Tar_alcaran

joined 1 year ago
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago

I felt this post. And I don't even have a penis

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 hours ago

Thats why it's wider at the front

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

On a somewhat lower pedestal: Eragon. What a hugely derivative poorly written piece of crap. I've run D&D campaigns with better dialogue and pacing than that.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

It's also FULL of errors

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I think what you really want is nomogram, which is like a non-moving sliderule in the form of a graph, which is great for "If I have X of thing A, and Y of thing B, how much of thing C do I get/need?" questions like baking ratios.

Unforuntately, I can't really find an nomogram generators online that I can get to work (though that might be a me-problem, and not a website problem)

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I wonder if we’ve semi automated some way to make arbitrary slide rules.

This is how a lot of maths is already done by computers. For example, it's basically impossible to get a computer to do an integral of an arbitrary function, but there are a lot of methods to approximate the answers. And that's mostly by using "slide rule" methods of approximately getting the right answer. The computer just does it fast with smaller intervals than you'd do manually.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

I wonder how Russia feels being on the other end of the proxy pipeline for a change.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

Circum-give-or-take

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago

It's also surrounded by all of the not-easy parts

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Oh look, an article about me.

Got a PhD, hated it. Started working academia, hated it. Tried a corporate lab, hated it even more. Realized I was extremely burned out on the whole world of research and got into something far more tangible.

Very happily doing hazardous materials safety and handling now.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But at least "big bear" is consistent. That's literally what Ursa Major means, and that the name it had basically for 2000 years now.

The reason it doesn't remotely look like a bear is because this is just the ass and tail. The whole thing looks like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ursa_Major_IAU.svg/1280px-Ursa_Major_IAU.svg.png

 

There are a whole bunch of options to mark posts as read, but as of yet, I can't seem to find an option to actually hide to posts.

Am I missing something, or does marking a post just grey it out?

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