Yeah sorry I am a sideways coin when I get bored.

It would be great if say … two atoms … were the same, so we could say that these are the same and that this is the definition of 1 and start counting and so on, but they’re just not. It’s fractals all the way down and up. The entirety of math requires an abstract definition that segments things to be the same like a pixelated resolution of reality. It only exists as an idea.

Fuck the real numbers. Numbers are an abstraction.

Zero is a “real” number. Negative 5 is a “real” number. But have you ever seen zero apples or sailed on negative 5 boats? Uh uh no you haven’t. They are not real.

In reality there’s only existence or nonexistence, it could be a thing or it could not be anything at all, though the latter is actually impossible. All other things are then not the same as that. If you line them up you can make statements like this thing is not that thing. This is basically the succession function, and we’re already ahead of ourselves.

From there on we can start inventing more abstractions by using Peanos axioms, but it’s all abstractions, because the second axiom state that something is the same as something, and nothing in reality is ever the same as something else.

It’s all made up. Reality does not have numbers at all.

VBA arrays start at 0, unless you explicitly set it to start at 1.

If Star Wars was released today, some AI would report the entire Star Wars score for copyright infringement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHUqdX61Zyc

The finger toothbrush is an actual product. It’s sold in pet stores.

It would be interesting to calculate the user’s value of the time wasted on this shit.

My guess is that online advertising has a negative return for society as a whole. It should be illegal.

The weight of a heavy electric Hummer is 4.5 metric tonnes.

The maximum allowed weight of a fully loaded cargo truck is 44 metric tonnes.

According to the fourth power law, this would make the impact of the truck more than 500 000 that of the Hummer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Sure, the Hummer itself is already 16 times worse than a regular 1 ton car, but in the scale of things, the difference between any personal vehicle and a truck is about the same as whatever the truck is.

Aother interesting thing about roads is that they’re build to withstand the wear and tear from heavy vehicles.

This doesn’t seem interesting, until you also find out that the wear from all other vehicles is completely and utterly negligible. Doesn’t matter if you ride a bike, a motorcycle, car, electric car, pickup or SUV. None of the personal vehicles make a dent on the roads of any meaningful size, even if they make up a majority of the traffic.

Obviously we still need the roads for small vehicles, but the cost of constant maintenance all comes from cargo and busses.

If you see it this way, then almost all road construction is a hidden subsidy for the cargo industry who uses trucks instead rails or boats.

It would make a lot of economic sense for the society as a whole to demand fewer cargo trucks and more cargo rails.

the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive

Uh. I think I found the issue. A menu isn’t even supposed to have various degrees of responsiveness.

Autopilot is not AI. It’s basically a system that makes sure that some gyroscopes are aligned with whatever destination is typed in. It makes no artificial intelligent choices of any kind.

Air traffic controlling requires a lot more data processing. A lot of it could potentially be made or is already made with algorithms, provided that the data is based on trustworthy sensors and radars that are always up to date. They’re probably not, so humans need to sort out which data to trust and make decisions that sometimes conflict with the erroneous data.

It makes no sense to throw a language model at the task.

Insurance is worse than communism in this case.

Tax paid universal healthcare and healthcare insurance both work on the idea of socializing the cost.

The difference is that insurance companies also need to make a profit too feed the owners. Since they don’t actually produce anything that can make a profit, the only place they can grab the “profit” is by denying cover.

American healthcare insurance is exactly the same picture that is shown when people try to explain why communism doesn’t work.

No, only in Sweden. And if you look up someone, they will be notified of who did it.

No can do. It’s just too big. Nobody can do anything about anything because it’s soo big. You can’t phantom the size of USA before you get in a car and drive some hours across the state border only to realize that you’re still in the same car.

Then OP ought to change the second “to” to “will” to avoid confusion.

What if the system you know doesn’t make sense to you?

It’s hidden from view in this picture, but there’s a wider drain pipe in the center.

https://panhytter.no/vare-hytter/

It makes more sense when you’re comparing month to month development.

If you have a perfectly normal child then it doesn’t matter to measure anything and you can call it whatever.

However if you’re in a maternity group and all the other children started pointing at things at 13 months and yours doesn’t, then it might help to remember that yours was born prematurely and you can expect that behavior at 14 months.

Now, you can convert numbers as much as you please, but this doesn’t make sense as 1.08 and 1.16 years. You can say one year and one month and one year and two months, but it does makes sense for everyone in the conversation if you use the conventional method of communication which is 13 and 14 months. Don’t even get me started on Tiger leaps. Those come on schedule by the week.

It’s convention. If you go to a car mechanic to get new tires, you also don’t ask for “big wheels” if you want a 226/40R19.

No doubt. But why does the farmer get the money? It would make more sense for the government to buy the land back for good.

The normal age to stop using months is 2 years.

That’s because there’s a massive difference between a 12, 18, and 24 months old. It makes sense to have and use different references to separate them.

That’s a nice idea, but it would be better if the farmers hadn’t bought that strip of field to begin with.

Farming is ridiculous like that.

Now the farmers are getting paid your tax euros because they once bought it, destroyed it and took no responsibility for it.