How I got locked out of my appartment
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I used my $5 Roomba for the first time yesterday :S
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@jazzyjosh said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I used my $5 Roomba for the first time yesterday :S
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@wharrgarbl said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
It seems skynet will be much dumper than portrayed in movies.
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@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
That’s just a set of lift buttons made by a computer keyboard manufacturer trying to expand into another line of business, and some random lift user discovered this means the keycaps come off easily.
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@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Not quite as bad, but in a building where I used to work, a couple of the elevators had the buttons laid out something like this:
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
It might not have been quite so bad if all the elevators were like that, but it was something like 2 out of the 5.
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@wharrgarbl Yes. A Roomba that cost me $5.
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@masonwheeler The US has no standard.
The building I'm in right now goes (from bottom to top):
E, D, C, B, A, L, 2, 3 ... 26, R
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@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@hungrier I also said in later comments that part was translated wrong on my part. I used the term in the wrong context.
(Psst, that was a joke. Referring to the "Dutch" angle in filmmaking:
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@blakeyrat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@masonwheeler The US has no standard.
The building I'm in right now goes (from bottom to top):
E, D, C, B, A, L, 2, 3 ... 26, R
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@masonwheeler I worked in Seattle in a building that went something like:
1 (Lobby), 2, 3, 4 (Lobby also), 5 ... 21
It was from 1930, so no parking garage. (Presumably it had a basement/boiler room, but I'm not sure that was labeled on the normal elevators.) It was built on a Seattle block, so both 1st and 4th floor were at street level, and both were labeled as lobbies.
In fact, even this new building I'm in now in Bellevue, the L floor is about 3 floors, by some arguments, since it has stairwells that decend to street level on the eastern side, which is about 2 floors below street level on the western side. Which means L and the top floor of the parking garage, A actually exist at the same altitude. BLOW YOUR MIND.
Anyway, my real point is: there's no standard in the US. Each building numbers itself however it likes.
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@blakeyrat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Anyway, my real point is: there's no standard in the US. Each building numbers itself however it likes.
We live in a land of chaos. Careful when you buy a ginger ale.
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@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
We live in a land of chaos. Careful when you buy a ginger ale.
Yesterday I bought a "buffalo portobello burger" from a food truck, I expected to get a burger with buffalo meat and also mushrooms. What I got instead is a mushroom burger with no meat, but slathered in buffalo sauce.
So, in short: yes, land of chaos.
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@blakeyrat I hope you gave it back to him and said "there's no burger here".
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@blakeyrat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
The building I'm in right now goes (from bottom to top):
E, D, C, B, A, L, 2, 3 ... 26, RI don't remember the actual sequence, but the Scottsdale Galleria (back when it was a going thing) had all the floors designated by letters, such as S (street), P (parking), B (bridge), G (ground). No numbers at all, and the letters weren't in any sort of alphabetical sequence either.
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@jazzyjosh said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Yes. A Roomba that cost me $5.
You got it for cheap after it triec to clean fresh dog shit?
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@blakeyrat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I expected to get a burger with buffalo meat and also mushrooms.
That is a portobello buffalo burger, not a buffalo portobello burger
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@dse said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
That is a portobello buffalo burger, not a buffalo portobello burger
NOW YOU TELL ME!
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@blakeyrat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
We live in a land of chaos. Careful when you buy a ginger ale.
Yesterday I bought a "buffalo portobello burger" from a food truck, I expected to get a burger with buffalo meat and also mushrooms. What I got instead is a mushroom burger with no meat, but slathered in buffalo sauce.
So, in short: yes, land of chaos.
Wow. Usually named items aren't so literal...
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@masonwheeler said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@blakeyrat I hope you gave it back to him and said "there's no burger here".
I had a friend who loved cheeseburgers when she was little. Then one time at a picnic, her parents ask her if she wants a hamburger, and she enthusiastically responded with a yes. So they hand her a hamburger, she takes a look under the top bun, and starts crying. When her parents ask her what's wrong, she says "there's no ham on my burger!"
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@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
in fact where i am i'm pretty sure space is closer to me right now
Space is pretty damn close to you. You could probably walk to space if it wasn't up.
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@ben_lubar and fast. Don't forget fast. The altitude is easy, it's the 10km/s speed (roughly) that costs energy.
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@ben_lubar said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
walk to space if it wasn't up.
May I suggest a ladder?
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@benjamin-hall said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@ben_lubar and fast. Don't forget fast. The altitude is easy, it's the 10km/s speed (roughly) that costs energy.
you don't need that speed if you don't want to stay in space.
or if you're on a freaking ladder that's keeping you from falling..
that would be a hell of a ladder.
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@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
that would be a hell of a ladder.
I think I'd prefer an elevator…
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@dkf said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
that would be a hell of a ladder.
I think I'd prefer an elevator…
i'm pretty sure a 70 mile tall ladder is more within our grasp than an actual space elevator.
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@accalia I'm trying to imagine a ladder that can survive one end moving at 10km/s relative to the other. The top of the ladder has to stay up there, after all.
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@benjamin-hall said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia I'm trying to imagine a ladder that can survive one end moving at 10km/s relative to the other. The top of the ladder has to stay up there, after all.
</Literal-response-mode>why wouldn't it hold together? moutnains don't have an issue with "leanback" due to differential velocities between their base and peak.
getting the ladder into position will be a bitch, to be sure, but once it's in place it should be self stable, assuming we've properly sorted out things like wind and storms.
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@accalia mountains are a) way shorter, b) much more solid. An object in low orbit (~70km) completes an orbit in about 90 minutes. The other end isn't moving nearly that fast. Space elevators "work" because they're in geostationary orbit (or use detachable tethers that don't make contact with the ground). The tensile strength required is still much higher than we can manage reliably currently.
For reference, Everest is about 7km high (29k feet above sea level). That's off by an order of magnitude. The effect is a variant of a tidal force: gravity acts much more on one end than the other. Making a rigid object that long would require magical materials.
Note: I'm spitballing things here. The facts are not meant literally, as facts to posting. The ideas are mostly correct though.
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@benjamin-hall said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
An object in low orbit (~70km) completes an orbit in about 90 minutes.
well 1) the karman line is 100km not 70, and 2) the tip of my ladder wouldn't need to go nearly that fast, in fact it would complete the trip in 24 hours (give or take for the vagaries of complex physical systems)
this means that the angular velocity of the entire ladder is constant, and therefore there would be negligable additional stress generated by the length of the object. The acceleration due to gravity is measurably lower at 100km compares to 0km from the surface but we're talking measurable, not perceptible so tidal forces due to differences in acceleration due to gravity would apply, but that would mostly just require a slightly stronger tensile strength than would otherwise bee needed, and in face may be completely negated by the primarily compressive load the structure would generate.
see the key difference that you seem to have overlooked is my ladder to space won't get me into orbit, once i get to the top i can't just step off of it and be in orbit, i would very much be doing this:
but with a ladder and a space suit (at least for the majority of the trip) instead of a rocket or a plane.
:-)
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@accalia thinking are hard today. You're right. It's still a stupid hard engineering problem, what with the forces involved, but not for the reasons I was considering.
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@benjamin-hall said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
For reference, Everest is about 7km high
8848 meters, is what I learned a long time ago from an atlas. For some reason that number still is on immediate recall in my memory … must be why I never could pick up enough in school to actually get a diploma in anything.
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Hillary later admitted in his autobiography that: ‘Having paid my respects to the highest mountain in the world, I had no choice but to urinate on it.’
And the first person to put two feet on it:
Radhanath Sikdar, a mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852, using trigonometric calculations based on measurements of ‘Peak XV’ (as it was then known) made with theodolites from 240km (150 miles) away in India.
He measured it to be exactly 29,000ft (8,839m) high, but it was publicly declared to be 29,002ft. The arbitrary addition of 2ft was to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000ft was nothing more than a rounded estimate.
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@gurth Yeah. I calculated that later. Was just roughing numbers (about 5 miles, so call it 7 km). Didn't help that braining today is hard.
Or, as I heard a cow-orker once say: "I'm thinking, but it hurts!" (and yes, she was serious...and blonde).
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@dkf said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I think I'd prefer an elevator…
Yeah, wouldn't we all?
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@dkf Do you want to make our planet look like a lollipop?
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@wharrgarbl An actual space elevator tether would be so thin compared to the Earth that it would be essentially invisible from a distance unless the light struck it just right. That article image is nowhere near "drawn to scale."
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@gurth said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@benjamin-hall said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
For reference, Everest is about 7km high
8848 meters, is what I learned a long time ago from an atlas. For some reason that number still is on immediate recall in my memory … must be why I never could pick up enough in school to actually get a diploma in anything.
Wifi password 1 from forever ago was
AFEBB01AA3
. The length and style of that password may tell you it was a WEP passphrase from a NetGear device.To date that maintains integrity, whereas the quadratic formula is marked as partially corrupted.
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@wharrgarbl said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Do you want to make our planet look like a lollipop?
Yes. Duh.
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@benjamin-hall said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@gurth Yeah. I calculated that later. Was just roughing numbers (about 5 miles, so call it 7 km). Didn't help that braining today is hard.
Ah, but 5 miles is about 8 km (off by less than 50 m). You can use the sequence 2 - 3 - 5 - 8: a value in miles converts to the next higher value in kilometres (closer values are 3.2 km for 2 mi and 4.8 km for 3 mi).
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@tsaukpaetra said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
the quadratic formula
x = (-b +-√(b2 - 4ac))/2a
Had to look it up afterwards to confirm, but that's still in there a good 15 years after I last uses it
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@jaloopa said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@tsaukpaetra said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
the quadratic formula
x = (-b +-√(b2 - 4ac))/2a
Had to look it up afterwards to confirm, but that's still in there a good 15 years after I last uses it
Yeah, before verification external we had the b^2. Outside the sqrt.
The other day I was helping my dad math against an right triangle with a 45 degree angle. He was having trouble realizing that the opposite and adjacent sides were therefore equal...
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@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
But then, it sounds like you live alone, so I guess it's easier to keep stuff tidy.
So you have to clean up first in order for the robot... whose job it is to clean up... to be able to clean?
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@lorne-kates said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
So you have to clean up first in order for the robot... whose job it is to clean up... to be able to clean?
You don't sound familiar with the concept of vacuuming.
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@boomzilla he's Canadian. You can't vacuum an igloo floor.
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@benjamin-hall said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
You can't vacuum an igloo floor.
However you can give it a nice polish:
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@lorne-kates said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
So you have to clean up first in order for the robot... whose job it is to clean up... to be able to clean?
When I was growing up, we had a house cleaner come once/wk. Of course things had to be cleaned first before she got there. Some things never change.
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@dcon said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Of course things had to be cleaned first before she got there.
Was that because she would spread shit all over the place if there was any on the floor?
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@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Was that because she would spread shit all over the place if there was any on the floor?
No, it was because if the cleaning lady saw the house unclean, your mother would spread shit all over you.