Hamartiogonic

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Add a long pipe labyrinth so narrow it will cause turbulence and loose an unpredictable amount of energy that way. The mathematician who can predict how that mess works out gets a noble prize and a pack of drill bits.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Build a bund wall, and throw a pump in there as well. Then, just pump the liquid back into the tank to keep it full at all times. In order to deter mathematically inclined terrorists, use a variable frequency drive and make that frequency change every second. The problem becomes unsolvable.

There are other options too. You could fill the tank with tar, any really thick slurry, molten sodium, hydrogen sulfide, 2-mercaptoethanol, propane just to name a few. Drill into a tank like that and you’ll regret that decision instantly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ok, but the probability would still be shifted towards starting at night.

Maybe it could be more like 80% for it to start beeping in the night and 20% it starts during other times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t the lower temperature make it highly likely that the low power beep occurs only during the middle of the night, but not during the day?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

Best thing is, those changes would not upset anyone in the slightest. It’s just physically impossible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

We should have hired him to make a scifi movie about how humanity fixed the climate change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh that’s just great. Two similar place names like that, and they also happen to be relatively close to each other. I can see how that could cause some confusion.

Similarly, Kuhmo and Kuhmoinen (both in Finland) are about 446 km apart, but you can easily avoid the confusion as long as you know roughly which part of the country you’re talking about.

There’s also Helsingborg (town in Sweden) and Helsinfors (swedish name for the capital of Finland). What could go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OMG, that makes it so much worse. If someone tells you about a specific place, and you want to look it up later, you have absolutely zero chance of ever spelling it correctly. Good luck typing lester or woster in Wikipedia or Maps.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I can only think if Toron(t)o. Never really thought about other towns doing the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Lithosphere and mantle. Got it. 👍

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