grozzle

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[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

is that to avoid using liquid vinegar?

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

collective nouns are like "team" or "group", they're happy to be "a team" or "one group"

data doesn't work like that, people say "a data point", or "one piece/item of data". (because datum is almost a dead word)

it's more accurate to say data is a mass noun, a. k.a. an uncountable noun, like air, sand, rice.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

to be fair, the Raspberry Pi has never been pitched as an idiot-proof consumer appliance.

it is supposed to be a cheap way for people to get into studying programming /computing / electronics.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

the benefits of Bazzite are centred around it having good performance with nVidia / AMD / Intel GPUs.

RasPi doesnt work with those GPUs, so it makes sense Bazzite wouldn't support it.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

adding to abnorc's excellent answer - circuit diagrams are all drawn as if charge carriers are positive (this is called "conventional current"), but because electrons are negative, this can get very confusing when you're dealing with components where the flow of charge is one-way only (diodes, transistors, batteries, photometers...)

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

almost 40 000 rubles for a dollar!

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that's not arbitrary - the hour hand of a clock mimics the shadow of a sundial.

it makes sense, in the northern hemisphere, where 90% of people live.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Fun archaeo-dentistry fact -

for thousands of years, most humans in wheat agriculture societies had terrible teeth because of the stone dust from millstones like this persisting into the finished bread.

until the industrial era, when we could make steel grinders.

thanks, modern steel industry!

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's not more precise, it becomes inaccurate.

A man says he's 6'6". Sure. If he's anywhere between 6'5½" and 6'6½", that's true.

You say he's 198.12cm tall. The range of this being true is now thinner than a needle. It has gone far beyond what anyone actually measures. In over 99% of cases, it's not true, and if it is, it won't be for long, because the human body isn't nearly that consistent from breath to breath.

The conversion with spurious false precision has made the number go from true to not true.

The man is six foot six, yes, true. The man is 198.12cm - no he isn't.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

so many researchers toasting their bagels and yet never using your dedicated bagel button will wear you down.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

When the original value is only precise to plus or minus half an inch, it makes no sense whatsoever to do a conversion that's a hundred times more precise.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Alec's Texan cousin who showed up in this video.

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