Pat @Pat@qoto.org

Also...

TFW = that feeling when

UI = user interface
UX = user expereience

@freemo

Oh, I see. It's a UI bug.

UI = user interface

@freemo

Since when are polls here multiple choice? When I make a selection it only allows one choice; if I try to select another radio button, all other selections are unset. And there is no provision when creating a poll to make it anything other than a single choice poll.

@freemo

>"33%
Borderline personality disorder
94%
Narcissistic personality disorder
24%
Paranoid personality disorder
29%
Histrionic personality disorder"<

180 percent?

That vote count makes since, I suppose -- that's how he would want it counted.

#masks #USA #respirators #covid19 #N95 #vax

CDC has published their new guidance for respirators for the public. It's 2707 words long and nearly incomprehensible.

Here's a summary:

"If you don't want to get infected or die from COVID-19, wear a properly fitted N95 or better respirator. Otherwise wear a cloth mask."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html

#masks #USA #respirators #covid19 #N95 #vax

More details on the release of N95 respirators from the Strategic National Stockpile. They will be made available for free to all adults at the same locations that the vaccines are given, per wapo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/19/free-n95-masks/

@ducheng

Which jurisdiction is this comment directed at?

@mc

"The average person has one breast and one testicle."

-- attributed to various people in later 20th century,

@johnabs

Only grading some them randomly seems lazy and not conducive to learning (how do you know if/what you got wrong?)

Regarding the 57 hard questions, you said he won't grade them but you'll get 0 if you don't do them (I assume 0 for the course). So just "do" them. You don't have to worry about getting them right. Just make it look like you tried. You can get them all wrong and it won't matter. From the sound of it, I doubt if the prof will even look at them, they will just check off the assignment as being "done".

If you want to actually learn the material, you can always go back later and look them over and study them at your leisure.

#TruthBeTold
#volcano #lava #geology #science #radioactive #isotope

The truth is...

The heat from lava is mostly from radioactivity.

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

clips from "The Blob" (1958), courtesy Sony Pictures Television via fair use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPcENicggBA

@mc

I almost responded. (and now I am :)

It seemed apparent that it was overflowing a limit there, but it wasn't reporting the error properly.

I'm not really familiar with julia. I assume "big" means it can handle a larger number of significant digits.

I think I understand the metaphor, too. Not sure. But please don't explain it. -- there is nothing worse than trying to explain a joke.

(Nobody gets my jokes either.)

@Acer

Wonderful toot! Fantastic!

Thank you.

@johnabs

I'm confused. You said, "...57 difficult homework questions in a week that he's not even going to grade...", but then you said, "...a tight deadline assignment and then randomly choosing what you're going to grade..."

Which is it? Is he not going to grade them, or is he going to randomly select some of them to grade?

#abbreviation #disambiguation

25A = 25th Amendment, etc...
2A = Second Amendment (to the US Constitution)
abbr = abbreviation
AI = artificial intelligence
A = amps
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation
BFG = Big Friendly Giant (or Big Fucking Gun)
blm = Black Lives Matter
btw = by the way
CCP = Chinese Communist Party
CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDCP = the correct abbr for CDC
deco = decompression (scuba diving)
DFS = Dynamic Frequency Selection
disam = disambiguation
DS9 = Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
EMI = elecromagnetic interference
EM(R) = electromagnetic radiation
epr = Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox
FDR = Franklin D. Roosevelt
fedi = fediverse
FWIW = For what it's worth
HGV = Hypersonic glide vehicle
IR = infrared
JFK = John Fitzgerald Kennedy
JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
lol = (I am) laugh(ing) out loud
ms = millisecond
N95 = NIOSH rating for respirators (95% filtration)
N99 = NIOSH rating for respirators (99% filtration)
N100 = NIOSH rating for respirators (99.97% filtration)
NASA = NASA (everyone knows what NASA is)
NIOSH = National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NPR = National Public Radio
OP = original post, original poster (the first post in this thread)
potus = President of the United States
qcd = quantum chromodynamics
qed = quantum electrodynamics
qm = quantum mechanics
ROC = Tiawan, Republic of China
scifi = science fiction
scotus = Supreme Court of the United States
scuba = self-contained underwater breathing appartus
STE(A)M = science, technology, engineering, (arts), math(s)
TIL = Today I learned
tmux = terminal multiplexer (a Linux utility)
TNG = Star Trek: The Next Generation
TOS = Star Trek: The Original Series; also, "Terms of Service"
u = micron (or micro-)
usec = microsecond
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time
V = volts
vax = vaccine
W = watts
wrt = with regard to
wtf = a profane exclamatory interrogative
www = World Wide Web

@freemo @funny @iankenway @funny @khird

Extraordinary foresight on their part. I guess that's why they say they're wise.

@johnabs

Why do you say that?

@crackurbones

Nice accessible overview article on QM.

Sat image of the Tonga volcano eruption showing the pressure wave. Total elapsed time shown is 100 minutes. #volcano #nasa #eruption #tonga

@freemo

Otherwise you might clog the toilet.