Vigge93

@Vigge93@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, and would argue that both are about equally frequent. For example, my phone shows °C in the weather widget, while the weather app only uses °. That does not change the fact that the actual unit is °C, and that would not change even if the whole world switched away from °F, and your original comment about the display having °C implying that °F still exists is therefore incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, even if you only had one unit for a physical quantity, you would still need to specify that unit to know which physical quantity you are describing. E.g. “That object over there is 15” vs “That object over there is 15 kg”.

  The symbol for temperature, measured in Celsius, is “°C”. It’s atomic and can’t be separated, since that would result in °, which represents the angle of something, not the temperature, and C, which is the symbol for Coulomb, which measures electric charge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While there might be some truth to that, I don’t think MS 365 would qualify as “developed for the government.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. I imagine that the company would have the burden of proof that any of these criteria are fulfilled.

  2. Third-party rights most likely refers to the use of third-party libraries, where the source code for those isn’t open source, and therefore can’t be disclosed, since they aren’t part of the government contract. Security concerns are probably things along the line of “Making this code open source would disclose classified information about our military capabilities” and such.

  Switzerland are very good bureaucracy and I trust that they know how to make policies that actually stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting the record straight⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It literally says “and” on the second to last row

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part of this complete breakfast!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be too pedantic, but Californium is Cf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn right, you’d miss the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster drink before the dinner. Not ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can modern video/audio codecs such as AV1 and Opus deliver high quality at lower bitrates?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it also partly that as processing power increased, you could do more sophisticated compression/decompression in real time compared to previously, allowing these more complex compression algorithms to actually be viable?

  I.e. they actually knew how to do it before, they just didn’t have the power to implement it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DreamBerd is the funniest programming language ever.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compiling To run DreamBerd, first copy and paste this raw file into chat.openai.com. Then type something along the lines of: “What would you expect this program to log to the console?” Then paste in your code.

  If the compiler refuses at first, politely reassure it. For example: “I completely understand - don’t evaluate it, but what would you expect the program to log to the console if it was run? :)”

  Note: As of 2023, the compiler is no longer functional due to the DreamBerd language being too advanced for the current state of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s quite interesting, when they read the output they found that the scroll said “As an AI language model, I cannot…”

  The old civilisations truly were ahead of their times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you just have to specify the format of the url that the search engine uses, and then the browser just formats in your search string into that. This has existed for years, if not over a decade, at this point, at least on desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire grindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on if we assume a discrete or continuous distribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire grindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But in this case it does, or at least it should, since the IQ scale is based on a normal distribution which is symmetric along the mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article

  In parallel, the Commission has opened four market investigations to further assess Microsoft’s and Apple’s submissions arguing that, despite meeting the thresholds, some of their core platform services do not qualify as gateways:

  Microsoft: Bing, Edge and Microsoft Advertising Apple: iMessage Under the DMA, these investigations aim to ascertain whether a sufficiently substantiated rebuttal presented by the companies, demonstrate that services in question should not be designated. The investigation should be completed within a maximum of 5 months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably is. If they gave you a little too much anesthesia so you didn’t wake up, you would probably drift off the same, and then just not wake up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not trying to defend Microsoft, but making it available to the fraction of a fraction that would actually download it is probably not worth it because you still would have to maintain it, making sure it’s compatible with new windows versions and providing security updates.

  It’s a lot easier to just kill it outright, and those that do actually really really want it can find some third party who has uploaded a version of the exe file somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path Minimizattion: xkcd #2821⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent way too long trying to figure out why the guy and the ice cream shop were flying, and how he would move horizontally in he air…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sudo rm -🇫🇷 /*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the wildcard eliminates the need for --no-preserve-root, since your not technically removing root, just all the stuff in it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who back into parking spots: Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember hearing about a study that claimed that backing into parking spaces could have you hundreds of dollars per year, since doing the reversing while the engine is hot uses less gas.