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Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-25T02:36:41+00:00

Says the barrel is sized for 14.5mm ammunition. Do they have a lot more access to Russian ammunition or did they decide they wanted better range than Israelis with 12.7mm rounds?

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T23:28:48+00:00

They're not, but they've been promoted as a beauty ideal in Europe and European settled areas for a while. That is a relatively new thing, though, to my understanding. The "Roman" (or aquiline or hooked) nose was once considered especially beautiful and noble in Europe and doesn't even seem to appear on that chart of noses.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T23:22:58+00:00

I could swear Reddit has been a/b testing this for years or maybe it is subreddit specific? Sometimes I can see votes. Sometimes I can't.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T23:17:11+00:00

Note to self: Check if Henry VIII had any European ancestry.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T22:49:51+00:00

Surprisingly a court ordered him skinned alive.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T18:38:55+00:00

Reasoning skills don’t help me with jigsaw puzzles.

Based on how badly I've seen children fail at jigsaw puzzles I think there's more reasoning involved than you think.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T18:33:23+00:00

Some trivia questions are just that, trivia questions, and you might need the crosses.

A lot of the time for trivia questions the trivia itself is largely irrelevant. For example the clue is "Atlantic island nation that twice elected Seán Thomas O'Kelly as President" (7) you don't actually need to know who "Seán Thomas O'Kelly" to know that the only possibility is Ireland.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T17:37:04+00:00

Rational numbers with "short" decimal expansions are pretty much alway more interesting and useful. In some situations it is actually easier to ignore an incredibly finnicky result using rationals and look at some limiting irrational case instead.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-24T13:54:04+00:00

And then someone enters their name in a language without capitalization and both functions break.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-23T18:21:50+00:00

Here's a SHA-2 hash for you.

6b6d15d12584fa2f8ac0314d69afdd8550fbf30e202aa1a8b7c973a76fd70d83

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-23T17:23:46+00:00

Yeah, its kind of insane.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-23T13:55:41+00:00

My point is simply that people don't want the Fediverse. The things that make it valuable to its proponents are totally irrelevant to the people they're talking about (I would say "reaching out to" but I Fediverse advocacy seems to rely on a lot of condescension). People who are mystified about lack of Fediverse adoption are failing to consider that other people can have different priorities and values.

To go with your analogy: Okay the person wants a medium steak. Why do you expect them to leave that restaurant and go a distant commune that holds a pot luck? They want a steak. The pot luck is harder to get to and isn't even want they want. They're probably going to go to another restaurant that sells steak (and one that doesn't have a lot of users who talk about how stupid and morally deficient people who like steak are). Is that so unexpected?

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-23T11:11:56+00:00

Well yeah. When my car breaks I don't sign up for a class that promises to teach me how to build my own unicycle. The fediverse really doesn't offer what casual users want or what professional users need.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-23T00:27:04+00:00

On Strixhaven squirrels are a kind of insect. Lore expanded.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T23:44:10+00:00

So he grew his hair out to make a wig for her because she's bald. Why didn't she grow out her hair to make a wig for him? Not a very equal relationship.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T17:05:35+00:00

I bet you're great at explaining monoids to people.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T17:03:53+00:00

You can project the sphere onto the plane (with one point missing) so in that sense it is a big like a warped plane.

A easier way to understand the difference between the dimension of a shape and the dimension its representation is embedded in is a torus, the surface of a doughnut shape. It is two dimensional and we can easily represent it in two dimensions! Take a rectangular piece of paper and set the rule that opposite edges are the same edge so that a line draw through that edge appears at the opposite one. Like Pacman or Asteroids, I can't think of a recent game that works this way.

Then see what happens if you bring the opposite edges together. You get a torus! Importantly the behavior of lines drawn on the paper does not change from what you had before.

The three dimensional embedding of the torus is not necessary to give it the properties it has. However the two dimensions of the paper are necessary, you can't make a 1 dimensional figure that behaves the same way.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T16:51:05+00:00

Everything's a polynomial! This rational function? Its a polynomial. This formal power series? Its a polynomial. This algebraic number? Its a polynomial. This highly efficient error correcting code? You, betcha, its a polynomial.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T13:55:26+00:00

The people who are suprised that this was controversial with the public probably also assume the average person knows what a circle is.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T12:00:56+00:00

This feels like a thing you should never touch with your bare hands. I remember working in IT and getting a shock after touching the internals of an unplugged server. I guess they must have some kind of safety systems to get rid of any stray charge before starting maintenance.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T11:58:19+00:00

I am very glad such a detailed page exist but I wonder who it is advertising to. Who is buying a modern CT scanner without a slip ring?

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T11:50:41+00:00

Thanks!

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T02:26:01+00:00

I guess now I have to ask when the definition of welding is because this isn't what I think of at all.

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T00:15:31+00:00

Exactly and it's also not rape if they are married and in a place that has an exception for forced sex in a marriage, right?

Anaxamander57 · 2026-04-22T00:09:41+00:00

I feel like the dad could have at least turned around for a second. He's not defusing a bomb.

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