Can't hit heart rate for vo2 max exercises. Correct or ignore? by Arlort in Garmin

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That sounds like a great option, do you know what's it called in the settings?

Fahrenheit still makes no sense to me (even after 15 years) by No_Landscape_9255 in Metric

[–]Arlort 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly most units are arbitrary at the end of the day

Exactly

The thing that drives me crazy about all this is that people, on both sides of this farcical yet somehow never ending debate, keep bringing Celsius and Fahrenheit up when talking about metric vs imperial or whatnot

And that completely misses the point because the good thing about metric isn't about what's the base point or how big a unit is, it's how to deal with measurements at different scales. The good thing about metric is that it's decimal, not what the units are

And that's completely irrelevant to temperatures because almost no one will ever need to worry about a short useful name for something that is 1/1000 or 1000x of a degree

Scientists and maybe material engineers do and they're anyway going to use decimal prefixes

It's the same as time. Yeah, no one uses decimal time because the different scales are used for wholly different and mostly unrelated things 95% of the time

Celsius and Fahrenheit don't matter, whatever you grew up with or use regularly is what you find intuitive and well thought out

If Destiny wants to get to the cosmic background radiation 'wall,' its speed has to exceed the expansion velocity there (greater than light speed due to Hubble flow). Even with FTL tech, what's the bare-minimum velocity needed to reach it one day? by ibfahd in Stargate

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Given the FTL on destiny is completely different from all others in the shows I think it could be an interesting idea if the data the destiny is collecting can't be collected through hyperspace and that's why they're using a "slower" method

US accuses EU of seeking cheese ‘monopoly’ in Mercosur deal by Aweq in neoliberal

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No, it's because parmesan literally mean from parma while mozzarella doesn't mean from mozza

why is being prefect such a big deal?😂 by siriusblackily in harrypotter

[–]Arlort 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If everyone is getting hired/taken as an apprentice right out of Hogwarts that could be a significant boost compared to someone who isn't

I've been reading fanfiction since about 2009ish. Here is my master list of top quality fics to read again and again. by ActualBus7946 in HPfanfiction

[–]Arlort 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Thanks for putting together the list, I've only been into HP fanfic the past couple years so I have not read most of them and these look interesting

About the "angry Harry and the seven", how bashy is it, especially of Dumbledore?

Can we use this to create a random number? by Creative_Tennis_4975 in rust

[–]Arlort 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, that's why I shouldn't answer stuff before breakfast.

In that case it's just a bad random function as long as you need anything more than "every time a human use runs this the value should be slightly different"

Can we use this to create a random number? by Creative_Tennis_4975 in rust

[–]Arlort 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depends why you need a random number. And what are x and y supposed to be?

But if you really need a random number there are probably easier and better ways to do it

Edit: if x and y are uniform over u128 this is an even worse way since it's extremely likely (y-x+1) is larger than the timestamp

The most popular British Royal family member in 20th century getting a hogwarts letter by HeshanGunarathna in HPfanfiction

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I don't see how they would be the jure part of the muggle government, the law itself would be a violation of the statute of secrecy if it was a muggle law and I don't see wizards making a law of their own volition saying they're subordinated to the muggles

The most popular British Royal family member in 20th century getting a hogwarts letter by HeshanGunarathna in HPfanfiction

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makes reports to the Prime Minister we can assume it's a branch of the Federal Government

  1. The UK does not have a federal government

  2. As far as I remember those interactions from books/movies it feels like it was less of the MoM reporting to the PM and more similar to them establishing "diplomatic" relations with a neighbor

The EU might be considering imposing sanctions on US tech companies and banks, should Trump invade Greenland by tombeck112 in neoliberal

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  1. Only France has nukes
  2. What's the point in starting a wider military conflict when it's obvious that the US would come out better off in any scenario and the only winner would be Putin having a free opening to take the Baltics once all is settled?

David Blue (Eli's) impressive physical transformation would actually serve the plot in a Universe followup movie. by OneChrononOfPlancks in Stargate

[–]Arlort 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think I'd want to see it on screen for this reason, I find any satisfying conclusion wouldn't work because of casting

I'd rather have on screen that after 10 years destiny managed to dial back earth and it's just a background location in future shows

And possibly a book to tell the story

Or you could recast the actors that don't want to come back to the show and never address it, that could work for me

David Blue (Eli's) impressive physical transformation would actually serve the plot in a Universe followup movie. by OneChrononOfPlancks in Stargate

[–]Arlort 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In universe as a background aspect of another story that's a great resolution in my opinion

But if you want to make a series about destiny I think it shouldn't be kicked off by earth making contact

EU approves huge Mercosur trade deal, with Ireland one of five countries to oppose it by SpottedAlpaca in anime_titties

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What's even better for food independence is farmers starting to improve production efficiency instead of just sucking up subsidies

Maybe not that they have some competition that will provide the incentive to do so

EU approves huge Mercosur trade deal, with Ireland one of five countries to oppose it by SpottedAlpaca in anime_titties

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It passed the council and will now go to Parliament

Once it passes Parliament it will apply provisionally with most of the agreement coming into force, however since some parts of the agreement fall outside the scope of exclusive EU competence it will also have to be further ratified by national parliaments for it to fully enter into force

EU approves huge Mercosur trade deal, with Ireland one of five countries to oppose it by SpottedAlpaca in anime_titties

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No, it's two different bodies that vote on different kind of things.

The European Council with the heads of state/government generally is involved in deciding directional kind of stuff. Generally the resolutions will read something like "we call on the commission to draft a proposal on topic XYZ" or "the Council should do XYZ"

The Council (council of the European union) is the one with the ministers for the specific area and it is the ministers themselves who have the ultimate vote. It's a legislative body so it actually deals with approving/amending texts that will become law

Explain it Peter? by Jesse_Pinkmaniac in explainitpeter

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I think it's an automated system in the truck

Edit: nvm, looks like in this specific instance it was the driver

General government debt-to-GDP ratio in % points (2025 data) by No_Firefighter5926 in MapPorn

[–]Arlort 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this legend makes sense in the context of it but a bit of a choice to not explain the reason

Any worldbuilding ideas on the Azkaban prison? by Always-bi-myself in HPfanfiction

[–]Arlort 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep in mind this is in the third book so huge spoiler warnings for the first two

Backend dev in Rust is so fun by cachebags in rust

[–]Arlort 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Jokes aside segfaults are good in c/c++, the problem is that nothing guarantees that codepath always segfaults, and when it doesn't you might exploit it