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  • Your grammar is correct and your sentence structure is fine. It just lacks a bit of... pizzazz 😉

    You could say

    Regardless, it remains in use as a measurement that only a small fraction of the world continues to use.

    Which maybe is a little bit too much pizzazz for Lemmy but you don't really get to have fun with your writing elsewhere!

  • Oh my God I have a story about this.

    Our entire company wants metric. The guidance folk want to do their modeling in metric. The prop team wants to do fluid/thermo in metric. The structures team wants to do load analysis in metric.

    But the boys at the 'pad are imperial only. The water system, fuel tanks, all ground infra is in imperial. If someone runs down to the hardware store they can easily find a fitting, gasket, or o ring in imperial. But metric? Good luck.

    So our company decided to support both. The flight computer and ground software did unit conversions, everything was unit-aware, telemetry was occasionally manually converted because the onscreen wasn't the right unit. We had written our own turing complete, inhouse programming language and we ended up implementing dual-static typing. We had float, int, bool and then we had units where some operations required the units to be the same thing. So cm and inch but not inch and kilogram.

    The project was terribly mismanaged. To this day some still wonder why.

  • Is this real and safe? Why is Microsoft letting it be hosted on their own platform?

    I looked at the code but the "single file version" is 10377 lines of Batch. They want me to do the power shell equivalent of curl abc.com | bash. The official website looks legit but I have no idea if this is safe or how they're doing it.

  • Because building a chip design branch is a very large undertaking.

    • Chips are expensive to design
    • Expensive to manufacture
    • you need to buy millions and millions of them
    • the lifecycle of a chipset has a much longer tail than their metaverse attempt

    It's surprising because they invested all that money on a product they don't know is going to take off (metaverse) and the chips won't be ready for a very long time.

    What kind of chip are they even building? There are massive corporations that have spent a very long time building performance, low power cores (Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung) but instead of buying from them they want to reinvent the wheel.

    It's surprising because Facebook thinks they can catch up to the other chip design companies which takes an enormous amount of investment over decades. It's not a 1, 2, or 5 year thing.

    So, now I'm curious. Can you please explain why you think this is a very normal and unsurprising thing for Facebook to try and do?

    Also, are you even a chip designer? Are you even an engineer at all?

  • I just came off a bipolar induced manic phase. I hyper focused on eve and played it literally 8-12 hours a day for a few weeks.

    The game is fun. It's a slow burn and a lot of the allure comes from the setting itself. I don't have nearly enough time to play anymore. Getting your ship into the pvp zone, finding a group, and finding a fight can easily take an hour.

  • It depends on who you're hiding from. If you want to keep the GRU off your back then burner phones sound great. If I don't want Google to know too much about me then burner phones, generic credit cards, and tor are probably overkill.

  • Can we take a step back for a second and think about the human condition that led someone to need a moral argument to get off X? What kind of pathetic, fucked up mind do you have where you can't just uninstall the app you have to appeal to morality.

  • Okay all you commies get ready for politics 101

    First don't rely on morals to make your argument. It, unfortunately, does not change capitalist minds.

    Second, frame your argument in capitalist rhetoric. For example you can say, "UBI is important to stimulate the economy by enabling Low-Income-Americans to spend more on essentials."

    Seriously, not joking, this is how you change people's minds.