Depends on what you mean by help. Yes, it would communicate the point better, but it’s engagement bait, so the ambiguity is a feature rather than a bug.
Depends on what you mean by help. Yes, it would communicate the point better, but it’s engagement bait, so the ambiguity is a feature rather than a bug.
It’s not a modern standards thing, Genghis Khan was seen as a complete monster in his own time.
They’re worse. They’re really the next generation of Cuil.
The claim is “Earth isn’t a planet”, sometimes with the addition of “space isn’t real”.
Historical context makes it even weirder. The split was because WV allied with the North in the Civil War, North Virginia makes infinitely more sense in more ways than one.
The really weird case is “two thousand” to “two thousand nine”, then we revert back to “twenty ten” and onward.
However, as the name implies, this is nothing special about pi. Almost all numbers have this property. If anything, it’s the integers that we should be finding weird, like you mean to tell me that every single digit after the decimal point is a zero? No matter how far you go, just zeroes forever?
“Why” implies they act according to some form of logic. The thing is, they’re racists, and racists tend to be fucking stupid.
It’s like having a pissing and no pissing side in a pool.
It should be legal to slash the tires of anyone who does this.
Only partially, unfortunately. There aren’t a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It’s an endangered language.
The danger isn’t that it’s smart, the danger is that it’s stupid.
Particularly one who doesn’t understand significant figures. Are you certain that you’re precisely 74.000 inches, without even a thousandth of an inch of rounding? If not, you don’t get to use 5 sigfigs when converting.
I wouldn’t trust Sony to have kernel access.
Remember the 13 billion years before you were born? More of that.
Because it’s just a text prediction engine, the only training data it has about taking a goat across the river is a well-known puzzle involving a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, so it just regurgitates the solution to that.
It’s the unabridged ISO 639 list.
Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green, and cripples features of the group chat if even one member of it is using a non-Apple device, incentivizing groups of friends and even families to ostracize people for using a different phone.
The reason for this is actually pretty interesting though. Historically it was just a US/UK English difference, but it evolved into both being used because one of the first big manufacturers of optical discs, Philips, called them discs, while the US-based IBM spelled their magnetic disks with a K.