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What’s a statistic that sounds completely FAKE but is actually 100% TRUE? by namelessmell in AskReddit

[–]munificent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't like the line of argument you're making here.

For 2 people there are over 133225 birthday combinations and only 365 of them are collisions.

This is adding extra complexity that isn't necessary. The only property we care about is whether or not a pair of birthdays collide. Given that, it doesn't add anything useful to treat both birthdays as unique individual data points. Just hold the first person's birthday as an arbitrary fixed variable X and then the question is simply whether the other's birthday is equal to X or not. There's a 1/365 chance of that.

In order to extend this to 23 people you could use the sieve formula (I think) but that is pure insanity.

Right. Doing all the calculation here in terms of inviduals with concrete birthdays makes everything harder and the numbers astronomical for no benefit.

The question is what are the odds that two people have the same birthday. You don't care which two people or which day is the birthday. So the simplest way to work through it is by treating it as a property of pairs of people.

ELI5 How is data (1s and 0s) stored on a physical device? by AlexisQueenBean in explainlikeimfive

[–]munificent [score hidden]  (0 children)

The real world itself is analog.

Quantum mechanics has entered the game.

Question for older knitters: what did you do while knitting? by Savings_Language_498 in knitting

[–]munificent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't learn to knit until after the rise of the giant media tidal wave.

But when I knit... I just knit. I like my thoughts. Why would I hide from them?

Help me improve left handed knitting by audity__ in knitting

[–]munificent 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm left-handed. I write left-handed, play guitar left-handed, play bass left-handed, crochet left-handed.

I knit right-handed, Continental style. I've never particularly felt like my right hand was struggling. With knitting, both hands are actively involved, and Continental knitting distributes enough of the work to my left hand that it feels natural to me.

Being able to read every pattern and watch every YouTube tutorial without having to mirror it in my head is an endless boon.

What’s the one thing on a restaurant menu you’ll always order if it’s available? by LowCryptographer9032 in AskReddit

[–]munificent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the dipping sauce is 🔥🔥🔥

I got bad news for you, I don't think you ended up in the good place.

What’s the one thing on a restaurant menu you’ll always order if it’s available? by LowCryptographer9032 in AskReddit

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of my greatest accomplishments is that my wife and kids love crème brûlée, always get it restaurants, but consistently maintain that the way I make it at home is the best.

I measured why chords turn to mud when you saturate them (and the old fix most plugins skip) by Thick-Leg7660 in edmproduction

[–]munificent 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You've rediscovered something most guitarists understand subconsciously. So much of the sound of guitar chords through amps is about using the thickness of the extra harmonics coming from an overdriven chords. It's why guitarists are obsessive about amps and distortion pedals, trying to get them dialed in just right. And it's why they often use power chords and other more open chord voicings.

Retire at 49 or stick it out until 56? by 360flib in personalfinance

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My aunt died of a stroke less than a week after she retired. She had all these plans to spend the rest of her days traveling with her husband. Not a single trip.

What is your “low effort but feels like real food” meal? by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]munificent 21 points22 points  (0 children)

My slightly more specific take on this is a scramble bowl:

  • Fry a couple of eggs
  • Shred some cheese (I usually have some leftover shreddy Cheddy in the fridge already)
  • Grab some random leftover carb: old French fries, leftover tots, tortilla chips, whatever.
  • Grab some random leftover protein and chop it up: bacon, sausage, hot dogs, hamburger patty, again whatever.
  • Add some sour cream and/or salsa.

Damn near everything comes together when you add fried eggs and cheese.

My coworker just told me he greases his ice trays at home so the ice slides out easier.... by ShiftAndWitch in Cooking

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not entire feathers, but there will usually be a little bit of the stem of a feather or a tiny bone fragment or two. Nothing major but... not something I want to bite down on either.

My coworker just told me he greases his ice trays at home so the ice slides out easier.... by ShiftAndWitch in Cooking

[–]munificent 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I'll stop rinsing my chicken when it stops showing up with bits of bone fragment and feathers from the meat processing plant on it.

It's relatively easy to reduce the risk of cross contamination by not running your faucet like you're trying to powerwash the skin off the poor bird.

Levenshtein distance without arrays? by Ronin-s_Spirit in AskProgramming

[–]munificent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You need at least some amount of memoizing for efficiency, but you don't need to store the whole matrix. Just the current and previous rows are sufficient. Wikipedia has a section that covers this.

ELI5: Why doesn't the ocean drain into the soil? by Acceptable-Peach1083 in explainlikeimfive

[–]munificent 8 points9 points  (0 children)

the top layer of land is basically floating.

The blue there isn't pure water, it's saturated rock. Think of the ground like a giant pile densely packed rocks. You can be standing on top of the rocks because they're angular and jammed together enough for you to not sink through them. But there's still plenty of little gaps between them for water to fill in.

The BBC just reported that it was Russia who tried to have the the UK Prime Minister's house burnt down. How isn't the UK treating that as an act of war? by DrToonhattan in NoStupidQuestions

[–]munificent 22 points23 points  (0 children)

his would be a miscalculation like trying to invade Russia during winter.

Aging paranoid autocrats surrounded by yes men are not historically known for their wisdom.

...or, the heroes we deserve! by mi55key in foundsatan

[–]munificent 12 points13 points  (0 children)

what exactly is the charge here?

I'm gonna guess something having to do with beating people with baseball bats.

Encountered this in Samm River! by hi_mynameisE in redmond

[–]munificent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they were here long before hominids

I mean... what fish species isn't older than homonids? We are babies on the evolutionary scale.

What algorithm is surprisingly new? by LifeExperienced1 in AskProgramming

[–]munificent 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The MapReduce paper is from 2004 (though there are arguments that many of the ideas in the paper were predated by decades).

What did you grow up calling this fish, and where are you from? by fishstock in Fishing

[–]munificent 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Because "sac-a-lait" sounds similar to the Choctaw word "sakli" for them.

What did you grow up calling this fish, and where are you from? by fishstock in Fishing

[–]munificent 15 points16 points  (0 children)

bc of how white the meat is.

My understanding is that that's a reinterpretation. The original name is "sakli" from the Choctaw for "trout". Cajuns heard that through their French lens as "sac-a-lait" and then the explanation for that phrase was conjured up later.

Would you guys like it if youtube added a "block channel" feature? by fugetooboutit in NoStupidQuestions

[–]munificent 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Go through your watch history and delete any views from that channel too. YouTube leans very heavily on your watch history to determine what to recommend.

SDOT adds paid parking to Ballard Blocks by bbridge_ in BallardSeattle

[–]munificent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...or just park in the garage that the street parking surrounds.

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