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No, you are correct. Dr Geoff Lindsey on youtube: short version: https://youtube.com/shorts/GF1gIaxnULc?si=d4jFC-rLOC5dww-8 long version: https://youtu.be/GNpbv7hJf6c?si=xNz1UjeLY0…

No it doesn't. The absolute difference[1] of 1.8°C is the same as 1.8K; they have the same scale. The subtraction of values cancels out the offset. A relative difference[2], usuall…

Why can't they?

Hot water recirculation is a thing I have heard of done in the United States. I don't know how common it is, but a simple Home Depot search brought up a bunch of results for option…

basically: "life, uh, finds a way"

You can install it on Roku?

Start with the simple. Don't be a bystander. "Next time I see somebody berating a retail worker, I will defend them" Although it usually needs to start more introspectively: "Next …

On the other hand, every effort each of us makes to eliminate bullying from this world is another effort toward making this world a better place. The trick is to have those thought…

For what it's worth, my reaction to the word "bloodline" used in this way is exactly what it would have been to the word "dynasty". "Bloodline", as in, the line of inheritance for …

> "Collapse" is maybe hyperbole in this case, if it's building on our own history to extrapolate forward. In the story, "at some point" generally involved technologies we are curre…

I was initially a little confused at your comment. I had thought the decision was against Oracle being able to sue for use of the Java API. Reading a little closer, the decision wa…

It reminds me of Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought trilogy, especially the observation the traders make in the second book that all planet-bound civilizations are doomed to collapse …

I don't know where you are in Europe, but from my experience basketball is popular in France and courts are everywhere.

Do you remember how accurately you were able to measure the gravitational constant?

asymptotically close as you add 9s, but 9 repeating means you DO add an infinity of 9s, so it equals 1. The reasoning that persuaded me initially was 1/3 is .333 repeating, 2/3 is …

> That hasn't been "sensible corporate practice" since American civil rights were instated. About that... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-equal-employment-opportun...

Your tone comes across as sarcastic, yet I cannot believe you haven't met at least several people who have used computers for 34+ years who didn't know you can change some basic se…

Slight correction- Maine and Nebraska do not have proportional systems; they both use the Congressional District Method. Each congressional district votes plurality for an elector,…

Pretty sure I can get close to mapping that to solving the halting problem

The key word is "decimated", as in, "decreased by 10%"

Keepass2Android has been working great for me for almost a decade now https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android

> What we need is a mechanism where servers can be tipped directly bypassing management. You should know, such a mechanism was invented thousands of years ago...

Meh, I was a smart-alec kid there with my friend. The salesperson had to go get a sim card "for the LTE to work" and I said "oh right, because LTE is GSM and requires a sim". The s…

I once got tossed out of a sprint store for pissing off a salesperson with this factoid.

I took it not so much that the increased thought leads to more useful phrases, but that people are more likely to exert this effort toward things they think are useful, rather than…