Random Thought of the Day
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
Both the Western and Chinese zodiacs
For a good three minutes I wondered what the fuck a "wester zodiac" is...
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
Both the Western and Chinese zodiacs have twelve components, but the Chinese is more faithful to the "zo-" (= "animal") component, because the Western one includes four human (or human-animal hybrids) and one inanimate object but only seven actual animals.
Well, it's not an exact science
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Sadly, a web search for "how to deal with weasels" does not return results related to the kind of weasel to which I am referring.
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@jinpa said in Random Thought of the Day:
Sadly, a web search for "how to deal with weasels" does not return results related to the kind of weasel to which I am referring.
The death stare is worth it, though:
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What if the reason Netflix has the skip intro/skip credits feature is really to save ~3 minutes of bandwidth per show per viewing, and not “for the convenience of the user”?
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Given how they encourage binge watching, I don't think they really care about 3 minutes of bandwidth.
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
What if the reason Netflix has the skip intro/skip credits feature is really to save ~3 minutes of bandwidth per show per viewing, and not “for the convenience of the user”?
The user benefits either way. Especially if they have a slow connection or a download cap.
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@Zerosquare said in Random Thought of the Day:
Given the encourage binge watching, I don't think they really care about 3 minutes of bandwidth.
Fair. It just occurred to me that it didn’t entirely feel 100% for the user and that was the obvious angle that came to mind.
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I wonder if Musk has ever been here?
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@jinpa doubtful, we’re not “smart enough” for him.
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@Arantor Yes, we're not "smart enough" to worship the ground he believes he hovers over by sheer force of intellectual prowess.
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@dkf but everything’s relative. Others would suggest we’re too smart for that.
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If modern-day birds are essentially upgraded dinosaurs, and all birds are immune to the taste receptor for chili-spicy food, could a velociraptor down a bushel of carolina reapers without feeling any ill effects?
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
If modern-day birds are essentially upgraded dinosaurs, and all birds are immune to the taste receptor for chili-spicy food, could a velociraptor down a bushel of carolina reapers without feeling any ill effects?
I think we need science to answer this one.
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@DogsB said in Random Thought of the Day:
I think we need science to answer this one.
Since the normal diet of velociraptors was meat (either directly killed or scavenged), it's likely that a bushel of vegetable matter would cause some intestinal effects. Especially as that's quite a large quantity (64 statute pints) for a beast of that size.
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@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
@DogsB said in Random Thought of the Day:
I think we need science to answer this one.
Since the normal diet of velociraptors was meat (either directly killed or scavenged), it's likely that a bushel of vegetable matter would cause some intestinal effects. Especially as that's quite a large quantity (64 statute pints) for a beast of that size.
I meant we need to make Jurassic park real.
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@da-Doctah You could try to do an experiment with modern-day birds (e.g. chicken), and scale the amount of peppers correspondingly.
After the experiment, you can grill the chicken, and enjoy a hot meal.
But beware of PETA!
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@DogsB said in Random Thought of the Day:
@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
@DogsB said in Random Thought of the Day:
I think we need science to answer this one.
Since the normal diet of velociraptors was meat (either directly killed or scavenged), it's likely that a bushel of vegetable matter would cause some intestinal effects. Especially as that's quite a large quantity (64 statute pints) for a beast of that size.
I meant we need to make Jurassic park real.
Bad ideas threads are , and that's bad enough to go in both of them.
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@topspin I looked up the definition of a bushel because I needed something to do to stave off the boredom while waiting for the meeting to start...
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@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
stave off the boredom while waiting for the meeting to start...
As opposed to the boredom after the meeting starts.
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@topspin said in Random Thought of the Day:
@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
quite a large quantity (64 statute pints)
The freedom unit for length is not feet or miles. It's handegg pitches or Manhattans.
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@PleegWat said in Random Thought of the Day:
@topspin said in Random Thought of the Day:
@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
quite a large quantity (64 statute pints)
or Manhattans.
Only in L1 metric.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random Thought of the Day:
@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
stave off the boredom while waiting for the meeting to start...
As opposed to the boredom after the meeting starts.
That's what we're for.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random Thought of the Day:
@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
stave off the boredom while waiting for the meeting to start...
As opposed to the boredom after the meeting starts.
Not in this case. One-on-one meetings don't give much chance of that.
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@PleegWat said in Random Thought of the Day:
The freedom unit for length is not feet or miles. It's handegg pitches or Manhattans.
Given that the unit for time is the Mississippi, what are the units of mass, temperature (Montana?), electric current, quantity and light (Mojave?)?
All together, those would make the
SMuh freedomI of units.
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@topspin said in Random Thought of the Day:
@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
quite a large quantity (64 statute pints)
The software feature of those 6 to 7 washing machines causing a sinkhole could be an interesting thread in the .
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A month or two ago, I ordered a pizza online for pickup, and as I drove to the store I pondered calling them to ask if they might be able to cut it into six pieces instead of eight so I could more fairly separate it into three servings. When I got there it seems that instead of a knife or "pizza wheel" this store used a big metal ring to slice the whole pie at once, so that wasn't feasible.
It did, however, set me to wondering about ways of slicing a circular pizza into unconventional numbers of slices, and in particular if a similar ring with an inscribed pentagram might produce eleven slices of even approximately equal size. Well, last week, my geometry chops being severely rust, I asked a friend to see what he could do with the problem.
Today he brought me a precis of a paper that worked out the geometry, about a page and two thirds including diagrams and a lot of stuff about the golden ratio that, while not strictly necessary, made the reading a bit more compelling. To shorten it still further:
You'd get five triangular pieces corresponding to the points of the pentagram, five more forming shallow wedges of the outer circumference of the star, and one pentagonal piece in the center. Only the shallow wedges would provide any of the outer crust. Each of the triangles would amount to about 4.94% of the whole pizza, the shallow wedges 12.85% each, and the pentagon about 11.04%
So, not all that fair, but if you're going to buy pizza for your next Black Mass, you might still want to consider it.
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
It did, however, set me to wondering about ways of slicing a circular pizza into unconventional numbers of slices
I have reputation amongst my family for cutting cakes into stupid numbers of slices, like 7 or 13.
It’s not that hard, really, I just start with a cut from the centre and then do one of the approximately-opposite cuts, and continue with halves or almost-halves as appropriate to even out the error(s).
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@kazitor said in Random Thought of the Day:
I have reputation amongst my family for cutting cakes into stupid numbers of slices, like 7 or 13.
Must be prime cake then.
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@nerd4sale
This joke is terrible, I can not even
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@kazitor said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
It did, however, set me to wondering about ways of slicing a circular pizza into unconventional numbers of slices
I have reputation amongst my family for cutting cakes into stupid numbers of slices, like 7 or 13.
It’s not that hard, really, I just start with a cut from the centre and then do one of the approximately-opposite cuts, and continue with halves or almost-halves as appropriate to even out the error(s).
Even if you bother cutting into 7 pieces for 7 guests, it will invariably turn out one of them doesn't feel like having cake. Or they only want half a slice because they want to keep room for dinner. Or any of a number of other reasons.
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@PleegWat said in Random Thought of the Day:
Even if you bother cutting into 7 pieces for 7 guests, it will invariably turn out one of them doesn't feel like having cake. Or they only want half a slice because they want to keep room for dinner. Or any of a number of other reasons.
By the time you have that many people, you'll inevitably have someone who doesn't mind having that extra half piece of cake.
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@dkf Also, rather than having one full cake, you may be having two halves with different flavours, at which point you should plan such that even the last person has some choice of which flavour they want.
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@Applied-Mediocrity poor Milton.
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
It did, however, set me to wondering about ways of slicing a circular pizza into unconventional numbers of slices
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@Zerosquare
Looks more like a way to summon a pizza devil
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
It did, however, set me to wondering about ways of slicing a circular pizza into unconventional numbers of slices
The most important factor is usually whether you can get all the slices to have the same amount of pepperoni.
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@PleegWat said in Random Thought of the Day:
it will invariably turn out one of them doesn't feel like having cake
(damn diabetes...)
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@Luhmann said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Zerosquare
Looks more like a way to summon a pizza devilIn other words, that's how you cut a pineapple pizza?
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@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
It did, however, set me to wondering about ways of slicing a circular pizza into unconventional numbers of slices
The most important factor is usually whether you can get all the slices to have the same amount of pepperoni.
That's easily solved by stealing from the other slices. Oh that one has none now? Not my problem, my slice is full!
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@dkf said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
It did, however, set me to wondering about ways of slicing a circular pizza into unconventional numbers of slices
The most important factor is usually whether you can get all the slices to have the same amount of pepperoni.
That's easy for me. I don't order Pepperoni.
(Random meta-thought: why does my keyboard think Pepperoni should be capitalized?)
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When somebody is running along side the peloton in the Tour de France and causes a big wipeout, did he get bikkaked?
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What do we know about the love life of Danish king Harald Bluetooth?
Was it bluetoothy (e.g. paired but not connected)?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random Thought of the Day:
What do we know about the love life of Danish king Harald Bluetooth?
Was it bluetoothy (e.g. paired but not connected)?You should be ashamed of yourself.
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@DogsB No.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random Thought of the Day:
What do we know about the love life of Danish king Harald Bluetooth?
Was it bluetoothy (e.g. paired but not connected)?Based on the info from Wikipedia, it is possible. Children are proof of connection, but their absence is not proof of a failure to connect. He had three wives, Gunhild, Thora and Gyrid and four children. Gunhild definitely bore him one or more children. But it is unclear from the Wikipedia articles who the mother was of the others.
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Bing AI is not without its charm