troyunrau

troyunrau, 7 months ago

You have python. You import antigravity. The princess flies off into space. You monkey patch the princess so she has wings.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

I have that as my cell phone notification. It’s amazing.

Here’s a download link if anyone else wants it: drive.google.com/file/d/…/view?usp=sharing

troyunrau, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I’m a spatial-visual person, so when presented with this problem as a teenager, I instead solved it spatially. If you stack squares like.

█.
██.
███.
…

To the hundredth row, you get a shape that is a half filled square that is 100x100. Except the diagonal is fully filled in, so you need to add another 50.

So the answer was 0.5x100x100 + 0.5x100. Easy to visualize, easy to solve. 5050.

There’s a similar problem in sports – I was a teaching assistant for our rural school’s gym class so this one also popped up for me as a teenager. If you have 100 teams and each team needs to play each other team once… You fill in a similar grid, with the teams on both the x and y axis. The diagonal gets removed in this scenario because a team cannot play itself. So the answer is 0.5x100x100 - 0.5x100. 4950. Anyone who has ever tried to plan any sort of tournament can probably solve this intuitively, but 25 years ago I though I was the smartest gym class teaching assistant ever ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago

You made me search Amazon for “dice jail” and there are surprisingly more hits than I was expecting…

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Game reference to Anbennar, a fantasy total conversion for EU4. Highly recommend if you’re an EU4 or Paradox fan.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

What if you’re running KDE stuff on *BSD. Or on Windows, for that matter…

(eg: I use Kate on windows as my primary text editor on my work computer…)

troyunrau, 7 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d6dda277-ef99-4926-b049-28dd7247828a.png

troyunrau, 7 months ago

The microgram of gold in my phone pales in comparison to the gold used in jewellery or hoarded.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Klingons are traditionally a standin in Star Trek for the Red Scare (60s era caricature of communism). What you have to understand is that the cold war of the era was simultaneously a display of might, but also fraught with spycraft. The Klingons had to represent both of these fears. You couldn’t see what was happening on the other side of the iron curtain (cloaked).

Practically, they later created the technobabble rule that you had to drop your cloak to fire. That somewhat squares the circle regarding honourable combat, while still allowing Klingons to scheme.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Between it and snakes, I wasted several hours of my childhood.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

What kind of math will you be doing? It’s a night and day difference between going back to college for a physics degree, versus accounting…

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Ah, yes, systems of linear equations. If you’re a paramedic, you’ll probably be fine and have an intuitive understanding of most of this stuff already. The jargon and notation will throw you off, probably, but you’ll probably pick it up quickly.

Practical problems you’ll face are things like: if I deliver 10 mg of a drug, and it has an uptake of 50% per hour, and a functioning liver removal rate of 10% per hour, and I want to ensure that there’s 5 mg in the patient’s bloodstream at all times, how big of a dose and how often…

But the reality is: you’ll have a table to reference and won’t likely need to calculate this on a regular basis. What you will need to do is trust the table, and for that, you have to understand how the table was made :)

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Some people are “plan and prepare” and some people are “react and respond” – and some are good at one or the other but not both :)

troyunrau, 7 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e8fd15d8-523c-4a70-ab9a-b7c22fe8be31.webp

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Isn’t that more of an Easter thing? I get my Vulcan holidays confused.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Someone expand this with more franchises…

Farscape: “Hi god, it’s me, John. If you’re out there, give me a sign!” Scorpius: “You’re out of your mind John.”

Dr. Who: (David Tennant) “It’s taken me all these years to realize that the laws of time are mine and they will obey me!” (Second frame) pouty face

troyunrau, 7 months ago

I actually miss SVN. It had a lot of issues, yes, but the cognitive barrier was so much smaller. When I have a merge error in git, I basically just delete my repo and make a new one…

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Also, CVS, cvsup, both of which I’ve used in my early Linux years.

And fossil – which is the revision control system sqlite uses and I kind of like :)

troyunrau, 7 months ago

what the actual fuck

troyunrau, 7 months ago

You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

Amazon: 1994

eBay: 1995

Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)

Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)

Google: 1998

PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)

If you look at the dot com bubble, there’s a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn’t survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.

The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn’t charge websites to get listed – it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.

troyunrau, 7 months ago

12 years from now, this post will be referenced by Merriam Webster as the origin of a common phrase

troyunrau, 7 months ago

How’s kbin doing? Granted they federate with Lemmy so it’s like asking about an instance. But not quite the same