The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXIV

[Timsup2nothin]

What is this supposed to mean?

1-(19^N/20^N) might as well be a violent sneeze to someone who isn't versed in probabilities.

Working through how that violent sneeze is arrived at is how one becomes versed in probabilities. I could walk you through that if you want.

 

[Takhisis]

Probability of not getting a twenty when rolling a fair 20 sided die N times equals 19^N divided by 20^N. Therefor probabilty (P) of getting at least one twenty in N rolls is 1-(19^N/20^N).

Ah! I knew there was a more elegant way of writing it.

Writing functions here is not that hard.

Yet, as Synsensa pointed out, just coming up with the formula without the explanation wouldn't help a layman that much.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You could just get a couple of blank d20s and paint a "20" on every side. Of course you wouldn't get away with using them in an actual tabletop, in-person game.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Much bigger, range and space for sure the big reason.... but also much more variety in shape
Not an effecient boring box, but trucks with a real identity.... a piece of beauty.... something to be proud on and to love.

Has that not also to do with the ownership ?

In Europe drivers are and have mostly been employees. And is it not so that in the US it is much more common that drivers own or lease their truck ?
(perhaps that changed over the last decades...)


European trucks have also their sleeping 1-2 bed sleeping space.

Sounds to me for American truckers as much more than a job, but a way of life
without that much of a life at home, if any at all.

Well the bolded is just wrong but don't let that stop you.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Where should we dump news and have discussions on general US government stupidity while the Clown cars thread is down?
There is a backlog of stupidity that need discussing.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Where should we dump news and have discussions on general US government stupidity while the Clown cars thread is down?
There is a backlog of stupidity that need discussing.

There's another place, y'know... not as many people, but you can have your say.

 

[civvver]

Has anyone tried caffeine pills as a replacement for coffee or pop/energy drinks? I'm considering trying it and just drinking water.

Supposedly they have less of a crash than pop, though I only drink sugar free pop and I think the crash people talk about might be from sugar not caffeine. I don't drink a lot, 2-3 12 ounce cans a day (that's around one liter). Each can is 40-55 mg of caffeine, so I'm only having 1.5 cups of coffee equivalent. I am addicted though, if I go a whole day without caffeine I'll get headaches in the evening. I would try the 100mg pills, take in the late morning with water, sub all my pop with water. I already drink a lot of water as well, probably around 2-3 liters per day.

I mainly want to try it to see if I feel healthier/less tired, and it's much more cost effective. I get pop pretty cheap, 36 packs at costco for $10, but caffeine pills are like 250 for $10. So it would save me over $30 a month.

My concern is I might still crave the sweetness from pop, I might have more of a caffeine dependency than now since it's easy to over consume caffeine in pill form, and it might upset my stomach. I find coffee and wine very acidic and can't drink them.

 

[Samson]

Has anyone tried caffeine pills as a replacement for coffee or pop/energy drinks? I'm considering trying it and just drinking water.

I tried them as a replacement for coffee when working long hours driving. I found that they had very little effect on stopping me dosing compared to a strong coffee. I suspected that the strong taste of coffee was having a strong placebo effect that was most of what I was feeling. Your mileage may vary.

 

[Snerk]

I tried them once but it seems caffeine has zero effect on me. I love coffee but it's never made me any less tired.

 

[civvver]

Maybe cus I don't consume a lot of caffeine it still works? I always drink my first pop on the way to work at like 8:30am. It doesn't make me feel less tired, it makes me feel even or normal. Then I usually have one with my lunch. Don't really notice that one cus I'm eating. But if I'm super sleepy in the afternoon and drink a pop by itself I get a noticeable increase in attentiveness. If I drink any later than that I find I am not tired at night. So yes it still works for me.

 

[shadowplay]

Anybody here have a milkman?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You mean someone who drives around neighborhoods in a van, delivering milk, yogurt, cream, etc.?

It's been about 40 years since I've seen one of those. We bought milk and yogurt twice a week, when I was still going to school.

 

[Cutlass]

Anybody here have a milkman?

I don't know that anyone has done that in this area in at least 30 years.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Do people keep chipmunks as pets? I saw a chipmunk in my yard, and it occurred to me that they're as cute as a lot of the small mammals people keep as pets: gerbils, mice, rats. But I've never heard of anyone keeping one as a pet. It's not that I want to. Just idle curiosity.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Yes. I had a friend in Nursing school who had a chipmunk for a pet. His name was Norman. Cute little things, but they like to chew stuff.

 

[Zkribbler]

It's been about 40 years since I've seen one of those.

60 years for me.

 

[Takhisis]

Yes. I had a friend in Nursing school who had a chipmunk for a pet. His name was Norman. Cute little things, but they like to chew stuff.

Norman was the chipmunk's name?

 

[Arakhor]

We had a milkman when I was a boy/teen, but that was 20+ years ago now.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Do people keep chipmunks as pets? I saw a chipmunk in my yard, and it occurred to me that they're as cute as a lot of the small mammals people keep as pets: gerbils, mice, rats. But I've never heard of anyone keeping one as a pet. It's not that I want to. Just idle curiosity.

It's not legal here, since they're classified as wildlife.

 

[Hrothbern]

Do people keep chipmunks as pets? I saw a chipmunk in my yard, and it occurred to me that they're as cute as a lot of the small mammals people keep as pets: gerbils, mice, rats. But I've never heard of anyone keeping one as a pet. It's not that I want to. Just idle curiosity.

I had one for 8 years.
They are real nice as pets
Smart and curious, watching everything around them, glinstering eyes and when excited making their tail very thick and wagging it. Fantastic to see.

I was 12 when on holiday bicycling through a Dutch city and saw directly behind the shop window of a petshop dozens of chipmunks hopping through each other and fell directly in love. My mother happily enough as well.
So when at home convinced my mother to do it and biked back to that pet shop and bought one
At home I had already organised a 1 meter high parakeet cage with a small tree trunk and a hollowed out coconut as sleep home. A layer of 10 cm woodchips at the bottom where he had different spots to burry his treasures and to piss and defecate.
Every day we let him out of the cage for one hour, and lured him back in with fresh food. The rodent stuff plus a hazelnut and a piece of an orange. We had to move a row of 4 meter living plants in their pots to another room, because he liked to dig in the pots. It turned out he shredded books as well, because in spring he used everything he could find for making his nest.
Normally after some hopping around he came sitting on my shoulder, getting some snacks and nibbling at my ears and my hair. I reading mostly a book.
He escaped once to the public garden and it took a couple of days to find him again. When I caught him, he bit to the bone on both side of my thumb, also through the nail.

The food he most liked, besides the nuts ofc, was insects. When it was grasshopper time, I used my fishing net to catch a lot of them in high grass and let them loose in the living room when he was out of his cage.
Just to bad we had no camera to film that.

All in all a real nice pet.
But meanwhile also forbidden here in the Netherlands to keep as pet.