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  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMath
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    My favorite reference for what youve just described is 3blue1browns Binary, Hanoi, and sierpinski which is both fascinating and super acessable for the average non-nerd.

    The pressing point is that this recursive method of counting isn’t just a good way of doing it, but basically the most efficient way that it can be done. There are no simpler or more efficient ways of counting.

    This allows the same ‘steps’ to show up in other unexpected areas that ask questions about the most efficient process to do a thing. This allows you to map the same binary counting pattern across both infinite paths of fractal geometry with sierpinskis arrowhead curve and solve logic problems like towers of Hanoi stacking. Its wild to think that on some abstract level these are all more or less equal processes.



  • That would require being able to grow a somewhat light textile plant such as linen or cotton or jute. If Canadian growing seasons are anything like I imagine they are, that idea is more or less a nonstarter because all those need a warmer zone climate enviroment. So you’re left with the dense heavy textile that comes from shearing farm animal wools for clothing making. In modern times you can theoretically grow textile indica hemp with cold resistance and short growing cycles, then process it into a softer and somewhat light clothing through making yarn but that may not br part of native indigenous Canadian culture.


  • I’m like 60% sure during the height of subway in mid-2000s-early 2010s the subway commercials actually did advertise the foot long as being 12 inch sub’s for 5$ (goddamn the 5$ foot long ads were catchy). However unlike real measurements that have defined standards, as subway enshitified they weren’t forced to change naming as they slowly shrank the sandwiches. Of course this is long enough ago that an entire generation doesnt know who Jared was so its okay to assume it was never a real foot long.




  • I volunteer as developer for a decade old open source project. A sizable amount of my contribution is just cooking up decent documentation or re-writting old doc from the original module authors written close to a decade ago because it failed me information wise when I needed it. Programmers as it turns out are very ‘eh, the code should explain itself to anyone with enough brains to look at it’ type of people so lost in the sauce of being hyperfluent tech nerds instantly understanding all variables, functions, parameters, and syntax at very first glance at source code, that they forgot the need for re-translation into regular human speak for people of varying intelligence/skill levels who can barely navigate the command line.



  • The real answer is that the techie nerds willing to learn git and contribute to open source projects are likely to be hobbyist programmers cutting their teeth on bugfixes/minor feature enhancements and not professional programmer-designers with an eye for UI and the ability to make it/talk with those who can. Also in open source projects its expected that the contributor be able to pull their own weight with getting shit done so you need to both know how to write your own code and learn how to work with specific UI formspecs. Delegating to other people is frowned upon because its all free voulenteer work so whatever you delegate ends up eating up someone elses free time and energy fixing up your pr.




  • Honestly I feel like we may have spoken before about it! I remember talking to someone a few months ago here on lemmy about how they loved hitting the orb without the mouthpiece while vaping which inspired me to try it out. For sure got some nice airflow that way thanks for the suggestion helps mix things up :)

    I had the smoked 18mm v1 without the base but it dropped and broke pretty quick. Thats the one thing about the orbs no matter who you buy from they all seem to be the same cheap thin china glass that will shatter easy. But dammit its cheap enough and I love the fourm factor, so decided to get the clear 14mm v3 with that proper glass base next. The joints being smaller isn’t that noticable airflow wise all my vapes are 14mm so its nice to not fuck around with an extra 18/14mm conversion slider. My only fustration is no ice catcher and crushing up ice to pour in is a bitch, need to figure something out.


  • That lantern design is pretty rad visually NGL! Sweet water pipe, if you pick it up hope you enjoy the hell out of it. Good luck cleaning though especially if tar gets crusted in or around under that flame.

    Im more of a scientific glass person. I have a soft spot for fumed/uv reactive glass and honeycomb bubbles though. Instead my ideal pieces to be easily visibly inspectable for gunk, easily cleaned to be absolutely flavor neutral, and functional with the ability to swap mouthpieces/hoses or do multiple sliders/vapes at once per hit. The Orb/globe is pretty much my ideal form factor, you cant get much easier to clean than a sphere with some glass joints and a perc.


  • I imagine they sit mostly as art display pieces on a table somewhere, only to be busted out once in a while for special occasions. Probably gets shelved about the time the honeymoon period wears off and the buyer realizes how much of a bitch it is to clean nasty tar out of complicated glass with intricate inside areas no brush can reach.

    Every decent glass shop has a few of them, overly intricate artsy pieces with pop culture reference/decorative symbology or fumed/uv activated glass that cost many thousands of dollars. Just to do what a cheap china glass scientific bong or dab rig with a perc can. They tend to sit for years especially when the economy aint doing hot. I guess every now and again someone with more money than sense falls in love with a piece of art and makes a down payment/has the play money. No accounting for taste.

    At least in a glass shop you can visibly inspect it and get the vibes of the object. If im paying 7k for a piece of glass (lol no) I damn well better be able to inspect it for imperfections, chips, cracks, ect.



  • Some of these employers think they’re hot shit and gaslight applicants into thinking this is an appropriate process that everyone should go through if they want to make ‘the big bucks’. “oh look at me im an industry giant megacorporation/private gov contracted defense sector/researcher academia/silicon valley tech! I can have my pick of the litter, just gotta make HR come up with a big enough maze for the rats run through to string out the weakest ones!”

    No you idiots, the job market is in the hands of the worker selling their labor. The interviewee is the one interviewing the companies, the interviewee should be the one to make companies sweat from the fear of passing on them, or your skills aren’t all that unique in terms of bargaining chips. If I have to spend more than five minutes applying through your dogshit website or if you even think about wasting my time with long interview stages+handwritten testing like im back in school then you can suck on my nuts and find someone dumb enough to bite because of the bait of a big paycheck. You think your little monkey money bonus and government contracts requiring clearances and working for a recognizable company name is enough for me degrading myself any more than usual with no gaurentee of actually being hired? Nah.



  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldUseful guide
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    9 days ago

    You shouldn’t be sorry, you didn’t do anything wrong content wise. If anything you helped the community by sparking a important conversation leading to better defined guidelines which I imagine will be updated if this becomes a common enough issue.



  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldIf it works, it works.
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    Thank you for the explanation! I never really watched the Olympics enough to see them firing guns. I would think all that high tech equipment counts as performance enhancement stuff which goes against the spirit of peak human based skill but maybe sports people who actually watch and run the Olympics think differently about external augmentations in some cases.

    Its really funny with the context of some dude just chilling and vibing while casually firing off world record level shots