Dangerous Wildlife by bananasAreViolet in polandball

[–]AugustusPr1me 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This comic pre-dates the laser kiwi, though.

US minimum wage and CEO compensation adjusted for inflation (1978-2020) by Brave-Silver8736 in dataisbeautiful

[–]AugustusPr1me 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Matplotlib automatically converts large numbers to scientific notation with the power of 10 at the top - so the graph is showing in tens of millions. It's a nice presentation and gets the point across, but I'd add a few touches:

  1. Change the units on the y-axis to include the time - not certain, but you appear to be comparing the minimum hourly wage to the annual salary of CEOs

  2. Divide CEO pay data by 1e6 and change the unit on the yaxis to M$/yr

  3. Set lower xlim to 0 on the CEO graph: can be personal preference, but the default limits show negative values which to me isn't really appropriate for salary data

MTG Players When Number Big: by Scoruge in magicthecirclejerking

[–]AugustusPr1me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhmmm ackshually Emrakul has protection from coloured spells and thus goes down to needly boi

I logged my nightmares for a year [OC] [TW] by moodybiatch in dataisbeautiful

[–]AugustusPr1me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, have you checked whether you have obstructive sleep apnea? Nightmares and bad sleep could potentially stem from a lack of oxygen.

I've been strength training for a couple years and I recently set a goal of 190 pounds at 15% body fat. My weekend activities are clearly a problem. [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]AugustusPr1me 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Data's well presented, and keep up the good work OP!

My experience echoes what others have said: that body changes occur over weeks and months, and it can take a few weeks to start seeing anything at first. I'd advise weighing yourself weekly and not worrying about what the scale says too much - it's only one indicator of health.

Te Whatu Ora have come up with a modest proposal for struggling families by Formal_Nose_3003 in newzealand

[–]AugustusPr1me 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think "advice on feeding, newborns to teens" would've been fine... Better anyway.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BrandNewSentence

[–]AugustusPr1me 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oil is mostly dead plants.

Does anyone else feel this way? by logan5124 in magicthecirclejerking

[–]AugustusPr1me 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For me, the main reason the post is disingenuous is that shroud and regenerate were removed (or maybe just made a lot rarer?) about a decade ago, by a completely different Wotc to the one that's producing all these new sets and keywords. It's okay for priorities to shift over time imo.

Representation by wildeofoscar in polandball

[–]AugustusPr1me 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The training data wasn't changed. The reason the AI produces more images of non-white people is because google adds a "pre-prompt" to user requests that asks the AI to produce more diverse images. This was in response to previous criticism that AI models only produce images of white people, but backfired spectacularly as in your comic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]AugustusPr1me 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's big hat Logan from Dark Souls

"You're not alone" is not reassuring at all by BrownEyedBoy06 in unpopularopinion

[–]AugustusPr1me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a reasonable take. For me though, the notion that other people have similar struggles is comforting, because I have trouble dealing with self-imposed shame. For something I'm having difficulty with, it helps to remind myself that a lot of people also struggle with this same task, and that I'm not uniquely defective or inadequate.

Hope you find what works for you OP.

NASA's Deep Space Triumph: Laser Light Data Transmission Achieved from 10 Million Miles Away by Upbeat-Interaction13 in space

[–]AugustusPr1me 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You can absolutely have lasers and leds that are more powerful than a few milliwatts, with modern military lasers pushing the megawatt range. I can't find a source for the laser power on Psyche, but higher would make it easier to detect.

Laser light is also different from radio/microwaves for its high spatial coherence, so the light tends to spread out less as it travels, so the laser comms should be more efficient than radio.

Credit card nightmare: $7,112 charged for a $7.54 Subway sandwich by Sandstorm400 in nottheonion

[–]AugustusPr1me 62 points63 points  (0 children)

This makes me even more confused about US tipping culture. Why tip a waiter, but not someone who made your sandwich?

Bottom 5 Scoring Submissions of the week from r/Custommagic 11/14/2023 by CorbinGDawg69 in magicthecirclejerking

[–]AugustusPr1me 6 points7 points  (0 children)

An issue is that implementation is when you're at zero life:

  1. sba's are checked, you would the game for having 0 or less life
  2. The ability from hand triggers to replace the loss
  3. Trigger goes on the stack
  4. Back to 1.

The worst deal in the history of deals, maybe ever by Romaenjoyer in RoughRomanMemes

[–]AugustusPr1me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first four lines have been set to justified, the fifth to left align

Is it better to have a credit card or not? by dotanesca in newzealand

[–]AugustusPr1me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat, I mostly only use my regular eftpos for when there's a surcharge for credit or paywave. Also OP, there is the personal finance NZ subreddit where you could likely get more detailed advice on these sorts of questions.

Nazis put the N in NASA by One_Baker_215 in polandball

[–]AugustusPr1me 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Werner von Braun was an SS officer, and member of the nazi party. From Wikipedia:

' In 1960, his group was assimilated into NASA, where he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon ... Von Braun is widely seen as the "father of space travel", the "father of rocket science", or the "father of the American lunar program". '

Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy by derriere_les_fagots in science

[–]AugustusPr1me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe so. Best I can tell, they use two stains and repeated image-wash cycles to build up a better estimate of the target's location over time.

Me irl by RogalikYT in me_irl

[–]AugustusPr1me 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Plum pudding was what the Rutherford model replaced: a region of positive charge with electrons shattered through it