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New comment by tmathmeyer in "Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting"

tmathmeyer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:39:29 +0000

Pluto's diameter is 2376.6±1.6 km, while Eris' diameter is 2326±12 km. Perhaps you're thinking of mass instead of size?

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

tmathmeyer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:28:30 +0000

Not quite. The old corporate HQ was located at 10809 120th ave NE, which is up at exit 21 and currently being redeveloped into a townhome complex: https://www.google.com/maps/place/10809+120th+Ave+NE,+Kirkla...

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

tmathmeyer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:21:35 +0000

I think the "peanut" shape of the transit roundabout is not final. They're going to straighten the sides to make it more of a race-track shape. Having straight sides allows the busses to align themselves better with the curbs for passenger access. That rendering is a bit nonsense, its outright missing the 85th/114th intersection

New comment by tmathmeyer in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

tmathmeyer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:02:55 +0000

>> To turn the chopsticks around when serving food so that the tips of the chopsticks that have touched one’s mouth do not touch the food.

> Ewww. I’d rather be rude than share germs.

I think this means you should use something other than your chopsticks to share food, and not just assume that "the back of my chopsticks are germ-free, I'll use that"

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World"

tmathmeyer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:35:16 +0000

yes, E11 was the lab I was referring to :)

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World"

tmathmeyer — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:45:56 +0000

Its a cool technology. I had a friend working on using expansion microscopy for neuron connectomics research. Apparently the route the lab was taking was introducing mutations to mouse brains that would cause protein expression that would physically color individual neurons at random, then using an optical microscope to view and trace neurons through an expanded sample.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

tmathmeyer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:41:45 +0000

Not only is the delta chessbot bad (My low 1600s lichess-elo self can win handily every single time against any difficulty, white or black), but there's also a sequence of moves I found which deterministically causes the game to crash. I should probably record it next time I'm on a flight.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"

tmathmeyer — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:05:36 +0000

100ticks/minute is 1.666... ticks per second, not 0.6.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Googler... ex-Googler"

tmathmeyer — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:48:31 +0000

Internet Technology and Social Media, I would guess.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow"

tmathmeyer — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:14:11 +0000

Wow. I drive up 124th all the time, and never noticed. checking now on street view does prove you right though, there are three just west of willows.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Are any words the same in all languages?"

tmathmeyer — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:02:18 +0000

I would imagine that "okej" is more akin to English's "okay".

New comment by tmathmeyer in "The Mathematical Center of the Universe (2021)"

tmathmeyer — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:01:25 +0000

I think you've misremembered geography here - a straight line from "mainland" Russia to Kaliningrad cuts through Lithuania and Latvia, and to involve Poland here, you'd have to be drawing a line from Belarus. Additionally, when Kaliningrad was handed over to the Soviets, it was contiguous as part of the USSR. There was no "design" to make the Russians upset about it.

Map: https://imgur.com/a/xtBJAig

New comment by tmathmeyer in "The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership"

tmathmeyer — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 02:12:56 +0000

Sundar had some extensive history prior to google, including mckinsey

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Clear snow the laziest way"

tmathmeyer — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:01:31 +0000

snow is mostly air, though.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Google added HEVC support in Chrome"

tmathmeyer — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:54:03 +0000

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Google is shutting down Stadia"

tmathmeyer — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:09:18 +0000

There's also the big one right here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/47%C2%B036'07.6%22N+122%C2... when you get to downtown from the ID (where the 3d view shows a verizon ad, it's now a "no place like chrome" ad.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules"

tmathmeyer — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:56:21 +0000

you just want no health care at all then?

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change"

tmathmeyer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:19:03 +0000

You've mentioned "swedish" twice now in the context of Switzerland. You've got them confused.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change"

tmathmeyer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:17:29 +0000

Because the attempt causes the laws to fail in referendum perhaps.

New comment by tmathmeyer in "Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming"

tmathmeyer — Thu, 20 May 2021 20:18:53 +0000

its "gamer" like "video game player". not an acronym.