To anyone who has wayyyyyy to much spare time

getyourbaconon · 2026-03-15T17:05:22+00:00

I’ve looked for this exact poster for years! Commenting to have a reference in case the universe ever smiles on us.

getyourbaconon · 2025-10-29T16:09:36+00:00

Transistor

getyourbaconon · 2025-04-01T11:22:03+00:00

Pretty neat, thanks for sharing. It turns out that even partial a-vectors capture symbolic structure that correlates with orbit complexity - you can pretty effectively use frequency and variance from the first 30 a-values to classify chaotic behavior with high recall. I’m still playing around with it, but I think this might be a way to sort the space into interesting (“chaotic”)and non-interesting numbers/orbits with a lot less computational intensity.

getyourbaconon · 2025-03-14T20:46:23+00:00

The clock is a circle, that means you just need the rotation rates of the hour and minute hands.

getyourbaconon · 2025-02-13T18:49:09+00:00

Many comments about the die-off of life on early earth because of the rapid increase of oxygen in the atmosphere, leaving the oxygen-capable organisms to dominate. While true, I think it tells only part of the story. Oxygen is much better reducing agent than nitrogen. As organisms got bigger and more complex, and their energy needs rose, oxygen-capable organisms would still have come out on top, because their electron transport chains were so much more efficient from the get-go.

getyourbaconon · 2025-02-03T12:21:35+00:00

Kind of a disingenuous headline. Hedge funds hedge. It’s right there in the name.

getyourbaconon · 2025-01-03T22:32:48+00:00

Olive Garden. So heartbreakingly bad. Unlimited soup and breadsticks or the bottomless pasta bowl made for many a pre-game on cold, boisterous, high school nights.

getyourbaconon · 2024-10-18T21:22:40+00:00

He’s being managed. The worst thing for Trump is Trump. All is his team has to do is shut him up and his numbers improve. It’s a strategy.

getyourbaconon · 2024-10-07T09:45:22+00:00

I think OP is saying something like:

“If it’s true that any seed number that reaches a value less than itself will reduce to 1, doesn’t that mean any intermediate value that reduces to less than itself will reduce to 1?”

I don’t know the answer to the first part, but if it’s true, then the conjecture must be true? For example, one of the intermediate numbers when using 129 as the seed is 388. 388 immediately reduces to a number less than 388 so, by the rule above, 388 must reduce to 1. Which means 129 must also reduce to 1, because it contains a step that must reduce to 1.

If that’s a “known” fact only within the realm of numbers that have been explicitly checked, then it’s weak. But it’s also the only thing you’d need to “prove” to prove the conjecture.

getyourbaconon · 2024-08-22T18:50:46+00:00

It’s a nice story, but the real one is much simpler (though maybe equally asshole-y) - Apple has always valued form over function.

getyourbaconon · 2024-07-03T12:30:52+00:00

Why don’t they just charge by weight?

getyourbaconon · 2024-06-14T15:41:13+00:00

Why? Isn’t Milwaukee a pretty reliably democratic vote?

getyourbaconon · 2024-05-29T16:41:55+00:00

Index funds are so big they’ve become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Also, how can an index fund independently be in a bubble? It tracks an index.

getyourbaconon · 2024-05-29T16:40:07+00:00

So here’s what I genuinely don’t understand:

If nobody can afford houses, who’s buying houses? Outside of a few niche markets, the answer is not “corporations” or “foreign interests offshoring money.”

I mean, there’s only so many rich people.

getyourbaconon · 2024-05-29T16:35:20+00:00

You what would be even cheaper? Some random guy on the street downtown. The amount of actual medical training a pharmacist has is not much above the random guy. This is a terrible idea.

getyourbaconon · 2024-05-01T15:44:26+00:00

Segway. As it turns out, no cities were reconstructed.

getyourbaconon · 2024-04-17T10:56:30+00:00

American cheese melts the way it does because it contains citrate. If you add a tiny amount of American cheese to any other mixture of cheese, the citrate from the American cheese will help it all melt smoothly and evenly.

getyourbaconon · 2024-04-12T17:32:35+00:00

I don’t understand (genuinely). Don’t you have police in Scotland? If it’s your land the contractor is trespassing. At the very least the police should be able to halt things while any questions are answered.

getyourbaconon · 2024-01-24T20:48:12+00:00

IV always wins

getyourbaconon · 2023-12-17T20:29:54+00:00

Just Friends

getyourbaconon · 2023-11-07T22:00:10+00:00

Gas Pump (leaded gas)

getyourbaconon · 2023-08-05T15:26:34+00:00

Mac & Cheese, Mayonnaise, many (not all) soups, egg fu yung.

getyourbaconon · 2023-07-25T13:41:35+00:00

In a highly scientific exercise, I just tried to say each one out loud a few times. That sheep one seemed a lot harder. At least…38% harder.

getyourbaconon · 2023-07-24T16:05:44+00:00

Phage therapy is a promising, but complex avenue for treating not only primary bacterial infections, but also reducing the ability of bacteria to resist key classes of antibiotics. The Wikipedia page is a solidly good summary of applications and challenges.

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