thebestaquaman

Nah, your reading comprehension is just fine, I just worded myself in a pretty verbal way. I totally get how it could be misread, I was thinking along the "salesman making a pitch" line:

"Want something that folds perfectly to A4? A3. Want an extra fold before you get there? We have A2!"

Yes, I did a typy-type with chubby morning fingers

I fat-fingered the A5, otherwise the numbers were right?

I'm aware how the system works, I just wrote about it using A4 as the "base". A3 is what you fold to get A4, A2 folds to give A3, etc.

I didn't know A0 was exactly 1m^2^ though, TIL!

Oh, let's also remember that A4 is a member of beautiful variant of an "SI system for paper". Want a paper the size of an A4 folded double? We have A~~8~~5. Want something that folds perfectly to A4? A3. One more fold? A2.

• Statement: "I want a piece of paper that I can fold twice to get exactly a US letter size."
• Response: "You must be crazy."

Edit: Did a fat-fingering

A garden hose is about 2cm in diameter, you're gonna need a pretty massive pump to get any flow rate to speak of through that hose. I'll be back with numbers for you ;)

Well that's exactly what I said that I seem to remember reading? So provided I'm remembering correctly... yes?

with no saying ...

Well that's the neat thing when paying money for something: You get a contract detailing exactly what access you get and what you can use it for. You typically read and sign this before paying.

Requesting paid access for research purposes would probably get you there though. After all, they need to sell access to posts and comments through some API to make money off all that data.

I can't quite find the source, but I remember seeing a plot of the estimated fraction of posts and comments on reddit that were produced by bots (not estimated by reddit themselves of course). The conclusion from that blog post was essentially that, at this point, reddit is mostly bots interacting with each other, with some humans sprinkled in. Of course, this doesn't matter to reddit as long as they can convince the world that they have plenty of users they can show ads to. Companies buying ad space largely don't do the research needed to find out that they're paying for their ads to be shown to bots, so they keep buying, reddit keeps making money, and everyone is happy.

There was definitely a massive migration, at least seen from lemmy's side, check out the graphs at Fediverse observer. Within a two month span (May-July 2023), the number of total monthly lemmy users went from 47 000 to 1 700 000. That's a 37-fold increase in two months. The number peaked at about 1.9 million in august the same year, with about 130 000 active monthly users (up from about 1 000). In the same period, the number of online lemmy servers went from 80 to a peak at 1396 (a 17-fold increase).

In reddit terms, the migration wasn't massive, they lost on the order of a hundred thousand users. Still, over a hundred thousand users leaving a platform within a couple months is probably near-unprecedented in internet history.

You can! Just go to the "place you buy earbuds" settings page and select "wired earbuds". After I did that, the annoying warnings went away, and my earbuds gained infinite battery life!

You will pry these wired earbuds out of my cold dead ears!