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[–] philluminati@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

SQL is archaic, slow and nonsensical compared to MongoDB.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Fractional measurements are better than decimal measurements for anything where the level of precision is important.

Decimal measurements can only increase our decrease in precision by a factor of 10.

For example if your precision is accurate to 1/4 of a unit, you can represent that with fractions no problem.

What is that in decimal? "0.25" implies precision to the hundredth of a unit.

What if your measurement is half a unit, but it's precise to 1/64 of a unit? Just don't reduce the fractions. "32/64ths" is more precise than .5.

[–] art@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

All streets should have a speed limit of 20 mph. All roads 35 mph. Highways 50 mph. Stroads should not exist.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lilo and Stitch is the best Disney movie.

Many, many spoilers below. But, seriously, this movie is 21 years old. Get over yourselves.

Check it: a young girl adopts an illegal alien (killing machine from deep space) and protects him from the U.S. (and galactic) government (Military-Industrial complexes), while keeping her incredibly depressed sister (slices both ways) from giving up completely as they keep their Indigenous Hawaiian family together in their co-opted homeland. One sister works a series of dead-end tourism jobs; the other has anger issues. The hate each other and love each other fiercely, though they are about 12 years apart in age.

Oh, yeah, and their parents are dead.

Meanwhile, the alien is a political refugee and freedom fighter fleeing from his own people who want him dead for β€”get thisβ€” existing. A lab-grown, indestructible terrorist, he seeks asylum on an island β€” but he can't swim.

He does learn to surf.

The only downside to this film is that Disney produced it. And Elvis.

"Ohana means family. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

Huh. I think I need to watch this.

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[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

a "civilization" that involves "money" is simply not civilized.

shut up, you're fucking wrong. it said so in the post.

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Starfield is fun.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Those math questions that rely on purposeful ambiguity in order to drive engagement are annoying as fuck. It's like "congratulations, you just proved that in math (and questions in general) if you're not clear with what you're asking, people will get different answers". What fantastic value! What a novel hypothesis! Now fucking knock it off. I'm tired of literally everyone screaming about how their way is right when it doesn't fucking matter, the question was asked in a bullshit way in order to piss everyone off.

Bonus, PEMDAS, BEMDAS, PE-MD-AS. It's a goddamn terrible mnemonic that twists itself in knots to make the acronym work, rather than to make the order of operations clear. Screaming it doesn't make your shit any clearer anyways.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All DST and time zones should be removed and we should only have one global time. People in different locations would just get up at different times on the clock. Communication about times would get so much easier, communication about schedules would get so much easier. "The same time every week" would have an actual meaning all year around regardless of any notions about getting up later relative to local sunrise in the darker time of the year.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

This solves making the statement "let's meet at 5" be more clear globally, but doesn't solve the actual confusion. Person A getting up hours before normal, being in the middle of person B's day, and being when person C would go to bed still happens. All it does is destroy any frame of reference and make travel more difficult. You would still need a chart to know if any time was actually during waking or business hours at each location on earth.

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't want to get rid of daylight savings, because it's still a better option than keeping either summer or winter time.

Edit: another one: not having kids does not in any way contribute to solving environmental problems, we need MORE young, educated minds who have a chance to figure it out (as terrible as it sounds to push problems on the new generation), and we should ensure that in the event that we do manage to stabilize the situation, we won't instead have fucked up demographics to deal with.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 2 years ago

The machine learning models and developments we see these last years called "AI" for some reason, is as big, if not bigger than the IT and internet revolution, and has applications on a broader spectrum than anyone can currently imagine.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pineapple is good on pizza

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