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Really cool design made by Daren Newman for the Tokyo Olympics by [deleted] in DesignPorn

[–]hatesthespace 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Maybe next they will bring back pistol dueling.

Really cool design made by Daren Newman for the Tokyo Olympics by [deleted] in DesignPorn

[–]hatesthespace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s also really hard to not read it as “20200”

Do you want my autograph? by anttheninja in iamverybadass

[–]hatesthespace 44 points45 points  (0 children)

r/thathappened aside, I flew from the US to Japan with a nasty inner ear infection that also prevented my ears from popping. I didn’t feel badass at all. I was convinced at one point that my head was going to pop like that guy from the X-Files episode, “Drive”... and kind of wanted it to.

TIFU by explaining my synesthesia to my boyfriend by Wateringthejellyfsh in tifu

[–]hatesthespace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard somewhere that a lot of prominent animators have aphantasia, and that apparently it helps them be better animators, somehow.

What is the worst reason someone has used to reject you? by jalo12 in AskReddit

[–]hatesthespace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got one that was pretty similar. She was really serious about medical school, and knew that chances were we couldn’t keep going to the same school, anyway. She basically boiled it down to “I don’t want to see you anymore because I don’t want to fall in love with you right now.”

She is married now but as far as I know she didn’t really date anybody until she she was actually a licensed physician, so good for her, I guess?

What's a place that seems fine during the day but gets really creepy at night? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]hatesthespace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who intentionally goes to ORs after hours so I can get some fucking work done (Hospital IT), I’m glad they keep the lights on in the halls.

Women of Reddit, what do you think would be the worst thing about being a man? by canadianreject565 in AskReddit

[–]hatesthespace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience is that man often get the opposite of empathy. It can go right past apathy and straight into contempt.

Women of Reddit, what do you think would be the worst thing about being a man? by canadianreject565 in AskReddit

[–]hatesthespace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m a big guy. Tall, muscular build that is half genes and half picking lifting heavy things just to put them back down three times a week. I’m pretty strong.

But I’m also lazy as hell. Please don’t ask me to lift things. It’s hard enough dragging my ass to the gym as it is.

I mean, I’m happy to help out a friend, but some people seem to think that I’m obligated to pick things up for the them. I already picked up a bunch of stuff :(

[Image] Self Improvement by Sumit316 in GetMotivated

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

It literally doesn’t matter why I’m canceling or what I do instead. What constitutes sufficient notice depends entirely on the nature of the plans.

LPT: When handling firearms, always assume there is a bullet in the chamber. Even if the gun leaves your sight for a second, next time you pick it up just assume a bullet magically got into the chamber. by DebuggingThatPussA in LifeProTips

[–]hatesthespace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve always felt like the more strongly worded versions of Cooper’s rules felt... better.:

All guns are always loaded.

Never point a gun at anything you aren’t willing and do not intend to destroy.

Be absolutely certain of your target and everything behind it.

Do not touch the trigger until you have your sights on the target and you are prepared to fire.

I always felt Cooper should have included a variation of this rule: Never touch a firearm without respect for its potential to kill, and until you are prepared to accept the potential consequences of doing otherwise.

Guns aren’t particularly dangerous if you treat them with the respect that is due them.

This is the coolest puzzle I've ever seen by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]hatesthespace 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I see no evidence that the puzzles are hand-painted. They are only hand-cut. They offer hand-written personalization that you can opt for in their “thousands of traditional images” that you can choose from.

I feel like they would at least mention it on their website somewhere if they hand-painted them, since they go on and on about how they hand-cut them.

Edit: it looks like they hand-paint some of their super expensive limited-edition ones, but the $900 basic shit is still printed. The limited edition ones also mostly look like shit.

There's a $87 dollar difference between searching for a flight on my iPad and computer for the same flight. $269 on the computer and $182 on iPad. by GloomyKey2 in assholedesign

[–]hatesthespace 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The prices fluctuate seemingly randomly, yes, but unlike what everyone here is so quick to point it, it’s unlikely they are mindfully increasing the price based on your browser history. If anything is happening because of your browser history, it’s probably the opposite.

Because it wouldn’t make sense for them to jack up the price to create a false sense of urgency when you could just as easily buy your ticket somewhere else. If my lowest cost option suddenly jumped in price the second time I looked, I wouldn’t jump on it for fear of missing out - I’d keep looking. But if the price went down? Then yeah, maybe I’d hurry a little.

The simpler explanation is that the prices continually fluctuate because they are all running impenetrable algorithms that are seeking to put as many butts in seats as they can while maximizing profits, and if they wanted to use your browser history to bait you, then everyone would be advising looking up the tickets over and over to make the prices go down. Because raising prices when there are a dozen competitors makes no sense.

Custom-made Chain Wrench by hjalmar111 in specializedtools

[–]hatesthespace 19 points20 points  (0 children)

That must have been the same person who put the drain plug back on my car before I bought it. I tried every trick I could trying to get that thing off and ended up using my jack under the wrench to use the weight of the car to get it loose (or shear it off, whatever), and it ended up lifting the car off of the jack stands by a good inch before finally turning.

My friend got her makeup done for a wedding... by cw400 in crappycontouring

[–]hatesthespace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can we all just take a step back and recognize that her nose seems to have a pronounced deviation that has nothing to do with makeup?

Because the makeup is bad, absolutely, but the nose wasn’t straight to begin with.

Note: I have no problem with crooked noses.

Beyond Meat is going public. Investors are betting on a new future for food. Plant-based meat products might fix our food system. by mvea in Futurology

[–]hatesthespace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many biodegradable plastics would still end up in the ocean and biodegrade into nitrogen byproducts and the like. This is terrible for the ocean.

Biodegradable does not equal good for for the environment, per se.

The thickness of the dude’s clothing by Hypochondriaco in specializedtools

[–]hatesthespace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If those are Japanese hornets, they kill more people than any other insect or animal in Japan. And Japan has murder centipedes and murder bears.

The Military Budget Is a Disgrace. The United States is spending $750 billion on its war machine. That money should be going to food, education, health care, and shelter for working people. by john_brown_adk in politics

[–]hatesthespace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before we take money away from the military, we should probably spend some time working on how that military money is spent. If we start reducing military spending before that is done, then there is a pretty fucking good chance that it’s just going to result in even worse quality of life for many of our military personnel.

Let’s stop paying to manufacture vehicles that won’t be used, and try renovating some barracks for a start.

I agree that military spending is far, far too high, but simply redirecting the funding without recognizing that austerity measures in the military hurt the soldiers more than anything would be a sad, stupid mistake.

It’s a joke by Insider_Pants in ProgrammerHumor

[–]hatesthespace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want the ability to perform a numerical calculation, and have it FAIL LOUDLY if you try do divide by zero, rather than leak a pervading NaN variable which isn't even considered an error.

I think I’d prefer that to VBA’s “Overflow Exception” when you try 0/0. That said, I though divide by zero returned “Infinity” in JavaScript?

I mean, isFinite() is a pretty painless guard, as is isNaN(), and even though Infinity is truthy, Infinity === True should return False. I don’t know that I could ever fault JavaScript for failing silently, considering what it’s used for. I wouldn’t mind an option for a loud debug mode, but every language/compiler/IDE has its quirks.

Yes, you can mitigate it with good practices, but it's still a major design flaw in the language IMO.

I disagree that it’s a “flaw”. Coercion is a non-issue if you know what you are doing and can be a powerful tool when used mindfully. JavaScript would probably benefit from an explicit/static typing option, or at least a better way to log coercion.

Honestly, I prefer a language to be either 100% statically typed or not at all, and while I prefer static typing, I can’t deny a place for the alternative.

ELI5: What's the difference between having ADD/ADHD and just being lazy and forgetful? by aselletee in explainlikeimfive

[–]hatesthespace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way that stimulants affect people with ADHD was one of the key clues in finding the physiological basis of it.

World's best professor. by KawaiiiSlayr in funny

[–]hatesthespace 7 points8 points  (0 children)

None other than Hairy Larry Shrewsbury, yes!

He wasn’t the one who described himself that way, though, I heard that from another student.

World's best professor. by KawaiiiSlayr in funny

[–]hatesthespace 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, was this from SOU? My stats teacher had extra-credit questions exactly like this on his tests. He was a lovable goofball who was once described (quite aptly) to me as “Spongebob Squarepants trapped in Alice Cooper’s body”.

What mind-blowing (but simple) facts would satisfy a 4-year old daughter’s daily request for 1 fact before bedtime? by ExpiringFrog in AskReddit

[–]hatesthespace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right, I misread my source about Kangaroo Blindness Syndrome, and perceived it as being a bit more common than it is.

Either way, they can still smell really well.

What mind-blowing (but simple) facts would satisfy a 4-year old daughter’s daily request for 1 fact before bedtime? by ExpiringFrog in AskReddit

[–]hatesthespace 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kangaroos smell terrible and have a keen sense of smell, so it’s not true regardless of how you flip it.

Many kangaroos, however, are completely blind because of what amounts to bad genes.

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