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snek_boi, to memes in Aaaaaand it's over

Interesting. Based on the definition “conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases”, I’m guessing that you’re implying a beard categorized as unkempt can lead to disease.

Just because I’m trying to understand, is the issue hair’s length? If so, shampoo and conditioner can be used in larger amounts. The shampoo would pick up the dead skin cells, remove excess grease, and pick up all kinds of germs. The conditioner would reapply grease so that the hair is healthy and strong.

Is the issue the fact that this hair is so close to the mouth that, when eating, it could have sauces or stuff like that falling onto it? If so, shampoo or regular soap can clean it all up for it to be hygienic again.

Am I missing something?

snek_boi, to memes in Aaaaaand it's over

What does the word hygiene mean?

snek_boi, to memes in Aaaaaand it's over

… and in a particular culture, and for people who care about what others think

snek_boi, to memes in Aaaaaand it's over

Why do you say so?

snek_boi, to memes in We're doomed

I found this: “With its plug still intact but threatened by warm water upwelling, the Ice Tongue prevents the majority of West Antarctica land and undersea ice from collapse and seabed displacement, respectively. The changes are profound and terrifying. The land-fast ice is gone in front of PIG and Thwaites before the melt season begins. This is not going to end well.”

Here: dailykos.com/…/-Pinning-point-five-collapsed-the-…

snek_boi, to science_memes in The audacity

I get that this could be making fun of the idea that a hypothesis is different to a theory, but there are epistemic stances that don’t distinguish between either. From that perspective, both a hypothesis and a theory answer the question of “What do you think is happening here?”

snek_boi, to memes in But I love death

Maybe not this single one, but if there’s a running discourse that shows veganism is perfectly common and normal, more people are willing to become vegan. This is part of the nudges we humans are prone to.

snek_boi, to asklemmy in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

Checked it out and love that package! Thanks for the recommendation :)

snek_boi, to asklemmy in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

If you drive, the 3-4-8 second tailgating rule

snek_boi, to asklemmy in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

what if someone is mildly interested in why you use it as a filter technique? :P

snek_boi, to asklemmy in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

To give an extreme example:

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.” vs. “053250411391271”

But to be fair, I never end up with nice sentences. It’s more like “Thank you, rainbow. Clock firework” and I imagine myself thanking a rainbow and telling it to “clock firework”, whatever that means…

As to how long, I think it could’ve been a couple of months doing a dozen or so conversions. In total it’s a very small investment of time, assuming you space it out and don’t cram. It really helps to use the Wikipedia mnemonics (like how 4 is kinda like a mirrored R).

snek_boi, (edited ) to asklemmy in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

If someone wants to play around with the code, here it is.

Note that you need RStudio and the Tidyverse package.

snek_boi, (edited ) to asklemmy in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

I think the way to formally prove this is to find the difference between the Fibonacci approximation and the usual conversion, and then to find whether that series is convergent or not. Someone who has taken the appropriate pre-calculus or calculus course could actually carry it out :P

However, I got curious about graphing it for distances “small enough” like from Earth to the sun (150 million km). Turns out, there’s always an error, but the error doesn’t seem to be growing. In other words, except for the first few terms, the Fibonacci approximation works!

This graph grabs each “Fibonacci mile” and converts it to kilometers either with the usual conversion or the Fibonacci-approximation conversion. I also plotted a straight line to see if the points deviated.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/528b1166-8b5d-481d-a7bc-180947c29520.png

Edit: Here’s another graph

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/003c6f1a-5555-45d3-a4d6-e4b5ddae71ec.png

So it turns out:

  • Fibonacci-approximated kilometers are always higher than the usual-conversion kilometers
  • At most, the difference between both is 25%. That happens early on in the terms.
  • After that, the percentage difference oscillates around a value and comes closer to it.
  • When talking about more than 100 miles, the percentage change approximates 0.54.

TL;DR:

  • Yes, the Fibonacci trick is true forever as you go higher in the sequence if you’re willing to accept a 0.54% error.
snek_boi, to asklemmy in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?

The mneumonic major system. Once I learned it by heart, it helped me memorize all kinds of numbers: cards, IDs, passwords, addresses…

snek_boi, to asklemmy in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

My shitless friend will arrive at that toilet in pain for having held all that shit inside. While I support the idea of reserving a toilet as soon as possible, I hope they don’t sit on it for too long. We don’t want to add hemorrhoids to the list of pains 🥵

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