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NeatNit

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  • Would one run faster without arms?

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  • I assume Windows is inexplicably a typo of QI?

    I totally agree. I believe they make some effort to get their facts right, but it's not their highest priority by any stretch. I also suspect they might sometimes leave crucial details on the cutting room floor.

    In this instance I get the impression that Sandi actually meant the arms are still swung but just kept straight, like a Minecraft run. But then Bill interpreted it as the arms kept straight and motionless, like that one Seinfeld episode, and Sandi didn't correct him.

  • Would one run faster without arms?

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  • once you’re up to a steady speed it doesn’t make so much difference.

    [Citation needed]. You're still fighting gravity so being lighter makes each step easier. There is also less air drag (but I don't know how much difference this makes).

  • Would one run faster without arms?

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  • I have seen claims that this isn't actually true, swinging our arms to counterbalance the legs is less efficient than just keeping them in place.

    Where did I see this claim? Why, it was in this peer-reviewed scientific paper: https://youtu.be/-QW25fJ34nA , where by "peer-reviewed" I mean filmed with a live studio audience, and by "scientific paper" I mean segment of a TV panel show.

    So uhhh yeah I'm not buying it but I can't be bothered to check their sources.

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  • What, you think this isn't real experience? It absolutely is. She's a true master!

  • Fictional

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  • A quick glance at the summary table can answer that. Planck units seem to do the trick.

  • Fictional

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  • Come on, you are able to analize words!

    No, you can't. Believe me, I've tried. I did everything I could to analyze this topic. There are many things that are possible to analize. Many household items. But not words.

  • Fictional

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  • There are various systems of units where select physical constants are set to 1. A handy comparison chart is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units?wprov=sfla1

    It turns out you can't harmonize all the physical constants. Some will necessarily end up as some non-round number.

    Most of them have speed of light = 1, but some have it as 1/α where α is the fine-structure constant (α = e² / 4πε₀ħc ≈ 0.007297)

  • the self checkout machines at Walmart need a reboot. syslinux 6.03

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  • I think (not 100% sure) that UEFI is a replacement for BIOS. All modern computers use UEFI.

    People still colloquially call it "BIOS" because it serves a similar purpose, but there is a technical difference.

  • up and atom

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  • How much money would it take for you to eat hot soup while watching a spooky movie?

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  • Horror movies never really work on me. I just find them boring. Jump scares might make me jump some of the time, but it doesn't actually scare me, it's just the surprise factor and my working reflexes. I think if I'm drinking soup I'll be able to suppress that reflex. Probably.

    You'll have to pay me to watch the horror movie, but I'll pay to add the soup. Call it even?

  • If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet"

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  • 0/5 stars. We stayed here for an infinite amount of time over the holiday. Every 10 minutes the staff moved us to a different room! We didn't even get a chance to unpack our infinite luggage.

  • Banana

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  • Get out.

  • Fight me

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  • You're welcome! Folding@home is the big one, and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search is also pretty popular (though IMHO a waste of resources for a relatively useless result). But I just looked into this topic myself after posting that comment, and turns out there's a huge list of such "volunteer computing" projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects

    So while Folding@home is a great one and medical scientific research, you might pick something else from that list. Perhaps more than one!

    Now the confession: I'm a hypocrite. I never ran any of these volunteer computing projects on my own PCs. But that's partly because I tend to shut them off every night, so a lot of the usable time for it isn't really usable. The other part is basically that I never bothered to do it.

    But I think after this conversation reminded me of it, I might look into installing it on my PC!

  • Fight me

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  • At that point you might as well run Folding@home on your PC just to act as a heater. It's literally a win-win for you and for society.

  • Cat shenanigans

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  • I guess it could be the case, you're right. Hard to tell from this angle.

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  • This is a fever dream.

  • Why is every person involved in a movie listed in the credits?

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  • Edit: To all those that took my geniune question about what historically lead to this, and turned it into accusations of me being some sort of thoughtless "asshole", [...]

    I only see one comment doing that. Am I missing something?

    Either way, this was a great question and I enjoyed reading it and the answers it got, so thanks for posting it!

  • Cat shenanigans

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  • A cabinet of drawers is really easy to relocate. Even if you rent with furniture included, you're generally allowed to move furniture around to your liking as long as you don't damage anything.

    (Unless I've been living in a bubble, which tbh is possible but sounds insane to me)

    But to be fair to me, I did say that if there's no other choice then so be it.