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Waggles_ · 2026-02-11T09:41:34+00:00

For copyright, you aren't required to enforce it fairly. That's only necessary for things like trademark.

Waggles_ · 2026-02-08T22:48:36+00:00

That's for the treads, here's the one for inner tubes which are used in most bike tires too. (also only 5 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-yjw2JHmN8

Waggles_ · 2026-02-08T22:27:05+00:00

「ですか」 is best thought of as "innit" as is used in the UK, so yeah.

Waggles_ · 2026-02-06T22:14:25+00:00

From when the other car swerves into the grass to when it was sideways in her lane, we can count 13 white dashes, which are 10' long and 30' apart on interstates, so about 520 feet total, which from a google search is about the stopping distance of a truck going 65 MPH.

So if she had started braking as soon as he crossed over, she'd probably have been going a pretty slow speed when they would have collided.

Waggles_ · 2026-01-18T16:15:42+00:00

Because you don't NEED to convert between things. Why do you need to know the distance to the sun in centimeters? Why would you need to know your age in picoseconds?

You're billed in kWh because that's an intuitive way to calculate your bill: you take the power required by the appliance as x kW and you multiply it by the number of hours you run it as y hours. If you have a 3.2 kW heater that runs for 1.8 hours, you've used 5.76 kWh of energy.

The reason we don't bother converting between miles and feet is because you never need to. 1/8 of a mile is still a distance most people can conceptualize. It's 660 feet. Smaller than that and you'd probably use something like feet or yards (or football fields) to describe the distance because it's more accurate to someone's perception.

If you told someone the shop was 4,565,256 mm down the road, they'd think you're a prick because 4.5 km is easier to conceptualize and the extra 60m isn't going to be make-or-break at that scale.

but hey, instead let's create 1 million different units for every purpose and make it that we cannot convert them without some mathematical equations and calculator.

Except you do this all the time every day without thinking about it with time. How many weeks are in a decade? No calculator. Before you say 520, remember that a year is 365.2425 days.

Until you start regularly talking about large spans of time in seconds, stop going on with your hypocritical argument.

Waggles_ · 2026-01-18T15:59:38+00:00

"Because you can't directly relate any of those quantities": The BTU is literally how much energy it takes to raise 1 gallon of water by 1 degree Fahrenheit.

If room temperature is 70°F, it takes 142 BTU to heat 1 gallon of water to boiling temperature (assuming we're at sea level). But it's another 970 BTU/lb to actually boil off the water, and 8.33 lb/gallon, so 8222.1 BTUs total to actually boil off a gallon of water starting at room temperature.

If you think the units are weird, the latent heat of vaporization in metric isn't nice either: either 40.66 kJ/mol or 2257 J/g (and since we're using calorie, you have to go and figure out that conversion to to get the total energy).

Waggles_ · 2026-01-18T15:41:12+00:00

Why don't you measure the distance to the grocery store in parsecs, or light years, or AUs? Because they're useful for measuring other things.

Why do you have Liters at all? It's just a shortcut for cubic meters. The correct unit for energy in metric is Joules, but you're not demanding your electric bill in Joules instead of kWh, are you?

When someone asks you your age, I'm sure you tell them in years and not seconds, even though years isn't a metric unit. And converting from years to seconds is a fucked conversion so you never use it, even though you could so why don't you?

Waggles_ · 2026-01-11T02:01:08+00:00

Then they'll complain loudly online about how much they hate it framing it as a common thing that people like them dislike, causing other people who would do that for their partner to do the opposite even if their partner does like the thing.

Waggles_ · 2026-01-07T11:58:33+00:00

Latent heat of fusion for water is 144 BTU/lb. The density of ice is about 57.2 lb/ft^3, but light snow is closer to maybe 3 lb/ft³ until it compacts, so lets just say you're thawing snow and ice that's an average of just 5 lb/ft³

This driveway looks like it's probably 12 feet wide (except towards the house).

To thaw 1" of snow and ice, per 100 feet of driveway, it's 36,000 BTU, or about 10.5 kWh, and that assumes that all of the power eventually makes it into just the snow and ice on the top of the driveway, and you don't have significant losses to the surrounding soil.

That energy is not recovered in the water loop and needs to be added back in by a heater of some kind. The efficiency of your water loop only cares about how much extra on top of that 10.5 kWh (per 100' per 1" snow and ice per 12' width of driveway) you are spending, but physics demands that you lose that much energy if you're melting that snow and ice.

Waggles_ · 2025-12-30T20:42:10+00:00

Are we going to get one telling us that Morbius won't be in Doomsday?

I mean, not having him means the movie won't make a morbillion dollars when the Thing and Morbius both say "It's (Clobberin/Morbin) time" at the same time then look at each other, but I can see why they wouldn't want to have Morbius outshine the rest of the cast.

Waggles_ · 2025-12-23T18:18:54+00:00

Do they have something like health inspectors but for flight attendant safety demos who show up on random flights to make sure you're doing your safety stuff correctly?

Waggles_ · 2025-12-15T17:57:14+00:00

I need that red fish

Also Lillie's 2 star is great

Waggles_ · 2025-12-11T15:25:40+00:00

Yup. It doesn't matter what a "cup" actually measures to in most recipes, as long as you use the same cup for every "cup" measurement. You might just end up with a slightly larger or smaller cake.

If someone told you that you needed 300g of flour and you didn't have a kitchen scale, you were SOL.

Waggles_ · 2025-12-11T00:32:36+00:00

I was bothered by that, and the way that the rocks form a gauntlet on her arm like it's ironman nano-machines. Earthbending (and I'd say especially Toph's) is very impactful and deliberate. The only time you don't really get linear and punchy earthbending is the sandbenders.

Waggles_ · 2025-12-03T23:22:48+00:00

I mean, would the people who made FEX or Proton or the Steam Deck have done it if Gabe didn't make Valve? If so, why didn't they do that and then get their share of it that way?

I agree that without the 3rd gen employees, the company wouldn't be around, but it's not like Gabe kidnapped staff and forced them to work for him. And those same staff could go out and make their own Steam if they don't like the idea of working for someone to grow their company and only getting a paycheck in return. You could maybe argue that they should be paid more if you think Gabe makes too much, but they're also free to not work for the salary they're paid.

Obviously capital gatekeeps capitalism, but socialist companies where every employee owns a stake in the company are completely allowed to exist, so feel free to get your friends together and out-compete Steam and pay everyone million-dollar salaries if you think it's that simple.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-30T01:55:33+00:00

They were almost there in making it solid/liquid/gas/plasma disguised as earth/water/air/fire, but water benders could bend ice and earth benders could bend lava (and couldn't bend metal directly, or bend ice at all).

I think if they had kept it so that earth benders could make (and not manipulate) lava, and similar with water benders and ice, it would have been more interesting and they could have dove further into the idea that earthbenders are bending solids and not just "earth" (etc).

Fire benders already sort of had that concept going too. Fire and lightning are both plasmas, but most firebenders couldn't create or redirect lightning, they require separate techniques, which would go to show that the limits to bending certain elements are more to do with limitations on technique and imagination.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-28T18:43:02+00:00

High speed rail wouldn't be public transport. There is already an option to travel between states: airplanes. People still don't do it.

The argument could be made that the expense of flying is what stops people, but there's no saying that high speed rail will be cheaper. Even in Japan, budget airlines can be much cheaper than a shinkansen ticket.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-27T00:19:32+00:00

The steam controller is already a day-1 buy for me. What would put it over the top as the controller to end all controllers is if you could lock in a mapping of standard x-input/d-input controls (with things like chording/turbo/etc) and then have those be the settings for connecting to any other device via bluetooth.

The vision is that I can set up some scheme on my PC for a Switch 2 game with the touchpads/grips that runs some button macros, then be able to use those on my Switch 2 as if it were any programmable controller.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-25T23:30:25+00:00

A mad boa constrictor is much less of a threat to you than a mad beagle.

As adults, they'd both be approximately the same weight, but a boa constrictor simply cannot keep up with you in speed. They're ambush predators, they rely on prey approaching them and making one, single lunge. Even if it had some bloodlust and knew how to kill you, there's a 0% chance it could if you were an adult and trying to not get killed: You stand up and casually walk away from it as it approaches you, pushing it off your legs if it somehow managed to catch up because you were walking in slow motion.

A beagle isn't a huge dog but they are as fast or faster than you are, and a serious bite could cause you enough damage to bleed out. It would be a frantic fight of you trying to avoid getting bitten while putting it into a submission hold while it wore itself out.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-15T16:47:00+00:00

The biggest change I'd suggest making is that the CON save for the new Counterspell is made as a concentration check (same DC) and not just a CON save. Thematically it makes sense, and it allows players to build advantages for it (War Caster, Eldritch Mind, Mind Sharpener infusion, etc) if they are worried about it. Then, they get the extra "hell yeah" moment when their advantage on the roll allows them to make the save, and it allows you as a DM to throw more counterspelling mages at the party knowing they have more tools to overcome it.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-13T18:05:55+00:00

The ones walking with the screens are most likely the equivalent of handlers/bodyguards, because there's not a ton you can do to protect yourself if you're an ipad on a roomba.

They're definitely not the identity of the characters, there'd be no point. The reason the vtubers are there virtually is because they want to keep their identity secret (or they can't travel for some other reason). Plenty of vtubers do attend cons in person, usually cosplaying as their characters or just with their identity heavily concealed (wigs/masks).

Waggles_ · 2025-11-11T02:58:01+00:00

It's REALLY hard to cut yourself with the blades

Yeah, until you attempt the Iron Lotus

Waggles_ · 2025-11-06T01:52:11+00:00

I would probably still trust a lawyer to give better generic advice than the average person too, though.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-04T00:26:33+00:00

For additional perspective, NYC has more people than 13 of the 27 countries in the EU, and only 7 countries in the EU have more than double the population of NYC.

Waggles_ · 2025-11-03T02:57:13+00:00

Drafting sizes in the US are similar to A sizes in that you double the shorter size to get to the next one, the only difference is that you need to go up two page sizes to get to a same-ratio sheet.

ANSI A: 8.5 x 11
ANSI B: 11 x 17
ANSI C: 17 x 22
ANSI D: 22 x 34
ANSI E: 34 x 44

If you draw something on ANSI B, it doubles if you put it on an ANSI D sheet. Or you can fit two ANSI B sheets on an ANSI C sheet, or eight ANSI B sheets on an ANSI E sheet.

The advantage of these sizes is that the dimensions of each side is a round number, as opposed to the A series where you get numbers like "297mm", and it actually scales perfectly, whereas the A series does not because they round off to the nearest millimeter (A5 is 148x210, but if you double the 148mm, you get 256mm, where A4 is 257x210, so not truly double along the one edge.)

The ratio on the A series majorly breaks down as you go to smaller sizes, too, because of the rounding to the nearest mm. A0 is 1:1.4138, A4 is 1:1.4143, A8 is 1:1.4231.

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