thepreciousboar

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a little sexist, don't you think?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fairphone 3+ working really well for 4 yeats, but I feel it might be a little hit and miss, for example another person I know got more issues with fingerprint sensor and if it falls wrongly (like on the buttons, there might be issues you don't have otherwise

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

Don't forget the macrovirus, those were scary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I just got woooshed. My apologies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I agree, historically they make sense, but times have evolved and I honestlt believe certain things should belong to the past, just like we abandoned 12 base monetary and measurement systems, except for a single place on earth that just ignores what everyone else does and goes their own way.

In a global world, we should unite things instead of dividing for ideological/political reasons. Still, my own is an ideological reason why the imperial system should disappear, but there are pratical issues it causes, espeically when used internationally in industrial and scientific fields, which is very common.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's an unambiguos female name in english maybe. OP might be from an english-speaking country, but you really can't make this sort of assumption on a global website

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Agree. Some expressions become so iconic they get genderless. Just like sometimes it's accept to use "man" and "dude" as a genderless exclamation

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Technically they arr arbitrary yes, but sometimes some arbitrary makes more sense than others. Why is fahrenheit 0 at -32°C? Accordinfmg to wikipedia he chose 0°F as the melting point of water and ammonium chloride (what percentage of solution?) and the highest was initially "the average of the hottest temperature of a healthy man". Do you see why this feels more arbitrady then " the melting and boiling point of water at 101.300 Pa"? Not only these points are constant and measurable, but water is such ubiqutous in human life that it feels at least less arbitrary as a reference point.

Historically, it was ok. Now it just doesn't make much sense, sincd we tried (and mostly succeded) to standardize measurements units for centuries (and make them all base 10)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I feel like that's old news. I had a laptop with a gt710m and encoding already stopped working more than 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's quite incredible if you think how well he immagined technology and how fantastic it looks for being 55 years old, which makes it almost look like a generic science fiction film, except that generic science fictions films look like that because he did it before the others. But yes, the pacing is reallly really slow and can be quite boring unless your interest is thouroughly studying every scene in it for it's symbolic meaning and the cultural impact it had

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

With a thick smoke noone will be crossing the bridge, so it's safe to bomb.

(/s but not too muchI guess)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (12 children)

So that's a bridge. They can get the coordinates very simply just from google maps. Ukraine jas access to modern western weapons which I assume are gps-guided. How effective really is a smoke screen unless Russia is able to jam gps signals over a 19km long bridge?

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