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psud

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  • Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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  • I use it mostly for family chats, I got the extended family to use it rather than Facebook Messenger

    What makes you not trust signal as against WhatsApp?

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • You missed that the image on the right is a zoom in of part of the background of the image on the left

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • And you only see the error in classical physics is the very fast orbit of mercury or the precision of GPS satellites

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • That's close enough for radio. You can't cut an antenna much closer than that precision, and it'll stretch or shrink with temperature anyway. I guess the error could add up enough to be a problem in lengths of fibre optic cables, especially as they run at about c/3

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • There is no way of producing pi as a number. There aren't enough atoms in the visible universe to write out pi in an 8 bit font. There aren't enough atoms to write out pi in binary with atoms representing ones and empty space representing zeros

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • I think you need this symbol: ≈

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  • Cubic metres. I guess they find 32m^3 less clear

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  • Sea bird

  • Dear Kevin

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  • PEMDAS for order of operations, we had BEDMAS which seemed memorable on it's own, since we called these '()' brackets and multiplication and division are equal so can be either way

  • Dear Kevin

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  • Répondez s'il vous plaît?

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  • We had to memorise South East Asia and its capitals. You had it easy. Look up the capital of Brunei.

    We weren't advised to use mnemonics

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • Also there was no need in Italy and Greece. Britain invented steam engines because they needed a better way to pump water out of their mines, people worked out later that they could use these engines to power a cart, a digging machine, a rail machine. They needed mines for heating fuel due to the cold climate, they needed coal fired heat for their metallurgy

    You need reasons to invent stuff (necessity is the mother of invention) and you're not going to get much reason in a perfect climate with all the food you need coming from the sea and land all year

    Britain already had rails for human and horse drawn carts

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • Good for us as we wouldn't exist without the world going exactly as it has (I guess unless you're from a culture that didn't get conquered/settled and has been quite insular), but imagine where technology would be if industrial civilisation had been continuous from so early

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • AI tools are pretty good in Photoshop; they're pretty good in copilot; Ukraine claims they're good at guiding a drone to a Russian bomber (though they also hit decommissioned aircraft). I think you only see the use of less specialised AI used to generate low quality text and soulless images

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • I feel like there's a bit of trying to scare the kid off from that life course and get married like a proper person in that letter

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • What, jessvj is not baffled? That's an odd thing to study

  • Vibe coding your MFA

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  • I think you're fairly safe here. People using AI tools professionally generally like them, only overuse and careless use are seen as bad here

    Out on general Lemmy though you'll get down votes for comments in favour of AI

  • Vibe coding your MFA

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  • Imagine getting that design past review

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  • The insecurity of SMS is the inability of telcos to secure number porting. If someone wants to compromise your shit, they can easily steal your phone number, if your phone number is sufficiently public

    One defence is to have a second service that is only used for authentication, and never share the number except to those providers that need to message you codes