wischi 3w ago • 100%
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't, those who think it's a ternary joke and those who understand that it works with any base.
wischi 3w ago • 100%
Because it's simpler to build siphons through large valleys instead of 100 meter high 10 kilometer long aqueducts.
wischi 3w ago • 100%
Selling your data would be stupid, because they make money with the fact that they have data about you nobody else has. Selling it would completely break their business model.
wischi 4w ago • 100%
I don't think that's how it works. If it exactly looks like something protected by laws like copyright or whatever your country uses, I highly doubt that any court would say that it's fine just because it was created by AI.
wischi 4w ago • 75%
But it's also pretty expensive to test every stupid statement somebody said.
wischi 1mo ago • 100%
We don't even have gates. Most people just pay for their tickets. Sometimes there are ticket inspections - if you get caught you'll be fined. Way cheaper than enormous infrastructure for every entrance that just slows you down if you have an annual ticket for example. https://youtu.be/kq-X25pH1XQ
wischi 1mo ago • 91%
Also not paying for LibreOffice, Linux and Gimp.
wischi 1mo ago • 100%
Probably would have helped more to lower the bridge even more 🤣
wischi 2mo ago • 100%
Wow that flag is ugly. But now I'm wondering if it's possible to combine the flags in a way that looks nice.
wischi 2mo ago • 100%
But to be fair it's definitely not the lawyers fault.
wischi 2mo ago • 100%
I'm seemingly also close to the grave, because I have no idea if those words are actual products or just made up.
wischi 3mo ago • 95%
"none of my friends from high school have ever bothered to contact me".
Best line 🤣 Maybe you should contact them.
wischi 3mo ago • 100%
Compared to many countries in Europe even US "left" is pretty right.
wischi 3mo ago • 100%
I guess that's true and I certainly don't have anything against the concept of a constitution, but as someone not living in the US I find it pretty strange that so many Americans treat the constitution like some holy religious text.
wischi 3mo ago • 82%
It's not like the constitution is some infallible magic text, it was also "invented" by some dudes.
wischi 3mo ago • 100%
Probably to make sure the customers know that they mean it. There are often a lot of people coming in one minute before closing time that don't leave in time.
wischi 3mo ago • 100%
Because of the shadow maybe. But it's practically impossible to offset the human carbon footprint with trees.
wischi 4mo ago • 100%
Given the fact that a fair price for a real town sign is about 175€ somebody will probably just rob the vending machine, either to get the money or a sign. Maybe a card only vending machine would work but changing the name to "Fugging" was probably simpler.
wischi 4mo ago • 100%
But be sure to read the top comment first ;-)
I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts. This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It's about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it. Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.
https://zeta.one/viral-math/ I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous. It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)
Our kids really liked it, thank you kind stranger.