elrik

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Calculating the digits of pi seems like a poor benchmark for comparing various languages in the context of backend web application performance. Even the GitHub readme points out the benchmark is entirely focused on floating point performance.

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

All circles are flat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If only this meant the removal of the annoying tiles for games that show up in the app above everything else (often using up the entire screen) even though I've never tapped on them once.

I don't want your games Netflix. I barely want your shows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What? The first ordinal you start counting at doesn't change the total count, and alternatively the last item would be indexed at 2 if you used 0-based indexing.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rectangular prisms have 6 sides though.

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

I searched for the actual question text and found:

Q19a. The immigrants entering the country illegally today are poisoning the blood of our country.

The split was 14% completely agreed and 20% mostly agreed.

I'm not as surprised by the results as the headline would have suggested because of the use of the word illegally. It biases the question negatively.

The 20% who mostly agreed may have agreed with some negative connotation surrounding illegal immigration while ignoring the racism of "poisoning the blood." In other words, if I put myself in the shoes of someone who feels strongly about securing the border, I could understand how those respondents would lean towards agree simply because of the use of the word "illegal."

To further support this interpretation: In the same survey, more than 40% of respondents favor or strongly favor building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Maybe I'm just optimistic that only around an eighth of the country is completely crazy and that is just a less clickbaity title.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Time for an official act?

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

The younger version of yourself displayed by the mirror is kissing the older version of yourself in front of the mirror, so I suppose you're both correct. Unless you're a photon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No it's the faucet across from the toilet he has to flush ten, sometimes fifteen times, which is also where he got this idea.

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

Probably the best idea I guess as long as you can set the TV up without Internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty happy with Chromecast currently for its simplicity. I meant to try and replace the TV firmware so it's more or less a dumb TV that just displays its inputs without having ads and other gimmicks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The TV I currently have is Android OS but the built in Chromecast is noticeably lower quality. Not sure if it's an older version or what.

Regardless, IMO the displays themselves outlast their software support, and I prefer to just plug in whatever the latest device.

I'll also mention Android OS on my TV takes a full minute to "boot" and that itself makes me want to yeet it out the window.

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