Delay Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 (edited) 37 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: So, you should better cut out it from a paper and compare its weight with the weight of a paper square. Here's what I did: At each iteration, I turn 1 piece into 4 identical pieces, each one is 1/3 of the length of the previous. The number of sides after n iterations is thus 4n. Also, at each iteration I add triangles to all 4n sides. Each one is 1/9 of the previous triangles in terms of area. The total area is thus 1 + 4/9 + (4/9)2 + (4/9)3+ ... + (4/9)n So after infinitely many terms it should be equal to 1/(1-4/9) = 1/(5/9) = 9/5. Edited December 29, 2018 by Delay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Today I recieved an antique telescope sent from a family member. It was built around the 1920s in Paris, it seems. When I get the stand next week I will do some observing with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delay Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 I bought a book about C a few weeks ago. Now I finally got around to read the first few (4) chapters of it. 3 chapters per day seems like a good pace to me. Some things are a bit unclear to me, though, but I hope that will be cleared up once I'm further into the book. But I think I understand the majority of the chapters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 (edited) Those hand warmer packets are UNLIMITED POWEEERRRRR! I was outside stargazing for like an hour in about 4 degrees Fahrenheit and my hands were sustainably warm. The stars were very clear, and I had an exceptional, almost dreamlike view of the Orion Nebula in my telescope. I got ahold of a sort of galaxy in a ball - a glass sphere with a map of the Milky Way laser-etched into it. I found our approximate location on the map, and from this could also visualize other parts of the galaxy in the sky. I also saw First Man, and really enjoyed it. For a space movie, they did an extremely good job with scientific accuracy - the errors are all very nitpicky to recount. Even the landscape the LM flew over during the final descent was akin to the real one. Edited January 2, 2019 by cubinator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 1 hour ago, cubinator said: got ahold of a sort of galaxy in a ball - a glass sphere with a map of the Milky Way laser-etched into it. I found our approximate location on the map, and from this could also visualize other parts of the galaxy in the sky. Now you need a celestially named cat to carry it around on its collar... and whatever you do, stay away from any place that sells peroshki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I discovered that, in Elite Dangerous, rovering around in the SRV is just like (and even sounds like) riding a jetski / waverunner. What a riot this afternoon has been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Now you need a celestially named cat to carry it around on its collar... and whatever you do, stay away from any place that sells peroshki. and then arbitrarily call said collar a belt? o_O Edited January 2, 2019 by qzgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 13 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Now you need a celestially named cat to carry it around on its collar... and whatever you do, stay away from any place that sells peroshki. Not getting a tiger that can carry a ~4 inch glass sphere around like that, sorry. I'm probably more likely to get a scorpion than a housecat, although I do like cats a fair bit. For me to get any pet now I must consider a certain two year long trip I want to take sometime in the next 10-20 years...an arachnid is happy if it gets its cricket every week, a cat not so much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 56 minutes ago, cubinator said: Not getting a tiger that can carry a ~4 inch glass sphere around like that, sorry. I'm probably more likely to get a scorpion than a housecat, although I do like cats a fair bit. For me to get any pet now I must consider a certain two year long trip I want to take sometime in the next 10-20 years...an arachnid is happy if it gets its cricket every week, a cat not so much... How about a pet rock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 (edited) 2 minutes ago, qzgy said: How about a pet rock? I'll get one of those on that trip for sure... Edited January 2, 2019 by cubinator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YNM Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 I'm not sure why, but I think the dutch have the most diverse taste for music. Been listening to their radio and it's not just the "top of the charts" all day. On 1/2/2019 at 9:58 AM, cubinator said: galaxy in a ball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 10 hours ago, qzgy said: How about a pet rock? I remember when they first came out. People laughed. Even though it was a short-lived 'hit', the guy who dreamed it up laughed all the way to the bank (millionaire). Talk about timing. Gary Dahl. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 On 1/2/2019 at 5:58 AM, cubinator said: I got ahold of a sort of galaxy in a ball 19 hours ago, cubinator said: an arachnid is happy if it gets its cricket every week Mr. Lorien , that's you?! How unexpected. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 I had an incident that made me think yet again that I'm in some kind of Truman show. Brief backstory: In April of 2017 I purchased my 4th 3D printer. This was a version 2 of my first one, which was acquired about a year prior. As was common on these printers, the bed thermistor died just a few prints in. Since I'm not going to RMA a brand new printer and be without it for two weeks just to possibly receive a refurb in its place all over 2 minutes of soldering and a $0.40 part, I grabbed a 10 pack of thermistors on eBay for practically nothing and replaced it myself. Still going strong. However, I somehow lost 8 of the remaining 9. Fast forward to a few days ago, after a few days of heavy printing on my first machine, I had to re-flatten the bed. Pretty common, have done it dozens of times. Well, in that process I managed to finally kill the thermistor on that machine. I replaced it with the one remaining one I had, and since I was now out with no clue where those 8 were, I ordered another 10 pack. Yesterday I grabbed some plastic bags out of my stash to deal with the litter boxes. Just a stash of constantly replenished walmart bags. However this time I noticed something was in one of them. I pulled out a small ziplock bag. Of 8 thermistors. I haven't seen these stupid things for over a year and a half, considered them lost a long time ago, and they magically show up in the weirdest place possible just days after I finally replaced them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 18 minutes ago, Geonovast said: haven't seen these stupid things for over a year and a half, considered them lost a long time ago, and they magically show up in the weirdest place possible just days after I finally replaced them. They’ve been conspiring with the dryer socks. Hide your skivvies, beware of gnomes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: They’ve been conspiring with the dryer socks. Hide your skivvies, beware of gnomes... At least the underpants gnomes have a plan. It's incomplete, but they have a plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 So, now the 3d printers are unexpectedly printing thermistors. Soon they will print a whole army in addition to your four and rebel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delay Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 I made this Spoiler https://i.imgur.com/H8mRvJn.png The first 16,777,216 steps of the Thue-Morse sequence, arranged in a 4096x4096 grid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) Went for a drive in my friend's Model 3. OMFG. The BMW is sport mode is incredibly sluggish by comparison. The Model 3 made me feel like I might have heart problems in acceleration it was that fast (I don't ). Edited January 5, 2019 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, tater said: Went for a drive in my firend's Model 3. OMFG. The BMW is sport mode is incredibly sluggish by comparison. The Model 3 made me feel like I might have heart problems in acceleration it was that fast (I don't ). [jealousy intensifies] Was this the two-motor performance model or the “base” version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 2 motor. It was in the mode above "Chill" so not performance. The closest experience I have had that wasn't in a small aircraft was maybe a roller coaster I was on that had a sort of "launch" to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Had the family over for dinner. Usually we go to my in-laws, but there was originally gonna be a bachelor (me, son, father in law) dinner as wife, daughter and grandmother were to go somewhere with another set of same (friend/daughter/her mother). Anyway, ended up being 8 of us here. Did a homage to Tony Bourdain from his Les Halles cookbook. Steak au poivre, mushroom soup, my son made frittes, I threw in some roasted Brussels sprouts for something green, my wife made a bourdain chocolate mousse, washed it down with a "who's your daddy?" cab after we toasted Mr. Bourdain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p1t1o Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) Turns out buying a house is totally different from buying anything else in your life. FunFact - newly built developments in London rarely come with parking. Not surprising, its London, space is a premium. But if you are in a new-build you are also ineligible to apply for a council parking permit (available to anyone else in any other kind of property, or any renter) which just seems deliberately cruel. Edited January 8, 2019 by p1t1o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 5 hours ago, p1t1o said: Turns out buying a house is totally different from buying anything else in your life. Oh yes, it is. I did this relatively early in life and it was the step towards independence. Much more like the first refridgerator, the first car, partner, ... Since then, each time when i moved, i made a little plus when i sold the old house and bought a new one in the place where i moved to. Fridges, cars, girls came and went, but now i always have that space where i can retreat and do what i want without bothering anyone or being bothered by the ones over my head. Very satisfying :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 6 hours ago, p1t1o said: But if you are in a new-build you are also ineligible to apply for a council parking permit (available to anyone else in any other kind of property, or any renter) which just seems deliberately cruel. Dang. Another reason I live out in the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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