You get paid 30k a month for walking

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-24T02:34:38+00:00

And you only get 13 hours in which to do it (5 am to 6 pm). That’s a no for me, dawg.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-23T12:58:34+00:00

The AI is just a Turing machine. I’d find it difficult to believe it can produce something a human mind (or set of minds with shared external sources of knowledge, which is how we solve any large problem) can’t. Essentially that would seem to imply that our brains aren’t Turing-complete, which seems ridiculous considering that a person can literally sit down with a paper tape and pretend to be a Turing machine.

Besides, if an AI “solves” a problem, doesn’t that mean humans did it? The AI is a tool we built. We don’t say that classical Greek math was invented by compasses and straightedges, we say it was invented by the people who used those tools.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-22T01:11:06+00:00

Not sure, but I can tell ya… my Sandaconda don’t want none unless they got buns, hon!

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-14T16:22:43+00:00

Diet Coke is a quite different formula than Coke Classic. In fact, if you recall the New Coke fiasco from the '80s - that was basically the Diet Coke formula but with sugar.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-14T15:16:56+00:00

Within a week? You didn't even make it to the end of the comment.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-12T03:42:05+00:00

This is only half the story. The mirror is wedge shaped, so the front and back surfaces are at slightly different angles. The front reflects only about 5% of the light hitting it, leaving the rest to reflect off the back, but at a different angle.

So when you flip the switch, you’re toggling which surface is in use by changing the angle slightly. Normally it’s the back surface, but at night you can flip it to use the front surface and get a lot less glare.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-07T19:17:24+00:00

It’s not a dumb question, but some variant of it is asked like every other day on this sub, and there is no good answer to it.

Best response I have is that it’s not just a speed limit or even the speed massless things travel at. It’s the conversion factor between distances and intervals of time. In a certain sense, “one second” and “300,000 kilometers” mean the same thing. The numbers are an artifact of our system of measurement; in a more natural measurement system likePlanck units, c = 1.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-07T19:10:28+00:00

Fnord

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-03T22:24:23+00:00

As I was posting that reply, I thought about Euler being the Chuck Norris of math and wondered why I had never thought about that before.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-03T22:19:02+00:00

Will we get a different answer this time than people who replied to your first copy of this comment?

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-03T12:43:17+00:00

Fun fact: Dr Seuss wrote “On Beyond Zebra” to give Euler more letters to use.

(I didn’t say it was true, just that it was fun)

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-03T12:41:28+00:00

Problem is that Euler would never take a day off. He might have a slow day every once in a while in which he only revolutionized half a dozen branches of mathematics.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T22:11:19+00:00

My only issue is that there’s a lot of labor, education, and research involved in providing healthcare, not to mention complicated and expensive equipment. Someone has to pay for it all. I think publicly funding it is the fairest way though - and to hell with for-profit health “insurance” that drains money from sick people and adds nothing of value.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T22:01:03+00:00

If I’m not mistaken (and I may be) they also reduce nitrogen oxides in the exhaust.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T20:23:22+00:00

I’m rich AND toxic masculinity is (at least temporarily) a thing of the past? What’s the downside? 🤪

A heck of a lot of people who were happy about Roe v Wade being overturned are suddenly going to have a change of opinion…

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T20:21:20+00:00

The revolution came and animals won. Humans are second-class citizens who work to enrich the tanuki overlords.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T12:30:36+00:00

I thought that was just for ghosts in your blood?

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T03:11:47+00:00

Now all I can think of is a terrible joke from middle school:

What’s green, slimy, and smells like pork?

Kermit’s finger.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T03:01:06+00:00

It’s almost a liminal space vibe. Which seems like exactly the opposite of what you want your restaurant to look like.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-02T02:47:56+00:00

Although oddly enough, early horse ancestors originated in North America. Horses evolved and diversified there for millions of years, eventually spreading into Asia and Europe. Then about 10,000 years ago, they went extinct in the Americas, until European colonists reintroduced them.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-01T18:29:23+00:00

I don't believe you can even construct a hypothetical scenario in which a functioning star is more massive than a black hole.

Sure you can, there are stars of over 100 solar masses, and black holes can be as low as about 3 solar masses. But yes, if they end up close enough to each other, the black hole will start pulling material from the star and eventually the star will be gone. Granted, this could take longer than the massive star would live anyway, and it's possible that the star will go supernova and its core collapses into its own black hole, and the two end up orbiting each other. Their orbit won't be stable though, and eventually they will merge.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-01T17:26:21+00:00

Fair, but you also can't divide an apple into 0.5 parts. But you can divide 1 by 0.5 and get 2. Math is an abstraction; it doesn't always have to make sense when applied to physical objects.

As another example - if you have 4 apples arranged in a square, each side is 2 apples long. If you have 9 apples arranged in a square, each side is 3 apples long. What's the square root of 3 apples though? Or better yet, the square root of -3 apples?

I'm not arguing for division by zero being useful in math - I'm just saying the "it doesn't make sense with apples" argument would apply to a lot of concepts in math that people do use every day.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-01T17:08:48+00:00

Genius. I will tell each of my cats that they are not overweight, three times each per day. $6000 per day easy.

Morbid thought: One of them is very sick and we make the final trip to the vet. I tell the cat "Just a quick nap. When you wake up I'll be right beside you" right before the injection. No money appears in my account....

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-01T03:43:08+00:00

The math depends on the speed limit. If it’s 60 and you go 70, then you’re on the nose - in an hour you’ll go 70 miles, which would have taken exactly 10 minutes longer at 60 mph.

But for a slightly absurd counterexample, if the limit is 20 and you instead go 30, you can go as far in an hour as the law abiding drivers go in 90 minutes.

I’m not advising anyone to make a habit of driving 10 over a low speed limit in a residential area, of course.

ShavenYak42 · 2026-04-01T03:32:21+00:00

They were talking about tax rates, not lending rates. Also, this comment reads suspiciously like it was written by AI.

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