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Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Capt.Whorebags posted:

Who decides that a particular city�s morgue is �best in the world�?

Is there a ratings agency? Does the UN do it?

As far as I know Operation Paperclip included poaching cremation specialists. That industry had recently suffered a massive shock and so it was easy to convince those specialists to move. Once they arrived they were horrified at the state of the States, so they quickly established a national journal similar to the UK's Cremation Societies "Pharos International". They sought to improve the efficiency of cremation mostly for its own sake, but morgues would have been relieved if under pressure. Sadly, political maneuvering prevented many of their suggestions from being implemented, especially because their proposed investments in rail infrastructure clashed with the Zeitgeist that preferred cars. And yes I've been pulling this out of my rectum because I'm waiting on things at work and I'm bored out of my skull right now. Thanks for reading. :eng101:

# ¿ Apr 7, 2020 14:13

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 01:38

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

There are a surprising amount of weird functions and graph styles. I especially appreciate matplotlib.pyplot.xkcd()

By the way, I found a screenshot I made a few years ago. It's the interface of a large commercial PBX and it has a graphing function. Someone got it into their head that what graphs needed were 3D. And animation (?).

I have no idea how to read this.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 07:28

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

code:

digraph "Elsewhere" {
    splines=ortho;
    start [label="Lost your job", shape=box];
    end [label="You are insured", shape=box];
    
    insured [label="Do you have insurance?", shape=diamond];
    silly [label="Don't be silly", shape=box];
        
    start -> insured;
    insured -> silly [xlabel="No"];
    insured -> end [xlabel="Yes"];
    silly -> end;
}

# ¿ May 13, 2020 09:06

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Bobby Digital posted:

# ¿ May 13, 2020 19:17

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Real pros only use weight in metric for cooking. No need for volume.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 09:08

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Double Punctuation posted:

I only measure my ingredients in Newtons. All the weights are customized for my altitude.

Oh yeah? I use Moles. :lofty:

Makes Maillard reaction really precise.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 13:18

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Karia posted:

Capita per capita is my favorite. It's so simple! Why isn't this measured more often?

Some countries have more people per capita though, you need to account for that. That option should allow for capita/capita >1.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2020 15:13

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Mikl posted:

I found one use for this: as a non-native English speaker and amateur writer, it's given me plenty of words to express how my characters are feeling at one particular moment. (Of course, y'know, I can't just have my characters announce how they feel, but that chart's a good basis to start from.)

That mirrors my writing process and I have a very similar wheel sitting on my desk. Whenever I hit a spot where I need to give my characters Feelings I give it a good spin.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2020 18:28

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Tbh., the inconsistent hyphenation alone should be enough to exmatriculate that person.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2020 22:44

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Adjective order is one of the worst things, speaking as a non-native English speaker.

The next worst spot is shared by all the weird idioms, idiotic pronunciation, and the fact that on the Internet UK and US English are mixed so much it's practically impossible to not learn a wild mish-mash of vocabulary and spelling.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2020 10:26

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Hey, at least it's always before the noun, unlike in French where it's mostly after, sometimes before, and it MATTERS.

I have suppressed most of my French, but one thing that still infuriates me is that both German and French are gendered languages that often assign different genders to the same thing. Der Mond (m) - La Lune (f).

:argh:

# ¿ Jun 17, 2020 17:29

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

I know, but that does not make it easier to learn.

gently caress gender, it's useless.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2020 18:13

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Meanwhile�

# ¿ Jun 18, 2020 17:55

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

ITT: Goons discover subway maps are topological maps.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2020 11:03

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Excel must be the apex of unmaintainability. I have some experience untangling legacy systems with tons of moving parts, but none came close to even moderately complex spreadsheets.

Did you know that MS translates Excel function names in other languages?

# ¿ Jun 27, 2020 20:07

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Never underestimate how insanely shoddy everything is everywhere.

At my workplace, posters displayed at scientific conventions are typically derived from a power point template one professor cooked up. Its size is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike A0. The graphs are typically hand made or screenshots (in jpg) of Excel graphs blown up to ~10dpi.

I've worked in DTP consulting. It's physically painful to look at those documents. All of them are fractally wrong.

Antigravitas has a new favorite as of 10:47 on Jul 1, 2020

# ¿ Jul 1, 2020 10:44

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

I knew astronauts had their poo poo together but I didn't expect it to be so literal.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2020 16:20

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

I don't know what they are doing to calculate R, but it's weird that they have uncertainty of past R values. I'd assume that they'd know R perfectly for past values based on actual infection numbers, unless they think they don't know the true number of infections. Which would be extremely worrying to me.

That said, R of 1.2 is bad.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2020 12:45

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Yup, that's the "extremely worrying" part. To eliminate that uncertainty you run sentinel testing across a representative sample. That's what Germany has been doing for ages to monitor the flu.

I just had a look and they just basically try to create a curve for R that fits the number of reported infections since apparently (WTF) the states don't supply that number? So the curve of R is purely a function of the curve of cases.

Anyway, R of 1.2 means ~ every 5-7 days cases grow by 20%, so in two weeks AZ should have ~120k cases instead of 80k now. And if things stay the same, ~170k in a month�

So don't be mislead by "low" R. Let Mutti explain it to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22SQVZ4CeXA

# ¿ Jul 2, 2020 13:51

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

redleader posted:

Marxism (Liberalism)

# ¿ Nov 28, 2020 12:50

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

OwlFancier posted:

I assume the same rationale as games workshop, whales with too much money working from home need something to spend it on during lockdown.

GW at least sells you an actual thing, not the printout of a jpeg.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2020 16:35

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

It does not have those things, but the soundscape of the ships feels sublime. The ships feel like you have an actual engine working somewhere, it's great. The only thing I actually enjoy about the game is moving the throttle on my HOTAS and feeling the response.

Listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKGR2FLUqJw&t=2219s

# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 12:26

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

That chart reminds me of that genius keyboard layout detector that used to appear in Debian's installer. It would ask you to type characters from a list on screen and within two or three characters it would know the exact keyboard layout you were using.

Others just have you scroll through a huge list of layouts and languages.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2021 00:07

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

how to pronounce "�", a guide for Americans

1. say "�"

:smuggo:

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 15:34

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

BonHair posted:

Edit: it has been proposed to introduce ö to Danish in addition to ø, to be able to distinguish dør (dies, verb) from dør/dör (door, noun).

A very Kamel�s� move.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 17:43

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

90s Cringe Rock posted:

always fun listening to nerds who learned words by reading say "blackguard" or get upset when they discover their cool anti-paladin class actually has a stupid-sounding name

"Learn English" they said. "It's an easy language to learn" they said.
And just as you get comfortable with the lack of gendered everything they put you on Mr. Bones' Pronunciation Rollercoaster. It's only a little worse than the long Tunnel of Idioms.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2021 12:17

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Carbon dioxide posted:

Sorry did you just say you LIKE learning arbitrary gendered articles and conjugations for words?

No, I'm saying that's how they lure you in.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2021 20:47

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Pronunciationtalk reminds me of that legendary Loriot sketch of a German TV presenter reading a "short" summary of an English radio serial that is absolutely full of English names. As she gets further into it the English pronunciation starts to bleed into her German pronunciation until she has a nervous breakdown.

quote:

[�]
Gwyneth Molesworth hatte f�r Lord Hesketh-Fortescue in Nether Addlethorpe einen Schlips besorgt, ihn aber bei Lord Molesworth-Houghton liegengelassen. Lady Hesketh-Fortescue verd�chtigt ihren Gatten, das letzte Wochenende mit Priscilla Molesworth in Middle Fritham verbracht zu haben.
Gleichzeitig findet Meredith Hesketh-Fortescue auf einer Kutschfahrt mit Jasper Fetherston von Middle Fritham nach North Cothelstone Hall in Thrumpton Castle den Schlips aus Nether Addlethorpe.
[�]

I can't find the video online anymore because the rights holders have purged it�

Lmao wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englische_Ansage#/media/Datei:Loriot_Die_zwei_Cousinen_Dramatis_personae_German.svg

# ¿ Feb 4, 2021 18:55

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

There's one version (also audio only) by the copyright vampire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJqFVXgYeXQ

But the TV version is the best because she completely nails the performance, getting visibly more strained and angry and frustrated as it goes on.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2021 20:15

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

KozmoNaut posted:

Regretfully it's a Facebook link, but here:

https://www.facebook.com/br.capriccio/posts/1654880391220998/

Immediately downloaded and archived it. Thank you.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2021 14:56

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

I've been looking at my state's infection statistics and found something fascinating:

First graph: Recorded infections; red female, blue male
Second graph: Recorded hospitalisations (blue) and deaths (white)

See that extreme split in infections for 80+?
Can you guess why it exists? If you think this is the result of normal difference in life expectation: good guess. Wrong, though

# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 18:04

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

frankenfreak posted:

I had a thought, but 80-89 would (have) be(en) a tad too young for that to be correct.

While true, look at the demographics:

Iirc the extreme female surplus in the older demographics is war and post-war related. You'd normally expect a surplus, but not that insanely pronounced.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 18:27

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

13 year olds were old enough for the Volkssturm.

I'm fairly certain I read a paper that went into some detail that war and post-war scarcity and upheaval had a stark impact on the relative distribution of the sexes, but now I can't find it again and I'm beginning to doubt my memory. I'm making a note to waste some time at work tomorrow on finding it again, since I have access to a lot of journals at work�

# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 19:58

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

System Metternich posted:

You are right that the sex ratio in newborns sees significant shifts during times of crisis, but it's the other way round: during the world wars and in the years immediately following them the percentage of boys being born rose by a lot (see this article). The causes aren�t really known yet though, and I'd also be interested if that holds for other times and crises as well, eg the colonisation of the Americas, the Irish famine or the collapse of the USSR

Well, I can confidently state that� my search using my university resources has been entirely unsuccessful and I've given up on wasting my employer's time on this.

I retract my earlier statements and proclaim the opposite.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2021 14:00

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Der Heimliche Aufmarsch posted:

Arbeiter, Bauern, nehmt die Gewehre
nehmt die Gewehre zur Hand!
Zerschlagt die faschistischen R�uberheere,
setzt alle Herzen in Brand.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 09:12

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

That second chart is unreadable because trying to put the agreements in Europe in one chart is a completely mad undertaking. A few are even missing. Like, i haven't found the Nordic Council on it.

Very similar charts exist in official EU publications, they just feature fewer agreements.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 16:50

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

ISO 8601. It exists for a reason.

# ¿ May 14, 2021 10:33

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

System Metternich posted:

Found it - it wasn't Jena, but Gelnhausen in Hesse. The conversation goes like this (in southern Hessian dialect):

counter-protester: oh, that's Conny!
Conny: Hiiii
counter-protester: Conny, from now on we're on a Sie basis!

Just to emphasise: This is probably the greatest insult you can think of. This isn't "We are no longer friends", this is the equivalent of detonating all bridges and salting the earth. It's like taking agent orange to a communal garden (representing friendship), then following up with napalm.

# ¿ May 15, 2021 16:16

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

No more Conny, it's Frau Meier now, like some random stranger at the Wursttheke you'll forget about a minute later.

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Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Looking at the graph and getting progressively angrier as time goes on�

# ¿ Jul 5, 2021 15:04

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