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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hazmath

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will always remember all of my engineering, chemistry and physics friends in uni complaining about how expensive all the shit they had to buy was and me being like

1000021706

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I like stationary stuff and this set is intriguing

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I’m not a nuclear guy or anything, but suit and containment unit? Seems unnecessary and would make the hands very unwieldy through 2 pairs of gloves.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

math requires it, the risk is just too high

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Can't take any chances. One missed parentheses and the universe implodes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Suits are to keep you safe, glove boxes are to keep the things inside them safe. Also never seen them used together though, you're right about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

But what if it reaches critical math? Can't be too careful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

summons bear Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is basically the Laundry Files books by Charles Stross.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The actual containment methods are programming a script to do the calculations. Some calculations take thousands of smaller steps that you would lose your mind doing. Finite Element Analysis comes to mind. The number of nodes one might use for FEA today would make doing the calculations by hand mind numbing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that Ponder Stibbons in an alternate reality?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

💯. I also got Discworld vibes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

bro dividing by 0 in the "comes to life" notebook and breaking spacetime