The argument in that article is basically “Most calculators do it this way now, so that must be our convention to use, so 16 is the correct answer. Please ignore that this goes against the conventions established before calculators became transistorized.”
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into playEnglish
5·13 days agoObviously, it was a skill learned in early grade school and subsequently forgotten through lack of practice. You know, as stated in the article and multiple comments here.
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Technology@lemmy.world•DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)English
2·23 days agoBeing able to fold down a larger “sheet” display so that it fit in a pocket would be pretty cool. Having extra room for reading things like maps and comic books is so much better than pinching and zooming on a pocket sized display. What you call limited purpose, I call functional design. I’m kind of over all-in-one devices. They’ve turned into Jack of all trades, but master of none.
Obviously that’s not what this device is, but it got me thinking about why I’d want a device with multiple e-ink displays or a foldable display.
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News@lemmy.world•Jim Beam shutting down bourbon production at Kentucky distillery for a year as Trump’s trade wars hit sales
21·26 days agoIt’s okay, you don’t need to beat the poor lame joke to death just because YOU didn’t get it. It’s okay to just let it go.
No. Soulseek is old school P2P. All you need to do is run the client software, set a local shared folder, and your are client and server in one. Funkwhale is more like running your own Lemmy instance and building a community. The difference between them is like the difference between using Airdrop or Syncthing to share files and hosting hosting your own domain and server.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•How solar panels generate electricity
4·30 days agoBy ignoring the second half of their comment you’ve missed the subtly that “panel” is an overly broad term and there are several different kinds of panels that collect energy from the sun for human use, among them photovoltaics, panels for heating residential water (often seen as black roof panels with pipes), and complex mirror (aka reflective panels) arrangements for melting salts. All of them use panels in some form.
Not the ones that use these. Most tools are unpractical when you don’t understand how to use them.
You’re supposed to leave it in the jar when not in use.
That’s exactly what AI slop would say.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search ItEnglish
21·1 month agoThose reduced civil rights related to border patrol extend about 200 miles in from every U.S. border.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?English
2·1 month agoThis needs to be copypasta’d as a reply to every comment suggesting that opening up jellyfin to the internet is easy and everyone should do it to get away from Plex.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports."English
41·1 month agoSelf-hosting is inherently not low effort. This isn’t memes or shitposts. This is people helping people that are trying to help themselves, a.k.a. people making an effort. Communities rely on the discretion of mods and rules specific to the community focus. If this community didn’t have some kind of bar to meet for low effort posts it would drive away participants and contributors more interested in higher effort and more interesting topics. It gets real old seeing people ask and answer the same basic questions about Plex, Jellyfin, *arrs, and docker all the time. Worrying about if this rule will be abused seems premature. Besides (as others have pointed out) there are other communities with similar interests, if you’re that concerned that your spammy no-context YouTube video got deleted, please go try your luck elsewhere.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anywayEnglish
113·2 months agoWhataboutism is a non-sequitor that disrupts and discourages productive discussion.
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News@lemmy.world•Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
29·2 months agoAs much as I’d like that to be true, probably not. Automatic signature machines have been a thing, especially for presidential signatures, for a while now. This is more a hit to Trump’s ego than anything.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•My perfect Linux setup is always just one more tweak away
51·2 months agoThis whole post is a lie to manipulate people into engaging with an astroturfing bot.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the most hilariously specific thing you've ever become irrationally angry about?
6·2 months agoAI engagement bots like OP.


Now. That’s pretty much the situation now. If you don’t believe me, try and completely remove Edge and Copilot from an updated Windows 11.