If you watch enough Only Connect, this becomes trivial :P

If they’re as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we’re doing fine without them, thanks :)

I’m sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it’s in their own language. You don’t see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don’t speak Korean and don’t go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.

Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.

Incandescent bulbs like that in the picture don’t really flicker. They might pulsate a little bit but even at their faintest they would still have significant light output.

Some LED bulbs do flicker though, it depends on how they implement the AC to DC conversion. If they flicker, it is easily noticeable to the human eye, especially when looking at motion.

Too true :(

Refusing to turn reality on its head for a null change in the end is something else entirely.

I do agree with you, just want to give voice to the other side of this. Don’t underestimate just how much of a barrier this confusion is in teaching. It’s confusing. Students who are new to electricity almost universally hate this, and in some cases it can cause misunderstanding, miscommunications, etc. There is a genuine cost to this mislabeling, and there would have been effectively no cost if electrons’ charge was considered positive instead of negative.

As I said, I do agree that in practice, with all the existing knowledge, writings and technologies that all agree that electrons are negative, it would be a global disaster if the labeling was switched. There’s no question about it. But I kind of disagree about “null change”, it’s true that it wouldn’t change what we can create or (almost) any of our equations, but it absolutely would make it easier to teach it to future generations.

I don’t use one myself for much the same reason as you. But I think a lot of people just need their phone and up to 3 cards (credit card, license/ID of some sort), so a wallet phone case isn’t that much bulkier than a simple phone case. Yeah there’s other things you’d put in a wallet, but they aren’t strictly everyday carry things, so you can put them in a separate wallet or purse/bag and only take that when you need it.

For my mom I think she just likes a case with a front cover, and it happens to have space for cards so she uses it. So the “bulk” of it is a direct result of what she’s after (the front cover), it doubling as a wallet is just a bonus.

I can never see it as cool, maybe because my mom uses one. But it’s practical.

Pretty much all of them, up to and including biting me. 🥰

that is without a doubt the liquidest cat I’ve ever seen

I highly doubt they were talking about gaming.

While funny, this doesn’t work because the time traveler told him specifically which one is negative.

Yeah, you’re right, and that sucks. Mastodon is much better at this.

The Fediverse’s biggest onboarding problem is having too many choices that seem important but don’t really matter. Namely, which instance to sign up on. Listing two different platforms that do the same thing and even federate with each other would only make it worse. I’m guessing that’s why they only listed one.

As for why choose one over the other, I don’t have a horse in this race, I’m sure they had their reasons.

You’ve got some courage standing in the middle of the street with no visibility like that. A car can just appear out of the blue and run you over. Glad it didn’t!

Though, if it was as quiet as it looks then you could reasonably expect to hear a fast car long before it got near, so perhaps it’s not as dangerous as it looks.

I got a (very cheap) Thinkpad from my university. It had that proprietary Ethernet port. It came with a ThinkPad-branded USB to Ethernet adapter. The adapter came with the laptop and still didn’t use the proprietary port!

Now, there is a chance that the university IT which set stuff up before giving it to me, is responsible for disappearing the proprietary adapter. But because the USB adapter is branded with ThinkPad, I really think it’s just what it came with.

Its name is “poo” twice. Fitting.

Any job to do with food. Restaurant, bar, cafe, pizzeria, whatever. I just feel utterly incompetent there.

And it’s not just cooking, even being a cashier or delivery guy is impossible for me. I can’t put it into words, but I am just incapable of doing it.

Are you sure nothing moved? Perhaps they saw a twitch that was enough to confirm for them?

I can easily cause this reflex to myself.

Slow Mo Guys on YouTube have filmed glass cracking and calculated its speed many times. Very lovely channel that I recommend!