ornery_chemist

@ornery_chemist@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got one because I was intrigued by its lead rotation, but I found that it really didn’t rotate the lead enough while I wrote. I kept having to rotate the barrel manually to keep a thin line like I do for every other mechanical pencil, and then would get annoyed every time the clip came around to brush my hand. I’ve been wondering if I’m doing something wrong, or if Japanese just uses more shorter strokes. Do you also like it when writing English?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Arsenic is a classic murder poison. It’s been known since anciemt times, though possibly unsuited to your onset requirement. Acute poisoning by ingestion is generally within a few hours, but if your character sustains lower doses over time, you could probably draw out the timeline to whatever you wanted. It would be obvious that the character is unwell during this time, but the symptoms aren’t super specific and could be confused with e.g. food poisoning.

  Or just invent a mushroom like others said. The toxins are diverse enough that I doubt anyone would be too upset if you tuned it exactly to your timeline and desired symptoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyanide poisoning is famously pretty fast though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA cuts off international climate science support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  later?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i'm gonna need directions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey look, it’s a kürzlich aufgebaute vom Aufbauprinzip verbaute Bau

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Precision takes time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  one gets silicosis and the other gets siliconetits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Problem?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Goos rule of thumb: if someone else hasn’t solved the problem yet, it’s more complicated than you’re assuming. If the problem is worth solving, other people smarter than you have almost certainly attempted the easy “solutions” already, and they were inadequate to solve the problem. Heck, even if it’s not worth solving, there’s a non-zero chance that some pre-Reagan weirdos took a crack at it with bonus mercury and thallium compounds for the lulz and published it all in a vague 200-word comm in a now-defunct journal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This feels wrong. I love it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the squaring actually multiplication by the complex conjugate when working in the complex plane? i.e., √((1 - 0 i) (1 + 0 i) + (0 - i) (0 + i)) = √(1 + - i^2^) = √(1 + 1) = √2. I could be totally off base here and could be confusing with something else…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, it's me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I so badly want to be as smart and articulate as Feynman when ever I grow up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate that that happens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  dass das das das dass da ersetzen kann ist falsch

  translation: that “das” can replace “dass” there is wrong.

  same shit different barbarians

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah yes, regression⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This relation between temperature and resistivity can be shown to be exponential in certain temperature regimes by waving your hands and chanting “to first order.”

  for some reason this is the line that got me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half as Hot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New strategy to prevent global warming: just freeze all of the CO2 out of the air!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink it, I dare ya⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively for a full octet on every atom, oxiryne, which does not exist and does not have a wiki page. It’s basically acetylene with its arms chopped off and the stumps dislocated, bent back, and stapled together with an oxygen atom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, but certain corporate-mandated client-side PDF viewers are… bloatier. Though, I do like not having another window to manage when I open in browser, particularly when doing web searches. It pairs well with tab grouping extensions, and I generally don’t use markup, so no loss for me there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  https://…/epdf/… -> https://…/pdf/…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synthesize deez nutz⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Synthesis: everything happens except what you want. And then the 26h/day tryhard at <random other institution> in <random other country> publishes the molecule with the exact same route. The problem? Your hands suck. Git gud scrub.