Ensign_Seitler

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If it’s the USA, then “iced tea” may actually mean “sweet tea” (an American South tradition), which is often prepared something like this:

  • bring 1/2 gallon (1.9L) water to a boil
  • place 8 large black tea bags in a 1 gallon (3.8L) pitcher
  • pour boiling water over the tea bags in the pitcher
  • steep 10-15 minutes, then remove tea bags from the pitcher
  • add 1 dry cup (220g) granulated sugar
  • stir the slurry until sugar is dissolved
  • fill the pitcher to the top with ice cubes
  • wait 20 minutes for ice to chill and dilute the tea, gently stir again
  • serve

It may be a stronger tea, but so much sugar gets added (probably 3x what would be used to sweeten tea served hot) that you typically don’t notice any bitterness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It’s like in Unpretty, that 90s song by TLC:

you can buy your hair if it won't grow

you can fix your nose if you say so

you can buy all the iPhones that MAC can make

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This involves some HTML in your Markdown, but isn’t very difficult. You’re just going to add an anchor tag (with an ID but no href) immediately above the heading, like so:

<a id=“some_examples”></a>
## Some Examples

When you’ve got that, you can just use the anchor in a Markdown link:

I’ve provided a few [examples](#some_examples) to illustrate this concept.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure that “oh, shoot, things got wonky… toss a 13th month in here real quick” is due to people trying to force months to fit weeks.

It’s the opposite of what I was saying about the role that months play in timekeeping & how they work.

ALSO, the same can be said for weeks & leap days… so if it’s a point against months, it’s just as much a point against weeks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Months are one of the best ways for a low-tech/pre-tech culture to keep track of dates (using the Zodiac for something it can actually do—act as a calendar you can see no matter where you are in the world).

Keeping them around is a sensible fail-safe in case some nuclear power sets us back into the dark ages.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Im pretty sure I saw this as a visual gag in a Muppet Babies comic book in the 80s! I think it was issue #13… I might still have it packed away somewhere

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

It looks to me as if 0.10 to 0.80 takes up as much vertical space as 0.01 to 0.02. They “yadda yadda‘d” the middle values because mouse was the only one that went that high.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It’s definitely been translated into the most used languages, but there are a bunch more that are being worked on still.

Here’s an infographic on it from another org: https://www.wycliffe.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023_Infographic-Large_EN.pdf

Looks like the way they calculate it, 80% of people in the world have access to a full translation of the Bible in their language.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

An internship is a role where a person learns how to do this. (And someone who knows how to do this knows it’s orders of magnitude more involved than the two days you were given — two months is a more realistic timeframe.)

Here’s a personal experience of mine, so you have more to compare this with:

When interviewing for a developer position (not an internship), I was once given a take-home programming task to complete over 2-3 days: basically a small, self-contained web app that they had made intentionally buggy and poorly-composed in various ways. I was tasked with identifying & fixing the problems, then providing a write-up of why I changed what I changed. (The package was different enough from their specialty that it was pretty obvious I wasn’t doing their work for them. I confirmed after being hired that this same task was given to all applicants.)

Again, that was for hiring a developer. The whole point of an internship is that you’re being taught and trained on the job.

If you’re already able to build what those people asked of you, then you’re overqualified for the role.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Original sin: AI edition

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A visiting captain and Sisko never got along. This captain knows that Sisko is crazy about baseball, and spent some time studying the rules specifically to mess with him. They challenge each other to a game of baseball in the holosuite with their respective crews as the teams.

Now, Sisko needs to quickly teach baseball to a bunch of non-humans who don’t get what the big deal is. Hilarity ensues, and life lessons are learned along the way.

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