Jakylla

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[–] Jakylla 11 points 4 days ago
  • Langue Germanique romanisée
  • Langue Romane germanisée

English & French are closer than they appear

[–] Jakylla 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I can see it now :)

[–] Jakylla 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I may be blind or tired or smthg, but I can't find the Pareidolia, could you give me hint please ?

[–] Jakylla 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This was a good reminder to check a link before to click

[–] Jakylla 4 points 2 weeks ago

Is that an anime girl next to Inawentu Oslatus ? And maybe a Rock band guitarist next to Euhelopus Zdanskyi ?

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Multi-lingual (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Jakylla to c/linguistics_humor
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Moon (ciechanow.ski)
submitted 1 month ago by Jakylla to c/internetisawesome
 

Interesting blog with cool animations and toys to understand some science about the Moon

[–] Jakylla 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're into computer graphics, you may also like her video about Splines. She does not a lot of videos, but they are very qualitative

 
 
[–] Jakylla 2 points 3 months ago

A (wo?)man of culture

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Bone cognates (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by Jakylla to c/linguistics_humor
 
[–] Jakylla 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
1 // 1
2 // 2
3 // 4
4
5 // 8
6 // 6
[–] Jakylla 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mesuring temperature in radians: 3.14/π

[–] Jakylla 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)
[–] Jakylla 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a non English native: "Car on"

[–] Jakylla 109 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Missed opportunity:

Sadam necktie

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Phonetics negociation (sh.itjust.works)
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/22321600

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8677292


Transcript:

[A computer program.]

int getRandomNumber()
{
   return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
             // guaranteed to be random.
}

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RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8653164


Transcript:

Cueball: Hey, check it out: e^π^−π is 19.999099979. That's weird.
Black Hat: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college.
Cueball: ...what?

Black Hat: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that e^π^−π was a standard test of floating-point handlers -- it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.

Cueball: That's awful.
Black Hat: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.

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Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2^ + 19^2^/22) is pi.

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