ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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14hr ago
Unfinished works don't count!
What matters is the journey, not the destination. Among non-professionally-published literary works, I think it's very possible that I've enjoyed more incomplete ones than complete ones.
I think there unfortunately is not. The closest tropes seem to be Scrapbook Story (the story is composed of in-universe documents, which may or may not be textbooks) and Encyclopedia Exposita (the story uses excerpts from an in-universe textbook as chapter epigraphs, but is not itself an in-universe textbook).
Fiction books written in textbook style:
ToaKraka
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1d ago
Technically, Dymaxion and icosahedron are not quite the same thing.
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2d ago
I expect you need to break into perhaps 10 cars and search the glove compartments until you find a gun in the US.
One in three USAian adults owns a gun. (Naturally, this proportion varies wildly between states, and probably between areas within states.) Therefore, your estimate that one in ten USAian cars contains a gun implies that one in three USAian gun owners leaves a gun in his car (rather than in his domicile or on his person) all the time. IMO, that's rather high. Why would a person buy an entire extra gun just to leave it in his car?
ToaKraka
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3d ago
The photo in the Reuters article is the same as the one that Trump posted, without alteration.
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3d ago
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4d ago
The total bill is 224 k$ for 858 ft2 of house, 720 ft2 of driveway (not including ∼110 ft2 that's government-owned), 395 ft2 of sidewalk (including 270 ft2 that's government-owned), and 396 ft of fence. (An item-by-item breakdown is not available.)
The land was 29 k$ for 1/6 of an acre.
ToaKraka
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4d ago
The roof is metal panels at 1/12 slope (comparable to a sidewalk curb ramp), not plastic sheeting or built-up asphalt at 1/24 (comparable to a road shoulder) or 1/48 (comparable to a road travel lane or a non-curb-ramp sidewalk). I don't expect any problems stemming from bad drainage.
insert an image of a flooded curb ramp
That happens because bad coordination between the sidewalk installation and the road paving makes the road higher than the bottom of the curb ramp. No such problems exist on a roof.
ToaKraka
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4d ago
my small town has multiple comparable parks in easy distance
Note: The official USAian definition of "walking distance" is 1/2 mile (0.8 km). (Of course, it's possible that different jurisdictions have different definitions.)
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4d ago
The purpose of a world map is to see where things are at, not to make precise measurements, unless you're a sailor or something. I don't care if size or shape are distorted a little, as long as it doesn't look ridiculous, and Compromise projections are the only ones that don't look ridiculous
In the first place, I disagree with the idea that the cylindrical equal-area projection looks ridiculous. Use the Behrmann variant (standard parallels ±30 °) for global evenhandedness, or the Gall/Peters variant (±45 °) for a bit of Eurocentrism.
In the second place, you can just use the equirectangular projection instead of a wacky compromise projection. The Robinson projection's convolutions are totally unnecessary.
If people are going to be so insistent about the metric system then I'm going to be insistent about UTM, which by all rights should replace latitude/longitude since a grid is inherently superior to an angular system.
But latitude and longitude are a grid already.
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4d ago
when I see someone essentially laying out a justification for bringing back slavery, how am I supposed to respond, as a black person?
I remember another person asked me if I sincerely related to black underclass criminals and no I obviously don't but I relate to people like Toussaint Louverture, Malcolm X, Steve Biko. The intelligent black men who dedicated their lives to fighting the people who wanted to keep us in eternal subjugation for all the same goddamn reasons.
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5d ago
I'll pencil you down as "myriahedral projection" (gnomonic onto a zillion-faced polyhedron).
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5d ago
That's a rather harsh response. What are your preferred map projections, then? (They had better not be compromise projections.)
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Websites listing fan conventions: 1 (including a hidden list of adults-only fan conventions), 2 (apparently poorly translated from French)
Do you think anybody would attend a meetup on the topic of nonconsensual editing? (This is approximately half a joke.)
My vomit-inducing custom house is approximately three-fourths complete.
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Photograph 1: Apparently, in plumbing the modern practice is to divvy up all the water pipes through a "manifold" (like a circuit-breaker box), which looks pretty cool.
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Photograph 2: Spray-foam insulation
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Photograph 3: Behold! A boring beige box!
Which variations of the cylindrical equal-area projection are your favorites?
I am inclined to pick Behrmann (standard parallels ±30 °, so that exactly half of the map's area is stretched vertically and half is squashed vertically; aspect ratio ∼2.4) and Smyth/Craster (aspect ratio 2∶1; standard parallels ∼±37 °).
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5d ago
we don't do sound insulation properly
Specifically, typical US code requires a sound transmission class of at least 50 between apartments, but at least one study (found via this article) has found that an STC of 60 may be a better threshold.
New Jersey's law demands an accounting of all psychiatrists that evaluated you regardless of whether those evaluations were connected to judicial proceedings, not the very narrow category of involuntary commitments ordered by a judge after a psychiatric evaluation.
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