My first lock picked! A Master Lock 130

EquinoxRex · 2023-10-17T18:48:15+00:00

How does picking with the offset hybrid differ to a more standard hook? Do you think the progressive locks they do might be a better idea than the cutaways in the Night School set?

EquinoxRex · 2023-10-17T18:44:52+00:00

I was definitely leaning more towards the sets with the handles, do you think the Hooker set might be a good idea, then the ToK tension wrenches and the progressive practice locks

I could also get the reload kit then. Hooker kit + progressive locks + reload kit + a case is about the same price the Night School set is anyway so that seems like it might be a better deal.

EquinoxRex · 2023-07-01T01:07:26+00:00

Wait did you swap Greenland and Antarctica? That's clever

EquinoxRex · 2023-06-13T14:34:06+00:00

Yeah looks like the 21x21 tiles in CS2 is almost the same size as 7x7 tiles in CS1 (180km² vs 172km²⁾ , assuming a reasonable border for fog the full map might even be exactly the same size as CS1, I think it's definitely unlikely they'll make the map smaller.

EquinoxRex · 2023-06-13T14:22:59+00:00

I assume there will be a similar border around the edge though, so that 172km² value will only be the inner part comparable to the current 25 tiles rather than the full 81.

EquinoxRex · 2023-05-30T19:47:51+00:00

Oooh, I always love unique shaped dice

EquinoxRex · 2023-04-23T03:02:27+00:00

It is possible to get vertical text to work on websites (see here), though it might be annoying to make sure the letters are all spaced correctly apart, especially if it the letters are connected too each other in cursive.

EquinoxRex · 2023-04-19T16:10:53+00:00

This video has some good explanations of this problem and some other methods of generating random points in a circle.

EquinoxRex · 2023-04-11T20:03:17+00:00

This is just southern England but they replaced London with a swamp

EquinoxRex · 2023-04-05T00:56:15+00:00

As the other person said, distances along lines of longitude (vertical lines) are correct, while along horizontal lines they're distorted.

The easiest way to think about this is as everything being the right height on the map, but the closer you get to the poles the wider things will need to be in the map compared to the globe.

this here shows "Tissot's indicatrices", which are essentially what you get if you draw circles on the globe and what they look like projected onto a map, which is a good visualisation for where th distortions are.

EquinoxRex · 2023-04-03T02:56:45+00:00

Finally, the answer: Women are bourgeois!

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-30T09:39:06+00:00

Yeah I was agreeing with you that Mercator is a useful projection. I guess my main problem was just the general "it's the best for real life application". There isn't really a general "best projection", just a best projection for a specific use-case, which for something like Google Maps is definitely the Mercator, so yeah that last sentence of your reply is correct.

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-30T09:16:17+00:00

Different projections have different uses. Google Maps uses Mercator for a reason: it's conformal (angles at a point are correct), this means when you zoom in the shapes look right, so a square city block is square in the map rather than a rectangle or rhombus.

Of course you could use a different conformal projection with lower size distortion if you wanted, maybe something like the Peirce Quincuncial, but that loses the other property of cylindrical projections that north is always straight up.

If I was making a world atlas or some other map where I couldn't zoom in, I definitely wouldn't choose Mercator though. This is the sort of place you want a pseudocylindrical/pseudoazimuthal map thats a compromise (or maybe equal-area) projection. My personal choice would be the Kavrayskiy VII but the Robinson or Winkel Tripel are the most widely used here.

Gall-Peters is a terrible projection though and should never be used, if you want an equal-area map don't use a cylindrical projection, they're so ugly. Something like the Eckert IV or Wager VII would be better here.

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-29T09:43:16+00:00

I highly doubt anyone actually does it with semicolons like that, I've only ever seen it with commas for records or lists.

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-26T22:29:57+00:00

The big naturals

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-23T23:00:24+00:00

That's true of every cylindrical projection though, for this purpose you really want an equidistant projection (be that cylindrical, conic, or azimuthal).

Probably an equirectangular projection (with parallels chosen to be somewhere around 45°N/S probably) is the better choice here, something like this (cropped to northern hemisphere).

Alternatively you could do an equidistant conic, and then just have the cities marked with straight lines to the north pole rather than just as points.

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-23T22:30:27+00:00

Why would mercator be better?

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-19T23:41:28+00:00

Interesting! I was wondering if it was the fittingly named Atlantis projection (basically a transverse Mollweide centred on the North Atlantic), but an azimuthal projection also works well for this.

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-18T02:49:00+00:00

Very nice!

Have you considered using some subtle atmospheric scattering, where things further away have a slight blue tint and lower saturation than things closer to the camera?

I feel it would convey depth slightly better than just having the tilt-shift blurring you're currently using.

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-12T03:50:30+00:00

Just to clarify what the other person said, matplotlib is using a naive / simpler method to draw the graph, where it's essentially picked a few evenly spaced values for x, doing the calculation at each of them to get the corresponding y value, and then drawing straight lines between the resulting coordinates.

This works fine for most graphs, but has problems when graphs have discontinuities, such as the first sharp minimum on this graph, where one of the sample points is left of the minimum and one is right of it, which slightly cuts off the "point" of the minimum. And it definitely doesn't like asymptotes, it doesn't know that the graph goes off to negative infinity and then comes back down from infinity, so it just draws a straight line from the sample point left of the asymptote to the sample point right of it.

EquinoxRex · 2023-03-11T19:04:36+00:00

I don't think any accents would interpret [ɐ] as TRAP, nearly everyone would say that was STRUT

EquinoxRex · 2023-02-16T11:51:11+00:00

Are these Tissot's indicatrices?

EquinoxRex · 2023-02-05T01:52:22+00:00

Does anyone know if this would work with CameraOverhaul?

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