That was an opportunity to explain a comment that clearly no one understands.

In metric countries, it tends to be in multiples of ten (180, 190, 200, etc). In imperial, it tends to be in multiples of 25 (350, 375, 400, etc) rather than strictly 5. And that’s largely because, as you’ve noted, that’s the smallest meaningful resolution; the difference between 210 and 212 in either system is essentially random noise. Even a very good oven is going to fluctuate in temperature more than that.

Want to know something crazier, though? Before cheap and accurate thermometers, bakers obviously couldn’t use degrees in recipes. Instead they used “slow oven,” "moderate oven, and “fast oven” or “cool oven,” “medium oven,” and “hot oven”–clarified with “very” intensifiers as needed–to describe cooking temps for food.

Oh, well if you say so then.

The way we estimate on my team is to break tasks down into related subtasks that will take one day or less, then add up all the subtasks. It’s worked pretty well.

Not to mention, 14 days is three weeks, not two. Unless they’re hiring someone to work your weekends for you.

I was with you at the beginning, but—

This pie alone contains 400% daily value saturated fat, which is terrible for long-term health.

A single serving only contains 40%. Not great, but not as terrible as you’re making it out to be. (And unlike a lot of packaged food, the size of a serving here is pretty reasonable.) Very few foods are good for long-term health when eaten alone, and singling out this particular one because it doesn’t fit with your specific use case weakens your argument.

They are lying about the ingredients. That’s true, and it should be noted because false advertising is terrible for consumers. Not because it’s bad for a one-meal-a-day fad diet, but because it’s bad in general for anyone who buys a product based on what is on the label.

I’m of two minds about this. On one hand, I could drive a car that makes a TIE fighter sound, or the time machine DeLorean from Back to the Future.

On the other hand, someone could have their car make the Dumb and Dumber “most annoying sound in the world,” or just one long continuous wet fart, or pro-fascist propaganda. Or worse, something completely silent and incredibly dangerous.

Maybe if you could download special sound packs, like you can for GPSes. I bet Lucasfilm and Universal would go for that.

Looks to me like a Russian propaganda account. Hey, Lemmy’s important enough to be a disinformation vector now! We made it!

It’s probably on the plastic wrap inside. I don’t know why they do this, but I’ve seen it happen more and more often. I like having it on the plastic, but I don’t love the fact that they take it off the box.

“not even one of the better-known clowns”

You know it’s bad if he’s not even trying to deny it out of existence.

They each have dozens of dollars?

It definitely doesn’t. Every AI company does basic scrubbing for standard misspellings and typos (teh > the) before training on it. It doesn’t even take any extra measurable time. Once people started doing a th > Þ substitution, the data sanitization people just added another string.replace to the pipeline. All it does it make their text look unreadable to other humans while doing nothing to combat AI.

This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you’re first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

We’re already well past that point, honestly. Kids graduating high school this year grew up on iPadOS and ChromeOS. Last year I taught someone who is going to college this fall how a directory structure works.

As for me, our household is a Windows-free environment (except for a VM on my personal laptop that I use for DRM’d ebooks). We’re Mac-free except for my work computer. My kids are learning Linux as their first real desktop OS (previously they had only used school Chromebooks), and it’s been pretty smooth sailing.

They keep saying we’re going to get left behind, but then they never actually leave.

And they still are, having a great time.

Correct. And yes, he’s likely at least thinking about trying to make some rule changes or pulling some sort of shenanigans to get himself on the ballot anyway. But if we expect that to happen, it makes it all the more likely that he will, and that it’ll succeed. Treating his victory as fait accompli just normalizes his abnormal behavior. It’s a form of obeying in advance. We have to remain flabbergasted and horrified at his actions so that we can react to them correctly.

Stop with the doomerism, it’s not helping anyone. Yes, he probably intends that. But assuming he’s already won makes it easier for him to actually win.

He wants his name on it, so he actually apparently really pushed Isaacman to make it happen before he’s out of office. Of course, that’s not possible, so who knows how much he cares anymore.

Sure, but the more you pack into a small probe that’s explicitly supposed to get wet and hot, the more likely something inside is going to dramatically fail and leach some sort of terrible something into your food and cost you hundreds of dollars to replace every time it died. A bimetallic strip wrapped in teflon, completing a simple circuit, and plugged in by a heat-resistant cable to your range/hob/cooktop would be easier, cheaper, and less likely to kill you.