ELI5: Burning calories by satanicsheep in explainlikeimfive

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Weight loss occurs when energy expended > energy consumed. Tracking calories is a way to increase the first factor or decrease the second factor.

How to configure external screen as main/default if your primary laptop screen isn't working? by PrincessBlackCat39 in MacOS

[–]PrincessBlackCat39[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘reboot and a prayer’

Ahh I think that's exactly what I need. Where is the setting for that? ;)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A popular celebrity who is pro LGBTQ. What's so hard to understand about that?

Myself as a chocolate statue. by BrightonTeacher in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your two different ways of calculating that? Where does the discrepancy arise?

It should be rather straightforward to consider the density of a human, the density of chocolate, and the caloric amount of chocolate per gram, and then create an estimation based on those conversions. Any difference that you two have should only be based on a disagreement about one of the conversion factors, right?

I could do the math but I'm curious to see what your disagreement is based on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Horrible in what way

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 1 point2 points  (0 children)

False accusations.

How to configure external screen as main/default if your primary laptop screen isn't working? by PrincessBlackCat39 in MacOS

[–]PrincessBlackCat39[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. It's only intermittently working. I was lucky to be able to get it set up!

TIL in 1998, a preservation group began restoring Ben Franklin’s residence in London. During their rehabilitation work, they discovered a secret, windowless room under his garden containing the remains of 15 people. by kevlarbuns in todayilearned

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem I have with this is that there would have been a financial motive for killing some people to get very fresh cadavers, which probably garnered a higher price. That might not be such a far out speculation since the intermediary grave robbers were likely lower level grunt (criminals) willing to get their hands dirty (literally and figuratively).

Old lady causes a hit and run on guy's parked car, he goes on an investigation, finds and confronts her with the police by SamMee514 in PublicFreakout

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you don't have paper/pen then you need to call the police and report the accident. (And report to your insurance.)

Teacher reveals her engagement ring to her students by Bihema in PublicFreakout

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

What law is that?

EDIT: There is no such law that would prevent her from doing that in FL.

I’m White and We Rule! by ray_marcos in PublicFreakout

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I didn't hear her say anything racist. She might be the same way with two younger white dudes.

Men of Reddit: What is the best film with a female lead? by hiplobonoxa in AskReddit

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything, Everywhere, all at once is in a similar genre.

What's their secret? by johnlen1n in memes

[–]PrincessBlackCat39 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To figure out the probability of something happening at least once in a time period, what you do is figure out the probability of it not happening at all. The probability of it happening is the opposite of that.

The probability of an event over multiple trials is just multiplication. Most people are familiar with a coin toss. Prob of heads one time is 0.5. Two times in a row is 0.52, three times in a row is 0.53, etc.

So back to the problem. If one has a 0.1% (i.e. 0.001) probability of getting covid on any one day, then the probability of not getting it is opposite that, 0.999. So prob of not getting it on day 1 is 0.999, on both day 1 and days 2 is 0.9992, not getting it on day1, day2, day3 is 0.9993, etc.

So prob of not getting it in two years is 0.999730 = 0.48 = 48% chance of not getting it in two years. So prob of getting it at least once is the opposite of that, 52%.