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  • I’m not surprised. StackOverflow has moderated itself out of relevance. Ask a question and get flamed. DDG a question plus “stackoverflow” and get something that may well have been correct and useful in 2012 but tech moves on and it’s now archaic trivia, somewhat akin to facts about punched cards. “Help me StackOverflow, you’re my only hope” hasn’t been true for quite some time now.



  • letsgo@lemm.eetoCyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee2025-05-14
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    5 days ago

    There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand n-ary, those that confuse it with (n-1)-ary, those that confuse it with (n-2)-ary, …, those that confuse it with ternary, those that confuse it with binary, and those that don’t understand it at all.


  • letsgo@lemm.eetoCyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee2025-05-14
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    You’re not overthinking it at all and have hit upon an important point. The problem with “ten” is that it’s too easily confused with 1010_2 or 0x0A_16. One-zero base 2 is unambiguous. Also one, ten, eleven etc would get very unwieldy very quickly, and as it already gets unwieldy very quickly even when just quoting digits, that’s why we have hex and octal.






  • letsgo@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worlddoctors
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    8 days ago

    Denying care until an arbitrary amount of weight is lost.

    Maybe there’s sound science behind it, such as the procedures not having been tested on larger patients (if that’s the case why don’t they just say), but mostly it just looks like a waiting list hack.