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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • We picked a Sleep Number because we have different firmness preferences and because I knew 3 couples at the time with a bit over 10 years of use at the time. The only complaint was one person has to air up every few weeks. It’s set to 100 and probably sags to 90 lol.

    That being said, Lemmy, get the pitchforks. I wasn’t able to get a basic pump/controller, only the wifi-enabled “smart” pump. Paid $50 extra for a Bluetooth remote to not use their app. I don’t have it on the network. If the pump dies, fuck 'em. I’ll put a Schrader valve on the tube and get the tire inflator. If an RV thread is correct that 100 is 0.6psi and if my fuzzy math is correct, half a queen is the same total amount of air as a typical car tire. ~30x the volume but 1/50th the pressure






  • Yes, that would be one way to make it noticeable. If all land/sea floor lifted, gradually, 1.2km into the air, we wouldn’t see it. I also Flubbed the per-km increase of the ruler and edited it to correct the increase down to 20cm per km. So as far as our ability to tell things are 0.02% further, no mere mortal would recognize it. But with a lap band around the Earth, we’d definitely notice the new halo floating above us instead of being a tripping hazard.

    That reminds me of a fun fact about how the increase in circumference does not care what your starting values are. If you wanted to wrap a rope around a soccer ball, then make the rope lift 1m above the surface of the ball all around, you’d do probably do the pid math like (pid2)-(pi*d1) :

    3.140.022m=0.069m of rope around the ball
    3.14
    (0.022+1+1)=6.349m of rope to float 1m above the ball
    6.349-0.069=6.28m of extra rope

    Then do it for the planet.

    3.1440,000,000m=125,600,000. 00m of rope around the planet
    3.14
    (40,000,000+1+1)=125,600,006.28m of rope to float 1m above the ground 125,600,006.28-125, 600,000= 6.28m of extra rope.

    1m above, or 2m greater diameter, can just be fed directly into pid as derived from pi(d2-d1) since we know it’s a basic request to lift it 1m


  • 67% of the Earth’s mass is comprised of silicates in the mantle. Solid silicates have very low thermal coefficients of expansion, meaning they change volume very little in comparison to other compounds. So if the mantle was cooled and solidified to 0, then heated to 50, it’d have very little effect. It’d grow something like 0.02% in volume.

    Being that the mantle is generally liquid, you’ll see a much larger effect from the initial cooling. But how much? I don’t know. Liquid rock isn’t present in mere mortal online calculators and my ability to dive into the material properties and manually calculate it is long gone from my head.

    But “much” larger may not be significant to the human experience, given that 0.02% would be imperceptible as a baseline. If you had a 1km long solid silicon ruler, heating it from 0 to 50C would make it just (edit) 0.2m longer. A circumferential ruler reaching around the Earth along the equator would go from ~40,000km to 40,008km.

    Edit: corrected 20m to 0.2m. Flubbed the percentage in the calculator as 0.02 (2%) instead of 0.0002 (0.02%). So really, really imperceptible to a human walking 1km


  • I take it the Switch/S2 has many non-Nintendo games shared with other consoles? Hard to search through 4,000 titles on Wikipedia to find them at random, but I did see they had one Assassin’s Creed (Odyssey) at the game’s launch. I never really had Nintendo systems and just associate them with exclusive Nintendo games.

    I’m choosing to believe the Steam Machine will do more of the same for PC games. Maybe it won’t force optimization at launch, but I hope it maintains itself as a benchmark for builds and provides demand for optimization to a certain spec.







  • This is pretty much what I was going to say. You always lose material, but the amount lost varies drastically based on the method. Even when using a knife or shears in a purely straight motion (no sawing or sliding), the material has to deform to make room for the cutting device. It may rip apart, it may bulge into itself, it may crumble, it may do it all. Try cutting a thin slice off a nice block of cheese and you’ll see nearly all the deformation go to the slice, while the knife will be coated in cheese




  • I dunno, he was in Scream 6 and will be in 7 since apparently they want to keep going with this series. I still see Ghostface masks every year at Halloween. But, sure, I can agree his presence in the movie isn’t as culturally significant.

    On the flipside, Shaggy is an existing character to me that happened to be played by Lillard in later adaptations. He’s not the face of Shaggy to me because Shaggy was a cartoon first.

    But that’s my take.