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[Eric Blank]

diarrhea is the word for liquid shit so what is the word for solid piss?

(Time sensitive question please respond)

Stuck in the tube.
But yeah, kidney stones

[MrRoboto75]

Could also just be a urinary tract infection

[martinuzz]

If your piss is solid, and you are not standing outside in -30C or colder, you should see a doctor.

[pisskop]

omg I saw that video where a guy throws boiling water off his balcony in Ukraine, and it just *snows*

[methylatedspirit]

Oh, I see how it is, Windows, 20 thousand PNGs in the same directory is perfectly fine, but 50 RAW images cause your performance to shit the bed?! Goddamnit. It's like it's desperately trying to make thumbnails for images it cannot open. Is there a way to disable thumbnail generation for certain file extensions?

[Iduno]

Used to be able to change the view in the folder. Not sure with Windows 10.

[methylatedspirit]

Just do Ctrl+(mousewheel up/down). At first it zooms in/out, but at some point the view changes.

I have this conspiracy though: Explorer, even in Details view when it's utterly useless to load thumbnails, still tries to do that. Opening a folder with a bunch of RAW images causes the same kind of slowdown in Details view. It's dumb, in other words. It's trying to go through every possible thing that a .raw extension could imply and slows down the system with it, I think. It's a tenacious thing, I'll give it that.

[Frumple]

Someone donated about a half dozen volumes of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics to the library, today. Not the oddest thing that's been donated to our rural public library since I've been working there (that's either the handbook of helicopter blade aerodynamics, the one that had erotic pyrophilia as a major plot point, or the one where a granny fucked an angel to regain her youth, I think), but it's probably in the current top ten or so. Somewhere.

[hector13]

Mathematics should never be used recreationally.

The medical benefits, on the other hand, could be hugely beneficial.

[heydude6]

Someone donated about a half dozen volumes of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics to the library, today. Not the oddest thing that's been donated to our rural public library since I've been working there (that's either the handbook of helicopter blade aerodynamics, the one that had erotic pyrophilia as a major plot point, or the one where a granny fucked an angel to regain her youth, I think), but it's probably in the current top ten or so. Somewhere.

You seem to know a lot of specific details about these weird books. Does the library force you to read them before you put them on the shelf?

[bloop_bleep]

Hey, recreational mathematics is fun! And not that obscure either. Conway's Game of Life first appeared in a recreational mathematics column, I think.

[McTraveller]

Why would helicopter blade aerodynamics count as an odd book?

Disk loading, ground effect, wake effects, auto-rotation, all good stuff!

[methylatedspirit]

Isn't every form of math recreational at first? After all, no-one thought that the current "difficulty" (difficult to solve efficiently; the brute-force algorithms are trivial but inefficient) of prime factorization would be useful in public-key encryption as a one-way function. Number theory was recreational until modern cryptography arrived.

Boolean algebra? That was 1847! Dude who made it didn't even live to see a computer, yet it's the fundamental theory behind almost every computer you've ever interacted with. The exception there is for the computers that don't use binary internally. Those are a bit rare as physical machines, or they're virtual machines for an esoteric programming language.

[Frumple]

You seem to know a lot of specific details about these weird books. Does the library force you to read them before you put them on the shelf?

Read them through, no. Check reviews and sometimes skim over parts (to confirm review contents, among other things like condition or printing error checks), yes. You pick up a decent amount doing that, particularly if you read fast enough and/or are (morbidly) curious enough to take a moment scope out a page or three just make sure you're not hallucinating and, yes, that actually got published.

Yes, it actually got published. Iirc the pyrophilia one sent us multiple copies as a promotion for their book (we yeeted the lot; beyond the magical forest stuff the writing was remarkably shit and the general subject something our patrons don't circulate much).

Why would helicopter blade aerodynamics count as an odd book?

Disk loading, ground effect, wake effects, auto-rotation, all good stuff!

It's a rural public library. There's functionally or literally no one within like an hour or better's drive that would have need or interest in a helicopter blade aerodynamics technical book, and it's wildly at odds with patron interests or the rest of the collection (too specific, not to mention that particular one was a good 15+ years old). It was odd it was still in decent-ish condition, and odd someone thought it was a good idea to donate it to a general use public library at all (though think is a strong word a lot of time, from what I've seen. We appreciate it and try to treat donations better than most things, but I'm pretty sure some folks just dump old book collections on us to clean out space).

Mostly it was just that it was a hyper focused subject matter; most of the time that sort of technical writing doesn't make it into the general population to get donated to us to begin with.

Hey, recreational mathematics is fun! And not that obscure either. Conway's Game of Life first appeared in a recreational mathematics column, I think.

Some degree of it isn't that obscure, but these weren't a column or part of a general book of puzzles or whatever; it's literally a journal series of recreational mathematics. That, specifically, is pretty unusual. Not super unusual, but like I said, probably in the top ten or so most unusual I've seen in the last year or two.

[Mathel]

Oh, I see how it is, Windows, 20 thousand PNGs in the same directory is perfectly fine, but 50 RAW images cause your performance to shit the bed?! Goddamnit. It's like it's desperately trying to make thumbnails for images it cannot open. Is there a way to disable thumbnail generation for certain file extensions?

Don't use explorer. Use a third-party file browser, such as Master commander, EF commander, Altap Salamander, etc... . They do not generate thumbnails and can have multiple (at least 2) directories open in the same window, allowing for easier file manipulation.