Arrkk

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[–] Arrkk 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The key insight is that the force a plane uses to move is independent of the ground, because planes push on the air, not the ground.

Imagine you put a ball on a treadmill and turn it on, what happens? The ball starts to spin and move with the treadmill. Now take your hand and push the ball backwards against the motion of the treadmill, and the ball easily moves in that direction. The force your hand put on the ball is exactly what planes do, since they push on something other than the ground (the treadmill) they have no problem moving, no matter how fast the treadmill is moving.

[–] Arrkk 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Plane on a treadmill is really interesting because if you understand how planes work its so obvious what will happen you don't need to test it. Planes move on the ground by running their engines, which push against the air, the wheels provide zero motive force. It's also why planes need tugs to move away from the gate, you can't run the engines in reverse. Planes are not cars, but people tend to assume the thing they don't understand works like the thing they do understand, and refuse to believe their hasty assumption is wrong even when told directly their hasty assumption is wrong.

[–] Arrkk 14 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Weird place to ask, but both Poodling and SPH's are common.

[–] Arrkk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is, can tell just by looking at it it's a Rubik's brand.

[–] Arrkk 6 points 2 weeks ago

And what year did we start using that calendar system? Oh right, it was 525.

[–] Arrkk 2 points 3 weeks ago

For various math reasons you only get consistent systems with 2^n dimensions, so after complex you get quaternions with 4, then the next one that works is 8, then 16, etc. They become less useful because you lose various useful features, like you lose commutabiliy with quaternions (eg ab != ba), and every time you double you lose more things.

[–] Arrkk 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Somehow people always forget that Ubisoft published Trackmania (2020). (Limited) F2p, one time purchase for Standard access, yearly sub for club access, which is isn't even worth it if your not a dedicated player.

[–] Arrkk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah that's just MDMA.

[–] Arrkk 27 points 1 month ago

If not friend why friend shaped?

[–] Arrkk 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Not a French speaker,but more than a bit of a keyboard nerd. I can't help but notice how similar the layout is to the English alt layout Colemak, specifically the angle mod version for ISO keyboards. It is cool that this is an official standard layout. Is this planned to replace azerty completely? I don't see many other countries other than France making such a change, but I am excited that French has water looks to be a very good modern layout.

[–] Arrkk 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thus the kingkiller chronicle was born.

[–] Arrkk 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Connections
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