33 arty, wow. Still hitting logistics hard too, by the look.

Just need to get AI on that.

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damn

Among other issues that’s going to make it harder for them to do other stuff.

goes down with distance by an exponential factor
(1/x^3)

Umm… those two things are not equivalent. b^(-x) would be exponential, x^(-k) is inverse-power for whatever k

Its showing for me

It has been a pretty short trip from “Don’t be evil” to “The cutting edge of late stage capitalism”

Then delete and start over, or don’t use data you don’t have explicit permission to use. in the first place.

It’s like a thief saying “well, I already fenced most of the stuff so it’s too hard to give any of it back. So let’s just call it quits, eh?”

or bloody universal healthcare

I guess it depends on where you live. It’s not true of the whole world.

Waiting for 100% oral exams to make a comeback.

The headline’s confusing. If a losing bet is backfiring, does that mean it’s now a winning bet?

Well, that’s something I hadn’t seen before.

It’s not the word “lighter” that’s the issue, it’s the word “less”. If I say something weighs 80% less, … you know how much that is. 100% less, it weighs even less – nothing at all. 500% less (i.e. 5 times less), suddenly it weighs more?

Neither, though I do watch a bit of Matt Parker on youtube, so it’s a decent guess.

“one fifth the mass” is not the same thing as “five times lighter”

Consider something that weighs half as much. It’s 50% lighter … 0.5 times lighter. Something that weighs 0.2 times as much has 20% of the weight, and is 80% lighter. If it weighed 1% as much, it would be 99% lighter (0.99 times lighter). If it was 100% lighter … it would weigh nothing. Five times lighter would be -4 times the original mass.

We already have accurate and precise ways to describe less mass (albeit leaving aside for the moment the distinction between mass and weight). It’s no harder to say “one fifth” than “five times”, but only one is correctly describing what is going on.

I expect a lot more authors will go this (crowdfunding) route; if Kelsey Dionne can get over $1.3 million for a fairly niche TTRPG product (albeit that it was a very well done example of its particular niche), publishing straight up fiction books via crowdfunding has to look pretty damn attractive.

(edit: added a missing word)

What, too soon?

heard that one earlier today …

Because of the Norman invasion. 1066 and all that. (edit: specifically, after a time the peasants spoke English and looked after the animals, the nobility spoke french and named the food, so we got the English words for the animals and the French words for most of the farm animals were used for the food made from them)

I’m not completely off reddit yet (reduced interaction but still disentangling from it, it’ll probably take a little while yet to be completely gone), but I made the account I have there now in August 2008, just shy of 15 years ago. I lurked for a good while before making that account though. (edit: > 150K comment karma, most participation on low volume subs)