• Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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    13 days ago

    It’s even worse considering that they only have five boards. They expect at least one accident every month

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      I work in the LTL freight industry, if we go 30 days without an accident or an injury we get a free BBQ day with unlimited food for everyone. We’re talking burgers, hotdogs, chilli, chowder, chips, drinks, etc. Sometimes they even do catering. Our last one they did Hawaiian Food for 2 days (they got too much) which definitely made everyone happy.

      I’ve been there for almost 10 years, we average about 2 per year.

      Edit to clarify: 2 BBQs per year. We’re really good as getting hurt.

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        I wonder if that’s still cheaper, because it makes people value safety of others but also because it raises the burden to report smaller accidents and workmans comp fraud because of peer pressure.

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          The cost is in the lost productivity from having someone off work with injuries. A barbecue every 6 months seems like a bargain.

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            It really is, the average time loss injury in our company is usually upwards of 30k down the drain. And just an accident can be catastrophic in terms of cost as well.

            A BBQ compared to that is nothing.

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    13 days ago

    It bothers me it’s not in 4 bit “bytes” even though I know it’s just a convention for computers

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        That’s a matter of convention, not technical definition. A byte can be any number of bits, depending on hardware. For a while 6 bit bytes were common. RFC 791 refers to an 8 bit byte as an octet

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          RFC 791 refers to an 8 bit byte as an octet

          French-speaking people do too it seems. On second hand websites in Switzerland you always see that some disks are listed for e.g. 250 Go and others for 250 GB, depending on the first language of the seller.

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      You can do all of math in binary, it isn’t just for computers. In fact, the proof for “Russian Peasant Multiplication” was written in binary.

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        So you can do all mathematical operations in binary, but you can’t represent all numbers in binary like 0.3, which is a repeating number, and had the same issues as a number like 1/3 in decimal where you can’t avoid rounding errors

        It’s worth noting that 1/3 is also a repeating number in binary. 0.01010101…

        While 0.3 is in binary 0.0100110011001100…

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          I’m not sure what sort of point you think you’re making but 0.0100110011 in binary is only 0.065% off from 0.3, but how often would you organically encounter 0.3?

          Many fractions in decimal are also repeating numbers or very long trailing numbers, I especially encounter a lot when working with time which is base 60.

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      Twos complement (invert the bits then add one), so its -15 days.

      Otherwise 00000 and 10000 would paradoxically both equal 0 and make bitwise equality checks very difficult.

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    They’ve never gone more than a month without an accident? Find a new work place immediately!

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      With a large enough workplace in the wrong industries it’s really easy to have something that could count against it.

      I work in the LTL freight industry, we get quite a few.