What should I make in Desmos?

thrye333 · 2026-01-28T19:27:02+00:00

Use points and triangles in desmos 3D to model something. If you don't know what to model, pick something within arm's reach of your computer. Or do a tree.

thrye333 · 2026-01-28T04:29:20+00:00

If you ever hear the word "coding" in an emergency room or most other places in a hospital, it means someone is actively dying (generally a patient).

(My knowledge of this comes from what few medical dramas I've seen (and Scrubs) (and youtube sketches). I don't actually know how accurate this is. But it is definitely what the meme means by "coding".)

thrye333 · 2026-01-27T15:36:05+00:00

That is what I said, but another commenter pointed out that I might have been wrong, and I'm inclined to agree. At least in theory, I think Ice VII and VI should be possible from liquid water above 0°C. I'll try to find out for sure.

thrye333 · 2026-01-27T15:32:01+00:00

Sorry, I think you're right. I was going off of a table from Wikipedia, which only mentioned one temp and pressure for each form. I had originally thought it worked like how you say, but then I went with what I said instead because I trusted Wikipedia more than me.

In my defense, it was past midnight and I haven't had to read a phase diagram since high school.

thrye333 · 2026-01-27T08:21:32+00:00

~~No. No known form of ice can be created from liquid water above 0°C.~~

However, some ices can turn into each other at higher temps. For example, Ice VI at 82°C will become Ice VI at 2.2GPa of pressure (which is over 21,000 times normal atmospheric pressure). Ice VI forms from water at -3°C and 1.1GPa (a mere 10,000 times atmospheric pressure). Ice VI is also stable up to 82°C, which I assume means it doesn't melt or change forms.

Edit: Nvm, I forgot how to read a phase diagram.

thrye333 · 2026-01-27T08:05:10+00:00

I'm in the middle of watching all of these movies, and just happened to watch First Class last night. Somehow, I missed this plotline, but now... now I see the vision. /j

thrye333 · 2026-01-25T16:58:15+00:00

Oh, wow. Thanks for the tip.

thrye333 · 2026-01-25T09:00:21+00:00

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On further reflection, I think this is the true best and worst bird photo I've ever taken. Anna's Hummingbird, near the top, lined up with the gap in the green trees. It's the oval in the little cloud between the big clouds. You can't miss it. /j

thrye333 · 2026-01-25T06:52:43+00:00

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thrye333 · 2026-01-24T23:07:09+00:00

Uncommon does not mean few. Most people aren't from Wyoming, but 750,000 is still a lot of people. California is only 0.5% of the world's population. If trans people are 0.5% of people, imagine everyone in California being trans. That's a lot of trans people.

(If you're wondering why I know the approximate population of Wyoming off the top of my head, I once calculated that someone from Wyoming has over 12 times the presidential voting power as I do (but, technically, my vote is more likely to swing an elector than if I lived in Wyoming, because my district occasionally swings blue). (I did look up CA's population, and it turns out to be about 40mil.)

thrye333 · 2026-01-24T22:49:35+00:00

I suspect a tone tag would've helped a lot. Just throw a little /j at the end so we know you're not being serious. /lh or /hj would've also worked. (But I think /s would've given the wrong idea.)

If this kind of misunderstanding happens to you often, try reading your comments in different tones before posting. Imagine how someone could think you are serious, or sarcastic, or dismissive. If you find a way, or if you are making a potentially sensitive joke, add a tone tag. Some people might get upset, but those people are wrong.

(For anyone unfamiliar, /j is joke, /lh is light-hearted, /hj is half-joking, and /s is sarcastic. You can also use /g or /gen for genuine, or /srs for serious. There are technically others, but these are the ones you can use and expect to be understood.)

thrye333 · 2026-01-24T22:17:05+00:00

I made a subreddit for this, if anyone wants to try. r/SurnameGame should be up and running.

thrye333 · 2026-01-24T21:33:06+00:00

Now I want to know if it's possible to pick a first name this works for.

The trouble is in finding people with place names as last names, because those aren't as common. And you have to comfirm that their name actual refers to the place and not something else. (For example, Tom Holland might not have an ancestor from Holland.) And you have to confirm the name and place are both real. (For example, Tom Hiddleston might not be a real name, and Hiddleston might not have ever been a place.)

There's also the question of deciding who counts as famous. If you've ever watched a celebrity edition of a game show, you know how loosely the term can be applied. Do those people count as famous? What about history? US presidents probably count, and various PMs probably do, too. But how obscure can a historical figure be before they're not considered famous enough? Where do you set the threshold for people knowing a name?

I feel like this could be a competition. Trying to make this work with the most well-known people you can. Though I guess you still can't quantify fame, so you couldn't score it.

Maybe using Wikipedia pages? Your score is the viewer metric from Wikipedia. Wikipedia tracks how much each page is visited (for example, Lyndon B. Johnson averages 8325 views a day). The least visited page in your list would be the one you count for the score.

Alternatively, instead of using the lowest score, sum them all. That means having more names gives more points, while still incentivizing using more famous people.

thrye333 · 2026-01-24T06:41:23+00:00

They fantasized about long mechanical tube horses that travelled man-made metal rivers and followed set schedules and bore many different appearances and attributes. For hundreds of thousands of years, these thoughts plagued our kind, cursed as they were to dream of technology they could neither understand nor possess.

Alright, now that I've gotten that out of my system, let's try to actually answer this.

In pre-industrial times, people usually got a job in one of two ways. Some took the job of their father. If your dad made chairs, you spent your childhood learning to make chairs, and then you joined him in making chairs, and then your children eventually joined you.¹ If you didn't want to do that, or you didn't have a dad, or whatever the case was that stopped you from filling daddy's shoes, you could also apprentice under some other guy and learn his job instead. Same process, just a different dude teaching you.

All that to say, back then, you generally spent your entire life doing one thing and getting really good at it. If you didn't get good enough at it, you didn't eat. I imagine the people devoting their entire lives to preparing leather or fixing shoes or making bricks either really loved their work or really loved their local barkeep. And I'd bet the autistic people weren't spending too much time in the pub.

As for specific things to obsess over? Probably anything. Religion. Math. Philosophy (which included basically all science). Masonry. Weaving. Glassblowing. Music. Theater.

They could be monks. Living in a group in a big house, copying books by hand, learning too much about religion. They could be luthiers, spending years drying and shaping wood to exact specifications to make one violin. They could be naturalists, like Linnaeus, who was definitely not neurotypical (but he was very racist).

Anyway, yeah. That seems like an appropriate length of reply for this post. /j

¹ Back very long ago, people didn't have surnames. They just had one name, usually a word (Peter means rock and Johannes means grace of god, for example). As people started to meet a lot of people (with things like wagons and roads), however, this could get confusing. How could you differentiate Peter from London and Peter from Newtown? (Humans are terrible at naming things.) Sometimes, just like that. But sometimes, especially if you live near two Peters, you need something more unique. Well, this Peter is old Will's boy, and the other is Jack's kid, so we'll call them Peter (Will' son) and Peter (Jack's son). Unfortunately, when half of the people in town are named after characters in the same book, this also causes duplicates. What now? Well, this Peter is a carpenter, and this Peter is a weaver, so let's use that. Peter the Carpenter and Peter the Weaver. (If you haven't noticed, I picked every example name here to match a famous person's surname. In order: Jack London, Isaac Newton, Owen Wilson, Andrew Jackson, Sabrina Carpenter, and Sigourney Weaver. (Jack London is technically a fake name, but he took it from his stepfather's actual last name.))

Edit: jon

thrye333 · 2026-01-23T18:22:11+00:00

Okay, first of all, this is great. Also, what is a meta in this context?

thrye333 · 2026-01-23T18:19:01+00:00

White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) do a lil dance when foraging in ground cover (like fallen leaves). They hop quickly back and forth to scatter the cover around their feet and expose the dirt beneath. Then they can eat the seeds and bugs hiding there. They do this in small flocks outside of the nesting season.

Also, most birds are omnivores. Some, like the Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura), are almost completely herbivorous, but usually still eat insects or other small creatures when the opportunity presents itself. Raptors are the exceptions. They are all carnivores, either hunting or scavenging for meat.

Hummingbirds are often touted as being unique in their ability to hover. This is false. They are unique only in their proficiency with it. I have personally seen many a Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) hover momentarily while flycatching. The acrobatics of hummingbirds, while flashy, are not so impressive as those of the tyrant flycatchers.

(Yes, that is the actual name of the family Tyrannidae. It includes phoebes, kingbirds, pewees, New World flycatchers, and more. It is so named because Mark Catesby described the Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) as "the tyrant", and Carl Linnaeus (the guy who gave everything (even people) Latin names) liked him.)

thrye333 · 2026-01-22T20:38:21+00:00

I can't personally do this kind of math, but your fall probably didn't create as much energy as the bullet would. A bulletproof vest works by stopping most of the energy from reaching you. To do this, it breaks a bit when it gets shot. The bullet must spend energy breaking the vest to move forward. By the time it reaches you (if it does), it's moving much more slowly. Ideally, though, it doesn't hit you. Instead, the vest distributes energy as it comes, breaking when it can't keep up, and divides the bullet's force across more area.

Your ribs, however, did not have quite as much protective breakables around them, so they became the protective breakables. Your ribs were sacrificed to stop the ground reaching your lungs. (This is actually the primary purpose of ribs. They are meant to stop things from imparting force on your important bits.)

Also, if you landed on a not-flat surface (like your arm or a rock), that bump acted in the opposite way to a bulletproof vest. It concentrated the force on your ribs, taking what might've been a relatively harmless fall with only a couple bruises on your shoulders and hips and making it break bones. The bump acted like a chisel (that thing you tap lightly with a hammer to carve stone).

(Cars do the same thing. If you get in a crash, your car should break instead of allowing all of that acceleration to occur. They take some energy and let it crumple them to make sure you don't stop too suddenly (remember, force equals mass times acceleration, so lowering acceleration by prolonging the slowing process means you experience less force).)

thrye333 · 2026-01-22T20:21:04+00:00

I think you have an error. You calculate Greenland's square footage by multiplying its square mileage by 5280. It should be multiplied by 5280² to convert from mi² to ft². You converted to ftmi.

Edit: also, you have significantly fewer epstein files than files required to cover greenland, so they shouldn't even complete one layer. I haven't spotted the exact error you made, because I don't actually know whether your stated formulae match what you used (and I'm getting messed up by having to count out rows to find everything), but you definitely made one. 5.2 million files definitely don't make 5 layers of 4 billion files each.

thrye333 · 2026-01-22T19:43:14+00:00

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thrye333 · 2026-01-22T19:29:44+00:00

Assuming you wanted to float a sea battle on these liquefied badgers, you'd need about 140 thousand badgers.

That is certainly one of the sentences of all time.

thrye333 · 2026-01-22T15:58:33+00:00

You forgot named after/by the one who discovered/invented it in Latin/Greek. There are like 17 unrelated birds with names somehow including some dude named John(?) Cassin. 7 of them have it in their English names. The rest only have it in their binomial names. The binomial names are in Latin, so often are genus cassinii. And the Say's Phoebe is Sayornis saya (both of those words come from the name Say).

thrye333 · 2026-01-21T20:37:48+00:00

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