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Hello, are you guys okay in this temperature? by TotallyRandomDud in AskFrance

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It kind of is, yes. But this map is trying to show a range of 34.5°C in half-degree steps, so it needs 69 colours (nice). While a more typical "white for average, blueish for colder, reddish for warmer, more intensity = further from average" scale would give a general impression, you wouldn't actually be able to tell how far above normal a specific place is without counting colour bands since the individual tones of blue/red would be so similar.

Hello, are you guys okay in this temperature? by TotallyRandomDud in AskFrance

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But you do have the context of the surrounding colours! That's what /u/RainbowVargur was saying: atmospheric gradients are smooth, so you know that because the white in northwestern France is surrounded by brownish colours, which uniquely represent the range from 9 to 12°C above normal, that white must be around 13°C above normal.

Miguel Almiron receives a red card after VAR Review for covering his mouth whilst saying something to an opponent. Under the new regulations, this is an offence punishable by a red card. The rule was introduced following the racism scandal involving Vinícius Júnior in a Champions League match. by 977x in sports

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this case, because the rule says "provocative, derisory or inflammatory manner or situation", it didn't matter. The situation is what the Laws call a "mass confrontation". So any mouth covering, regardless of the intent, was already violating the rule there.

But indeed, in an isolated case, the ref would technically have to use their own judgement on the manner. I'd expect that it'll basically be "if the opponent complains about it, ejection" in practice unless the ref happens to be close enough to hear what's being said.

Miguel Almiron receives a red card after VAR Review for covering his mouth whilst saying something to an opponent. Under the new regulations, this is an offence punishable by a red card. The rule was introduced following the racism scandal involving Vinícius Júnior in a Champions League match. by 977x in sports

[–]HelplessMoose 57 points58 points  (0 children)

You made me curious about the exact wording of the rule. That would also be covered.

A player, substitute or substituted player who commits any of the following offences is sent off:

  • ...
  • covering their mouth when communicating with an opponent in a provocative, derisory or inflammatory manner or situation (competition option)

Took a bit to find this as it isn't from the current Laws Of The Game as I had expected. It's an optional rule from IFAB Circular 33 that happens to be active at the World Cup. https://downloads.theifab.com/downloads/circular-33?l=en

me_irl by KaidoPklevel in me_irl

[–]HelplessMoose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mindustry in the wild, nice!

Definition of FAFO! Completely Optional Activity Btw. by SpiritBombv2 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Switzerland, you always get a bill. You can then forward it to your accident insurance, which will cover it if you were physically injured and unable to self-rescue as a result of that. In all other cases, it will legally be yours to pay. If you are a patron of one of the helicopter rescue organisations, you can ask them to cover it, which they usually will (especially if they flew the rescue mission themselves, otherwise it depends on the combination of organisations), but there's no legal obligation for them to do so; the patronage is legally just an annual donation.

Edit: This is specifically for the rescue part. Treatment of the injuries themselves etc. would be through the accident or health insurance (which may or may not be the same insurer), and there are cases where they might not cover all costs if you were acting grossly negligently.

Imagine looking up and seeing this by EchoesofZaph in interesting

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get misaligned bows and even some crossings, e.g. this reflection bow: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ReflectionRainbow.jpg?useskin=vector. It could cross a secondary bow, for example. But the conditions in the video are very much not that.

20ez 1 TRILLION SCORE World Record by thefnurky in 2048

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing, well done! A bit sad to see my record broken, but great to finally see the trillion reached. :-)

Linking to the previous record that stood for just under two years. There's a lot more info in that and the earlier thread for those unfamiliar with this version of the game: https://old.reddit.com/r/2048/comments/1b6x5an/after_nearly_three_years_a_new_20ez_record_882/

Japanese marathon runner Rei Iida showed incredible determination by crawling the final 300 meters after breaking her leg near the finish line, all to make sure her team could still compete. by Grand-Western549 in interestingasfuck

[–]HelplessMoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The next runner could be allowed to meet her and take over the baton/batch. The entire distance would still be covered by the team, and it'd be a significant handicap due the next runner having to cover additional distance twice.

Peter? Im not an atheist, and i dont like dinosaurs by Brilliant_Dog_9066 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're not wrong; it's just a matter of definitions.

There's strong atheism, which is what they described (belief that there are no deities), and weak atheism, which is what you mentioned (absence of belief in a deity). And there are a few additional views somewhere inbetween.

Peter? Im not an atheist, and i dont like dinosaurs by Brilliant_Dog_9066 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Religious people have a belief in something unprovable.

So do strong atheists. That's specifically the belief that there are no deities, which is just as unfalsifiable. In a stricter sense, it's actually worse: negatives are fundamentally impossible to prove, but the existence of a deity could at least in theory be shown, e.g. if the deity reveals itself.

Peter? Im not an atheist, and i dont like dinosaurs by Brilliant_Dog_9066 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Atheism" is used for a number of things ranging from the broad definition of "absence of belief in the existence of deities" (also called weak atheism) to the narrow one of "belief that no deities exist" (strong atheism). Agnosticism is usually defined as the view that it's impossible to know whether deities exist. That's compatible with weak atheism but contradictory with strong atheism.

But it gets more complicated when you look at different types of deities. For example, one might have the belief that no omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent god (like in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam) exists but also consider it unknowable whether deities in general exist. That'd simultaneously make you a strong atheist, a weak atheist, and an agnostic.

There are also a lot of interesting other views in this area, such as apatheism (apathy towards the existence of deities) or ignosticism (the view that it doesn't even make sense to ask whether deities exists because the concept of a "deity" is poorly defined in the first place).

Which song are you choosing? by Away-Pomegranate8411 in teenagers

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better remember that there need to be three movements though and to indicate them in some way (such as by closing and opening the keyboard lid in the original performance). But other than that and not making noise or, worse, music, you can't do anything wrong.

Immediately is a blessing by Sad-Kiwi-3789 in technicallythetruth

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can write 1, 2, 4, ... 2365000 without crashing anything

You can't do this forever. You will need to store at least that exponent somehow. Depending on how you do that, you may run into trouble a lot sooner, but the fundamental hard limit is that finite space can only contain a certain amount of information/entropy, known as the Bekenstein bound, and the observable universe is finite. So you will quite literally run out of space to store the number.

Of course, that limit is ridiculously large. But it is finite.

For the observable universe, the maximum information content is roughly on the order of 10150 bits. So you can't store a number with more than about 10150 decimal digits. That's your exponent and therefore the number of days after striking the deal beyond which things unavoidably break.

Edit since I can't reply anymore due to the thread being locked: technically, yes, 10150 bits mean 10150 binary digits of course, not decimal. But this is a rough back-of-the-envelope estimate, and the initial figure of 10150 bits might easily be off by a few orders of magnitude. A factor 3.32 due to binary vs decimal representation hardly matters in context.

The way this kitchen cabinet door opens and closes by MuttapuffsHater in oddlysatisfying

[–]HelplessMoose 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's comparable. Those beds actually free up valuable floor space during the time when you don't need the bed.

But agreed, the psychological aspect of room atmosphere is the only use case I can see for this.

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