NeatNit
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
In many languages the days are numbered, e.g. “First day”, “Second day”, …, “Seventh day”. Speakers of those languages have no question about when the week starts.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#…
Notably, the older languages start the week on Sunday. Some of the languages that start the week on Monday can be attributed to mistranslation from the former group. So starting the week on Sunday is historically more correct.
Disclosure: I speak a language that starts the week on Sunday, so I’m biased.
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
Literal superpower. You hold us all at your mercy.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 days ago:
Is it worth it? That depends. What percentage of the boys does it bring to the yard?
- Comment on Handy tip 3 days ago:
Yes. In a frictionless vacuum.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 6 days ago:
2038 is going to be a fun year with all the 32bit clocks overflowing to 1970
Actually 13 December 1901, since it overflows to negative, not zero.
Other than that, good answer, full marks
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 1 week ago:
“For the most part” does not mean “entirely”.
I’m not taking a side here: maybe you’re right, maybe OP’s right. But I won’t stand for such cheap arguments!
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 1 week ago:
Relevant SMBC: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bot-3
It’s not insightful or anything, but I think it’s an interesting coincidence that you’re asking this question so soon after it was published.
- Comment on Anon gets laid 1 week ago:
Where I am, you get a message when it’s been used, but obviously not any identifying information.
Also I have absolutely no way of knowing if the message is legit or they just tell you that a random time after your donation regardless just to make it feel good and donate again.
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- Comment on Dumb critique 2 weeks ago:
potato, tomato…
- Comment on Dumb critique 2 weeks ago:
It was a slight exaggeration, but curl and libcurl are genuinely used pretty much everywhere. Including NASA space missions.
- Comment on Dumb critique 2 weeks ago:
Daniel Stenberg isn’t a random person, he is the lead developer of
curlwhich is the backbone of quite literally every networked device on the planet and outside of it. The curl project supports a very large number of protocols. His opinion does mean something here.That said, this does need to be clarified in the Wikipedia page, and it’s still possible that his criticism isn’t actually relevant in the end. I’m still reading about this.
- Comment on Fingies 2 weeks ago:
I find it very worrying that both fingers in the photo have the exact same fingerprint.
- Comment on Where is your God now? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s a coffee machine with the coffee blasphemously being poured into a bowl instead of a mug.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
And here I am, stuck living in the one country in the world that’s only getting closer to the US: Israel. I pray that by the end of the next decade or three, when the dust settles, we’ll be closer to Europe instead, as we’ve been in the past. But that seems practically impossible.
Sigh maybe I’ll move to Europe. I’d probably fit in better culturally.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think this answers your question, but this might interest you if you haven’t heard of it before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 1 month ago:
I am guessing that it’s different because they spend weeks and months on the ship. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be too keen to enlist in the navy if it required not having my personal phone for months on end. They gotta make some concessions in policy to keep everyone sane.
Or maybe they’re banned but people sneak them in anyway.
- Comment on What do you call this style of art? It is common in online articles 1 month ago:
(not a real answer) corporate art / art by committee
- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 1 month ago:
If I’m near an open window, I might have an intrusive thought of “what if I accidentally chuck my phone out the window?”
I have no idea how anything like that could happen accidentally. I grip my phone tighter.
- Comment on they say we never really touch something because our electrons repel.. so how does something like dirt stay on my hands when it's not really touching my hands? 1 month ago:
I recommend this video by Sixty Symbols, the same production of Numberphile and Computerphile in case you’ve heard of them.
But basically, when atoms are close enough to each other they attract each other (van der Waals force), which can cause things to stick to each other even without chemical bonds.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
boring
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 2 months ago:
I’m not from the US. And I think the way they’re trying to tackle it is stupid, roughly for the reasons you say. But on a surface level it’s good that there is some action taken on this matter.
The country does matter. It allows oversight and regulation to a greater extent. And if it turns out that there’s a backdoor in a router, if it’s made locally there will be someone to criminally charge, whereas if it’s made in China or wherever, that would be impossible.
Then again, it’s the US, so they’d probably charge some random worker instead of the CEO who demanded the back door be implemented.
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 2 months ago:
To be honest, this is probably justified. My knee-jerk reaction was “oh look, USA in antagonizing everyone else again”, but consumer routers are a really significant security junction which historically has always been somewhat neglected. I only read a few sentences before the paywall stopped me, but sounds like they’ll whitelist any foreign manufacturers that are legitimate.
Yes, it’s gonna have corruption and bribes all over it… But on paper, it’s justified.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hebrew and English. I have tried once or twice to learn a third language but I just don’t have the discipline for it.
Hebrew is my native tongue, and English I speak pretty much at a native level simply by lots and lots of being online and watching TV from a young age, and often chatting with my sister in English for no real reason. I’ve even got a pretty convincing American accent. In hindsight I would have preferred most British accents, but I can’t seem to change it now (refer to the aforementioned discipline issue).
I still regularly talk to two of my friends in English, still for no apparent reason. We just switch between Hebrew and English arbitrarily.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve long since decided that these are probably fake, but that doesn’t make them any less entertaining. Keep them coming!
- Comment on 10!=10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1 2 months ago:
Fine, I’ll do the math:
60 seconds in a minute (10 × 6)
60 minutes in an hour (9 × 5 × 4 / 3)
24 hours in a day (8 × 3)
7 days in a week (7)
6 weeks (3 × 2)
The bold 3’s cancel out and become × 1, and then it’s easy to see each integer from 1 to 10 appears exactly once when it’s all multiplied together.
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 2 months ago:
Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated! Also, what the hell, since when can tweets be novels?
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 2 months ago:
I want to see the rest of that quoted tweet. There aren’t a lot of ways to finish that sentence that would make sense.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t be looking at any of that, where’s the smartphone showing dumb memes?
- Comment on What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth? 3 months ago:
I’ve been rewatching Community recently and it definitely fits the bill. It has incredibly good writing.
But more than that, Community gives me the impression that is has an infinite budget. Not a ridiculously big budget like some shows and movies do… an infinite budget. The difference being that they don’t waste a cent. There isn’t a single thing on screen that doesn’t serve a purpose. No ridiculous effect or expensive crane shot added in just to flaunt their budget. But if an episode’s script actually called for a particular shot to be done, they would move heaven and earth to make that happen. That’s what it feels like.
In my head I compare it to having unlimited vacation days at work. Case studies have shown that workers take fewer vacation days when they can take as many as they want, compared to when they have a set number per year. So in the analogy, a show with a set ludicrously high budget will use every last cent of it even for pointless frill, whereas a (hypothetical) show with an unlimited budget would only use however much money is necessary to create the show. Somehow, Community became that show. … It probably has to do with how frequently they actually went way over budget in practice.
I fucking love Community.
