As an American, I was a bit flabbergasted when I looked through all the tape measures at the store, and none of them had a metric side
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xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation ordersEnglish6·6 months agoTrue to your name, you’re using those backwards. You’re thinking of MW hours per hour, or just MW. Put differently, MW is a rate, MWh is a quantity.
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse imagesEnglish61·8 months agoIn pretttty sure you can’t just run it in reverse like that. There’s a whole different training and operation methodology you have to use to support generating images rather than simple text classification
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse imagesEnglish111·8 months agoUh, well this one tells you if an image looks like it or not. It doesn’t generate images
If you read what you linked, the meaning where they overlap is in the sense of a tail or something hanging down. The cue in the sense it’s used here, as a prompt to act, was in use since the 1500s in theater. The use of queue to mean a line only began in the 1800s and probably came out of the now basically unused meaning of cue/queue to refer to a tail-like thing. Curly cue and pool cue are the only remaining uses I can think of. Queue has basically lost that meaning in favor of its new one thanks to IT applications. It does not mention cue ever taking any line-related meaning.
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•To build a better world, stop chasing economic growthEnglish51·2 years agoContinuous growth is not a requirement for that.
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are most computer cases clear and parts have tons of LEDs?112·2 years agoAnd you can’t have those?
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and UnsupportedEnglish1·2 years agoExcept that if we have the technology to fully digitize a human consciousness, we’ll already have AI that can do everything a digital human could and more
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Chinese state media drops ‘Tibet’ for ‘Xizang’ after release of Beijing white paperEnglish51·2 years agoThe point is they very much care about the perception of the rest of the world. Your idea of what is comparable there is a little too literal
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Chinese state media drops ‘Tibet’ for ‘Xizang’ after release of Beijing white paperEnglish62·2 years agoApparently China does, with their policy of trying to strong-arm the rest of the world into calling Taiwan a part of China
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now?4·2 years agoNice, good to know. Thanks for the insight
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now?67·2 years agoI get the impression they can look at and choose whether or not to take a delivery before accepting it. If you have in there that you absolutely need it delivered to your door, you’re a lot more likely to get someone who knows and is ok with that. That should lead to more no questions asked deliveries for you at basically no cost. Rage against what should and should not be all you want, but it’s not going to change your experience if you don’t do anything different.
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now?1443·2 years agoPutting that explicitly in the delivery instructions might help them have a better idea what they’re getting into and what to expect
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Library Rebuild SuggestionsEnglish30·2 years agoIf you’re concerned about quality, re-encoding from a lossy format to another lossy format is always going to lose more quality. Even if the format you choose would have been better quality if it was encoded directly from the source, the result is almost certainly going to look worse than what you have now.
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•Centrist GOP effort to reinstate McCarthy picks up steam after Israel attacks293·2 years agoIf the result is more cooperation between parties, that sounds good to me. The entire thing that got him ousted was certain far right members saying “you can’t work with the Democrats at all, no matter what,” which is one of the most fucked up, dysfunctional things I’ve heard out of our government in a while
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto Memes@lemmy.ml•Happy 20th birthday, 4chan. You've definitely...had an effect.1·2 years agoI assume the first event is how 4chan got started, and 4chan is where Qanon got started
xionzui@sh.itjust.worksto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•They should build ev charging stations with a drive in theater so you can watch a movie as you're charging up to continue your road trip4·2 years agoActually, the batteries are proving to be extremely reliable, to the point that they’re likely to outlast the rest of the vehicle. On average, batteries with 100,000 miles are still at 90% of their initial capacity. The situation will only get better as solid state batteries are rolled out
The unfortunate reality is that some groups don’t have the luxury of just living their lives. They have to speak out to get equal treatment. And then the people who aren’t allowing them that luxury in the first place also speak up against them. If the bigots would just shut the fuck up and go away, we would have no problem
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