I don’t think the “us” in that furrie’s statement is inclusive of everyone
Pronouns: any. You can’t get it wrong
I don’t think the “us” in that furrie’s statement is inclusive of everyone
We need a checklist like there is for Russian warships
It really does feel mainstream to come up with tech specs for a new comms technology, not the sort of thing that nerds* might do /s
Tim Burners-Lee** worked in particle accelerators. Total jock****.
* People excessively interested in tech
** Inventor of HTML - the web
**** I’m old. The world is divided into nerds and jocks per Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
I see people like you, and I am reminded that Lemmy has nothing to dissuade those who chase the largest negative score.
Not saying that’s what you’re doing, just that if you aren’t, you should consider it since you seem good at it
I would argue that nearly no one finds this one funny but many found this one funny
The OP comic is less accessible than the empiricism one, so the target audience is smaller, some of the smaller audience comics required one knew Firefly, open source memes, and Corey Doctorow. When you’re in the target group the comics are especially hilarious
Some have fallen flat for me until I looked up XKCD explained, since I have very low knowledge of pop culture. I wouldn’t say those aren’t funny, I say I don’t get them
You’d be imprecise for civil timekeeping, but spot on for astronomy
The civil rule is it’s a leap year if the year is divisible by 4, unless it is also divisible by 100 unless it is also divisible by 400
We saw the rules play out in 2000 (at least those of us over 23 saw it) which is a year divisible by 100 and by 400 so it was a leap year
Yours (and astronomy’s) is Julian style “if it’s divisible by 4”
I prefer the newer calendars, where there is no good mental calculation for leap years - it’s a leap year when the computer says it’s a leap year
I would think that the best time period to use for a light year is whatever year definition has been used to date
Now let’s work on the best second to use for the light second
Chronic flow in an engaging project. Start on a Saturday morning, feel like a coffee since you’re a bit sleepy, notice it’s Sunday
I had a team of contractors working on some code. They had learnt in their previous jobs to document everything in the work wiki (aside from the design documents which have their own repository)
And it was good they did, since the project was put on hold due to too much mismatch between backend and front, and all the contractors were fired (a day before Xmas) leaving the useless doco as the best reference for whoever needs to resurrect our code
“republic” is opposite to “monarchy”. It is unrelated to democracy or authoritarianism. Nazi Germany was a republic. France is a republic.
Your republic is flawed by design. Your founders didn’t trust democracy so they weakened it, the country hasn’t managed to improve the democracy since.
Australia is also a Federation, but a monarchy not a republic. Australia is quite a bit more democratic than America
Luckily we don’t build clocks for n-dimensional time
My grandfather clock is correct* about once a week when I wind and correct it
*It must be correct as it’s very slightly fast (less so than can be fixed with a quarter turn off the pendulum screw) and I set it slightly in the past
In Rome they tell you the fountain water is fine. Though I suspect some is fed through lead pipes
Adelaide water is fine now
Australian here, yes. Our tap water is pretty good
Ctrl+shift+k and u? I’m pretty sure it’s Ctrl+k and +u
Admin or physical access.
It’s also a new way to compromise a machine you have physical access to
His crime wasn’t driving into the sea, it was driving on a closed beach
As in Margaret Thatcher was an Englishman?