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- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 5 months ago:
I’m finally coming around to this after decades of being steered away from it by The Simpsons (youtu.be/CQod276-7Mo?si=F5_Suzq41QAK_Wtg).
- Comment on For edge lovers 6 months ago:
Panko bread dough is placed between two metal surfaces, and is cooked by running an electric current through it. This avoids any crust forming, causing it to be very uniform.
I imagine you could do the same with brownies.
- Comment on Anon is a mastermind 7 months ago:
It is a stretch when you’re hearing from that person directly.
- Comment on Anon is a mastermind 7 months ago:
What does fried food have to do with requiring low sodium?
- Comment on trains 7 months ago:
If physics taught you that 1 = pi, you may want to retake some classes.
- Comment on Progress! 8 months ago:
No, sorry. Ethically, this technology can only be used for torture.
- Comment on turkey pot pies 9 months ago:
I’m just going off of Wikipedia, idk.
- Comment on turkey pot pies 9 months ago:
A mincemeat pie is another name for a mince pie. So yeah.
- Comment on Public trust 9 months ago:
Unfortunately, the answer to that doesn’t lie in science but in politics.
- Comment on Please Stop 9 months ago:
The only selling point of blockchain is that it’s trustless. This becomes a less-useful property when it comes to things in the real world, as you tend to need to trust at least one party.
For example, anything they achieved there with blockchain, they could have achieved with a simple government-run web service and a traditional database.
- Comment on Please Stop 9 months ago:
That is not a use for blockchain.
Say I want to say that I created an image. I could post that image’s hash to a block chain, and point to it as something anyone can check.
But you already have to trust me for that to be valuable. So I can just host that hash in any of a myriad of conventional methods that are simpler, more performant, and less wasteful.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 11 months ago:
The electricity from the fans also ends up as heat.
- Comment on It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. 1 year ago:
I agree, with one huge exception. Why the hell are you wasting your lucky coin applying for jobs?
Also, sure, do some trades once to get some starter money. But that’s a waste of your precious 12 hours a month. As is going for walks. You can be on vacation the other 98% of the time; spend every second of your penny time doing as much good as you can.
Cure diseases, solve nuclear fusion, end wars and violence, build infrastructure. There seems to be no limit the way it’s worded. Hell, build the Enterprise from Star Trek (or a better space ship) and spend your non-penny time exploring the galaxy.
Do physical laws even apply? Can you build replicators for everyone? How about a mansion in a tardis for every person on the planet?
For how long do you have to try something to succeed at it? Maybe you can do each of these things in just a couple seconds. If that’s the case, maybe penny time will quickly become non-valuable if you run out of ideas.
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 1 year ago:
I’m not an aerospace mechanic, but I do have some insight.
The formula in the image is incorrect. It depicts 7/16" - 10 cents = 10 mm, not plus. Notice that 7/16" indicates the gap in the wrench, and the dime makes that gap smaller.
Now that that is out of the way, it seems that a dime is 1.35 mm (I love that American currency is specified in metric). So, 7/16" - 10 cents = 9.7625 mm. So, pretty damn close to 10 mm.
- Comment on Don't do the forbidden math 1 year ago:
I mean, it’s kind of funny, but also not a great user experience. If you’re familiar with complex numbers, then you’re left annoyed that it won’t perform the computation. If you’re not familiar with complex numbers, then you don’t get the joke and it’s not a helpful error message.
- Comment on Everyone has value 1 year ago:
Is that really any different from life insurance, except with more potential to help poor people?
- Comment on Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free! 1 year ago:
Looks like xmlrpc. The website for this spec no longer exists, so I definitely see a motivation to stop using it, lol.
- Comment on Don't do the forbidden math 1 year ago:
Lol, the Android calculator says, “Keep it real”.
- Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary 1 year ago:
Ooooooh, companies. I initially misread it as CEOs, and the numbers did not seem right. Though that would be a more interesting metric.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
As fucked as that is, what fucking eviction notice gives 3 days to vacate? That can’t be legal, can it?