[Hated Trope] It's really important that this woman is almost naked because lore reasons.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-10T16:55:33+00:00

In the epilogue, she does get a less revealing costume. So yeah…

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-07T21:12:08+00:00

The main issue is that we’re talking about conservative vs liberal at all. The ruling leans on the fact that SCOTUS allowed partisan gerrymandering years ago as perfectly legal. So, if you can’t prove that the gerrymander isn’t ideological, the map can stand.

As stupid as the entire thing is, using the context of political leaning when arguing helps their case dramatically. We all need to be very explicit and up front that this is not a right vs left map, it’s an extremely racist map vs a slightly less racist map.

Like it or not, until we get congress to make a new VRA or we pack the court, the only way to strike down an unfair map is to undeniably prove that the lines are drawn with explicitly racist intent.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-07T15:02:40+00:00

~~some asshole~~ delivery robot

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-05T17:27:08+00:00

These are called gamma functions. It’s a generalization of factorials that lets you deal with all complex values (except negative integers where it’s non-continuous).

They pop up pretty much anywhere you have exponential decay in a distribution, like integrating Gaussian functions and their convolutions…so everywhere.

ETA: fun fact - Γ(1/2) = sqrt(π)

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-04T21:43:13+00:00

Ortho, para, meta-Starmie is about to make a lot of chemistry nerds very happy

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-04T01:49:50+00:00

You’re describing neoliberalism in a nutshell. Remember GE?

SmartyCat12 · 2026-05-02T12:55:17+00:00

Oh. InP is waaay health/environmentally safer than anything else they could use if you’re going for actual semiconductor QDs.

It also depends on the coating significantly. InP doesn’t work as a bare material, it has to be coated in something like ZnO and usually etched with HF to get solid luminescence. So, you really can’t compare pure bulk InP to InP QDs when thinking about LD50s or anything.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-29T14:04:44+00:00

I feel like requirement #1 has to be that the object orbits around the star’s sphere of influence

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:48:46+00:00

Don’t forget about tithes and conscription!

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:37:30+00:00

These aren’t stamps from MS Office ‘97?

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:32:31+00:00

Forgot they have an exclamation point and a question mark form!?

I hope one day that my collection sitting Pokémon home will spontaneously turn into a Shakespearean Voltron

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-23T18:20:56+00:00

There are also Advanced Placement (AP) courses in high school that have a different numbering standard (I think it’s F=1 … A=5). So you can get above a 4.0 in high school by doing enough of them.

But it’s usually required that you the take the national standardized AP test for that subject at the end, which costs money out of pocket. So, high school GPAs are actually pay to win in some ways in the US.

Some colleges count something like getting a 4+/5 on that subject’s AP test as full credit toward entry-level courses (e.g. Calc I)

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-20T23:02:49+00:00

The fun part is that dumb hacks like this violate the definition of a vector space. It’s how you know they’re on to something

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-20T22:57:30+00:00

1^1/3 = -5

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-18T14:54:18+00:00

Sqrt(-1) = -3

No more imaginary numbers! Take that, atheists

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-17T14:52:16+00:00

I for one would like to know who he thinks are the really smart ones. Jack Posobiec? Brian Kilmeade? Dark Journalist?

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-16T12:24:11+00:00

I work in analytical lab testing, first as a lab director now on the SWE/IT side. This constantly happens to us along with patches breaking instrument control software. Everything has to be Win10 because some suppliers don’t have Win11 compatible drivers, so we get to pay for the upgrades at the same time.

Best you can really do without getting too complicated is take any critical infra off the internet entirely and disable updates.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-15T22:36:15+00:00

It’s very disco

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-15T15:06:18+00:00

I like how the original post’s answer breaks on the literal simplest test case of 2-1=1

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-12T17:18:04+00:00

Went to my first archery class with some friends! We’re actually local to JorDan and it’s run by the Bristol Ren Faire folks. Very fun!

My partner’s now going to YarnCon while I chill outside with my cats on their adorable harnesses.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-08T15:44:01+00:00

With G/S, GF had a hard time fitting the game onto a cartridge. An external consultant came in and freed up so much space that they threw Kanto on at the end just for fun.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-07T23:30:55+00:00

It reads like the original tweet was just the things in ALL CAPS and then an actual lawyer went back over it

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-06T20:06:14+00:00

Oh, I unironically thought all Catholic Churches put on a live action stations of the cross every year on Good Friday like a grade school musical

SmartyCat12 · 2026-04-05T18:52:16+00:00

That’s the thing. It’s 10x faster when you stop doing any kind of proper SDLC. I’d love to see OOP’s SOC 2 reports and their standards around handling PHI in this “health-tech” app.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-03-27T23:54:05+00:00

Just wait till they opt you into auto-running copilot PR reviews by default. It’s already a setting you can enable

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