hydroptic
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- Comment on xAI asked me to suck Nazi dick. Top comment decides my reply. 6 days ago:
Unrelated but:
ex top-tech employee who is incredibly happier now that I left
As another recovering IT professional: ain’t nothing incredible about that.
I’d rather starve than work in IT again.
- Comment on dude's barber hates him 4 weeks ago:
Just your run of the mill neo-Nazi look, like RIchard Spencer: Image
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 4 weeks ago:
Yyyyeeaaah me neither
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 4 weeks ago:
I bet that the particular universe where Phil dies just collapses on itself, killing everyone in the process. Thankfully so far there’s always been at least one universe with a Phil that doexn’t die
- Comment on COVID Mortality Risk Was Nearly Nonexistent, New Study Finds 1 month ago:
Oh look, a conservative spreading misinformation about shit they don’t understand
- Comment on Gifts from Ted 1 month ago:
Oh shit, I used to have that shirt. Really dating myself here, heh
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 1 month ago:
Oh yeah that’s generally true, but something like calling a person fat just sounds like someone’s being an asshole and then when they get called out they turn it into your problem for being “too sensitive” because it was “just a joke” – ie. continuing to be an asshole
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 1 month ago:
This is what happens when we let conservatives have any sort of power in society
- Comment on Valve may be working on a new kind of Steam Machine 3 months ago:
Yeah they didn’t quite have a good plan the last time around, but Proton has been a game changer
- Comment on ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel 4 months ago:
Yeah there’s a reason why people started calling it MurderFS
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 months ago:
Oh it’s the rule 30 sea snail! Didn’t know they were super poisonous, huh
- Comment on Brazil’s First Lady insults Elon Musk ahead of G-20 summit 4 months ago:
We’re not talking about the same thing. Bribery isn’t the only way to use money in politics
- Comment on Brazil’s First Lady insults Elon Musk ahead of G-20 summit 4 months ago:
You’re kidding yourself if you think that someone pouring a couple of billion dollars into things like PR etc wouldn’t sway an election in any country
- Comment on Brazil’s First Lady insults Elon Musk ahead of G-20 summit 4 months ago:
The sad part is that Musk is rich and petty enough that he could buy any election result he wanted in just about any country
- Comment on These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids 4 months ago:
Yeah the article mentioned that at some point. It still seems a bit petty to geofence it, instead of just calling it something else
- Comment on These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids 4 months ago:
Why is a feature like that geofenced in the first place?
- Comment on ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts? 4 months ago:
Politely disagree. I think we’re kidding ourselves if right wing conspiracy theorists are the only anti plant based crowd. There’s plenty of otherwise leftist people that would never question this one unjustified hierarchy.
More often than not those people aren’t rabidly against plant-based or other such alternative protein sources, it seems like they just don’t think to consume them.
- Comment on ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts? 4 months ago:
Especially when the people who generally refuse to eat plant-based proteins are very often also the ones who think any sort of “alternative protein sources” like insects are some sort of woke UN feminist Jewish nazi plot to sap and impurify their precious bodily fluids. Is the average “carnivore” going to be any more interested in eating sea squirt than they are in eating crickets, broad beans, blue lupin, soy beans etc?
- Comment on New Additions! 4 months ago:
Ooo, a carnivore. Which one is that? Aren’t many of them really hard to take care of?
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
I may not have been entirely serious
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
Too cheesy?!
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
It’s to scale.
Which scale is left as an exercise to the reader.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
No thank you
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
Right, sort of my vague understanding as well although it’s been 15 years since my university math courses. My point was more that “1 is a scalar while i is a vector” just didn’t seem correct to me, at least on a general level
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
Far as I understand it (which is not very far), i is a scalar even if you take it to be the complex number 0 + i. Just by itself i is the imaginary unit that’s defined as i = sqrt(-1), and nothing in that says it’s a vector quantity.
Even though complex numbers do extend real numbers into a 2D plane doesn’t mean they’re automatically vectors, and – again, as far as I’ve understood things – they’re still treated as single entities, ie. scalars.
- Submitted 5 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 68 comments
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 5 months ago:
Exactly, what the heck would I do with one? Can’t be very good eatin’ either
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 5 months ago:
I absolutely did not; it’s one of the first image search hits when searching for “wasp typing on a keyboard meme”
- Comment on The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect 5 months ago:
I love this bright spark of a Josh in the comments of the article
Oh Josh, you’re just delusional, there never was a Sarah Palin and that Wikipedia article is a hoax, just like the one for Bielefeld
