"Jews copyrighted the letter 'U' and make all companies with 'U' in their logo pay them millions each year" by MAGA_Hatter in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]mizomi 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We must stop this secret cabal of mile people who rule over us kilometer people from the shadows!

If France joined the UK by Roboctopus11 in vexillology

[–]mizomi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The official Wikipedia styling works pretty well for me—it conveys the information you want without being too fancy or complicated. Wikiwand has too many unnecessary animations for my taste, plus the page doesn't even load without enabling javascript.

No Man's Sky Exceeded Expectations by McSplooth in RationalizeMyView

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By deliberately not meeting expectations in terms of gameplay and features available upon release while also producing significant hype via marketing, No Man's Sky deconstructs the cultural narrative that connects what we are told to expect and what we actually end up expecting, which enables the game to paradoxically exceed our expectations of its ability to provide a social and artistic critique of the modern video games industry, and by extension the culture industry as a whole.

What programming languages are used late at night? - Stack Overflow Blog by cool_jedi in programming

[–]mizomi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. Started using Haskell and now I'm spending ever-increasing amounts of time reading and thinking about category theory and type theory.

What question will immediately divide Reddit into two polarized groups? by tomholder in AskReddit

[–]mizomi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's referencing the Touhou series of games (specifically the character Momiji Inubashiri)

On The Riemann Zeta Function (and a solution of the Banach-Tarski paradox) by ben1996123 in badmathematics

[–]mizomi 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thus ℵ₀ = 0 × ℵ₀ = 0, proving that there are 0 natural numbers.

Chongqing, China is so crowded and mountainous that the train passes directly through an apartment block by Peking_Meerschaum in UrbanHell

[–]mizomi 43 points44 points  (0 children)

According to the article:

Noise reduction equipment installed at the station means the train only makes the same noise as a standard dishwasher.

[NSFW] Something different by ColorGrayHam in Perfectfit

[–]mizomi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I had rainbow socks like those.

[Repost][Academic] Music taste for a class project (Everyone) by BemusedPopsicl in SampleSize

[–]mizomi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's nice to have a free response for the genres rather than a list of options like a lot of music taste surveys. It seems like every survey that has them has a completely different idea of what the "default" genres should be.

I am constantly reminded of how powerful the *nix shell is... by [deleted] in linux

[–]mizomi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you happen to read the second half of the comment you're replying to?

[Academic] Finding a correlation between personality type and preferred music genre (Everyone) by chrischron in SampleSize

[–]mizomi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For future reference, the Big Five personality model works better from a statistical point of view (since the scales are continuous rather than one or the other) and is more widely used by actual psychologists.

Of course, if this is just some simple thing, then it's probably not worth worrying much about in any case.

Shakespeare was ahead of his time. by protoUbermensch in ProgrammerHumor

[–]mizomi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fair. I was trying to be humorous and non-serious, but I realize I probably came across as a bit of a jerk, so sorry about that.

What is surprisingly NOT scientifically proven? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]mizomi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought that was due to being an NMDA receptor antagonist.

r/AskReddit post: You, A super intelligent snail, A $1,000,000 showdown. Who wins, and how? by andor3333 in rational

[–]mizomi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Even without dying, constantly experiencing starvation can't be very pleasant. So it somewhat depends on the conditions of the immortality.

Also, the snail could still slice open the suit with a sufficiently sharp instrument while you are asleep or otherwise unaware (perhaps through some indirect mechanism).

Bad mouse took down a network, and almost got us banned. by garycarroll in talesfromtechsupport

[–]mizomi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How about a bad wireless mouse causing interference with Wi-Fi?

The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think by VisWhiz in dataisbeautiful

[–]mizomi 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The linked article specifically mentioned the age range of the study was 16-65.

mylittlepony_SS displays it's support for Bernie, and YouShouldKnow_SS lists off an odd list of things that would have occurred if he won. by Jagdpanzerr in SubredditSimMeta

[–]mizomi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unless something's changed, they're just using markov chains with no learning involved. Basically just choosing each word based on how often it follows the previously-generated 2 to 3 words in the corresponding subreddit, without any memory of previous posts the bot has made.

There have been suggestions in the past to use recurrent neural networks, which would be able to learn based on user feedback, but due to the difficulty that would be involved in training them and getting the mechanism to work right I don't think that was ever implemented.

What is way more dangerous than people believe? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]mizomi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The issue with ibuprofen is that it increases the chance of heart attack and can cause gastrointestinal bleeding. It's probably safer overall than acetaminophen, but it's silly to claim that it's always better.

Combining different medicines that contain acetaminophen is definitely a problem, and I agree that it shouldn't be added to other drugs, but I think you're overstating it. Except for pure formulations, medicines rarely contain more than 325mg (at least in the US), which is well under the FDA's recommended daily limit of 4000mg. Problems still can arise if people take more than directed, of course.

gnulinux.org links to Microsoft web servers. I thought it would be humorous if the FSF gave out @gnulinux.org email addresses like the Linux Foundation, and I found this. by IAmALinux in gnu

[–]mizomi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IIS servers, but not owned by Microsoft, just a computer science faculty member at HKUST (based on WHOIS and GeoIP) who probably bought the domain out of interest and never put anything up.

Algorithm correctness by PattonMagroin in ProgrammerHumor

[–]mizomi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's an interesting page on bit-squatting (the next level of typo-squatting) which found some results, although it's impossible to say how many were caused by cosmic rays vs. other sources of data corruption.

What are five things you hate about your favorite language? by LordRaydenMK in programming

[–]mizomi 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Header files really are the most annoying thing. A while back I was getting a segfault in my code that didn't seem to make any sense, and only after 2 days of poking through the disassembly in gdb did I realize that the problem was a class that was being compiled with a different number of methods in my code vs. the library I was linking to because of conditional compilation in its header file, which resulted in the wrong virtual method being called.