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  1. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Dividing by 0x10 is better, because it only involves moving the hexadecimal point.

    Your reasoning is circular. Dividing by $Base is easy for any value of $Base.

  2. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So it's not superior, it's just better?

  3. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you are doing physics use C

    Nah, Fortran.

    Joking aside, you're talking absolute fucking rubbish. Does the volume of a gas go negative? Because if I plug a Celsius temperature into the ideal gas law it looks like it does. What about batteries, do they change polarity if you cool them enough?

  4. Re: 120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I doubt any aircon system is even close to being accurate to a tenth of a degree. Even if the thermostat itself is, it's only measuring the temperature of a thimbleful of air; the temperature across the room - not to mention up and down it - is going to vary by much more than that.

    tl;dr "Fahrenheit has more precision" is bollocks.

  5. Re:What technical revolutions started the world wa on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Stalin was Hitler's ally at the start of WWII.

    Rubbish. They had a non-aggression pact, which is basically a truce in a war that hasn't started yet. They were ideologically poles apart (excuse pun) and neither trusted the other further than he could throw him.

    They spit[sic] countries after invading together.

    Well, one.

  6. Re:What technical revolutions started the world wa on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. It's words that really matter, not marching boots.

    You wouldn't happen to be a lawyer, would you?

  7. Re:I've never shopped there on Walmart to Vendors: Get Off Amazon's Cloud (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh man, looks like the chips are down!

  8. Re:I've never shopped there on Walmart to Vendors: Get Off Amazon's Cloud (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They sell Crisco routers and Sonny televisions.

  9. Re: 120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A proper pint weighs a pound and a quarter.

  10. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    (through Paris, for some reason)

    The frogs were jealous because England got the prime meridian. Seriously.

  11. Re: America doesn't win anymore on Swiss Supercomputer Edges US Out of Top Spot (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Found the German!

  12. Re:Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you burn things you quite often get carcinogens. I think I'd rather take my chances with the labels.

  13. Re:Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mine used to do that. Don't worry, by the time they're 14 or so they'll grow out of it.

  14. Re:Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mind your head, I'm dropping a new shovel down. Looks like you've worn that one out.

  15. And it's amazing how many think foreign trade is some kind of gift that the US is giving to the world. I've called a few out on it but it gets tedious after a while.

  16. Re:All just posturing on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    he expects the government to work in the same way that a corporation works.

    I said so during the election. It's not like the army either.

    http://www.bartleby.com/73/151...

  17. Re:When Recycling goes Too Far on Star Wars' Han Solo Spinoff Directors Quit In the Middle of Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somewhere in Hollywood, at this very second, someone is looking at your list and saying "You know, that one might work".

  18. Re:we were heading towards a "society of geniuses" on 'Older Fathers Have Geekier Sons' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So do I, but the funny walk plays havoc with my knees.

  19. Re:Hopefully onions too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Found the person from Morganville!

  20. Re:More than Air Density? on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Denver is always high up. Phoenix isn't always so hot.

  21. Re:And you're labelling avocados on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You made that up. Stop lying.

  22. Re:Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I do wonder, though, if this might effect the quality of the fruit.

    The quality of the fruit already exists before the label is attached, so what you suggest is impossible.

  23. Re:Hopefully onions too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I used to work with a guy who stuck them to the side of his monitor. Over time there were so many I reckoned the thing was ready to tip over. And that was before those fancy-pants flatscreen jobbies too.

  24. Re:Correlation. on 'Older Fathers Have Geekier Sons' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Correlation? More like a tautology.

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