|
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I don't know why they decided to divide a day into twelve hours instead though
Huh, and I thought a day was 24 hours .. Oh well 
Live long and prosper
|
|
|
|
|
Nah, that's a day and a night.
Meanwhile I found an explanation (an explanation, maybe not the explanation)
Apparently the Egyptians divided the day into ten work hours, plus an extra hour each in the morning and the evening for eating and food preparations and stuff.
Haven't a clue if it's correct, but I'll keep looking.
|
|
|
|
|
That isn't a function of those being abundant it's a function of them being highly composite
|
|
|
|
|
Assuming there are 10 people in a train, and 15 of them go out in a train station, 5 must go in at the next station for the train to arrive empty.
Oh nevermind, I read abusing numbers.
|
|
|
|
|
If 5 go in the next station, and 3 decide at the last minute to use the restroom and miss the train, will there be enough people to attend the local town hall, 23.27 year's from now?
|
|
|
|
|
Only if the R value is kept below 1.0
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
Ouch, that's a tough one. 
|
|
|
|
|
Slacker007 wrote: 3 decide at the last minute to use the restroom
You're obviously not from the UK. 
The toilets on the stations tend to be owned by Network Rail, and the regional operators save money by not renting them, so they're permanently closed. And even if you're lucky, and happen to be at one of the large stations where they are open, you need to make sure you have the correct change to pay to get in.
Toilets on the trains - on the vanishingly few trains that have them - tend to be permanently out of order. As a result, very few people ever use them, so the PHBs use that to justify saving money on newer trains by not including toilets at all.
Basically, if you're planning to travel by train in the UK, make sure you take an empty bottle with you, since they don't even provide a "toilet-replacement bucket service".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
When you're a man, the whole world is your restroom.
That's probably why those stations are always so dirty, because these people are learning abundant numbers 
|
|
|
|
|
A few years ago I went by train from Manchester airport to Leeds, it was a weird experience that now got an explanation.
|
|
|
|
|
Jörgen Andersson wrote: it was a weird experience that now got an explanation
according to wikipedia "An abundant number which is not a semiperfect number is called a weird number" perhaps that also applies to experiences 
I am bemused by quasiperfect numbers...
"An abundant number with abundance 1 is called a quasiperfect number, although none have yet been found"
Live long and prosper
|
|
|
|
|
Richard Deeming wrote: Toilets on the trains
And when they are available, (apart from being awash with assorted bodily fluids) they have electronic doors with no physical lock, and the sliding door opens very wide (to be "accessible") so you spend your time in there in terror of the door randomly and unstoppably opening and exposing your attempts to avoid other people's wee/poo/sick/etc to the entire carriage. (Though these days a large proportion of trains are running almost empty anyway, and I suspect a proportion of the remaining passengers don't even bother looking for the toilet).
|
|
|
|
|
Is the train perfectly frictionless, and the people perfectly spherical?
Asking for a physics friend.
|
|
|
|
|
Of course, and it travels at the speed of light.
|
|
|
|
|
My first impression is that it might be useful when ordering, cutting and building with lumber; 8, 12, and 16 (foot) lengths seem most common.
Watch 2 people build the same fence and see how much is left over; the one with more scrap is "less abundant".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
|
|
|
|
|
CoolTeddyBear wrote: I understand how to work out the various (numerous) derivatives but what worldly purpose do they serve??
In all honesty I think the main "worldly purpose" was for Michael Gove (who re-jigged the curriculum some time ago) to claim to Conservative Party members that he'd introduced a more traditional/stricter curriculum.
Home schooling under lockdown has starkly revealed how bad the curriculum has become, much more wrote learning than in my day, but without the added depth previous generations seem to have been exposed to (if the past exam papers I looked at in my teens were anything to go by). My 6 year old's English work spent weeks categorising words into weirdly fine (and largely useless) groups - by all means make sure there are words to change how often a verb happens (or even adverbs generally) but what use is being able to split them down into adverb types at that age? Answer - it looks like proper education to a certain group of people.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sorry! Sorry. That was me.
|
|
|
|
|
For those watching along at home:
"The sixth season of the show is not going to include material from books 7, 8, and 9," Abraham tells Inverse. "The sixth season of the show is based on the sixth book [Babylon Ashes] which has been out for three years. So, we don't have that issue. We're still way ahead in the books. If we do any televised material for books 7, 8, and 9, we'll never have any issues, because all the books will have been out for a while."
Random thought - take a year or so off to emulate the time jump, and make 7-9 as movies? (certainly some of the visuals there could use bigger budgets)
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: Random thought - take a year or so off to emulate the time jump, and make 7-9 as movies? (certainly some of the visuals there could use bigger budgets)
The show is now an Amazon property; I suspect movies wouldn't get a theatrical run, and would only be available via streaming.
As such, I also suspect streaming entire seasons would be a lot more lucrative for a streaming service like Amazon Prime Video than having a handful of movies.
And why pause production for a show for a time jump? Plenty of shows have had time jumps, without pausing production. Otherwise individual actors would probably want to keep busy and move on - scheduling, to get everybody back on would become a logistics nightmare, I would think.
Besides, haven't we already seen plenty of show production delays for various TV series and movies, after last year?
|
|
|
|
|
The reason I was thinking of pausing production is that they've announced that the next season is "the last". Or at least the last on Prime. So, IP reverts to the production company, and they start shopping around for a movie deal. Wishful thinking, I guess as I'm enjoying the books.
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
Are RSS feeds really falling out of favor that badly?
I've been following Slashdot's RSS feed for years, and for the past 2+ months, nothing's come out of it on my RSS reader. I went directly at the source for the feed I'm using (Slashdot) and none of my browsers can even load a page at that address. The server name can't even get resolved.
Going to their main web page with a browser, even the RSS link near the top-right corner tries to go to that same address (and fails, obviously).
Slashdot's audience is very much the nerdy type who would much prefer something like a raw RSS feed over just about anything else, so I find it hard to believe that, of all sites, they would've just unceremoniously dropped support for RSS. I have dozens of other feeds from other sites that are much less technically-oriented, and /. is the only one that no longer works.
My google searches fail to pick up anything that indicates the address might have changed, or support was dropped, or even any discussion on this matter.
Slashdot's own FAQ is useless on this topic--the RSS links section all point to the same dead server. I see they have a blog, but the latest entry goes back to 2016. Every other contact option I can find seems to require an account to be created.
So...I can't be the only person here following /. through an RSS feed...?
|
|
|
|
|
It's working for me. Just saying.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
|
|
|
|
|
How should that even be possible then? I get the same results, from multiple browsers, from multiple machines, on my LAN. I suppose my IP could've been blocked, but then my router has been reset multiple times within that time period, and when that happens I always get a new IP.
I thought maybe it might have to do with Pi-Hole. The only domain containing "slashdot" that's explicitly blocked is deals.slashdot.org. But then, if a browser can load their main page, why not the RSS page...? I disabled the Pi-Hole entry, and the RSS page still doesn't load...
[Edit]
Well, well, well...the RSS feed now loads after temporarily disabling Pi-Hole altogether. Now, which of the 70,000+ domains it's blocking is responsible for this...
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
