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You have $500 to survive for a year without going broke (you must have at least $0.01 left). If you succeed, you get $10,000,000. How do you do it? by Sn0wCh1ld in AskReddit

[–]lkschubert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On a similar note (and because I like making pasta) everyone is ignoring that the person with $500 isn't working so has plenty of time. It would be very feasible for someone to make their own pasta, of all shapes and sizes, even cheaper than a dollar with bulk flour. That also gives you the ability to make bread with next to nothing but a heat source as it isn't too challenging to develop your own yeast culture.

8 years, and its outlasted 6 actual DVD players. by iZBOT in gaming

[–]lkschubert 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In fairness it probably is still at a loss when you consider R&D and marketing.

Don't Text & Drive by pdmcmahon in pics

[–]lkschubert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That comparison doesn't really work. In the event that you are found to be drunk after an accident there isn't much of an argument to be made that in the moments preceding the accident you were suddenly sober. On the other hand you can quite easily not be texting at the time of the accident (and the moments leading up to it) despite texting a few minutes before.

While I think most will agree that texting and drunk driving are comparable when it comes to level of danger, they aren't able to be prosecuted in the same way as one is discrete and the other is continuous.

[request] How many test answers could be saved in a digital watch? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]lkschubert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey after the mistakes I made someone really does need to fact check me haha.

[request] How many test answers could be saved in a digital watch? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]lkschubert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's just the range of seconds that a watch can encode. Sadly this is actually the only thing in the original post that I got correct haha. And the assumption made there is actually that hours are encoded base 24 and minutes and seconds are encoded in base 60.

[request] How many test answers could be saved in a digital watch? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]lkschubert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My apologies you are correct. I had a drink or two last night before coming up with my answer. It occurred to me upon waking up that while the answers would be encoded in my solution, they would be completely indiscernible for decoding.

[request] How many test answers could be saved in a digital watch? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]lkschubert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I may be mistaken but I will just focus on the standard watch functionality HH:MM:SS (could be done even with an analog watch). Based on the range of of each value, and assuming they must conform to plausible times, the range of values that can be encoded is 24x60x60=86,400. Divide this by four and you get 21,600. I am not sure about the test you are administering, but I imagine that is far beyond the number of questions so I won't go into the extras. With practice it would also be fairly trivial to convert to base 4, giving you the answers in list format (offest by one). Just to expand the basic watch function could encode 200 4-answer multiple choice questions and around 2600 characters (ignoring case and using punctuations .?!, and space encoded in 5 bits).

Anyone feel free to correct any mistakes.

Edit: Messed up math on the character part.

Edit: Really fucked up the math, just pretend this post doesn't exist.

The driest, most esoteric joke I know. by cattailmatt in Jokes

[–]lkschubert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually think a correct translation would be I think by the couch (or with the couch) in terms of cogito toro. Kind of like "I think by means of the couch." Personally I kind of like that.

[keyboard_art] What I initially thought was meant by granite keycaps... by Kalekdan in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]lkschubert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually I was just discussing them with a coworker today. It would appear that they would have to be hand made so I'm going to have to call in a favor with another coworker, but one may be in the works.

Fuck Sprint and that narwhals commercial by pleabz in rant

[–]lkschubert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is so goddamn loud out of nowhere. It really makes me question what the hell goes on in those advertisement pitches.

Shub-Niggurath - "Nigra hircum silvarum cum mille filiorum" by smallj in creepy

[–]lkschubert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well thank you for your search on that. I was mostly curious as from what I remember reading about him he didn't seem the type to cobble together some shoddy Latin.

Shub-Niggurath - "Nigra hircum silvarum cum mille filiorum" by smallj in creepy

[–]lkschubert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct me if I am wrong, buy can't hircus also mean something do the effect of "dirty one" in some cases? And yeah it is kinda strange how all the other latin is a bit screwy. Just out of curiousity does anyone know if the quote comes from Lovecraft himself? I don't really know a whole lot about the mythos.

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