prime_number_314159

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure stones have to weigh 14 pounds…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my favorite kind of conservation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Great Engineering Orgs Thrive on "Normal" Engineers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m bragging when I say this: A decade ago, I rewrote an indecipherable mess of code into an elegant and transparent procedure, nestled comfortably inside every sanity/insanity check I could think of for the situation. Today, that code (aside from an update for a vulnerable dependency) is still running just the way I wrote it.

  Releases should be fast and rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to my brief googling, there are 131.43 million households in America, and either 79 or 80 million American households own dishwashers. I could not find a breakdown by state, but I suspect they’re predominantly popular in wealthier areas, and less popular in poorer areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to make sourkraut, you need cabbage, salt, a knife, a cutting board, a big bowl, a scale, and an appropriate storage container for fermentation.

  Start by rinsing the outside of the cabbage. Peel off any leaves that are damaged badly, cut out any smaller bad spots, then quarter each head, remove the core, and cut small strips. Weight the cabbage you have remaining, divide the weight by 50, and put that much salt together with the cabbage strips in the large bowl. Mix the salt and cabbage occasionally, and either punch it, or squeeze it. After 2 - 4 hours, there should be a good bit of liquid at the bottom of the bowl.

  Transfer the cabbage and the liquid to your fermentation vessel. Use weights or a plastic bag full of water to make sure the cabbage is below the salty water. Wait for 6-12 weeks, checking on it at least once per week.

  Lots of things can be used for fermenting, but the best is a stone crock with a lid that has a water seal around the outside, and a gas release valve on top. The cabbage can smell strongly during fermentation, so get approval from anyone you live with before attempting this recipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you start with the laces correctly run through the eyelets along the tongue, and with each end roughly the same length, you can pull the lace ends directly up, cross them in an X shape, then pass one end below the x, and pull the slack out of that. Then make a loop on each lace tail, but with opposite chirality. Reach your thumb and index finger through each loop, and grab the edge of the opposing loop which is further from the end of the lace. Now pull each loop through the other, tighten up the knot, and dress it until it looks presentable. If the resulting knot is 90 degrees from the intended direction, use the alternate chirality on each of the loops next time to fix that.

  A bonus of this approach is that it’s the same on your shoe as it is on someone else’s, so you can help children with their shoes more easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neighborhood defense crabs, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month).⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My grandmother said that old is always 3 years away, but IMO, the end of being a “young woman” is somewhere around 32.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can only be elected as president twice. You can probably hack the system by getting multiple other presidents to select you as vice president, then resign. If you serve more than 2 years of the term they were elected to, that reduces the number of times you can be elected as president to one.

  The 22nd amendment doesn’t say that someone that serves 3.99 years of another president’s term multiple times can’t still be elected, and it doesn’t say that someone not qualified to be elected as president can’t be elected as vice president, but the 12th amendment might. Either of those could be an interesting legal fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The belt and belt loops go all along the top row. If there’s only one row, the matrix can only wear a short-shorts version. There’s a crotch in each space between columns, and a leg on every column of length greater than 1.

  Sparse matrices have their own special pants that are more efficient, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And 299999999 is divisible by 13⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With 17, I understand that you’re referring to how 299,999 is also divisible by 17. What is the 51 reference, though? I know there’s 3,999,999,999,999 but that starts with a 3. Not the same at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balls⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes for way better TV than if the camera simply worked. It’s a mistake that a human would probably never make, and definitely not persist in making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pee posting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as you can maintain a steady stream of ejaculate, it’ll feel the same for her.