prime_number_314159

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[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm mentally well, I just like thinking about hypotheticals. I have no plans (nor any desire) to fight any number of squirrels to the death, and I do not condone doing so as entertainment or sport.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There are details missing in this question that matter tremendously. Squirrels are faster and more agile than us. If they are well coordinated, and behave optimally to win (without concern to their individual survival, only the group's success), I think it would take only a small number of squirrels to brutally murder most people, something like 5. I think their best strategy would be to go for the eyes first, then inflict bleeding injuries and escape again before the person can react. Without tools, and without backup, this approach wouldn't take long to wear down most people.

If the squirrels don't care about their own survival, but make straightforward attacks, I'd think closer to 10-20. The person's injuries will still compound quickly, but once thet have a grip of a squirrel, it wouldn't be especially hard to lethally injure.

If the squirrels still behave like squirrels, and are instead attacking because (for example), they are starving, then the number probably doesn't matter much, as they're more likely to go after each other, and the person would have the opportunity to plan and ambush small groups at a time.

Not a song per se, but I was listening to "Relaxing - Bach in my ass".

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The sun itself is a medium that can propogate sound waves. Someone standing on the Moon could equally well make the case that there is no medium to propagate pressure waves from the Earth, so the Earth must not make a sound.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Carrots will be sweeter if you let them grow for a full season, then harvest shortly before, during, or shortly after winter. They stock up on sugars to reduce the risk of freezing, which makes them sweeter.

Companies try to maximize green per red. By paying less, and getting the same, they maximize that, year after year until (in a temporary and unforeseeable setback) you leave for... Bluer pastures, apparently.

There are different sorts of companies, and the more they think of employees as a number of years of experience plus a stack of skills, the more susceptible they are to believing that replacing humans with other equally skilled humans is a productive way to spend their time.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Indeed or Monster or someone should just publish an open source JSON spec, and then by sheer weight make it the default. I don't understand why they haven't done so.

Arch Linux is a spectrum mean it says tomorrow

McDonald's at sea is just as good (if not better) than land McDonald's.

You are definitely misreading what they said. The meaning you attribute doesn't make any sense in the context of the post and the remainder of their comment.

"Nobody I know doesn't eat onions." is equivalent to "Everybody I know does eat onions." but not to "Everybody I know eats nothing except onions."

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In your first comment, in this thread, you asked "you've never met anyone in your life who uses pet names for their SO?"

I (and I believe the other people responding to you) don't think that's a reasonable interpretation of the comment you were responding to.

The top comment (with the double negative removed for clarity) said that Every couple that commenter knows in real life does use each others' legal names. This does not suggest that those couples do not also use pet names, but your question implies that you think it does. This implication is what other commenters are responding to.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've heard this comparison so many times I ran some experiments. A number 8 1.5" coated decking screw inserted into two one by pine boards through the grain by a hammer holds about half as well as one inserted using a screwdriver. One hit to drive the screw is better than several, but a two hit approach (one to set the angle of the screw tip, the second to send it home) was most reliable. Drilling a pilot hole before hammering improves things pretty significantly, up towards 3/4 of the holding power of a driver driven screw.

On the other hand, even very slight misalignment between the hammer swing and the screw can result in failure, and the board was always more damaged by a hammer inserted screw.

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