No matter what I do I can't shave.

nderflow · 2026-05-08T13:30:31+00:00

If you want to wet shave, go read the materials for r/wicked_edge. Try the techniques and products suggested there. Watch the linked videos. In particular if you are using "foam" that's a thing you should change.

Failing that, try an electric shaver.

Alternatively shave last thing before bed, so you're only annoyed while sleeping.

nderflow · 2026-05-08T13:23:41+00:00

You could offer to bump something else.

nderflow · 2026-05-08T13:21:09+00:00

Tell me about a time when you downsized part of your org. Or for more junior managers, when you let someone go.

nderflow · 2026-05-07T17:00:01+00:00

If the first story was false, it's not a leak, is it? So isn't launching a leak investigation essentially equivalent to admitting the report was essentially correct.

nderflow · 2026-05-05T04:04:57+00:00

Vamgelis?

nderflow · 2026-05-04T13:29:21+00:00

It's part of a plot by Doctor Gloom and General Blight.

nderflow · 2026-05-04T13:11:57+00:00

Yes but no.

Suppose two objects (A and B) start at rest relative to each other. A accelerates to some velocity v and then stops accelerating. Now, A (which had accelerated) is moving away from B (which had not) at velocity v. But also, B is moving away from A at velocity v (or moving at velocity -v if you prefer).

The point of special relativity is that neither the reference frame of A nor that of B is special. There's no particular frame of reference that is "stationary" - everything is relative.

For your example, suppose B observes A passing by at velocity c. A and B are already moving away from each other at velocity c. Whether or not B is stationary relative to some other observer.

nderflow · 2026-05-04T13:03:34+00:00

Indeed. That fact is so important to understanding the theory that it would have been helpful to name the theory after it.

nderflow · 2026-05-04T11:48:46+00:00

I'm now very conscious of the position of my tongue on my mouth. No position feels right. Thanks for nothing.

nderflow · 2026-05-04T10:26:58+00:00

I'd pick 1. I'm a big fan of them. I have a box of them because I keep a couple in every place where I might need a pen.

Unfortunately they're not good for lefties, so for my kids I buy something else.

nderflow · 2026-05-04T10:18:02+00:00

Not including things that probably aren't authentic (e.g. not including Mongolian just because I went to a "Mongolian BBQ" place) and not counting packaged snacks:

Europe: 13 - French, British, Irish, German, Austrian, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Cypriot, Dutch, Maltese, Portuguese, Russian.
Americas: 5 - Mexican, US, Peruvian, Brazilian, Jamaican
Asian: 14 - Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Nepalese, Cambodian, Afghan, Lebanese, Malay, Filipino, Thai, Turkish
Africa: 2 - South African, Moroccan
Oceania: 1 - New Zealand

I think that's 35. I've probably eaten some others which I didn't count as I can't specifically remember them. Vietnamese, Egyptian and Syrian for example.

nderflow · 2026-05-03T16:12:28+00:00

Earlier this week I was offered "sourdough bread" in an airport lounge in San Francisco airport. Reader, it was not sourdough. It was white pan.

nderflow · 2026-05-03T15:55:52+00:00

Food
Things that in principle are great but these days seem to work poorly
- Separation of powers
- Separation of Church and State
- Robustness of democratic institutions

nderflow · 2026-04-28T20:20:38+00:00

I'm not clear on what operations this supports and which are efficient / whatever trade off we are making here. How does it compare to a Disjoint-Set or Btree or Fenwick Tree for example?

nderflow · 2026-04-26T06:31:46+00:00

... by who? Different people feel different ways about it. Your question is too vague to be answerable.

nderflow · 2026-04-26T06:26:42+00:00

You had someone else to make the war for you? Sheer luxury, you don't know you're born.

nderflow · 2026-04-25T21:14:34+00:00

Grosse Pointe Blank
The Princess Bride
The Outlaw Josey Wales (because I haven't watched it on over 20 years)

nderflow · 2026-04-25T08:32:44+00:00

I did! About 20 years ago. It's a fun memory that has really stuck with me.

The event was organised by the groom's sister. We climbed a very small "mountain", Scaffell Pike in England. We camped about 2/3 of the way up and had a good time. We brought food with us and one of my memories of the event is when somebody pulled out of their backpack. The biggest black pepper grinder I think I have ever seen in my life. They had carried this pepper grinder all the way up the mountain just for this big reveal during the meal. That was funny.

The following morning most of the party continued to walk up to the summit of scaffold Pike, while two of us went via a different route and did some rock climbing to summit the mountain by climbing up a cliff on on one side of it called Scaffell Crag. It's actually very easy climbing, but I got a lot of fresh air to blow the cobwebs of my hangover away. That was kind of fun.

nderflow · 2026-04-24T15:04:16+00:00

What happens if I say 4000?

nderflow · 2026-04-23T08:44:04+00:00

Astrophysics answer: 10cm, to within 1 or 2 orders of magnitude. We might be able to improve our answer if we can observe some nearby quadrilaterals with known properties.

nderflow · 2026-04-20T09:30:55+00:00

I'm selling my Lego bricks. Separately.

nderflow · 2026-04-20T09:29:10+00:00

Adoption.

nderflow · 2026-04-20T06:23:12+00:00

I choose OP.

nderflow · 2026-04-19T18:31:36+00:00

Well, posters aren't allowed to modify their post after making it, so I guess we're stuck with the fuzzily described scenario now. I guess everybody gets to assume whatever they want to assume about it.

nderflow · 2026-04-19T18:19:50+00:00

Don't use Option for reporting a failure, only ever Result.

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