Malfeasant @ Malfeasant @lemm.ee

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Machines don't care about shit, they blindly do what they're told. Garbage in, garbage out.

Noted. When I develop an essential piece of software, I will name it George.

Yes... Code doesn't write itself.

That's people making the dumb mistake of using the wrong units. They could have just as easily used the wrong metric units.

Fahrenheit makes more sense for human experience... 0 to 100 roughly corresponds to what can be survived for a significant amount of time. Below freezing you can survive without shelter as long as you're dressed for it, but as you approach zero it gets a lot harder, you really need shelter and heat at that point. Same with above 100... 117 won't kill you right away, but without some sort of man-made cooling device, you'll be wishing it would. I say this having lived both extremes, mountains of Colorado in winter, and Phoenix in summer... Honestly, given the choice between 115 and -15, I'd rather have the cold.

Base twelve would be great if we went all-in, as in new symbols for single digit representation of ten and eleven, then 10 would mean twelve. Having a base that's divisible by several primes is handy.

Then how to differentiate from 2x6? 2x8?

Planing. Planning wood is very different.

When you build a wood house, how far apart are the studs? I once tried to hang a shelf made by/for the European market, it had predrilled holes that were far enough apart that I could almost hit two studs, but not quite.

We see it as sticking to what we're used to... As conservative as we are overall, is it really that surprising?

Same in US...

This isn't some intrinsic value. What you're used to makes the most sense. If you were used to measuring people's height in meters, 1.3 meters vs 2 meters would paint just as vivid a picture.

I don't know if there is any requirement to be alive in order to be elected...

Surprised? These are people who will call you gay or a woman as an insult. Anything feminine that is not actively producing babies is an affront to their snowflake sensibilities.

that would be haggling over definitions, rather than facts.

I find this true about most arguments...

Then they'll make you get a keyboard subscription...

"Stuck with"? I find open source alternatives far less infuriating to work with than anything Microsoft produces.

What's the Lemmy equivalent of /r/hailcorporate?

Yeah, when I hauled my groceries by bicycle, I wouldn't want the larger sizes... But I also wouldn't be bitching out the person who isn't involved in the decision process...

On a related note, error messages. When I ask you what it says, tell me what it says, not what you think it means. If it meant what you thought it meant, you wouldn't be asking me for help.