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  • groettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldClock logic
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    4 months ago

    I asked why the am/pm system is apparently more convenient and consistent than the 24h system. I didn’t ask about 24h in a day and 60min in an hour.

    What functional difference is there between tne 12 and 24 hour clock?

    You need 2 numbers and 2 letters to accurately specify time in the 12h clock instead of just 2 numbers. Seems convenient to me.



  • groettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldClock logic
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    4 months ago

    less convenience and consistency

    What? … seriously, which convenience and consistency are you talking about.

    24h only has one “inconsistency”, going from 23:59 to 0:00. How is that less consistent than 12am being after 11:59pm and 12pm being after 11:59am. Solves all parts of the issue except for one. Which is a lot better than the 12h system.



  • groettoCyberstuck@lemmy.caAnyone feel sad for them?
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    10 months ago

    Elon is not Tesla but Tesla absolutely is Elon. Tesla might be able to survive elon, but if Tesla goes bankrupt, elon will loose a huge chunk of his power. He is the “richest” man only because of incredibly overinflated Tesla stock.

    Everything that huts Tesla is good for democracy, freedom and the whole world!



  • groettoScience Memes@mander.xyzMultiverse
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    11 months ago

    There is no probability. No rolling dice. It is every combination of everything. I know Hilberts infinite hotel, I know (enough about) probability and statistics.

    I am talking about the multiverse that many people imagine. The one where you can say “there is a universe in which I am president. And one where Lincoln is a velociraptor, and a universe where chairs sit on people instead of the other way round”. In that multiverse, I can construct a universe without triangles that is identical to another universe with triangles in every regard except for the existence of triangles. And I can do that for every universe with triangles. Its a bijection.

    We dont permute a (in)finite set of initial parameters and then evolve the universe from there, we have a universe for every CURRENT state.

    In the hypothetical reality where such a multiverse exists (it would be a case of Russells paradox as OP has discovered), there is a 50% chance to be in a universe where it doesn’t.


  • groetto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneISO 8601 ftw rule
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    11 months ago

    Standards are used to increase interoperability between systems. The more different standards a single system needs the harder it is to interface with other systems. If you have to define a list of 50 standard you use, chances are the other system uses a different standard for at least one of them. Much easier if you rely on only a handful instead


  • groetto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneISO 8601 ftw rule
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    11 months ago

    I think it is reasonable to say: “for all representation of times (points in time, intervals and sets of points or intervals etc) we follow the same standard”.

    The alternative would be using one standard for points in time, another for intervals, another for time differences, another for changes to a timezone, another for …


  • groettoScience Memes@mander.xyzMultiverse
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    11 months ago

    I know. But I case of the multiverse that many people think about, the one where there is a universe for EVERYTHING, there will be exactly as many universes where triangles exist as there are universes where triangles dont exist. And the same is true for everything else.

    And it is exactly the same number, not just the same type of infinity. Because for every universe with triangles there must also exist the exact same universe without triangles (and vice versa), otherwise the multiverse wouldn’t contain all possible universes.



  • groettoScience Memes@mander.xyzMultiverse
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    11 months ago

    If there are infinite universes, covering all permutations of all properties (i asume thats what they mean by omniverse), then there will be exactly as many universes with a certain property then there are without it. So it is actually 50/50.

    In the “multiverse of all possibilities” there will be 50% without a multiverse





  • groettoMemes@sopuli.xyzThe evolution of phones
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    11 months ago

    Smartphone cameras are (bad and) very limited. Their sensor is very small and their lenses have to be flat, very small in diameter and cant have moving parts (maybe the aperture moves not sure). All this means they capture very little light on a ultra dense sensor (dense sensors have bleed where one pixel is influenced by the interference of the photons hitting the pixel next to it).

    So they cheat. Wherever they can. They often take multiple pictures at the same time using multiple cameras and overlay them digitally (black/white and color). And of course they need different cameras with different lenses because they can’t have a zoom (moving parts). They also heavily edit the pictures without ever telling the user.

    Often a smartfone image will look better than an unedited image taken by a 5000$+ camera. At least until you zoom in and look at the colors


  • Why do i want a copy of something I am only going to watch once? And why should I keep a copy if I can just stream it again from the same or some different site for free in the future?

    Streaming is just more practical. Doesn’t matter if its legal or piracy

    Edit to clarify: I am not saying this opinion is good, it is an example of how many people think and the reason why pirate streaming sites exist