@Cerberus I knew we were kindred spirits. Best tower ever, right? I think I used to use it as the hinge in much larger castles I built around it on two separate plates, designed to open and close. ...My LEGO sets are all in my parents' attic, I think - now I really wish I had space for them in my apartment :)
In one of the articles about Whitey Bulger's arrest, the journalist wrote that investigators
found $822,198 in $100 bills
When I jokingly pointed this out to friends and family, everybody seemed to be dazzled by the big number that they don't realize the number is not a multiple of 100.
I...
Well, deletion was my feeling, since (to my current reckoning) it is simply wrong. That's a shame, though, perhaps.
I was just going to let you know first that although I didn't really have extra time to dig into it, the more I thought of it over the rest of the evening after discussing, it seemed like I didn't even need to, it just can't be applied in that way.
I would ask this on math.stackexchange.com, but it seems to be more related to the definition of 'opposite' rather than the definition of the trig functions.
My question is: what actually is the opposite of the sine of x (sin)?
Is it the cosine (cos)? Is it the cosecant (csc)? Is it the inverse...
As I said in my comment, (1) you need to know math to answer the question, and (2) you don't actually have to know English to answer the question - it could have been asked in any language that happens to have the concept of "opposite". Ergo, off-topic.
It's not terribly late here, only 18:30, but still, ugh, I'm tired of finding one thing I missed and having to re-output a whole bunch of PDFs. I need my own proofreader.
@z7sg Ooh, a CV! You must be on the other side of the pond or in academia. I've only got a resume.
I've never got into that. Some of my friends play it and they say "wooo I just made a logic gate" or like "forged a giant glass sphere" or other such things... uhhh ok guys, sounds fun! :|
They have their own private server and stuff, floating islands and they all have their own little house to hide in when the monsters come out. I'm not going to play, na-uh. ;)
I've been playing it in multiplayer on my own server with my better half, and with my brother (we used to play LEGO together surprisingly cooperatively for siblings) so it's quite fun to work on a mutual construction project.
That's the problem. First you make the house. Then you hide from monsters. Then you think, ok, let's make another house. And some bridges. And well-lit paths so the monsters don't get us. And then it's 02:00 and you fall asleep dreaming of the bloody thing.
I naively thought that I couldn't get addicted to a game without a defined endpoint. Turns out it's worse. Don't start.
@z7sg I didn't play that particular Sim City, but I played it long ago... and I've played the last few Civilization versions, including one for mobile. I think that one was the only one where I really finished games since they were geared a lot shorter.
Man, now I want to play some super old simcity with the monsters all wrecking my towns.
Arrrgh, stupid PDF combiner, why do you think you know better than me? I know I want to add the same file twice. It's for a reason. I promise.
@z7sg I really should do that, but I don't want to admit I'm a grownup yet.
@z7sg Being responsible about doing my laundry and such is one thing. But suppose I admit I'm old, and suddenly, I forget how to be an incurable cynic? They'd pull the wool over my eyes in a flash like with all those other grownups. I might start thinking, wow, I really have to help my company leverage our talent to grow our business.
@z7sg I'm outta here. Finally. Whoda thunk this stupid PDF would take so long? I gotta start remembering to budget double time for everything I haven't done exceedingly recently.
In one of the articles about Whitey Bulger's arrest, the journalist wrote that investigators
found $822,198 in $100 bills
When I jokingly pointed this out to friends and family, everybody seemed to be dazzled by the big number that they don't realize the number is not a multiple of 100.
I...
I would ask this on math.stackexchange.com, but it seems to be more related to the definition of 'opposite' rather than the definition of the trig functions.
My question is: what actually is the opposite of the sine of x (sin)?
Is it the cosine (cos)? Is it the cosecant (csc)? Is it the inverse...
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