Jerkface

joined 1 year ago
[–] Jerkface 1 points 8 hours ago

It was abundantly clear to me. Cheers, buddy!

[–] Jerkface 3 points 19 hours ago

If I had a plane, I would be escaping my family right now.

[–] Jerkface 2 points 4 days ago

I can only answer partially but I'll give it my best shot. Dimensions don't have to represent physical space, or anything related to it. Sometimes a fourth dimension is used to represent time, but really it could represent anything.

An example I saw frequently in school used different recipes for, say bread. They all have similar ingredients: flour, water, yeast. Each recipe can be represented as a vector in three dimensions. X might be flour, Y might be water, Z might be yeast. Easy to visualize. You can imagine a center at some arbitrary point in space, and we can say that any point in that space relative to it's center is another recipe. If it helps to see what I mean, any point that lies in an axis would only have one ingredient. The very center represents the bread recipe with no amount of any ingredient. Those would be terrible recipes, since they wouldn't actually make any bread, but that's what those points would represent.

Since we're imagining things as points in space, we can even use things like the distance formulas you learned in geometry to determine how far apart the recipes are in the imagined space. Well, obviously recipes can have more than three ingredients. Suppose we add salt and sugar to the recipes. Now the vectors representing those recipes have five dimensions. The cool thing is, those formulas we used still work in any number of dimensions. We just use a more general form of them.

I hope that helps sort of get you acquainted with the idea of higher dimensions in mathematics. I learned by taking two terms of linear algebra. The second term was pretty difficult.We were all very confused 😂

[–] Jerkface 3 points 1 week ago

Surely they mean submachine gun? Or are there Brownings on the streets of Mexico?

[–] Jerkface 72 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I worked at a university and I heard women call each other "bro" all the time.

[–] Jerkface 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Jerkface 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, I see! We give him a hot cold-dog to warm his icy heart?

[–] Jerkface 1 points 3 weeks ago

These all look great

  • Hacknet
  • Half minute hero
  • Into the breach
  • King's Quest Season Pass

And thanks for the two great titles you've gifted me already! I'm having lots of fun with Gauntlet~

[–] Jerkface 2 points 3 weeks ago

Would be stoked for

  • FTL
  • Gauntlet
  • Grim Fandango

Though you already gifted me a game from the last list if you're wanting to spread them out. Thanks again, and take care!

[–] Jerkface 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fantastic list. Here's wishing you Happy holidays!

  • Dead Space 2
  • Day of the Tentacle
  • Dragon Age
  • Europa Universal is IV

Cheers!

[–] Jerkface 11 points 1 month ago

I could have been a billionaire if I felt like it. I just didn't feel like it.

[–] Jerkface 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried a combination safe? Not quite as stylish, but insanely practical. You get to open it up and look at your dirty work after it's done.

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