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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • If that's a UXO, I'm actually a little surprised it would be the police on the scene, rather than the army.

  • It wasn't obvious because of the age, it was obvious because people don't say "back when I was in school" to refer to a doctorate. And when the context is specifically trying to emphasise how young they were at the time, they don't tend to mean "when I was an undergrad", either.

  • Does she sleep a consistent schedule & get enough sleep, or is she able to do this despite waking up after 5 hours of sleep at a time that's 4 hours earlier when working than on weekends?

  • The youngest Millennials graduated school in about 2014 or 2015 at the latest. There's no way, in context, they're talking about a PhD, and very, very little chance they're even talking about undergrad university.

  • The irony of this being shared by a bot…

  • AI has been and continues to be used for these sorts of things. Generative AI like LLMs and image generators might be getting all the media attention and attract the techbros at the moment, but they are fundamentally inappropriate for this purpose, but other AI machine learning models are making advancements all the time.

  • No, that would be Bob Katter.

  • Huh?

  • Holy shit it's that high? Red-green colourblindness is almost as common in men as left-handedness is?

  • Of course, with an embedded direct link, you could put the title text in as alt text:

    Unfortunately that won't always show up in the same way title text does.

  • part of every xkcd comic is the hover text.

    Yes…that would be why you would link directly to the comic…?

  • This comment perplexes me. A direct link to the image? Why not either embed that link so the image appears here on Lemmy without clicking a link, or link to the comic page which has both the comic and the title text?

  • And I hope youhave learned to sanitize your inputs not fucking use generative AI for grading

    Ftfy

  • Pain

    Jump
  • I thought it was "things a programmer says to a client (while rolling their eyes) after the client gives nonsensical feedback."

  • Ah right, thanks. I only searched for "meta", not "announcements" when looking for an answer to my question before posting. But looks like my instance stopped federating that community a year ago anyway.

  • Also, just a minor nitpick, but in the intro, the host throws his coat back, as though onto a coat rack, except we can see there's no coat rack. Then in the next shot, he's walking away from where that was and we can see the floor where it should have landed. But there's no coat. It's a minor continuity error, but mainly it would have a been more amusing little bit of meta humour if you did see the coat.

  • For me, it was this video. It came out shortly after I graduated high school, and though I was pretty good at maths, I struggled to really conceptualise the fundamental intuition behind trigonometric functions and the (polar) complex plane. Instead, I was relying on brute memorisation of the unit triangles. Learning about tau and how it relates just instantly caused everything to click with me.

  • 2 pi is tau, which is what I said it's less than 0.1 away from, but still not equal to.

  • Yeah shockingly bad. I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that HN leans libertarian and views equality as a bad thing, but the extent of it was still a bit of a shock.