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[McTraveller]

Almost any drawing/editing program will let you at least drag-select an area and get the corner coordinates and/or height+width, from which you can get distance, if the tool doesn't give you a length directly.

Even if this is in pixels, that should give you a "picture-relative" measurement, right?

[MonkeyHead]

Anyone know a program that allows you to drag from one point on the screen to another, and it measures the distance?

Doesn't need to be in cm or anything, it's just that my dissertation requires me to measure some stuff, should have a scale next to it so I can translate from an arbitrary measurement to cm/mm. I just need to be able to measure and it's easier without me having to stick a ruler on my screen.

Core memory unlocked...

i actually wrote a program to do that decades ago as a lowly undergrad when I couldnt find one that would do the job for me. I needed a way of turning a pixel length into an actual length for images of shadows on the moons surface. Took an hour or two to knock something up in VBasic.

Alas, this is of little use to you as even if I had a copy it wouldnt probably work on modern systems.

[pisskop]

So let's say you're gambling.  One moneyunit for simplicity.  Or maybe youre stockpiling for a game, w.e.

Do you feel the need to have a 'reserve' of moneyunit?  I typically want to have 2.5 extra units.  So if I want 100, I aim for 102.5.

Just me?

[hector13]

I was under the impression your reserve should be 200 times the minimum bet for whatever you’re doing, though maybe this only applies to poker.

[pisskop]

maybe i explained it wrong.

If im gambling or trading Im aiming for slightly over my expected return as a goal.

typically if Im gambling Im okay betting 1/100 of my available funds.  though wrt the stock market I consider a loss of 5% of my total funds an 'acceptable' worst case loss

[Great Order]

What was that old thread, something like "Shit I guess we're [insert quiz here]" where there'd be personality quizzes and such chucked into the thread?

[Frumple]

This one. Was one of MSH's threads, critter hasn't logged on since 2022

Last post in it was a bit over a year ago.

[Great Order]

That's the one, thanks.

Nothing to contribute to it, just wanted to meander through the tests.

[Great Order]

Is there a name for the gaps between the arms of spiral galaxies?

[lemon10]

Armpits.

[Great Order]

I told you to keep your fetishes out of discussions on galactic topography!

[lemon10]

Hey, I'm not the one who named the middle of a galaxy the "galactic bulge"!

(Btw, the actual answer to your question is that they are called interarm regions/spaces).

[Great Order]

Ta butt.

[Magmacube_tr]

Does anyone know what's up with the 505 errors that pop up sometimes? Is the forum collapsing into a singularity?

[zhijinghaofromchina]

Here, the problem is the 500 error, refreshing the page would help, but it is still annoying, especially when I wanna withdraw from the disgusting biochemistry classwork and free my mind.

The forum may be too old. I have never seen a forum that is older than me before. By checking the former posts would be a lot of fun to me, it’s network archaeology, right? My posts would also be  ‘public diaries ‘where I left valuable memories . I just hope that the great toady and threetoe could maintain this forum for a long time …