Coolishguy

joined 1 year ago
[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

English spelling wasn't even remotely standardized at that time. So phonetic was pretty much all there was

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not Christian, so I don't have a view on what interpretations are "correct." But if I might ask, how did you come to the conclusion that your interpretation is the right one?

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In some Christianity. Many define it in terms of disobeying God, which can conflict pretty badly with the not-being-a-dick thing depending on interpretation

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would only take 11 decimal digits though. Sadly, an uneven 36 in binary

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Teacher here. Yes and ouch

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

With some industry software, the proprietary stuff really is better. There are plenty of great FOSS tools out there, but not always the exact thing you need. For example, PDF software: I don't know of any editor as powerful as Acrobat. And I absolutely hate Acrobat, but it's the best tool out there for modifying a PDF.

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know the last time you updated, but Inkscape layers got an overhaul in 1.2, released about a year ago. Still not perfect, but a massive upgrade from how they used to be

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Our idea of a week can probably be traced back directly to early Israelite religion. There's good evidence of a 7-day cycle by the 6th century BCE, maybe as early as the 9th. They cared which day was which because the 7th day was a holy day of rest (still practiced as Shabbat), matching up with the supposed final day of creation. Jews have been keeping this practice for a very long time, so I would guess that we're still aligned with the days the ancient Israelites were following that they thought matched up with the days of creation. Unfortunately, the exact nature of what day they decided was which is lost to time.

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I think it's because Amazon sends emails making it look like someone asked a question specifically to you, and the people who fall for that are also usually oblivious enough not to know the answer to the question

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My grandpa used to brag that he could always tell you the time to within 3 minutes if you asked. Meanwhile my ADHD makes me utterly time blind

[–] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many of those forcibly displaced and nearly wiped out the previous "owners"?

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