If you are working in a different number system with other people ten loses its unique meaning just like any word that has another technical meaning.

In code 0x10 is hex 10 (what you’d call sixteen), but in spoken technical English you don’t need to pronounce the 0x

I don’t see the need to bring values into this, this is about the naming of number systems. We really have no more claim to ten being this many (…) than hexadecimal people have to claim ten has this many (…)

Everything is under control

Every base has ten, but it’s made of two digits

Binary 0, 1, 10 Ternary 0, 1, 2, 10 … Decimal 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Hex 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10

Each has the right count of digits for its base before you go two-digit - binary has two (0, 1), etc

The best thing to do with a tarball is to bzip it

My government agency when hiring all the roles in an IT team put those sort of stupid ranges in the headline, but if you drill down to a specific role you see the actual range

So about 1d8 con damage instantly then 1d2 con daily.

Melee area effect weapons. There’s a wand of fireball in Balders Gate 3 that is bent and has melee range. This is like that, but the fire is only analogous to fire and the effect lasts longer and does damage slower

Also it’s for loading web pages that don’t behave well otherwise

Ok, let’s use grain finished beef as an example. The carbon is still from a renewable source, it’ll be recaptured when the grain regrows

I haven’t yet been convinced that giving up meat can help. Specifically, I haven’t seen the question of what happens to the grazing land.

If it is left to burn, the carbon it contains cycles grass ➡️ fire ➡️ CO2, particles ➡️ grass, etc

If it’s left to rot it’s grass ➡️ methane, CO2 ➡️ grass

If it is rewilded the carbon cycles grass ➡️ meat, methane ➡️ predators, etc

If left as it is it’s the same, but with us in place of the predators.

I really feel like there is no way of preventing the carbon emissions of grasslands, but at least if they’re making meat for us we can work on engineering a way out of the methane release, and people are working on that

And at worst it’s not fossil carbon, it’s renewable, the carbon emitted is captured again when the grass regrows

There’s carbon in the farm equipment, but that’s the same in all farming

Fine for me too

The convex ones are concave on the other side. The straight piece is generally called “the straight piece”

I think you’d start in Capetown

It’s not for me, though I don’t live in America

We have a roundabout with a pond. The ducks like it, and they’re really disturbed

There are a few ways to have bad eyesight

• Short sighted, can only focus close up
• Long sighted, cannot focus close up
• Poor acuity, cannot see the detail others can see
• Colour blindness

It looks like most of the short sightedness is caused by lifestyle since it is much more prevalent in places where children spend a lot of time indoors

The others would have affected our ancestors as much as us

You’re nostrils do that as you sleep to keep the one closest to the bed/ground closed. Since people roll from side to side over the course of a night your nostrils swap which one’s closed

Where in Australia can you smoke inside a restaurant?

What did the south secede from?