with what they perceive to be useless degrees. Physics is a liberal art. Mathematics is a liberal art. Pretty much any science, hard or soft, as well as the humanities are liberal...
- Fri Oct 21, 2016 7:06 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Has any other species ever rendered another extinct?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2408
Re: Has any other species ever rendered another extinct?
I assume you mean other than humans?
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:58 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: The Darker Side of the News
- Replies: 3648
- Views: 441149
Re: The Darker Side of the News
It's what happens when you do something like
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