The AI-generated cat pictures thread
06-10-2022, 10:22 PM
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you know, binary operations are much more easily performed fractionally (divide or multiply by two for example require a simple bit shift) where decimal operations are quite inefficient computationally (fixed or floating point).
Just saying.
I know facesmash doesn't work here, but this one is too good not to share.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1521014034997254?fs=e&s=cl
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1521014034997254?fs=e&s=cl
Just saying.
I know facesmash doesn't work here, but this one is too good not to share.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1521014034997254?fs=e&s=cl
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1521014034997254?fs=e&s=cl
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06-10-2022, 10:53 PM
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06-10-2022, 11:18 PM
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Here is a video which I discovered completely on my own, not by inspecting the source code in a post made by Ted75zcar earlier on this page, which shows some kittens:
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06-11-2022, 01:02 AM
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06-11-2022, 12:30 PM
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I am not an advocate for or against. I just see it as a unit conversion, and yes I spend significant portions of my life performing complex math across multiple disciplines (mostly using computers or embedded processors and hard codes).
A picture of a tornado taken near my house at some point in the last couple of years.
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06-11-2022, 06:47 PM
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Don't even pretend like you didn't casually pull a better laptime than me, in my own car, on your very first time driving it, and then wait thirteen years and suddenly be like "whoa, deer!"
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I did in fact get my *** handed to me in April of 2009 by this guy.
Sidebar: Jesus tapdancing christ on a popsicle stick, I still remember how early I had to wake up in order to make it to that humiliation on time. It was, like 7am or some ridiculous bullshit along those lines, when polar penguins are still ******* hibernating. Why is Cracker Barrel even open at that time? How can a loving God create such misery?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I did in fact get my *** handed to me in April of 2009 by this guy.
Sidebar: Jesus tapdancing christ on a popsicle stick, I still remember how early I had to wake up in order to make it to that humiliation on time. It was, like 7am or some ridiculous bullshit along those lines, when polar penguins are still ******* hibernating. Why is Cracker Barrel even open at that time? How can a loving God create such misery?
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06-11-2022, 09:02 PM
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Any system of units is optimized for a particular context. The metric system is optimized for science and engineering, where the ability to easily convert between unit types is important (1 kg of water, being 1 liter, being 10x10x10cm, etc). Imperial systems are optimized for more day-to-day use by people who didn't have higher math skills and wanted to avoid fractions as much as possible. Numbers like 12 and 60 have a lot more integer divisors than 10 and 100. The one that drives me nuts is people who insist on celsius temperatures for everything. That's not any more natural than fahrenheit, and it's only convenient if you're doing chemistry. The only "natural" units of temperature are Planck units, where 0 is absolute zero and 1 is about 1.4x10^32 K.
I occasionally think about switching to Kelvin just to annoy the Celsius freaks. "It was hot today, 305 out there."
Anyway, end of rant. Here's a picture of the world's tallest thermometer -- and it's calibrated in Fahreinheit. The last time I saw it in person it said 116!
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06-12-2022, 06:35 PM
Computers don't "care" about anything because they don't think. Certainly the people who own and operate the computers care about operational efficiency -- there's a reason that nobody uses BCD (binary coded decimal) math operations any more.
Any system of units is optimized for a particular context. The metric system is optimized for science and engineering, where the ability to easily convert between unit types is important (1 kg of water, being 1 liter, being 10x10x10cm, etc). Imperial systems are optimized for more day-to-day use by people who didn't have higher math skills and wanted to avoid fractions as much as possible. Numbers like 12 and 60 have a lot more integer divisors than 10 and 100. The one that drives me nuts is people who insist on celsius temperatures for everything. That's not any more natural than fahrenheit, and it's only convenient if you're doing chemistry. The only "natural" units of temperature are Planck units, where 0 is absolute zero and 1 is about 1.4x10^32 K.
I occasionally think about switching to Kelvin just to annoy the Celsius freaks. "It was hot today, 305 out there."
Anyway, end of rant. Here's a picture of the world's tallest thermometer -- and it's calibrated in Fahreinheit. The last time I saw it in person it said 116!
--Ian
Any system of units is optimized for a particular context. The metric system is optimized for science and engineering, where the ability to easily convert between unit types is important (1 kg of water, being 1 liter, being 10x10x10cm, etc). Imperial systems are optimized for more day-to-day use by people who didn't have higher math skills and wanted to avoid fractions as much as possible. Numbers like 12 and 60 have a lot more integer divisors than 10 and 100. The one that drives me nuts is people who insist on celsius temperatures for everything. That's not any more natural than fahrenheit, and it's only convenient if you're doing chemistry. The only "natural" units of temperature are Planck units, where 0 is absolute zero and 1 is about 1.4x10^32 K.
I occasionally think about switching to Kelvin just to annoy the Celsius freaks. "It was hot today, 305 out there."
Anyway, end of rant. Here's a picture of the world's tallest thermometer -- and it's calibrated in Fahreinheit. The last time I saw it in person it said 116!
--Ian
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