I dislike the .not() method a bit because it inverts the meaning of the previous code snippet you’ve read.

if (list.isEmpty()...

“Ah, so if the list is empty…”

if (list.isEmpty().not())

“Goddammit”

When purchasing new appliances, choose more efficient appliances over less efficient one’s. Replace all your incandescent lightbulbs with LEDs. Limit your use of air conditioning to reasonable temperatures. Choose energy-saving programs for your washing machine and hang your clothes outside to dry when it’s warm instead of using a dryer.

Stop driving unnecessarily. If there is decent enough public transit, use it instead of a car even if it takes longer. If the distances are short, use a bicycle. Choose food that causes fewer carbon emissions - locally grown vegetables are the best in that regard.

On its own none of these matter. Combined however they will significantly reduce your emissions. None of these cause significant sacrifices.

Not only should we ban plastic straws, we should continuously ban more and more plastic. First plastic straws, then plastic bags, then plastic packaging. The systematic change will happen either gradually or spontaneously. I prefer the latter but if the former is all we have it must be encouraged as much as possible.

Huh, that wasn’t there yesterday when this was posted, I’ve checked everything I have access to

Either way, it’s everywhere now

Imagine a shortsighted wolf with dirty glasses. Cleaning its glasses would make it a more effective predator, right? The same applies to the vacuum which is why you shouldn’t clean it.

Finally it will be easier to do the whole posting something controversial and then putting the phone in your butt

I genuinely believe the NSA et al is targeting those who attempt to avoid all targeting more than the average person. It’s difficult to avoid being tracked, it’s nearly impossible to additionally blend in with an unsuspicious façade. Might as well become a secret agent if you’re capable of avoiding the NSA’s gaze.

Not really, the new value is 0.0001% of the old.

Just because the number has barely fewer digits doesn’t mean it’s barely smaller

But the first few values are:

1 + 1/3 + 1/6 + 1/10 + 1/15 + 1/21 + 1/28…

I really don’t see any pattern there showing why it converges to 2 exactly

Edit:

After thinking some more, you could write the sum as:

(Sum from n=1 to infinity of): 2/(n * (n + 1))

That sum is smaller than the sum of:

2 * (1/n²) which converges to π²/3

So I can see why it converges, just not where to.

For Celsius, 0 is freezing cold and 100 is boiling hot - that’s intuitive too.

I have literally never felt 0°F in my life and couldn’t tell you how cold it is, just that it’s very cold. I believe everyone has a rough understanding how 0°C and 100°C feel though.

Well, as much as possible anyway. When considering mass alone, life is quite efficient.

According to Wolfram Alpha:

The sun produces 3.8 * 10²⁸ watts.

A single human produces 104 watts (calculated through the average caloric intake assuming that intake ≈ energy consumption) through heat radiation.

Therefore:

1 kg of human converts 1.5 watt into heat.

1 kg of the sun converts 0.0002 watt into (heat) radiation.

And while I have nearly no understanding how entropy is calculated, from those values alone it seems like humans produce more entropy per kg than the sun. I’m pretty sure entropy is somewhat related to energy production though.

But are we actually creating order? To maintain life’s order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.

Life is but an entropy maximization machine.

Telegram has public groups which function nearly identical to social media. Signal does not.

If Amazon AWS began hosting nazi websites and refused to take them down, should the CEO be arrested? I’d say yes.

Piggybacking off of this comment, if you happen to enjoy Minesweeper, I recommend:

14 Minesweeper Variants

No guessing is required to solve any puzzle either, despite some variants seeming completely impossible.

Fun fact: There’s an achievement for stumbling across a level with a conpletely empty starting board, without any spaces being revealed to be mines or non-mines. Yes, that can be solved without guessing.

Fun fact 2: I’d argue there are more than 14 variants.

Has anyone actually read the article? It mentions Discord once, in passing.

It’s about how iframes used to promote upcoming games/games by the same publisher aren’t allowed anymore. This has negative implications towards indie devs because upcoming games in particular are less likely to be recommended already and in order to get into the “New and Upcoming” tab, a certain amount of wishlists is required.

Fewer wishlists => fewer recommendations => fewer wishlists

This could’ve been such a good score…

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Why would you use a linear approximation, this clearly looks like exponential growth (for the last 9 years).

Linux will obviously achieve 100% market share within the next few years.

It isn’t safe at any dose but the amount of harm from licking it once is definitely rather small. Probably safer than having a couple of alcoholic drinks or a single cigarette.

100% accurate emulation is basically impossible for every single console. You can get extremeley close via cycle accuracy, emulating the CPU’s instruction set but even that isn’t perfect.

You can read this for more information:

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulation_accuracy

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