yetAnotherUser
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- Comment on Exploration 6 months ago:
Sure, but doesn’t the outer surface diffusing apply to the friction of water against a submarine’s hull too? No clue about theoretical quantum bubbles, but it doesn’t seem like anything that would affect spaceships in particular.
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
Uh I had to quickly look at Wikipedia but apparently the reason it’s transcribed with Ph is:
At the time these letters were borrowed, there was no Greek letter that represented /f/: the Greek letter phi ‘Φ’ then represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive /ph/, although in Modern Greek it has come to represent /f/.)
And so out of the various vav variants in the Mediterranean world, the letter F entered the Roman alphabet attached to a sound which the Greeks did not have.
So Greeks pronounced Phi differently from F and somehow someone decided that it should be transcribed as Ph because it sounded different from F. Maybe the Phi symbol just looked like a P.
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
Smh just learn Ancient Greek:
philosophy <=> φιλοσοφία <=> Phi Iota Lambda Omicron Sigma Omicron Phi Iota Alpha
- Comment on Non-binary 6 months ago:
How do you know they’re not in the toilet stall next to yours?
- Comment on Non-binary 6 months ago:
Counter-counterpoint:
Display the exact value of pi with 64 digits in any base N number system.
- Comment on Every base is base 10 6 months ago:
We’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters:
- Comment on Anon needs help proving something 6 months ago:
Just gift me the PC, I will protect it from the gnomes
- Comment on Polisci 6 months ago:
Accordingly, universities in continental Europe usually translate “informatics” as computer science, or sometimes information and computer science, although technical universities may translate it as computer science & engineering.
- Comment on Polisci 6 months ago:
That’s why informatics is by far the superior term. Computer science is such a boring terms anyways, you don’t call maths “number science”, biology "living beings science " or chemistry “atoms science” either.
- Comment on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 months ago:
J is in lower case too, the line on the right of the i is shorter than the others.
- Comment on near zero 7 months ago:
IEEE 754 floating point numbers have a signed bit at the front, causing +0 and -0 to exist.
- Comment on eigenspaces 7 months ago:
I will only ever give you nilpotent matrices
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 8 months ago:
Killing 50% of any one people is genocide, right? For example, the Nazis killed up to 50% of European Romani people and it is classified as a genocide.
Let’s assume killing 50% of n peoples is genocide.
Since killing 50% of n peoples is genocide, killing 50% of n+1 peoples must also be genocide, else a number N would exist such that killing 50% of N - 1 peoples is genocide but killing 50% of N peoples is not. The existence of such a number N would be quite contradictory, as it would imply one could undo genocide by killing more people. Additionally, if one were to first kill 50% of N - 1 people and then kill 50% of one more people some time later, both events would be classified as genocide, since killing 50% of one people is assumed to be genocide.
Therefore, Thanos did in fact commit genocide.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 8 months ago:
Depends on the language, though they’ll probably pronounce it in a way disregarding every language with ö’s rules.
- Comment on To be fair, that's more than two words 8 months ago:
Not the Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft though, as it’s referring to a company which was established prior to 1996.
- Comment on Why is this allowed in Germany? 9 months ago:
Yeah? The swastika is illegal too, yet Buddhists and museums can display it.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 11 months ago:
Yes, if you slam your doors every day at 3am you will be fined. Is there anything wrong with that?
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 11 months ago:
In Germany:
When using vehicles, unnecessary noise and avoidable exhaust pollution are prohibited. In particular, it is prohibited to run vehicle engines unnecessarily and to close vehicle doors excessively loudly. Unnecessary driving to and fro within built-up areas is prohibited if it causes a nuisance to others.
§30 (1), StVO
- Comment on Am I doing this correctly? 11 months ago:
I think you won’t like my unconfigured waybar
- Comment on Show some respect. 1 year ago:
- Comment on Pronouns 1 year ago:
But what if a normal person is slightly ungrateful about something?
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
Yes, you’re right this doesn’t work for real numbers.
It does however work for 10-adic numbers which are not real numbers. They’re part of a different number system where this is allowed.
- Comment on Hamas, federation and legality 1 year ago:
“Communists are saying Nazi things”? I’m not sure where I talked about communists besides the opposition to it in Hamas.
And no, I’m not implying Palestinians are Nazis - I’m responding to the claim that Hamas isn’t fascist just because there’s more to fascism than antisemitism. Yes, antisemitism does not imply fascism. But antisemitism combined with a few other factors does imply fascism. (And no, fascism does not imply antisemitism).
And it’s certainly not a stretch to claim a subset of a group is fascist. Like this Palestinian on the left (who is also instrumentalized by Israeli fascists to claim all Palestinians are Nazis - which is obviously wrong, but this guy certainly was one):
Also, just a small definition: I use the terms Nazi and fascist interchangeably, there’s not much of a point here to argue semantics.
- Comment on Hamas, federation and legality 1 year ago:
Never said anything positive about Israel, did I? I responded to a comment saying just because Hamas is antisemitic doesn’t mean it’s fascist. While that’s true, Hamas fulfills more hallmarks of fascism than merely antisemitism.
- Comment on Hamas, federation and legality 1 year ago:
Yeah, nationalism and anti-communism are also pillars of nazism. Wait…
- Comment on Umm I think I'll just delete you instead 1 year ago:
WhatsApp has an e2ee backup option and according to Signal WhatsApp doesn’t have a backdoor. Telegram does not encrypt group chats, which is terrible for privacy and security. Hiding the phone number is a solid feature, I admit. But it hardly protects you from the government, especially if you become a high-profile target.
