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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That looks like applied statics to me.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's quite possibly the most useful application that textbook will ever be used for, statistically speaking.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Almost certainly

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is a 98% (p=±2%) that you might need glasses.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

From Wikipedia:

Statics is the branch of classical mechanicsthat is concerned with the analysis of force and torque acting on a physical system that does not experience an acceleration, but rather is in equilibrium with its environment.

So I reckon it was a pun

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd give it a 50% chance of bogging off under the weight.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Then it would by dynamics

[–] M137@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you apply statistics to Windows you find big holes and lets a lot of bugs in.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

It’s still wild to me that many parts of the developed world simply don't use screens on windows.

But from what I can tell its also mostly places where people don't even have AC because it simply never gets that hot.

Must be nice. (I don't have AC yet, but I'm an outlier in my area, and I hope to add it this year because a heat pump would be an absolute blessing even if I still need to use my gas furnace as backup)

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Ah, I see they've reached the section on Window Functions...

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's a nonzero chance that poor bastard got a terse email from admin re: respect for one's academic utensils, etc. 🫩🤮

The rest of us know that's a learnin' hole stretcher to guide the shovelfuls in more easily, not for wall holes.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

This impure and I for one am here for it!!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

There are statistics and then there are prise.

this may or may not hold the window up for a while