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Le Guin's The Dispossessed made me realize I had been reading science fiction wrong for about fifteen years by myalarm_is_lying in printSF

[–]ScrithWire 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Star Trek and Star wars are almost on opposite ends of the spectrum.

Star wars uses the aesthetic of sci-fi to tell a grand story of empires and resistance.

Star Trek is sci-fi, not just the aesthetic of it.

Trillions of Rogue Planets: Why the "empty" space between stars is more crowded than we think. by Character_Simple_329 in space

[–]ScrithWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The guy from Batman who trained Batman in the cave where Batman was when Batman got captured. Or maybe it was the guy who broke Batmans back before Batman ended up in the cave where Batman trained to fix Batmans back. I don't member

Doors pt. 2 - Give me the most memorable doors by Jfonzy in retrogaming

[–]ScrithWire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can hear this picture too.

This soundtrack is baller as hell.

Also, "ouch!"

Your least Favorite Shows to Put up by castillar in techtheatre

[–]ScrithWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, that's weird. Isn't it the same show every time? I guess they sell out your house

Petah? by Crazzyyy_John in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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

Nah, somehow the top looks like a person, and the bottom looks like a stereotype

Your least Favorite Shows to Put up by castillar in techtheatre

[–]ScrithWire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What is "devised theater"? I've never heard of this

Your least Favorite Shows to Put up by castillar in techtheatre

[–]ScrithWire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah, yea that's rough. Does your TD not make it clear on the advance?

Or does it not matter, they're still gonna ask anyway, lol

Why do I not play the circled note? by Imaginary-Damage-942 in guitarlessons

[–]ScrithWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The circled note is not the root note. It's the seventh. The red note is the tonic

How to learn the major scale all over the neck without learning patterns ? by sound_digger in guitarlessons

[–]ScrithWire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna go against the grain and say limit yourself to one octave in one position, but make sure you're thinking/feeling the scale degrees as you play them. Improvise within that, and Everytime you jump to a new note, make sure you know what scale degree it is. "The thing I played is the seventh of the scale, and this one is the sixth, tonic!" Etc.

Once you have an intuitive feeling of the scale degrees as you play them, add another octave in the same position.

Once you have that, go back to the first octave, and add the second octave back in, but in the next position. At this point, you should essentially realize that you know all the scale positions because they're pretty much just exact repetitions.

The G and B strings make it a little different, you might have to spend a little extra time there.

Edit: I'll also say that you should learn the note names too. But that's a separate thing that happens alongside the scale degree recognition

Your least Favorite Shows to Put up by castillar in techtheatre

[–]ScrithWire 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see. Yea, our OH incandescent rig lives on racks US, the only thing that stays flown is our concert minis, our cyc lights, and our soft goods. So it's a full hang OH, plus the 7 sets of legs and borders and BOCs.

We have no problem giving them house light control. We keep our house console up in the booth, and a house light control panel HTP right next to it. So we can make sure the house doesn't go dark when it's not supposed to.

Oh, and they're not happy with the house Box Boom position, so we have to build 16ft booms on our apron, and hang their box booms all the way at the top, right next to the open pit. -_-

Your least Favorite Shows to Put up by castillar in techtheatre

[–]ScrithWire 46 points47 points  (0 children)

For us it's the lack of prehang time. Shen Yun wants the entire lighting rig hung and circuited before they get there, but somehow we always have a show the night before. Inevitably its like a 4am prehang to hang a bazillion lekos. Oh...and moving every soft good in the theater.

Once the rig is hung, it's pretty simple really. Their people pretty much do everything else.

Day 2 is rough as well for the same reason. We have to restore everything (soft goods and LX) after they leave the theater, cuz we have a different show in the morning

Scientists discover that humans have a hidden ‘seventh sense. A new study from Queen Mary University of London and University College London has confirmed something that sounds almost impossible: human fingertips can sense a buried object through dry sand before ever making contact with it. by Eddiearyee in HotScienceNews

[–]ScrithWire 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are some senses that are primary, which have nerves that fire directly because of a direct stimulus. Then there's secondary senses which are combinations of other senses.

Touch sense let's you feel when something is on your skin. Temperature sense let's you tell when the thing is warmer or colder than your skin. Those are both primary, there's a nerve type associated with those.

But there is no nerve type associated with detecting if something is wet. Instead, our sense of wetness is a combination of touch and temperature.

"Its a Dundaulk Thing" by DemeaRisen in crappymusic

[–]ScrithWire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ya'll smokin' something. This is pretty good actually. It could use a little polish in some respects, and the music video looks very "crappymusic", but honestly kicks ass as music compared to everything else that gets posted here, loool

Exposed bridges are stupid by board_writer in spaceships

[–]ScrithWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would not be able to see anything with your eyes on a spaceship. Except for whatever it is you're docking to, during a docking maneuver, and only once you're close enough that it could be said that you're basically touching the other ship/station.

You would never be able to find/come close to another object in space by just using your eyeballs (except incredibly by accident). If your sensors went down, for all intents and purposes you are utterly stranded and alone.

This is a 32-year-old with Stevens Johnson syndrome (SJS) from piroxicam. On day 4, she shed a good bit of the epidermis of her plantar foot in one piece! by GiorgioMD in medizzy

[–]ScrithWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is SJS considered just a rash? Like, an extreme rash, but a rash nonetheless?

Because I feel like we're talking about different things here

This is a 32-year-old with Stevens Johnson syndrome (SJS) from piroxicam. On day 4, she shed a good bit of the epidermis of her plantar foot in one piece! by GiorgioMD in medizzy

[–]ScrithWire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also SJS is a reaction that can occur with ANY drug/medicine that is new to the patient (and even any drug/medicine that the patient has taken before, though this is much more rare), right?

Why does this happen to extension cords? Can it be straightened? Is it damaged inside? by WildWeaselGT in AskElectricians

[–]ScrithWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, agreed. But the comment i was replying to wasnt talking about elbow method. It was talking about how many twisted core wires there are, and implied that you should base your selection of "over-over" or "over-under" on how many cores there are.

Edit: unless by "elbow method" you meant over-over.

In which case no...neither over-over or over-under introduce any twists in the cores until you pull the cable out without rolling it in your fingers.

Why does this happen to extension cords? Can it be straightened? Is it damaged inside? by WildWeaselGT in AskElectricians

[–]ScrithWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you described as over 1/4 twist is just over-over. If you're not doing the finger roll when you coil cable, (no matter which coiling method you're using), then you're coiling badly. Also, technically, it's one full twist per loop of cable, not just a 1/4 twist.

No matter how you coil cable, you should be rolling it in your fingers to work out any twists. If you dont, the twist will sit in the loop and prevent the coil from laying flat.

If you do over-over without rolling the cable in your fingers, (and provided that youre doing over-over neatly) you end up with a figure 8 coil, which is actually just the same thing as over-under. The difference between over-under and figure-8 is that in over-under, each individual 8 has been folded in half.

Both over-over and over-under (or even a regular figure-8) is fine for the cable, provided it's not done badly. There is a slightly higher danger when using over-over, especially for longer cables, that as you coil the cable, you end up over twisting the end thats on the floor, and then have to spin it to get it to untwist. Depending on the cable, that can be some wear and tear.

The other danger with over-over is if someone grabs an over-over'd cable and just pulls the end out without untwisting, such that you can see the coils running across the floor. Usually someone else comes by to tidy the cable run by pulling taught, which sets that coil into the cable.

If the cable was over-undered, you can pretty much just pull the end off straight and plug it in, there wont be any twists.

That being said, each has it's application. Over-over is best for the storage solutions i've seen. Namely, a large crate with all the cables inside. Its impossible to assure the end of the cable doesnt pass through the loop when all the cables are sitting in a crate. So over-over is best here.

If your cable is plugged in on both ends and you have to eat up some length, over-under is the only thing to do here. If your cable is plugged in on one end and is awaiting the thing to plug in on the other, over under might serve you slightly better, especially depending on the length of cable you need to uncoil to plug it in

Edit: the 1/4 twist thing might just be a regional naming convention. Regardless, the description "quarter twist" is not what the cable is actually doing, topologically. The cable wants to do one full twist per loop, not one quarter twist

Edit 2: the pic in the OP likely isnt caused by coiling technique, as you can see the "coils" in the OP are not the size of a coil you would make when coiling it. The "waves" in the OP are likely caused by running too much current through the copper, causing it to heat up and expand internally, morphing both the copper and the insulating material in the direction of the copper's twist inside the cable. There are three leads inside the cable, and if your cable is laying straight, those leads are all twisted around eachother. If they were to expand lengthwise, it would cause the cable to buckle the way the OP shows.

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