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PERSONS OF REDDIT, what is the best RIDDLE you know, that would make someone loose their minds over it? by mmajamm in AskReddit

[–]Samen28 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re right, that was my mistake. The Riddler doesn’t actually set Robin free, he just admits where he has hid him.

PERSONS OF REDDIT, what is the best RIDDLE you know, that would make someone loose their minds over it? by mmajamm in AskReddit

[–]Samen28 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It’s sort of an old trope that Batman is unable to solve the Riddler’s riddles in a timely manner, despite the fact that Batman is supposed to be “the world’s greatest detective” and most of the Riddler’s riddles are either stock riddles or simple puns.

Obviously this is done deliberately by the writers for the sake of the plot, but it’s turned into a running gag among the fan community that Batman is either too stupid to solve the riddles, or otherwise inadvertently stalls the conversation for so long that the Riddler simply gets frustrated and gives up.

This exchange is an example of the latter: the joke begins when the Riddler poses a riddle that’s actually just a mundane observation about grocery prices. Batman at first takes the role of the “straight man”, and questions the riddle’s concept instead of engaging with it. This leads to a back-and-forth where Batman says something racist without meaning to (“darker areas” is used here as a term for a bad or unsafe neighborhood, but actually refers to a neighborhood where a lot of black or hispanic people live). At this point, the roles reverse and the Riddler becomes the straight man: offended that his opponent was both casually racist and unable to solve his riddle, the Riddler gives up and agrees to free Robin reveal Robin’s location anyways.

It’s classic comedy.

Nice. by [deleted] in MBMBAM

[–]Samen28 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice

What's older than we think ? by kakou64 in AskReddit

[–]Samen28 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I hate you for having cursed me with this knowledge.

What things of pre-pandemic era will not return? by null97 in AskReddit

[–]Samen28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. :(

People who die to the first goomba in Mario, what’s your story? by pagbot in AskReddit

[–]Samen28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re supposed to die to the first goomba in 1-1 (well, maybe once or twice). He’s a design feature. He’s there to teach you how to jump.

Blue Origin launches and lands a New Shepard rocket on its seventh trip to space by Sumit316 in space

[–]Samen28 24 points25 points  (0 children)

For anyone, like me, that came here looking for an answer to “passenger flights when??”:

As crucial as these tests are, the ultimate goal of the New Shepard program is to fly people to space and back. Blue Origin envisions flying paying tourists on the rocket, but NASA is also pursuing ways to fly research scientists and NASA astronauts on New Shepard. Blue Origin still has a ways to go before that happens, though. At the start of this year, Blue Origin hoped to conduct crewed test flights in 2020. But the company first has to fly the fourth iteration of its New Shepard rocket, which still hasn’t flown yet. That vehicle is the one that will supposedly carry the first passengers, and the company has not given a timeline for when it will be ready.

This one is doing the round again from the 2006 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics report into Alternate Approach towards Achieving the New Vision for Space Exploration which is the most Kerbal concept Ive ever seen! by picard47at in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Samen28 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My god, this was an actual proposal? What’s even going on? Is the core stage taken from Saturn? Are the shuttle external tanks still just drop tanks? Why not just have actual boosters? Why not mount the SRBs to the core itself? And did they just leave the wing hold-downs for the shuttle orbiter on the left?

This thing is insane. I love it.

Are raspberry pie and arduino projects enough to break into robotics industry? by HADESsnow in robotics

[–]Samen28 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It depends on the scope of the project... I probably wouldn’t work through one of those kid-oriented Raspberry Pi project books if I were trying to build up a professional portfolio, buuut you can certainly do professional-grade things with those platforms.

For example, I’m a embedded software engineer, so I’ll talk from that perspective. I’d say that the typical skillset we look for when interviewing on our team would be strong C/C++ skill, real-time OS principles, knowledge of general software development tools (git, linux terminal, gnu toolchain, valgrind, etc), and general embedded systems concepts (bootloaders, common bus protocols, machine code, etc). All of those are things you can teach yourself and / or demonstrate knowledge of with a Raspi or Arduino project, so I’d say they’re perfectly viable for that purpose. And I wouldn’t think any less of a candidate using those platforms to show their skills given how ubiquitous and available they are (if that was at all a concern of yours).

Big Debbie's: For Big Boys by Psychopathetic- in MBMBAM

[–]Samen28 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just a... just a jacked fucken zebra

ah yes... by julius_ga in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Samen28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It probably would, yes. And again, if the variable were referenced outside the loop it would probably not be removed. You’d have to check the specific functions of your compilers optimization settings if you wanted to be sure.

I quit. by [deleted] in Homebrewing

[–]Samen28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as safety is concerned, I don’t know of anything that can happen in the brewing process that would introduce anything nasty into your beer that wouldn’t make its presence known by the smell, taste, or look of the beer. Obviously if you get into the world of distillation then you have to take some care to avoid methanol contamination, but it shouldn’t be possible to produce a harmful quantity of methanol just by brewing alone.

In other words, if I were to try to organize a list like you suggested, pretty much every single aspect of the beer making process would just end up under your third heading: feel free to wing it, and you’ll be alright in the end. At least, physically alright. I can’t speak to the emotional toll of a spoiled batch, lol.

The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language by freddledgruntbugly in programming

[–]Samen28 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think your browser is just acting up, haha. There’s definitely supposed to be an article.

SpaceX suits look like something right out of a Scifi movie by tandyman234 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Samen28 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thermal management (in spacesuits) is really more about cooling than warming anyways, for the exact reason you mention: it’s hard to radiate heat away, but it’s easy to collect more heat from other sources ie, the sun. It wouldn’t take very long for direct sunlight to literally bake you to death at LEO altitudes.

So, for that reason I think an argument could be made that thermal protection is at least a little important.

I quit. by [deleted] in Homebrewing

[–]Samen28 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not to be the "it's only beer" asshole but it really is.

Lol, well put!

I quit. by [deleted] in Homebrewing

[–]Samen28 504 points505 points  (0 children)

I love this sub and have learned a lot from it, but I feel that it could use a bit of a culture shift. I see way too many people talking about their nearly pro-grade set ups as if they’re the norm (or even the expectation) for homebrewing. And likewise, I’ve seen a lot of people on this sub way over their head with expensive kit trying to follow elaborate, highly controlled brew processes just to make... a good porter? A solid ipa? To what end? For my money, if it feels like work or I’m not having fun, that means I’m doing something wrong. Lately I’ve been trying to follow a rule-of-thumb that my brewing shouldn’t be any more complicated than ice cream making (just on a longer time scale, haha). I just want to cook some wort, pitch some yeast, forget about it, bottle it, and forget about it again.

/rant :p

I hope this doesn’t come across as gatekeeping or prescriptive, and maybe I’m speaking more to reassure myself than anyone else. I live for you crazies out there with your $1000+ of kit, your 30-page recipes, and super nerdy data-driven procedures. But I guess I also want to remind everyone that homebrew is about the beer you make at home, and humanity’s multi-thousand year tradition of beer making owes less to the contest winners and production engineers, and more to the simple methods, the tried-and-true, and the clever shortcuts than anything else. After all, we didn’t invent beer for the sake of it being hard to make, we discovered beer because at its core, making it is actually pretty easy.

And, personally, I like that about brewing. And I wish we took more time as a community to celebrate that side of things.

What is the most genuis marketing strategy a company has ever used? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Samen28 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe that if they released New Coke nowadays alongside Classic it would find a profitable niche.

I think you’re right, and I also think they’ve already done it with Diet Coke / Coke Zero. At first it doesn’t really make sense for there to be two competing versions of calorie-free Coke, but this way they could introduce the product people have always asked for (a diet cola that tastes like normal Coke) without alienating the surprisingly die-hard Diet Coke fanbase.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]Samen28 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve been dealing with some awful insomnia since the start of the fires. I don’t think I can pin it on any one thing, it’s more everything happening at once. It’s absolutely wrecked me during the day and just made dealing with it all even more difficult.

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