Discoverability is also an issue touch screens can help with - I enjoy that in the settings app on iPhone (I believe android is the same) one can search for a setting, rather than try to guess where a given setting has…
Allegedly primitive tech is at least partially fake - they use heavy equipment off screen to build their projects.
Excel can be really great — it’s been said that a huge amount of the world‘s programming is actually done in excel (summing a column of numbers is, after all, a very primitive programme). I wish there were better tools…
> „reserve the bedroom for sleep“ That’s unfortunately a luxury many people can’t afford. I’m literally sitting in my in—laws apartment in Poland right now. About 40sqm total, and for forty years they’ve slept on a…
You are correct, the 7 x 7 x 7 is the minimum where a perfect cube of cubes is impossible. The Wikipedia article shows the issue with the corner cubes. Apparently the 7-cube bulges slightly which helps to hide that the…
Each corner piece needs to make contact with the core. Consider when the top layer is rotated 45 degrees relative to the layer below. The corner is now about 0.707 units from the centre of the face, but the layer below…
> I'm a boomer millenial, or whatever we're called now, and never took to online gaming, so I'm part of this segment. And you are not alone - apparently 53% of gamers (total) prefer single-player games, [although this…
I have spent most of my life in the UK, which has no national ID card and does not typically require one to prove/verify identify on a regular basis. Prior to the introduction of voter ID laws in 2023, typically one…
Does auto-code generation count as AI?
Possibly joking about the .iso file-type for optical disc images? Or maybe that 'most' ISO standards that are encountered by engineers are defining file-types. I'm also a big fan of ISO-3166 though !
The average person doesn't pay capital gains tax - at least in the UK; there is a 12 3000 GBP allowance per year of gains which means that you need to have significant assets (think top 10% of the country) before it…
Expense tracking software has always been a trash fire in my experience, and I’ve never come across one with an associated credit cards (maybe that’s harder to in Europe? Or just less incentivised since transactions…
-ough notoriously has anywhere between four and twelve different pronunciations (if you count strange example with a limited number of words, like hiccough for hiccup). The point I believe the parent post is making is…
2014
It’s not. The traditional proof that there are an infinite number of primes relies on unique prime factorisation- i.e for any number, n, there is a unique set of primes p1, p2, p3, … etc. where p1 * p2 * p3 * … = n For…
SG = Singapore, TDM = Text Data Mining?
Another fun idea which has been proposed is that it’s an ironic nickname - so rather than ‘Baldy’ (which is you see busts of Caesar is certainly plausible) people called him or his ancestors ‘hairy’.
It is said that Julius Caesar borrowed so much money to become elected pontifex maximus that he essentially forced his creditors to support his political ambitions in the hope of seeing some payment on the debts. So,…
Please don’t impose your solely political definition on others; anarchy meaning disorder (i.e. chaos) is a well attested meaning of the term. > anarchy: absence of order : DISORDER…
We do for 2D though - Circle and disc. And in 4D plus we have the 3-sphere and 4-ball, etc. And for 3D shapes have Torus, and, well, ‘solid-torus’.
And, indeed, it’s probably in topology where the distinction between sphere and ball is most important.
I think in part it's because its harder to transfer money between banks in the US - no equivalent of the faster-payments-scheme which allows a free transfer within a few minutes in the UK. Cheques do provide a layer of…
There UK still used miles per hour for speed limits, and I’ve debated how we may change with my partner. I think the battle here is now lost - if you want to use km/h a sufficiently advanced modern car will show you the…
But an average one cent coin is involved in more than a single transaction - if you amortise the cost of the coin over every transaction it is involved in, then it’s much less than one cent. If the cost of metals in a…
> making merchants lose ~3% per transaction Cash also has costs - mistakes in making change, forgeries, time to count/cash up, time to visit banks for cash deposit and/or getting change, theft - it’s been estimated that…
Discoverability is also an issue touch screens can help with - I enjoy that in the settings app on iPhone (I believe android is the same) one can search for a setting, rather than try to guess where a given setting has…
Allegedly primitive tech is at least partially fake - they use heavy equipment off screen to build their projects.
Excel can be really great — it’s been said that a huge amount of the world‘s programming is actually done in excel (summing a column of numbers is, after all, a very primitive programme). I wish there were better tools…
> „reserve the bedroom for sleep“ That’s unfortunately a luxury many people can’t afford. I’m literally sitting in my in—laws apartment in Poland right now. About 40sqm total, and for forty years they’ve slept on a…
You are correct, the 7 x 7 x 7 is the minimum where a perfect cube of cubes is impossible. The Wikipedia article shows the issue with the corner cubes. Apparently the 7-cube bulges slightly which helps to hide that the…
Each corner piece needs to make contact with the core. Consider when the top layer is rotated 45 degrees relative to the layer below. The corner is now about 0.707 units from the centre of the face, but the layer below…
> I'm a boomer millenial, or whatever we're called now, and never took to online gaming, so I'm part of this segment. And you are not alone - apparently 53% of gamers (total) prefer single-player games, [although this…
I have spent most of my life in the UK, which has no national ID card and does not typically require one to prove/verify identify on a regular basis. Prior to the introduction of voter ID laws in 2023, typically one…
Does auto-code generation count as AI?
Possibly joking about the .iso file-type for optical disc images? Or maybe that 'most' ISO standards that are encountered by engineers are defining file-types. I'm also a big fan of ISO-3166 though !
The average person doesn't pay capital gains tax - at least in the UK; there is a 12 3000 GBP allowance per year of gains which means that you need to have significant assets (think top 10% of the country) before it…
Expense tracking software has always been a trash fire in my experience, and I’ve never come across one with an associated credit cards (maybe that’s harder to in Europe? Or just less incentivised since transactions…
-ough notoriously has anywhere between four and twelve different pronunciations (if you count strange example with a limited number of words, like hiccough for hiccup). The point I believe the parent post is making is…
2014
It’s not. The traditional proof that there are an infinite number of primes relies on unique prime factorisation- i.e for any number, n, there is a unique set of primes p1, p2, p3, … etc. where p1 * p2 * p3 * … = n For…
SG = Singapore, TDM = Text Data Mining?
Another fun idea which has been proposed is that it’s an ironic nickname - so rather than ‘Baldy’ (which is you see busts of Caesar is certainly plausible) people called him or his ancestors ‘hairy’.
It is said that Julius Caesar borrowed so much money to become elected pontifex maximus that he essentially forced his creditors to support his political ambitions in the hope of seeing some payment on the debts. So,…
Please don’t impose your solely political definition on others; anarchy meaning disorder (i.e. chaos) is a well attested meaning of the term. > anarchy: absence of order : DISORDER…
We do for 2D though - Circle and disc. And in 4D plus we have the 3-sphere and 4-ball, etc. And for 3D shapes have Torus, and, well, ‘solid-torus’.
And, indeed, it’s probably in topology where the distinction between sphere and ball is most important.
I think in part it's because its harder to transfer money between banks in the US - no equivalent of the faster-payments-scheme which allows a free transfer within a few minutes in the UK. Cheques do provide a layer of…
There UK still used miles per hour for speed limits, and I’ve debated how we may change with my partner. I think the battle here is now lost - if you want to use km/h a sufficiently advanced modern car will show you the…
But an average one cent coin is involved in more than a single transaction - if you amortise the cost of the coin over every transaction it is involved in, then it’s much less than one cent. If the cost of metals in a…
> making merchants lose ~3% per transaction Cash also has costs - mistakes in making change, forgeries, time to count/cash up, time to visit banks for cash deposit and/or getting change, theft - it’s been estimated that…