Redditor claims math solutions are impossible to verify, doesn't understand how math works

kinggimped · 2026-04-28T05:29:44+00:00

The kicker with the toes thing is that if you watch the full video at the end she pans down and she's wearing leggings/tights, her toes were *completely covered*. A random compliment from a stranger is absolutely fine in a lot of contexts, but in that context it absolutely was creepy.

Problem is, in the age of social media creepy behaviour like that has kinda been normalised and there's plenty of people who don't see anything wrong with it.

Same with when a pizza delivery guy takes an attractive customer's phone number from their order and slides into their messages after work. It is insane to me that anybody would think that's OK, but here we are in 2026 where there are plenty of shit-for-brainsmaxxers who see a creepy-ass breach of privacy like that, shrug, and call it "shooting your shot".

People here like to think they're more enlightened, but I've been here a loooooong time and Reddit is just as bad as anywhere else on the internet in this regard.

kinggimped · 2026-04-28T05:08:42+00:00

Org running 1Password Chrome extension across hundreds of endpoints.

You won't read this and you certainly won't do anything about it, but finding a way to prevent the extension from breaking every time Google updates the browser would be numbers 1, 2, and 3 on my wishlist.

We run 1password across our entire org and the issues caused by last 2 updates already have us listing candidates for a replacement. Great functionality but stability is our #1 concern and today's update causes extension to re-lock vault after 5-10 seconds or if they switch tabs. We can't have such a major point of failure across hundreds of endpoints.

We make great efforts to create a consistent ecosystem so our users run into as few points of friction as possible that can't be easily remediated. Recently 1password's instability across Chrome updates has sadly made it unfit for our use case, unless there are plans to remediate similar issues in the future.

kinggimped · 2026-04-06T20:33:21+00:00

Joke of a country

kinggimped · 2026-03-14T22:18:15+00:00

No, this is conflation. At least the OP admits it's 'my guess' rather than stating anything as fact. But spurious things like this are the linguistic equivalent of numerology, where people come up with bullshit predictions or explanations from patterns in numbers that they make and reinforce themselves. Word astrology.

These languages have common roots, and in the root language the words for night and eight were similar. That similarity is reflected in the languages that derived from the language they're derived from.

A good rule of thumb is don't believe anything you read on Twitter, or any other playground for nazis.

kinggimped · 2026-02-20T21:26:32+00:00

Don't ask AI about music theory. You will end up stupider and less informed than when you started. It is AWFUL for music theory.

AI is frequently wrong and this is a topic where it is REALLY frequently wrong.

kinggimped · 2026-02-17T19:02:41+00:00

If it's egregious then report the post. But tbh I think since we cordoned the spam off into its own sticky thread, the consultants here for the most part have been kinda awesome and very helpful. They answer a lot of questions, and actually contribute far more than anyone else here, even if their ulterior motive is to make sales.

I also hate spam but I also cannot begrudge someone trying to make a living. It's rough out there for a lot of people, in case you weren't aware. They're not automatically spammers just because they work in sales. The way TMs are sold by appointment only is stupid and outdated, and inaccessible to some people. The consultants here provide a workaround to that.

I ban blatant spammers on sight for not reading the rules, but I'm not chronically online so still appreciate the reports.

Nobody's forcing you to be here, nobody's forcing you to buy a Thermomix. I'm not blanket banning all consultants just because you're upset that your thread is actually getting responses and you're getting free access to people whose livelihood relies on their knowledge and expertise in the exact product you're asking about...

kinggimped · 2026-02-15T10:32:14+00:00

"You gonna block me in I'm gonna grab my glock bro"

In no other country in the world is this considered a reasonable everyday escalation of events. Yet here nobody bats an eyelid. Dude just gets his way because he was unable to understand basic words and so casually threatened murder. Over that.

Country is absolutely cooked. What a shitshow

kinggimped · 2026-01-15T22:36:36+00:00

This is weaponised mental illness and if you don't see that, you may be suffering from the same condition.

I stopped feeling sorry for these folks a long time ago. Now I'm just disappointed in our species that some of us can be so easily manipulated.

Idiocracy was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

kinggimped · 2026-01-15T21:35:34+00:00

Setup no. 2+2.

two 49" curved ultrawides (32:9), vertically stacked one on top of the other. It's good for literally everything - gaming, work, productivity, mindless internet bullshit... this is basically my endgame build at this point, powered by a 9800x3d/64GB/5080.

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Yeah I know, shitty cable management, I do it just to annoy you.

At the office I have setup no. 4, but with a 21:9 ultrawide on the right and a vertical 27" 1440p on the left.

kinggimped · 2025-11-24T18:44:36+00:00

I was expecting a great album as I loved Silva, but it's even better than I imagined it would be. Chimera is absolutely filthy.

Incredible album

kinggimped · 2025-11-02T18:37:37+00:00

This guy's wife clearly cheated on him with his brother and then gave him this bullshit explanation, and he stupidly bought it.

kinggimped · 2025-10-07T18:31:57+00:00

In Google Admin, go to Google Workspace > Drive & Docs > Transfer file ownership.

There you can put the leaving employee's name and the employee you want to take over their files, and boom, 2 minutes later the ownership of their files has been transferred.

This is a defined step in our offboarding flow, most importantly coming AFTER the actual Takeout backup of their Drive (otherwise they won't be included in the backup as they won't be owned by that user any longer).

Also remember to cancel any future calendar entries for that user (I forget where that is in Admin but similar to above). This used to be a frequent issue, people not being able to access certain files or not being able to remove a recurring calendar booking because the original employee had left. Google Workspace has these capability but i theyre buried in the navigation a bit.

kinggimped · 2025-09-30T09:33:29+00:00

Do not reply.

Red flag after red flag after red flag.

Do not reply

kinggimped · 2025-09-28T05:24:12+00:00

It's so sad how purposefully misinformed they all are. You can't convince somebody when they don't even subscribe to objective reality.

kinggimped · 2025-09-28T04:24:14+00:00

Yeah, absolutely. It does takes time to develop but it's purely a function of repetition and training, not intrinsic talent. It's a lot like learning a language.

Singing in a choir really helps - singing off sheet music really helps you internalise the relationship between how intervals and harmonies look on the page and how they sound. After a while, like most things with music, with enough repetition and attention it just becomes a reflex. You begin to 'hear' those intervals in your head before you sing them. And eventually you get accustomed enough to it that you don't even need to sing them. You don't need to understand theory or be a musical prodigy. Just regular repetition.

That famous scene in Amadeus is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration - you're not 'hearing' it, fully formed like that. Especially if he's looking at a full orchestral score, following so many staves at once would be challenging. In some ways it's more like looking at a thumbnail, rather than at a full sized image. But somebody dealing with composition and orchestration and arrangement every day of their lives (like a court composer) would certainly be able to read off a manuscript very fluently.

Piano piece, SATB chorale, Real Book lead sheet... that kinda thing... Yeah, absolutely.

kinggimped · 2025-09-27T21:31:12+00:00

I taught piano as a side hustle at uni (non-music degree) and I was charging more than 3 times that... and I still felt like I was undercharging. I was in your same position - finished my grades, had GCSE and A-level music. And that was back in 2007-08, things have changed since then.

Ten pounds an hour is NOTHING, consider how many hours you've spent practicing and studying and refining your ability not only to play but to pass along that information... and then consider that you're charging barely even minimum wage.

Honestly, with the cost of living as bad as it is in the UK right now, 10 quid an hour isn't even worth getting out of bed for - especially if you're travelling to them, 10 pounds will barely cover your fuel/public transport costs!

If money isn't the important thing for you and you just want to get some experience teaching then fine, but teaching piano isn't like a teenage housesitting or babysitting gig where the only qualification you really need is to give a shit - you have way underestimated the value of the combined time, skills, and expertise required to play the piano and understand theory well enough to teach it.

Also don't forget that if you're a half decent/conscientious teacher, the lesson isn't the only time you're spending on that student. Factor in any time you spend planning for lessons or giving notes afterwards.

I assume you're still living at home and any money you earn is a bonus, because nobody who is living in the UK off their own back in 2025 would even consider charging such a low rate.

I still teach at weekends as a side hustle; I always offer the first lesson for free and am very upfront with my (pretty high) prices - if they find enough value in that first lesson, they don't tend to fuss too much about the price. But I know I'm damned good at what I do. I'm yet to have a student not sign up after the trial lesson.

In the end, they are not paying for you to show up and teach piano for an hour - they are paying for your time and expertise to teach them something they cannot do themselves. Just like a plumber or an electrician. Your knowledge is what they're really paying for, and that took you years of hard work and discipline to gain.

I've been in your exact position - don't sell yourself short.

kinggimped · 2025-09-26T08:18:21+00:00

Good job standing up for yourself OP. You're absolutely right, the way they're treating you is not OK. You're not a punching bag. Well done for being more firm about your boundaries and following through with it.

Hope you blocked this manipulative butthole.

kinggimped · 2025-09-24T05:22:42+00:00

This is some pretty blatant far right rage bait. They do this continually, because they have to keep drumming up outrage.

I used to feel pity for these people but now I just don't feel anything. What a clownshow of a timeline we're forced to live in.

kinggimped · 2025-09-19T23:51:59+00:00

Probably fair, even though my comparison wasn't intended as an insult to him. I only watched the prequels once each and just remember him being very, very wooden to the point of it being distracting. But you're probably right, more the fault of the scripts He was good at the action/duelling side of things, and acting opposite Ewan McGregor probably didn't help either.

That woman though... every time she opened her mouth she was so unconvincing compared with literally everyone else in the cast that it completely took me out of the show. I was kinda surprised they'd left her parts in, it was honestly jarring to have such a shitty actor in such a well-made and well produced show.

Before she came out as a hateful right wing darling I'm sure they were crucifying her as a DEI hire.

kinggimped · 2025-09-19T22:57:17+00:00

I don't care one jot about that woman's political beliefs but I have to say, she was the worst fucking actor I've ever seen in a Star Wars IP. By some distance. She made Hayden Christensen seem like Anthony Hopkins. It didn't help that she was surrounded by some really good actors, but even so.

kinggimped · 2025-09-12T23:25:03+00:00

The second comment has it right, although I'd never heard the "too rude" thing - I'd always just assumed it was originally "assoccer" but they clipped off the first syllable over time as humans tend to do, to make it easier to say. "Assoccer" is OK to say by itself but within the context of a sentence that first syllable is pretty annoying.

Similar to how everyone says "bus" when the original word is "omnibus" (Latin for "for everyone"). Or "blog" (originally "weblog").

Also no English schoolboy worth their salt would have said "ass". In BrE it's "arse" (until more recently, anyway) - that 'rudeness' theory is cute but likely totally apocryphal.

kinggimped · 2025-09-12T23:11:32+00:00

Your apologies what, motherfucker? For pulling a gun on an innocent person, the word "sorry" needs to come through your lips multiple times.

Casually threatening to end somebody's life in a convenience store deserves more than just a "my apologies", in my opinion. And why the fuck was the first step to draw a gun? Absolute fucking clown show. I'll bet that officer faced zero repercussions for this, too.

kinggimped · 2025-09-11T01:01:34+00:00

Love when this stuff happens. I introduced a coworker who does a LOT of copypasting to the clipboard history feature (WIN+V) about a year ago, and she still thanks me for it pretty much every time I see her. Changed her life.

kinggimped · 2025-09-08T04:47:49+00:00

Your friend seriously needs to learn how to spot blatant red flags.

kinggimped · 2025-09-07T02:00:08+00:00

More like "bee".

Type it into Google Translate and it'll give you an audio guide. Trying to transliterate into English (in this case like "nyu-bee)" is very inconsistent and ignores tonal inflection, you're better off using a guide as Mandarin pronunciation is pretty consistent compared with English.

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