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by Suppafly 1y ago
> if we divide an object into 3 pieces, no matter what that object was we can never add our 3 pieces together in a way that recreates perfectly that object prior to division. Is there some sort of "unquantifiable loss" at play?
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>However they'll then they'll get stuck with 0.999... and posit that it is not equal to 1/1, because there must "always be some infinitesimally small amount difference from one". Honestly teachers are half of the
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>So, in this view, 0.3 or 0.333... are not numbers in the proper sense, they're just a convenient notation for 3/10 and 1/3 respectively. And there simply is no number whose notation would be 0.999..., it's just an ab
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>in American math classes (as opposed to science classes) you almost never expand PI Except we have some fascination with memorizing the digits of pi and having competitions for doing so for some reason.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Name changes are fairly common for famous people at the top of society, especially those who immigrated. They are also common at the other end of the spectrum as well, as people get married and divorced and families adopt, plus all the
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>My biggest gripe with larger magazines is all the ads The ads essentially pay for everything and your subscription is just profit. This was super obvious 20ish years ago, when you could subscribe to a bunch of them for free despite the
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>But like I was saying if you actually enjoyed the subject and wanted to learn that would be a different group of people from the ones who just want a degree and rectifying those two groups at the same place would be hard. Agreed, but mo
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I think he's a piece of shit, but his name changes aren't any less valid than anyone else's that came from a broken home with step parents and couldn't decide on how they wanted to be known.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Since it's clear that police abuse any sort of system they're given access to, we need to outright ban these systems.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
not sure if there are APIs, but there are a couple of websites that do that for Lego already.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I'm pretty sure bots already exist for this, I've seen them join, albeit Teams, meetings that I've been on, so they can get a transcription of meetings where they don't control the host settings.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>This is included in Microsoft Teams. This, and there are also 3rd party bots that work with Teams (and presumably other video chats as well) that will join the meeting and do their own transcription. I've seen a couple of on meetin
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>For groceries at least, the time cost + fuel cost of buying from different stores would probably cancel out any minor variations in prices Sure, but alternatively, using the same data you could find out what the whole list costs at each
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>In my country it costs around 200 euro/month to be a freelancer (I think most of that money is for health insurance). You get a real job to have health insurance.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>The consultants have lost revenue. We don't care about them though.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Sounds like extortion with extra steps? Maybe there’s a more charitable way to tell the story. How? The original company could have hired another employee to replace him, instead they entered into a b2b relationship with his company. I&
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>I feel like if you are going to use AI to cheat, as one example, why not skip the university altogether? That same reason people used other methods to cheat in the past, a degree is valuable to have in the job market. I honestly doubt c
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>I learned most of my programming skills in college, and everyone I know did too. I could program before, but really poorly, because I didn't have fundamental computer science knowledge. This, a lot of the self taught folks that sne
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Wouldn't you first add those people as a contact?
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>but I think the dismantling of science/education in the US is far from done True, but it doesn't need to be dismantled much to start making young US workers less desirable.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>You can change that in Settings → Privacy and security → Invitations → Select My contacts Bizarre that that's not the default and that it's actually an option at all.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
If this is something their users actually wanted, they'd be paying xAI, not the other way around.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>but you could fight against gravity and move the pieces upwards I love that idea, sometimes you just need a little time to figure out where you want to move/rotate it to.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
This happens at every university on move out day, especially if they have a lot of international students that need to fly out of the country. >Second, why not just put on the street so that other people can come and collect items? Often
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>For CRTs, the diagonal measurement was of the physical tube. The actual viewable area was smaller. That's also why TVs and monitors of that era always seemed smaller than advertised. I remember having to explain that to a lot of pe
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Whenever I saw a CRT running at 60 Hz, I'd be immediately be able to tell. Always used at minimum 75 Hz but preferably 85 Hz at home (early 2000s, Windows). Same, I remember installing some program that would let you quickly change
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work Only because the people responding have never done warehouse work.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I pretty regularly take my socks off while sleeping and occasionally take my pants off, no way is my sleeping self not going to take a mask off.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I wonder if everyone I know just has a bad apnea doctor or something. The full face masks are super common among the handful of people I personally know. You can always tell the people who use them because they have indents around their fac
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I miss the original notepad that was barely maintained. I always knew if I just wanted to view something just as quickly and plainly as possible I could use notepad to open it, if I wanted more features, I'd use something like notepad+

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