LostXOR

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dang, everyone else here has 4 or 5 figures while I'm sitting at $101. And I know for a fact 40% of that was Kerbal Space Program.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Regardless of what religion you follow, you're going to some hell for disregarding a different one.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

import { fourier, relativity } from "../utils";

Might want to be careful importing Fourier; he might be classified as an illegal immigrant.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing how that goes is you pay them, they do actually make you a page, it gets quickly deleted for not meeting Wikipedia's standards, and then they go "sorry no refunds". Step 0 to getting a Wikipedia page about yourself is to be notable enough for one, which >99.9% of people are not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

TIL I am very bad at estimating the value of coins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Guys fusion power is just 5 years away guys we're almost at breakeven bro just give us another billion venture capital dollars we just need some stronger magnets cmon we're so close dude just a little bit more

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Probably just what their hiring algorithm spat out, or a market average, or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago (4 children)

yyyy-mm-dd is specified by ISO 8601, so there's really no argument it isn't the objectively correct format.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Dang, that didn't federate to my instance. Their math seems to check out too.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Some rough calculations:

5 leagues ≈ 15 mi ≈ 24.1 km. An average human has hair that's maybe 20 cm wide. Using the small angle approximation we get an angular size of 0.2/24100 ≈ 8.3x10^-6 radians.

At 400 nm wavelength, resolving details of that angular size requires an aperture of 1.22(400 nm / 8.3x10^-6) ≈ 5.88 cm.

So either Legolas has some absolutely massive eyes, has the ability to use both his eyes for optical interferometry (I'm voting for this since it's the coolest), or is just plain magic.

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