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[WWGD]

It seems every time I hear Neil DeGrasse Tyson, he's saying something depressing. DeGrasse is not greener with Neil.

 

[WWGD]

I keep forgetting the name of this post-modern music band that makes music without melody and the name contains no letters but only characters . Something like ((\.#())||. Sounds like a joke but it is ( or at least was) a real band.

 

[jedishrfu]

A recent article in Ars Technica interviews a hacker who worked for Koala Media. Koala was instrumental in weaving a complex web of sites referencing one another spewing nonsensical fake news with a decided political tilt that looked legit To Facebook and readers.

 

[Astronuc]

Washington Post: 48 hours to live: An Oklahoma hospital's rush to find an ICU bed for a Covid patient​

https://news.yahoo.com/48-hours-live-oklahoma-hospitals-135102615.html

A "transfer coordinator at Stillwater Medical Center, was working fast to try to find an ICU bed at a larger hospital for Johnnie Novotny, a 69-year-old retired gas plant operator who had developed a hematoma and needed more specialized care than doctors at this modest rural hospital could provide." Novotny had been admitted to hospital on July 24. By the evening of August 6, Novotny had developed the hematoma, and the hospital did not have a specialist who could perform the appropriate treatment.

". . . she was rapidly running through the Oklahoma hospitals on her list. She called the state's medical emergency response center for help, and a coordinator there agreed to call hospitals in Missouri and Arkansas." The transfer coordinator even reached out to a hospital in Olathe, Kansas 300 miles away. She received a 'maybe' followed two hours later by a decline.

Oklahoma was on the cusp of a summer surge that would peak Aug. 30, with new cases averaging about 2,800 a day. Intensive care unit admissions soared to an all-time high during the first two weeks of August, at a time when the average length of stay for a Covid patient increased significantly, overwhelming ICUs, according to Dr. David Kendrick, chairman of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Oklahoma. More than 1,500 Oklahomans died of Covid in August and September alone as the state's pandemic death toll exceeded 9,402 (WP reports 10,600 fatalities). More than half the state still is not fully vaccinated.

Oklahoma population fully vaccinated: 49% NY Times

In Payne County, where Stillwater is located, only 35% of the population was fully vaccinated when Novotny became ill in mid-July, and the delta variant was spreading so rapidly that the mayor declared a state of emergency Sept. 3.

 

[Mayhem]

Grading bad assignments is so much worse than grading good assignments.

 

[phinds]

Grading bad assignments is so much worse than grading good assignments.

Then don't give bad assignments !

 

[Mayhem]

Then don't give bad assignments !

I'm just a TA don't give me flack lol

 

[Rive]

I'm OLD.

I've just come across some news about Win11.
What I've (mis)read there was Win3.11

 

[fresh_42]

I'm OLD.

I've just come across some news about Win11.
What I've (mis)read there was Win3.11

I have a similar problem. I read a movie title "the challenge" (or similar) as "the curvature". Another mentor advised me to get a hobby. Well, I thought PF was one. Seems to be wrong. Guess, I will follow his advice.

What is better: cold deprivation or sneak out?

 

[Mayhem]

You could replace the alien spaceship controls in a sci-fi movie with gCOSY plots and no one would be able to tell.

 

[Tom.G]

What is better: cold deprivation or sneak out?

That dichotomy assumes that at least one of them is "Good" (in some sense or another), an assumption with which I disagree.


What Google says about "hobby":
1. an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure

 

[fresh_42]

What Google says about "hobby":

Not if "Get a hobby" is meant to shut you down. It was the second time within 8 days this person used an ad hominem attack to shut me down. The first time he said I should shut up because of Germany's Nazi past.

Is it possible to say: "Go away!" more clearly than that? I'm not eager to get insulted once a week. My problem is that I have math problems prepared until the end of the year and I don't want to waste the effort.

 

[WWGD]

I'm OLD.

I've just come across some news about Win11.
What I've (mis)read there was Win3.11

As long as you don't mister(read) Windows 12, as its not out yet. And may never be out.

 

[Tom.G]

It was the second time within 8 days this person used an ad hominem attack to shut me down. The first time he said I should shut up because of Germany's Nazi past.

Not many here would cry if that individual was formally warned... then banned upon a repeat performance.

In a workplace, that is called "Harassment."

From the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment

Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy), national origin, older age...

(emphasis added)

 

[WWGD]

I'm just a TA don't give me flack lol

I don't give a flack about bad assignments.

 

[WWGD]

I don't give a flack about bad assignments.

@Tom.G , just kidding ;).

 

[WWGD]

I'd love some coffee now like I love some baby.

 

[Rive]

Sometimes, ignorance really is a bliss.

Spoiler: Now, the (translated) lyrics

Carrotcake
carrotcake
carrotcake
carrotcakeeee

I think I'll just skip the 'home metal' in the future. As metal, it's better without knowing

Ps.: as a joke it's a good one, though

 

[Bystander]

"Black Friday Road Rage" is a month early this year.

 

[WWGD]

Python: I need to Tinker with a Trinket in Tkinter.

 

[fresh_42]

I don't know why you call it mustache. I find our solution better: snot brake.

 

[WWGD]

Awkwardness has its privileges: I sit at a table at Starbucks and after some 20 minutes the table clears up. Not on purpose, I promise. Maybe I could speed it up by whispering " Sha, Sha, Sha, Sha, Kill , Kill, Kill, Kill..."

 

[fresh_42]

Shaquille?

 

[WWGD]

Shaquille?

Hopefully a coincidence. Someone check his freezer. Pronto!

 

[fresh_42]

Hopefully a coincidence. Someone check his freezer. Pronto!

Mine is far too small.

 

[WWGD]

Mine is far too small.

Mine is not big enough for a single one of his dinners.

 

[Astronuc]

How a Portuguese fishing village tamed a 100ft wave
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211031-how-a-portuguese-fishing-village-tamed-a-100ft-wave

Nazaré used to be a beach resort that emptied in winter. Now it's the epicentre of big wave surfing due to the skyscraper-sized waves generated by Europe's largest underwater canyon.

Location, location, location

 

[berkeman]

Yeah, jet ski tow-ins (and rescues) are a game changer for big wave surfing. Crazy!

 

[WWGD]

Big thing is now Zuckerberg's " Metaverse". Not sure ywt what it is about.

 

[jedishrfu]

The recent pronouncement from Zuckerberg brought the Chronicles of Riddick to mind and the hero’s fight against the dark forces of the Underverse.

The Chronicles of Ridzuck and his battle with the Metaverse.

 

[WWGD]

Just wish this guy stopped calling me right after going up 5-6 flights of stairs. I was about to block him confusing him with a pervert deep breather.

 

[Tom.G]

How a Portuguese fishing village tamed a 100ft wave
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211031-how-a-portuguese-fishing-village-tamed-a-100ft-waveLocation, location, location

And that article does a segue to how the Earth was weighed, and to the invention of those Contour Lines on a map.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211007-how-a-scottish-mountain-weighed-the-planet

 

[WWGD]

And that article does a segue to how the Earth was weighed, and to the invention of those Contour Lines on a map.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211007-how-a-scottish-mountain-weighed-the-planet

Wow, the things one remembers. I remember the weight is
$5.977 \times 10^{24}$ kg.
Goes down a bit when many go on diets ;).
Edit: Not sure why my Latex is not rendering correctly.

 

[WWGD]

If you're not too hungry, just have a half a halvah.

 

[DrGreg]

Edit: Not sure why my Latex is not rendering correctly.

Replace "x" by "\times": $5.977 \times 10^{24} \, \textrm{kg}$