wischi

joined 2 years ago
[–] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

the entire bottom half of humanity

So about 4 billion people

[–] wischi@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Maybe cloudflare DNS 1.1.1.1?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know the situation in the UK but some countries have separate drains depending on if it's waste water or just a regular rain water drainage. Rain water drainages are often not treated in any way (because why, it's rainwater anyway) but waste water is processed in treatment plants.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I use my remarkable 2 for that. Pretty expensive compared to other typically ebook readers but I use it to take notes too and it's basically a pen and paper replacement for me.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

First, could be autocorrect, and second: How many languages do you speak FFS?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Any backups of the repository itself (and not the GitHub rendering)?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

I used keepass since ages and about two years ago I switched to a self-hosted vaultwarden instance and I still think it was a great choice. So of you have a docker experience and a little VM lying around you could give vaultwarden/Bitwarden a try.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not about mythology or Mesopotamia. Those numbers are called highly composite numbers (HCN) and superior highly composite numbers (SHCN) and are great for doing calculations (especially divisions) in your head because they have a lot of factors. That's why they were used everywhere before calculators were a thing.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not true. You have math thank for that and there is a good reason for numbers like that (and why Babylonier used them). They are very useful to do calculations in your head, especially division because the have a lot of factors. The concept is called highly composite numbers (HCN) and superior highly composite numbers (SHCN). They are practically "anti-primes". That's why base-6 or base-12 are objectively a better number system than base-10 but it's pretty much too late to switch now.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

🤣 well played

[–] wischi@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Needs more watermarks

 

I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It's about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by wischi@programming.dev to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

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