vrek
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- Comment on workout 2 days ago:
At least it’s not as bad as doing advanced mathematics in a bar, as everyone knows you shouldn’t drink and derive …
- Comment on Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete? 5 days ago:
Fun fact most puzzle makers use the same jigsaw patterns to make the actual pieces. You can mix and match puzzles to make some beautiful art. mymodernmet.com/montage-puzzle-art-tim-klein/
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 week ago:
Depends on the show…some of them, no it’s not because it’s improper it’s because they are super annoying to watch as an adult. I’m thinking stuff like team Umizoomi, Dougie and such.
Stuff for early teens is typically ok, like Steven universe or teen titans or adventure time. But when you go down to shows for the under 7 crowd…yeah the shows are horrible.
- Comment on Sounds plausible 1 week ago:
Oh that’s fine then
- Comment on Sounds plausible 1 week ago:
Probably true, it was just a joke though.
- Comment on Sounds plausible 1 week ago:
Where does vegetable oil come from? Vegetables!
Where does olive oil come from? Olives!
Where does baby oil come from? Uh… Oh no!
- Comment on More than 100 young care leavers in England died in past year, data shows 1 week ago:
Also how does this compare to previous years?
- Comment on Would it be wrong for a lawyer to defend the killer of their family member? 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s called conflict of interest. Your question is a loaded question because it states that the officer “kills” the victim and it was “unjustly”. Let’s a officer is accused of causing the death of the victim. The cousin lawyer may not do all the work required to defend against the allegations or may hide evidence that he is innocent since it doesn’t fit what they want.
On the other hand, maybe cousin lawyer hated the victim. Maybe the cousin slept with the lawyer’s husband. Maybe the lawyer suspects she can get a payout in a civil court later if the cop is convicted.
The risks of these occurring are so great that this shouldn’t even be considered and I think would be banned by the bar association.
- Comment on When you are not employed but need to go to a workshop/conference/public events that require you to lost out your company and title, what do you put on without sounding awkward? 1 week ago:
Can you just have the board made as a square and then just cut it out with a jig saw?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Was it an older person? I remember when a big selling point of chrome was you could search Google from the address bar rather than going to Google.com. On a related note, have you seen my walker?
- Comment on When you are not employed but need to go to a workshop/conference/public events that require you to lost out your company and title, what do you put on without sounding awkward? 1 week ago:
It’s probably too expensive for a joke but you should make a circuit board in the shape of a chicken, one side a bunch of leds on the other a control circuit to randomly light them so the chicken circuit hoard looks like it’s sparkling.
- Comment on When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that? 1 week ago:
As long as you don’t work with cows it shouldn’t matter, Now if it a job on a dairy farm…
- Comment on Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors 1 week ago:
cs.umass.edu/…/Reflections-on-Trusting-Trust.pdf
The lower you go the harder it is to be able to identify security risks
- Comment on Sorry, bit of a UK-related rant, following this post I saw on Re**it 1 week ago:
I do to both of those which is why I asked for that exception.
- Comment on Sorry, bit of a UK-related rant, following this post I saw on Re**it 1 week ago:
Maybe on the fine with exceptions to those children with health conditions. Not fat kids or lazy parents but if a kid is in a wheelchair or walker. Or unstable due to a brain issue. Like handicap parking, go to a doctor and get them to agree that the child can’t safely walk to school and you get a special tag you hang on your rear view mirror.
- Comment on Memories of defragging your computer 1 week ago:
Fun fact is the turbo button wasn’t actually turbo anything. It pressed in was the default and designed speed. When it was depressed it set it to run at a lower clock speed. This was meant for older games where aspects of the game like movement and attack speed were tied to the clock rate. With a high speed cpu the game was unplayable so you take off turbo mode and it mostly fixed the issues.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
Maybe not what it’s intended for but I promise that’s what it will be used for…
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
True but I could see using Ai to write a function which does the math… Like I write a prompt (simplified example as I’m on my phone) like “sum all the values above A4 and place result in A4” and the Ai should then write the function “sum(A1, A3)” and place it in cell A4
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
Wow, yeah most people who want to use a function like this will mess that up…
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
Wait… Is that really true? The integrated copilot in excel can’t see the data in excel? That’s insane. Copilot in vscode or visual studio can see all the code your working on so I don’t see why excel wouldn’t be able to…
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
I’m betting the one is formatted as text and the other rows are formatted as a numbers. Can’t confirm as I don’t use excel but that seems to be the issue.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but then in hex it would equal 16, not 15. I’m betting he set the format of the 2 and 3 to number but forgot to set the format of the 1 and it defaulted to text. 2 and 3 got added but adding a string to an integer defaulted to concatenation, since they integrated python within excel and this how it would work in python.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
1.21 jiggawatts!
- Comment on When you forget employers hire people with SKILLS that will benefit their company 2 weeks ago:
Ok maybe I could a apartment lobby… Still crazy but not quite as crazy as a house.
I was picturing some like young pot head comedy where they order food towards the beginning but the dasher asks to charge there phone. As the story goes on people keep coming over for various reasons and before they say anything illegal “wait… Whose that?” and the main character replies “he’s the delivery guy, don’t worry he said he’s cool and won’t say anything” and the delivery guy raises his fist with a thumb and pinky extended and shakes it like the old surfer sign thing.
Now the twist ending is he is secretly an fbi agent gathering evidence on the drug dealing before they raid the house but ends up finding out the people in the house are chill pot heads but the movie bad guys are kidnapping people or something much worse then selling small bags of weed.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
Assuming you are right, according to ascii A is 65 so it should be 71…
Im honestly struggling to figure out how it got 15. Yes I know it’s just a fancy text prediction engine. Yes it doesn’t think, it just calculates what is the most likely string to follow the previous one. But seriously 1+2+3 equaling 15 makes no sense… Wait holy shit… I got it
2+3 = 5 1 = 1
Now instead of adding them, imagine they are strings and concatenate them together (str) “1”+(str) “5” = “15”
- Comment on When you forget employers hire people with SKILLS that will benefit their company 2 weeks ago:
Considering he is running door dash… Shouldn’t it be a car charger then? He’s not going to drop off some McDonald’s and be like “yo, can I plug my phone in for bit… I got a charger!?!”
- Comment on AI girlfriend 2 weeks ago:
Thermal paste is fine but keep that liquid metal away from me
- Comment on Sorry, force of habit my B 2 weeks ago:
Yes but I’ll admit the flicking of my tongue and licking my lips are not normally done.
- Comment on If you work at a prison, and then you get sentenced to do time at that prison...Do they let you keep your job? 3 weeks ago:
Consider this… If you work at the unemployment office and get let go, you still need to go back to work the next day
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 3 weeks ago:
I thought I read there was also a british man who was a member of the staff, I will look and try to get a source to back that up.