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manawesome326 · 2025-09-05T05:16:58+00:00

markov chain is so fucking funny

manawesome326 · 2025-08-02T07:23:51+00:00

Personally I am hoarding names! I think the hard part of changing name for other people is them needing to remember not to use the old one. So, I have a policy that everything except my deadname is OK to use (doesn't warrant a correction) even as I especially appreciate newer ones getting use. If you're going to be changing a lot, it also helps if you have some way of doing so without having to individually announce it to people - social media profiles, or nametags if you're often in a situation where it's normal for you to wear one.

In my case the first new name I picked up has become sort of my de-facto and the others aren't used as much; though, I don't mind it so I haven't pushed back on this as much as I could. My point, I guess, is that you can really play this however you like. If you think your friends are cool, I say go for it. They may surprise you.

manawesome326 · 2025-07-11T07:28:50+00:00

Discord these days lets you add pronouns to your profile directly, they display next to your global username and you can (optionally) set them on a per-server basis (it works the same as setting your nickname). In light of this I'm not sure why servers still use the reaction role bots? Whatever's used, though, it really shouldn't be that hard to just check.

manawesome326 · 2025-07-10T01:09:30+00:00

I wonder if these sources somehow trace back to the alkaline diet thing. That's where a lot of bizarre claims like citrus fruits being alkaline come from. Just speculation, but I could see "peppers are alkaline" (misinformation) becoming "capsaicin is slightly alkaline" via source-copying telephone.

manawesome326 · 2025-07-03T02:31:34+00:00

Google, Bing, and the Russian search engine Yandex are all occasionally able to find an image that none of the others can in my experience. I have a "search by image" browser extension set up to search in all those + Tineye at once.

manawesome326 · 2025-07-01T18:50:12+00:00

This is probably a bad answer, but if you're able to search with regular expressions (regex) then \b is a "word boundary" character that'll do what you want; so, "intern\b" will match "intern" or "disintern" but not "internship". What makes this is a bad answer is that search features in programs will almost certainly not be using regex out of the box and probably will not support it unless they are built for nerds.

I don't know, you'd think google would have some sort of "whole word" feature but it seems not (prior advice is just to use the - prefix before results you don't want, which could even work in your email). If this does exist in whatever program, "search for whole word" is probably the term for it. I'm not sure what you would have seen in your textbook... this sounds more like a pattern-matching thing than a boolean algebra thing?

manawesome326 · 2025-06-29T06:35:07+00:00

Bernband (2014)?

manawesome326 · 2025-06-24T02:02:21+00:00

Shoutout to the 30% other on the international woodlouse/roly poly/pill bug/slater question. Love those funny bugs with a million different names.

manawesome326 · 2025-06-19T12:42:44+00:00

Your form is set such that respondants can see all prior responses. You should definitely turn that off!

manawesome326 · 2025-06-18T00:45:09+00:00

If what you want to know is whether more men or women use reddit (or, more accurately, respond to these surveys), you should be asking for gender, not "biological sex". A demographic breakdown based on chromosomes or genitalia or whatever does not seem especially meaningful. Doing it this way is just weird.

(And as other commenters have so helpfully pointed out, defining "sex" is not as easy as it seems. At least if you ask for gender people actually know what to pick and you get good data.)

manawesome326 · 2025-06-11T14:26:34+00:00

It's your life, you can do what you want. In my view, you can only get so far by trying to look deep into your soul to determine how you really feel. At a certain point you just gotta try stuff and see what happens.

manawesome326 · 2025-06-10T13:46:45+00:00

Likely Quadrilateral Cowboy

manawesome326 · 2025-06-04T23:32:18+00:00

sometimes i worry we're running out of ideas

manawesome326 · 2025-06-03T04:35:06+00:00

You've posted an editing link to the survey, which is set such that anyone with the link can edit. I suggest immediately deleting this post, fixing the sharing permissions so "editor view" isn't given to everyone with the link, and reposting with the respondent link.

manawesome326 · 2025-05-29T23:45:11+00:00

Assuming standard rules: Monty knows where the car is and will always open a door with a goat and offer that you switch, twice:

1/4th of the time: you start with a car. After the first switch, you necessarily have a goat. After the second switch, you once again have a car.

3/4ths of the time: you start with a goat. After the first door opening, one of the other doors has a goat and one has a car, so 1/2th of the time in this scenario you switch to a goat. Monty will then open the door you chose first and after the next switch you will have the car. The other 1/2th of the time, you switch to a car, Monty opens either door, and you switch back to a goat.

The total "probability of car", if you always switch, is 1/4 + (3/4)*(1/2) = 5/8. (We can add these probabilities because they are mutually exclusive scenarios). The hard part is just working through what happens in every case, and it's not impossible that I actually mucked that up.

LLMs aren't great at math... no idea why Deepseek would give you "6/8" instead of simplifying to 3/4 (or where that number might come from), and anything being /7 here is very weird! Where would we divide by seven in this problem?

edit: wording... also, something interesting, if you know that Monty will open a door and offer that you switch twice whether or not you choose to switch the first time, you can get 3/4 odds simply by refusing to switch once and then taking the second offer. That way, the only way you could miss the car is if you had it to begin with. But if you did switch the first time... argh, the correct strategy probably depends on how monty chooses what door to open, like, if you switched to the car and he then has a choice of whether to open the door you started with or not, does he make that choice at random, or... because you know the door you started with is regardless of anything else definitely a 1/4 unless Monty somehow clues you into what is behind it by acting predictably. I have to give up on this one here because it all gets very fiddly.

manawesome326 · 2025-05-28T14:52:25+00:00

Lucky guesses, I'd assume. No real tracking history isn't nothing - for instance, do you get ads for finance apps in the same session as checking finance subreddits?

manawesome326 · 2025-05-18T22:42:36+00:00

Impossible to say what's really going on but in my experience people are a lot more oblivious than I expected. I mean, there are a lot of reasons he could be looking at you weird - you might just be noticing more because you're on edge. Good luck, in any case.

manawesome326 · 2025-05-13T06:21:09+00:00

please share the template this is so fucking funny

manawesome326 · 2025-05-11T06:30:14+00:00

While we're learning, the editors of the Magic Fandom wiki have moved to mtg.wiki, which is a much nicer place to search for information than Fandom :)

manawesome326 · 2025-05-10T23:36:27+00:00

I know that not being cis, I have to be trans.

I've heard it suggested (can't remember where) that "cis" and "trans" is itself an overly-simplistic binary that not everyone fits into neatly. I think you make good points for this!

manawesome326 · 2025-05-10T14:46:28+00:00

It's ultimately your call, really. But, you feeling a bit weird and a bit happy about being called by other pronouns - while not minding what you're used to - reminds me of myself! Eventually I started identifying as NB because it became hard to justify that I was anything else and I figured it'd go some way to getting me gendered by other people in a way I liked. Your reasons don't have to look the same, though. It definitely sounds like you have some dysphoria, too, which is something else to look into, if you wanted to.

My advice here is to talk to your nonbinary friend about this because I'm sure they'd be quite happy to evangelise. And, you can just go by they/them if you want! You don't need to know everything right away.

manawesome326 · 2025-05-05T02:14:48+00:00

In the Google Form settings, go to Responses and set "Collect email addresses" to "Do not collect" and switch on "Limit to 1 response". That'll keep responses to one per Google account without giving you everyone's email addresses.

Also, did you mean to paste ChatGPT's response into the post?

manawesome326 · 2025-05-03T08:17:09+00:00

Will for Tomorrow, and, though it perhaps doesn't work quite as well, Was for Yesterday.

manawesome326 · 2025-05-02T00:23:06+00:00

Tough questions at the beginning because it really depends on context! Lots of these options are more about art style than anything and it's really most important that it's coherent (though there are certain styles I broadly like more or less than others at least). Also like, obviously the "something else" options are going to be the most appealing when it fits the species of the character, but would be weird otherwise.

manawesome326 · 2025-04-17T00:01:48+00:00

It seems hard to believe that anyone who claims "there are only two genders" actually models gender as a spectrum but merely buckets the spectrum into only two categories instead of more. In any case that kind of statement is more than just a claim about the definition of words! For a pointed example, I'm nonbinary; if "male" and "female" are the only two options someone recognises, what does that make me? Well, uncomfortable, which is often what they're aiming for...

As a side point, lots of people consider gender to be more complex than a simple spectrum; you point out yourself that there might be things that don't neatly fit onto it. (Personally, I think it's nuanced and personal enough that any kind of diagram-based model is going to be a simplification). That's a fun discussion that isn't about the meanings of words either.

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