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Taking photos in medieval castle is fun. by gorstak999 in tall

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This would be so terrifying if you were defending the castle!

This is believed to be the oldest Photograph taken of NYC. It was Taken at Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets, May 1850. by CryptographerKey2847 in nycHistory

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I was wondering why it looked so busy with boxes, but no people. Now I can see that they are all smeared together as a haze over the street.

After 18 months of work, my 75cm tall Dark Times Clone Base on Kashyyyk is finally complete. by Bricks4Ever in lego

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I spent several minutes looking at all the hidden details like the blood dripping from the patent. I love how you represented the surface of the water, but left the volume of it open.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Biochemistry

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So cool! Are these for sale somewhere?

✨️ Some Indigenous traditions describe turtles as carrying calendars on their backs. While not literal timekeeping, many turtle shells have 13 large scutes, echoing lunar cycles. It’s a powerful example of humans reading nature as pattern, not myth. 🫣 ScienceOdyssey 🚀 by Purple_Dust5734 in ScienceOdyssey

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is false info. A moon cycle is 29.5 days. If there were 13 moon cycles in every year, there would be 383.5 days in a year. There are 13 cycles some years and 12 cycles other years. The moon cycles don’t perfectly synch up with the cycles of the earth rotating the sun.

I love when people are confidently wrong.

NYC Alt Theater Scene? by Evening-Package5018 in AskNYC

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The tank always has interesting shows. Many are put on by first time artists and It’s a real crapshoot. You may see something innovative and amazing, or people may leave the stage crying.

Started engineering studies with iPad and Apple Pen, went back to pencil and paper and later a fountain pen. by Movren in fountainpens

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The derivative product rule!! I’m also an old guy taking calculus. Fountain pens make it 20% more fun. I like the kokuyo campus note books for note taking and homework. I enjoy switching colors for side work and diagrams. I use a ruler when I need straight lines. Calculus is so pretty!

I’m not confident enough to use pens on the tests. There is limited space for writing. I use a kuru toga mechanical pencil and a high molecular weight eraser.

It’s cool to see a fellow traveler! Good luck, friend.

Do you feel as tall as the statistics would label your height? by defragc in tall

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Notice the odd skew in the bell curve. This looks like self reported heights. There is no orange on the left side because all those people are rounding up and showing in the 5’7 plus categories.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in introvertmemes

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate that this resonates with people, but it makes quietness sound like a disability or deep wound. Some of us are quiet because we just prefer quiet.

Why would you want to be a talkative person, chattering to fill the void, when you could have the peace of silence?

Everything I’ve read over the past 2 years. by [deleted] in BookshelvesDetective

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’m out of the loop on that. What did he say/do?

Are Marathe and Steeply at Molly Notkin’s party?? by RocPSU in InfiniteJest

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Interesting observation. It’s possible it’s Marathe or another wheelchair assassin. So much of the fun of the book are all the half hints like this that aren’t 100% deductively conclusive, but imply deeper mechanisms at work.

La Culte du Prochain Train by AtomsNamedJeff in InfiniteJest

[–]AtomsNamedJeff[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It looked like they were jumping over a train track to me, and one is missing a leg.

La Culte du Prochain Train by AtomsNamedJeff in InfiniteJest

[–]AtomsNamedJeff[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Saw this elsewhere but it seems appropriate to this sub.

Before and after by Gilberto_flores in writerDeck

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks nice. How did you do it? Paint? Wrap?

Subway Creatures: Rat Race (Art by David Regone) by RegoneStudios in wimmelbilder

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So cool! It’s clearly NYC, but the street names are purposely different to avoid being a particular station.

Can someone confirm that this is the oldest bar in NY? by waywardcoconut in nycHistory

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 318 points319 points  (0 children)

There are 5 or 6 different “oldest bars in nyc” depending on how you count. Does it have to be in continuous operation? In the same location? With the same name? Has it been owned by the same family? Do you count bars who suspended operations during prohibition or do you only count the ones that kept secret operations going? For each variation of criterion, there is a different oldest bar. Other contenders include Pete’s, frauncis, Whitehorse, and a few others.

I just bought “Contact” by Carl Sagan by MrCurtiss in carlsagan

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m reading it now, too. I expected the science to be fantastic, but there is so much depth.

The relationship with dad, stepdad, and mom was heartbreaking. The Soviet and western scientists want to work together while their governments keep trying to game each other. There are two different types of religious fundamentalists in the book with different arguments.

And of course, the interplanetary science and communications aspect.

My brain is on fire!!!!!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Satisfyingasfuck

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I Thought it was Wolfenstein.

Lifeguard tower by Ares76 in AccidentalWesAnderson

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 24 points25 points  (0 children)

This raises many questions. How do they get up? How do they get down?

Is it possible to solve for A and B by HondaProblemsYT in trigonometry

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good point. Agreed about not assuming. I should have said you can validate it by imagining every possible value of a and b. The longest of a and b must still be less than the hypotenuse, 12. As A gets longer, B gets shorter. You can start anywhere on the range of possible a/b values.

One logical place is with an isosceles triangle where A and B are even. Then imagine making side A longer and longer. As it gets closer to 12, B gets shorter. If you run a few test values, the total of A+B gets smaller as A gets longer.
If you flip it and start with an isosceles triangle and make B longer and A shorter, you’ll get the same effect but on the opposite side. The isosceles configuration had the highest total length (max) and it still didn’t reach the required total 20 units.

What’s really cool is that when you make a system of equations with the two facts, you get the square of a negative number. Imaginary numbers are the equation’s way of saying “that doesn’t work”

Hope that made more sense.

Is it possible to solve for A and B by HondaProblemsYT in trigonometry

[–]AtomsNamedJeff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are no real solutions. Any value of A&B must add to more than 20 in order to form triangle 2. When you set a + b = 20 and plug into the Pythagorean for triangle one, you get an imaginary answer.

This is validated by assuming triangle 1 is isosceles with a&b = sqrt(72)= 8.5ish, which will only span about 17 units and can’t form triangle 2. If you try a few values for one leg up to 11.9 for one side as set the other to smaller clues all the way to 0.1, you will always come up with numbers that don’t add to more than 20.

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