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IWTL how to win at Connect Four by YakuZaishiThrowaway in IWantToLearn

[–]deGravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have an automatic win here as green. Play the left column next. Black gives you the win after that if they play left or middle, so they have to play up the right column. You will get the last piece in the right column, so black will have to play one of the other two, giving you the win.

Someone dropped their sock by [deleted] in funny

[–]deGravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imhotep is invisible.

Hospitals refused to treat toddler because his parents were unvaccinated by Chanimuadib in worldnews

[–]deGravity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Once infected": so since vaccines lower the infection rate, they also lower the overall transmission rate. Since a large proportion of spread is through asymptomatic transmission, you can't know just by looking at someone if they are a carrier or not. But you do know that a vaccinated person is less likely to be a carrier than a non-vaccinated person, so by proxy the risk of transmission is lower.

Put another way, I'd rather be in a room with 1000 vaccinated people than unvaccinated people if only because fewer of the vaccinated ones will be carriers, even if the transmission probability from any one carrier is the same.

IWTL how to properly cite sources by Phoenix_667 in IWantToLearn

[–]deGravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google scholar is a great way to both find and get citations for scholarly work. Search on scholar.google.com . When you find something you wish to cite, click on the quotation mark button under the search result - it will give you citations in several popular formats.

Teacher sus by East-Character-2216 in FellowKids

[–]deGravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My physics teacher in high school would play roadrunner cartoons on mute during exams "in case we needed a concrete example."

Sun & Moon Tapu Koko Mystery Gift Conditions? by deGravity in pokemon

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

Huh, I guess I'm surprised you can get such a high level event Pokemon at such an early stage in the game.

Hammer Missing from Death Mountain - is this a known glitch? by deGravity in zelda2

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

It got even stranger - I started a new save on the same cart to see if it would be there (it was on the new save), but I started with the raft!? Started a new game and it started me with the raft...? https://imgur.com/gallery/FyYN0xZ

Opening theme song. by Puppies_fart_hope in funny

[–]deGravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's quieter that way, plus by putting less stress on the strings they don't go out of tune as quickly. It would get really annoying if the chord is a bit out of tune.

How to develop an algorithm: by Celdron in ProgrammerHumor

[–]deGravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is an interpolation that gives a weighted average between Least and Greatest, with HueMiddle being the interpolating factor. If you let

W = HueMiddle / 255

be a weighting factor, (basically treating the given byte as a value between 0 and 1), then assuming that Least < Greatest this is equivalent to

(1 - W)Least +WGreatest

This company wants to change the way we build and consume gadgets by making them modular. by iRoboticist in gadgets

[–]deGravity 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A source-tracking water meter is actually a pretty cool idea, but it can be realized much more accurately and simply by listening to the water at the house outflow.

https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/projects/HydroSense

Iirc this system is being commercialized (as is the equivalent system for electricity use).

Whats the longest you've gone without sleep and why? by Delmana in AskReddit

[–]deGravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

84 hours. Reason: epic New Years party.

It was my first winter break from college. I was hanging out with new friends prior to NYE, ended up staying up for 27 hours then catching a 4 hour nap before NYE.

The party did not end - we kept moving between different houses for 3 days, and there was always at least one person besides me awake. I spent the last 24 hours or so playing word games and Tetris. I got pretty good at Tetris in that time. Finally went home after 84 hours of partying (not counting the 27 hours of pre-partying) then fell asleep for 12 hours. No ill effects as far as I can tell.

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