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- Comment on smh 1 day ago:
If you’re used to cups and teaspoons of course you’re more likely to use binary divisions. I’m more likely to use steps of 20% for that purpose. And if you want to actually tailor your proportions to match the one egg or whatever the indivisible object in your recipe is, then you end up with 241 mL or 13.57 Tbsp anyways. Anyway, ten isn’t the magic number, it’s just the one we use for almost everything, and already did when we had imperial measurements.
- Comment on smh 1 day ago:
Only for data and that’s a quirk of organising binary data in bytes. Factors of whatever your base is are better. Don’t think we’re going to be moving away from base 10 for volume or distance or power.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 1 week ago:
They might still just execute you in the street if they think you’re talking back to them shrug
- Comment on [troll science]: Unruh particle shower on a centrifuge 2 weeks ago:
Routine maybe, I don’t think it’s that boring
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 3 weeks ago:
Where in their comment does it say “exactly zero users”? Oh right, it doesn’t
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 3 weeks ago:
You clearly haven’t read it, since he lays out clearly the exact steps that would be required.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 month ago:
This you?
If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.
Yes, that’s me. Maybe the bit you’re missing is that if you work at a company, the company’s products are your products.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 month ago:
You could’ve just said “yes, I think that’s where the ethical line is”, instead of linking logical fallacies wikipedia like a fourteen year old atheist.
We haven’t moved anywhere. We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve started right there.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 month ago:
Why would that matter? You think it’s alright to work for a company supplying the Palestinian genocide as long as you’re not working on that specific product line? British aerospace is pretty directly involved there so I’d set my standards a little higher personally.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 month ago:
If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 1 month ago:
If you can’t tell, is it really the most obvious troll?
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 months ago:
they haven’t been made by ibm for years and years
- Comment on Interesting observation 2 months ago:
It’s both
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 2 months ago:
It’s good if your examiners have a few easy things to pick up, makes them feel useful and stops them from finding nonsense just to have something to criticise ;)
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 2 months ago:
In most places the defense is kind of just a formality. It’s an important part of the ritual and the process, it’s important to present your work, but nobody should be submitting unless they’re definitely going to pass the defense, or else their supervisor has really failed them
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
Yes, the Planck length
- Comment on Beards are technically face pubes 3 months ago:
Nah, it’s from it developing in puberty
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 3 months ago:
The people doing the guillotining weren’t the state (at first anyway)
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 3 months ago:
Everybody wins!
Except the Brits, haha
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 months ago:
If the train killed only left handed people, you should still be left with infinite train proof right handed people.
Well, infinite left-hand-killing-train proof people, we don’t know about other trains.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 months ago:
Great explanation, I’d just like to add to this bit because I think it’s fun and important
And you would continue to kill infinite people every time you reached a new whole number.
Or any new number at all. Between 0 and 0.0…01 there are already infinite people. And between 0.001 and 0.002.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 months ago:
with the extra requirement that the probability applies to the whole set I think it checks out, intuitively anyway the expected ~0.0…01 * ∞ is still ∞
- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 3 months ago:
this is so wrong I can’t even tell if they are supposed to be ordered from worst to best or the other way around
- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 3 months ago:
The best windows was 2000
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 3 months ago:
I count three os on the bottom, from “common”, “problem”, and “poems”. Seems correct to me?
- Comment on The Crussy 4 months ago:
It’s this photo, it’s as old as the hills. Lots of people used to have it as a profile pic because of exactly that reaction when it’s a thumbnail. I hunted for a while but couldn’t find the original source, maybe someone else knows or has better search-fu than me.
- Comment on Encouragement 4 months ago:
because the withdrawal also kills
Ah, you might be thinking of alcohol. Nicotine withdrawal just makes a very strong craving but there is no physical danger.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I think the US is the best place he could go, it’s already so bad even he will hardly make it worse, and more factions and intra-right tension might even be a good thing that could come out of it
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 4 months ago:
We are the joke
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 4 months ago:
Nah punch drunk love is also really good