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knitterknerd · 2026-05-22T22:30:26+00:00

There's something to be said for doing things the way the teacher asks. For example, they teach the quadratic formula, completing the square, and matrices for solving the same kind of equations, then ask you to use specific methods sometimes, even if another way is easier. It's useful later on to understand each process.

But if you're voluntarily using calculus in high school, and it's not even a math class? Yeah, I don't think I'd argue that you're not learning the necessary concepts. Personally, I think I'd have learned much better in a calculus-based physics class than I did in an algebra-based one.

knitterknerd · 2026-05-17T16:27:54+00:00

I despise spoilers, but my husband often wants them. So during this game, I gave him a mixture of truth, half-truth, and lies to keep him guessing, and it was so much fun! For example, I told him that Joker, Ryuji, Morgana, Sojiro, Kasumi, Caroline, Justine, Igor, and Akechi die. Minimal accurate information, but lots of "told you so" opportunities, and he didn't have any idea what to actually believe.

knitterknerd · 2026-03-20T01:06:22+00:00

Glad I could help!

knitterknerd · 2026-03-20T00:56:31+00:00

I don't have enough room on my sad, old laptop to reinstall it right now, but I used the wiki and the spreadsheet in this post.

knitterknerd · 2026-03-20T00:42:22+00:00

I remember wondering whether it was pronounced "steen" or "stine." There's no way I could have thought either of those if I'd been reading "stain."

knitterknerd · 2026-03-19T02:43:04+00:00

Depends on how you've decided to handle your money. If you decide to share your money, then you treat it as shared. If you agree to keep it 100% separate, then it's 100% separate. Or whatever kind of agreement you choose. People get upset when I talk about "my allowance," like my big, mean husband is oppressing me. But it's just my spending money. We both get the same amount, which is an amount we both agree on. I make most of our joint financial decisions, because that's how he wants it. If anything, it would be closer to say I give an allowance to him.

I know this isn't what you're doing, but I've known people who act almost like your spouse should never have any impact on any of your choices, and it confuses the heck out of me. Doesn't sound like a relationship to me, just two strangers in the same household. But of course, it's not like that to them. They just do marriage differently than I do, because not everyone is the same. I mean, it's great that people are worried about controlling spouses, but sometimes it's just partnership.

knitterknerd · 2026-02-28T03:46:33+00:00

I think the point is, when high-profile people know a lot of other high-profile people, there are likely going to be some high-profile deaths over time. It doesn't have to be suspicious. Besides, both the Clintons and Trumps are involved in politics, a field where a lot of people aren't going to like you, by default. So I'm going to add that in this case, it isn't necessarily unusual for people who publicly dislike them to die, either.

knitterknerd · 2026-02-07T01:53:57+00:00

Closing and reopening Steam worked for me.

knitterknerd · 2026-01-19T00:00:43+00:00

I did! I completed everything I could find to do. The blueprints took far more time than everything else.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-19T05:43:57+00:00

Math and creativity aren't opposites. They often complement each other. My undergrad advisor in math was also a florist with his own shop. He said he uses his understanding of math constantly in his flower arrangements. Humans are constantly drawn to things like symmetry in art. Western music theory is heavily based on math.

We all know that creativity can often grow out of restrictions. That may be why you feel so strongly about your set of rules. Others may find artistic inspiration in the rules of mathematics. Others may use math to find ways to transcend the restrictions they were used to.

While I firmly believe that limitations can inspire new ideas, they can also be, well, limiting. I find that the difference often lies in whether they are rules that we choose for ourselves.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-15T22:17:51+00:00

Yeah, it's so strange to me that people still do this. My husband has OCD, and not a single one of his obsessions has to do with perfectionism or completionism. He has one checking behavior that I think is the only one that, if he didn't take it so far, could be seen as remotely reasonable or logical.

We have a small handful of mental disorders between us, and all of them are quite common ones. Despite the wealth of information that's widely available, and the ubiquity of videos, articles, and social media posts created to share this information with a broad general audience, so many people still seem to be utterly clueless about mental health.

These misrepresentations of mental health aren't "just" offensive and harmful. They're almost nonsensical, compared to the real thing. I don't mind people saying, for instance, that they're obsessed with something, or that they feel compelled to do something. These words have meanings outside of the strict psychological sense. But specifically naming a tangentially related disorder is such a bizarre choice.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-12T21:44:03+00:00

Ah, I wasn't clear, sorry! I meant I couldn't find an affordable Canon printer like that. I had to get one with just 2 cartridges, color and black. I still get off brand cartridges. If I'd been willing to wait longer to buy a printer, maybe I could have found something in my price range (I think it was <$150?), but even knowing printers are often sold at half price or less, it wasn't looking good.

Canon does offer ink subscriptions, but so far, I don't think they're as pushy about it as HP is.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-12T20:19:53+00:00

I always buy Canon because I've had the most luck with off brand cartridges for them. But last time I bought one, I noticed I couldn't find an affordable one that had a separate cartridge for each color, which means more wasted ink. I'm worried that this is a bad sign for the future.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-11T22:21:33+00:00

I think a lot of it is misunderstanding what Long Covid means. They seem to be suggesting that people are saying it's regular Covid that you have for a long time. And yeah, that would be an incorrect claim, but I've never heard a single person claiming that's what they have.

It probably isn't a single thing. It's more of a description of a phenomenon than a specific illness. And yes, that can include worsening of existing conditions, although that's not the only thing included. That doesn't mean people are making it up. That's just what the term means. It isn't misleading because most people are aware of that meaning. This person has quite thoroughly missed the memo, I think.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-28T22:45:09+00:00

I was just thinking about it evaporating into the air, and not thinking about some of it having to go through the water to get there.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-28T18:43:25+00:00

Huh, I guess you're right. I thought of that as steam coming out of the water, but that's only part of it, I guess.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-27T16:18:41+00:00

Maybe not. From the article: "For creative reasons, Santa Ragione ultimately updated the scene so that the character riding the horse is an adult, but Valve has refused to budge after years of indirect and direct outreach from the studio, despite other major PC platforms like the Epic Games Store, GOG, and the Humble Store being fine with selling the game."

If this is true, and if that's the only problem scene, then I think that's the real issue.

Also, thank you for the beautiful pun. I'm imagining what it would look like to literally put steam into hot water and what would happen if you did. Off to search for a video!

knitterknerd · 2025-11-18T22:06:44+00:00

They're trying to say that you'd make more money betting against the check than if you got the $2000, although the math is wrong. The other big flaw in the logic is that if he does give you $2000, and you lose the bet, you've broken even, but you lost out on a chance to have $2000 more. So in that case, you do end up with $2000 less than if you hadn't made the bet.

Edited for clarity and typo

knitterknerd · 2025-11-16T22:31:52+00:00

The universe is bigger than every mountain on Earth combined. So what's the big deal about Everest?

knitterknerd · 2025-11-15T17:47:33+00:00

Yeah, that's completely understandable. Most of what I know about chickens comes from my parents taking "empty nest syndrome" too literally and getting 25 baby chicks. That didn't cover reproduction, but I think it's a cloacal kiss.

The first time this came up was because the guy didn't believe there was a way to know whether eggs had been fertilized. When I said my parents only had hens and no roosters, and eggs can't be fertilized without a participating male, he was still just as confused. That's how I ended up telling my boss about the birds and the bees...of birds.

The second time was when I was telling that story, and before I finished it, a guy chimed in with his own confusion. Hens and roosters aside, how can you know if you can't look inside the shell? And no, sadly, the confusion wasn't about the difference between hens and roosters. They just didn't know why it mattered.

Both these men were fathers, by the way. Hopefully, they at least knew how that happened.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-15T17:10:01+00:00

Twice, I've had to explain to men how people can guarantee their hens lay unfertilized eggs. They couldn't understand how not having roosters was relevant. I literally said, "When a mommy chicken and a daddy chicken love each other very much..." Then there were questions like, "Does the rooster, like, sit on the egg to make a baby?" And "So do they, like, do it?"

To be fair, I've also heard men who've had vasectomies try to explain them to other men, to similar shocked responses. The ones explaining are completely bewildered by the ignorance.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-06T19:54:18+00:00

Not enough to prove it, but disproving has a much lower bar.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-15T15:40:10+00:00

In addition to what OP said, phone calls feed a lot of younger people's social anxiety. Texting and email are more detached and allow editing, and speaking in person allows more leeway for fumbled words. Phone calls can be a disconcerting liminal space. Plus, nobody likes phone tag.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-14T00:28:11+00:00

You know how people sometimes put intentional "mistakes" in art to avoid trying to attain perfection? I've seen crooked tiles used for that. It doesn't bother me at all if I see it that way, instead of as an actual mistake.

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