bus_factor

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[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Is it still a DEI hire if it's also a glass cliff?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ohh, that makes sense. When I read "brown bread" I think whole grain, not toast, so I didn't make that connection.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

That becomes more of a philosophical exercise: If a disaster occurs in Alaska when no one is there to experience it, is it still a disaster?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Should I feel proud or embarrassed that I have no clue what "your kids are brown bread" means?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, it is also a huge state, with a lot of surface area. So it's not unreasonable that they catch more natural disasters than a tiny state.

What is unreasonable is that it's handled terribly every time. You'd think all those disasters would eventually gain them some experience.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Makes sense. You don't get high off your own supply. Norway is all about electric vehicles, too.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Lone Wolf type attacks do have a much lower chance of being discovered, but that doesn't change that just running at a group of armed agents is dumb. Planting a bomb or sniping them at a distance seems like something with a higher chance of success. Or even a suicide vest, since surviving certainly wasn't a goal for the guy.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

If you're already breaking up over text, you probably aren't in a position to worry much about how they interpret your typography. And if they haven't noticed how you normally write there's even less reason to worry about it.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I think she may have forgotten about the felony she probably racked up by sneaking back in after being deported.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Beat me to it by 30 minutes

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

It's okay! There are no hurricanes in the forecast ever since we stopped forecasting them, so everything is fine.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's less and less reason to do it (and it's never 5). On systems without floating point you might want to round it a bit, but only if the specific thing you're doing allows it, and even then you're more likely to do a fixed-point approach by using e.g. 314 and dividing by 100 later, or adjusting that value a bit so you can divide by 128 via bitshift if you're on a chip where division is expensive. However, in 2025 you almost certainly should have picked a chip with an FPU if you're doing trigonometry.

And while rounding pi to 3 or 4 is certainly just a meme, there are other approximations which are used, like small-angle approximations, where things like sin(x) can be simplified to just x for a sufficiently small x.

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