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  • Does entropy have a knife?

  • Climate Scientists:

    • The lightbulb is broken, and there's reason to believe that the ceiling might cave in
    • Offers advice on how to fix the contacts, or to replace the bulb entirely, or put up struts to support the ceiling in an impassioned plea to the higher ups.
    • CTO is committed already to candles, CFO wants to wait and see what happens, and CEO labels it as a marketing problem.
  • The Wonder is pretty gentle in pace, and the plot though not entirely linear is easy to follow

  • isnt this more of an image vision task than a simple utility task?

    I'd be amazed if each of those panels coordinates were annotated somewhere

  • My ex and her entire family had a pair. I knew a few colleagues who'd rock em too, mostly women though.

  • ncdu, it's a pretty decent utility for interactively exploring your rectum whilst traversing the deep hierarchical layers of your soul

  • dired

  • Hah true, never met one without a pair somewhere

  • Hahaha! Well there is that old myth about one never quite being less than 6 feet away from a rat in London. Mostly a myth, and even more so these days as Fox's are abundant

  • This is how German's identify each other at They Might Be Giants concerts. It's bewildering to watch them circle up in formation like that

  • oh, doy! blinded by the numbers, fixed now

    Let me know if you spot any more goofs

  • 35,863,120 sesterces = (times by 2) 71,726,240 loafs of bread = (divide by 3) 23,908,746 USD

    Isn't that right?

  • From the wiki link above:

    ... soldiers of the Rhine army who rose against Tiberius.... demanded to be paid a denarius a day, and they got it.[3]

    One Sistertius is worth 1/4 of a Denarius, and 1/2 a Sisterius can buy a loaf of bread.

    So 1 Denarius a day = 4 Sisterius = 8 loaves of bread a day

    If we assume 3 USD is the price of a loaf of bread now, then these soldiers were being paid 24 dollars a day. Seems pretty low, but I guess bread was maybe more expensive back then?

    Soldiers now make around 60 USD a day (random googling), so we're dealing with a factor of 3 error which doesn't seem so bad

  • Where did that 15 billion number come from?

    Diocles' lifetime winnings, as recorded in Roman inscription CIL 6.10048, totalled 35,863,120 sesterces (HS) over a working life of 24 years. From this, he would have been paid an unknown sum by his management team, or his owners; his status as slave or free is not certain, nor is the likely amount of his total share.

    Still a lot obviously, but where did that factor of 10-100 come from?

  • There were no funds to manage.

    Or so you kept claiming

  • I actually think you've nailed the task with this

  • Money me, money me nowMe now money give

  • The meaning was the same though, no?

  • metal