paholg @ paholg @lemm.ee

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Do you have a source that sports are a net financial positive for schools?

Here's an article about students being charged thousands of dollars each per year for sports programs: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/hidden-figures-college-students-may-be-paying-thousands-athletic-fees-n1145171

Here's an article showing that only 25/65 Division I schools had a net positive revenue from sports: https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2020/11/20/do-college-sports-make-money/, with those losing money losing a lot more than the ones making money.

Another: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/analysis-who-is-winning-in-the-high-revenue-world-of-college-sports

Just search for "college sports net revenue" and I'd be surprised if you find much, if anything, that agrees with you.

Where'd you come up with that shitty-ass straw man?

I agree, with one huge exception. Why the hell are you wasting your lucky coin applying for jobs?

Also, sure, do some trades once to get some starter money. But that's a waste of your precious 12 hours a month. As is going for walks. You can be on vacation the other 98% of the time; spend every second of your penny time doing as much good as you can.

Cure diseases, solve nuclear fusion, end wars and violence, build infrastructure. There seems to be no limit the way it's worded. Hell, build the Enterprise from Star Trek (or a better space ship) and spend your non-penny time exploring the galaxy.

Do physical laws even apply? Can you build replicators for everyone? How about a mansion in a tardis for every person on the planet?

For how long do you have to try something to succeed at it? Maybe you can do each of these things in just a couple seconds. If that's the case, maybe penny time will quickly become non-valuable if you run out of ideas.

I'm not so sure. The study discusses specifically people who engage in partisan subreddits, which is not the same as being politically engaged. It also uses an AI to grade toxicity, which surely mischaracterizes many interactions.

For example, I have been in communities of a non-political nature, where political discussions occur. These are often about real issues that affect real people in the community, and yet there are people complaining about political content.

To complain about political content is, at best, a very privileged take, demonstrating that you are in a position where politics do not affect you much. At worst, it is actively hostile behavior with the goal of continuing the status quo and shutting down discourse. I would call most of these kinds of comments "toxic", and yet the rhetoric is usually fine, so I doubt an AI would agree.

I'm not an aerospace mechanic, but I do have some insight.

The formula in the image is incorrect. It depicts 7/16" - 10 cents = 10 mm, not plus. Notice that 7/16" indicates the gap in the wrench, and the dime makes that gap smaller.

Now that that is out of the way, it seems that a dime is 1.35 mm (I love that American currency is specified in metric). So, 7/16" - 10 cents = 9.7625 mm. So, pretty damn close to 10 mm.

I mean, there's tons of games where female characters wear basically metal bikinis that are used in combat. It's not the same.

Fuck off with that shit.

Linux gaming is already here.

I agree, but the ones with the degauss button were fun.

The yellow blocks didn't fit the desired story, so were disregarded as outliers.

There are multiple kinds of heat pump water heaters.

For the one I have, only the tank is inside. The full heat pump is outside, and water is piped between it and the tank.

Isn't that what Unreal Engine has?

I've also heard it referred to as "source available".

I just learned that the Mac version of sed requires a backup file for the -i flag, making it really hard to write cross-platform scripts that use it.

I mean, it's kind of funny, but also not a great user experience. If you're familiar with complex numbers, then you're left annoyed that it won't perform the computation. If you're not familiar with complex numbers, then you don't get the joke and it's not a helpful error message.

Is that really any different from life insurance, except with more potential to help poor people?

Verbing weirds language.

Looks like xmlrpc. The website for this spec no longer exists, so I definitely see a motivation to stop using it, lol.

https://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/XMLRPC

Lol, the Android calculator says, "Keep it real".

Pssh, I'll divide by zero all day. You just need -infinity=infinity (think a number circle instead of a number line), and you're good.

It's 0/0 where the real crimes begin.