backgroundcow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Genesis of a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made this the other day.Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not you when you're dooming.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone want to team up to build a time machine and travel the future until the perfect utopia is achieved?

  How about we team up and try to make this world better instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What has he done to deserve this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, this redefinition isn’t necessary, it is a choice SI made. Nothing would have broken by keeping an exact relationship between amount of substance and mass, it would just have retained the meaning of Avogadro’s constant (experimentally determined vs a defined constant).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What has he done to deserve this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … weighs one gram … An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.

  Not only was this never true - the sentence would have to have say “An amount of carbon-12 atoms weighing 12 times this amount has exactly 1 mole atoms in it” (far less elegant) – but not even this is true any longer after the fuckup in redefining the mole in 2019, after which all these relations between amount of substance and mass are only approximate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.

  Maybe widely name-calling this practice for what it is could help steer companies away from this disgusting pattern.

  Should we start refering to them as something like “rape-ups”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing email's subject made me think my card got hacked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Better yet, demand loudly to get a refund. When they say there is nothing to refund, insist that you have an email confirming a booking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While a broad concept, in the context of your question, science is a metod to derive knowledge from observations.

  Alternatives to the scientific method is to guess or obtain knowledge from others. (Most other ways I can come up with, e.g. “religion” can still be sorted under these two.)

  Obtaining knowledge from others is great, but may not always be available, and the quality of the knowledge derived this way depends on the reliability of the source.

  For the other alternative, every sensible metric shows how science is a better method than guessing to derive knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an open-source/not corporate-owned alternative for Google Docs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a different, more techy, solution that can work depending on the people you collaborate with, is to use a hosted Git service for collaboration (if you want to stay completely open source, a self-hosted GitLab).

  Then, change your publication workflow to write in Markdown, ReST, or one of the other ascii formats that previews correctly, and set up your CI to render the documents automatically into, e.g., pdf:s using a converter (which can be done as part of the CI). There are all kinds of converters from Markdown/REsT -> docs, presentation, etc. formats that are as competent - if not more so - than the usual office suites. This setup offers both online editing in the GitLab instance and offline by local cloning of the Git repo.

  The side effect is that this system very seriously records and preserve your document history. You can see exactly who, at what point, changed, added, and removed things. For some types of documents, this can be very important.