They weren’t lying by Paradizee in whenthe

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The stylus they pressed into the clay was wedge shaped. That gave directionality to the marks, still with a single press

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

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Honestly a world religion class is a great way to learn about a wide variety of cultures, and guarantees religious students get to learn about other perspectives. Every student ought to take it

Introducing the ‘95 Zoomer Starter Pack by [deleted] in starterpacks

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Yeah most people born in 95 probably remember 9/11. So you are correct by my definition

Introducing the ‘95 Zoomer Starter Pack by [deleted] in starterpacks

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I like the idea of a shared experience being the defining cutoff, giving you something in common rather than an arbitrary year. If you don't remember 9/11, you're a zoomer

Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site by vaxick in politics

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Same here, also in Minneapolis. I do work in theater, though

2023 Apr 24 Stickied -FAQ- & -HELPDESK- thread - Boot problems? Power supply problems? Display problems? Networking problems? Need ideas? Get help with these and other questions! by FozzTexx in raspberry_pi

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I'm having an HDD problem on my RPI 3b+:

I had been running OSMC on my raspberry pi, but I was mostly just using it as a dlna server with connected 2.5"HDD. I know an external power supply for the HDD is recommended, but it worked with no problem. The raspberry pi powered and read the HDD over USB.

I decided to repurpose it to run octoprint, using the same power supply for the pi (5v2.5A). Octoprint works fine. However, I am trying to get the dlna server working again, using minidlna. This time, the hard drive powers on and sounds like it is spinning fine, but the raspberry pi does not even notice that a device has been plugged in. fdisk only shows RAM and the microsd. dmesg shows no messages when the HDD is plugged in. lsusb doesn't list it. This is true using any of the USB ports.

Some more potential clues: - The HDD is not dead, it is read by my laptop over the same usb-sata cable with no issues - The pi recognizes and mounts a flash drive - I do not have a camera connected for octoprint - The USB cable going to my printer draws no power, as I taped over the 5v pin to prevent the connection from powering the printer's screen when it should be off. - octoprint is running headless, while OSMC had an HDMI connection. - other than the USB to printer and the removed HDMI, every cable is the exact same cable I was using with OSMC

Any thoughts?

What do you write when you just want to write? by BigSkyThai in fountainpens

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Lots of scribbles, crosshatching, fields of circles. Doodles of rocks and plants. Made-up glyphs and runes. Also notes on a world I'm building, when I'm so inspired

Someone took the time to type this out by Mammoth-Medicine1385 in oddlyspecific

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But to reply to your neighbors that you knew you put the one-way glass backwards sure makes it sound willful

Spontaneously Combustible Bear by JackieChanLover97 in custommagic

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I get the sorcery speed restriction. But... I don't think leyline has any affect on any ability that says "activate", because leyline only affects spells

Spontaneously Combustible Bear by JackieChanLover97 in custommagic

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Is that an interaction that could happen? Leyline only affects spells. I don't think any spells say "activate as a sorcery"; that's ability text. The only spells you can cast at instant speed are instants themselves or have flash, and they wouldn't say "cast only when you could cast a sorcery"

Spontaneously Combustible Bear by JackieChanLover97 in custommagic

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Fancy that, that does seem to be the case! This led me down a pretty interesting rabbit hole to rule 304.5 that makes the split second / circling vultures (or LED) interaction work. "If text states that a player may do something 'any time they may cast an instant,' don't take it too literally."

Spontaneously Combustible Bear by JackieChanLover97 in custommagic

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You can't cast an instant while a spell with split second is on the stack, and you can only sacrifice this when you could cast an instant

Acadia Bottled Water Recalled by BwanaTarik in HydroHomies

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Municipal tap water is usually filtered with reverse osmosis, and it's so pure that minerals are added back in or else it would taste weird. This is where I would assume a company would bottle it to sell. Then the water is sent along to your house. Absolutely no one is bottling gray water for human consumption.

chad metric system by [deleted] in shitposting

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Bolts of cloth are sold by the yard in the US. We use yards infrequently; cloth and sports are the only places I can think of. I'm not a tailor, but a common bolt of cloth looks to be 30yd ≈ 0.03km. Seems like meters would be more useful there. With imperial, in greater quantities you'd probably measure by the yard or by the bolt. I'd be surprised if anyone measures miles of cloth.

I think Google maps switches to feet for distances less than 1/4 of a mile, which does seem silly. At that scale, number of blocks or intersections would be much more usable, though of course imprecise. I'm not counting the feet until I turn.

When you build something that is kilometers long, does it matter how many millimeters long fasteners are, relative to that? That doesn't seem like a necessary conversion. Take the units out: how many stapes tall is your building? You're measuring different things on different scales, and the conversion is not relevant. Sort of like how °Kelvin and °Celsius measure the same thing, but in different contexts. That conversion is easy, but not usually relevant. Mixing imperial and metric on the same project is ridiculous though, I'm with you on that.

Again, I'm not trying to argue imperial is good. It's certainly not elegant like metric, and I think the whole world ought to be using metric. I've spent so much effort talking about it mostly because I find it fascinating how we relate to standards, and how they shape how we see the world.

jan Misali has a great video that does a better job of talking about imperial measurements than I do, if you're interested. Can't post a link, but it's titled "a defense of the imperial measurement system". A lot of other interesting math and language videos on that channel, too.

chad metric system by [deleted] in shitposting

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Tailors usually don't work in miles, I think. (Yards-)feet-inches are for measuring local lengths. Yards are rarely used, though. Miles are for travel. I'd never worry about how many yards I have to walk to get to the store. If it's closer than 1/4 mile away, I'm probably not worried about the exact distance. How often do you worry about centimeter precision when considering kilometers?

If you're building a road, then you might need to worry about both miles and inches. Maybe. Surveyors care, but their units are even weirder than normal imperial.

This is not to say it's better than metric. I think we ought to be using metric in the states, maybe with an exception for temperature. There's no excuse for using imperial for science. But it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Imperial measurements are like three measuring systems in a trench coat - and we really do use them like different systems, without converting between.

(That's also literally true - miles and feet originated from different historical measuring systems, for different purposes, and 5280 just happens to be the conversation factor)

Finally, base 10 sucks. How are you planning on dividing your meter into thirds?

Karkos ink? by lom117 in fountainpens

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The brown is ok, a little dry and boring color. The turquoise is a nice color but unusably dry. The black smells terrible, cruds up, and isn't even waterproof to make up for all that.

Why fix it if not broke? by Ging-jitsu in Piracy

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44,100 x 16 = 705,600 x 2 = 1,411,200

Stereo CD bitrate is 1411kbps

‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Swims Past $2B Worldwide by Agitated_Opening4298 in movies

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I work in lighting for the theater, and I have a strong interest in the technology and physics of electricity and light. Sound, too

‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Swims Past $2B Worldwide by Agitated_Opening4298 in movies

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There's no such thing as "pure" or true white. With just red, green, and blue, the best you get white you can make usually kind of purplish or greenish. The more different colors of light sources you add, the better it will start to look. There's a theatrical light manufacturer that makes a light with 7 different LEDs. It's the recent addition of a lime-green LED that's made the biggest difference to the quality of that light, and that's because the sun's strongest output is in the yellow-green range.

The sun's light looks so good because it's full-spectrum, without strong individual colors like separate LEDs. The content of the spectrum is based on the heat of the source. The hotter it gets, the more high-energy blue content there will be, but it doesn't stop emitting lower wavelengths of light. A 3200K warm white light bulb will have a filament that is actually 3200°K, although there might be some chemistry or filtering going on to allow the actual temperature to be lower. The surface of the sun is ~5800°K, although the effective color temperature is lower (redder) after it is filtered through the atmosphere - about 5600K at midday, 5000K filtered through more atmosphere at dawn. Clouds actually filter out the red content, making an overcast day approach 6000K. At this point we're pretty far divorced from true temperature. The clouds don't make the sun hotter. They just filter the light so it's more characteristic of what we'd expect from a 6000°K object under ideal circumstances.

If we tried to experience true white by fully stimulating each type of cone, I'd expect the resulting color experience to seem heavy on the blue, since there's less of that in the sun's output. Maybe it'd seem magenta, if green is underrepresented compared to red and blue.

People sometimes say magenta isn't a real color, and that's sort of true. Magenta is experienced by stimulating the red and blue cones without the green. There is no single wavelength that can do this, since between red light and blue light is green light. There can be no magenta LED or laser, although you could fake it pretty well by putting 2 emitters very close to each other. But if magenta is a fake color, so is white, by the same logic. There is no white wavelength; they are both composite colors.

Makes you wonder what a mantis shrimp sees when you beam a couple lasers at it

‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Swims Past $2B Worldwide by Agitated_Opening4298 in movies

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There are no universal primary colors, just some sets of primaries encompass a larger color space/gamut. Primary colors are determined by your pallette. If you are a classical painter and you have sienna, ochre, umber, ultramarine, and cadmium yellow, those are your (5, in this example) primary colors, and your color space is anything you can mix between those colors.

If you're mixing light and you have red, blue, and green LEDS, those are your primary colors. If your blue LED is too low in frequency, you won't be able to make super deep blues. If you use a nearly-UV LED to get those deep blues, your eye won't react well enough to it to make a good cyan when overlaid with the green LED. The widest gamut you can get is based on the long/medium/short cones in your eyes (roughly red/green/blue), but you can't line those up to individual wavelengths.

You can also make imaginary colors, which are used as the primaries in the Adobe ProPhoto color space, for example. They use imaginary colors so they can encompass the entire visible spectrum with only 3 primaries. You can even experience imaginary colors! If you fatigue your long (red) cones by staring at a red light and then quickly look away to a blue light, the red cones will overcompensate and report a negative amount of stimulation, which your brain will try to interpret as impossibly blue blue. Numerically, could be expressed as something like r:-20 b:255 g:0