leadore

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Turn your head to one side, looking to your right (or left) in line with your shoulder, then take the pill as you normally would while you stay in that position. It will slide down much more easily than if you were facing forward.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If Trump gets back in office, this is how it will be everywhere. He and his minions will do whatever the hell they want and nobody better stand in their way, rules and laws will be meaningless (in both ways--they don't have to obey them and you can be arrested even if you don't break any).

[–] leadore@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

OK I was with him for the first 4 minutes about why Windows is unusable, but this was so irritating to watch. Hyperactive videos like this drive me nuts, someone talking loud and fast and editing so there is not even a millisecond gap between sentences. But the audio aspect still isn't hyper enough for this guy, no! the video has to be the same way, showing just his hands, gesticulating wildly the whole time. UGH.

So anyway, once I got to where he finally gets to the subject of Linux and immediately launches into the typical bullshit where he says to use Linux, you have to use the terminal and know how to write scripts, I quit watching. Most of these "I tried Linux!" videos are like this. I only clicked on it because the title said he actually switched to Linux.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Using it for plant identification is fine as long as it's an AI designed/trained for plant ID (even then don't use it to decide if you can eat it). Just don't use an LLM for plant ID, or for anything else relating to actual reality. LLMs are only for generating plausible-sounding strings of text, not for facts or accurate info.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Post these on Reddit to make sure they're used as training data.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

What I don't understand is how they were able to open her PO Box without the key.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

The only thing I “understand” is that all the rules are arbitrary as all fuck, society was made up by idiots with giant sticks up their arses, and everyone should go fuck themselves.

See? They were right, you do understand now. 😜

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

"which begs the question ..."

I hate this phrase a lot. First, it comes from the term 'begging the question' which is a stupid name for a particular type of logical fallacy that doesn't even make sense for its intended meaning. But no one uses in the intended way anyway. They use it to mean "raises the question" or "prompts the question".

As in: John hasn't been to work for a couple days, which begs the question 'is he sick?'". No it doesn't beg the question, it raises it. You beg for something, so you can beg a person for money or beg a dog to stop barking, etc. but you can't beg a question for anything.

So it's a doubly stupid phrase that makes me cringe every time I hear it whether it's used "correctly" or not.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Minutes are the smaller time division with 60 possible values so that hand is longer to reach to the tick marks for easier reading of the exact minute.

The hour hand only needs to distinguish between 12 possible values that are more spread out around the perimeter, so it doesn't need to reach very far to tell which hour out of 12 it is.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OK let's have a lesson for those who find this difficult. First, remember that little kids pick this up quickly and easily, so you can too!

We all know there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day, right? and that the day is divided into the a.m. of 12 hours and the p.m. of 12 hours.

So analog clocks show those 12 hours as the numbers 1-12 evenly spaced around the clock face. Now look a little closer and you see it's also divided into 60 marks with a tick mark for each of the 60 seconds/minute or 60 minutes/hour. Hang on, we're almost there!

The little hand points to the HOUR number (1-12). If it's in between two numbers, that means the time is in between those two hours.

The big hand points to the MINUTE tick mark. Notice that the 1-12 numbers coincide with each 5th tick mark so it's easy to count them. Just count by 5's! So if the big hand is between the 3 and the 4, that means the minute of the hour is between 15 and 20, look at which tick mark for the exact minute.

Now, can you figure out how the second hand works? Good! Kindergarten dismissed!

/s

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nope, it still seems like most of the ones I see are analog, as in my library example. Probably most people ignore them and just check their phones for the time since they are constantly looking at them anyway.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Digital vs. analog watches that run on batteries are no more or less accurate because of how the time is displayed. I have a digital clock display on my battery-powered cordless phone (yes I also have a landline) that is constantly plugged into a power source and it loses a minute or two every day. Your computer and phone only keep displaying the correct time because they frequently update themselves from an online source.

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