rutellthesinful

joined 7 months ago
[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago

what scenario are you imagining where any of meta's product offerings are useful to me?

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

tfw your national strategic reserve of facebook posts is depleted

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Write your system prompt in English" also works

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

just ask for the output to be reversed or transposed in some way

you'd also probably end up restrictive enough that people could work out what the prompt was by what you're not allowed to say

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Without technology prepared to counter teleporters

like the shields all the ships in starwars have?

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

in panel 2 what part of his anatomy is that

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 8 points 5 months ago

but it's not the hexbears making these memes...?

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

even if you're in a situation where it's somehow possible to manually draw 1/3 of a mm to any accuracy, 1/3 scale draft rulers still exist for metric, so it's equivalent

I seem to remember you as the one who brought up calculators

because as soon as you have access to a calculator, "off the top of your head" is an irrelevance

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

well yeah, because 1/8" is 3.175mm

1/3 of a mm is a distance between 1/64" and 1/128"

mechanical pencil lead is only about 0.4mm

I still don’t see how a calculator helps though.

don't ask me ask the person who posed the "what's a third of 9.5mm" question

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

using a ruler to measure a length of 1/8" is as accurate as using a ruler to measure a length of 31mm and eyeballing 2/3 of a mm

the bottleneck at that point is your eyeball and pencil lead, not the unit of measurement

[–] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

the one third of 9.5 conundrum, which was posed by a metric defender

they weren't a metric defender

which is literally not true

what scenario is there in your mind where you'd need a precision answer to what 1/3 of 9.5mm is, but also not have access to a calculator? and of those scenarios, how many of them would be solved by the knowledge that 1/3 of 1/8 is 1/24? i'm willing to bet the answer is more or less "none".

and for those that do exist, you can also get drafting rulers that give you 1/3rds of metric measurements.

the accuracy of your equipment isn't somehow better because you're dealing with fractions rather than decimal points

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