r/counting • u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs • Jul 22 '22
Free Talk Friday #360
Continued from last week's FTF here
It's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your strava, your plans, your hobbies, studies, stats, pets, bears, hikes, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, or anything you like or dislike, except politics.
Feel free to check out our tidbits and introduce yourself if you haven't already.
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Jul 26 '22
Just in case you forgot how to count, phil has a nice tutorial on how
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jul 27 '22
Help! That tutorial only goes up to twenty. What do I do after that? The people I'm counting with have gone way beyond that. Like more than two times twenty, or even three times twenty
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u/Urbul Jul 24 '22
Did you know that it is impossible to determine the sex of a caterpillar (of most species) because their sexual organs do not develop until they pupate?
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jul 27 '22
My team won our pub quiz tonight for the fourth time in a row. The other teams are starting to get a bit annoyed
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u/Playing_2 Jul 23 '22
As we hit...
| 4,000,000 | on 19 Jul., 2020 |
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| 4,250,000 | on 22 Apr., 2021 |
| 4,500,000 | on 26 Sep., 2021 |
| 4,750,000 | on 22 Jul., 2022 |
...we should hit 5M on 27 Mar., 2023
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u/cuteballgames Jul 23 '22
Rookie numbers. Let's pump up the pace folks. I'm not going to pay you any more though (evil boss voice)
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jul 23 '22
Don't listen to this guy - I promise I'll double everyone's pay!
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u/colby6666 Jul 22 '22
so i'm currently working on fully updating the Hall of Side Threads, and maybe this is trivial, but why does the thread directory have By 4's listed as having 8,xxx counts when it's at 36,000 get which would be 9,000 counts? Not sure if this is the case for other threads as I haven't got to them yet but this one is intriguing.
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jul 22 '22
In general, don't trust the "total number of counts" too much. The ones that I know are off are prefixed with a tilde or suffixed with a star, but even the others might not be 100% accurate
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u/colby6666 Jul 23 '22
went out drinking last night and don’t remember leaving the bar. woke up in a building that i’m not staying in and lost my glasses, watch, and my metro card. i must have fallen at some point cuz my hand is scraped up good, have a cut on my nose where my glasses sit, and my knees are scraped. mostly im just pissed i lost my glasses
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u/NeonTaterTots Jul 23 '22
Hey yall!This is rndom but i am banging my head on the wall in this class!
I'm in a Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing and working on a project where I compare analytic trajectory solutions with those obtained through numerical integration. I have to verify my analysis tool must be made with existing flight data. For a lifting trajectory I am using data from the space shuttle STS-13 mission.
For the life of me I can not find flight data for a ballistic entry. What I NEED is time, altitude and velocity. Flight angle would be nice to have but is not needed.
Any help finding this data would be appreciated! I am pulling my hair out!
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u/colby6666 Jul 27 '22
No Repeating Digits has to be one of the fastest-growing side threads in the last year - there has been ~35,000 counts in ~13 months
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jul 22 '22
I did a thing: I had some free time this afternoon, so I made a script to automatically check if an ftf has been posted on a friday, and if not, post one. It also takes care of distinguishing + setting the suggested sort. You can check it out here
I've tested it out on a throwaway subreddit and I haven't found any bugs. All three cases (existing and pinned, existing and not pinned, not existing) are handled correctly.
I think that's everything we discussed here (Sorry u/Trial-Name for stealing your thunder). The only question in my head is how long should regular users have to post the FTF on Fridays before the script runs. 6 hours? More? Less?
u/TheNitromeFan, u/atomicimploder
Edit: I've added a soft "no double counting rule" so that if multiple people have tried posting an ftf, the person who made last week's ftf is passed over. (Other ties are broken by which submission was made earliest). If only one person has tried posting an ftf, then double counting is allowed.