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This is why i use Firefox

"But over time, if we didn't have leap seconds, the difference would accumulate. The accumulated difference now between UTC and TAI is 37 seconds--which is almost twice the maximum…

"In other words, we want UTC noon to be within a second of mean solar noon on the prime meridian." Why? If I travel 1 mile east or west of the prime meridian, my solar noon now com…

Isn't this just RGB, with 246 of the 256 values removed from each channel?

"Commercial Use" is only one part of the four prongs of the fair use test. For example, commercial Parody is generally considered Fair Use. Look at Space Balls, which is a direct t…

He bought a $900 monitor that has a KVM built in

Paying farmers to make the transition from peaches is a bailout

Seamless syncing is the primary reason I stick with BW

almost all d10's are zero-based, 0-9. And the "decade" die is 00-90. So it's just a simple matter of adding the rolls, no complicated math. And 0=100.

Paper ballots are a must. Vote on a touchscreen, then have the terminal print out a voter-verifiable paper ballot that can also be machine counted. Make the ballot printout layout …

Can you explain how a 10 minute offset would affect you in any way? For 99% of the world today, high noon =/= 12:00:00. Nothing breaks because of this. The world continues to run.

Yet high noon at my current location comes at 12:03 (1:03 with DST). It's three minutes off. If I lived further west in my timezone, noon would come much later. How can people mana…

Leap Seconds need to be abolished. The only people who need it are Astronomers. They could just use an offset. Implementing leap seconds correctly is a huge burden, for no gain. Wh…

Delete your account. I did. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1rh30rw/great_day_t...

Are you suggesting that I cannot refuse to hire a bookkeeper that has multiple convictions for embezzlement?

s/cloudflare/coinbase/

Is a pirated movie, found on bittorrent, public? IMO, your definition is overbroad

Does an increased pixel count make a bad movie better?

If the local market for American DBAs is $180k, then hiring H1B DBAs at $110k does depress wages.

If it is a "free tier", Amazon should halt the application when it exceeds quota. Moving the account to a paid tier and charging $100k is not the right thing to do.

When I google ANATEL, it comes up as Brazil

Here is a statistical analysis of birthdays https://www.zippia.com/advice/most-least-common-birthdays/

"The theory (from GPT-5) is one of the most widely circulated, incorrect explanations." Naturally. This is how LLMs work. It regurgitates the data fed into it.

Just brainstorming here, why can't we have "browser fonts" shipped with the browsers?