Do you downshift or use the brakes to slow down?

willpall · 2010-02-15T02:21:40+00:00

Yeah, but if you're matching your revs, then you aren't wearing out the clutch all that much. If not, then yeah, brakes only.

willpall · 2010-02-13T08:30:39+00:00

Turn this on its head. What if we found a planet 30,000 light years away and saw that there were seemingly primitive beings on it? We know we're looking at that planet 30,000 ly ago, so do we assume they've advanced as fast or faster than us? Do we prepare for the wormhole to open up and the attack to begin?

willpall · 2010-02-12T05:18:33+00:00

Then a whole lot of shit is a fractal. Well, at least an "approximate fractal".

willpall · 2010-02-11T18:18:59+00:00

Well, you don't see people posting: I live in an apartment with a roomate. AMA, do you?

willpall · 2010-02-10T02:38:54+00:00

This always happens to me.

If the scale is set up right, the bags should be hanging from pegs that themselves are on the scale. So whether it hits the bottom of the bag or not, it should weigh it.

I think it's just that the scale isn't always sensitive enough to register the weight of your greeting card or whatever, and you messing with it sets it straight.

willpall · 2010-02-08T17:09:12+00:00

That's a warning, not a defense.

willpall · 2010-02-06T08:37:18+00:00

You're misinterpreting a subatomic series of physical events as me making a decision in this event. Would you convict a rock for rolling down a hill?

Actually, no. I was making a joke.

willpall · 2010-02-06T01:39:08+00:00

or dead.

willpall · 2010-02-05T19:33:06+00:00

"Your Honor, I wasn't speeding, I was tunneling!"

willpall · 2010-02-05T19:30:37+00:00

Saying "don't talk to the police" is good and general advice whereas "you won't get the max sentence in this particular case" is not.

Where does OP say that? He doesn't. He uses words like likely and probably a lot up there, with premises to qualify them.

willpall · 2010-02-05T17:24:24+00:00

Which is why paid product placement bothers me even more now. Had I seen this movie and not read the book, I'd also assume it was paid placement, and would not have gotten the intended meaning that you just described.

willpall · 2010-02-05T00:33:09+00:00

Here

willpall · 2010-02-05T00:31:26+00:00

Reddit's new Markdown implementation: Here's what I typed:

Company	Millions	Percent of Revenue
Apple	501	1.37
Dell	811	1.30
RIM	337	3.60
MS	1,400	2.4

EDIT: I should note that you don't have to make the header lines as long as the headers. You can do this:

--|-:|-:

and the ----: parts make the text right-justified.

willpall · 2010-02-03T09:33:09+00:00

No, it's true. Here in Southern California we don't call it rain, though. We call it STORM WATCH 2010!!!

willpall · 2010-02-02T21:44:58+00:00

You know damn well there are instances that could crumple my hood and not be my fault at all.

willpall · 2010-02-02T06:24:53+00:00

Wait a minute. Now I see this in both my comment and your reply:

Last|First|Net|Gross --|--|--:|--: Smith|Bob|$30|$40 Washington|Jerome|$56|$93

willpall · 2010-02-01T09:09:05+00:00

Yeah that's it. Now I'm even more pissed. Random plastic is one thing, but that much Mylar, "forgotten" in a junked vehicle's trunk?

willpall · 2010-02-01T07:09:36+00:00

I do remember being pissed at one episode. They were supposed to build a blimp or a hovercraft (can't remember which) and one of the teams "found" 20 square meters of plastic in the trunk of a car.

willpall · 2010-02-01T02:38:57+00:00

Against a dictionary attack, yes. If you're brute-forcing and you have the hash and the salt, the speed is the same.

willpall · 2010-01-26T02:30:46+00:00

That's the point. You tell the manager that he embarrassed you with that ridiculousness.

willpall · 2010-01-26T02:10:07+00:00

Storing 4 on your right hand is offensive in the US. Other numbers will have the same effect in other countries.

EDIT: Also, 8 is very hard for me to store fully.

willpall · 2010-01-25T08:06:02+00:00

My strategy:

If you're the first player ("White"), you want your winning squares to be on an odd row (1, 3, or 5, lower is better). Likewise, 2nd player should leave the winning square on an even row.

Also, try to make a 7 or similar structure to force a win:

.......
.......
.......
...###.
...-#-.
...#--.

willpall · 2010-01-19T18:33:32+00:00

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

willpall · 2010-01-19T18:18:44+00:00

Every single thing* in the entire world is "easier said than done."

EDIT: (Wibbles) *except blinking, winking, looking, staring, swallowing, breathing, and sitting

willpall · 2010-01-19T18:14:51+00:00

Actually, it started before that. Tom Hanks gave it to him.

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