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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you literally have a calculator pre-installed on your computer, yet you are trying to use a search engine to do math? Just because some search engines happens to handle some basic arithmetic functions doesn't mean all search engines necessarily support the same features.

This is why helpdesks get paid the big bucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Do you really work with memory, storage, and bandwidth? If so, have you EVER run across an instance where memory, storage, or bandwidth were referred to in millibits? Memory, storage, and bandwidth are extremely important in my job, though not my direct focus, and I can say over 50 years as a sysadmin and coder, I have never encountered "mb" and had it actually mean "millibits". Literally not once. Now "Mb" definitely has some ambiguity (in bandwidth, it's used for Megabits, and in memory/storage, it's more often than not a typo of MB), but "mb" actually meaning "millibits"? No, friend. Just no.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

They're pretty fonts and they're released under SIL Open Font License 1.1. I dig it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Eris tells us we should partake joyously of a hot dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Detroit Michigan, "motor city", is home to a lot of car manufacturers and also much crime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What is your recommendation to use instead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tab. I've used both quite a bit, but I really like Sidebery's snapshot option to save and reload snapshots of your session, either manually or on a schedule.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my country, we "fall back" in the fall and get an extra hour of sleep. Springtime is when we lose an hour. Is it the opposite where you are?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

If you're near the cusp, pick whichever makes you feel better. Generations are a sociological construct and are appropriately applied in the aggregate, not to individuals and they're always fuzzy around the edges. Much like Hari Seldon can't predict specific individual events, sociological generations don't always apply exactly the same to individual people.

If you're born anywhere between around 1978 and 1984, you will likely find at least one sociologist who draws the line on either side of you.

I tend to go with Strauss-Howe, who consider GenX to be 1961-1981 and Millennials to be 1982-2005 -- mostly because I like their idea of turnings and cyclical archetypes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They're both alternate spellings of the same thing. Yes JS/ES/Ruby and a few other languages use "RegExp" in their standard libraries. Henry Spencer referred to one of his regex libraries as "regexp" as far back as 1986. I prefer regex because that's what I learned first, and it's easier to say "regexes" when you want to pluralize it, but I've seen both forms pop up over the years.

/regexp?/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That article indicates that isolated phytates resulted in reduced absorption of calcium, iron, and zinc, but no significant effect was found when consumed in a matrix. Furthermore, phytate-containing grains tended to contain other compounds such as fermentable fiber that increased the bioavailability of those minerals, resulting in very little effect. So if that's the only evidence we have to go by, it doesn't sound like oatmeal is going to prevent you from absorbing the nutrients from fruits and veggies you eat with it, nor does if have any affect on the other nutritional benefits derived from oats.

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