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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was that supposed to be coherent or relevant? Are you lost?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

If you're going to be snarky about units, at least get the significant digits correct. The infographic gives 100°F as the temperature. If I had to guess I'd say that wherever that number came from, it's precision is much less than a whole °F, but for simplicity let's just say that the precision is a whole number, no decimal places in the precision. At that precision 37.5°C and 38°C are both also 100°F. There are 9/5 °F for every °C after all. If you'd said 37.7°C I wouldn't have even commented. But that was one decimal place too far (and being too lazy to find the ° symbol or type out degrees).

You're all probably saying, "Who cares? Why do you care? Aren't you just being any even more annoying pedant?"

I do. I don't know. Probably.

But, if you're going to be a smartass, you better at least try to be smart about it.

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

How is a zig-zag numbering any less valid than any other method? Your mapping a two dimensional space with what is essentially a line. Sometimes it doesn't make sense for there to be discontinuities in the numbering, as one would have to do if the numbers always incremented in the same direction. Would you prefer that the numbers follow the path of a Hilbert Curve?

To answer your question though, surveyors have been using this method to number sections of land for much longer than you or I have been alive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Whenever I'm forced to use windows, show file extensions and show hidden files.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because vector graphics take up much less space. That's the joke.

Now I'm going to put the joke out of it's misery.

Most of the illustrations, formula, tables etc. in a math book could be vector graphics, most of them were in 90% of the upper level math text books I've ever had, usually in only 2 colors. Many math formulas can be represented and formatted directly using only Tex or LaTex. Mostly physics and math involving more than two dimensions would have more raster images, even color. But it's not like the publishers are going to be handing out PDFs with original vector graphics embedded. That would make high quality knockoffs trivial.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago

Thumper (Bambi) is a rabbit.

Hazel (Watership down) is a hare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The crouching guidelines were never about avoiding being stuck, rather about reducing harm if you are incapable of reaching a safer location.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So, given your work history, where do you stand on the Clerks deathstar contractor debate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like all the photos this singular animal has suddenly appeared in pretty much proves that if cryptids like Bigfoot existed we'd have much better photos evidence of them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Same reason anyone has played any of the thousands of games that predate "the cloud" or games that don't even have a save feature. Cloud saves? No thanks, never have, maybe never will.

Besides, if you're not paying for the service, you're the product not the consumer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, what a dumb and toxic take.

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