WhyIsItReal

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

haha it’s all good

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

… i’m an asshole because i think that homophobes are mostly bad people, not self-hating gay people?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

i just don’t believe that that’s actually true, though. most homophobes are just pieces of shit, not secretly gay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

providing an arbitrarily non-reduced fraction is an even sillier alternative. the same fundamental issue arises either way, and it’s much clearer to use obvious semantics that everyone can understand

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

sure you can, you say “i need a hole with diameter 0.25” +- 0.015625“”. it doesn’t matter that you have more sig figs when you state your precision

but regardless, that’s probably not the precision you care about. there’s a good chance that you actually want something totally different, like 0.25+-0.1”. with decimal, it’s exceptionally clear what that means, even for complicated/very small decimals. doing the same thing fractionally has to be written as 1/4+-1/10”, meaning you have to figure out what that range of values are (7/20” to 3/20”)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

i’ve never heard of anyone using non-reduced fractions to measure precision. if you go into a machine shop and ask for a part to be milled to 16/64”, they will ask you what precision you need, they would never assume that means 16/64”+-1/128”.

if you need custom precision in any case, you can always specify that by hand, fractional or decimal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i’m not sure what you’re looking for. what do you want to be blurred?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

do you unironically believe in horseshoe theory?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

what does hitler have to do with tankies?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how does this compare to mermaid or plantuml?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

a french press cannot make espressos, or anything close to an espresso

if you want, you can always use different beans with your french press - yes, it’ll always be the same type of coffee, but there’s some pretty big differences in flavor

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