Spuddaccino

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it considered ableism to treat someone unfairly with regard to their health condition(s) even if they're not a recognised disability?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  when there’s not a recognised disability involved but just health issue/s (which could be “disabling”).

  From the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in regards to the ADA:

  Under the ADA , you have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity.

  Essentially, if you are disabled, you have a disability, whether recognized or not. If you are not disabled, then you do not have a disability.

  Under this definition, something like asthma, which is fairly common, can be a disability when it comes to strenuous activities, but isn’t something that is immediately obvious to someone just passing on the street.

  As far as it being ablist to assume that someone not showing signs of disability isn’t disabled? No, that’s silly. Not believing them if they tell you they can’t run a mile because they have asthma? Still no, that’s skepticism.

  Ablism would be something like planning a company outing, and choosing the location up a tall, steep hill when other options were available, specifically because you don’t like the fact that your coworker has asthma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Daily Grind: Have graphics ever actually turned you off from an MMO? | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Graphics, as in graphical fidelity, polygon count, etc. are valueless to me.

  Art style is everything. I don’t care if I can see the pixels in the game, I still play the same SNES my family had 25 years ago. The game has to look good, and graphical fidelity is a tool to help achieve that, but it’s only a tool, and useless without the appropriate art direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Holy Hand Orb of Bajor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither count thou two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Office Space club represent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Close, but not quite. PC stands for paper cassette, e.g. the tray you load the paper into. You’re right about it referring to the paper size, though. PC LOAD LETTER just means “Put more letter-size paper into the tray.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The colour of the Sun is white⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Says who?

  Says the diagram in the OP, the EM spectrum of a 5800K star, which clearly shows a peak within the visible spectrum in the blue band, and a significant (25% or so) drop off by the time it gets to the red band. Those aren’t relatively equal.

  As near as I can tell, your entire argument is based on what a human being perceives to be “white”, and I’m not talking about perception at all, because it lies. Examples:

  • The sky looks blue. It’s not blue, and you can tell by looking anywhere that isn’t the sky in the daytime, because the air is the same everywhere.

  • Related: the sun looks yellow. The sun looks yellow for the same reason the sky looks blue.

  • When I close my eyes, I can’t see anything. That doesn’t mean everything is black or the same color as my eyelids.

  • Your own dress example, where different people would see different colors in the same dress.

  You and I are arguing about two completely different things. You are talking about what color something looks to be, in terms of colloquial terms used to describe things people can see. I am talking about what color it is, in terms of temperature and wavelength, which are things people can measure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The colour of the Sun is white⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Colors are a perception, true, which is why we don’t really talk about colors, we talk about wavelengths and temperature. 5800K is not white (relatively equal amounts of all visible light wavelengths), it’s light blue (decent amounts of most visible light wavelengths, but a significant peak in the 450-500nm wavelength band, which looks blue to us). Lightbulbs use color temperature because filament and halogen lights generate light the same way the sun does: by getting hot, and how hot it is determines the light wavelengths emitted. That’s why I included the chart, it’s a good analogue.

  If you look at the graph provided in the OP, you can see for yourself that there’s significantly more blue than anything else being emitted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The colour of the Sun is white⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really a pale blue. If it were white, the visible spectrum would be pretty even, but you can see the graph is higher on the blue edge and lower on the red edge. There’s enough green and red to brighten it a lot, but it’s definitely blue.

  In fact, the sun’s surface temperature is around 5800K, and you can look up what color that actually is wherever you go light bulb shopping.

  Image

  This shows the colors based on temperature, and the sun is firmly in the “Day White.” It’s called white, but you can see it’s pretty clearly blue, especially next to the “Direct Sun” color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2835: Factorial Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is, each number is expressed as a sum of n factorials, with n being the number of digits in the number post-conversion. You start with the highest factorial that you can subtract out of the original number and work your way down.

  1 becomes 1, because 1 = 1!, so the new number says “1x(1)”.

  2 becomes 10, because 2 = 2!. The new number says “1x(2x1) + 0x(1)”.

  3 becomes 11, because it’s 2 + 1. The new number says “1x(2x1) + 1x(1)”.

  21 becomes 311: 4! is 24, so that’s too big, so we use 3!, which is 6. 3x6 = 18, so our number begins as 3XX.
  That leaves 3 left over, which we know is 11. The new number says “3x(3x2x1) + 1x(2x1) + 1x(1)”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VERGE] Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly have no idea why this was a problem that Lyft felt needed a solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole incel concept confuses me. Are you telling me there are hordes of dudes out there so unlikable that they can’t even pay a hooker for a handy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what it appears to be. This is supported somewhat by the term “moonwise” not having a lot of historical usage, leading me to believe that it came along much later by someone who wanted a related antonym.

  The only bit about the moon that seems to travel right to left are it’s phase changes, and even that is because we’re outside the rotation and watching along it’s horizontal plane. You’ll see the same thing with anything spinning clockwise in front of you: the closer edge goes right to left, the farther edge goes left to right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That made me curious, so I tried to find a pre-clock synonym in Indonesian. The best answer I have is by translating “Sunwise”, which became “dr kiri ke kanan” or “from left to right.”

  Which make sense, if something is going clockwise around you, that’s what you’d see. No idea if that was a real phrase or an artifact of machine translation, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sunwise”, and for the exact same reason.

  Clocks go clockwise because their predecessors did. What were their predecessors?

  Sundials.

  How does the shadow go around a sundial? Well, sunwise, of course.

  Counterclockwise, as said in another comment, was “widdershins”, from a Middle Low German phrase meaning “against the way”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[HN] Fiber-Optic Cables Are Natural Earthquake Detectors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Natural,” huh?

  Pick 'em right off the fiber-optic bush, do ya?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[WIRED] By Seizing @Music, Elon Musk Shows He Doesn’t Know What Made Twitter Good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t what showed that, it’s been clear from the beginning that he had no idea how anything about it worked.