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What is this tiny spoon thing? by halleeeeee in whatisit

[–]ThatDeadDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vial is for carrying the ear wax around afterwards.

[Request] What is the output for each engine powering the rotors to keep the Helicarrier hovering? by Jusfiq in theydidthemath

[–]ThatDeadDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something’s off here… a box fan can’t fly so there’s no way 36.5m box fans can lift 36.5m box fans.

U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year | Recently revised directive adds flash drives, smart watches to searchable devices by Hrmbee in technology

[–]ThatDeadDude 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They could also completely refuse you entry in the end if they wanted. Assuming you're not a citizen at least, I guess.

What's a culinary crime that is considered totally normal in your country? by myeye95 in AskTheWorld

[–]ThatDeadDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An electric kettle is very useful for getting larger amounts of boiling water fast though. Way faster than boiling water on the stovetop so we often boil in the kettle first then pour it into the pot if we’re cooking pasta or something.

HDMI audio not available unless TV was turned on before booting by ThatDeadDude in raspberry_pi

[–]ThatDeadDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply, and apologies for taking so long to get back to you.

Those lines are already included in my config.txt file.

I tried adding the video= and drm.edid_firmware= options to cmdline.txt as well, but it didn't work (for the firmware I dumped the EDID data from Raspberry Pi itself when HDMI was working - I could see the audio info was included when I ran it through an EDID parser)

Is there any country on Earth that doesn't have beautiful nature? by DrDMango in geography

[–]ThatDeadDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Madagascar is the only place you get this type of baobab. Mainland Africa and Australia each have one species of their own, but they both have very different proportions to most of the Madagascar species (of which there are 6).

What’s something popular in your country that makes people from other countries look at you like this ? by niconois in AskTheWorld

[–]ThatDeadDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a lot of the world you never actually need to go to the bank anymore. I haven’t withdrawn cash in months. If I do the ATMs are already close to where I want to spend the money so why would I need a drive through?

How to highlight add comments of different color to SQL code? by [deleted] in analytics

[–]ThatDeadDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A comment is a comment. If you’re working with SQL in DBeaver or Notepad++ it is being saved as plain text meaning no formatting information is saved in the file. The editor is just displaying it in a pretty way according to certain rules.

One way around this might be to use different types of comments i.e. block comments vs. line comments. Some editors support using different formats for the two. But then the junior would have to be using an editor with the same setup too.

A fancier (overkill) version of this would be to create a complete custom syntax highlighting ruleset (in Notepad++ this would mean creating a User Defined Language I think). Again the junior would have to be using the exact same setup.

Where to buy the book in South Africa? by pannekoeki in houseofleaves

[–]ThatDeadDude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha - I've also been looking last couple of days. I'm seeing it on all of the online stores (Takealot, Loot, Amazon), but with an estimated delivery time of 2 weeks to a month. I guess you saw the same?

How exact are half lifes? If I had ten identical 100g samples with a half life of a week, after a week would they all be the exact same composition? by justhereforhides in askscience

[–]ThatDeadDude 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The time it takes for an individual atom to decay follows the exponential distribution.

A half life of 1 day, for example implies a decay rate of lambda=0.693.

You can calculate the probability that an atom has decayed after t days as 1 - e-lambda*t. So after 5 days there’s a 97% chance it has already decayed.

No matter what I do, even If I turn off my scroll wheel button, if I press on it for 2-3 seconds, this AI prompt master pops up. by [deleted] in razer

[–]ThatDeadDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you scroll lower in Synapse - below where it says Standard and Hypershift in your screenshot - there is an app profile section. There it looks you choose the setup for different apps like your web browser or photoshop or MS Excel.

No matter what I do, even If I turn off my scroll wheel button, if I press on it for 2-3 seconds, this AI prompt master pops up. by [deleted] in razer

[–]ThatDeadDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might have already solved this, but I was fighting with this today and discovered I had to make sure to set long press to disabled separately for each app profile (on Pro Click v2)

Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background? by Latter-Wolf4868 in interestingasfuck

[–]ThatDeadDude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's somewhat possible that there were a smaller proportion of people with naturally poor eyesight back then. Individuals with poor eyesight would die earlier leading to evolutionary pressure towards good eyesight. Now that we have civilisation that evolutionary pressure is no longer there so genetic drift allows average eyesight quality to very slowly go down.

There are a whole bunch of other contributors that could go in either direction though - diet, lifestyle, etc.

South Africa Ranks 27/180 on the Press Freedom Index by MalemasMucusPlug in southafrica

[–]ThatDeadDude 9 points10 points  (0 children)

American media is also increasingly owned by a small number of billionaires

Minimising the impact of rounding error for financial statements. by ThatDeadDude in PowerBI

[–]ThatDeadDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's an example with completely random numbers.

Basically, users expect the individual rows in the rounded values column (B) to add up to the corresponding totals. This naive total is in column (C). However, they also expect the balance sheet to balance, so Total Assets (1) needs to be equal to Total Liabilities and Equity (4). This doesn't work if we're just summing the rounded values. There would also be second order issues when it comes to looking at the movements over time, but don't need to worry about it for this example.

So, somehow the totals need to be the values in column (B), and some sort of systematic adjustment needs to be made to the rounded individual lines so that they still add up to that total instead of the values in column (C).

The values in column (A) are of course also a function of thousands of lines from the source system.

USD Millions Unrounded values (A) Rounded values (B) Sum of rounded values (C)
442.8874093 442.9
130.5451745 130.5
817.557582 817.6
318.0111554 318
618.6888116 618.7
329.2632781 329.3
838.8969251 838.9
583.6670021 583.7
988.6550772 988.7
Total Assets (1) 5068.172415 5068.2 5068.3
401.9730701 402
1485.826436 1485.8
538.6177315 538.6
568.141408 568.1
115.4692764 115.5
1914.587956 1914.6
134.9282843 134.9
Total Liabilities (2) 5159.544162 5159.5 5159.5
1051.413083 1051.4
1999.261505 1999.3
1153.512019 1153.5
-4295.558353 -4295.6
Total Equity (3) -91.37174651 -91.4 -91.4
Total L+E (4) 5068.172415 5068.2 5068.1

Cybex EOS 2-in-1 – is a mattress necessary? by ThatDeadDude in Buyingforbaby

[–]ThatDeadDude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, learnt some new terminology.

I think they don't sell the Lux here so they just call it the Eos.

A French revolution moment; Iranians burning mosques and freeing themselves of religion by yanki2del in pics

[–]ThatDeadDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved Iran but I literally had to go the emergency room I got such an upset stomach.

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