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Cake day: July 16th, 2023
  • ioen@lemm.eetoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•I'd be angry too
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    4 months ago

    IMO it makes more sense if the humans in Star Trek are unreliable narrators.

    How is it possible that a teenage mechanic can improve engine efficiency by 5% messing around in his spare time? Why didn’t the engineers whose full time job it is to build the engines figure that out?

    In fact, cosmic radiation in space drives all humans insane. They truly believe they’re doing science experiments, but stuff goes wrong because they’re just jamming random household items into the engine.

  • ioen@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•How many times will I tell you?
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    4 months ago

    The most fair thing to do, oddly, is to leave the seat in the opposite position it was when you got there; everybody flips it once, it may be before or after you use it. Fair.

    I’ll remember this one, I love it when people are actually logical about things.

    Reminds me of canal locks. The etiquette is to always close the doors after you leave, and people get angry when you don’t. But it’s infuriating because it actually creates more work for everyone. If you leave the doors closed then the next person always has to stop their boat to open them, but if you leave them open there’s a 50% chance the correct set of doors is open for the next person to sail right in. If you’re in the unlucky 50% it makes no difference, because you had to stop to empty the lock anyway and afterwards you get to sail off without closing them.

    People also think closing them saves water, which is another can of people-not-understanding-physics worms.

  • ioen@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Please Stop
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    4 months ago

    The dude who owns the election server won’t be able to manipulate results in any way.

    Sure he will. He can just ignore votes for one candidate and not add them to the chain. Blockchains are only resistant to manipulation if they’re distributed and people agree on the canonical version. Even then if enough people agree to manipulate them they can, like they did with Ethereum.

  • ioen@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•That's LTT in the bottom
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    4 months ago

    Yeah that’s another difference. When something breaks on Windows people will do anything to fix it, including reinstalling Windows or buying another machine.

    When something goes wrong on Linux they decide Linux doesn’t work and reinstall Windows.

    I’ve had Windows installs slow down till they take 15 minutes to start. I once clicked the wrong button in Visual Studio and the computer became some kind of remote driver debugging target, permanently. Half the settings broke and every startup it would autologin as a debug user.

    If anything like that happens on Linux it’s proof Linux is too complicated, but on Windows it’s just one of those things.