niktemadur

joined 2 years ago
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

On his way to a remote New England lighthouse.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

It's an empanada.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Then it sounds like the term "trivial" is subjective, which feels kinda icky in math. Worse, it sounds as if the "dear reader" is supposed to figure out what the author or lecturer means by "trivial" in each case; sure, there is context involved, but still... icky.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

In physics, two terms that I often seem to notice together are "trivial" and "local". Local is easy to define clearly: within the speed of light/causality. Trivial seems like a vaguer term.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Betcha this guy's a hit at all the parties and with all the ladies.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Last time I went to my cellphone carrier offices to upgrade my hardware, they were already pushing the iPhone 15 or 16, but I went in there and asked for the iPhone 10, managed to get the very last one they had in stock. It cost a fraction of what the latest ones did, does everything I need it to do, and a couple of years later it's still purring like a kitten.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

This book club is more like a book cult.
A cult in which they're not even interested in reading the book, god forbid they should sprain the lump of white fat between their ears; instead they bang everyone on the head with their impenetrable goddamned book, constantly inciting moral panic, we tell you what and how to think and give us your MONEY, we are closer to god than you and god needs MONEY!!!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You might need a murder of crows for that one.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where's the shaman?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I ain't gonna play Sun City!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Arguably, there's a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn't seem like one.

Wanna bet that whoever latches onto the image to jam their lazy uninformed truthiness (as Stephen Colbert coined the term) narrative into, uses the same kind of lazy uninformed truthiness narrative
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe MuH pURiTeH
to not vote and empower the goose-stepping fascist goons into the federal government and into their communities.

 

Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.

 

If the answer is YES, a related follow-up question: if each visible color of the spectrum were to measure a centimeter in width, how far would I have to move the sensor from the red to detect the change from infrared to microwave, then to radio?

In the knowledge that Sir William Herschel discovered infrared by repeating Newton's experiment, but with a thermometer to measure the temperature of each component of the spectrum, and after placing the thermometer a bit to the side of the red light, in darkness, noticed quite by accident that the device would still register heat, therefore an invisible yet very real component of light was there, warming the thermometer.

 

Now I'm just being the curious layman here, but a Google/YouTube search proved fruitless.

 

It's one of those pet peeves that rub me the wrong way, and they all seem to do it, whether it's anywhere around The Ringer network, or the Earwolf network, or the Blank Check podcast to name a few, they always say "Ray" instead of "Ralph".

The man's real full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, quite a fancy mouthful, but not even a hint of "Ray" or "Raymond" in there. Did everyone in the podcasting world decide to pronounce his name wrong on purpose?

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