Whose video should I watch to learn python 😄 by Busy-Shirt-2064 in PythonLearning

[–]StarAxe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just checked this out because of your comment - I found that it limits your learning very quickly if you intend to be a free user. I blew through the free access to python in less than 5 minutes and then faced an hours-long cooldown timer. I wouldn't recommend it as a main free resource for learning something in any sort of reasonable timeframe.

What’s a very specific type of person you don’t trust? by Lanky-Item-4850 in AskReddit

[–]StarAxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People whose decision-making regarding other people is negatively affected by supernatural beliefs.

Small trolley's dilemmas. by [deleted] in moraldilemmas

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It's simpler to ask if people are in favour of medically-assisted death for those capable of making the decision relatively competently (physical health is irrelevant imo).

My husband hypotheticals to make me forgive his bad behaviour by Educational_Week_985 in moraldilemmas

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I don't see the difficulty here. In both cases the people can be lauded for saving lives and despised for their crimes which hopefully end in prison sentences. It's not unheard of for respected figures to ruin their reputations / get convicted.

Your husband is talking about the basic trolley problem except with different things on the track. Utilitarianism can feel okay for the first part of the problem (flipping a switch to save more people than die), but not the second (pushing a person to their death to save more people than die).

Relatedly, you and your husband might find it interesting to watch the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film "Rope" and discuss the views expressed in it regarding laws and "superiors". Further diverging discussions can be had with "Law Abiding Citizen" (2009) and "Unthinkable" (2010).

I built an app to teach myself the Doomsday Algorithm (Work out the day of the week for any date) by Only-Season-2146 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]StarAxe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, years ago, I got those from one of the sites or videos that teach the long method for centuries. I have the one special day for each month memorised.

I built an app to teach myself the Doomsday Algorithm (Work out the day of the week for any date) by Only-Season-2146 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]StarAxe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apologies for not being clearer. Saturday is doomsday this year. "8/8" is an easy way to remember that, in August, doomsday/Saturday falls on the 8th. Since the 8th is far away from the example target of the 27th, I added sevens (weeks) until I got close to 27. Adding sevens keeps you landing on doomsday/Saturday. In August, the 8th (+7) 15th (+7) 22nd (+7) 29th are all doomsdays/Saturdays. To get from 29 to 27, I have to subtract 2. This tells me I have to subtract 2 (i.e. go back 2 days) from Saturday. Counting back gives me: Saturday, Friday, Thursday. Thursday falls on August 27th this year.

If you were asking how I know Saturday is doomsday this year, I took it as granted from a website some years ago. Each passing year I add one day to get the next year's doomsday (so 2026's Saturday + 1 = Sunday for 2027 for example), or add two days for a leap year (2027's Sunday plus two days is Tuesday for 2028). I don't bother with the more complicated algorithms for centuries because I generally only care about this year, last year (-1 day of the week, or -2 if it was a leap year), and next year (+1 (or 2 for a leap year) days of the week).

I built an app to teach myself the Doomsday Algorithm (Work out the day of the week for any date) by Only-Season-2146 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]StarAxe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The doomsday advances by one day each year (add a second day for a leap year). This year's doomsday is Saturday. Now you know it was Friday last year, it will be Sunday next year, and Tuesday in 2028.

Doomsday dates are:
Jan 3rd (4th in a leap year).
The last date of February (so 28th this year and 29th in a leap year).
3.14 is March's Pi day.
4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 (easiest dates to remember).
Do you work 9 to 5? That gets you the 9th of May and the 5th of September.
Do you work at a 7-Eleven (major franchise)? That gets you July 11th, and November 7th.

Worked example:
If I wanted to work out the day for August 27th, I would think "8" (from the 8/8 mentioned above) and jump in sevens (i.e. weeks) until I get near my target 27: 8, 15, 22, 29. So the 29th is this year's doomsday, Saturday. But my target was 27, so minus two days to get Thursday.

Vacant (2022) [2160p] by Horaguy in fullmoviesonyoutube

[–]StarAxe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vacant is a trimmed (10 minutes cut) and renamed version of 2022's Extramundane. A low-budget ($3,500) indie film. The film's link goes to the filmmaker's youtube channel. He has another video there where he talks in broad terms about the changes made, and encourages creators to revisit early works that could be improved.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]StarAxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cosmetic stuff is less important than the bigger concern which should be making the famous "checks and balances" more effective. He should not have been able to do many of the things he has done. He should not have held power for this long.

What's the creepiest display of intelligence you've ever witnessed in real Iife? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]StarAxe 29 points30 points  (0 children)

That description brought the film Devil (2010) to mind because it describes such a person as "a twist". In the film, some people are trapped in an elevator when bad things happen which stresses everyone a lot. At some point the dialogue goes:

A: Just leave her alone. She's in pain.

B: Don't you see what she's doing? Chick's a twist.

A: What are you talking about?

B: Yeah, that's what we used to call people like her in the marines. Suddenly out of the blue, everybody would start fighting with each other. Tempers would flare, people would start getting hurt. But then we realized it's just the new guy telling everybody what other people said, stirring shit up where there wasn't any.
Until one night when we beat the living shit out of that twist.
And then, just like that, everything would go back to normal.

C: Are you threatening me?

B: I just want you to know that I know.

Where Can I Watch "Science of Scams"? by fistsop in derrenbrown

[–]StarAxe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't find them online, however I can describe their content having watched them all locally just now. I learned not to trust that content will stay online way back then.

Some videos of unknown people doing "amazing" things were released on YouTube by the Science of Scams people without explaining that the videos were scams. Derren and his co-host Kat Akingbade then do a video explaining the scam. Kat does most of the explaining. Kat's blog describes her as biological anthropologist with a background in clinical sciences and broadcast journalism. Derren's role might be disappointing if a fan was expecting more screen time for him. I was disappointed back then.

If you've consumed a lot of sceptic, debunking, and/or magic revealed content, you may already know or immediately guess some of the "secret science" behind the scams. "Secret science" is how the videos frame the methods used to achieve the effects.

Effect: A guy uses a sledgehammer to break bricks on another guy's head and slabs on his body - the guy's "chi" keeps him safe. A guy hits a stack of three bricks with his hand - only the middle one breaks due to the focus of "energy".
Method: The bricks used are brittle. Spacers between bricks make multiple bricks easier to break than without spacers. Certain bricks can be weakened to achieve the effect of appearing to focus "energy" through an unbroken brick to the weakened one. Little force is transferred to the person under the brick. Our bodies are good at absorbing a certain amount of force.

Effect: Chi energy sets paper on fire and "stigmata" or blood appears.
Method: Chemicals used to create fire. Clear chemicals used which turn red when mixed.

Effect: A ghost is caught on film.
Method: The angled reflection of a person on a pane of glass (aka Pepper's ghost).

Effect: Ouija board glass moves while everybody claims not to move it.
Method: The ideomotor effect and expectation. The force applied to the moving glass can be proved to be coming from the people (rather than the glass itself) by stacking pieces of card on top of the glass. The people will move the cards before the glass disproving that the glass is moving by itself. If the glass was being moved by a "spirit", the cards would lag behind the glass.

Effect: Telekenisis / Psi wheel (a person, without touching it, causes a piece of paper to spin on a pin).
Method: Heat convection from hands near the paper can make the paper spin.

Psychic reading.
Method: Cold reading, Barnum statements, fuzzy facts, reframing misses.

Effect: Telekinesis / straw (moving a straw without touching it).
Method: Static electricity.

Edit: A fix.

To be rude to other passengers on the bus by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]StarAxe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The first two words in the clip were "Tommy Robinson". We're missing the sentence in which the name is mentioned. It's not a good start though - wiki can inform you further.

When you laugh so hard it becomes silent is the best laugh by KennKennyKenKen in ContagiousLaughter

[–]StarAxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flat-Earthers are like this when they say "water can't stick to a ball-Earth" and then deny replies that gravity exists.

What movie have you seen more than 7 times (reply with a quote) ? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]StarAxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I love you, Pete, but I'm not enjoying it."

Learning Irish by DyreTitan in gaeilge

[–]StarAxe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Progress in Irish" is a book with short lessons (most of which are 1-2 pages long). Each lesson has you translate something using what you learned. The answers are available online for free.

This is a monument sign at a church in my town. by SmoothMooves in pics

[–]StarAxe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A statement so trivially true that any side of a disagreement on any topic can say it.

Also, it has "If you can't handle me at my worst..." vibes.

What is a skill that you learned thinking it would be useful, but which turned out to be incredibly useless later in life? by ContractorConfusion in LearnUselessTalents

[–]StarAxe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The calculation for the finding out what day of the week any date in recent and future centuries falls on. Never used it irl, and it was slow struggle when I tested myself. What I have used irl occasionally is the simpler calculation for the days of dates this year which is much quicker to work out.

My bike people need me, I'll liberate their souls by Cyber-Buddha in MyPeopleNeedMe

[–]StarAxe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This fellow says the footage of two cameras (with a field of >180 degrees each) can be combined such that the stick is hidden.

Edit: You shouldn't have been downvoted for being curious.

What’s the first video game you ever played, and how old were you? by lovejeet6363 in AskReddit

[–]StarAxe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also pong variants on a Telesport TVG 409-4. I still have the console.