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- Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
I know it’s probably a bit exaggerated on purpose but also in European countries it’s definitely not zero. We are in a significantly better situation than the US, that’s fot sure. Our problems aren’t remotely comparable. But also here, it can happen that certain treatments aren’t covered, also here there are (few) people without health insurance and also here people can lose their job or never find a job in the first place due to illness related issues or disabilities.
As said, much better but also definitely not 0.
- Comment on Bird feeder resistant 1 week ago:
SPAM
- Comment on ROFL 2 weeks ago:
Sarah, is this you?^^ Please, come back!^^ LYSM xoxoxo Peter
- Comment on ROFL 2 weeks ago:
^^
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 weeks ago:
That’s a valid point indeed.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 weeks ago:
At least an integrated modem wouldn’t set my local network at risk. They might still collect sensible data with microphones, cameras and share usage profiles etc. But from my perspective that’s at least technically decoupled from other devices.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Never heard of Bonny & Clide, huh? Or Robin Hood? I guess robbing banks can be damn attractive.
- Comment on Know Nut November 1 month ago:
Should have made it more challenging
I wanted to use the heart-shaped walnut picture to cheer him up. Share some love when you nut your bros. <3
- Comment on Know Nut November 1 month ago:
Ding ding ding - congratulations, you got it. :) You’re officially the winner #7b!
- Comment on Know Nut November 1 month ago:
These nuts are indeed not really popular but I found them in a regular supermarket in Germany a couple of years ago. As someone mentioned they’re typically almost impossible to crack, so each nut already had a small canal sawed into the side and the box came with a metal lever that exactly fits into said canal. With that preparation it was quite easy to open them.
You can also buy them online prepared that way. E.g. here: mypilinut.com/…/noix-de-pili-en-coque-seau-xxl-29… (I don’t know this shop, it was just the first result on Google, so no clue if it’s a fair price).
- Comment on Know Nut November 1 month ago:
There you go - challenge #7b just for you: Image
- Comment on Know Nut November 1 month ago:
Ding ding ding - we’ve got our winner for today. Thank you very much for participation. :)
- Comment on Know Nut November 1 month ago:
Know nut November Day #7 - What nut is this?
- Comment on Don’t fall for it 1 month ago:
If it’s published under GPL which I think is the case, everyone is free to use it commercially and sell it. If someone is willing to pay for it, is a different story. ;)
- Comment on 600 year old butt song from hell 2 months ago:
Sounds a bit random but overall not too bad. Sign me up for that!
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 2 months ago:
I go for option 1.
In all programming languages that I know, integers have a maximum number. E.g., in C that’d be 2,147,483,647. After that, you would run into an overflow, resulting in either…
- a crash (train stops, no more deaths),
- death count suddenly turns negative (all people previously killed are suddenly alive again and even new people are generated out of nowhere) - until we reach the next overflow when people disappear and start dying again
- or - if it’s an unsigned integer - death count resets everytime we reach the maximum limit
So compared to option 2, we have a chance of stopping the death count. And even if the train keeps running, we have essentially option 2 but the same people only die very rarely. If we assume a cycle of 1 death per second and an integer boundary of 2,147,483,647, that’s just one death every 68 years per person involved. Seems more fair to me compared to 100 people constantly dying over and over again.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 2 months ago:
If we assume that the SSN database internally only stores numbers today but could also store hexadecimal values without significant redesigns, I would assume that SSNs are stored as text already. So no matter if you put numbers, hex or text, 9 places will always use 9 bytes (assuming it’s ASCII only and doesn’t support UTF-8 etc.).
As the post implied that the current technical limit is 999,999,999. That very much sounds like a character data type to me. Otherwise, the limit is usually something like 2^x.
If SSNs are stored as numbers today, then hex and text would lead to quite some change. If you go for a re-design, you can as well just increase the length of the field.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 2 months ago:
Why stop at hex? You could use the entire alphabet. Even if you take only uppercase letters and numbers, we are at 36^9 possible numbers. If we include lowercase and special characters from ASCII, we can go much further.
- Comment on Anon took the buzzpill 2 months ago:
Looks like the close-up of an elbow. They can also make up for an ass crack or a fake vagina. What a versatile part of our body!
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 2 months ago:
I like this definition the best. If someone is doing a making a super complex sandwich with many ingredients and passion, then I’d fine to call that cooking. Same with a cold soup or a fancy appetizer. Many dishes in top notch cuisine are served cold. In molecular kitchen, there’s even stuff below freezing. Still all cooking to me.
If someone just warms up a can of Ravioli, microwaves a convinience dish, etc. I’d consider that rather food prep. If using the microwave is just one step of multiple in a recipe, than that’s fine again.
For me cooking requires a minimum level of effort.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 2 months ago:
As she apparantly liked roses before and now does no longer, I read it as ‘she was born without the ability to smell’.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 2 months ago:
ICQ, obviously.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 2 months ago:
How do you suddenly gain that ability? Are there implants for smell as well? Or did they extract some lego bricks that she stuffed up her nose as a kid?
- Comment on Anon falls in love 2 months ago:
Who else was waiting for the plot twist? I thought she dumps him because his voice sounds like a drowning pig in panic or so… :'D
- Comment on Protest photographer loses part of ear after being shot by rubber bullet 3 months ago:
Eggs might be just annoing to be hit with but I’d rather be tear gassed than taking a stone/glass bottle/heavy cans to my head. A stone with a decent speed and weight can kill you. And I don’t think I have to elaborate what broken glass flying around can do to your skin/eyes etc.
- Comment on Still a better spaceship than anything boeing can make 3 months ago:
I think normally they are made with mesh not transparent hard plastics. If you can speak of normal at all when it comes to cat backpacks. :D
- Comment on Anon signs up for a dating site 3 months ago:
Basically, that might be quite a good strategy to meet less superficial partners. And it might be a funny story to break the ice in the beginning.
- Comment on Ever wanted to see a human hand under a microscope? 3 months ago:
Amburger 🍔
- Comment on New discoveries regarding tomato hormones can increase total yield 4 months ago:
At least they are softer in comparison.
