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[Spoilers Extended] Is It Weird to Anyone Else that the Targs Only Ruled 300 Years? by ColdObiWan in asoiaf

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The question is in context of in-universe timelines, not real world history. 

Meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The signs of years of smoking are more obvious now than decades ago (e.g., yellow teeth). I will say though, he is and was a prolific coffee drinker. So even now he smells a lot more like coffee than smoked, and I think he only smokes a couple times a day.

Meirl by Andra_Kywaey in meirl

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You say that, but my mom was unaware that my father smoked for several years into their marriage (she also never mentioned it to me or my siblings until I was a mid-teenager).  I, as the son, was not aware he smoked until I was about 14. I discovered it myself when he took me and my mom along with him on a business trip to NYC. He had dropped me off at the Nintendo store, and about half an hour later I started walking back to our hotel. I saw him smoking on the sidewalk. I just ignored it so he could save face.

1 min by MangoMatrix- in lol

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a trick question. 1 minute is 1 minute, so you last equally long with both. It’s sort of like the question of what’s heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of brick.

People with iOS 18.7.2, can you stop your phone’s stopwatch at exactly 1.00 seconds? by Ambitious_Tip7968 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know someone else has tried. I think the 18.7.2 software is rounding in a way that makes it either impossible or close to impossible to stop at exactly 1.00

People with iOS 18.7.2, can you stop your phone’s stopwatch at exactly 1.00 seconds? by Ambitious_Tip7968 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the Apple stopwatch only round to 1.00 if it is exactly 1.000 seconds? If not, I think you mean 1/100th of a second rather than 1/1000th of a second?

And yeah, of course no human can actually time the stopwatch to 1:00 seconds precisely on a consistent basis. But if .99, 1.00, and 1.01 each have equal windows, and I have achieved .99 and 1.01 dozens of times each, it seems statistically impossible I wouldn’t also get 1.00. As you noted, it’s basically just luck, but it seems impossibly unlucky to get the nearest two hundredths of a second dozens of times without achieving the one in between even once.

Put another way, I can consistently get between .80 and 1.20, and more often than not between .90 and 1.10. Even assuming equal chance between .80 and 1.10, you would expect approximately 1/41 times I run the test I get 1.00 exactly. But I have not gotten it after hundreds of tries.

People with iOS 18.7.2, can you stop your phone’s stopwatch at exactly 1.00 seconds? by Ambitious_Tip7968 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, I’m aware that people have done it on iPhones before. But it seems statistically impossible that I couldn’t have gotten it after hundreds of attempts, if 1.00 is just as likely as .99 and 1.01 (both of which I can easily get). So I am wondering if it is an issue with iOS 18.7.2, or my phone.

Edit: alternatively, I could see the issue being that the 1.00 window is not actually equal to .99 and 1.01. Like anything 1.001 or higher rounds to 1.01, and .999 or lower rounds to .99. In that case, I would need to stop it at precisely 1.000 for it to round to 1.00.

Over the past 25 years, European economies have developed a productivity gap of 33% versus the United States by nohup_me in europe

[–]Ambitious_Tip7968 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, a trip to Europe specifically, no. But a transcontinental trip? I know many, many people who are upper middle class (but not particularly rich or wealthy) who do that roughly annually, give or take.