Random thought of the day
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@mott555 said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
Which leads to my random though of the day: where is yourself when comparing distance? I.e. What point in space would be considered the origin for "you"?
Maybe I'm too nerdy and I read too much physics, but I'd say there's a chance of finding "you" in any region of space covered by your body's de Broglie wavelength, and it's impossible to confine/define your body to a region smaller than that wavelength.
Fortunately the de Broglie wavelength of a human is infinitesimal. Like really. Order 10^-35 m, which is 20 orders of magnitude smaller than a nucleus.
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I've reached the conclusion that the classic "x/10" rating system for movies and games is bad. Because it assumes there's an "absolute bad" (0/10) and an "absolute good" (10/10).
Even if that was theoretically true, in practice almost nothing approaches those points (absolute bad would be a blank screen I guess?). They're more of an unbounded normal distribution, where 99.9% of the values are in a small range, but the outliers can be much more far away.So: a better rating system would be x/10, where 0 is terrible, 10 is fantastic, but the values can into the negatives and over 10, so you can actually give a game 11/10 if it's even better than a 10/10 game.
Of course the potential for abuse is big and people would be rating games "9000/10 zomg lol", but oh well.
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@anonymous234 I rate Life of Pi: arctan(9000) out of π/2
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@anonymous234 your proposed system doesn't solve the main problem with 10-point rating system - that it's simply idiotic to try to map something as abstract, complex, unmeasurable and extremely subjective as game quality to a single number.
Also. How many games do you think would go beyond 10? How many of them would end up above 11 but below infinity? (Hint: less than would end up at infinity - all the "best game ever"s.) And do you really think those over-10 ratings would represent the game quality better than just plain 10?
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@Gąska Not to mention that even currently, a 7/10 is a horrible score, an 8/10 is a bad score, and a 9/10 is normal. Same goes for 5-star ratings: anything that's not 4.5+ is bad. And the distribution is bimodal: lots of 5's and 1's, few in between. And a 5-point scale is much better than a 10-point scale.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska Not to mention that even currently, a 7/10 is a horrible score, an 8/10 is a bad score, and a 9/10 is normal.
For typical AAA blockbusters. For most indie games, the scale is shifted 2 points left - with 7/10 being fairly good (or as you put it, "normal"), 8/10 being a very good game with a few quirks typical for inexperienced devs, and 9/10 being better than Fallout 4.
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@Benjamin-Hall Yes, that's "point inflation" and I hate it. You rate a seller 4.5/5 anywhere today and it's like you're reporting them for scamming. I mean it's one thing if it happens naturally, but it annoys me that many stores (like eBay) seem to actively encourage it.
But it still kinda supports my point: that "min" and "max" don't exist, they're all relative to others.
Here's a more extreme version: make the score an arbitrary number. On every new rating, shift them all so that the average stays at 50 with 99% of values between 0 and 100.
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@anonymous234 Or use non-comparable ratings. Like
apple
andbanana
andorange
as your options.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 your proposed system doesn't solve the main problem with 10-point rating system - that it's simply idiotic to try to map something as abstract, complex, unmeasurable and extremely subjective as game quality to a single number.
Also. How many games do you think would go beyond 10? How many of them would end up above 11 but below infinity? (Hint: less than would end up at infinity - all the "best game ever"s.) And do you really think those over-10 ratings would represent the game quality better than just plain 10?
Portal 2.
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@pie_flavor Bohemian Rhapsody.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 Or use non-comparable ratings. Like
apple
andbanana
andorange
as your options.Orange game bad!
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Orange game bad!
Closest I could find was https://map.what3words.com/orange.game.bead
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@Benjamin-Hall
But do you really think that game developers are grown up enough that using a five color system won't scar them for life?
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You know that original version of Sleeping Beauty (before she was called Sleeping Beauty) where instead of waking up on kiss, she gets raped while unconscious and gives birth to two children, and only wakes up after one of them sucks a splinter off her finger? I've been wondering - can an unconscious woman actually safely give birth (ie. with the child not dying in the process)?
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@Gąska I'm pretty sure there have been modern accounts of pregnant women falling into a coma, and not awakening before it's time to give birth. Seems like a good place to start your research.
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@Gąska I can't imagine it taking a lot of higher level brain functions, so I'd assume it's plausible.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
can an unconscious woman actually safely give birth (ie. with the child not dying in the process)?
Yes. Cesarean-section birth is quite common.
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@Tsaukpaetra Caesareans being generally survivable for the mother is a relatively recent development. While the procedure was definitely performed back in Roman times and probably earlier, it was typically lethal back then.
I don't think the story works without natural childbirth.
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Very odd question.
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska I can't imagine it taking a lot of higher level brain functions, so I'd assume it's plausible.
Still hard to tell really. While the gestation of the embryo to fetus might happen somewhat automatically, I would think labor would be impossible without the mother helping contractions along, unless midwifes and doctors are just saying "push" to keep the mother busy.
A c-section would likely give the highest chance of success in this case.
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@JBert said in Random thought of the day:
A c-section would likely give the highest chance of success in this case.
I thought i had found something that matched the situation, but the article doesn't mention how the infants were extracted.
This article is very similar, and indicates an induced vaginal birth:
This one indicates an induced-coma patient did just fine as well:
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
I've been wondering - can an unconscious woman actually safely give birth (ie. with the child not dying in the process)?
There was a period from the mid-19th to mid-20th Centuries when it was at least somewhat common for women to give birth under general anesthesia to spare them the pain of labor. Drugs and techniques varied widely through the period, as did outcomes. General anesthesia did tend to extend labor due to decreased muscular contractions. It also resulted in babies that were too anesthetized to breathe on their own after birth; that's where the popular image of doctors holding the baby upside-down and slapping its butt — waking up the baby enough to breathe. Another form of anesthesia ("twilight sleep") that was popular for a while in the early 20th Century combined a light dose of morphine to reduce but not eliminate pain with scopalamine, which prevented any memory of the events, so it seemed to the mother to have been painless.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
can an unconscious woman actually safely give birth (ie. with the child not dying in the process)?
Yes. Cesarean-section birth is quite common.
C-section is usually done with spinal or epidural anesthesia, if possible. General anesthesia may be used in an emergency or if the more limited anesthesia isn't possible for some reason.
That's what happened during the birth of my first. I was gowned-up and holding my (then) wife's hand in the OR. As the doctor started the procedure, my wife said, "I can feel what you're doing." Whoops! They very quickly gave her a general anesthetic, and I was quickly and unceremoniously escorted out of the OR.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
Whoops! They very quickly gave her a general anesthetic, and I was quickly and unceremoniously escorted out of the OR.
Oh shit!
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@Tsaukpaetra Dad can be there if Mom has spinal anesthesia, but not general. I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it's a combination of not being in the way if there's an emergency (and a somewhat higher probability of anesthetic-related complications) and Mom looks kinda "dead" when she's unconscious, which can be traumatic for Dad. At least I think I remember that's what they told me at the time.
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@HardwareGeek AIUI, general anesthesia is very tricky indeed; it's far too easy to overdo it and ensure that someone never wakes up again. A lot of changes in medical practice in recent years have been all about trying to eliminate it where possible.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
You know that original version of Sleeping Beauty (before she was called Sleeping Beauty) where instead of waking up on kiss, she gets raped while unconscious and gives birth to two children, and only wakes up after one of them sucks a splinter off her finger? I've been wondering - can an unconscious woman actually safely give birth (ie. with the child not dying in the process)?
We thought my son was going to have to be born while my wife was unconscious. Due to health issues there was talk of her having a caesarian section under general anaesthetic. Eventually a consultant found out about the plans and essentially said "what? There's no reason to be under" and he was born by a normal section
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
@ben_lubar You don't know how true it is. Our microwave oven at home is a few years old, and the insulation is not what it used to be. And for those that don't know, the frequency of a microwave oven is 2.45 GHz, while the frequency of my wi-fi router is 2.4 GHz. So guess what happens when you turn on the microwave at my home?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
https://i.imgur.com/9mFl4sv.jpg
Tl;dr: Humans are insane.
Only one problem with this: Doc Brown was actually in Star Trek, as a Klingon.
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What if news websites showed subtly different content depending on what platform you clicked to them from?
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@pie_flavor What if news aggregators showed blatantly different content depending on your ideology?
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CSS lets you change elements when you hover the mouse cursor over any of them. This means you can shrink or expand parts of the page, which in turn changes what the mouse cursor is on, which in turn causes more transformations.
We've all experienced it unintentionally on some sites, but I wonder what kind of interesting stuff you can build with that intentionally?
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@Zecc
This is a horrible abomination of technology. And yet I must play it.
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@Zecc That's really good.
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@Zecc My feeling on this is similar to my feeling on the implementation of tetris in sed.
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How many obsessive-compulsives resume counting down from ten after they wake up from general anesthesia?
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@boomzilla "La la la la la la la la la la la!"
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kate underscore drinks it all day
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@Gribnit 2 errors detected in submission:
ERR_EXTRANEOUS_SYLLABLES_FOUND
ERR_RHYME_SCHEME_VIOLATION
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@djls45 Hey, I counted. NodeBB must have inserted an extra "la".
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
@djls45 Hey, I counted. NodeBB must have inserted an extra three "la"s.
FTFY
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Why do elevator doors even close when no one's using them? To keep the dust out? It's unnecessary and just adds an unnecessary button press.
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@anonymous234 Speed up the "letting someone in on a different floor" process?
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@kazitor Well I hadn't thought about that.
The building I'm in now only has two floors so I guess it makes more sense here.
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Are "Woke" people allowed to drink decaf coffee?
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@anonymous234 In my dorm room, you need a key card to open the doors on the ground floor.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra When the Vulcans look at humans, I imagine they're thinking something like "but in their universe, all the people on the Minnow are Gilligan."
Maybe. But Gilligan, though not the brightest person on the island, might have been the sanest. The Vulcans might appreciate that Gilligan was relatively logical.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Not to be confused with the Rocher limit, which is defined as how close I can get to gold-wrapped chocolates without eating them.
With or without someone watching?