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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks, in it's got the juice

You’re leaving out a whole sister

1847953620,

This just got way kinkier. And I’m into it.

DudeDudenson, in despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage.

Is it just me or is office 365 just worse and more impractical than the old office suites?

CallMeButtLove,

In what way? I use it a lot and feel like it’s still on par with the older versions. It’s got some annoying “Microsoft-y” things typical to them from the last 10 years or so but I think the core functionality is still intact.

BombOmOm,
@BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

I think it’s mostly because they keep trying to push other services down your throat. For example, opening a link in Outlook opens it in Edge, even when your default browser is something else. I can’t use Edge for that link, I’m not signed into stuff there. So now, because of retarded decisions like that, Outlook actually is missing basic features that Hotmail in the 90s had.

CheddarBiscuits,

FYI you can change that in settings to launch the systems default browser. Extra steps yes, but the option is there.

cheesebag,

because of retarded decisions like that

“Retarded”, really? JFC what is this, 2001?

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

The definition of “retardation” is as follows:

  1. The act or process of delaying or impeding.
  2. The condition of being delayed or impeded.
  3. The extent to which something is held back or delayed.

Considering that the features being complained about impede the user, calling those features “retarded” is an adequate description.

It is also in-fitting with the definition of lacking of intellectual development; as mentioned, other programs do not feature such impediments, and in the case of Office 365, may actually be a regression of features.

lambalicious,

Caveat emptor ESL here but, while that’s true, wouldn’t under those terms “retarding” be a much better fit?

daellat,

Yes the decision isn’t retarded, it was made fast enough. The consequence is retarding though.

cyberfae,
@cyberfae@lemmy.world avatar

because of retarded decisions like that

You know you could have just used shitty instead of using a slur, which would have the same emphasis without the baggage of the other word.

ADTJ,

If you really felt it necessary to offer a synonym, you could have said “backward” … because that’s what the word actually means

aStonedSanta,

Idiot. Moron. Imbecile. All words used as retarded before it. 🤷‍♂️

plenipotentprotogod, in BIG GEOLOGY
don,

Are there handguns small enough to fit inside a Petri dish? Or do you just aim the handgun at the Petri dish? Does the handgun need to be loaded? If it must be loaded, will blanks suffice? Does a larger caliber reduce the time needed to aim the handgun at the Petri dish? Is there a specific distance to the dish from which one must aim the handgun? Are rifles, shotguns, and machine guns specifically excluded? Will a sword work? It’s generally made of the same kind of material as a handgun. Is it necessary to stand on a chair while wearing a lab coat while aiming the handgun? Can two hands be used to aim the handgun? Does engaging the handgun’s safety have any effect on the contents of the Petri dish?

XKCD’s not being very helpful.

Icalasari,

Blank probably would work. Those can still kill at point blank

misterundercoat,

If we just go around shooting cancer cells, we’ll end up with bullet-resistant super-cancers.

Iron_Lynx,

If we can harvest those to make ballistic vests, then I see opportunities.

rockerface,

So, like Venom?

1024_Kibibytes,

I don’t know of any handguns small enough to fit into a petri dish. The handgun must be loaded and fired at the petri dish. A large caliber will be easier to aim since it would decrease the need for accuracy. Close range is a better distance. Shotguns and machine guns would do an even better job, rifles are fine. A sword decreases the likelihood of destroying a virus because of its low energy. Standing on a chair while wearing a lab coat makes you look cooler. Two hands can be used to aim the gun if it helps you. The handgun will not fire with the safety on, thus decreasing the probability of destroying the virus.

The_Picard_Maneuver, in Types of Climate Paper
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Also:

“An innovative solution that’s always 5-7 years out, but you will never hear of again because this article jumped the gun.”

Khanzarate,

That’s “great result in a specific time and place”

ChillCapybara, in Seasonal Affective Disorder

Getting tired of the loss resurgence but this was inspired. Kudos my friend

DashboTreeFrog,

The internet has proven to be very clever with its “loss” memes. I keep seeing innovative and/or fun applications of it before I ever feel they’re getting stale.

kerrigan778,

I will never be tired of it… Maybe…

elbarto777, (edited )

Loss resurgence?

Edit: nevermind. I got it now.

somtwo,

Is there an angry upvote on Lemmy yet?

spudwart, in 🤌🤌🤌
@spudwart@spudwart.com avatar

Ah yes, My favorite Italian dishes, Waffles and Defects.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@kbin.social avatar

Big fan of antignocchi myself. It's got that certain taste of total annihilation you can't get anywhere else.

fossilesque, (edited ) in 🦃 happy turkey day 🦃
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Answer:

spoileri over eight.

Bebo,

Finally figured out after repeating it 2-3 times in my mind. Before that I was like what has i by 8 got to do with thanksgiving.

Melkath, (edited )

Thanks for making sure to keep the dumbos included but still making us work just a little to be included.

TheEntity,

I still don't get it. Any help?

Hereforpron2, (edited )

Square root of -1 is called i because it’s an imaginary number

Melkath,

Thanks for giving the last piece of the answer so everyone can be included, and those who didn't know can learn.

Hereforpron2,

Just wish I could remember the spoiler formatting haha

Hereforpron2, (edited )

Square root of -1 is called i because it’s an imaginary number butl gets used often

SomeoneSomewhere,

TitleI over-ate.

MossyFeathers, (edited )

The square root of negative 1 is “i”. The “i” referrs to an imaginary number. When you square a number (e.g. 2^2 ) the result will always be positive. This is because you are multiplying the number with itself, and a negative number multiplied by another negative number will be positive. So -2 * -2 = 4, -3 * -3 = 9, and so on.

A square root is the inverse of this. It attempts to find what the original number was that was squared, so sqrt(4) = 2, sqrt(9) = 3, and so on. However, what do you do if you have sqrt(-4)? There’s no way for a square to result in a negative number, so the result must be imaginary. So sqrt(-4) = 2i, sqrt(-9) = 3i, and so on. As such, sqrt(-1) = i.

For the next part, when you divide one number by another, it is sometimes referred to as [first number] over [second number].

Finally, 8, well, sounds like “ate”.

So sqrt(-1)/8 = i/8 = i over eight= I over ate.

(Sorry if this came off as condescending near the end, I’m trying to be thorough in case you aren’t a native English speaker)

Hjalamanger,
@Hjalamanger@feddit.nu avatar

Thank you! I only got as far as i divided by 8… But now I kinda get it (-: |>

TheEntity,

It seems I was only having trouble with the connecting "eight" to "ate", but damn, this is a solid explanation of the other parts too!

ChaoticNeutralCzech, (edited )

Very thorough. I’ll just add stylization: √−̅1̅ = 𝑖

Edit: minus

glibg10b,

Forgot the minus

GlitchyDigiBun, in stop, coma time
@GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

To be clear, you too go into a coma when your core body temperature gets low enough, the vibration just staves it off

bdonvr,

I don’t think you normally ever come out of the coma though

FooBarrington,

“You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead”

NumbersCanBeFun,
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  • bdonvr,

    Eh, it’s possible certainly but generally has a low survival rate.

    LillyPip,

    You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.

    Doesn’t apply to reptiles, though.

    JackGreenEarth, in Can't we just talk about it without the maths? Guys?

    If God can exist without being created by something, why can’t the universe?

    AlpineSteakHouse,

    Not my argument but causality is a principle of the universe and may not be applicable to entities which exist outside of it.

    The universe is bound by physical rules but something which exists outside of it may not be. Of course this is pure conjecture but you can find interesting theological arguments beyond creationists.

    m_f,
    @m_f@midwest.social avatar

    The argument I’ve heard is “It must stop somewhere, and whatever it stops at, we’ll call that god”. It’s not a good argument, because it then hopes that you conflate the Judeo-Christian deity with that label and make a whole bunch of assumptions.

    It’s often paired with woo that falls down to simply asking “Why?”, such as “Nothing could possibly be simpler than my deity”

    JackGreenEarth,

    So if it stops at the universe, the universe itself is called ‘God’?

    Nougat,

    To which I would ask, "Why are you using the word 'god'?"

    acockworkorange,

    Everybody asks what is god, why is god… Nobody asks how is god.

    …and it’s pronounced “jod” BTW.

    m_f,
    @m_f@midwest.social avatar

    Yeah exactly, though then you’d generally get arguments pushing you towards “But it’s actually totes Jesus”.

    TheFinn,

    Furthermore, what does he need with a starship?

    NattyNatty2x4, (edited )

    Agreed, the big issue with their argument here is that “god” implies sentience, which isn’t something we have any reason to assume exists for whatever’s at the “stop somewhere” point. If energy was the starting point for example, I doubt these people would be down with calling heat a god

    Morphit,
    @Morphit@feddit.uk avatar

    Reject deities; return to sun worship.

    DroneRights,

    Unless we adopt conscious realism, which holds that conscious agents are what the universe is made of, and matter and energy are fake

    jaycifer,

    On the contrary, I’d argue energy mostly meets many of the philosophical criteria for God.
    Omnipotence: It literally is what drives stuff to happen.
    Omnipresence: It is present to some degree in all things everywhere for all time, though you could argue about vacuum.
    Omniscience: See omnipresence, although having knowledge implies some level of consciousness, which is pretty debatable. My psychedelic phase tells me that it’s totally a thing, but I’ll be the first to admit that’s not a rational argument.
    Omnibenevolence: I don’t understand why God needs to be good.

    NattyNatty2x4,

    I mean your argument stumbles at the exact point of my original comment. We have no reason to think it has any form of consciousness, and therefore no reason to believe it’s omniscient. On top of that, even if it was conscious, arguing it’s omniscient because it’s omnipresent assumes that it isn’t a collection of distinct consciousnesses and is instead one giant being, which we also have no reason to believe one possibility over the other.

    jadero,

    What is this stop business? I have it on good authority that it’s turtles all the way down.

    Belgdore,

    It’s just the one turtle flying through space, the Great A’Tuin

    Kyyrypyy,

    If I remember correctly from my hazy years of school philosophy classes, it was Thomas Aquinas who suggested it. Who was a friar, so that’s why the assumption of the religion.

    Also, I understood the core idea being that God isn’t what IS the beginning, but that the point where human mind can’t comprehend beyond is God. Which, back then, and even now, I considered to be a lazy copout for a philosopher, as the point of a philosopher is to test the limits of our understanding.

    Then again, for friar to state that the end solution is not god for their thinkings, at that time and place, would’ve probably result in being positioned as a centerpiece of a bonfire.

    Knusper,

    It’s also a bad argument, because the concept of things being ‘created’ is an entirely human one. It’s us who decided that if a pile of pre-existing atoms are moved into the shape of a chair, we’ll say that chair was ‘created’.

    Aside from this conceptual creation, nothing is ever created in the universe, as far as we know. Atoms don’t ever just pop into existence out of thin air.

    I have heard the argument that the universe was just as well ‘created’ in the conceptual sense, so everything existed beforehand, it was just moved into a shape that we recognize as ‘universe’ today.
    But that would still mean there’s no argument for a creator and of course, this is simply not what most people mean when they talk about the creation of the universe.

    Voyajer, in Roots of Mother Appalachia
    @Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

    At their highest it was estimated that the Appalachians were comparable to the Himalayas, with the potential for multiple Everest height mountains along the chain.

    uniqueid198x,

    This is because thats basically the upper limit for how tall a mountain can be on this planet.

    ech,

    What’s the limiting factor? I assume it’s something with gravity?

    MonkderZweite, (edited )

    I guess, because taller mountains need a bigger/heavier base (Mnt Everest is only a few km over it’s base, stone is too brittle) and a too heavy base gets “liquid” on, or literally under the plate (it’s magma underneath).

    Only guessing though.

    But then there’s Himalaya and the whole mongolian ranges on the same plate…

    Seeing it like that, we are beings of energy, existing on the thin skin of a ball of molten stone, revolving around a ball of fire.

    uniqueid198x,

    Mountain bases can support a lot. Everest is not terribly tall from its base, true, but Denali is 5500 meters from base to top and Mauna Kea rises to 10000 meters over base.

    Its also a bit of an incorrect picure to think of the interior magma as a liquid. It can flow, but it can also sieze up or crack. Its an in-between, like corn starch and water.

    uniqueid198x,

    Its indirectly gravity. The taller the mountain, the more eroding force can be pleced on it. Water travels faster and therefore cuts deeper.

    Everest is still uplifting fairly quickly at 1mm a year, but its also eroding at roughly the same pace and won’t get significantly taller than it is now. The same is true for the rest of the Himalaya as well, the whole range is eroding at a very high pace.

    The Himalaya are home to some very spectacular canyons, including the largest canyon above water. The geology there is on full display and incredible.

    768,

    Plate tectonics and isostasy: Ocean ridges can only push so much and the denser a mountain range is, the higher the stress on the crust and mantle material.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rk2jx3eRDE

    I guess this only explains the positive constraints of orogenesis.

    wildginger,

    They are also only half of the original mountain range, which was split when pangaea split apart.

    The other half is now resting across europe, I think along the northern range.

    Serisar,

    The scottish highlands are the continuation of the appalachians. Those long striations you can easily see on heightmaps is pretty much the most easily noticeable features of both ranges.

    calculusqu33n,

    Just found a very interesting article on this!! vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/

    Gradually_Adjusting, in Sexual Dimorphism
    @Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

    Oh good, another thing that will make me laugh at odd moments with no ability to explain myself. I figured I was getting too approachable anyway

    Norgur, in On the other timeline...

    Those barbaric Brits let it stand out in the open, so untill they learn how to take proper care of it, we have declared ourselves unilaterally to be the guardians of the monument and so we're absolutely justified in taking it.

    fossilesque,
    @fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

    Classic Galactic Brain Britons

    MossyFeathers, in Birding is Voyeurism.
    FlyingSquid, in Kid's going places
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Poor experiment. He didn’t find out what pollen allergies the plant might have had.

    painfulasterisk,

    *Funding needed to carry out such effort.

    FlyingSquid,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    With this sort of talent, the kid is sure to get a grant.

    NounsAndWords,

    What do you mean? He already tested the three most common allergens: pepper, being ticked by a feather, and feet.

    Mothra,
    @Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

    Me squinting hard trying to see if those are more common as allergens or as fetishes

    jaybone,

    This is a good candidate for a venn diagram.

    anarchyrabbit, in despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage.

    The Matlab logo looks like a boner under a sheet and now I can’t unsee it.

    Kushia,
    @Kushia@lemmy.ml avatar

    Nope I’m not seeing it personally.

    force,

    why did you have to say this

    ExhibiCat,

    Thanks! I can’t unsee it but I like it more now 😆

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