FallWind

20935 pts · January 18, 2015


More like FailWind, AMIRITE?

Hannah Fry. Cambridge maths professor. Used to work on aerodynamics for a Formula 1 team. Has been doing maths outreach stuff for over a decade. Worked for the BBC, NatGeo, and others. Also active on youtube, lately with Vsauce's Michael Stevens on a podcast called "The Rest is Science" which I highly recommend.

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#14 A sperm whale can get away with a tiny skeleton because it doesn't have to support its own weight. A land-based dinosaur doesn't have that luxury. Thus, we know they can't be *that* chubby since their bones couldn't take the weight. Also, we have found a few dino fossils with clearly visible soft tissue.

5 days ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 0

Same rule in Germany (unless superseded by other signs).
Another aspect is that you might not see whether the car coming from the right is indicating a right turn or not. And since they'd have right of way if you were both going straight, you'd have to slow down anyways.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Essenswerkzeug.

3 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This was an issue a year or so ago but has since been solved. All of the big, popular LLMs will perform most arithmetic just fine these days. Either because their training data has gotten large enough that they can essentially just look up any result or because they have access to an internal agent that can use an actual calculator.

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You'd do both with equal momentum. But since momentum is the product of mass and velocity, the velocity would be inversely proportional to the mass ratio between you and the ISS. So yeah, you'd impart significantly more velocity on yourself than on the ISS.

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Of course Astarion does not approve.

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Counterpoint: Professional skaters are used to carrying their partners around on the ice. This is much closer to what he's been training.
Plus, I'd reckon that this has less risk of injury in case of a fall.

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I never had the missed/failed test dream. But I do have a "forgot to sign up for a class in time so now I'm missing credit and can't graduate" dream. Didn't happen and I've graduated a decade ago.

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MORE YAY!

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

#TeamToaster

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That ostrich rider was smooth as heck.

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There's a frame on impact when the bat is horizontal and the apple is completely invisible. That would only make sense if the apple was behind the bat. But that would mean it got launched backwards. But it doesn't. It gets launched sideways and even a bit forward.
So I'm with you on it being fake.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Where is the violence?
Use of physical force, yes. Unnecessary? Maybe, no idea. Excessive? No.
Police can not fulfill their legal duties without being able to physically restrain and move people.
Again: If the protester did attack the police, what would be the appropriate reaction in your mind?

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I literally did not. I literally write that, if the guy was peacefully protesting, then it wasn't justified. That is literally regard for what caused it. Literally.
We don't know whether the protester was being civil, that's my whole point.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

"Police brutality" is the use of unnecessary and excessive force by police. Unnecessary? Maybe. Excessive? Not really. What, in your mind, would be the correct police response to someone throwing a punch at them?
Also, lovely being called a fascist for a slightly nuanced opinion. I literally wrote that German police have been illegally disrupting protests in the past. Not a very fascist take, as far as I'm aware.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Contextless clips aren't great. If the guy threw a punch at the officer before the clip, I'd say that reaction is appropriate. If he was just peacefully protesting, then it's not. But we don't know which it is because there is no context.
Plus, I don't see any violence. Yes, they pulled him out with some force and pushed the other people back. But I don't see anyone getting injuries beyond a bruised knee here.
Illegally disrupting protest? Maybe. Wouldn't be the first time. Violently? No.

2 months ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 11

The best advice I can give is to *not* start with your dream project. Do something smaller first, maybe even a straight clone. But go through all the steps up to a finished, releasable product. You will learn so much and have to redo a lot of things since it's your first time. Having that happen on the big dream project will quite likely take the wind out of your sails since all the same beginner mistakes would cost you way more time and effort to deal with.

3 months ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

Or only the cut is from a different picture each time, just pasted onto the same (more and more cropped) back-half image.

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"Gunter" is a male first name used in Germany (though usually spelled Gunther or Günt(h)er) and a last name used in Britain.
"Globen" is the German plural of "Globus" ("globe") but not exactly commonly used. And probably not intended to be a word at all.
The middle two are indeed gibberish.

5 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Decoy snail.

5 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

That's exactly why. It's just stupid.

Side note: the English translators made that pun. The Japanese version does not have any sort of word play there. The direct translation is simply along the lines of "At a time like this, I'll use my frying pan instead of an umbrella...pretty neat, huh?"

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"A imply B" is the same as "not A or B" and the same as "not (A and not B)". Especially the latter makes it clear that only the "Trick" part should be empty; everything else (including the overlap) should be filled.
"A nimply B" is the same as "not (A imply B)" and thus the same as "A and not B". So only the "Trick" part should be filled (not the overlap).

5 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9. But then the next one is 15. Because those are the first palindromes in binary:
1, 11, 101, 111, 1001, 1111, ...

5 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

For competitions, you can simply have both teams switch sides at some point. And then fastest to win or highest score in a given time wins.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

AoE memes and not a single WOLOLO?

6 months ago | Likes 381 Dislikes 1

For perspective: The number of annual deaths per year globally from all sources is 60-70 million.

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