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- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
I’m in the US working for a company that uses smart card plus PIN for login, then everything else is automatic SSO using those credentials.
Honestly works amazingly.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
But what I’m saying is I’m plenty accurate enough with cups… there would be no appreciable difference for my box of brownies.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
But also, there’s no real incentive to change… my brownies taste just fine with a 1/3 cup of oil and a 1/3 cup of water. I am sure they would taste just as good with 80 g of each, but if it works, why change it?
What logic is there in saying grams are better than cups of both work well for the intended task? If I were a professional baker, it’s entirely possible I would have a different opinion, but I (like 99% of Americans) am not.
- Comment on MFA 1 month ago:
It also breaks your ability to do some actions with steam such as changing your email address because god forbid you enter the TOTP instead of pressing accept or something in the app
This is currently me, wanting to update my email but not wanting to go through the hassle of changing my authenticator back to my steam app then re exporting the key to put it back in Bitwarden.
So frustrating that they have to be ~special~ with their authenticator algorithm AND ALSO require the app for people who have reverse engineered it.
- Comment on Google Play Store listing apps installed from F-Droid that it cannot update 1 month ago:
7h old comment
Damn I am unoriginal
- Comment on Apple doesn't put the identifier in the Passkey, so when storing multiple ones you don't know which one is related to which Apple ID.. 1 month ago:
What if you have a backup of your partner’s / child’s / family member’s passkey?
- Comment on autoreply 1 month ago:
Would this be E. B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web?
- Comment on double slit 1 month ago:
Can’t blame you electron, me too
- Comment on Probability.... Need I say more?! 4 months ago:
For the rest of us:
- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
To take your train of thought one step further, think about gasoline. Gasoline has a high vapor pressure, maybe even higher vapor pressure than ethanol. Would you say that gasoline is a liquid at normal conditions?
- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
I mean sure, but you could say that about any liquid, or even any solid for that matter (with sublimation). But that’s not really what I was talking about when I responded.
- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
The boiling point of pure ethanol is 78°C / 173°F [1], so it would not turn into a gas at normal conditions.
Pure ethanol is very hard to produce because it forms an azeotrope with water in the ~96% [1] range, meaning it cannot be distilled further than that, it must be separated by other means.
Alcohol in spirits is usually diluted because of taxes on higher percentage alcohol, consumer preference, or being able to make more bottles with the same amount of ethanol. I believe using percentages for alcohol began when ye olde England was putting taxes based on the percentage of alcohol in the drink [2].
[1] - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol [2] - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_proof
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
And it’s genetic because it was required for how we evolved. Humans are social creatures and you had to fit in with the pack to be able to survive. Imagine if no one could tell what emotion anyone is, there would be chaos in the caves as everyone is continually setting each other off by not knowing how the other is feeling.
- Comment on Switch 2 leaks claim console runs “like a PS5”, FF7R to be launch title & more - Dexerto 8 months ago: