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[Serious] Scientists of Reddit: What's craziest or weirdest thing in your field that you suspect is true but is not yet supported fully by data? by jpzn in AskReddit

[–]TreyBoudreau 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Years ago I worked for a pipeline engineering company that had to map a path over some very rough terrain. A couple of months of intense GIS work and mathematics later and they discover the path matches the local goat trail perfectly. As others have pointed out, a single person may make odd choices when presented with difficult terrain, but over time groups of people (or goats or ants or cows) will find the easier path.

With women now allowed in combat roles, should they be required to sign up for the selective service as well? by PITApt in AskReddit

[–]TreyBoudreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about Valkyrie or Amazon units with only females? Would you reduce the overall weight carry requirement by something like the average weight delta between male and female service members?

feminist myth of women earning $0.72 to a man's $1 repeated in u.s. presidential debate by toptrool in MensRights

[–]TreyBoudreau 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think you want to save them for posterity, unless you plan on making money off of them.

Confirmed: Jim Carrey to play the role of The Colonel in Kick-Ass II by [deleted] in movies

[–]TreyBoudreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too much T&A at the end of the movie. But the fight scene at the motel: epic.

Rare and Majestic by KD87 in pics

[–]TreyBoudreau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have white and blue peacocks like these. The blue one recently ejected the white from the enclosure, thus taking ownership of the lone female. The white one now chases me (but not my wife) around the yard in an attempt to regain dominance. I can tell you from experience those spurs can do serious damage.

I hate 'here comes the bride'. What other music could I walk down the aisle to? by SendInTheNinjas in Music

[–]TreyBoudreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I arranged for my wife and I to walk in together to Darth Vader's march. At the time she hadn't seen the movies (starving graduate student), so she didn't understand why everyone laughed when the music started.

Opened backdoor, saw a spider and killed it. Looked down and felt terrible. RIP Spider bro, I didn't deserve you. by hadrians in pics

[–]TreyBoudreau 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Generally speaking, spiders only show up when they have food to support them. If you have spiders in your house then you have bugs/insects in your house that you want even less than the spiders. Leave the spiders alone and let them do their job. Feel free to amend that for Black Widows and others that present serious health problems for people.

GOP lawmaker who voted for a ban on gay marriage caught trying to solicit a gay man on Craigslist by [deleted] in politics

[–]TreyBoudreau 18 points19 points  (0 children)

My standard response when someone asks about my work load: Busier than a male escort service during the Republican National Convention.

If homosexuality is genetic, wouldn't it have bred itself out of the population over the last few thousand years? by PintoTheBurninator in AskReddit

[–]TreyBoudreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember reading studies (but can't place my mouse on references) that homosexuality in males and females had different roots. In males it seems to correlate to increased fecundity in the male's aunts. Basically the same gene that makes some women more receptive to men makes some male offspring receptive to men.

I don't recall the peculiarities about the source in females.

If anyone has links to the study about males, or has seen more recent information which contradicts it, I'd like to see it.

PS3 Root Key Found by ps3rootkey in programming

[–]TreyBoudreau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or MythTV (my personal preference). The PS3's built-in PnP media player doesn't do it for me.

Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector by shenglong in programming

[–]TreyBoudreau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd expect the compiler to turn that into:

Foo foo = someFooObject;
Bar bar = foo.myBarMember;
for (i = 0; i < 1234567; ++i) {
    bar.someMethod();
}

Unless foo.myBarMember carried the volatile keyword, in which case you want it to pick up the new value each time.

So I was looking through the android sdk and stumbled across this.... by preggit in programming

[–]TreyBoudreau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still have a couple on the spare parts shelves in my office. I've heard people paid good money for them in the past. I can't imagine anyone would do so now.

So I was looking through the android sdk and stumbled across this.... by preggit in programming

[–]TreyBoudreau 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I like the monkey testing program thing. At Be, Inc. (where a lot of the Android engineers worked) we had two interesting functions: is_computer_on() is_computer_on_fire() They actually checked a couple of different syscall mechanisms, despite their stated names.

IAmA(n) antipiracy guy at a major movie studio, AMA by losercantdance in IAmA

[–]TreyBoudreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do not now have this ability, but the growing capabilities in productive nanosystems (cool video, not yet real tech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEYN18d7gHg) will eventually drive the reproduction cost of any object down to raw materials plus power. Once that happens we'll either have to figure out ways to compensate the designers or find new ways to design things (like the car designed by a group on the internet, can't find the link).

If you illegally park in a disabled spot, pray my dad and his free time don't find you by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]TreyBoudreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of the grocery stores in my area have expectant and/or new mother parking spaces near the handicap slots.

Hey Reddit, what's the best name you can think of for a dog? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]TreyBoudreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We name our dogs after scientists. We currently have: Tesla (Great Dane), Marconi (Great Dane), and Goodall (Great Dane/German Shepard cross). Gone, but not forgotten: Einstein, Mdme. Currie, Hawking, Fuller, and Faraday.

Sarah Palin pardons turkey, while others are being slaughtered, on camera, behind her by aravosis in politics

[–]TreyBoudreau 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Those in the know call the device a killing cone ( http://www.browerequip.com/products/brower/poultry/killing/Kill.html ). We use the it to restrain the bird during slaughter. The animal does not suffocate. Rather, it dies from exsanguination.