Dr. Bob @ DrBob @lemmy.ca

Recovering academic now in public safety. You'll find me kibitzing on brain

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I have given up on "steep learning curve". A learning curve is proficiency on the Y axis against time on the X. A steep learning curve indicates something that is learned very quickly. A shallow learning curve is something that takes a long time to master. See Ebbinghaus 1885.

Are you my brother-in-law?

Get bent. Impacted is absolutely acceptable usage to describe a direct or follow on affect from an action or initiative. It's useful precisely because it's an intensifier that conveys not just that there is a detectable change in an indicator, but there is a major change that directly attributable to the manipulated variable.

ETA: I think I have this figured out. That 70s Show use the phrase "get bent" as a synonym for "fuck off". That's not how I learned the meaning in the actual 70s. It was closer in meaning to "get real" and in line with the reported etymology of "go have a drink".

Because it's financially supported by foreign actors?

Eve online.

By number 3 there were extended scenes. No penis or vulva.

Tell me you've never played a Witcher game using a whole paragraph.

The majority of the population does not access an independent press. Sinclair Communications, Fox etc. don't want a horse race, they have their whole hands on the scale pushing for a Trump victory.

Anything that presents a risk of viewing a penis.

Please please please let it be Lambert and Keira Metz squabbling all over the continent as they track something stupid.

help them relieve stress by unburdening them...

Uhhhh what are you suggesting here exactly?

I blocked that annoying piece of shit. It added nothing to discussion.

1. Nothing.
2. Chicken salad on a croissant.
3. Grilled pork loin with corn and beets from the garden. And a random potato from the grocery store.

All of those platforms have used that strategy. I think both FARK and Reddit had/have professional trolls on the payroll back in the day to drive controversy and therefore engagement.

They wore AR-15 pins for that...https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-clyde-reveals-himself-as-source-of-ar-15-assault-rifle-pins

I have all that shit autoblocked.

In Patrick O'Brian's novels some/many of the cannons had sizing hoops. Incoming balls would be sorted by size because not every ball would fit every barrel.

I got you bro.

If I recall I don't think barrels and balls were precision machined so there would always be "windage" or some sort of gap between the ball and barrel. So not only the timings as you identify, but also differences in force between the balls due to windage and charge.

We don't have any contact with candidates after the interview apart from a firm rejection. I'd love to provide feedback and advice to people but legal won't let us.