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Cake day: August 12th, 2024

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    1. They knew who she is. they just clarified to avoid confusion.
    2. We associate things by contexts. If you were talking about history or civil rights, your mate would most likely have confidently known who Rosa Parks is.
    3. https://xkcd.com/1053/
    4. When confronted or put under pressure we tend to question everything. You think the name is funny. He doesn’t. So obviousltly his understanding must be wrong. Its not “civil rights” + “porn”, there must be something else he is missing. It can’t be the obvious thing he is thinking about because that isn’t funny …


  • What volume does one pound of water have? How long are the sides of a cube of that volume? How much energy do you need to raise a one pound object up by one yard?

    In the respective metric units the answer to these conversions is either 1 or a factor of 10

    How many of those conversions are a factor of 8 or 12?

    Metric is a lot more then just meters and centimeters and all of those conversions make sense


  • If 1 meter = 1 yard, inches would still not exist in this metric system. Every individual imperial unit is fine. Inches are fine. Yards are fine. Gallons are fine. But the ratio between inches and yards is not. The ratio of cubic yards to gallons is insane.

    Even if one metric unit would exactly equal an imperial unit, the systems would still be incompatible. Metric is not superior because of how “big” each individual unit is, but because it is a coherent system. The only conversions between units are by factors of 10 (except for units of time but I think that’s the only measurement the whole world agrees on). You never need to learn a conversion rate with an arbitrary factor like in the imperial system.



  • I realy dont think that’s a thing. End-user login security is a tiny footnote on page 729 of the 2000+ page security document of a large company’s cyber security department. Switching that to passkeys will not change anything about how the company handles security. AI will. But not passkeys.

    And as we have seen many times, companies have been bad with security already and many password databases have been breached. Having a tool that limits the impact of bad security is a good thing.