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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 18, 2014, 10:27:13 pm »
I don't even have to bold the crazy, it does it for me!
... *raises finger* Isn't... isn't hair, like. Dead? Or something? Kinda' like fingernails? I certainly know it's got no sensitivity whatsoever... scalp does, but the hair itself is, like, nop. I guess it does have like oils and stuff?

I... guess I could check about the electro-whatsit conduction or whatevs. Wrap the hair around a radio-hijacker and see if the signal improves. Know it does when it's held, so if the the hair's a transmitter/medium for the same phenomena then it should do the same. Will test tomorrow and see.

Because hell, might as well. Only take a few seconds.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 18, 2014, 08:46:46 pm »
Yes. I mean, hell, it wouldn't be pleasant, but that is the exact bloody sort of information a public health organization tracks. Especially considering it's a potentially infectious disease vector. You want people tracked, you want spread identified and followed, you want area ranges and prevalence based on geography, demographics, insect species, season... the list goes on. What sort of diseases you can and can't expect from varying species, likelihood of transference -- buncha' stuff.

I don't just want folks to keep track of pubic insect infestations, I would straight up say it's a necessary component of society-wide disease control. It's not just wanted, it's needed. That it's not points to a very likely failure in organization-level methodology.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 18, 2014, 08:30:01 pm »
My WTF is looking into it and finding out that insect infestations of pubic hair are apparently not tracked by the world health folks. Estimates of crab louse alone are at around 2% worldwide, but most governments apparently just... don't record the numbers on bugs residin' on yer nethers. That sounds like a plague vector waiting to happen...

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 18, 2014, 08:21:35 pm »
Though in all seriousness: I've never heard of anyone getting bitten by insects in the...nether regions.
Ever. Until I met Graknorke.
Even before then, though... really? I mean. Mites. Infestations. Lice. I had met people who had gone through the unfortunate experience of crotchlice before I had even graduated elementary school. I'd expect it to be worse, where you are... maybe it's just not talked about, there?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 18, 2014, 06:46:49 pm »
...Err, not really. He didn't hate us. He hated the attitude :v
I'll admit, I've never really figured out the functional difference between the two. It's always been a sort of "I don't hate you, I just hate who you are." Considering that, in practice, you and your behavioral patterns (attitude, etc.) are identical, it's... pretty much the same thing.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 18, 2014, 05:01:28 pm »
Though it's really more that the new testament itself was the fanfiction. Jesus was just a big fan that wanted to ship YWYHx<vague pretenses of morality>.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: May 18, 2014, 04:59:17 pm »
Also not really final fantasy games, ha. Not many of the "FF" gameboy games that were released as such in the US (E: And I guess europe. [joking]Did they even release games to europe back then?[/joking]), well... were, exactly. Legends were the first SaGa games, Adventure was the first Seiken Densetsu (Secret of Mana). Stuff like that.

And incidentally, just to be sure folks are aware, the GBA Tactics Ogre is... very different. From the rest (SNES/PSX/PSP) of them. Still pretty decent, but arguably a worse game.

I personally put FFT and TO (either the SNES or PSX version... PSP's arguably better than either, but comes a lot later) about on the same level. FFT's a bit nicer gameplay wise (which is understandable, since TO was/is an SNES game, and FFT was built for the PSX), but they're both solid and running pretty neat stories (for video games, anyway). Good stuff. The fact that TO gives FFT a good run for its money speaks incredibly well for it, since it was built a good generation behind in terms of hardware.

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one of the assignments asks for Third Law of Thermodynamics and I don't even know which formulation am I supposed to use.
When it doubt, use them all and add a little note, "Assignment not clear as to proper formulation. Used all just to be safe. Have fun grading."

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 18, 2014, 01:34:13 am »
... but it's basically just soy sauce, apparently. As a spread? Which. Okay, soy's pretty good. But it's... ultimately just another form of salt. That's not terribly impressive.

I'll stick with soy, m'self, I think. When I'm not using some form of bullion or something else with more flavor beyond "salty". Easier to use a liquid.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 17, 2014, 11:25:38 pm »
is cracker with salt on it

Apparently vegemite basically just tastes like salt. Just... salt.

I guess I can sympathize, I've occasionally dabbed soy or teriyaki sauce on bread and had a slice. Is like salted bread plus actual flavor.

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... I didn't even make it to the first boss before I started cheating, V. And then I got a little further and put it down for a while after getting into a few situations where cheating doesn't actually help, which is always amusing but screw an hour+ backtrack.

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Yeah... like I said, building it by hand, instead of using the function, may help you learn how to use it. It's... basically how I've gone through the last few math-intensive (if less so than your average stat class, but eh) courses I've had. By the time you've got a functioning template for the formula, you're probably considerably further along in your understanding of it. And you can always rebuild it again a few days later to refresh your memory.

Very helpful, I recommended it to like everyone. No one seemed to actually use that method, but eh, I tried. If nothing else, you've got an alternate source for a check figure to see if you're screwing something up, which is always helpful.

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Mm... I'd always recommend pulling out a spreadsheet or whatnot, m'self. If you can build the formula by hand (avoid functions as much as possible), by the time you're done not only do you know the exercise fairly well, you have something nice and tidy to do the work for you. Portable calculators are... clumsy. Harder to adjust variables, see where stuff is doing its thing, that sorta' stuff. Spreadsheets are where it's at.

E: Though libreoffice, at least, does have a correlation coefficient function. =CORREL(Data_1, Data2)

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... you realize they have calculators for that, right? Would that not help?

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... is sceleria going to be alright? It looks like there's three hours until a stale? Maybe. Still not entirely familiar with llamaserver >_>

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