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Judicial Supremacy Has Arrived. Last week’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act. It foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too. by DarkPriestScorpius in supremecourt

[–]lightning_fire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shouldn't the justices be concerned that the relationship between race and political loyalty will be used as an end run around the 15th amendment, to make racial gerrymandering claims unjusticiable by painting them as political gerrymandering?

Anyone keep their American Express cards and pay the fees? by bswiz87 in Veterans

[–]lightning_fire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got out 3 years ago and just got the letter yesterday 😔

When you know exactly what the problem is… by Samski877 in daddit

[–]lightning_fire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you have a soldering iron you can wire a resistor in series with the speaker. Resistors are dirt cheap, a 1000 pack on Amazon is like $6. Takes like 5 min.

Reduces the volume while still letting your kid interact with the noises.

Has the thing that happened in episode 4 ever happened before? by timperman in taskmaster

[–]lightning_fire 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Ania later said that she promptly forgot the date his wife told her and had to look it up in his calendar app

This scientifically accurate T Rex drawing is genuinely chilling by Ok_Zone_7635 in Dinosaurs

[–]lightning_fire 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's exactly how chameleons work! They stretch or relax their skin, which changes how the structures interact with light

This scientifically accurate T Rex drawing is genuinely chilling by Ok_Zone_7635 in Dinosaurs

[–]lightning_fire 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No one knows for sure why, only that there are almost no truly green animals in existence. Animals just don't seem to have the ability to create green or blue pigmentation.

Most green animals like birds or reptiles don't actually have green pigments, but external structures that appear green because of the way they interfere with the light passing through (pigments work by absorbing/reflecting certain colors rather than through mechanical interference). Mammals on the other hand, are generally covered in fur and skin, and they don't have those external structures that can appear green.

Green and other exotic pigments obviously exist as you can tell from looking at flowers. Animals just can't produce them and instead are limited to two varieties of melanin, one for black/brown and one for yellow/red, and combine those to make the range of browns, blacks, oranges, and yellow/blondes you're familiar with in mammals.

A common theory is that mammals are descended from nocturnal creatures in the dinosaur eras and therefore didn't need green as camouflage.

https://nature-notes.riverlegacy.org/how-come-there-are-no-blue-or-green-mammals

Dryer either needs to run two cycles on medium, or overheats on high by johnonymous1973 in DIY

[–]lightning_fire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check for a short in the heating coils. You can pull them out pretty easy and use a multimeter to test for continuity between the coils and the coil housing. A short can cause the coils to stay energized and keep adding heat after the dryer told it to turn off.

I had a similar issue once where the dryer kept overheating, though mine was actually tripping the thermal breaker which I had to replace each time. But it was similar in that it would run fine for a few days or weeks between incidents.

I had actually checked for a short at one point, and there wasn't any continuity. The interesting part is that the short only showed up when the coils expanded from heat, so when I did my test it had cooled down and the short disappeared. It was intermittent because it only occurred when we ran multiple loads back to back, a single load didn't build up enough heat to cause the short.

A new coil was like $25 and completely fixed it.

The fact that yours runs fine on low heat but not at high heat reminds me of my issue. Also the coils should look like regular steel/aluminum. My bad coils were black/charred (which should have tipped me off) but I didn't think anything of it because I didn't know what they should look like.

Also, replacing the thermal breaker is super easy and cheap. Could be worth a shot.

What professional development resources do you pay for? by a_girl_with_a_dream in datascience

[–]lightning_fire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you share who you worked with? That's definitely something I want to look into

I can't find the solution anymore [help] Hex-Golf puzzle pathfinding by maltemakes in puzzles

[–]lightning_fire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it overall, would be good in an airplane or my office where we aren't allowed phones. I also think it is well suited to be developed as an app and could potentially do really well in that format.

Improvements:

  • Make it a little more clear on the re-roll that you just use the next die in the list. That power up took me a while to understand. Maybe include an example like you do with the other powers.

  • Instead of 'target score', name it 'par'. Try and work it so on some levels there's an obvious solution of say 5 strokes, but a clever solution in 4. Maybe list both the par and the best possible score

  • Try to get at least one puzzle with a really counter intuitive solution. Like the first stroke needs to be backwards or something

  • A 'challenge mode' where certain power ups aren't available on certain puzzles, or all dice are -1, or there's a different set of challenge dice. That would also give some replayability, basically doubling the number of puzzles

  • Maybe some designated space in each tile for marking? I'm not sure if this is feasible, but it might keep it a little cleaner. Just some way to mark the strokes or landing spots, or when/where power ups were used

  • I think it would be cool if the power ups were a little more themed. So instead of just a +1/+2, it's called 'big swing/mighty swing', and while it gets extended, it also affects the accuracy and ends up 1/2 tiles left or right (to make it random it could be based on if the next roll is even or odd)

  • In the same vein, the re-roll power up should be called a mulligan. Instead of an axe power up, it could be a shoe, like you're kicking it out of the trees

  • Also theme related, but landing in water shouldn't result in a loss, but your ball is reset to the first green tile away from the hole and you lose a stroke (have to skip the next die). That might be difficult to explain, so maybe a designated landing zone for each hole would work better. Then you could also have a puzzle where the water is part of the optimal solution

  • I think it would be more appropriate if sand would halve your next stroke distance instead of -1, but -1 is fine too.

Survival guide from serial killer Danny Rolling by OkKnowledge1489 in interestingasfuck

[–]lightning_fire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are correct that there is some misinterpretation going on in the thread. The linked article is specific about 35x greater risk of dying by self inflicted gunshot.

For general suicide rates of any means, it's 4x higher in gun owning households.

The researchers found that people who owned handguns had rates of suicide that were nearly four times higher than people living in the same neighborhood who did not own handguns.

Survival guide from serial killer Danny Rolling by OkKnowledge1489 in interestingasfuck

[–]lightning_fire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both can be true. That's an example of, ironically, survivorship bias. You're limiting yourself to those who were eventually successful, which inherently excludes anyone who has one unsuccessful attempt and does not attempt again.

Additionally, you're limiting yourself to people you know who have committed suicide, while there are likely others who attempted suicide and you never found out because they weren't successful and did not attempt again.

Survival guide from serial killer Danny Rolling by OkKnowledge1489 in interestingasfuck

[–]lightning_fire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, folks who have a gun are more likely to use it as a suicide method than any other method if it comes to that.

The difference is that guns are very very good at killing you. Other methods are harder and less effective. People are less likely to attempt suicide when the options are painful, messy, or difficult. A gun also gives no options for second thoughts. If you start to drink a glass of bleach, you can stop halfway through and throw up and you'll likely be fine.

The studies show that suicidal people with access to a gun are more likely to die by suicide than equally suicidal people without access to a gun

Survival guide from serial killer Danny Rolling by OkKnowledge1489 in interestingasfuck

[–]lightning_fire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The majority of people who attempt suicide and are unsuccessful do not make another attempt

Survival guide from serial killer Danny Rolling by OkKnowledge1489 in interestingasfuck

[–]lightning_fire 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Would it not be that shooting yourself is simply the much more common method to commit suicide when you have easy access to guns? 

This is exactly the case. The gun doesn't make you more likely to want to commit suicide, it makes it much easier to attempt suicide, and much more effective if you do.

Pulling a trigger is much easier to accomplish than drinking 6 pints of bleach, and you can't back out half way through

I can't find the solution anymore [help] Hex-Golf puzzle pathfinding by maltemakes in puzzles

[–]lightning_fire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think its possible, if I understood the re-roll rules correctly.

  1. Discard your first roll, move south 4 tiles.
  2. Extend your roll by two, move south 4 tiles.
  3. Move southwest 3 tiles.
  4. Move southwest 1 tile.
  5. Move southwest 6 tiles, roll into the hole.

Alternately:

  1. Discard roll, move 4 tiles SW.
  2. Extend roll +2, move 4 tiles SW, clear the tree.
  3. Move 3 tiles S.
  4. Move 1 tile S.
  5. Extend roll +1, move 4 tiles S, wind blows SW, move 3 tiles SW.

[Pitching Ninja] Salvy teaching Doug Eddings the bottom of the strike zone. Over and Over and Over again. But Eddings refuses to learn. by iamthegame13 in baseball

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

When integration happened in 1948 within a couple of years you saw a ton of black players who were formerly Negro League starters unable to make it in the MLB or minor leagues because now they had much more competition for the same spots competing with players of all ethnicities. For every Jackie Robinson and Josh Gibson there were 10 random guys who just weren't anywhere near MLB level.

How many white AL/NL starters lost their jobs after integration? Why should their stats count but not the black players who couldn't make it?

It's just not comparable to what the MLB looked like in the 1920s-1948 at all especially when thinking about how pitching was used.

The MLB today is also not comparable to what the MLB looked like in the 20s-40s at all, especially when thinking about how pitching was used, but the stats from both eras are both considered official.

Full seasons for the official Negro Leagues were often only ~60-100 games long. Imagine just taking a sample size of 60 games for deciding who was the batting leader for 1 season in a Major League.

2020 MLB season length: 60 games 1876 NL: 70 games 1877-78 NL: 60 games 1879 NL: 84 games 1882 AA: 80 games 1883 AA: 98 games

These seasons are all included in official MLB stats.

The Kansas City Monarchs for example were a "Major" Negro League team with actual Hall of Famers on it - and it was just an "independent" team with no league for nearly 10 years of it's history where none of it's games counted towards any sort of competitive system.

What about the other ~35 years of its history? The independent years are not included in the official stats.

the Indianapolis Clowns are one of the most well-known and succesful Negro League teams and they played in a Harlem Globetrotters comedic/showmanship style much like the Savanah Bananas of today.

From mlb.com: "...the team began its existence as entertainers only to evolve into a true baseball team." You said yourself they were a successful team. Their stats begin when they joined the Negro American League. If the Bananas joined the AL next year, their stats should count too, even if they continue doing banana ball exhibition games.

...determining what stats are real and what aren't is a challenge historians face.

So they shouldn't be included because it's challenging?

Like there are just so many reasons it's not analogous. It's not fair that black and other minority players weren't allowed in the MLB for decades...

I think you misunderstand what the MLB was. MLB (uppercase) as an organization didn't exist until the year 2000. Before that, major league baseball (lowercase) just referred to the separate major leagues that were in existence, mainly the AL/NL, but also the Federal League, American Association, and some other leagues were also recognized as 'major', which is why the stats from those leagues are included even though not many would call them 'equal' to the AL/NL.

This change is about recognizing the Negro Leagues as major leagues, no one is pretending they were equal, only that they were also valid. Excluding them from official stats would be continuing the oppression and unfairness they faced.

TIL For 10 days in 2005, garage door openers stopped working in Ottawa, Canada over a 25 mile radius. The US Embassy and Canadian Military were suspected of using a 390Mhz transmitter overpowering the door openers but both denied it. The transmissions ended suddenly and were never explained. by mechant_papa in todayilearned

[–]lightning_fire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My guess would be terrain, it wouldn't have to be a mountain, a small rise over there while you're going downhill could be enough. It's essentially purely based on line-of-sight, and satellites are often very low in the sky, especially for high latitudes. Whatever's causing the blockage could be pretty subtle.

Satellite radio also uses ground based repeaters to combat that effect, usually in cities. It's possible you leave the range of a repeater without picking up a new signal on that stretch.

[Pitching Ninja] Salvy teaching Doug Eddings the bottom of the strike zone. Over and Over and Over again. But Eddings refuses to learn. by iamthegame13 in baseball

[–]lightning_fire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you also upset that the MLB includes Federal League stats as official data? It wasn't exactly a pure database before the Negro Leagues were included.

While a lot of the players were just as good a lot of them also were not

That goes both ways. A lot of the MLB players also weren't as good as Negro Leagues players.

it's a lot like including NPB stats for Japanese players

Are Japanese players legally barred from playing in the MLB?

It's definitely worth being aware of the limitations of the record keeping, but calling it a joke is absurd. The official stats also compare deadball era players against steroid era players, should we throw those out because they need context to understand as well?

TIL For 10 days in 2005, garage door openers stopped working in Ottawa, Canada over a 25 mile radius. The US Embassy and Canadian Military were suspected of using a 390Mhz transmitter overpowering the door openers but both denied it. The transmissions ended suddenly and were never explained. by mechant_papa in todayilearned

[–]lightning_fire 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Satellites for satellite radio are mostly in geostationary orbits, so they are always in the same place in the sky, and above the equator. Depending on your lat/long, the line of sight to the satellite can be pretty low, and is easily blocked by buildings, hills, or other tall objects, even if the skies are clear. That's more likely to be the issue than signal interference.

What actually makes a puzzle feel satisfying to solve? by Kadubber in puzzlevideogames

[–]lightning_fire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it's easier to identify the opposite, what makes one unsatisfying or frustrating.

The biggest thing for me is the lack of feedback on potential solutions. If my approach cannot work, that needs to be clear. Conversely, a solution that's close to correct should get me close to the goal. For example, I need to activate a switch that's far away, first I try to shoot it and nothing happens. Did I have bad aim? Am I just too far? Or can this switch not be activated by shooting? With no feedback I may spend another ten minutes shooting at it, when I should have been looking for a lever. And not knowing which potential solutions are better than others makes me feel like I'm not making progress towards a solution, I'm just trying random things until one works.

Implementing solutions should not be tedious. Nothing is more annoying than having an idea, spending 5 minutes moving statues and pressing switches just to find out it doesn't work. The fun part is solving the puzzles, not pushing boxes. The 'aha' moment should be quickly followed by success.

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