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socks, why the gently caress would anyone want to wear socks or invent socks? they are the most worthless thing on the planet.
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Computers - I don’t get them. I mean, I can use one for work, even install components, but how do they REALLY work? What makes the computer do stuff I want it to do? How does internet get displayed on my monitor? I am truly clueless about this
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Computers - I don’t get them. I mean, I can use one for work, even install components, but how do they REALLY work? What makes the computer do stuff I want it to do? How does internet get displayed on my monitor? I am truly clueless about this There's a microchip in there, which is quite literally a rock that humanity taught how to add by putting lightning inside of it, and it does that math very VERY quickly. There are other components generally based off of the first chip that do other specific things, like remember long sequences of numbers. Doing math and remembering numbers are how we started with computers. Everything else is logic based on those two things.
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Oct 22, 2020 15:31
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pixaal posted:socks, why the gently caress would anyone want to wear socks or invent socks? they are the most worthless thing on the planet. Ok, stank-foot
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Oct 22, 2020 15:33
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I don't understand a lot of stuff about ammunition and guns. I play FPS video games with all these ammo types and I don't know what any of it means. 7.62x39? I dunno what that means, beyond the understanding that only certain guns will fire that kind of round. I know FMJ stands for Full Metal Jacket, I've seen the movie, but what does a full metal jacket mean? Also, if you fire a pistol sideways, all gangsta style, does the recoil still kick it up or does it kick to the side? Again, this is just from video games, but sometimes I look down a scope in a game and there's all these markings and symbols, and I don't know what any of them mean either. Why is it there? I just have to put the center dot on someone's face and click. I don't need all this extra stuff. Also I don't understand women plz help
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Oct 22, 2020 15:42
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I actually understand women perfectly. They don't understand me at all though because I'm so complicated.
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Oct 22, 2020 15:45
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Sewing machines mystify me. How does a thin little thread get passed and forth through two pieces of cloth? There's not a needle going back and forth like if you were hand stitching. What's going on there?
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Oct 22, 2020 15:47
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Dr Who The Who
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Oct 22, 2020 15:49
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Argyle Gargoyle posted:- fuckin magnets I originally laughed at Shaggy 2 Dope when he uttered those words but the more I know about magnetism the more I realize his attitude is correct. Just accept it as a miracle and be done with it. Afterwards he says that scientists lie and get him pissed and maybe that too is a good attitude towards academia.
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Oct 22, 2020 15:56
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Icochet posted:Dr Who Who are you talking about
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ZentraediElite posted:Who are you talking about The first baseman.
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Icochet posted:Dr Who You mean The WHO? The World Health Organization?
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I don't under the rules of cricket and rugby, yet millions and millions of people watch it. IDGI.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:08
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Knitting Beetles posted:I originally laughed at Shaggy 2 Dope when he uttered those words but the more I know about magnetism the more I realize his attitude is correct. Just accept it as a miracle and be done with it. Afterwards he says that scientists lie and get him pissed and maybe that too is a good attitude towards academia. Please be careful with this. The vast majority of the scientific community keep each other in check (pretty much everything is peer-reviewed), which means that for something to be accepted as scientific fact, it passes a LOT of people. The likelihood of them all either lying or just being flat out honestly wrong is extremely low.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:18
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The radio waves thing is strange to me as well, but also wifi and 4G. Like, I'm in my yard watching a video, the video data is in some sense flying though the air, right? The video is flying through the air but it's invisible.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:20
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Just wait until you hear(heh) about soundwaves dude! Some incomprehensible ape screeching bouncing from the walls gets translated into, like, words and abstract ideas in your head but only if you have the right language installed
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Oct 22, 2020 16:23
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YeahTubaMike posted:How to identify baseball pitches. Fastballs are fine, but sliders, changeups, breaking balls? No loving clue. Slider = generally faster (compared to a curve) tighter break. east-west or west-east type break normally Curve = slower, loopier break. can be 12-6 break, or sometimes more slidery in break. if it's more like a slider it's sometimes called a slurve which is like a name for a pitch that's somewhere between a slider and a curve. im definitely confusing you even more typing this i apologize Changeup = can have movement and look like a curve, so I can see how that would be confusing. The arm action should look the same as a fastball.
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I don't understand how Vegas makes money on sports gambling. I'm often completely blown away by the accuracy of Vegas lines. I guess I don't understand whether their line is an actual prediction of the score, or is it slightly bent toward one direction to manipulate people into voting for the wrong team? Are there enough people who are lovely at betting?Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Computers - I don’t get them. I mean, I can use one for work, even install components, but how do they REALLY work? What makes the computer do stuff I want it to do? How does internet get displayed on my monitor? I am truly clueless about this one fun recurring part of my comp sci degree would be thinking I finally understood modern computers, then a professor would say something like, "of course this isn't how it actually works anymore". The truth is that it's magic.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:33
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pixaal posted:socks, why the gently caress would anyone want to wear socks or invent socks? they are the most worthless thing on the planet. Uh. Because in the winter your feet get cold, in the summer your feet sweat. Unless you have big hairy feet that is.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:37
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Seaniqua posted:
Thank you for your honesty, I knew it
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Oct 22, 2020 16:42
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This is embarrassing, but Connect 4. I am normally pretty decent at figuring out working strategies in games, be they board or video, but it's like my brain has a blind spot when it comes to Connect 4 and I just can't figure out how to beat anyone of any kind of reasonable intelligence. It's maddening.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:49
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Please be careful with this. The vast majority of the scientific community keep each other in check (pretty much everything is peer-reviewed), which means that for something to be accepted as scientific fact, it passes a LOT of people. The likelihood of them all either lying or just being flat out honestly wrong is extremely low. That seems reasonable but ICP lyrics are freely available and the scientific community puts all their research behind paywalls. What are they hiding?
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Oct 22, 2020 16:50
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cool honeypot thread op
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Les Os posted:to go along with cloud person, I don’t understand how rain isn’t crazy dirty if you’re living in a city and all the water is polluted. shouldn’t everyone be getting sick from rain? We've seen and can trace atmospheric pollutants, to some degree, that then mix with rainwater, hit the land surface, and infiltrate aquifers. Acid rain is a good example of this.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:53
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Internetjack posted:Sewing machines mystify me. How does a thin little thread get passed and forth through two pieces of cloth? There's not a needle going back and forth like if you were hand stitching. What's going on there? I don't fully understand either but there's a second spool of thread underneath the machine so it's really 2 threads.
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Oct 22, 2020 17:20
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Human Emotions.
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popewiles posted:This is embarrassing, but Connect 4. It’s tic tac toe with extra steps, just go first?
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Oct 22, 2020 17:36
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Peanut Butter. How can something that comes from a cow taste like peanuts?
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Internetjack posted:Sewing machines mystify me. How does a thin little thread get passed and forth through two pieces of cloth? There's not a needle going back and forth like if you were hand stitching. What's going on there?
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Oct 22, 2020 17:41
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what foul devilry is this
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What is wrong with me exactly? Like autism and borderline don't really fit when I read about them but I also know my head was hosed up from birth. A few symptoms match and I started having problems with friendships by 3rd grade and always was a brainy loner. I'm curious like intellectually, I never did get therapy which I know was a mistake blah blah
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lol this doesn't help at all 
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:lol this doesn't help at all yeah I'm looking at it and I'm really bad at spatial relations it's but it seems like that loop should slip past, like through ????
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Spinz posted:yeah I'm looking at it and I'm really bad at spatial relations it's but it seems like that loop should slip past, like through think in 3D that piece is bent and moving around it. Tie your shoes really slowly and watch what you are actually doing.
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Tom Gorman posted:conversely, how toilets work without needing electricity. This is funny to me because I recently had to explain why both toilets and faucets work during a power outage to a friend in his mid 30s. Apparently he never considered "gravity and U-joints" and was over-complicating things.
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If you saw it in 3D you'd understand or go mad, 50-50
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YeahTubaMike posted:How computer games could be played on cassette tape. They were loaded from cassette, not directly played from. I always figured it was similar to how a dialup modem works
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Cloner of the Elks posted:They were loaded from cassette, not directly played from. I always figured it was similar to how a dialup modem works Uh...huh. Okay then. 
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Actually computer cassette games weren't games at all, they just emitted a high pitch sound that caused your brain to hallucinate playing a game! 
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Speaking of cassette tapes, how about those cassette -> CD adapters we used in our cars in high school? How the gently caress?
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