PEMDAS for order of operations, we had BEDMAS which seemed memorable on it’s own, since we called these ‘()’ brackets and multiplication and division are equal so can be either way

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We had to memorise South East Asia and its capitals. You had it easy. Look up the capital of Brunei.

We weren’t advised to use mnemonics

Also there was no need in Italy and Greece. Britain invented steam engines because they needed a better way to pump water out of their mines, people worked out later that they could use these engines to power a cart, a digging machine, a rail machine. They needed mines for heating fuel due to the cold climate, they needed coal fired heat for their metallurgy

You need reasons to invent stuff (necessity is the mother of invention) and you’re not going to get much reason in a perfect climate with all the food you need coming from the sea and land all year

Britain already had rails for human and horse drawn carts

Good for us as we wouldn’t exist without the world going exactly as it has (I guess unless you’re from a culture that didn’t get conquered/settled and has been quite insular), but imagine where technology would be if industrial civilisation had been continuous from so early

AI tools are pretty good in Photoshop; they’re pretty good in copilot; Ukraine claims they’re good at guiding a drone to a Russian bomber (though they also hit decommissioned aircraft). I think you only see the use of less specialised AI used to generate low quality text and soulless images

I feel like there’s a bit of trying to scare the kid off from that life course and get married like a proper person in that letter

What, jessvj is not baffled? That’s an odd thing to study

I think you’re fairly safe here. People using AI tools professionally generally like them, only overuse and careless use are seen as bad here

Out on general Lemmy though you’ll get down votes for comments in favour of AI

Imagine getting that design past review

The insecurity of SMS is the inability of telcos to secure number porting. If someone wants to compromise your shit, they can easily steal your phone number, if your phone number is sufficiently public

One defence is to have a second service that is only used for authentication, and never share the number except to those providers that need to message you codes

XKCD 323

Mobile view

Luckily I don’t need to read or write bytecode and all that matters to me is the syntax

You do get the if in the middle of stuff though in the form print(debug message) if $debug

If you add “m.” before XKCD like: https://m.xkcd.com/3101/ you can tap the image to display the alt text and then copy it

What are the arguments

“Protect delicate children’s eyes from seeing nudity”

I think that’s about it

It took 5 hours to break enough to get the loot out. That’s pretty good. The secure stuff in my government office is only rated for 3hrs against power tools

That’s the same unit, with a decimal multiplier for fast things

The usual rule is 10%, jewellers can’t get insurance if they don’t spend at least 10% of the value on security. Though this safe resisted power tools for 5h. That’s not bad. If the alarm system had been battery backed up and connected over the cell phone network the thieves wouldn’t have been successful

I think before that even