cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20160782
Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name
Missed opportunity:
"And next time, I'll make baby toys that glow in the dark with Uranium"
Missing the Metric-Freedom conversion error
Ah en effet, my bad, je retire mon message ;)
Here's the sauce: xkcd/2803
And here is another lemmy post about this commic: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on !xkcd@lemmy.world)
Not sure CrowdStrike runs on npm, but still ruined it all for sure
As a non native English speaker, I had to read your comments to understand the "Hot potato" one... Seems that I'm not as fluent in English as I thought (my accent is shit)
I can understand (I hate this video title actually), but yeah, telling that "That guy is an idiot" without listening at what he said is not smart
During the video, he's listening and debating against some French (?) phylosoph I suppose, that basically said shit like English is just French; then this video adds details about why Yes, but also why not, and where yes and no
Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video
(Title is clickbait, video content is much more sourced and explained)
Twitter PR review
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8677292
Transcript:
[A computer program.]
int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }
Hover Text:
RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8653164
Transcript:
Cueball: Hey, check it out: e^π^−π is 19.999099979. That's weird.
Black Hat: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college.
Cueball: ...what?Black Hat: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that e^π^−π was a standard test of floating-point handlers -- it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.
Cueball: That's awful.
Black Hat: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.
Hover text:
Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2^ + 19^2^/22) is pi.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8619086
Title text:
It's like the traveling salesman problem, but the endpoints are different and you can't ask your friends for help because they're sitting three seats down.
Links:
Source: Itchy Feet (https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2024/01/real-name.html)
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As a non English native: "Car on"