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[–] guy 5 points 1 year ago

Even more than 3 hours. Half life of caffeine is 6 hours in the body

[–] guy 4 points 1 year ago

£0.25 UK, $1.00 US... you won't see a ratio like that anymore... GBP gone to shit now

[–] guy 35 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Guess that settles the debate, we got to pronounce it "sequel" then to optimally match syllables

[–] guy 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

In the sentence "you have a problem", "have" is the main verb. When reduced to the clitic "'ve", it becomes a weak form and is only expected to be used as an auxiliary verb. These types of verbs must be followed by the main verb. "a" is not a verb. Thus, we insert "got".

If we do not insert "got", the stress in the sentence moves and it sounds overly affected.

I'm not too sure, but I think "be" ("is", "are") is the only verb that can be contracted and still remain a main verb. I'm not too sure why.

[–] guy 125 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Fuck would that question come up on a trivia night. No chance. That's a specialist subject

[–] guy 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No soup. Too dangerous to eat with a long beard, for a first date. Risk making a fool of myself

[–] guy 6 points 1 year ago

I've found it's best use to me as a glorified auto-complete. It knows pretty well what I want to type before I get a chance to type it. Yes, I don't trust stuff it comes up with on its own though, then I need to Google it

[–] guy 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The more control I have, the more likely I am to wake up, which is pretty annoying. Although, on the flip side, waking up through choice to avoid bad dreams is how I originally developed the skill of lucid dreaming. Noticing the signs of waking up and choosing to stay asleep is kind of a weird thing to do too, but it can lead to sleep paralysis.

However in any case, the level of control I have varies. Often, I am able to fly from danger or decide something didn't happen and try again. More rarely I know there are no consequences to any of my actions and can completely control space, time and narrative. It's odd knowing it's a dream, but it still feels real. Though, still with a dream brain memory and dream logic, I'm not necessarily thinking as sensibly as I would do when awake.

[–] guy 3 points 1 year ago

Consistency with proper scientific prefix is nice to have, but consistency within the computing industry itself is really important, and now we have neither. In this industry, binary calculations were centric, and powers of 2 were much more useful. They really should've picked a different prefix to begin with, yes. However, for the IEC correcting it retroactively, this has failed. It's a mess that's far from actually standardised now

[–] guy 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The IEC changing the definition of 1KB from 1024 bytes to 1000 bytes was a terrible idea that's given us this whole mess. Sure, it's nice and consistent with scientific prefix now... except it's far from consistent in actual usage. So many things still consider it binary prefix following the JEDEC standard. Like KiB that's always 1024 bytes, I really think they should've introduced another new unambiguous unit eg. KoB that's always 1000 bytes and deprecated the poorly defined KB altogether

[–] guy 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But they don't plan to drop MV2 though

[–] guy 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't prefer it, but I do prefer some things about it. Git overcomplicates certain things and uses bizarre terminology in places. But I'd still rather use Git any day

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