mexicancartel
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- Comment on But of course we don't want to poison our child. 1 day ago:
But the child is inside her though(atleast one of them)
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 1 day ago:
That doesn’t make it rational but simply makes it writable in 2 digits(10)
- Comment on Need those unit conversions 3 days ago:
Pretty much all the data he given can be base 8. So aliens have four fingers on a hand
- Comment on Germ Blaster 1 week ago:
Why 12? 12 apostles. 12 tribes. 12 zodiac signs. 12 months. The one I like the best it’s the biggest number with one syllable.
- Comment on Drift!! 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit that might work lol
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 weeks ago:
They are causing confusion in same context and i think that’s alsl the point
- Comment on definitely 2 weeks ago:
Yeah i don’t know yo spell defenition
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 2 weeks ago:
Oh, the date thing. I hate it because it conflicts with rest of the world too 05/06/2024 causes lot of confusion since we can’t even know which system we are using. Thanks it only happens online not locally in my country
- Comment on Cats are Healers 2 weeks ago:
Look at the cat’s eyes! She is about to die. That’s why no 5th panel
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 2 weeks ago:
No, it isn’t.
No, it is! It just wasn’t. It was initially based on something else but it now is exact.
The imperial units being a function of standard units is not enough. That is tedious conversion. And you seem to repeatedly emphasize its for “common people” and “everyday life”. If digferent units for same quantity isn’t a multiple of powers of 10, then the conversions are no mind calculation. This would alienate units of same quantity from each other.
The six feet thing is just a reference arised only because that unit was used. We could still use “about 160cm(or 16dm if you like) tall” or so to refer to an average person’s height.
I am not making claims on lack of precision of imperial system or so, but lack of consistancy in each of the units within the imperial system.
For scientific computing, its for convenience to see everything in powers of 10. Maybe not the computation itself but let’s say Planck’s constant in a totally different unit would look completely unknown if its not a change in factor of power of 10.
There is no reason to NOT use metric but… that is more just because most of the world uses metric.
And why is that? I think its because its much more consistant, well formed and simple enough that one can identify how long a kilometer is only by knowing how long a meter is.
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
You know we say “a fraction of something” with a number(usually between 1 and zero) often denoted by letter epsilon. 4/5 equals 0.8 so there is nothing wrong in calling that a fraction too
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the math straight up works in the fractional form
- Comment on Important Knowledge 2 weeks ago:
Signature look of superiority
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 2 weeks ago:
Meter is defined as the distance travelled by light in vaccum in 1/299792458th of a second. Then kilogram is defined with a kibble balance. The problem with standaed objects is that it is not fundamental. If the standard decays, the measurements all turn wrong. It is important to associate theese to fundamental constants, which does not change and can be independently measured.
even if “6 feet” is easier to remember than “about 1.8 meters”
Would use 180 cm which is not as hard to remember, with more precision. Also why 6 feet specifically? 160cm becomes 5 and a quarter feet which is pretty messed. My argument here is bad because we are comparing magnitudes of units, which is useful in different scenarios. But i see no problem that is not fixed by dividibg or multiplying the current one by powers of ten and calling it centi, kilo, mega, micro, etc.
Nit just the scientific computing, but imperial system is harder to learn because there is no specific fashion in the units. How much inch is a foot and how much foot is a yard(?). Actually i don’t know thoose they change between 6 and 12 and maybe more different numbers. The thing you are talking about is watet’s volume, which can make water’s densitt a standard and measure densities of other fluids relative to water. But the conversion factor of 10 is the most advantageous thing which is also simple.
The solver assuming any unit is hilarious. Units must be always specified. You can’t take a measurement in terms of some units and then not say the units. There is no point of using exact same units(without scaling) just to be consistent. You are supposed to use different units for different scales.
And that sick fuck insists on 3 space indents in all code
That’s why I preffer tabs ;) You can have whatever number of space you want without annoying others. It will be consistent for different setups
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
Convert percentage to fraction, i.e, 80% become 0.8 Then multiply with initial value
If it says 80% more use initial + (initial80) or simply initial1.8
Or if it says 80% less, use - in above calculation or multiply by 0.2
I find percentages more neat when used as fractional number
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 3 weeks ago:
Add a little salt
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 3 weeks ago:
Pee sus
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 3 weeks ago:
Literally into two peices
- Comment on Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬 3 weeks ago:
Sign in using irregular accounts then??
- Comment on Frog's Gift 4 weeks ago:
808 Billion for maintaining an army
- Comment on Say it again, Dexter 4 weeks ago:
Barbie Ben 10?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 4 weeks ago:
It would be a lot more smoother, smoother than a marble. But thoose detection of micro imperfections might be possible
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 4 weeks ago:
Yeah there is a lot of neural networks, but i don’t think that is the only thing in brain. There could be calculators and integrator circuits
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
I am talking about the prompting “on install”. Its just add on install and everything works. That sounds like out of the box support for me
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
Almost all of them? They may prompt you to install additional codecs but thats it. Most software displaying images support thoose image formats. Man we have vlc to display any format
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 5 weeks ago:
You forgot to add soms jPeG so that edit is still visisble
- Comment on Pants 5 weeks ago:
Well they are same and switcg between thoose styles when you take transpose
- Comment on Domination 5 weeks ago:
You just need math
- Comment on Fastest Animal 5 weeks ago:
Explain it to my friend too
- Comment on Responsible Adults 1 month ago:
“Non-orientable surface” is the thing. The surface of that thing is not orientable. That means you can’t draw some normal vector to define the surface. When you traverse through the surface with a normal vector you can end up in the same point with that vector pointing the opposite direction in such a surface. That gives two directions for the same point or in other words you can’t define the surface like that with a normal vector. Its the surface and not the shape itself that is non-orientable