Xavienth

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

It is, but like everything imperial, it is cursed. So it still has a degree sign by convention despite being an absolute scale

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

That's why they scare me and I refuse to eat them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Why would blank keycaps matter for touch typing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

If the state can incentivize charity to negate the effects of capitalist naked self interest, why can't the state just... help directly?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know it's a joke but it bugs me because foot-pound is energy not pressure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And how much by sea level rise?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That would be old as fucking. Fuck, the word, has been around in English for about 500 years or so. Shakespeare is old as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Speed bumps exist to slow down vehicles, in this case for pedestrian crossing.

Do you think it is more useful to slow down a 1-2 tonne (or more) chunk of metal from 50 to 20 km/h or a combined 150 kg vehicle from 30-20 km/h? Which would be worse to get hit by? Which has the greater stopping distance? Which can turn to avoid obstacles faster?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you use it differently you are in conflict with the entire anglosphere. You can make that complaint if you're not speaking English, but in English, the primary meaning of "America" is the United States.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Well that's pretty easy, just fire it anywhere except a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can find the value of ln(-1)¹⁰ by examining the definition of ln(x): the result z satisfies eᶻ=x. For x=-1, that means the z that satisfies eᶻ=-1. Then we know z from euler's identity. Raise to the 10, and there's our answer. And like you pointed out, it's not a particularly helpful answer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Therefore i¹⁰ = ln(-1)¹⁰/pi¹⁰ = -1

This is true but does not follow from the preceding steps, specifically finding it to be equal to -1. You can obviously find it from i²=-1 but they didn't show that. I think they tried to equivocate this expression with the answer for e^iπ^ which you can't do, it doesn't follow because e^iπ^ and i¹⁰ = ln(-1)¹⁰/pi¹⁰ are different expressions and without external proof, could have different values.

 

I don't mean this in a nebulous sense, like that it's hard to find where things are.

But like, i find scrolling just has too much friction, especially with my small thumbs where i do a lot of flicking rather than sliding.

Anyone else find this?

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