It’s when you make some calculations or plans, but they would only work in “perfect” conditions. Like when you have an assignment about a horse running from A to B, and you made some calculations, but you disregard horse’s shape, friction, air resistance, and gravity
beveradb@sh.itjust.works
on 31 Aug 15:54
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Oh cool, thanks for explaining!
I guess the closest equivalent phrasing I’m used to would be “sounds good on paper” - or in Scotland (home for me) someone would probably reply with "Aye, and if my granny had wheels she’d be a bike.” 😂
Therefore the density of penguin flesh on a flat glacier surface can be estimated to be 3pi/4 l x w x h where length and width are the area of the penguins, and h is the average height of the penguin.
Now assume pi is 4. Proceed to have a nervous breakdown.
20 points.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 01 Sep 00:31
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In conclusion, the physical properties of penguins constitute a suboptimal replacement for graphite moderation of neutron propogation in a nuclear reactor.
Further, tested penguins were largely non responsive to all different training approaches attempting to have them associate the verbal command “Scram!” with the desired behavior of promptly entering the reactor pool.
tomiant@programming.dev
on 01 Sep 04:33
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The only thing missing is a period.
Gustephan@lemmy.world
on 01 Sep 06:22
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(…) of uniform density in a neutral vacuum.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
on 01 Sep 06:32
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…of bird like material which can be represented by a mass average of bone and flesh. This can be used in bird strike simulations for studying aircraft windshield performance as compared to thawed penguins shot out of a pneumatic canon. (I actually went to a talk that discussed exactly this except you replace “penguin” with “bird” in general).
ICastFist@programming.dev
on 01 Sep 13:53
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Enough to create at least 5 different distros
billwashere@lemmy.world
on 01 Sep 12:54
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On a frictionless plane?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
on 01 Sep 13:13
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Other than break accessibility, searchability, fault tolerance, & make the web less usable, what is this image of text lacking alt text doing that real text doesn’t?
threaded - newest
takes to Reddit
Help! Something sensitive is stuck in a cylinder and I need to get it out…
You should only ever use penguins with a flared base
Not sure if it’s popular internationally, but in Russian, “a calculation for a spherical horse in vacuum” is used quite often
What does it mean?
It’s when you make some calculations or plans, but they would only work in “perfect” conditions. Like when you have an assignment about a horse running from A to B, and you made some calculations, but you disregard horse’s shape, friction, air resistance, and gravity
Oh cool, thanks for explaining! I guess the closest equivalent phrasing I’m used to would be “sounds good on paper” - or in Scotland (home for me) someone would probably reply with "Aye, and if my granny had wheels she’d be a bike.” 😂
Nah, that’s more like russian “if grandmother had balls, she’d be grandfather”
And the horse
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Spherical cows is the one I always hear.
Sorry but even after doing that it is still clear we need more tariffs on the penguins whether we assume they are cylinders or not.
It is not a square cylinder.
A triangular cylinder is right out.
Square cylinders are just cubes. Triangle cylinders are triangular prisms.
I don’t see the problem, really. What other shape would a penguin come in?
They're typically roughly cuboid, though best approximated with rounded corners, and wrapped in a layer of plastic.
I might need a snack.
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An oloid, the only shape nature has ever intending them to be in.
But what shall I do once a circular cylinder has been assumed? A cylinder whose cross section takes the shape of a circle?
Therefore the density of penguin flesh on a flat glacier surface can be estimated to be 3pi/4 l x w x h where length and width are the area of the penguins, and h is the average height of the penguin.
It is imperative that the cylinder not be harmed.
… the cylinder knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t: where it was, and where it likely will be.
It’s a cylinder
Accelerate the penguin to 99% the speed of light
Assume no air resistance
From the patent for pneumatic tubes delivery systems
Ok, but let me see the the source code of the cylinder.
My guess is that this is to do with penguin huddling and circle packing
Now assume pi is 4. Proceed to have a nervous breakdown.
20 points.
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In conclusion, the physical properties of penguins constitute a suboptimal replacement for graphite moderation of neutron propogation in a nuclear reactor.
Further, tested penguins were largely non responsive to all different training approaches attempting to have them associate the verbal command “Scram!” with the desired behavior of promptly entering the reactor pool.
The only thing missing is a period.
(…) of uniform density in a neutral vacuum.
…In a vacuum.
…of bird like material which can be represented by a mass average of bone and flesh. This can be used in bird strike simulations for studying aircraft windshield performance as compared to thawed penguins shot out of a pneumatic canon. (I actually went to a talk that discussed exactly this except you replace “penguin” with “bird” in general).
… how many linux users got mad?
Enough to create at least 5 different distros
On a frictionless plane?
Other than break accessibility, searchability, fault tolerance, & make the web less usable, what is this image of text lacking alt text doing that real text doesn’t?
As opposed to a rectangular cylinder
I always compared pinguins with a Klein Bottle