[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah Thinkpads are obviously a popular suggestion here. I'd check out System76 too (their cheapest stuff may or may not fit your definition of "cheap").

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/142205/presentation-of-the-monster-group mentions a presentation of the monster with 12 generators.

Creating a physical rotation puzzle that implements the monster group would be quite a task!

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

One thing that definitely feels like "magic" is Monstrous Moonshine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine) and stuff related to the j-invariant e.g. the fact that exp(pi*sqrt(163)) is so close to an integer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number#Almost_integers_and_Ramanujan.27s_constant). I hardly understand it at all but it seems mind-blowing to me, almost in a suspicious way.

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

So just like a citrus fruit intermediate between lemon and lime?

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

One time I ordered like a whole liter of silicone lube (to refill smaller containers from). I got this funny feeling from it being such a large amount of rare precious stuff, like it was a cask of fine whisky or something.

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I would guess that chemical effects would be diverse while "physical" effects would not be so diverse. Keep in mind that things like mesothelioma from asbestos are kinda sorta "physical" effects because it's from jagged roughness of the particles at the nanoscale rather than any specific chemistry.

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I have a pattern which really works for me where I wake up, brush my night guard and brush my teeth with no toothpaste and then eat breakfast. That way I don't have the horrible mint toothpaste / orange juice clash I'm sure many of you are familiar with.

Then at night I floss and brush with toothpaste, and put in the night guard.

I used to make myself floss only every other day (like if I didn't floss last night I MUST floss tonight), which I highly recommend rather than sporadic or no flossing. But I recently upped my game to "every night except special occasions".

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see in the Fediverse.

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit is Fun did this too... sigh

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Despite the common name of "yardlong", the pods are actually only about half a yard long, so the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one-and-a-half-foot-long; 1.5 feet (0.50 yd)) is a more accurate approximation.

[-] keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Unless someone makes some kind of migration tool perhaps...

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