The mac I plug into my work center via a single usb-c connection which charges it, connects it to my external monitor, and connects it to all of my USB equipment

I do this with my Dell, which also has many ports ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Thing is, the universe is really really really fucking big and old. There might have been a million other super advanced societies throughout the universe space and throughout the universe life, but the chances of us knowing about them would still be negligible.

There are tens of billions of planets just in the milky way, most of them probably at least 5 billion years old. And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, if not trillions. The nearest one is 25,000 light years away. Do the math.

The chances of life existing elsewhere are pretty much 100%. The chances of us ever knowing about it are pretty much 0%.

I think it has more to do with being readable on small screens, like mobile phones. It still doesn’t make sense to me to completely remove your logo and replace it with a sans serif name of your company like jaguar just did.

EoL of anything should mean open source code. You don’t want to open source your code? Then you must keep servicing your products and must keep your servers up

You can do it in a multitude of ways. The French for instance elect their president by voting twice, the first time they vote for their favorite candidate (and the parliament), the second time they vote for either of the two candidates that got the most votes (a run off)

There are other ways, like ranked voting, or you could look up parliamentary republics for an alternative form of government.

Read up on what happens in the rest of the world, at this point, we, as a human species, have tried pretty much everything

Also, if you don’t sleep and work three jobs, 24h a day, you’ll certainly make much more money. It’s the little things, really

Btw the lack of American affordable healthcare is by design, not due to budgetary constraints. The US military budget is actually not completely unreasonable in comparison to GDP, being 3% and including social security for veterans.

In comparison Russia is now spending 6-7% of GDP on the military, possibly more since the Russian economy is shrinking. China is around 2%, and the world average is around 2% still. The US has a massive economy, so their 3% dwarfs all other countries.

As for healthcare, the US government is already spending twice as much per person as other western countries. If the US government wanted affordable healthcare, they could make it happen yesterday, all while reducing healthcare expenditure. The problem is just a political one, not an economic one.

Why would he think he could cover that up by tossing his gun?

He’s 15, just shot his little brother, saw his sister die and is freaking the fuck out.

But yeah, he should have been better at pondering the ramifications of his actions 🧐

Working on it doesn’t mean they have something even remotely functional.

Btw, shouldn’t they be working on 5nm before 3nm? I’m also not sure how many 7nm chips they can produce. Have they made anything other than that one chip for Huawei? Has that been sold anywhere in the world other than China? Is that phone common in China?

This is completely retarded, therefore, probably, what the most fundamentalist Christians actually think. Although I’m pretty sure most Christians around the world don’t actually give a fuck about Zionism

This sentence is so generic it could be applied to both sides, depending on what’s your opinion of either side.

I don’t know about that. Training your AI on someone else’s AI feels a lot like drinking someone else’s piss. I doubt you are going to extract much innovation out of that

That’s obviously not what I’m talking about.

Not really that obvious. The imperial system is not used in base 12. It’s used in base 10 like everything else, therefore, if it were consistent with its units (which it isn’t) it would be more like 12 -> 144 -> 1728.

Since changing how we count is honestly not realistic, the prospect of having to deal with a system that’s not based on 10 is kinda scary.

Afaik for storage it’s exactly what it says on the tin: a 1GB drive is exactly 1,000,000,000 Bytes. Then you put it in the computer and Windows, who thinks that 1GB = 1,073,741,824 Bytes says, well that’s a 0.93 GB drive, aka 930MB. So you start asking yourself where those 70MB went, while in reality windows is telling you that the drive is 930MiB, which is equal to 1GB.

As for networking, last I checked we use Megabits and Gigabits for that, which are a whole different can of worms and use a small b instead of a big B. 8 Mb = 1 MB

I’ve never seen anyone use Mebibit, if it exists, which I’m not sure it does.

And as for benefit, I’m not sure whose benefit it is to create this confusion. In my opinion, no one’s, as the drive makers get accused of false marketing while at the same time Windows gets accused of being a broken OS (fair)

I recall learning in school that it should be left to right when in doubt. Probably a cop-out from the teacher

I don’t agree. It might sometimes be cool, but with a numerical system in base 10, having a unit system in base 12 becomes really hard to manage. Let’s take meters:

1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm VS 1m = 12dm = 144cm = 1728mm

How many mm is 15 dm in each system?

To make a base 12 system work, you’d need to change the numerical system also, by adding two new digits, like we do for hexadecimal numbers, so you’d have …8-9-A-B-10, where A = 10 and B = 11 (in 10 base), so that 1m = 10dm = 100cm but in base 12.

Anyway, good luck trying to pass that, I’ve seen people who can barely count on their fingers, let alone understand a new base 12 numerical system. And for what?

Depends for what. Still better than random scales like 3, 12, 1760 and units that don’t mean anything like hundredweight, which isn’t even one hundred anything, unless it is because you live in another part of the world where the same word means a totally different thing.

Fancy a pint?

Mega is 10^6 , Mebi is 2^20 aka 1024^2 bytes

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The confusion comes from the fact that Microsoft in Windows calls 1024 bytes a kilobyte, which makes no sense whatsoever, since that word has a meaning and that ain’t it.

When MS first launched MS-DOS maybe made sense (maybe), but right now it’s only creating confusion. Calling kilobyte a kibibyte is around a 2% error, but with terabyte it’s more than 9%, which is a pretty big deal when you buy a 1TB disk and only shows up as 900 and something GB

I mean, this is the same country who walled off an entire city to stop people from leaving. This is not really surprising