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Unironically good and useful graph. Platystemon posted:AMD’s processors sucked a lot more in 2014 so they had more room to improve? Well 86 is bigger than 64 so clearly it's better.
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mobby_6kl posted:Holy poo poo I just found another one in yospos: I can't get over the headwind and tailwind. It feels so weirdly redundant and ... desperate?
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 15:35 |
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Christo posted:My god. It's like he started on a "college is like a bike" analogy and forgot how to stop. He couldn't stop if he wanted to, the brake levers aren't attached to the wheels.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 15:57 |
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Although the trilby of neckbeardism should be more towards libertarianism.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 17:33 |
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MrUnderbridge posted:Although the trilby of neckbeardism should be more towards libertarianism. That's the trilby of Southparkian centrism
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 18:01 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That's the trilby of Southparkian centrism I can never keep up. So is a real fedora worse or better than the trilby? And where does the katana knock-off lie on the graph? Will this be on the test?
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 18:06 |
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https://twitter.com/guyabelguyabel/status/733047889006579713
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 19:36 |
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MrUnderbridge posted:I can never keep up. From what I understand, the hat most nerds call a fedora is actually a trilby. This leads to an ever lower subclass of neckbeard who goes around mocking all the ignorant trilby-headed fools for getting it wrong.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 19:45 |
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I'm pretty sure a Guy Fawkes mask, wearing a MrUnderbridge posted:So is a real fedora worse or better than the trilby? A trilby is a fedora with an extra layer of "um, actually, it's not a fedora, it's a trilby "
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 20:16 |
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dijon du jour posted:A trilby is a fedora with an extra layer of "um, actually, it's not a fedora, it's a trilby " I adore the thought precess behind this, "surely the solution is to wear a slightly different piece of pretentious headgear. Brilliant!"
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 20:30 |
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dijon du jour posted:I'm pretty sure a Guy Fawkes mask, wearing a Don't forget to sling the Pork Pie in there too.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 20:35 |
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And weren't the puritans pretty far from libertarian? "A witch? Yeah, well, that's just her thing, you know? Live and let live, I always sayeth!"
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 20:39 |
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MrUnderbridge posted:And weren't the puritans pretty far from libertarian? Yeah if anything the puritans were pretty high on the authoritarian scale. Although there's also evidence that they didn't actually wear those belt-buckle hats so maybe it just means that people who dress up as puritans at renaissance fairs are centrist-libertarian.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 20:44 |
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MrUnderbridge posted:And weren't the puritans pretty far from libertarian? Popular myth holds that the Puritans who settled in New England were motivated by a desire for personal religious freedom and liberty. A shockingly large number of people still take this at a literal truth, rather than the rosy apocrypha it actually is. poo poo, people in the US still struggle with the idea that Columbus was anything less than a kickin' rad dude who discovered all the things and paved they way for our great nation!
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 20:47 |
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Is that a tricorner hat? While it's a bit of a mess, it isn't too bad I guess.
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# ? Jun 14, 2016 15:37 |
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Platystemon posted:
I don't see anything wrong with this.
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# ? Jun 14, 2016 16:53 |
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HardDisk posted:Is that a tricorner hat?
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# ? Jun 14, 2016 19:57 |
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Rebel Blob posted:You know, the Tea Party set. Hur hur, he's teabagging himself.
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# ? Jun 18, 2016 14:59 |
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1 Month
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:33 |
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How do you generate negative energy? Or is that from a norm? V: durr, it says it right there. Outrail has a new favorite as of 23:13 on Jun 27, 2016 |
# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:52 |
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M kWh, seriously? Have these people heard of MWh or GWh? That graph is all sorts of dumb, but that is really irksome. Outrail posted:How do you generate negative energy? Or is that from a norm? It's showing the monthly deviation from the monthly average calculated over a year.
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 22:53 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:M kWh, seriously? Watt‐hours are dumb, full stop. Why use a unit of power, energy ÷ time, when you’re just going to multiply it by time immediately and cancel out the time unit? That is a rhetorical question.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 02:29 |
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Platystemon posted:Watt‐hours are dumb, full stop. Why use a unit of power, energy ÷ time, when you’re just going to multiply it by time immediately and cancel out the time unit? Because it *doesn't* cancel it out? It's not Watt per hour (W/h) but Watt hours (Wh) which is a different metric. W/h measures change in power over time. Wh is energy as the product of time and the power consumed for work. It can be converted directly to Joules (1 W = 1 J/s; 1kWh = 3.6 MJ) Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 04:32 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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flosofl posted:I know you meant it as rhetorical but...
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 05:03 |
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flosofl posted:Because it *doesn't* cancel it out? It's not Watt per hour (W/h) but Watt hours (Wh) which is a different metric. W/h measures change in power over time. Wh is energy as the product of time and the power consumed for work. It can be converted directly to Joules (1 W = 1 J/s; 1kWh = 3.6 MJ) watt = joule∕second hour = 3600 seconds W × hr = J∕s × 3600 s = 3600 J That’s what I mean by the time units cancelling. Yes, you have to express one hour in terms of seconds to do the algebra. It’s like if said I travelled 450 mph‐seconds. Why not just say I travelled 660 feet (= 1 furlong = 10 chains)? My speedometer reads in mph and my watch reads in seconds, so it’s convenient (which is why watt‐hours exist), but it’s still silly to state it like that. Now for the next mystery, why do metric tonnes exist when “megagram” is the same quantity under a better name? But I tire of this discussion, and if that’s true for me it’s trebly true for everyone else, so here’s an awful graph: source Technically competent, but in the service of a terrible premise. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 05:40 on Jun 28, 2016 |
# ? Jun 28, 2016 05:06 |
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Platystemon posted:
Looks like a perfectly adequate graph of an important subject.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 05:27 |
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Platystemon posted:Watt‐hours are dumb, full stop. Why use a unit of power, energy ÷ time, when you’re just going to multiply it by time immediately and cancel out the time unit? Convenience mostly. And now everything is already built around those units. It'll never go away. Just like the grid's archaic infrastructure. TotalLossBrain has a new favorite as of 06:02 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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I'm remembering a scifi book I read when I was little, where the currency was kilowatt-hours, pronounced "kwahers". They also used BTUs as a smaller currency, but unfortunately I'm pretty sure that wasn't pronounced "butts".
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 06:51 |
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Behtues?
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 07:09 |
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Platystemon posted:Now for the next mystery, why do metric tonnes exist when “megagram” is the same quantity under a better name? how did this name never enter my mind. I'm so used to kilo, milli, micro, nano etc grams but have never thought of them in the other direction for some reason. Force of habit I guess
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Zemyla posted:I'm remembering a scifi book I read when I was little, where the currency was kilowatt-hours, pronounced "kwahers". They also used BTUs as a smaller currency, but unfortunately I'm pretty sure that wasn't pronounced "butts". Did anyone say "Buttcoins"? Oh, different thread...
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 16:36 |
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Fathis Munk posted:how did this name never enter my mind. "kilo" is going the other direction?
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 17:53 |
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So should I call up my electric utility and demand they change my billing unit of measure from kWh to joules?
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 18:12 |
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CharlieWhiskey posted:So should I call up my electric utility and demand they change my billing unit of measure from kWh to joules? No, because then they'll charge you the same price per joule that they were per kWh.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 18:17 |
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Here is a stupid one that showed up on social media. I know it says click for answers but all that was posted was the photo so that didn't work...
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 18:37 |
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Useless chart, brilliant advertising
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 18:45 |
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Gun advocate goatse
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 22:15 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:"kilo" is going the other direction? The SI unit is the kiliogram, so technically starting with kilo, taking the prefix off for "gram", then milli and so on is all in the same direction.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 22:30 |
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SiKboy posted:The SI unit is the kiliogram, so technically starting with kilo, taking the prefix off for "gram", then milli and so on is all in the same direction. True though I just meant I never ventures beyond kilo, rather delved into the micro and nano direction. Even kg are already a rare encounter while working in a biology lab
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Fathis Munk posted:True though I just meant I never ventures beyond kilo, rather delved into the micro and nano direction. Even kg are already a rare encounter while working in a biology lab Hey Fathis Munk, how much ($) for a kilogram of restriction enzymes?
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