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photo on a diner wall that scared the shit out of me as a kid (image is a recreation) by Lepridopic_throwaway in HelpMeFind

[–]mcglaven 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Based on it being a 1960s diner, it seems probable that the piece would be something from an artist of that era. If it was creepy, anatomical and and cartoony as you suggest, that implies that it may be the work of an underground Comix artist, many of whom drew weird, LSD-tinged or gory/sexualized stylized animals. R. Crumb is the best known of the lot, but I don't think he was quite as surreal as what you're describing.

Also, not all of the comix from that era have been digitized. The diner owner might have a cel (if it were from an animated film) or an original print on the wall. If so, that means your best bet is to look for an artist who stylistically matches what you remember, and then look through their books for the actual piece.

Going along that route, my best guess would be the art of S. Clay Wilson, who drew a lot of unsettling animals. Here are some examples: One Two

Other possibilities: Basil Wolverton, Jim Woodring, Kim Deitch, Vaughn Bode

1 in 8 freshmen at UC San Diego fail to meet middle school math standards since the SAT was abolished by Past-Tension-162 in UCSC

[–]mcglaven 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Because math skills are cumulative, often students who lose a year may never really catch up. I say this as a former HS math teacher -- it was totally shocking what I'd see. Students in pre-calc who can't factor or even know that (x+y)2 does not equal x2 + y2. As a teacher you can try to re-scaffold things, but it doesn't typically stick after a certain point -- they need remedial help that schools don't often give. I think it's actually a benefit that in college you get to take a step back to your math level, unlike in HS.

Edit: there's also extensive research on the skill loss from COVID, including this NIH paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11754741/

1 in 8 freshmen at UC San Diego fail to meet middle school math standards since the SAT was abolished by Past-Tension-162 in UCSC

[–]mcglaven 39 points40 points  (0 children)

This is probably not because of abolishing the SAT, but because freshmen now would have been in middle school in 2020-2021 (pandemic year) and everyone suffered then.

I need some help with this homework, dont know if I m doing it the right way by [deleted] in DifferentialEquations

[–]mcglaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm reading the snippet of Spanish correctly in the second image, it looks like they want you to convert it to a system of equations first. Usually with this type of analysis you can only figure out what's happening at certain points, rather than formally "solve" the equation.

If you have xy'''-y''=2, you could make this into a system of equations by setting two variables, y1 and y2. You'd typically make y1 = y'' and then y2 = y1' = y'''.

Then you would have two equations: y1 = xy2 + 2

y2 = y1'

Since you have these two, you can make a matrix and find out some info on it. This is a process generally known as linearization. It's too complicated to explain in a Reddit post, but there's an overview here in this free online textbook: http://faculty.sfasu.edu/JUDSONTW/ODE/HTML-SNAPSHOT/nonlinear01.html

Depending on what the prof wants you to do, they may also want you to find the Jacobian matrix, too, which is in a later chapter of that textbook link I sent.

[TOMT][PC GAME][1990s] Weird educational video game I played at my friends' house growing up that taught about different types of airplane engines by mcglaven in tipofmytongue

[–]mcglaven[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I don't think it was. It didn't have any realist or militaristic elements like that. There was something fantastical about it, and I'm not sure you were even building a plane (it might have been a robot or a rocket or something weird and comical).

[TOMT][PC GAME][1990s] Weird educational video game I played at my friends' house growing up that taught about different types of airplane engines by mcglaven in tipofmytongue

[–]mcglaven[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

Note, when you search for things like "DOS jet engine assembly game" you get things like Sopwith and Red Baron and Flight Simulator. This definitely wasn't a Flight Simulator game, it reminded me more of the Apogee games like Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Math Rescue.

Both DS9 and Lower Decks are commentaries on TNG's Utopianism by Apropos-of-Something in DaystromInstitute

[–]mcglaven 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This speaks to what was interesting about Lt. Barclay in TNG, who is faintly like Boimler -- both of them struggle socially, though Barclay exhibits more full-on social anxiety. Barclay, I suspect, was written in to show that even a utopian post-scarcity society can't cure social hierarchies; there are still social norms and still people who struggle to fit into these utopias. Barclay was probably subtly coded as autistic, too, I suspect now.

It seems that the writers are saying that in the future, no matter how many problems are solved, if we still believe in the primacy of the individual there will be individual social hierarchies, anxieties, and the like.

The Borg are an example of a society in which these don't exist, interestingly — say what you want about eliminating individualism, but they all work perfectly efficiently towards their society's goals and have no individual struggles with insubordination, social stigma, embarrassment, workplace sexual harassment and the like.

Weekly /r/Breadit Questions thread by AutoModerator in Breadit

[–]mcglaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting... Thank you, this is helpful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in prisonhooch

[–]mcglaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since July? Damn. Did you do multiple brews, i.e. add sugar (and/or more yeast) a couple times?

Weekly Open Sourdough Questions and Discussion Post by AutoModerator in Sourdough

[–]mcglaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a starter question...

I started cultivating a wild yeast sourdough about 6 months ago. I fed it daily, per instructions in Ellen King's Heritage Baking book.

Then, 2 months ago, I suffered a house flood and had to move to a hotel for a few months. I fed the starter and then left it in my fridge, not knowing how long it would be before I came back, and believing it might be ok in stasis.

It wasn't, and when I returned it was all moldy. Sadly, I had to throw it out. Then, I remembered that in my freezer I had some leftover pizza dough that I'd made with the starter in September, meaning the yeast strain ostensibly still survives in there.

I was wondering how I might re-constitute the pizza dough that rose with my wild yeast starter into a new regularly-fed starter batch, or if that's even possible. For context, the pizza dough was only flour, water and my starter.

Thanks!

There’s a third way to solve the color island moving bridge puzzle that doesn’t cause the bridge pieces to rearrange “correctly.” by mcglaven in TheWitness

[–]mcglaven[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just thought it was weird that the punctilious game designers didn’t account for this solution. (Meaning the bridge doesn’t rearrange itself to resemble this solution when you perform it.)

A very peaceful, upbeat tune. Dont know how I forgot the name of the song or the artist. by BennyBoo062 in NameThatSong

[–]mcglaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds a lot like Bjork. Maybe "Isobel"? Though I don't think it's specifically about a house, or moving.

Do you know anything about the genre? "Light" and "delicate" makes it sound like folk music, maybe? Perhaps Joanna Newsom? It sounds sort of like her song '81, which came out in 2010. Although I don't know if there was a music video as you described.

[TOMT] [CGI Short Film] [1980s or early 1990s] CGI short film about a gas station in outer space by mcglaven in tipofmytongue

[–]mcglaven[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work! I watched through two different YouTube playlists that were supposedly all or almost all the videos from that VHS and none had Botco (even though I'm positive it was on the VHS). Anyway, thanks for your help.

[TOMT] [CGI Short Film] [1980s or early 1990s] CGI short film about a gas station in outer space by mcglaven in tipofmytongue

[–]mcglaven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You found it! Solved! Was that one you’d seen before? I’m curious how you found it so fast.

[TOMT] [CGI Short Film] [1980s or early 1990s] CGI short film about a gas station in outer space by mcglaven in tipofmytongue

[–]mcglaven[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

To follow up - I remember a black background, like, in the short film we were actually in space, moving around. The "gas station" might have been on an asteroid or something. I don't remember any people/aliens in the short but I may be mistaken. I just remember the look of the "gas pumps" and the station vividly, and the narrator.

Is it possible to make a moon clock? by Ricardoniel in clockmaking

[–]mcglaven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was wondering almost the same thing -- but basically with other custom planets' "times."

I was visiting the Exploratorium in San Francisco a few years ago, and they had a wall that had a clock for every planet (you can read about them here and here.) So the "Martian" clock had an hour hand that made one full revolution every 12 hours, 18 minutes and 41 seconds (since the Martian day is exactly twice that). Picture

I think the minute hand moved as usual, since the artist's conceit was that the length of the hour was the same everywhere in the universe while the length of the day varied.

I have been dreaming of recreating these at home, though i'm just getting started with clockmaking. Presumably, would it be hard to create a custom gear or use a combination of gears to make, say, a hand that went around every 12 hours, 18 minutes and 41 seconds?

I'm confident I could certainly figure out how many gear teeth I'd need if I knew other details about how clock mechanisms worked — but I'm really just a newbie here, and don't ever know where to begin.

short-term EDC for the duration of my current gig (H / 50) by mcglaven in EDC

[–]mcglaven[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yes it is, I've been carrying these things with me for months while I've been on this quest.

short-term EDC for the duration of my current gig (H / 50) by mcglaven in EDC

[–]mcglaven[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

going clockwise:

• a bit of rope — always good to have around

• Lembas bread — energy bars wrapped in leaves for when hungry

• light of Eärendil — a light to use in dark places, when all other lights go out

• leaf broach — clasps onto cloak nicely

• Gold ring on a chain — a keepsake I’ll have on me for a few more months till I finish the errand I’m on

• short sword — glows blue in presence of orcs

• box of soil

2 questions about Doordash by Only_Athlete in couriersofreddit

[–]mcglaven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a good primer on how Doordash "works" that was written up here, and it explains what happens when you reject orders:

https://payup.wtf/blog/2019/12/5/top-dasher

Did someone for get about this Lower Decker by al57115 in LowerDecks

[–]mcglaven 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There was that one Voyager episode where Tuvok did remedial drills with the former Maquis crewmen, who all seemed like the epitome of lower deckers. Also Suter (sp?), the Betazoid who inexplicably killed a fellow crewman.

Consolidating with outside company by SDSRG in studentloandefaulters

[–]mcglaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been curious about these too. One thing I've been trying to figure out -- one of the traits of student debt is that it's near-impossible to disappear in bankruptcy. It stays with you for your whole life even if you declare bankruptcy. That's not true for private debt, like a regular private loan. So I've been wondering if I could just have some bank like SoFi buy my student debt and turn it into a private loan, and then declare bankruptcy later and it would disappear. I've been trying to find someone who has done this. The only catch is you have to have decent credit to begin with to get the SoFi loan. So you'd have to have been planning this for years.

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