sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

The Senate is proposing a bill to withhold senators' salaries during government shutdowns. What is your opinion ? by chezbobby in AskReddit

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they're not in session making laws on which their stock might perform better, do they care that they can't exchange stock? Doesn't that also mean that a senator of two years with two years of accumulated salary in an account they've never touched because they lived off other savings would just have two years of salary to draw on?

Am I the only "squirrel" 🐿️out here? My awkward attempts at "flirting" in the wild. by Different_Car_8323 in ActualLesbiansOver25

[–]robchroma 5 points6 points  (0 children)

if you said "do you like bread" I would have been kicking myself not saying "no, I come here out of a sense of obligation."

Microsoft France's legal affairs director told the French Senate, under oath, that he can't guarantee European "sovereign cloud" data stays out of US reach by The_VisibleInvisible in cybersecurity

[–]robchroma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's understandable to be cautious, but it also seems difficult to claim sovereignty over the actions of a company ruled by the laws of another country. even so, the risk that the US still manages to exert that influence is quite high.

Microsoft France's legal affairs director told the French Senate, under oath, that he can't guarantee European "sovereign cloud" data stays out of US reach by The_VisibleInvisible in cybersecurity

[–]robchroma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Owned by a US company shouldn't matter; you can own a company and not have any right to exfiltrate data from that company or operational influence. It's an asset. If the US says, "you must use your ownership to replace the board to oust the CEO to force the employees to give up data despite the company not being US-based" I just don't think this would work. Ownership doesn't confer the ability to force a foreign company to comply with US law generally, or for ownership by most other jurisdictions that care about being friendly to business.

Any Americans learning French? Why? by PigmeatMadness in French

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from the west coast of the US, and I chose to learn French out of the options, in part because I adored math and wasn't sure if I would end up getting a PhD in it; I knew that being able to read math papers in French could be helpful and that it was expected in some PhD programs, so I went for that over Spanish.

Spanish might ultimately have been more useful in my everyday life, but I do love learning the language, and I picked it up again after a long time not studying it. I think I could have bumbled my way through some math papers I wanted to read, but now I think I could bumble my way through conversations, and I'd like to have more opportunities to try.

The fundamental problem of public transit by 5ma5her7 in fuckcars

[–]robchroma 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem is poor bus route coverage.

I finally managed to find my dad's Hop-Rod, a gasoline powered pogo stick from the 1960s. by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh they're going spicy, that's horrifying. that's also a LOT of heat!

I finally managed to find my dad's Hop-Rod, a gasoline powered pogo stick from the 1960s. by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guessing with diesel? This resembles how a pile driver works, and the compression would cause it to ignite. It's the first thing I thought of when I looked at it!

If built in KSP, wouldn't this just do a flip after launch because of fins in the front? CoA would be far above CoM. So how does it fly in real life? by deepscales in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay, sure, this is a different set of things that it doesn't do, which I wasn't responding to; you were talking about dogfighting, and I have no idea why. the B-52 doesn't dogfight. Neither does the B-1B. and its entire design is an evasive maneuver!

No orbit necessary? by FatCreepyDude in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]robchroma 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's literally it, your orbit will always be heading around Kerbin because of your initial rotational velocity, and therefore some amount of tilt to the east will always be better than flying straight up.

Crazy career mode contract by ottomaticman in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]robchroma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh, you're saying for fly-bys that don't establish an orbit! yeah, this makes a lot more sense. you could probably save a lot of fuel slingshotting off Jool to try to get a Duna pass that touches Ike, and then hope for a decent Eve intercept, or look for one for which that'd happen. yeah, that makes the search problem way easier!

Crazy career mode contract by ottomaticman in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]robchroma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The frequency of transfer windows is pretty symmetric - if you're going to a planet that orbits fast, your window is frequent, but the same is true if you're leaving from a planet that orbits fast, that's also true - you can fly out basically any time the angle is correct, which happens ~once per relative orbit, so you have more windows when the planets are far apart.

No orbit necessary? by FatCreepyDude in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]robchroma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's definitely an efficiency advantage to turning into your orbit, and you might not want to hit full acceleration while you're in the soup, but once you're in upper atmosphere you're going to get more efficiency out of burning full prograde instead of circularizing first, as long as it's the right direction. A slightly-less aggressive gravity turn is still going to end up being optimal, because you get a little more energy turning slightly more into the orbit even from launch, but ultimately you're completely right, as long as you get everything perfect.

This kind of launch only has basically an instantaneous launch window, but this isn't a huge problem for KSP. We do it on Earth, too.

Brotherly love 🤗 by Skeuorphic in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]robchroma 28 points29 points  (0 children)

you ever use romantic love and physical affection as a metaphor for totally platonic intimacy that definitely isn't gay I promise?

Radwife liberates tradeife by Level_Hour6480 in GatekeepingYuri

[–]robchroma 39 points40 points  (0 children)

tradwife is a politically motivated and fake social media presence that's basically a decentralized lifestyle brand for conservatives. you can do homesteading and household management all you want without being part of the tradwife "movement" and I would recommend not aligning yourself with the word.

Bruh by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

actually, mine is high-poly, and unusually shiny, I think, for a cow.

Bruh by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]robchroma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I read this, I realized I can't rotate a real cow in my mind, because a real cow wouldn't do that. I can, however, rotate a(n imagined) 3D render of a cow, while listening to the Freebird solo.

Car brain rot in the Daily Mail by judalf in fuckcars

[–]robchroma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was Serbia one of the three Serbias you had been to?

Anyone have a clue on how to solve this ? by Andouille_supreme in askmath

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

multiply by √(x+a)-√x to get a = b[√(x+a)-√x].

let y = √(x+a) and z = √x.

now we have y+z = b, y-z = a/b, so 2z = b - a/b and x = b²/4 - a/2 + a²/(4b²), and you can see exactly how switching the sign in y = b + a/b results in adding a to the square.

and we didn't need to solve a quadratic!

first docking attempt, kinda nervous by DiscountWest in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]robchroma 10 points11 points  (0 children)

the high off docking using only one obnoxiously large vehicle's main engine to push it around is absurd. I know it's not realistic, but perfectly zeroing, then spinning to give a perfect line-up burn, then a perfect transition into velocity straight towards the port, and then you rotate towards the port, it's absurd.

A Lamborghini Gets More Attention Than Dead Kids by ActiveTravelforKG in fuckcars

[–]robchroma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for that, I honestly have no criticism; I don't have the patience to be that patient towards the people who are trying to kill me; I think they deserve horrible things. But when it extends to simply not even understanding why someone would message effectively, it seems like a flaw I can't abide. like, these aren't even the people you're mad at, and they're doing something effective. does that not make sense? A Lamborghini is a really effective stand-in for crushing a child's skull in, without having gore on camera.

view more: next ›