bleistift2

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

The kind of psychos that have “nice to have” tests. If it’s red, it’s not critical, but still worthy of attention… sometime.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Clock drift. Funny experience when your JWTs are suddenly issued in the future and no-one can login anymore.

God, I hate computers.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

Only one I’m interested in is the sky bison.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your Wikipedia link is broken. Underscores are formatting marks, they make text italic

That seems to be an issue with your Frontend. The Lemmy web view displays the link correctly.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Do you really need to explain to people what a left turn is?

 
[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

The symphony is notable for its multilayered complexity—typically requiring two conductors in performance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Ives)

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I can’t imagine that this is pleasant to listen to.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could someone finally explain to me why the feel the need to put extra effort in to increase the whitespace in a post?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

* The world if people stopped printing web pages

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

To paraphrase a German comedian (I’m not even sure who said it).

Women, if you want a man, don’t be subtle. Stop with the playing with your hair and the dreamy looks. Men are stupid. They don’t pick up on that. If you want him, go to him, and say “You, me, sex!”

(Slightly adapted to fit the medium text better.)

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

That image you linked requires authentication to download.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 31 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Was there supposed to be a “not” under that yellow blotch in the speech bubble?

 
 
 
 
 
 

Explanation (which might be wrong, since I’m writing this after banging my head against a wall. Please do correct me if I’m wrong):

In regular numbering systems (i.e., decimal), we exhaust all 10 digits (0–9) before we reach two-digit numbers. The first number to require 3 digits is 10². The first to use 4 is 10³, and so on.

In music intervals, there is no “0”. The interval c’–c’, for instance, is called a prime (1). This has the funny consequence that moving by a fifth and then by a fourth doesn’t land you on the ninth, but the octave (8). Moving by an octave and then another octave gets you to the 15th, not the 16th.

In Excel, shit hits the fan when you need to convert column names (A, B, C…) to numbers (0, 1, 2…). Since we use 26 characters as our ‘digits’, we’re in the hexavigesimal system. Knowing what I told you in the first paragraph, you’d expect the first double-digit column (AA) to be 26. And you’re right.

However, when do we need 3 digits? Which column is column AAA? A sane person would say it’s 26², so 676. Ha! No. Column number 676 is actually ZA. What gives? Well, we only ditch the zero for single digit numbers. All subsequent columns actually use 27 different characters, the ‘empty character’ being one of them. That’s where we get the ‘single digit’ – there actually is a second digit, only it’s empty.

So the column AAA actually has index 702, or 26×27. Which index does the column AAAA have? 26×27². The system of adding powers of the base works, only we changed bases midway through.

You can see the lopsidedness in the index lookup table (I’m not displaying all characters for brevity). Sane number systems have square tables. Excel’s is 26×27 (shown are 4×5).

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Explanation (which might be wrong, since I’m writing this after banging my head against a wall. Please do correct me if I’m wrong):

In regular numbering systems (i.e., decimal), we exhaust all 10 digits (0–9) before we reach two-digit numbers. The first number to require 3 digits is 10². The first to use 4 is 10³, and so on.

In music intervals, there is no “0”. The interval c’–c’, for instance, is called a prime (1). This has the funny consequence that moving by a fifth and then by a fourth doesn’t land you on the ninth, but the octave (8). Moving by an octave and then another octave gets you to the 15th, not the 16th.

In Excel, shit hits the fan when you need to convert column names (A, B, C…) to numbers (0, 1, 2…). Since we use 26 characters as our ‘digits’, we’re in the hexavigesimal system. Knowing what I told you in the first paragraph, you’d expect the first double-digit column (AA) to be 26. And you’re right.

However, when do we need 3 digits? Which column is column AAA? A sane person would say it’s 26², so 676. Ha! No. Column number 676 is actually ZA. What gives? Well, we only ditch the zero for single digit numbers. All subsequent columns actually use 27 different characters, the ‘empty character’ being one of them. That’s where we get the ‘single digit’ – there actually is a second digit, only it’s empty.

So the column AAA actually has index 702, or 26×27. Which index does the column AAAA have? 26×27². The system of adding powers of the base works, only we changed bases midway through.

You can see the lopsidedness in the index lookup table (I’m not displaying all characters for brevity). Sane number systems have square tables. Excel’s is 26×27 (shown are 4×5).

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A four-panel meme [annoyed bird]:

[Panel 1]: A pigeon says, “Here is why that game was nothing for me:”

[Panel 2]: The pigeon states well-argued criticism. Someone interrupts, “Skill issue!”

[Panel 3]: The interrupter is a raven shouting over the pigeon, “There are settings and mods for this”

[Panel 4]: The pigeon is annoyed. The raven shouts a clown-face emoji.

 

A four-panel meme [annoyed bird]:

[Panel 1]: A pigeon says, “Here is why that game was nothing for me:”

[Panel 2]: The pigeon states well-argued criticism. Someone interrupts, “Skill issue!”

[Panel 3]: The interrupter is a raven shouting over the pigeon, “There are ac and mods for this”

[Panel 4]: The pigeon is annoyed. The raven shouts a clown-face emoji.

 

Actually, instead of owning a gun to “defend against a baddie”, you should welcome anyone who holds a gun to your head, because they’re about to bring you to God.

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