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taylor price
hello vonnie
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Janaina Medeiros
Today's Document
Misplaced Lens Cap
oozey mess
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Claire Keane
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Three Goblin Art
todays bird
will byers stan first human second
AnasAbdin
noise dept.
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@verdantsymmetry
After the Soviets shot down the U-2 in 1960 they put it on display at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow. I think we deserve an impromptu spy balloon exhibit at the Smithsonian.
Did they ever display any part of that AWACS they got?
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amazing
Glad I only started playing after I stopped needing my clearance.
"Special Topics: Touching and grasping with soft fingers and hands" is a real class you can take at MIT this semester. If you even care.
Cool! Grasping with soft fingers is basically what I do professionally, do you think it’ll be on Open Courseware?
IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST
OR ‘PEAKED’
BUT PIQUED
‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’
THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA
THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU
ADDITIONALLY:
YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’
IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH - THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN
WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE
IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.
DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED
DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC
BORN= existing as a result of birth
BORNE= carried or transported by
LIGHTENING = to make something less dark in color or to lessen its weight
LIGHTNING = bright flash of light during electrical storms
{This is quite helpful. Thank you Rebloggers.}
((adm: I just want to add-
Loose- untight
Lose- opposite of winning))
((ALSO: A fun trick - Affect = Action Effect = End Result ))
There = In that place
Their = belonging to them
can’t = a contraction for cannot
cant = a tilt or lean at an angle, usually to accommodate accessibility
Me thinking that this is child’s play and that I know it all already:
Me realising there are some things I didn’t already know:
TO- GOING ONE PLACE TOWARDS ANOTHER
TWO- 2, A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 3
TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD, THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.
TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE
WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD,
THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
STATIONARY - TO STAY PUT OR NOT MOVE
you can remember this because they both have “a"s
STATIONERY - MATERIALS USED TO WRITE, INCLUDING PAPER.
you can remember this because they both have “e"s
REIN - PART OF THE CONTROL API FOR A HORSE
“He took the reins”
REIGN - WHAT A KING DOES
“He reigned for two years - a very short reign”
RAIN - WATER FALLING FROM THE SKY
“It’s raining”
CRUCIFIXION - WHAT THEY DID TO JESUS
CRUCIFICTION - WHAT ATHEISTS CALL IT WHEN THEY TROLL
THEY’RE - CONTRACTION OF “THEY ARE”
THEIR - POSSESSIVE PRONOUN
THERE - INDICATING A LOCATION
“They’re moving their stuff over there”
RAISE - To lift something up.
“The neighbors all pitched in to raise Joe’s new barn”
RAZE - To destroy or burn to the ground.
“Joe’s barn was razed in the raid across the border the next year”
Why do I see progressives these days just recycling the King Cotton argument without any sense of irony? Slavery is actually bad. Southerners, before the Civil War, argued that “Actually Northerner you may look down on us slaveholders but really your industrial wealth depends on cheap cotton and if you abolished slavery your whole house of cards would collapse. So there!” But then we had a civil war and abolished slavery and industry in the North did rather than opposite of collapsing. But recently it’s become fashionable in some quarters to dig up these old arguments to argue not that slavery is good but that industry is bad because it depends on slavery I guess?
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Alameda’s limit was $65 billion. (Slide 18 shows a code snippet, showing that the actual limit was $65,355,999,994.)
(If you look at the code snippet, the limit is Decimal('65355999994.00000000'))
Why that number? 65,355 immediately catches my eye, of course, as 2^16 - 1 and therefore the maximum value of an unsigned 16-bit integer. But it's not 65,355, it's 65,355,999,994, which is not, by my calculation, near any powers of 2. Maybe, for some reason, you care about the number of millions, but then why not make the remainder 999,999?
Because the code was written by a low-level code monkey who followed the instructions he'd just received in a whiteboard session with a high-level designer. And in the picture of the whiteboard, the final '9', in sloppy whiteboard handwriting, looked quite a bit like a '4'.
I’m still super bothered that it’s 2^16 * 10^6 (roughly), mixing bases. Are they keeping track of something in millions of dollars internally? Did think they were using decimal floating point but, AFAIK, misunderstand how it works? I can get over someone misreading a hand drawn figure but that that number exists at all bothers me at a much deeper level.
my opening line "It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid" raises a lot of questions already addressed by my opening line
but it is one of the few songs that accurately captures the true spirit of Christmas: huddling together for protection against the horror that stalks the land
Carol of the Bells also does well, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen might be a runner up for explicitly mentioning the power of Satan.
It's the season of scars and of wounds in the heart Of feeling the full weight of our burdens It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind And knowing we are not alone in fear Not alone in the dark
- The Atheist Christmas Carol by Vienna Teng
It took me a while to suss out the difference between land mines and coal mines.
seriously! I was puzzling over a Knight Rider book (???) wherein KITT drives over a mine, thinking hmm wouldn’t you just fall down it? why would it explode??
floating sea mines were even more confusing
How do they even get the coal out of those? Barges?
they go through a heck of a lot more canaries
My guess is that this word comes from medieval warfare. You could assign your engineers and miners to dig a tunnel under enemy walls and fortifications. If nothing else, that can collapse the foundations. However, it’s much more effective if you set the tunnel on fire. By filling it with flammable fuels, and later explosives, you could collapse the enemy wall into a pit of fire.
It was both physically devastating and powerful psychological warfare, but it took a large investment of time and resources, so it could only be used effectively against high-value stationary targets.
Eventually cannons made castle walls obsolete as they became increasingly powerful, but there was a long period of overlap when armored knights were experimenting with hand cannons and black powder for castle-cracking.
Professional warriors realized there were countless uses for explosives: instead of merely demolishing forts, you could bury a barrel of powder on the battlefield and set it off as the enemy army marched over it. Of course, war is unpredictable and the enemy seldom goes where you want them to be, so that wasn’t too common. However, it was still considered “mining”.
Initially, the first “mines” were buried mortar shells used to defend Chinese cities from Mongol invaders. They adapted the concept to floating drift mines in Chinese rivers, which was effective but not perfect: early warships were mostly made of wood, rope, canvas, and tar. They were highly flammable, and if the flames reached the compartment used to store powder, the entire ship could explode. Naturally, many naval leaders were looking for any way to make that happen to their enemies, which led to torpedoes and the “floating petard”.
By the late 1700′s, waterproof outer casings and internal timers finally made it possible to set reliable, effective mines on land or water. They were self contained, which made burying them fast enough to place large numbers and cover the entire field. This took the guesswork out of anti-personnel “land mines”, and made the vast minefields of early industrial warfare possible.
should train those seagulls from Finding Nemo to locate them
This is K-Dog, a member of the US Navy Marine Mammal Program, at work clearing mines from the Persian Gulf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dolphin
military dolphin, irregular seal, partisan walrus, terrorist lobster,
you skipped right over Navy Seal there huh?
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class
Lets all just make sure we never try giving weapons to squids.
the fact that we made it through the Cold War is nothing short of a miracle. I wish we talked about Mutual Assured Destruction more in schools
William Gibson once suggested that the days on which we almost destroyed the world with nuclear weapons should be recognized as international holidays, to raise awareness of how very precarious the situation has been at times.
If you would like to observe such a holiday, October 27th should be Vasili Arkhipov Day. During the Cuban missile crisis he was first officer on Soviet submarine B-59 off the coast of Cuba. When the destroyer USS Beale began to drop depth charges to force them to the surface, his captain decided that WW III must have started, and ordered his men to arm and fire a nuclear torpedo at a group of American ships. Due to a strange circumstance, the captain had to seek Arkhipov’s approval to fire the weapon, because while he was only second in command of the sub, he was in command of the flotilla of which the submarine was a part. Arkhipov, outnumbered three to one, steadfastly refused to give his approval.
Have any of you ever wanted an in depth discussion on the strategy and logistical elements of various military campaigns of Lord of the Rings? Ever thought that Saruman might have been a “dummy-wummy whose plans failed because they were bad” but needed someone to point out exactly what classic errors he fell into? Want to get a better understanding of what “Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics” really means? Well, I’ve found A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry pretty great and you might like it too. Especially the Lord of the Rings sequence.
The history of iron working is also great.
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Have any of you ever wanted an in depth discussion on the strategy and logistical elements of various military campaigns of Lord of the Rings? Ever thought that Saruman might have been a “dummy-wummy whose plans failed because they were bad” but needed someone to point out exactly what classic errors he fell into? Want to get a better understanding of what “Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics” really means? Well, I’ve found A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry pretty great and you might like it too. Especially the Lord of the Rings sequence.
Sodalite is a type of rock that reacts with UV light. When exposed to it, the rock turns to a golden, lava-like color.
Source
I thought that was a microphone at first and that he was going to interview the creek
I had this really weird dream last night that spanned a couple weeks where we all had to live in the stata center and people kept drowning in their sleep cuz their rooms would fill up with water but by the morning it was always empty and dry
It was one of those the building is alive scenarios
Anyway tldr we found out all the building really wanted was to be more normally shaped so we put up scaffolding and fixed it all
Rooms randomly filling up with water and killing everyone inside seems extremely on brand for Stata, tbqh.
@another-normal-anomaly @quantumofawesome @gender-trash @augmentedvarangian
I think that’s all the MIT tumblrs I know?
Oh I missed a bit we initially tried sacrificing gehry which fixed things for a little while but the building ultimately just needed to be reshaped
help me I’m dying
personally I think “sacrifice gehry and hope it fixes Stata” is an experiment worth trying
They managed to fix the student center, basically, so all things are possible. Maybe the fix for Stata would involve the shaman hat the student center used to have?
Walked down to Jamaica Pond this morning. 9 and 1/3 miles total.
I love "how do you do math?" questions. Here's how my brain does it:
How about you guys?
27 + 3 then 30 + 45
20+40 then 7 + 8 then 60 + 15
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Looking for suggestions for a new game to play, nothing in my library seems interesting
I enjoyed The Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium recently. Be warned the later can get a bit dark.
this graph sucks so hard. orange is crime rate; blue is the proportion of Americans who believe the derivative of the orange graph is positive (within their community). the yellow “perception gap” is completely meaningless.
which is not to say the data in the graph does not support the point they’re trying to make; it does (if accurate). but it’s a visualization that visualizes sheer nonsense!
The graph also compares (i) the violent crime rate to the perception of all crime; (ii) the national crime rate to the perception of local crime; and (iii) the reported crime rate to perceptions of actual crime.
You could imagine situations where (i) property and nuisance crimes are increasing even as violent crimes fall; (ii) crime rates are falling rapidly in certain areas (e.g., city centers and inner suburbs) but rising slowly in others (e.g., outer suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas) with a larger share of the population; or (iii) crime reporting rates are falling.
None of which is especially implausible!
What’s interesting to me is how they managed to get orange and blue to track so closely from 1994 to 1999 (potentially they did something adjacent to p-hacking, comparing tons of variables until one produced the visual effect they wanted). Or even whether the tracking extends far into the past – did they use a dataset that included early 1990s dates, or even 1980s dates, and lop it off?
To make this point I’d really like to see parallel graphs of crimes that made the newspapers by year vesus crimes that made the news paper that people can remember in 2020 by year and see the two lines get further and further apart the further back you go.
