The two microwave ovens I owned are counterexamples to both these comments. The older on would precisely go 15s on and 15s off (when on 50% power) while the newer uses an inverter to actually reduce the microwaving power, and stays on 100% of the time.
10km per hour over 48 hours is absolutely insane, and the comparison with Bolt's 100m world record doesn't make any sense.
The ultramarathon world record holders today might do it : the closest existing event is the Spartathlon, a one-way Athens-Sparta race, for which the records are around 20h. Which leaves 8h of sleep before you have to do the world record run a second time...
Another decent comparison is the 48h ultramarathon. Matthieu Bonne broke the world record at 485km in 48h in 2025, the previous one being 475km.
But Matthieu Bonne is running on a flat rubber track. And both examples have modern shoes, nutrition and a support team following them.
So we are supposing our guy is world record material, even though he is selected from a population of 30k male Athenian citizen at the time. We are supposing he is running the world record twice, back to back, in sandals and without anyone to help him on the way. And/or we are supposing he is running as fast as a guy doing it on flat rubber.
It's not quite impossible (or only slightly exaggerated) but it sure as hell is absolutely insane.
No, because I can picture 1 (dollar, apple, person, whatever) and 1000, and it's very obvious that one is a rounding error compared to the other, a difference of 0.1%.
It's just that I can't picture a million apples, much less a billion or a trillion. Hence why I usually turn to time, or distance.
Here's another : if a million is a kilometre, a billion is 1000km and a trillion is the distance to the moon and back.
Which is insane. When the numbers become too large, they just stop making sense intuitively.
I had a nice comparison to put a billion into perspective : a million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is over 30 years. We understand these two durations reasonably well, and the difference can be "felt" clearly.
A trillion seconds is 30000 years... and again, the numbers stop making sense. That would be the Upper Palaeolithic. Agriculture was invented 10000 years ago. Hmm, what else ? Right, sorry, I rounded down. It would actually be 31688 years. A little slip-up of 1700 years, no biggie. The difference between today and the antiquity.
For obvious reasons, I could never forgive myself if I promptly got to watch 200 people get butchered by a trolley immune to the laws of physics.
But even if these fairly comfortable 99% odds turned out in my favor... During the years of mental health counselling following my abduction and forced participation in twisted ethics games, I would have to listen to people telling me I saved someone and did the right thing, while knowing that I objectively did not. That I put two times more lives at risk than by not pulling the lever.
If you have 10 000 train tracks, but at the end of one of them is a nuke blowing up a city of 10 million people, do you pull the damned lever ? I sure don't.
You are counting your saved person twice, once as a 100% save and again when you consider a net count of 4.
You have a 75% chance of saving 1 person, and 25% of killing 4, which means you are still killing 0.25*4 - 0.75*1 = 0.25 people.
Now the logic of "only 25% of bad outcome" is the real gambler's fallacy here. How far would you push it ? Would you pull the lever if it was a 20% chance of killing 10 ? A 10% chance of killing 50 ?
At some number people seem to go "what are the odds it happens to ME" and happily pull a lever even if the consequences outweigh the odds.
I tried telling this to my manager for years. He saw it as a "X days since we last had a problem and needed to reboot the server" and took pride in it.
We finally shut it down at over 5 years of uptime. Some docker containers had been running for 4 years straight.
Yes, that means what you think it does concerning update policies. Yes, the server and some containers were exposed to the internet. No, the backups were never tested.
My main gripe with the expansion is that trains scale way worse than everything else and become close to useless if you go to legendary quality. And I say this playing train world...
36% is so. fucking. high. I don't understand how this is wrapped as good news.
One respondent in 3 approves of what has been going on. 1 in 5 wholeheartedly agrees.
In Germany right now, Merz seems to hover around 25-35%. Macron is at 20% approval and has hardly broken 30% in the past 2 years. Neither of them built a golden ballroom, accepted foreign billions, shat their pants on tv, have their name all over the Epstein files or are actively dismantling their democracy.
Even more telling is the question about priorities. Just 32% say Trump has focused on the right issues.
Since I haven't seen anyone point it out yet, "la suite" could translate to "the [software] collection", but is more commonly used to mean "continuation" in the sense of a "next step".
I find it hard to translate, but the wording implies this is the next evolution, and they're not going back.
Most of the mass is concentrated in the one braincell
I'm afraid of asking your recipe for carbonara if you compare it to baking your pasta in a comparable mass of cheese and cream
The two microwave ovens I owned are counterexamples to both these comments. The older on would precisely go 15s on and 15s off (when on 50% power) while the newer uses an inverter to actually reduce the microwaving power, and stays on 100% of the time.
With a bit of training a ram could do the same thing
10km per hour over 48 hours is absolutely insane, and the comparison with Bolt's 100m world record doesn't make any sense.
The ultramarathon world record holders today might do it : the closest existing event is the Spartathlon, a one-way Athens-Sparta race, for which the records are around 20h. Which leaves 8h of sleep before you have to do the world record run a second time...
Another decent comparison is the 48h ultramarathon. Matthieu Bonne broke the world record at 485km in 48h in 2025, the previous one being 475km.
But Matthieu Bonne is running on a flat rubber track. And both examples have modern shoes, nutrition and a support team following them.
So we are supposing our guy is world record material, even though he is selected from a population of 30k male Athenian citizen at the time. We are supposing he is running the world record twice, back to back, in sandals and without anyone to help him on the way. And/or we are supposing he is running as fast as a guy doing it on flat rubber.
It's not quite impossible (or only slightly exaggerated) but it sure as hell is absolutely insane.
No, because I can picture 1 (dollar, apple, person, whatever) and 1000, and it's very obvious that one is a rounding error compared to the other, a difference of 0.1%.
It's just that I can't picture a million apples, much less a billion or a trillion. Hence why I usually turn to time, or distance.
Here's another : if a million is a kilometre, a billion is 1000km and a trillion is the distance to the moon and back.
Which is insane. When the numbers become too large, they just stop making sense intuitively.
I had a nice comparison to put a billion into perspective : a million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is over 30 years. We understand these two durations reasonably well, and the difference can be "felt" clearly.
A trillion seconds is 30000 years... and again, the numbers stop making sense. That would be the Upper Palaeolithic. Agriculture was invented 10000 years ago. Hmm, what else ? Right, sorry, I rounded down. It would actually be 31688 years. A little slip-up of 1700 years, no biggie. The difference between today and the antiquity.
At this point the victim is also the perpetrator
Having to wait a couple weeks for the sky to be blue matches my experience of Bavaria.
Jokes aside, great picture !
I don't know if I would...
For obvious reasons, I could never forgive myself if I promptly got to watch 200 people get butchered by a trolley immune to the laws of physics.
But even if these fairly comfortable 99% odds turned out in my favor... During the years of mental health counselling following my abduction and forced participation in twisted ethics games, I would have to listen to people telling me I saved someone and did the right thing, while knowing that I objectively did not. That I put two times more lives at risk than by not pulling the lever.
If you have 10 000 train tracks, but at the end of one of them is a nuke blowing up a city of 10 million people, do you pull the damned lever ? I sure don't.
You are counting your saved person twice, once as a 100% save and again when you consider a net count of 4.
You have a 75% chance of saving 1 person, and 25% of killing 4, which means you are still killing
0.25*4 - 0.75*1 = 0.25people.Now the logic of "only 25% of bad outcome" is the real gambler's fallacy here. How far would you push it ? Would you pull the lever if it was a 20% chance of killing 10 ? A 10% chance of killing 50 ?
At some number people seem to go "what are the odds it happens to ME" and happily pull a lever even if the consequences outweigh the odds.
Nothing to do with usability since decrypting your passwords one by one is perfectly fine. So they are saying this is about performance ? Holy fuck...
My hair quality became noticeably better when I started using SOLID shampoo. DRY shampoo, if you will
I tried telling this to my manager for years. He saw it as a "X days since we last had a problem and needed to reboot the server" and took pride in it.
We finally shut it down at over 5 years of uptime. Some docker containers had been running for 4 years straight.
Yes, that means what you think it does concerning update policies. Yes, the server and some containers were exposed to the internet. No, the backups were never tested.
Beginner mistake, which is perfectly fine! Just use
i-1inside the loop andi <= values.Lengthas the condition.It should, as long as you don't try to abbreviate it as
tar -hthough... the short form istar -?which illustrates the joke nicelyMy main gripe with the expansion is that trains scale way worse than everything else and become close to useless if you go to legendary quality. And I say this playing train world...
I'd argue all of these should be relative to 0K to make sense. So if our baseline is 30 minutes at 200°C, make that 10 minutes at 1146°C and I'm in.
Please let us know indeed.
36% is so. fucking. high. I don't understand how this is wrapped as good news.
One respondent in 3 approves of what has been going on. 1 in 5 wholeheartedly agrees.
In Germany right now, Merz seems to hover around 25-35%. Macron is at 20% approval and has hardly broken 30% in the past 2 years. Neither of them built a golden ballroom, accepted foreign billions, shat their pants on tv, have their name all over the Epstein files or are actively dismantling their democracy.
Very telling indeed...
Since I haven't seen anyone point it out yet, "la suite" could translate to "the [software] collection", but is more commonly used to mean "continuation" in the sense of a "next step".
I find it hard to translate, but the wording implies this is the next evolution, and they're not going back.