ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on Call me ,maybe... Or not. 5 days ago:
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
It’s some kind of thing were if she goes afk, chat can decide what the player should do. In this case they decided to mine ores.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
You’d be surprised at how many old people request to be arrested by the police, it’s like a thrill ride for some of them.
- Comment on crap 1 week ago:
It’s likely a combination, the original picture is in there pretty exactly. But the parts that are obscured in that picture were added in using AI most likely. Interestingly, his pinky got cut off because of that.
The hand with a palm of fingers just looks weird, it’s the same in the original.
- Comment on SpaceX Is Conducting a Giant Chemical Experiment on Our Atmosphere Without Realizing 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t surprise me if they’re that stupid tbh
- Comment on SBA #119 maths 2 weeks ago:
It can be both depending on how you handle operator precendence.
PEMDAS definitely doesn’t result in 1, but in 9, since under PEMDAS multiplication and division have the same priority (and thus should resolve left-to-right). So, you should resolve to 9 (6/2(2+1) => 6/2(3) => 6/23 => 33 => 9).
However, there’s also PEJMDAS, which suggests that implied multiplication has an operator precedence greater than regular multiplication/division (J for Juxtaposition). This version says you should do 6/2(2+1) => 6/(22 + 21) => 6/(4+2) => 6/6 => 1.
The issue is that there is no universal agreement on which is correct. Most textbooks don’t even use the / operator, but instead rely on writing out the full fraction like ⁶⁄₂₍₂₊₁₎ or ⁶⁄₂(2+1). This removes any ambiguity there might be, and thus they don’t touch on which one is actually correct.
Most (but not all) calculators these days will treat implied multiplication the same as regular multiplication, so you get 9 in the given example. Most programming languages do the same, or outright disallow implied multiplication because it only confuses people. Academics won’t ever use the ambiguous notation and will make sure to remove any ambiguity by either adding parentheses or using a notation like ⁶⁄₂₍₂₊₁₎, which makes things much more clear.
Neither 9 nor 1 is wrong, the question is just stupid.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
Nuclear is a bad fit for that, because it’s too expensive and has poor “reaction times” compared to other energy sources.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
A lot of studies regarding penis length are self-reported. So basically subtract an inch from the results and you get a more accurate picture.
It’s also why countries that censor genitals in porn report smaller penises than countries where the race of the local population is heavily fetishized wrt. supposed “big dicks”. When actually measuring, all those differences become smaller than is statistically relevant.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds 1 month ago:
That’s exactly what SKG advocates for.
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 1 month ago:
But right would also be wrong, because the torso is elongated instead of the neck.
I suppose a giraffe centaur would be considerably shorter than either of these images suggest.
- Comment on 3 is enough. You don't need a fourth. Rotate using all 3 equally instead of spending 99% of the time on just one of them 1 month ago:
It’s not entirely wrong, when your nose is clogged the clogged side does on occasion “switch” to the other nostril. When you breathe out with your nose clogged the air oftentimes does come out of only a single nostril.
- Comment on Space Honey 1 month ago:
Probably also helps with eating while lying down.
- Comment on Valid crashout 1 month ago:
Do they taste… fowl?
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 2 months ago:
There’s also the idea that since the system “works” it shouldn’t be changed. IIRC Le Guin did some stories on a place called Omelas that explored a similar idea: there’s this utopian city, but they chuck a child down a hole to suffer there, which for some arcane reasons is deemed as necessary. Once people learn of this, they either accept it as indeed necessary or (rarely) leave.
A utopia only works if everyone thinks of the same thing as being a utopian society, which people generally just don’t.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 months ago:
This is a hitpiece, imo completely the wrong tone to have this discussion in.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 2 months ago:
Even the author of BNW wasn’t sure of the world really was a dystopia or not. A lot of people do seem to have a lot of freedom, and most seem happy (or at least, not unhappy). Sure, a lot of questionable things have been done to achieve that goal, but if 99% is happy with their life; can it really be a dystopia?
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 2 months ago:
I’ve had McDonald’s in Italy and it’s the same cardboard taste there as it is elsewhere in Europe imo.
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 2 months ago:
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 2 months ago:
You may have misread something here, Coleman is in favour of the bill, not against.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 3 months ago:
It’s broken for me too, account suspended. Something about not being supported in the user’s environment.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
People are mostly water, no? Makes perfect sense then.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 4 months ago:
Some of them are protesting for it, judging by the pro-shah chants. Not sure how widespread it is though.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 months ago:
Some women visually prefer it for cultural reasons. This mostly goes for the US, in Europe it’s different. But most threads I can find state women prefer uncut penises because they feel nicer and self-lubricate better.
- Comment on Who is going to be the next Pres of Venezula after all this US stuff? 4 months ago:
Whether or not she is in Russia is disputed btw.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 4 months ago:
A global, world-ending nuclear war is still unlikely at this point.
There’s a fair few steps in between filled with horrors that we get to pass first. Such as when superpowers realise that since nobody can realistically use nukes, conventional warfare is back on the table (e.g. if China invades Taiwan and the US intervenes, will either side nuke the other’s population centers? Probably not).
Then follows the realisation that superpowers can use nuclear weapons in a conventional war, but in a more tactical way (as a little treat). Don’t bomb a city, bomb a navy, or an airfield or army base instead.
Global nuclear war would only happen if a nuclear state is threatened with total destruction. But fully destroying a state hasn’t been the playbook for some time now. Instead, take whatever peripheral stuff you want, and strategically weaken the enemy state in key areas (e.g. take out an important figurehead, like the US did with Maduro, or fund/arm insurgencies like in Syria). Let civil unrest then do the rest and topple the government for you. Then use diplomatic/economic/military pressure to sway the fledgling new government into your sphere of influence. With a bit of luck the country itself isn’t totally ravaged and can become profitable fairly soon.
- Comment on How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates) 4 months ago:
Half-Life Alyx came out in 2020 and was pretty good.
- Comment on World's Video Game Companies 4 months ago:
Microsoft doesn’t earn more than 90% of their revenue from gaming, so it’s not on here.
- Comment on People like this 4 months ago:
This assumes the user bothers with upvoting, which plenty of people don’t do. They may well downvote what they dislike, and don’t vote on what they do like.
- Comment on A belated Christmas gift to R6 Siege! 4 months ago:
Their public statement says this isn’t true and a rollback is in progress.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 5 months ago:
To be fair, it was 4 coat hangers. The Monster cable was therefore outnumbered.