[–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Are your labyrinth ones indoor or outdoor? Like I had one where I was walking home but none of the streets made sense, like most just ended or looped back on themselves so to get to another street I had to sneak through random people's homes since the streets didn't connect. Why didn't I just go through the yards? No idea

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I have a knife with a handle made of Mastodon tusks, it used to be my father's. I have carbon dating paper work which dates it to 25000 bce. By far that's my oldest object.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I'm not in the field but my understanding is the various companies measure it slightly differently because of difficulty measuring on a nm scale. Also not all transistors are the same. Plus you can do a lot of other work which makes it faster than just shrinking the transistor size. Similar to cpu being much faster today then they were in 2015 despite having a similar clock rate(maxing out at between 3.5-4.5 ghz). Stuff like improved branch prediction, better use of simd, improvements in the address translation layer.

    I'll try to find a article but a lot of the inner details are nit made public.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No, that was price per case. If I'm not mistaken I havent see any change in can size.

    I always thought the bottles of soda were priced even weirder. I remember buying a 20oz bottle for about 2 dollars, or you could buy a 1 liter bottle for about 2 dollars or you could buy a 2 liter for about 2 dollars. But to show that prices are made up and don't really matter, a 1.5 liter bottle was 1 dollar...

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    My biggest ever professional mistake. See I was a factory worker and working nights. That night one thing I had to do was put our product into a fancy oven. It would run for over 12 hours but at x temperature for a few hours, then y temperature for some more hours then z temperature for some more hours etc. I took about $90k worth of product(internal cost, not sell price) put them in the oven, went to the touchpanel pressed a button, did all the paperwork, and went home.

    Day shift started at 6am, by 630 I got a phone call from the manager asking what the hell happened last night? I said nothing, everything went smoothly. He said well the oven is over 2x the max allowed temperature for the devices. See on the touch panel there was a button for "auto" that started the pre-programmed temperature cycle the button immediately below that just turned the heat on full blast untill manually turned off, no confirmation, no protection at all. I cost the company over twice my annual salary by pressing the wrong button on a touchpad.

    Basically it was determined that it wasn't my fault and was poorly designed. The touch panel got redesigned and shortly afterwards anything besides auto required entering a password. I wasn't punished at all but probably took a few years off my life in anxiety and fear.

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