thepreciousboar @ thepreciousboar @lemm.ee

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I don't really understand this scam. Your employer wrote a cheque on the account where he later deposited the cash he was given. What's the purpose? To inflate expenses and profit numbers?

Also please remeber that "addict" doesn't mean "weak" or "lesser man" or whatever. We all have our own struggles, facing them is the most brave thing one can do.

I believed the kinux kernel recently became real time?

Just because a CISC will run multiple instructions in a single clock cycle, it doesn't automatically make it faster. Complex instructions means complex decode logic, that makes the execution slower, even at the same clock cycle. A modern intel CPU has something like 20+ stages of pipelining, while ARM has 3-5 stages, that makes the execution more energy efficient and more powerful. Also superscalar RISC architectures exist, so RISC can also execute more instructions at a time, and in less time.

Lastly, modern x86_64 look like CISC, but are actually RISC under the hood, the single instruction is just a pseudo-instruction divided in multiple simpler instructions. I don't believe thay makes it much more efficient.

Fallout New Vegas was also repetitive in many aspects, mainly because they had limited time and resued assets when they could. Still doesn't mean it's not a fantastic game

I understand the concerns in the USA, but where I live, burd flu seems to be pretty much a non-problem for now because of very strict controla and low volume of aviary farming.

300 dead cats in 20 years in 18 countries? I'm guessing that house fires kill more cats than that.

I don't knoe why people are obsesse with keeping cats inside. In a less urbanized area, they are perfectly safe staying outside.

At least if you install other apps you already have KDE. If you install another Flatpak, it's likely this will need another version of the KDE runtime, so it's 2.5 more GB for a 450kB application.

I'm not saying they are not killing birds, or mice, or small preys in general. Cats are predators and amongst the best. What I'm saying is that they are invasive only in places they never were in before human brought them (like Australia or small islands). In continental Eurasia (except areas where they are explicitly been controlled), they have always been there, and the environment is adapted to their presence and will not significantly suffer, not more than any other predator.

In my experience it highly depends on the cat. Some are perfectly content with proper scratchers and toys inside, some just visibly suffer staying inside, it might help we are far from the busy city with plenty of green and huntable animals, but most of our cats spend ~80% of time outdoor during summer and ~30% during winter.

"Outdoor cats" are just cats. They are not a domesticated species, hunting is their instinct, and should just not be introduced in places where they wreck havoc to the environment. Where they are endemic (Europe and continental Asia) they don't cause troubles to the ecosystem

Also certificate does not ensure the website is safe, only that you are really talking with the server the URL points to, and not a man-in-the-middle trying to hijack your information (like passwords or payment details).

Nothing stops a malicious site to have a valid https certificate. Sure, more spam-friendly Certification Authorities like Let's Encrypt might revoke spammy certificate, but that's not nevesserily always true.

Isn't data uncountable in english?

As many other said, milli and kilo are the prefix you are going to use 90% of the time, with the exception of centimeters. Food and beverage products are measured in kg, liters or milliliters, furnitures are measured in mm, cm or meters, distances are in meters or kilometers. Everything else is relatively uncommon. If you are not used to them you can still use some rough estimates, at least to get a sense of scale, but it's generally not used by people who learn it first.

For example, the width of a finger is a few centimeres, a bottle of water is usually 1 or 1.5 liters, a leg of an average male is around 1 meter long, a kilometer is how much you walk in 5 minutes, and so on.

As for the writing, the rules are quite simple: the base measurement is always in lowr case (m, g, l), you might see liter written as L instead of l but, while common, is technically wrong. For the modifiers, most are lower case, some are upper case to distinguish

1000 = kilo k 100 = hecta = h 1/10 = deci = d 1/100 = centi = c 1/1000 = milli = m 1000000 = mega = M

There are more specific rules for scientific units of measures, like if the abbreviation of the base unit is more than ine letter, the first is upper case (1 Pascal, the measure of pressure is 1 Pa instead of 1 pa), but if you don't work in STEM, you likely won't care.

There's a difference between "win without even trying" and "barely holding up"

To a certain extent yes, but at least on most social you at least follow single creators you enjoy, and you are usually presented with a lost of content they made so you choose. With tik tok you are served a random video and the algorithm chooses the next one, I don't even know if when finished to see a video you can get a list of reccommended of you are served one only. It's just a differenr structure.

Tik Tok, mostly because it represent "fast entertainment" and is the epitome of "the algorithm chooses for you" which is what I despise the most. Now everythink tries to be like it because it's famous, and everythink is more shitty.

Also, how many pizza parties are you getting that are worth a raise? If you consider a 1000$ raise per year, which is I guess nothing on a US salary, it's like 50 pizzas. If you eat two whole pizzas at every single pizza party, that would be almost two parties per month. Is that a realistic amount of parties?

Sounds like a relatively confrting description for death

Many of these things and one aspect in common, they rely on either appearances or "trust me bro" level of empty promises. I was always told I was too skeptical and untrustful, but maybe it's people that trust too much what a salesman is selling you. I'm of the idea that the good things are the one you discover snd enjoy, not the ones that announce to the whole world how awesome they are.