logi

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[–] logi 6 points 1 year ago

No, it's the Hindustan Times.

[–] logi 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since this is a science group, perhaps the Icelandic Met Office's writeup is a better source.

[–] logi 5 points 1 year ago

They've now evacuated the nearest town since "It cannot be ruled out that the magma tunnel goes under Grindavík".

Live coverage

[–] logi 5 points 1 year ago

The one with Florida?

[–] logi 49 points 1 year ago

It sounds like someone needs to bring a similar suit in the EU and point to the GDPR. Where is the agreement to specific processing, the chance to opt out of the data collection, etc.

[–] logi 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is certainly one point and how we are, still Here after decades. Another point is that if you do that, you have become the bad guy.

[–] logi 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was already rolling my eyes at another mislabeling of anyone who criticises Israel in any way but no... this is the real thing.

[–] logi 1 points 1 year ago

Short form is used in English only and was reluctantly adopted outside of the US since the 'mericans weren't going to budge. Any science done in other languages uses the more logical form. I've done it myself in 3 of them. And it's weird how I fluently translate between American billion and international milliard or American trillion and international billion. But I'm sure there is going to be a rocket blown up over this at some point.

Why more logical? Billion, prefix bi for 2 is million squared. Trillion, prefix tri for 3 is million cubed. Septillion, prefix sep for 7 is? Honestly, though, at the end of the day it doesn't matter that much. It's just grating that were being yanked backwards. However slightly. And yes, that pun was intentional.

Sure, the US didn't come up with the imperial measuring system but everyone else has moved on. Miles were used by the Romans but were they the same miles? Everyone had their own foot... the story about Napoleon being short was simply that he was measured in French feet and they were longer than English feet so he amounted to fewer of them. I guess it's slightly better now that there is only one set* of archaic pre-enlightenment units in play :shrug:

*having said all that, some of the US measurements don't quite coincide with the UK ones but I can't remember any if those details. But it'll probably kill a other rocket too.

PS I dare you to look up the Swedish mile.

[–] logi 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Only in English is this weird naming system used and originally only in American English. You can put it in the pile over there with the miles and pounds and other oddities.

Other languages have milliard between million and billion, billiard after billion etc.

[–] logi 3 points 1 year ago

Rule 2: Double Tap.

Rule 3 confuses me though.

[–] logi 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That seems odd. You'd expect that if the cpu is doing the encryption and can do 3GB/s for the internal disk then it can do the same for the external one and be limited by the USB or disk speed of 1 GB/s

[–] logi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Link to kagi? Or are you going to make us Google it?

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