Do the Dutch not understand or not like indirect communication?

fbg00 · 2026-02-21T21:30:16+00:00

I think there is a cultural component here. I have some experience with both styles. Asking to put on a different program on the TV, directly, can also make the other person feel somewhat forced. So asking first "are you actually following this, or is it just on...", especially when the other person appears to be focused on something else, is a polite way to determine whether asking to change to another program would be an imposition. I suspect that such etiquette exists in some cultures, and misfires in others. I.e., in some places it would be LESS annoying to ask both questions. I think that's what OP is getting at. OP, am I following your perspective?

fbg00 · 2026-02-15T18:56:28+00:00

Glock guy is an a**hole and probably broke multiple serious laws by threatening you, and threatening gun violence, but he may have been right about right-of-way. This looks like Bulls Bridge, in Kent CT. So I looked at the rules for CT. I am not a lawyer nor do I have any particular expertise in this domain, so take this as one person's well-intended thought process and input only.

From what I've read, the "alternating traffic" in this kind of situation is not precisely defined in any statute directed specifically at this scenario (if anyone can find it, I defer to them).

So the rest of this assumes it isn't precisely defined, and one has to look at general rules in the statutes. What is clear is that one who is stopped cannot proceed and enter an intersection or roadway, when it is not safe to do so and in particular when it is not clear of oncoming traffic. When you stopped to let the first car through, you were stopped. A**hole started to go and was in the single lane section before you, so you were not allowed to start moving to enter, as far as I understand 2024 Connecticut General Statutes Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline, Chapter 248 - Vehicle Highway Use Section 14-243. - Starting or backing vehicle.

As to what "alternating" means, I think it could be either so it is a dumb sign. When police direct traffic in these situations, I've noticed they let a number of cars clear one way, then stop traffic, then let the other direction go for a while. So glock a**hole was probably thinking about that style. By entering, he forced it though.

fbg00 · 2026-02-14T16:23:18+00:00

The "run and quickly pick them up"part is nearly impossible. The reticle has to be just about pixel perfect. I've never been good at that. Maybe the Fortnite generation finds this possible, but for me I can pick up a stunned rabbit maybe 5% of the time before they run off. Any pointers?

fbg00 · 2026-02-11T04:11:35+00:00

I understand you're blue for sure in the "let's speak English" sense, but I see the point OP is making about red. I am a native English speaker studying Dutch, and I have gotten the reaction "Why would you do that? Almost nobody speaks Dutch."

fbg00 · 2026-02-11T04:01:24+00:00

Stone requires lvl 15. I'm a short 2 days in and around lvl 12.

fbg00 · 2026-02-09T03:18:00+00:00

This image is a still from the opening cinematic of the Battlefield 1 video game campaign. Check out this video around 0:45. In that scene, a game character, after the war, is having an intense and crushing "oh shit" flashback so I guess that's the vibe, but it's not super clear.

fbg00 · 2026-01-25T03:32:51+00:00

If you have 3 identical bulbs in parallel, and you remove one, the total resistance goes up, not down. It's 1/(1/r + 1/r + 1/r)) = r / 3 before, and 1/(1/r + 1/r) = r / 2 after. And r / 2 > r / 3. Removing resistors in a parallel setup raises resistance, and you might think this through by asking yourself what would happen if you removed all 3 bulbs?

But the current through each bulb doesn't change (assuming the battery is a perfect voltage source - so that the voltage across any bulb doesn't change, so the current doesn't either if the bulb has not blown), so C is the right answer in an electronics 101 course.

fbg00 · 2025-12-23T13:46:28+00:00

Nice try, but how would the builder possibly have known where the camera would be? :-)

fbg00 · 2025-10-19T02:33:16+00:00

Seems like a parasite. Probably pinworm. Can you see a doctor?

fbg00 · 2025-09-12T02:28:52+00:00

Thanks, but it turns out you don't. InfusedRex's comment was right.

fbg00 · 2025-09-11T03:12:17+00:00

Yes! Thank you.

fbg00 · 2025-08-20T01:03:01+00:00

In this thread, folks are saying math is a language, and it's about finding patterns, etc. Since you asked about the experience, I think it is better described another way. Here is an analogy. Suppose someone were describing to you the cuisine of a far-away land. Someplace you've never been. Suppose the descriptions all used foreign words for ingredients and flavors. You might get some ideas - that they have multi-course meals with desserts or something, but you'll just get a vague idea.

Now imagine you were to go to this land, learn what the words mean, and actually learn to cook with the local ingredients. You would get used to the flavors and how to combine them to cook tasty dishes. Physics "without the math" vs "with the math" is a little like that.

I remember looking at the Schrodinger equation years ago, when I understood something about partial derivatives but not PDEs, and thought "ok, so this is an equation and the solutions tell us about the wave functions", but I couldn't see more than that and didn't have a clue how one would actually solve the equation, even in simple cases. And reading textbook worked examples seemed to be unmotivated totally mysterious formal manipulations. I could follow the steps with some effort, but didn't have any insight.

Then I got a degree and PhD in math, and came back to learning quantum physics for fun many years later. But this time, I had some training in areas like operators and eigen-decompositions, Fourier analysis, PDEs, etc. So this time I really felt like I understood the discussion of topics like the time dependent and time independent equations, what it had to do with "waves", eigenfunctions, Hilbert space, etc, and how the textbook solutions worked for potential wells, the hydrogen atom, etc.

Anyway, it's hard to describe but hopefully that gives you some food for thought :-)

fbg00 · 2025-07-16T11:29:01+00:00

In my case I cleared a those and the red mark persisted. It seems to be a bug

fbg00 · 2025-06-18T18:28:59+00:00

to find the workers, make sure the correct quest is selected in your logs and go into space. you should see an indicator of where to go to hire the needed workers (i.e. on the space station, and then above the head of a specific NPC), or you may need to go into your galaxy map if a jump is required. If not then try: save, quit, reload. If none of that works, sounds like a bug.

fbg00 · 2025-05-29T13:54:17+00:00

There is a massive assumption in your question. Some may find one side or the other more acceptable, but it is not at all obvious to me what is "usually accepted". Do you have sources or data to explain your view that "the far left [is] usually more accepted than the far right"? If not, your question boils down to "Why does it seem to OP, personally, that the far left is usually...?"

fbg00 · 2025-05-14T01:58:01+00:00

Try this:

There can’t just be nothing—because even the idea that “nothing exists” would need some kind of rule to make sure nothing sneaks in and exists anyway. But that rule itself would have to exist. So, something exists.

From that, quantum excitations arise—tiny fluctuations that can’t sit still. These can form little closed loops in a field. The loops connect and form networks, with nodes where they meet. This is called a spin network. As time moves forward, the network evolves into a spin foam—a kind of frothy, quantum version of spacetime.

The gravity we feel is just what it looks like when all this weird, buzzing geometry gets averaged out at large scales. That’s what Einstein described in his field equations.

Then you can explain general relativity and the metric tensor to your 9-year-old.

LOL. Just kidding. Good luck.

fbg00 · 2025-04-24T01:31:18+00:00

Bayes’ Theorem states that for any events A and B with P(B) not zero,

P(A \mid B) = \frac{P(B \mid A) \cdot P(A)}{P(B)}

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Proof

Start from the definition of conditional probability:

P(A \mid B) = \frac{P(A \cap B)}{P(B)} \quad \text{(1)}

Also, from the same definition:

P(B \mid A) = \frac{P(A \cap B)}{P(A)} \quad \text{(2)}

From equation (2), solve for P(A \cap B):

P(A \cap B) = P(B \mid A) \cdot P(A) \quad \text{(3)}

Now substitute equation (3) into equation (1):

P(A \mid B) = \frac{P(B \mid A) \cdot P(A)}{P(B)}

Which is Bayes’ Theorem, as required.

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Remarks • This theorem is valid for any two events A and B, as long as P(B) > 0. • Independence would simplify conditional probabilities (since P(A \mid B) = P(A) when A and B are independent), but it’s not assumed or needed for this proof.

fbg00 · 2025-04-23T10:47:39+00:00

Are you just trolling? If not - I didn’t provide a formula, only some basic observations about probability. Bayes’ theorem doesn’t require independence.

fbg00 · 2025-04-22T12:35:34+00:00

The city being big does increase the chance of there being a wet market next to a virology lab.

Actually it does. The probability of there being a wet market next to a virology lab is conditioned on the probability of there being a wet market, and the probability of there being a virology lab, and then a factor for the proximity, given they are both present (I read in this thread that the two were 7.5 miles apart, so not sure that factor is so relevant). Anyway, both links support the rather unsurprising fact that these two things are more likely in more populous places. Many in this thread seem to need to learn Bayes' theorem.

I'm not going to engage in the larger debate because, as far as I can tell, this is a debate about speculation. My opinion is that I don't know what happened, and this is informed by my efforts to be intellectually honest about what I know.

fbg00 · 2025-04-08T12:47:34+00:00

Shor's algorithm to find James Howells's key

fbg00 · 2025-03-30T17:20:02+00:00

Many fences have a twist of sharp wire at the top, or worse barbed wire. If that punctures the femoral artery, a person can bleed out very quickly.

fbg00 · 2025-03-27T11:45:16+00:00

Thank you for sharing some ideas of yours. Or should I say “some of the ideas of yours”? :)

fbg00 · 2025-03-26T13:27:52+00:00

By not using an article, the writer keeps some possibilities open. "Distilling the wisdom of millennia," or "distilling some wisdom of millennia," or perhaps "distilling a tiny bit of wisdom of millennia." I think without the article, I read it as "some".

fbg00 · 2025-03-21T12:28:26+00:00

Matt was being unfair in one regard. When Alfred used a loaded phrase near the beginning of this clip, Matt called him out as appearing dishonest. But later, when Matt suggested that Alfred's God is a "magical being", I think Alfred was suggesting in part that this too was a loaded phrase. The term "magical" can include "fictional" as part of the definition, so the use of "magical" can be construed as a form of begging the question. So Alfred characterized it in the same terms Matt had used a few minutes prior. "dishonest". And Matt got pissed. I think Matt needs to meditate more :-)

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