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- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 2 weeks ago:
The first line was broadly right. But you blundered on the second, especially by phrasing it in a condescending way, because how many figures you should quote to depends on more context than just how many figures the input was quoted to.
- Comment on Dating a rural Khmer guy + his non-English speaking dad wasn't on my 2026 bingo card 2 weeks ago:
what’s to work out? just provide a phone number and city as your address, and one day someone will call you and mutter something unintelligable and you say “TELEGRAM… TELEGRAM” and then they telegram you to ask where you are and you send your location and then they show up with your grand piano on the back of their moto and ask for a mystery extra delivery fee.
- Comment on Banana for scale 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t even stand up on its own terms.
Farenheit doesn’t “intuitively” tell you whether there’s going to be ice on the road or whether your pipes are liable to freeze, and also has the added pain in the ass that on a very hot day you need 3 digits to represent the number instead of 2, and doesn’t even compensate for it by removing the possibility of negative values which can still also happen.
On top of that the extra scale doesn’t give you a perceivable difference between the numbers, that is to say, I could put you in a room and ask you if it was 70F or 71F and you’d basically be guessing.
Celsius on the other hand is eminently relatable: negative number means ice/snow, single digit means heavy coat, tens means lighter coat/sleeves, twenties means nice, thirties means hot, forties means remain indoors.
- Comment on Me_IRL 3 weeks ago:
The alt text on that strip seems especially pertinent