people joined a cult because of this theorem. that must be awkward

being a prompt engineer is so much more than typing words. you also have to sometimes delete the words and then type new ones

what’s the appeal of haskell? (this is a genuine question.) i’ve been a bit curious about it for a while but haven’t really found the motivation to take a closer look at it.

i’m not really sure what IQ has to do with this. it was originally designed to measure people’s proficiency in school. it was not designed to be a general measure of intelligence. that was something that was co opted by eugenicists.

here’s a quote from Simon Bidet, the original creator of the IQ test, about his thoughts on the eugenicists using his test:

Finally, when Binet did become aware of the “foreign ideas being grafted on his instrument” he condemned those who with ‘brutal pessimism’ and ‘deplorable verdicts’ were promoting the concept of intelligence as a single, unitary construct.

you can read more about this stuff on his wikipedia page. (the quote is from wikipedia)

even to this day, there is quite a bit of doubt as to how accurately IQ measures “general intelligence”

playing russian roulette is not going to give you permanent damage every 5/6 times

back in my day we only had one language. it was called ASSEMBLY. wanted to make the computer do something? you had to ask it yourself. and that worked JUST FINE

if you’re trying to be malicious, wouldn’t it be better to multiply by Rand() instead of divide by Rand()?

assuming there are a decent number of recorded sales, you’d end up seeing many of the calls to Rand() returning values very close to 0. so, if you’re dividing by those values, you’d end see lots of sales records reporting values in the thousands, millions, or even billions of dollars. i feel like that screams “software bug” more than anything. on the other hand, seeing lots of values multiplied by values close to 0 would certainly look weird, but it wouldn’t be as immediately suspicious.

(of course a better thing would just be to use Rand() on a range other than [0,1])

you could also bring a regular keyboard and try to plug it in when the cashier isn’t looking. i’m sure that will go over well

other people have given good answers to this question but i think it’s worth saying that this isn’t a dumb question. it took a lot of smart people and thousands of years to figure out that time passes at different speeds in different parts of the universe. it’s not intuitive at all.

i feel like javascript could also be

Problem -> solution -> 3 days pass -> all dependencies had breaking changes made -> problem

what a wonderful and beautiful language. i’m so glad i asked

what does the +x do.

this is just like in regular math too. not being a number is just so fun that nobody wants to go back to being a number once they get a taste of it

you’re right about the teachers thing, my apologies for getting things mixed up. from what i can see, i was right about the nursing thing though. here’s a source from columbia verifying that nursing has increased 10x since 1997: https://www.nursing.columbia.edu/news/many-more-men.

Not the wider experience. Men are still stigmatised for expressing themselves. Example: how often do men get to be emotionally vulnerable in a public setting compared to women?

my claim wasn’t that men are no longer stigmatized, i was only trying to suggest that it’s better now than it was before. there is still a long way to go.

That’s because there are enough men who are financially destitute, who sell their lives into the military. Don’t need a draft when there is enough blood money going around.

i agree with this point is general, but i think financial destitution is something that is on the rise for both men and women. you bring up a good point that the decrease in people getting drafted isn’t the win i originally thought it was, so i’ll take that off the list.

things like this made the original question a bit tricky to answer: i can think of many ways in which things have gotten better/worse for both men and women, but i can’t really think of ways in which things have gotten better/worse for men. i can think of a lot of ways things have gotten better for women though (and some ways things have gotten worse)

being gay is more accepted. there’s also much less pressure to conform to masculine standards. e.g., being able to talk about feelings, expressing yourself in fashion/makeup, joining in traditionally feminine careers like nursing/teaching (both of which have exploded in the past 50 years). just to name a few

they also haven’t used the draft in 50 years

edit: striked through things are either factually incorrect (nursing) or more nuanced than my original comment implied (military draft)

i guess they had some extra money left over in the pentagon budget this year

it probably has something to do with how few people have tried this. the article mentions they only know about 132 people who have tried this in the last 70 years. the “true” mortality rate could be a lot higher, and those people just got lucky.

also could be a sampling error, since the article mentions some people fall out of the plane before it lands, which may make the survivors stand out a bit more.

this has got to be a truly terrible way to die and i feel bad for all those people.

yeah the period/comma switch up has caused me some trouble while studying abroad (mostly by apple). the calculator app for example will show a period (to specify decimals), but pressing it will insert a comma (to specify decimals), despite my number formatting settings being set to use periods for decimals.

i probably should’ve added an /s to my comment

well 9.792 km is a lot than 2,600 km. are you sure you aren’t in malaysia? /s

this looks like a cool project.

is it an unfortunate coincidence that “chata” means annoying/boring in portuguese, or was this intentional?