The real correct answer is that it only works mod 4
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olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?
102·2 years agoI don’t see why not. 5 digits isn’t too bad, and the issue wouldn’t come up again for another 90,000 years after that. Besides, we’ll probably extinct ourselves through climate change, nuclear war, and/or AI long before then anyways.
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...?
8·2 years agoAD - After Christ (but in Latin)
eh… not quite
it actually stands for “Anno Domini”, which is latin, but means “in the year of the lord”
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some of the stupidest trends/fads that have existed?
12·2 years ago“Devious licks”, aka literally just straight up stealing shit and posting it on tiktok
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from youEnglish
2·2 years agosame in firefox
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Technology@lemmy.world•Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadlineEnglish
4·2 years agoif vanilla wine doesn’t work, you might want to try adding it to steam as a non-steam game and running it with proton. it’s no guarantee, but i’ve found that proton sometimes works better for some programs that don’t work properly with wine.
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube Premium Price Raised in Seven Countries Following Crackdown on Ad Blockers | Technology NewsEnglish
181·2 years agoUnfortunately, until and unless peertube can pay creators (so basically never), it will only ever see use by foss enthusiasts, and even then only hobbyists will use it as their primary platform. For someone making a career out of it, youtube is pretty much the only real option at the moment.
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•"The kickflip was implied, so I didnt think it was worth mentioning"
191·2 years agoA QA tester walks into a bar,
orders a beer,
orders 2 beers,
orders 0 beers,
orders 4294967296 beers,
orders -1/12 beers,
orders HGdIhFNPiHPWUDmUfWIFi beers,
orders a zebraFirst real customer walks in,
asks where the bathroom is,
the whole bar catches on fire
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•I asked them to delete my data, they said "Install our app"
91·2 years agochatgpt is not a lawer
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there an alternative to saying "so-called" which doesn't suggest potential falsehood?
44·2 years agoI would use “what’s known as”, e.g. “Western countries belong to what’s known as the Paris club”
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there an alternative to saying "so-called" which doesn't suggest potential falsehood?
14·2 years agoThat’s often also used in the other way though.
she could trust him more than any of her “friends”
first they had machine code
then they wrote the assembler in machine code
then they rewrote the assembler in assembly
and assembled it with the machine code assembler
then they wrote the C compiler in assembly
and assembled it with the assembly assembler
then they rewrote the C compiler in C
and compiled it with the assembly C compiler
then they had the C compiler
and everything else was written in C(note: this is a massive oversimplification and ignores much of the history of programming languages, but it at least gets across the idea of how bootstrapping is done)
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Why doesn't Signal Desktop support reproducible builds?
20·2 years agoSignal doesn’t trust messages server side.
What does this have to do with their ability to support reproducible builds?
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Industry Struggles to Curb Misuse as Users Exploit Generative AI for ChaosEnglish
11·2 years agoIt’s so beautifully human that decades of scientific innovation paved the way for this technology, only for us to use it to look at boobs.
olsonexi@lemmy.wtfOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated artEnglish
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olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why aren't advertisers (Microsoft, Facebook, Google) held responsible for allowing scammy adverts?
30·2 years agoBecause they have unfathomably ridiculous amounts of money that they spend on lobbying (read: bribery) so that they stay not responsible.
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olsonexi@lemmy.wtfto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•on linux, how do i check if a usb c port on my mobo can transfer data
7·2 years agotry connecting your phone to the port and see if you can transfer files

xrandr. afaik, there’s no (standard) way to set display resolution from the command line in wayland. also, there’s no equivalent of xkill, so in order to kill an unresponsive gui app, you have to grep for its pid in
ps, which can get a bit tedious and annoying, especially for programs which spawn multiple processes.