what i wanna know is how captcha technology went from having to type in a barely readable code, to just. clicking a button. how does this tell you im not a robot. can robots Not press the big funky button
I know this is a shitpost but just in case you don’t know, it actually tracks the way the cursor moves. Bots can click it instantly and moving in a perfectly straight line, people take a few milliseconds to react and move the mouse imperfectly. If the computer’s still not sure whether you’re a human or not, it makes you do the 3×3 photo grid thing I never seem to get right
In a recent naruto shippuden filler I was watching, we got to see Rock Lee taking off his legweights at a calculatable height.
At this moment, I was wondering: “Hey… I can probably calcute the mass of Lee’s legweights from that.”
The impact of these objects caused the same damages a dynamite would do on this type of ground, so I went with that and searched the energy a dynamite could deliver.
A single stick of dynamite can deliver up to 1 megajoules (100’000 Joules) of Energy. (and, to put this into perspective, to lift one apple 1 meter into the air, you need to use 1 joule of energy)
Ep being the Potential of (mecanical) Energy an object has in [J];
m being the mass in [kg]
g being the accenleration of gravity in [m/s^2]
and h being the height in [meters]
Then I tried to calculate the height.
Rock Lee is about 177 [cm] tall, and he brought the weights to his shoulders. So I substracted to that about 27 cm because
that’s roughly the distance there is from the top of the head to the shoulders in a person roughly that height that’s a good choice, i think. (at least i measured it on myself and I’m 1.78[m] tall )
So I got the height. The only constant we don’t know yet is the mass, which is what we’re looking for.So far, my equation was:
Ep = mgh —> which in our case is ->
100’000 [J] = m * 9.81[m/s^2] * 1.50[m]
(note that g is a constant which equals 9.81[m/s^2])
Ep/(gh) = m
100’000[J]/ (9.81*1.50) = m = about 67957 [kg]
Were my calculations right? well lettuce sea
There, my calculations were right, mostly
So yeah, that’s pretty inhumane, but it’s the story about a kid who has a demon in his bellly which has the energy of like a thousand suns tbh so
tl;dr Lee’s legweights weight about 68’000 [kg] or 149’914 [lbs] or, if you can’t understand how heavy that shit is, it’s about ten times the weight of an elephant for each legweight.
Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD
As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:
Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.
Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”
Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.
Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.
Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.
Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.
Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”
Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”
Growing up as a multilingual person, I can tell you for sure we try to search for words in a much funnier or in a more LOGICAL way.
When I talk to my dad, it happens that I suddenly forget a word in German and use the Turkish word instead and ask him “That word, what was that in German? How the hell did I forget that???”
One scenario with my mom, I told her in Turkish “Oh look, there’s a …. “Kürbis” design on that bag … What was “Kürbis” in Turkish again? That orange thing?” and my mom goes: “………. Now that you said that …. Shit, I forgot. I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, BUT … I JUST FORGOT. WE ALWAYS EAT ITS SEEDS.” And we ended up debating on that the entire way back home. It turns out it’s “kabak”.
When I talk to my best friend, most of the time we BOTH end up forgetting words in German and just say it in English instead or vice versa. For example: “Was war das Wort nochmal? …. Du weißt e, “appreciate”.”
Bi- and multilingual people have the cognitive ability to respond instantly in the way they need to in another language. It is only when words do not instantly pop up in their minds, but we make it possible to use the same word in another language to overcome these communicative obstacles, especially when you’re aware you’re with people who speak more than one language. You use that for your own advantage.
2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.
3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?
But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.
And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.
Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?
Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.
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Also: let’s keep it real – we multi-task better than you do. If I’m on the phone with you, I’m FORCED to do that ONE thing and put whatever you want above all the other things I could’ve been doing. If you e-mail me, I can research what you want (while doing other things), find the solution (while doing other things), and offer it to you in a nice concise package (while doing other things) without sitting on the phone with you in awkward silence looking for the answer to whatever you think is urgent. (It’s not urgent. You’re not dying. I know it’s not urgent.)
OP is being kind in saying “i don’t have to trust your recollection.” people straight up lie, especially customers.
Had something happen the other day, I thought I’d bring this PSA back.
I just got a pair of medical bills totaling $700. The things is, neither of them were correct.
My primary care doctor never even sent the claim to the insurance, they straight up
billed me the full charge out of pocket, and couldn’t even explain why when I called them – they had my insurance on file and everything.
My dentist sent me a bill
without processing the insurance’s response to the claim – they told me that they didn’t receive it until after they sent me the bill, but the
date on the insurance’s decision was a full month before the date on the dentist’s bill, so I’m thinking that was a big fat lie.
What did I actually owe, after calling and getting all this sorted
out? $29.75.
Now, I spent 8 years doing medical billing, I have the experience to look at these bills and explanation-of-benefits letters and know that what I’m being charged isn’t correct. What really appalls me is
knowing that most people in this situation wouldn’t know that this wasn’t legit, and would probably just
pay up – or end up in collections when they can’t.
The truth is, most medical billing in the US today is outsourced to medical billing companies – doctors’ offices and even hospitals don’t always have the manpower needed for the lengthy, complicated, difficult and time-consuming process of medical billing. And a lot of these companies are poorly run and staffed by employees with minimal training who don’t know anything about the doctors or procedures or patients they’re billing for – meaning lots of errors. Additionally, these companies operate on a profit model that demands maximum payment for minimum effort – if it’s not easy money, then it’s not worth their time. They submit the simplest claims possible, and if they get paid, great – if not, then they mark the claim denied, assign financial responsibility to the patient, and move on to the next. Chances are, they’re not going to contact the insurance company and find out why it was denied, much less revise and resubmit the claim, or file an appeal.
If you get a medical bill that seems high, call the provider who sent the bill and tell them exactly that. Ask them to please take a look at it and see if there were any issues. Ask them to explain it to you. Ask them about the insurance’s decision. Have them walk you through it until you feel comfortable. If you have to, call the insurance company to ask why they decided the claim the way they did. (always, always, ALWAYS be polite!) It won’t always help – sometimes they’ll bullshit you, and sometimes medical bills are just high. But you can at least ask whether every effort has been made to get you covered.
things I have seen in my job at a medical billing company just in the past few weeks:
someone who was charged an additional $25 copay because their insurance incorrectly processed a claim as if the provider was out of network
someone whose insurance denied their claim stating they weren’t enrolled, despite paying another claim on the exact same date of service
someone who got a bill for $400 because the scan of their insurance card was blurry and we had a P where an F should have gone in the ID
someone who got a bill because their insurance requested more information and our dumbass software took a zero payment from the insurance to mean “oop, guess this is the patient’s responsibility!” yeah it wasn’t
someone whose claim got denied by insurance because “smoking cessation counseling” is a male-specific procedure (?!?!? still haven’t figured out what happened there; apparently it’s the insurance who needs to stop smoking whatever it is they’re smoking)
someone who got a bill for $800 because we billed their claim to Tricare *north* instead of Tricare *east*
There are so many dumb reasons your bill can get fucked up, guys, believe me because I see it every day. A legitimate company will never have a problem going over the charges with you and checking for errors.
Worth noting – two of those people came within inches of going to collections because they received three bills but never called us to see what was up. Only a last minute check before it got sent out prevented that – and most companies don’t have the manpower to do those last minute checks. Hell my company doesn’t have the manpower but I do it every month anyway because I know exactly how often we fuck up. If you get a bill you think you shouldn’t be getting, please don’t just ignore it. Even if you call and they say “yes, that’s exactly what you owe and here’s why”, you haven’t lost anything.
Medical billing is stupid, friends. Protect yourselves.
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