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Guavanaut posted:I like how you can keep going up by orders but every time you find one that works, it loses a fundamental property of numbers, like quaternions are noncommutative and x·y isn't necessarily y·x, and octonions are also nonassociative so (x + y) + z isn't always x + (y + z) and eventually you just end up as things that don't work as numbers. And it's absolute madness that some of this has actual real world uses but :thatsengineering: Quaternions are great for computer games and anything that uses spatial movements like robot arms or such. As its less calculations, and you dont need to have multiple layers of reference xyz axis' and the nightmare trying to figure out what 1 degree movement is what on each of them.
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Unkempt posted:My favourite number is 142857. It's loving amazing and I have no idea how it does what it does. It's the first six digits of 1/7.
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Sep 18, 2021 14:12
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Bobby Deluxe posted:*Xeno nodding sagely* So you can never turn the oven off, got it. Absolute zero is somewhere between gas mark 1/67108864 and gas mark 1/134217728. Yeah like Kyle knows anything.
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Sep 18, 2021 14:13
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Ok time to continue the thread tradition of every now and then someone coming in and asking about broadband recommendations, are there any companies that are particularly good or poo poo these days. currently looking at fibre from one of bt, talktalk, plusnet and sky but it's been a while since i actually had to make decisions about internet
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Sep 18, 2021 14:14
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London-based MEATYGOONS. Any interest in coming over to my place in Barking in a few weeks (date yet undecided but probably a Saturday) for mass curry? In my spacious backyard weather permitting, if not, inside. If I get too much interest I'll have to winnow things down a bit because even though bae and I are doublestabbed I'm not looking to host a superspreader event or anything, but I figure the half dozen or so people I've had turn up for D&D before COVID stomped over everything (thinking of restarting some sort of game, btw, maybe Dark Heresy or something rather than literal D&D) should be a small enough risk. I suspect there's going to be an overlap between those two social groups in any case  There will be a not-too-spicy chicken korma or similar and a rather more spicy vegan something.
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Sep 18, 2021 14:14
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You have: 100 degC You want: gasmark Value '100 degC' is not in the function's range Oh wow the function to convert to gas mark takes temperature in RANKINE. 
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Antigravitas posted:
The computer has intuited something important about the universe, you're watching the lovely singularity happen. From now on, water freezes at -8.64 gas marks. You're lucky I'm not a King.
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Sep 18, 2021 14:23
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To do imperial units, don't you need an actual empire?
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Sep 18, 2021 14:26
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happyhippy posted:Quaternions are great for computer games and anything that uses spatial movements like robot arms or such. The bridge where Hamilton had the eureka moment about quaternions and then carved the equation on the bridge is right by my house, there's a lil plaque there that I see when I take my dog for a walk. The concept is actually fairly intuitive, but then you read through the wiki and apparently quaternions are now considered a little cumbersome and unnecessary? Idk
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CommieGIR posted:To do imperial units, don't you need an actual empire? Why do you think we went to war to keep hold of the Falklands?
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Sep 18, 2021 14:34
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Absolute zero is somewhere between gas mark 1/67108864 and gas mark 1/134217728. Gas Mark Zero has been theorized by our nation's foremost oven experts. It's a temperature below so-called "Absolute Zero" at which matter moves so slowly it starts going backwards in both space and time.
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sebzilla posted:Gas Mark Zero has been theorized by our nation's foremost oven experts. It's a temperature below so-called "Absolute Zero" at which matter moves so slowly it starts going backwards in both space and time. Whatever Dark Energy is, it's not stable, it's accelerating the expansion of the universe, and some physicists theorise that it may reverse one day, leading to a Big Crunch. That would be Gas Mark Zero.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Absolute zero is somewhere between gas mark 1/67108864 and gas mark 1/134217728.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:More importantly, is there really any difference between gas mark 1/67108864 and 1/671088639R Are you calculating it while sitting on a plane taking off on a treadmill that's running in the opposite direction?
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Sep 18, 2021 14:52
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feedmegin posted:There will be a not-too-spicy chicken korma or similar and a rather more spicy vegan something. I've eaten feedme's cookings before and can vouch that I didn't die, 5/5 would not-die-horribly again
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Sep 18, 2021 14:56
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Failed Imagineer posted:The bridge where Hamilton had the eureka moment about quaternions and then carved the equation on the bridge is right by my house, there's a lil plaque there that I see when I take my dog for a walk. The concept is actually fairly intuitive, but then you read through the wiki and apparently quaternions are now considered a little cumbersome and unnecessary? Idk
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Sep 18, 2021 15:03
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goddamnedtwisto posted:No, that would be ridiculous. ah yes, and we all know that famous line: "Gas Mark 3/16 says 'I just cooked your rear end'"
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Sep 18, 2021 15:09
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The guardian have finally got themselves a non-insane columnist. https://twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1439159220197335041?s=19
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Sep 18, 2021 15:15
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His Divine Shadow posted:So this is why americans always bitch about eco modes and the like, while water and energy saving dishwashers have always performed really well in my experience. They just get lovely products to chose from. Yes I genuinely think there's something to this. I used to run my Neff dishwasher in the UK on the eco mode and it was fine. Bear in mind I used to work (and probably will again) as a product designer, there's a lot of loving terrible product design out there. I bought a measuring jug here and ended up throwing it in the loving bin because it was so ludicrously bad at pouring anything cleanly. Some designer and/or product tester out there designed/made this thing, tried pouring water from it, it went absolutely everywhere, and they shrugged and said "ah gently caress it, people will only discover that once they get it home". Don't by anything made by "Fire King". Apparently this is like Pyrex, in that it *used* to be made of borosilicate glass (very tough, also resistant to shocks of going from high-temp to low and vice versa) and is now just made of regular soda glass, because it's cheaper (but worse for its application), and ALSO the design is terrible. Fireking useless.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The guardian have finally got themselves a non-insane columnist. Well, they need to replace this crushing loss: https://twitter.com/aarjanistan/status/1439150379703410692 For reference, behold Corbyn “raging”: https://twitter.com/bareleft/status/1439163889267134464
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Sep 18, 2021 15:28
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I wish reading Freedland left me that sedate tbh
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Sep 18, 2021 15:34
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She really can't see that the reason people are mad about these issues is because they're affected by them. It's not so easy to have a calm, polite discussion about politics when one side is at material risk of loss, and the other side is asking them to lie down and take it because their resistance is mildly inconveniencing them.
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Sep 18, 2021 15:36
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"I've decided to leave my career of aggro opinion writing because too many people were aggro tweeting to me in response" is an incredible way to tell on yourself.
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Sep 18, 2021 16:00
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Has-beenley Freeman
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Hadgig Freelance
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I'm honestly surprised that was the direction she went with her final column. Thought she'd go for a transphobic screed like so often. Ah well, excited to see her turn up in The Spectator or Telegraph screaming about having been cancelled, just like Suzanne Moore.
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Sep 18, 2021 16:09
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"I used to love giving people my opinion, until I found out other people could give me their opinion, and then it became unbearable. I see no problem with this."
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Thank goodness for brexit. It was so worth it to get near-black passports and crown marks on pint glasses: Heil pulling no punches:  source: heil/news/article-10003883/UK-faces-crippled-perfect-storm-Covid-Brexit-soaring-gas-prices.html
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It's funny because the one thing about the press's treatment of Corbyn is how notably they politely disagreed with his policy stance and didn't treat him like a bad person 
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greenwich council is waging a war against antisocial behaviour, such as caffeine abuse https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1439269610436562947?s=19
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Welcome 2 my december-september ten month firework throwing extravaganza I guess.
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Sep 18, 2021 18:32
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It's always a great look when my first thought was "those remind me of the nazi stickers" (cw: nazi stickers)
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The "or are likely to commit" bit is especially :chefkiss:
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XMNN posted:greenwich council is waging a war against antisocial behaviour, such as caffeine abuse This is (unsurprisingly) yet another tool of gentrification. PSPOs (and come on you can't expect them *not* to call them pisspots or pisspoors) have been used this exact way around Brick Lane and Spitalfields as a weapon to force the local rough sleeper population (quite large because of the big Sally Army hostel, a couple of other facilities and the homeless medical centre) completely off the streets even if they're *not* doing anything on the forbidden list, because the Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (what happens when you give a traffic warden the power to harass people) hassle them constantly. I'm assuming that this is aimed squarely at the residents of the little council estate just next to the river - ridiculously prime real estate of course, but the inhabitants look far too poor to be allowed to enjoy this bit of the river, sandwiched between the Cutty Sark and the brand new shitboxes next to Deptford Creek, and I'm assuming it's just an excuse for anyone wearing tracksuit bottoms or dark skin to be driven away when the shiny-suiters are cycling from the foot tunnel to their million-quid bedsits.
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Sep 18, 2021 18:46
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It's all academic when you realise you cook everything at gas mark 6 for 25 minutes.
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Sep 18, 2021 19:04
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Your mask's slipping Priti.
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XMNN posted:greenwich council is waging a war against antisocial behaviour, such as caffeine abuse bottom inspectors are becoming a reality
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Sep 18, 2021 20:09
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Tbf I'm always nervy using a cash point if someone's hanging around by it. Weird that fireworks are specifically disallowed during peak firework display season. 
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Sep 18, 2021 20:50
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Bloody good eyesight to spot a PIN number from 10 meters away though.
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Dominic Raab said ‘I don’t support the Human Rights Act’ ahead of being put in charge of overhaulquote:Back in 2009, he said: “I don’t support the Human Rights Act and I don’t believe in economic and social rights,” the clip unearthed by Labour shows. We are really heading down a very dark timeline, aren't we?... Maybe Raab doesn't have compromising material on Boris, he just happens to be fascist enough to do what Boris thinks is needed?
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