metric is great until you need to do anything practical with it like converting cricket chirps to degrees /s
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Chicago suburbs. I’m definitely not the only apartment in this town without a dishwasher, either. There genuinely isn’t space for me to have anything but a countertop unit, and counter space is limited as is
Some of us rent. I want a dishwasher, I can’t have a dishwasher here
Pazuzu@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in...English0·5 months agoThey’ve required an account to watch age restricted videos for years now
The original post only gave half the explanation. It’s not that lead exists in general, it’s that lead exists within zircon crystals.
Under normal circumstances that would be impossible, zircon crystals strongly reject lead atoms as they form. There’s no way to stuff lead into the crystal lattice in the quantity we find them there. But uranium and zircon go together just fine, we just have to wait for it to decay into lead. The trouble is it takes ~4.5 billion years for just half of those uranium atoms to turn into lead. So any zircon crystal we find with half as much lead as uranium must be roughly that old
Try the audio captcha option, those usually have an actual answer it will accept. Which ironically speech to text is more or less reliably able to solve, and there are extensions to solve captchas automatically for you that way
Pazuzu@midwest.socialto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What life hack is so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it?English0·1 year agoA plunger should not be the first choice with a clogged toilet. Pour a bucket of hot water in the bowl (without flushing normally).
You can dump in more water much faster than normal flushing without the risk of overflowing. The hot water and fast pour help stir things up while the extra water pushes everything down the drain.
Cleaner, faster, and less effort than a plunger.
Except when they’re not lying but windows by default has ‘fast-startup’ enabled, so every time they shutdown the uptime never resets.
Or they shutdown and turn it back on, which doesn’t count in windows as restarting unless you disable fast-startup. So you get annoyed tech support thinking the user is a liar and an annoyed end user that knows they turned it off and on again.
Pazuzu@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?English0·1 year agoI’m a linehaul driver, pic from my first day at this job. I pull a set of double-trailers back and forth between two company terminals overnight. Same route each time, home every day. Pretty chill and easy work, I just listen to audiobooks and podcasts all night as I try not to slap anyone with my back trailer. any recommendations for something new to listen to I’d love to hear it
Pazuzu@midwest.socialto Cool Guides@lemmy.ca•A cool guide Types of plugs in the worldEnglish0·1 year agoFunny enough I got shocked by a USB port once because it was “grounded”. I have my PC plugged into a fairly beefy power strip, and after getting zapped I figured out that the outlet the power strip plugged into was not grounded. So the power strip acted as a mediocre transformer, putting about 70v through the ground wire my PC was plugged into, then the grounded metal of the USB port.
Surprisingly didn’t fry anything in my PC, even that USB port still works just fine. Went through and checked all my outlets were properly grounded after that, thankfully it was just the one I needed to fix.
Pazuzu@midwest.socialto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Programmer tries to explain binary search to the policeEnglish5·2 years agoI thought this had to be hyperbole, so I did the math myself. I’m assuming human history is 200,000 years as google says, and we want to narrow this down to the second the bike disappeared. also that the bike instantly vanished so there’s no partially existing bike.
each operation divides the time left in half, so to get from 200k years (6.311×10^12 seconds) to 1 would take ~42.58 divisions, call it 43. even if we take a minute on average to seek and decide whether the bike is there or not it would still be less than an hour of manual sorting
hell, at 60fps it would only take another 6 divisions to narrow it down to a single frame, still under an hour
edit: to use the entire hour we’d need a couple more universes worth of video time to sort through, 36.5 billion years worth to be exact. or a measly 609 million years if we need to find that single frame at 60fps
bruh give us an exact list of every program you have installed and hardware in your pc and log file from your last 20 used programs before we’ll even read your question. no we don’t know how any of that is relevant, but we can pretend to be smarter than you by asking for it
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