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deranger

@ deranger @sh.itjust.works

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  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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  • ITT: people who didn’t read the article.

    Excel is still doing the calculations, not the AI. The AI is helping to write functions. You can easily spot check a couple examples then apply that same formula down the column. I don’t really see the issue.

    Of all the things to shove AI into, the first thing that came to my mind years back was Excel. It’s handy when I’m presented a spreadsheet of data at work and I just want to do something like “write a function to extract just the number from a column containing data formatted like LPF_PHASE_OF_CARE [PAF 304001]” because I just want to copy paste all the numbers somewhere. It’s trivial to verify it works correctly, I can examine the formula, and I don’t have to wade through numerous shitty Excel tutorial websites to try and teach myself something I’ll use once or twice a year.

    Quick shitpost images I share with friends and Excel functions are where I get the most utility out of AI, which in general I think sucks and is massively overhyped.

  • State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" in the state name

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  • Nw Yok fairly close to how some accent around NYC pronounces it, I’m sure.

  • MSNBC Host: Karoline Leavitt Looked ‘Ashen’ After Putin Meet

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  • Pale, grey, dull. Low blood flow to the skin. It’s not at all a compliment, quite the opposite. Pallor is the medical term.

  • 🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨

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  • Non-necrotizing, non-fatal. There’s waaaaay worse out there, and much more commonly found too. Pain sucks, no doubt about that, but you’ll survive and not lose a limb.

    Interestingly there’s a D-amino acid in their genome which is the only D-amino acid found thus far in mammals.

  • How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription?

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  • How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription?

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  • Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare

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  • That’s on you for assuming, it’s not a long article and it’s not unclear how it all played out. Had the author not bought new clothes and washed the rest that would have been the outcome.

  • Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare

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  • What ambiguity? “Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare” is a fine headline. Seeing bedbugs on your pillow when you walk in, not getting a clean replacement room, missing out on work, and having to pay for this experience is a nightmare.

  • Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare

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  • “Don’t worry about those bedbugs you see on your bed and pillows, it’s not like they’ve bitten you”

    Also, the title says nothing about having bedbugs, it just says it was a nightmare.

  • What is your absolute favourite track from a video game?

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  • Expand North! So much room up there.

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  • What exactly are you guarding? I figure there’s a reason not many people live outside of that area depicted.

  • Funny

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  • ICE is recruiting agents with incentives, massive ad campaigns. Sheriffs aren't happy.

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  • I see people mentioning “just following orders” a lot recently in terms of an invalid defense, but the sad truth is this excuse worked for an overwhelming majority of Nazis. Only those issuing the orders at the top were prosecuted, at least outside of vigilante justice.

  • Have most people never seen a full starry night sky

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  • It’s not just cities - there’s nearly no dark sky sites in all of Europe, and very few dark sky areas east of the Mississippi in the US.

    I didn’t see the Milky Way with my naked eye until driving through NE New Mexico in my late 20s.

    darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness

  • Don't Even Get Me Started On The Usefulness Of Learning How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid

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  • All of these people who don’t apply the things they learn in school just don’t really think that much in my opinion.

    When I was in the military in a leadership class, we had to use a protractor to calculate angles and distances on the map given a bunch of coordinates. I realized these were all right triangles, said fuck the protractor, and used trigonometry to get exact answers. I earned distinguished honor graduate, ie top of the class, despite my lab nerd POG ass being mixed in with a ton of infantry and ranger battalion guys.

    I use dimensional analysis on a near daily basis because it’s just so damn handy. You can convert anything to nearly anything else as long as you have some numbers with the appropriate units in between.

  • Is it normal feeling tired 2 days in a row, possibly 3, after catching a cold?

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  • That’s not how your immune system works. Your immune reserves are not “spent” nor do they need to replace ones “lost”. It’s not like a military battle. Most pathogens are either destroyed or they avoid destruction through some mechanism - they’re not often fighting back against the WBCs.

    Your immune system produces chemicals that make you feel like shit / tired, because it’s evolutionarily advantageous to feel like shit. This keeps you resting and away from others. This is also how medicines like NSAIDS or steroids can make you feel better, by inhibiting the processes instigated by WBCs. It’s not the disease that makes you feel bad, it’s your immune system (unless you’re deathly ill, we’re talking common cold/flu/COVID type stuff here).

    It would be impossible for me to go in depth in immunology but your explanation is not at all in line with the evidence we have currently.

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  • There’s the answer I was looking for.

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  • I get that, but outside of using aux heat or having to defrost the coils outside, it seems like identical temp differentials would be identically efficient. The heat pump doesn’t use more energy to heat than cool, the heat pump uses more energy in winter due to a larger difference to overcome.

    Edit: I believe successfultry’s comment below is the most accurate. Heating is more efficient than cooling, not vice versa, due to waste heat not being a waste for heating.

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  • Why would they use more energy in one direction versus another? This doesn’t really make sense to me. Heating and cooling is just swapping which element is the condenser and which element is the evaporator.

    Edit: assume I’m talking about identical temp differences. I’m aware it gets more cold than it gets more hot, but that’s not comparing like for like. My question isn’t “is it more efficient in summer or winter” it’s “is cooling more efficient than heating.”