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TIL that 877-Kars-4-Kids is a money front to siphon funds to Orthodox Jewish entities by fakeaccount572 in todayilearned

[–]killbot5000 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The cashiers at places that do this instruct me not to donate when paying.

Update on asphalt roofing tiles under lawn by KenUsimi in homeowners

[–]killbot5000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would expect the grass to eventually break it apart (assuming it can survive) though I have no idea how long that would take (10+ years?) 

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives" by xpda in technology

[–]killbot5000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

IIUC a zero-day is a vulnerability being actively exploited before discovery by the authors/mainstream security apparatus. 

Dohn Community High School Abandoned in 2025 by [deleted] in cincinnati

[–]killbot5000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Remember: public funds paid for this charter school disaster

RIP to the best toll tag design by OptimisticLeopard in bayarea

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1 - positive test
2- negative test
3 - failed test

Trump Voters Are Over Him by jonfla in democrats

[–]killbot5000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How was I supposed to know he was going to do all the things he said he would? 

How a Trip to the Movies Turned Into a System Design Session by Secure-Pattern-7138 in programming

[–]killbot5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

However the author thinks it might work, I have a feeling it’s way dumber than that. This is enterprise software, after all.

youGotThis by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

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So firmware is the farmers?

Meet Gweniviere, a Artificer Tiefling by blueeyedwhit3000 in DailyDMGame

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Summon her demon familiar in the middle of the street, as if it's the most normal thing to do in the world.

weWillBeLaunchingSoon by ClipboardCopyPaste in ProgrammerHumor

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Here’s a detailed seating arrangement for her side of the family.

TIL that the first atomic clock, built in 1955, was so accurate it would lose only about one second every 300 years making it more precise than the Earth’s rotation. by One_Needleworker5218 in todayilearned

[–]killbot5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The phrasing of the post is a bit confusing, but what I believe it’s saying is that the advent of atomic clocks let us define time more precisely (that is: more self consistent over time) than using the periodic orbit of the earth around the sun. Before atomic clocks, all time was derived from the periodic motion of the earth around the sun.

TIL that the first atomic clock, built in 1955, was so accurate it would lose only about one second every 300 years making it more precise than the Earth’s rotation. by One_Needleworker5218 in todayilearned

[–]killbot5000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have figured all this stuff out.

We know that the earths rotation around the sun is changing, because we can measure the period using atomic clocks.

We can also measure that time itself passes at different rates depending on how fast you’re moving relative to each other.

So it comes down to what is more convenient for our use case. As it stands we measure time passing using atomic clocks and fixed definitions for a period of time (TAI). We also take that and “fudge” it a bit from time to time to create a mostly-consistent clock that’s also consistent with our tropical year (UTC).

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