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- Comment on To be happy… 3 days ago:
But cleaning the basket vs cleaning a baking tray?
- Comment on To be happy… 3 days ago:
You can store the heat in oil, but how do you transfer it into cooking oil? It’s not like you can store it directly in cooking oil since it breaks down with heat.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 6 days ago:
Maybe police shouldn’t be allowed to pay a third party to do something they themselves aren’t allowed to do. Just a thought.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 6 days ago:
It’s not an operation. OP is working with a field where {√, 2} is a subset of that field’s elements.
- Comment on Gamer complained that he turned on his old PS3 for MGS 4 and found out that Sony had disabled his account - he lost his games due to prolonged inactivity 1 week ago:
Surely, this can’t apply for maintaining data on what a user “owns”, right?
- Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, gotcha. I thought you meant you looked up “whole wheat bread nutrition” and used those results to verify. Not that it would’ve made any more sense to offer that value as an answer since there’s so much variation in what can be considered whole wheat bread.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe? 2 weeks ago:
How is asking an LLM and checking it against public values for nutrition less work than just using the public values in the first place?
- Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe? 2 weeks ago:
Judging by the downvotes, we apparently don’t like seeing questions here.
Flour alone already has enough carbohydrates to feed the yeast. Most basic breads are made with just flour, water, yeast, and salt.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 2 weeks ago:
If that debt is accruing interest, it might be a good idea to do that to get out of debt while you still can. The deeper you go, the harder it is to get out.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 2 weeks ago:
That’s the point of having savings. You could just as easily ask yourself what you would do if you spent 2k on car repairs and suddenly your friend urgently needs financial assistance the next day. If you need to spend that money, then you spend it. If you can’t, then you deal with the consequences.
- Comment on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity 3 weeks ago:
I’ve done similar. But I guess an argument can be made that we should strive to replace those with more economical forms of transportation. Just because one part of your trip is by airplane, doesn’t mean the whole thing needs to be.
- Comment on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity 3 weeks ago:
As dumb as it sounds, people still fly those distances.
- Comment on What would happen if you maxxed out your credit cards and line of credit then moved to some village in the phillipines? 4 weeks ago:
wtf 50k? I’ve never had a card go over 2k, and the highest I’ve ever been offered was 5k. I can’t imagine the level of wealth you’d need to spend that much in a month.
- Comment on Meal Replacement Drink Suggestions? 4 weeks ago:
My preference is Holfood (Chocolate). Canadian company, produced in Toronto. It has a nice flavour and isn’t too filling.
Compared to other nutrition shakes I’ve tried in the past:
- Soylent powder and Holfood Vanilla are both very similar and taste very artificial. It’s not what I would call “bland”.
- Boost and Ensure: They’re always way too sweet (I would not be able to consume more than maybe 300 Calories worth in a day), and much more expensive than the alternatives when you consider the nutritional value.
- Comment on Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager? 5 weeks ago:
And also having to check OS compatibility for every package you want to use.
- Comment on Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager? 5 weeks ago:
Is this meant to answer the question, or is it just a tangential rant?
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 5 weeks ago:
They could be conscious for all we know.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 5 weeks ago:
Expanding on that: until we can prove that another human being is conscious, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll be able to do so for a machine.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 5 weeks ago:
The country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.
- Comment on Don't be so quick to judge 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t freon one of the more efficient refrigerants we have? The environmental concerns aren’t applicable until it goes into a landfill.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 1 month ago:
For a lot of people, the answer is unfortunately survival.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 1 month ago:
Do you really need to say those magic words before you’re allowed to stay silent? You can’t just not speak?
- Comment on Hypothetically if I found a suitcase of money by the side of the road, is there a legal way to claim it on my taxes? 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of money to spend on those two places.
Maybe if you can pay your rent or mortgage in cash, that’ll be enough to eat through a good chunk of it.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 1 month ago:
OP actually did write 0.10, but I think it’s pretty clear from context that they meant it with one sigfig.
- Comment on I agree with don 1 month ago:
So you tilt your hips down? That’s how you direct pee with a vulva.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 1 month ago:
Why does even-ness matter?
Because significant figures.
0.1 means you have a margin of error of ±0.05 (i.e. the true value is between 0.05 and 0.15).
0.08 means the margin of error is ±0.005 (i.e. the true value is between 0.075 and 0.085).
- Comment on I agree with don 1 month ago:
How does that happen? You point your dick straight down and the stream decides to shoot out at a 90 degree angle?
- Comment on Was there ever a candidate for President of the US, who actually stepped outside the lobbyist crap and gave real and honest answers that were not rehearsed? 1 month ago:
Real and honest in that they accurately reflect what’s going on in his own mind.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 1 month ago:
Things I can’t look up:
- The person’s name
- Their interests
- How their day is going
- Their opinions on various local matters
- Whether they can help me move next weekend
- Gossip from the dinner party they recently attended
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 month ago:
I’d argue that public transit even saves time compared to driving. I can do so much while sitting on a bus/train. I can’t do anything else while driving.