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  • Both are measurements of cross-sectional AREA and are defined in terms of square millimeters (mm^2), not mm.

  • Remember the iconic paintings of The Last Supper? This is what it would look like if it happened today

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  • "Ok Boomer."

    But seriously though. After the proliferation of the printing press, I'm willing to bet, someone made the exact same joke about printed books. And I know that the Boomers' parents made the same joke about television, and their grandparents made the same joke about radio. And this isn't even really a Boomer joke, it's a Gen-X joke. I know because my boomer parents actually made this joke about Gameboys and walk-mans before the Internet (or at least convenient portable Internet) was even really a ubiquitous thing. It's just that Boomers are living longer and are so damn vocal and numerous that they are STILL making this joke, updated for the modern generation.

    What technology will gen-Y and gen-alpha lament about in stale memes?

  • No, Brian Thompson Wasn’t a “Working-Class Hero”

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  • More like working class traitor.

  • MRW I finally watch Lower Decks and realize that "adult animation" doesn't mean "boring to children", and just means "violence, profanity, and sophomoric humor"

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  • I guess the secondary directive of the Federation is to gatekeep having fun?

    Animation isn't for children by default. Only boring, unimaginative people talk that way about animated stories.

    Star Trek has always had violence.

    Star Trek has often had profanity. In another alien language sure, but we all knew which Klingon words were curses.

    Does sophomoric humor graduate to senior humor when it's subtle enough that you didn't catch it as a child? Humor is SUPER subjective and VERY sensitive to the current zeitgeist, so comparing humor across a franchise that has been around this long seems a little absurd. Data pushed Crusher into the ocean for a laugh, that seems pretty sophomoric to me. Bones regularly joked about Spock's racial differences, that also seems pretty crude by today's standards.

  • He has his learner's permit

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  • I'm absolutely seeing more of them. They're all relatively new stickers on newer and older cars. They're all of about the same few designs. They're actual bumper stickers, not magnets or signs hung with suction cups in a rear windows, so they're basically permanent. Permanent student driver stickers just don't make any sense for their supposed purpose. The stickers are going to last so much longer than it would normally take anyone to become a mostly proficient driver.

  • He has his learner's permit

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  • For real though, why are there so many people (who are obviously not new or student drivers) driving around with those stickers? They seem to drive around like that sticker is a license to act like a complete fool on the road and is almost entirely unlike the dumb things your average student driver will do.

  • Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public

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  • I'm always amazed how some people have no self awareness. They have no concerns for others. And yet if you acted like they did and it affected them they would be so pissed.

    Like the person sneaking photos of people in public to ridicule them anonymously on the Internet?

    What's wrong with taking your shoes off before putting them up on the furniture? Seems the polite thing to do so you don't get snow or mud or whatever other shit is on your shoes on the seat. It's not like there is someone else using either of those seats opposite at the moment. Maybe you're just feeling shame about your foot fetish? It's okay to have a kink about feet, but non-consenting voyeurism is not okay.

  • What's the deal with Klingon painstiks?

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  • They're almost certainly talking about the TNG episode "Pen Pals" where data makes friends with a little girl whose planet is dying.

  • Parenthood, IYKYK

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  • This is why they are mostly sold with a bitterant outer coating. It should be pretty gross to just hold a recently purchased coil cell battery in your mouth these days.

  • But can we still also get blackjack and hookers?

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  • A small percentage of hyper inflated prices over a large consumer base still equates to MASSIVE profits. It is a fundamental ethical flaw that we even allow for-profit medicine that is compounded by obvious cartel organization structures and corruption.

  • and we thought our thing with beans was bad

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  • So we're not getting hand milked by 40 cows while getting figged by 3 cherubs.

  • I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

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  • YYYY-MM-DD is the only non-mental way to write either.

    I was only answering your question about why programming a way to parse those common date formats is problematic.

  • I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

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  • The date is 12/11/2024. Am I talking about yesterday or a day about a month ago?

  • mystery rule

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  • I was going to say something snarky too, but this is the only sane take here. Nothing more needs to be said.

    Ok, not to many other comments, still though.

  • Percentages

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  • Another lesson I the importance of significant digits, a concept I've had to remind many a young (and sometimes an old) engineer about. An interesting idea along similar lines is that 2 + 2 can equal 5 for significantly large values of 2.

  • New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.

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  • Yeah, the touch screen is awful, but just try finding a decent induction range without one and without spending twice as much for the privilege. (It seems that induction ranges are the most popular for this unfortunate design trend.)There's not really any choices out there. You can lock the screen, which is great for cleaning. Just don't do that while you're using the oven or range because it turns everything off and cancels the bake.

    I do love everything else about my induction range though. Cold searing stuff is faster and easier to get right. I can bring a pot of water to a rolling boil in about 4 minutes.

  • Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’

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  • This whole idea that they "saved" it is philosophically flawed and deeply problematic from a moral and ecological perspective. Claiming that the mother "abandoned" it demonstrates ignorance of the way these animals live and care for their young.

    Regardless, a proper wildlife rehabilitation program by a zoologist would have actually kept the moose alive and been in a position to judge if the moose was safe to be re-released. Your moose story could have easily ended in the death of people in addition to the moose. This isn't some kind of vain high horse I'm on. It's just simple facts learned through decades of direct experience with wild animals in the wild, in rehabilitation, and in zoos. I stand by my earlier statements. I'm sorry this bitter pill is hard for you to swallow I guess. So it goes.

  • Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’

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  • Feeding wildlife, even one treated as a "pet", is a death sentence for them just as surely as if you had fired the gun yourself. Your neighbor killed that moose.

    Other prime examples include: feeding alligators (now you've created a danger to others as well, so you've not just killed the animal, which will need to be destroyed by officials, you've potentially maimed or killed a person); feeding ducks and geese (I once has a neighbor that would feed ducks in the parking island adjacent to the main entry to our apartment complex, no surprise to me that we saw many near misses and a few dead ducks in our driveway); bears (this one should be obvious, same scenario as the gators except bears are faster, climb trees, and are probably smarter than the average person they are going to encounter when they leave the woods looking for human food).

    Undomesticated animals (wildlife/wild animals) are not pets. They're never going to be pets. They've just learned to manipulate some humans for food or shelter. Maybe you'll get along for a little while with them, but that relationship has poisoned the fear keeping them safe for and from other humans.

  • Scotty trying his best

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  • And, assuming that Scotty survives longer than the events of Star Trek Generations, after being rescued from that transporter, he'll have lived longer than any of them. Pretty sure he hasn't had an in universe death yet which has been stated, but he was still kicking in 2369.