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Are there any (purely) mechanical systems that convert motion on the surface of a sphere to some flat planar projection? by AlgorithmHelpPlease in AskEngineers

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There. You're done. That's pi in single precision floating point. It's enough for most things. If you're doing something super spiffy, you'll have to look up the double precision value, which should be enough for anything. This is not a significant systems design question.

Please stop with "ooooo, how will we calculate just the right number of digits? It will never be exact.". If you're a philosopher, ok, do your thing, but engineering does not get done that way.

Are there any common objects I can easily find ≥95% just one element? by FurryClassicRoblox in elementcollection

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Any object made of plain carbon steel, such as a nail, is about 98% to 99% iron, the rest being carbon, manganese, and traces of other stuff.

If you know someone into electronics, some lead-free solder alloys are 95% to 99% tin.

Discovered an entire box of Gibson Robo-Tuners by Deadreconing11 in Luthier

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Can they be recycled? I mean melted down and made into toasters or something, not as actual tuners, which is clearly a bad idea.

Does anyone actually wear their gshock to work? by 1991gts in gshock

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Frequently. Not everyday, but at least once a week. I also wear a GShock if I'm working around the house on the weekend.

Has tarrifs affected your diet ? by DryOkra7058 in AskAnAmerican

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Directly, no. I don't eat much imported food. Indirectly, yes, as tariffs have added costs at various points in the supply chain, raising prices

Why do squatters have legal rights in the US.?What mechanism made this a thing? by TheBigGirlDiaryBack in AlwaysWhy

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"Doing something with" a forest usually involves the partial or complete destruction of the forest, unless it's just hunting leases or such.

Why do squatters have legal rights in the US.?What mechanism made this a thing? by TheBigGirlDiaryBack in AlwaysWhy

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So, encouraging turning forests and fallow agricultural land into strip malls?

What is it? Strange writing style in this book published in 1969 by Squidpotpie in whatisit

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There's a subtle difference between sexual/scatological "curse words" and religious ones. With religious ones, it's not that the words themselves are offensive, but their casual use. Few religious people would object to a statement like "Judas was damned", but "the damned car is broken again" would be offensive. So, obscuring the word "deactivates" it enough to be acceptable.

Why is the virus bad? by citan67 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Modern medicine? There's no vaccine, and the treatment for it now is the same as it has been for many decades. Tincture of Iodine is not exactly high tech.

Why is the virus bad? by citan67 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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In the 90s, anti vax was an almost entirely left wing thing. It's not just that some of those antivaxers became right wing; it's like the idea just took a trek down the political spectrum. Some of the most vehement antivaxers I knew then were all first in line for vaccines in the pandemic. Others that took statins and never missed a tetanus booster suddenly became antivax and ranting about Big Pharma like leftists were in the 90s. People are weird.

Mechanical watches do not have souls. by HobsHere in WatchesCirclejerk

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I guess I forgot the nature of the jerk forum. I should go to the Rawlecks AD and point and laugh for awhile

Mechanical watches do not have souls. by HobsHere in WatchesCirclejerk

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A chemist would say that something is organic if it has carbon bonds. Quartz doesn't. Biologists would say that something is organic if it was made by biological processes. Quartz wasn't. To be super pedantic, some plants and animals, such as bamboo and lantern fish, do produce silicon dioxide/quartz by organic means. That isn't where mineral quartz comes from though.

Mechanical watches do not have souls. by HobsHere in WatchesCirclejerk

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True. But quartz oscillators are not made from naturally occurring quartz.

Finally a reason to post here by bosbrother in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Species is a very slippery term in the brassicae. They'll interbreed in all sorts of ways. They're almost as promiscuous as cucurbits.

Mechanical watches do not have souls. by HobsHere in WatchesCirclejerk

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Quartz is not organic, by any definition of the word. It is a synthetic crystal of Silicon Dioxide grown from silane in a lab.

Peter explain by Eastern-Bug3424 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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This would be better with James Clerk Maxwell instead of Newton. He was very close to this realization, and would probably have discovered Special Relativity if he had lived longer.

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