cosecantphi

joined 5 years ago
[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, I know he loves me unconditionally. He's always been way more supportive of me about my drug addiction problems in the past than my mother was, so you win some you lose some.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what I did, but he changed the subject. He'll think about it and understand it eventually, he's a boomer with all the associated brainrot so I guess he needs it to be personal before he develops enough empathy to understand.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

Ahh! Well, I think that certainly counts! I'm sure he loves you very much!

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Damn, congratulations!!!

(i can interpret this comment in one of two ways: telling your partner you have a kid, or you found out your partner is pregnant)

But, uh, congrats either way!

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, gonna come out to my mom when she gets home from work later, but I already know she's ok with this, she's had the "it's ok to be gay" conversation with me before.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's good to know now.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the advice, I already switched to the tablets years ago after realizing they were like half the price lol. I was kinda upset my doc didn't bring that up with me himself because he knew I didn't have insurance and was paying the price for the meds out of pocket.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Thanks so much, comrade! That is so fucking helpful!!

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

thanks for the bump, comrade!

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

thanks for the bumps, comrade!

 

wtf, this is just Kaiji

Why did no one tell me this sooner? It's not just as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series, it's as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series that was actually good!

The next season looks like it's right around the corner, so I'm glad I've managed to avoid waiting a couple years in anticipation. Just hope the next games don't in any way involve a fucking pachlnko machine

 

They never come out anywhere near as good as a freshly made pizza at a pizzeria when I follow the box directions. I imagine some of that is a result of freezing the pizza, but I think the directions might be the bigger factor. So my plan is to try emulating the conditions of a proper pizza oven to the best of my ability by:

  • Thawing the pizza out before cooking
  • Preheating the oven to its hottest setting (500f) with a metal baking sheet inside it
  • Putting the pizza directly onto the hot sheet and closely monitoring until it looks done

This is still a very far cry from a pizza stone and an actual pizza oven, but I'm hoping it'll at least be somewhat closer to the real thing. Am I going in the right direction with this / do you have any better ideas?

 

This will be an annular eclipse, meaning the moon will be too distant from Earth to fully block out the sun. Instead, the moon will block out 90.7% of the sun's disk from the perspective of those along the path of greatest eclipse, the yellow path on the above map. The remaining 9.3% of the sun's disk will be visible around the moon in an annulus shape- a ring of non-zero thickness. Hence why it's called an annular eclipse.

Outside of the path of greatest eclipse, the vast majority of both American continents will see at least a partial eclipse. You can use the orange paths to estimate maximum solar obscuration from your area. The time of maximum eclipse is at 1:59pm EDT.

Remember not to ever look directly at the sun without proper eye protection, not even during an eclipse! In the absence of proper protection, the best way to observe the eclipse is to watch the shadows left on the ground by leaves on a tree. You'll see many small projections corresponding to the uncovered area of the sun. Along the path of greatest eclipse at the time of maximum obscuration, you'll see rings. Otherwise, you'll see crescents.

 

MOTHERFUCKER, THERE WERE ACTUAL FREED SLAVES STILL ALIVE WHEN YOU WERE BORN AND WELL INTO YOUR LATE TEENS

HOW IS YOUR SENSE OF TIME AND PERSPECTIVE SO FUCKED

 

The biggest argument I hear from American libs in favor of the concept is that the court system does not have enough resources to handle every case going to trial. I am absolutely dumbfounded liberals somehow aren't be able to see what a massive self-own that is. Maybe don't fucking arrest so many people that you literally have the largest prison population on Earth?

A guilty plea is supposed to be an admission of guilt, the purpose of which being to save the court time if the defendant wishes to come clean and accept the consequences. So how does it make even the smallest modicum of sense to take someone who does not wish to plead guilty and threaten them with a much harsher sentence if they don't?

Absent a trial, the prosecution doesn't even know yet with confidence whether or not the defendant committed the crime. It's plausible, extremely likely even, that the person they are threatening is actually innocent. Now the guilty plea is no longer an actual admission of guilt, but a means of self preservation if the defendant isn't hopeful about the odds of clearing their name.

 

Like shit, how the fuck is it the right of members of the jury to vote however they want when they aren't even allowed to be told of this right?

"If the evidence fits, you must convict!" What a fucking bullshit lie. That's literally not true. If the court can lie to you about your fucking right to not send people to prison for bullshit evil drug laws then you should be allowed to lie to them about not knowing what jury nullification is without perjuring yourself.

Regardless, if we found a way to make sure everyone knew about the right to jury nullification, then maybe we could somewhat mitigate some of the damage caused by the evil US correctional system. America delenda est.

 

At first I thought I'd follow along the MIT OCW 6.0001 course, but it's like eight years old and on a far outdated version of Python and Anaconda. When I tried to install the software as per the syllabus's instructions, I found the download links were dead. I had to spend a few hours going through archives to get the required Anaconda 4.1.1 and Python 3.5 only for it to not even work upon installing. When I tried opening the Anaconda navigator, the logo would pop up, it would say initializing, and then it would just crash before it could launch. Referring back to the syllabus was of no help because the instructions there were literally as brief as "Install Anaconda and Python 3.5 via the installer".

I wasn't able to troubleshoot any of this because all the google results for this question were full of jargon I sure as shit won't be able to understand until I finish the course in the first place. I have no idea what an IDE is, what a pip is, what a spyder is, what a path variable is, or why one would want to use the command prompt.

I was actually able to successfully install the newest versions, but I can't use these for the course because I'm an absolute beginner who has no frame of reference for what differences are actually going to be important.

Now I'm in the process of looking elsewhere. Problem is, I can't find anything like the MIT OCW course. I really loved the videos of actual lectures and the fact that I didn't have to enroll or sign in to anything. There exist a lot of Python tutorials on the internet, but I was hoping to also get an introduction to computer science in general because I need to learn the fundamentals of the subject. I'd like to have a deeper understanding than one would get by just learning a computer language without any of the theory behind it.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a more recent curriculum? Ideally I'd love it to have lecture videos, but I'll be content with just problem sets and a good textbook if it's up to date and has a robust step by step guide for setting up.

 

I'm not much of a tech person and I have no idea if my observations are worth anything, but from where I'm sitting it seems computer technology isn't advancing anywhere near as quickly as it was from the 80s to the early 2010s.

The original Moore's law is dead and has been for a very long time, but the less specific trend of rapidly increasing computational power doesn't seem to hold much water anymore either. The laptop I have now doesn't feel like much of an improvement on the laptop I had four years ago at a similar price point. And the laptop I had six years ago is really only marginally worse.

So for those in the know on the relevant industry, how are things looking in general? What is the expected roadmap for the next 10 to 20 years? Will we ever get to the point where a cheap notebook is capable of running today's most demanding games at the highest settings, 144fps, and 4k resolution? Sort of like how today's notebooks can run the most intensive games of the 90s/early 2000s.

 

Bonus question: How many names would one need to right down?

Real bad luck some chud hog like Light Yagami found the Death Note before anyone else did. By killing only criminals reported on in the news, he effectively made himself into a weapon of execution that could be freely wielded by the cops at almost entirely their own discretion. I wish the anime would have explored that idea a bit more, but I'll settle for the very pathetic way Light Yagami got caught by a 12 year old, threw a tantrum, and then died. That was unironically a great ending.

So say a communist found it instead. How much damage could this baby do to the global capitalist nightmare we live under?

 

Someone get the attention of the pope, this is very important information

 

I made a post a week ago thinking they weren't gonna send it, but it turns out it just took them a while! Thanks Hexbear for letting me know about this! I'll never doubt you again.

 

Got a rover to the Mun today and explored a few biomes. I think I've finally got the hang of doing stuff in Kerbin's sphere of influence, and am about ready to start sending stuff interplanetary! Anyone else been up to anything in the Kerbol solar system?

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