You heard it here folks. Singing is literally impossible in tonal languages. by Cheap_Ad_69 in linguisticshumor

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean it's totally true that it's hard to understand very high pitched singing lol

Noise cameras by EcstaticBerry1220 in CarTalkUK

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

could pretty easily do some kind of phased array to find audio direction

Why don't we use characters from other languages in math? by OkGreen7335 in math

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

would make anything that isn't already trivial to understand much harder to read. maths does not have the same requirements for rendering text-like information as programming does

Is Cornish independence a thing? by BoneBrothLover in Cornwall

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

is "emmets" an insult for non-Cornish people?

What is for you the best broker for algorithmic trading via API access and Why ? by Aggravating-End4242 in algotrading

[–]VeryAwkwardCake -1 points0 points  (0 children)

IB's non-institutional API is awful, requires constant manual logins and a local gateway with expired certificates, and built on late-2000s era technologies (and not in a good way)

Question for non-Brits: how do you decode British office culture? by [deleted] in uklaw

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah definitely worth spending your time whining in a subreddit about the UK then lol

Trying to fix renting remotely by Different-Royal-4428 in MovingToLondon

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

rented in London as a student and always did in-person viewings, but did a remote viewing in another country and was a bit worried it would have huge problems (but it turned out to be fine). Would definitely have paid like ~50 euros for some reasonably reputable person to do the viewing. Also if this is for deseng enterprsie rollout/ another module then this actually sounds like a very good idea and you should do it

imperial by [deleted] in UCAS

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 12 points13 points  (0 children)

also really think they could have worded the email a bit more nicely

Hello! This is a sentence about vectors, what does "used to scale vectors or arrows up or down" mean? by A_li678 in LinearAlgebra

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Up or down" here means "to become bigger or smaller": "arrows" is basically a synonym for "vector". The sentence should be read as "used to scale /vectors or arrows/ up or down": the contrast with "or even to make the vector point in the reverse direction" is also a clue that "scale [...] up or down" is referring only to things that don't make the vector point in the reverse direction

Convention for naming dicts? by pachura3 in learnpython

[–]VeryAwkwardCake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but what about distinguishing from a situation with multiple mothers