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by _dain_ 3y ago
I wish those medieval people had defined it as 5040 feet, then it would be divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40, 42, 45, 48, 56, 60, 63, 70, 72, 80, 84, 90, 105, 112, 120, 126, 140, 144
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>It just never is Norway or Switzerland. What's the cycling modal share in your city, and is it higher than Oslo's? https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/city-oslo-joins-cities-... >With a modal
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by _dain_ 3y ago
we do it on purpose to confuse foreigners
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by _dain_ 3y ago
> if you want to protect your music collection from accidental changes and are willing to use it manually from the command line, git-annex will work better. that's what plain old backups are for, surely? if I screw something up I
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by _dain_ 3y ago
anecdote but last year I sunk three solid weekends into trying to make git-annex work to sync my files between devices, and was defeated. it is such a fucking incomprehensible buggy pain in the ass. I settled on syncthing instead. it has gi
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by _dain_ 3y ago
The average person doesn't understand PEMDAS (or BIDMAS as I was taught it), because it's a stupid arbitrary convention and cannot be applied consistently. It only exists because infix notation is inherently ambiguous, and it gets
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by _dain_ 3y ago
solar farms are land intensive not just capital
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>can you tell me if you can really get a physics degree without bumping into Bernoulli or Navier-Stokes? Bernoulli principle was covered in my bachelor degree but Navier Stokes wasn't; true-blue fluid dynamics was either an optional
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by _dain_ 3y ago
man that's fucked up. i dont want to look at the sky anymore.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
This is the original article that won the award: https://www.ft.com/blackpool There's an interesting dog-that-didn't-bark: the word "meth" does not appear. The drug is still not common in the UK[1]. Blac
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>white noise that Spotify owns how can you have copyright on white noise???
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>It's very very good to hold people accountable. Passive voice. Who watches the watchers, who accounts for the accountability-bringers?
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>It's not a basic human right to be free from all judgement by your peers without due process. True, but libel is also a civil tort.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Why does a university have the power to find somebody guilty of sexual assault, and not the actual courts? EDIT, I am rate limited so I can't reply: The specific phrase was "found guilty" and the specific wrong being alleged
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Desirable for whom? Are the beneficiaries of it going to pay for the externalities they are generating, like polluters should? You can say "ordinary workaday programmers benefit from speed improvements en passant", but they weren&
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by _dain_ 3y ago
If it's so difficult to figure out if the consequences of their optimization game are sensible or not, then they shouldn't play it in the first place. Who actually wants it to behave this way, other than compiler engineers competi
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>You've made an obviously non-sensical statement— Therefore it should fail to compile . You can even spin it as a performance enhancement: the whole program can be optimized away!
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by _dain_ 3y ago
one day, a bug like this will take down an airliner or a power grid and kill thousands of people. and there will be a congressional hearing about it. and some ageing compiler engineers will have to explain to a panel of irate and disbelievi
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Bitcoin? Heartbleed? SSL? Wow anon, you must have hit your head hard. C'mon, we're gonna be late for the Windows 98 launch party!
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>Websites get redesigned, companies go out of business these two things are not remotely the same. if you are redesigning your website then it's your responsibility to make the old links redirect to the new pages. if you don't
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by _dain_ 3y ago
this should be welcomed, we need to increase TFR (The Fuck Rate)
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by _dain_ 3y ago
This is cool but imo it makes more sense to have URL redirection as a browser extension. That way all twitter links resolve to nitter, not just ones from a search engine. I use this one https://einaregilsson.com/redirector
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by _dain_ 3y ago
A lot of this wisdom is summarized in the book The Field Guide to Understanding "Human Error" by Sidney Dekker. I learned of it from this talk about Three Mile Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMk6rF4Tzsg
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Feynman wasn't one of the top guys on the project, he was low-mid level. There's an entertaining lecture somewhere on Youtube where he talked about his time there; most of the time he was buried in computational work and sometimes
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by _dain_ 3y ago
https://youtu.be/EiKCK8YNVUk?t=2673 >I'm sitting here like I'm in an Apple commercial or Square or Swipely or some bullshit tech thing, instead of "OK" I'm clicking "Got it!". Like [ob
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Office still has this.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Posting this because I often see a lot of comments disparaging the Ribbon UI, but I think it has its merits, and its worthwhile to see how it came into existence. It was developed because the traditional dropdown menus they were using in 20
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The MS Office Ribbon [video](youtube.com)
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by _dain_ 3y ago
this is the kind of unhinged make-work schemes all those wikipedia beg banners are funding
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by _dain_ 3y ago
people actually use right-ctrl and right-shift? i forgot those keys even existed. but why not just use the left-ctrl? it's as easy as can be: pinky on ctrl, index finger on x, they're the perfect distance apart, you press them in

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