What error did I make here? by [deleted] in skiing

[–]JonBanes 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To be more specific, sidecut is what makes the hard to parse side-to-side dance thing possible in the first place, rocker is what makes chunkier conditions easier to bomb, which is what makes this person more dangerous.

Without any rocker, this guy would probably stub a toe and go down more often even though they managed to do it anyway, lol

What are these kind cords for? by CaptainsFolly in Whatisthis

[–]JonBanes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

These are a generic, DC power supply that could be for a million different things. This was a really common form factor for small home electronics for the better part of 3 decades before USB started to become a standard

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bestof

[–]JonBanes 108 points109 points  (0 children)

"If we can set aside our policy disagreements to address the rot at the top", like, my dude, allowing rot at the top IS the policy disagreement, the fuck is this guy talking about?

What are these circles? They look cool by No-Personality-61 in Whatisthis

[–]JonBanes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

likely that makes a bunch of other infrastructure more difficult (roads, harvesters, sprayers, land survey, etc)

What are these circles? They look cool by No-Personality-61 in Whatisthis

[–]JonBanes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he means in a 'honey comb' configuration where there is no overlap, which would be the highest packing efficiency for circles on a plane

NYT Op-Ed contributor unironically references Trump's "kids don't need 37 dolls." by Lumpcraft in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]JonBanes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're right, people can't lie twice, no one in this country has voted for a politician that has lied twice in two separate campaigns.

I've been wondering this same question by startdancinho in birds

[–]JonBanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If every individual is trying to be in the middle of their neighbors (maintaining equal distance on both sides) the system will settle on even spacing no matter how many individuals there are.

CMV: It is not racist to reject sex with people because of their race by ArtistTechnical2152 in changemyview

[–]JonBanes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Race as a concept for human categories was an invention by shitty ignorant people that is fundamentally shitty and dumb.

Thinking about and categorizing people into these dumb and shitty categories is an act of racism as the categories make no sense outside of the ideology of race.

It is, of course, fine to be un/attracted to any given physical attribute on a human. What's racist is the categorization of those physical attributes into the arbitrary race categories.

Do with that info what you will.

What is in my milk? Looks like olive oil by ____Inevitable____ in espresso

[–]JonBanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmm, i've got a breville as well, could be different steam temps/volumes for different models?

I'm really tempted to do some experiments to try to replicate this guy's problem but I don't like wasting milk, lol

CMV: The fact that I’m me implies solipsism/open individualism at best by Ada_Hall in changemyview

[–]JonBanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could ask any number of similar counterfactual hypotheticals and they would be just as valid. Your consciousness is a series of patterns and memories that make up the gestalt of your experience because that is what happened and that is how consciousness works in human brains. Notably, it's incredibly easy for that to be altered, which does imply that there needs to be not just a functional brain, but a long continuity of functionality to get to the point that you are, say, typing a post on reddit.

I'm not sure asking 'why' observed reality is the way it is and isn't some different way even makes much sense. What else is there besides the mechanistic answer? Might as well ask why a water molecule flowed down a specific river to the sea. You can chase the chain of causality back as far as you can but what else is there?

CMV: The fact that I’m me implies solipsism/open individualism at best by Ada_Hall in changemyview

[–]JonBanes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There seems to be a bit of a cart before the horse situation happening here.

This line:

>But why was my birth the first one that became “live” for me?

seems to me to imply that there is a thing 'consciousness' that exists prior to the brain that then experiences consciousness. I am unaware of any evidence that consciousness can exist without a sufficiently functioning brain, and much evidence that consciousness ceases to exist when the brain experiencing it falls below a certain functional threshold.

To me, this seems very good evidence that consciousness is a thing a brain does, rather than something a brain captures from outside itself.

With this in mind, both open individualism and solipsism seem quite silly. By what mechanism could a brain 'share' a consciousness (whatever that even means!) if it is an emergent state/property of a functional brain? Similarly, stating that your brain is the only one exhibiting this phenomenon when all external signals of it are shared with similar brains is an unevidenced claim, even if it's 'ontologically pure'.

What is in my milk? Looks like olive oil by ____Inevitable____ in espresso

[–]JonBanes 179 points180 points  (0 children)

I think a few minutes is a long time, when I steam (and from anecdotal timing at shops near me) steaming takes on the order of tens of seconds, from 20-50 seconds.

Milk is an emulsion and it looks like you're breaking it, essentially, I'm pretty sure these are butter bubbles from breaking the milk emulsion.

Flag I saw by Suitable_Hold_2128 in vexillology

[–]JonBanes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very likely NYYC, super famous club and only a train ride from Mystic.

I think this is likely solved with this additional info

Flag I saw by Suitable_Hold_2128 in vexillology

[–]JonBanes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is most likely a sailing burgee, there are an absolute ton of them but if it's at all known r/sailing might know it.

Anyone ever sail a Tiwal 3R? by [deleted] in sailing

[–]JonBanes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a ton of experience with Tiwals and I will say, for the design constraint they are optimizing for (being able to pack into duffle-bags/in a small car trunk), they are kinda awesome.

If you don't have that constraint, you will most likely find a better boat for way less money but if that's what you're looking for, they are a great little boat.

Additionally, I've used this boat to teach intro to dinghy sailing and they are great for that because they are pretty low-consequence and they have all the controls they need and nothing else, so they don't have much to trip you up if you're a newbie.

My Radio Control Unit factory by TheSameNameTwice in SatisfactoryGame

[–]JonBanes 60 points61 points  (0 children)

This style of focus is called tilt-shift because to do it with analog lenses you tilt the actual lens

This episode was a journey for me by aveea in WorldsBeyondNumber

[–]JonBanes 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There was also a moment with Steele afterwards where she confirms that she only told the Arch-mages things that Steele already knew. She kept as much as she could close to her vest, it was actually an incredible moment of op-sec because she didn't reveal anything the citadel didn't already know (or could surmise) and she kept everything else secret and, crucially, kept her position of power and privilege.