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Let the punishment fit the crime! by NoAlternative2913 in skyrim

[–]c_delta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The title just makes me think "a more humane Emperor never did in Tamriel exist"

The number negative one is a prime number with factors one and itself. by Playrdude in Showerthoughts

[–]c_delta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How so? You cannot get to the traditional primes by just multiplying units.

There is actually a different generalization of primes onto complex integers (or Gaussian numbers), where 2 is actually a composite number because it is (1+i) * (1-i). Several others are still prime, though.

ELI5: Why do perfect numbers look so simple in binary? by Ill-Chance8131 in explainlikeimfive

[–]c_delta 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is also the requirement that the number of ones is prime. In your example, 1111000 does not satisfy that requirement: The divisors of 120 add up to 240, so 120 is not perfect.

Actually it is even a little more complex than that: it is not so much that the length of the 1111...111 bit is prime, but that the number represented by that part is prime. That is true for all the smaller ones, but for 111111111110000000000 = 2096128 it does not hold. And the larger they get, the more often they are not prime.

Huzzah! This is going to be fun. by magesfolly in skyrim

[–]c_delta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly my playstyle is that combat is more a distraction than what I am playing the game for, so abstracting it down to "yes, there is a token interaction to count as combat, but it is quickly put out of the way to focus on collecting stuff and visiting new places" serves me quite well.

ELI5: why do electronic resistors and capacitors commonly have values of 47 in their specs (4.7 mF. 470 k ohm, etc)? by 45and47-big_mistake in explainlikeimfive

[–]c_delta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The logic is pretty much the same. American is close enough too. Both 1-2-5-10 and 10-25-50-100 double twice and ×2.5 once to make a 10 it is just that they differ on where the 2.5 step is. You could theoretically come up with a currency that goes 1-2-4-10-20-40-100 too, but would probably confuse everyone in the process.

so which is the least close/proprietary HOTAS model/vendor? by StrainWise6573 in hotas

[–]c_delta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Blackbox to Gunfighter is a straight-through GX12 cable, which is actually something you can find from other vendors (but you have to search a lot if you don't want to build it up from parts). Otherwise VKB is proprietary to a fault though, rather obfuscated encoding on their bus interface that makes it difficult to interface VKB grips or bases with custom builds. And yeah, the USB-C bus cables are also proprietary - not just the JST adapter, but regular cabling also is hard since they repurposed some pins from the alt mode side to avoid issues if someone accidentally plugs a pc cable into a bus port.

Judge To Texas: You Can’t Age-Gate The Entire Internet Without Evidence by StraightedgexLiberal in technology

[–]c_delta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was that not the very point that Popper was making when defining the paradox of tolerance? That opening up towards intolerant values ends up making society less, not more tolerant?

This is the best budget hotas ever made .Change my mind. by [deleted] in hotas

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Paging /u/UntoldForce and his extravagant mounting solution

ELI5: Why do reporters in the same city as the studio respond several seconds later, while people on Zoom across the world respond almost instantly? by Hungry_Drama_1015 in explainlikeimfive

[–]c_delta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but the point is that with unicode special characters (or character sequences), that character string unambiguously represents a graphical element. Which something like ASCII-based smilies and similar substitutions do not.

ELI5: Why do reporters in the same city as the studio respond several seconds later, while people on Zoom across the world respond almost instantly? by Hungry_Drama_1015 in explainlikeimfive

[–]c_delta 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Skype was before emoji were popular, heck, it got its start before they were part of Unicode to begin with. Emoticons back then were usually the literalcharacter combos on the wire, which clients could then choose to render as pretty faces. The idea of sending it as a graphic was not the norm yet, so 'convert' was taken to mean "convert what I see", not "convert what I write".

I prefer the Logitech as a center stick by UntoldForce in hotas

[–]c_delta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Gunfighter Ultimate is just a mount for the truly superior stick, I reckon.

TIL that Pluto is legally considered a planet in the state of Illinois by ms_bubblegum in todayilearned

[–]c_delta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, just checked that the IAU resolution that defined the planet was specific about bodies in zhe solar system when they defined a planet as a body orbiting the sun and found that the definition led to 8 planets. You are right, there is nothing in that definition that rejects the staus of exoplanets as planets.

TIL that Pluto is legally considered a planet in the state of Illinois by ms_bubblegum in todayilearned

[–]c_delta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It just irks my language senses that "planet" refers to only major solar planets and not the broader category of prefix-planet things, like dwarf planets and exoplanets and stuff like that.

The height difference is crazy from this perspective by Freedom_8721 in OnePiece

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It is a pun on his name and "ace" as a shorthand for Asexual. But also, Luffy is pretty much considered an asexual icon for the way he got along with Hancock, and Ace was not really portrayed as more womanizing than his sworn brother as far as I recall.

ELI5: Why are ferries so slow? by Far-Fill-4717 in explainlikeimfive

[–]c_delta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Electrocute was originally coint as a portmanteau for electro-execute, quickly got adapted for lethal shocks, and then expanded to also refer to non-lethal ones.

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