Random Thoughts Thread

[Pelado]

At least cities like Portland or Seattle have some natural barriers that inhibit sprawl. Boise just keeps on oozing outward. Like Phoenix, Denver, and um, many other cities west of the Mississippi.

Sorry, not sorry.

[old_gregg]

Intersting read... Traeger’s CEO on Cleaning Up a Toxic Culture

This part stood out:



I did not know Traeger is now HQ'd in Utah.

it is for as long as trilantic wants it to be

[YOhio]

Fox and Friends was playing in the gym locker room this morning and you wouldn't believe the shit the liberals are trying to pull.

[Bo Diddley]

Fox and Friends was playing in the gym locker room this morning and you wouldn't believe the shit the liberals are trying to pull.

YO is starting out strong this morning. Keep it coming brother! I got your back.

[Joe Public]

Do vegans take antibiotics when they get a bacterial infection?

[RC Vikings]

At least cities like Portland or Seattle have some natural barriers that inhibit sprawl. Boise just keeps on oozing outward. Like Phoenix, Denver, and um, many other cities west of the Mississippi.

Boise, Meridian, Eagle all more or less stay in the valley, when they start building houses down south and over the hill near the prison that's when you'll know sprawl has happened in Boise.

[falafel]

Do vegans take antibiotics when they get a bacterial infection?

I'm not sure, but I know it's an issue in Henderson.

[old_gregg]

Do vegans take antibiotics when they get a bacterial infection?

i don’t think funk’s yeast infections are curing themselves

[clackamascoug]

At least cities like Portland or Seattle have some natural barriers that inhibit sprawl. Boise just keeps on oozing outward. Like Phoenix, Denver, and um, many other cities west of the Mississippi.

Someday Redmond, Bend and Prineville will all be one city.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I knew that Google is the unintentional misspelling of Googol, a really, really big number (10¹⁰⁰), and that Brin and Page chose that name for their company because they expected Google one day would provide vast amounts of information. But how vast, one asks? Consider that the number of atoms in the known universe is estimated to be 10⁸⁰, quite a bit smaller than a Googol. So yes, that's a lot of information.

[Eddie]

I had a thought this morning as I was driving to work that I thought was pretty random and then it occurred to me that I finally had a truly random thought I could contribute to this thread. And then I forgot it.

[Northwestcoug]

Someday Redmond, Bend and Prineville will all be one city.

Not in our time!

I knew that Google is the unintentional misspelling of Googol, a really, really big number (10¹⁰⁰), and that Brin and Page chose that name for their company because they expected Google one day would provide vast amounts of information. But how vast, one asks? Consider that the number of atoms in the known universe is estimated to be 10⁸⁰, quite a bit smaller than a Googol. So yes, that's a lot of information.

I remember the first time learning that there were 10⁸⁰ particles in the universe. That blew me away. I even tried to work that out a bit to convince myself that such a seemingly small number would be right. Emphasis on tried.

Exponents are crazy.

[Scott R Nelson]

I remember the first time learning that there were 10⁸⁰ particles in the universe. That blew me away. I even tried to work that out a bit to convince myself that such a seemingly small number would be right. Emphasis on tried.

Exponents are crazy.

Try writing it out to see how big it is:

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000

[Jeff Lebowski]

Just for the record, a 32-bit floating point number in computer programming has a range of 3.4E+38 to +3.4E+38. By contrast a 64-bit floating point number has a range of -1.7E+308 to +1.7E+308. When teaching that concept I always tell folks "That is probably more than the number of atoms in the universe." Turns out I was right. By a mile!

[Northwestcoug]

What is crazy is that number isn't even atoms. Just particles. Crazy!