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[–] gerryflap 2 points 21 hours ago

Possible, but at least in my experience most normal people know 1/3rd and understand what it means, but if I'd throw a "point three repeating" at them they'd probably get confused. Fractions are just a tool to communicate stuff more efficiently, good in some scenarios, confusing in others. It would be cool if we could teach everyone the "repeating" syntax as well because it's another useful tool.

[–] gerryflap 1 points 21 hours ago

I'm also Dutch so I don't have the answers about the imperial system haha

[–] gerryflap 4 points 1 day ago

Pls don't attack me like this :3

[–] gerryflap 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In many cases that's fine, I've done so regularly. But when you want to be precise without making it complicated you can just say the fraction as well. But in order to do that you need people to feel comfortable with it, therefore we need to teach kids this from a young age. I'm not saying we always need them, but they're definitely very useful tools that you want at the ready when you need them. To make quick calculations in your head it's often way simpler to use the fraction than the real number. And in cases like 1/3rd or 3/7ths it's a way simpler, accurate and more efficient way to communicate the number than to name the rounded number.

[–] gerryflap 10 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Imo fractions are way more simple in many cases than decimal numbers. Saying 1/3rd is way more useful than hitting someone with the 0.33333333333333.... Quick mental computations with fractions are also simpler in this case. Though this question (and questions like it) seem useless to me indeed.

[–] gerryflap 1 points 4 days ago

I'm gonna fight to make sure that moment never comes. Though I seem to have been blessed anyway, I'm in my 30s and my hair hasn't really disappeared much at all.

[–] gerryflap 25 points 4 days ago (6 children)

There's a big difference between food safety and not eating meat. One is about companies putting dangerous stuff in food that can potentially harm people, the other is about something which humans have been eating ever since they existed. I understand that there are some arguments to be given about why we shouldn't eat meat, but those are definitely not as widely supported as disallowing the companies to inject "poison" into our food. In my opinion banning meat definitely would go way too far, the cost of banning meat far exceeds the benefits for public wellbeing.

[–] gerryflap 18 points 4 days ago

Why have black history month or black lives matter, don't all lives matter? Why have feminism, don't all genders matter? Why aren't cishets included in pride, can't they be proud?!

These things exist to call out specific issues that exist for specific groups. Other groups might experience the same problem, but that doesn't matter. This is for men and their specific issues. As a man we're always told to just suck it up and keep going. To be strong. It was way tools late that I realized that I was allowed to seek help and feel emotions.

[–] gerryflap 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Damn what a crybaby. I've recently discovered that "non-manly" products tend to be better anyways. I don't want my hair to smell like chemicals, I want it to smell like roses or mango. I want my skin and hair to be soft. And I generally don't need 5-in-1 shower products

[–] gerryflap 2 points 5 days ago

I'm actually kinda interested in eating insects already. I'd definitely try it if I got the option to cheaply and conveniently do so. Insects sound disgusting, but honestly eating a dead pig doesn't exactly sound that great either of you think about it. And I feel way less remorse for eating insects than larger animals.

[–] gerryflap 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

5 meals is also excessive. I have the same schedule and I eat the normal 3 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, dinner. I can't really miss any because then my tummy becomes very distracting. I really don't understand how you can go till 3pm without feeling any adverse effects. If I skip breakfast I'll be useless and dizzy till lunch.

I just don't eat more than I need each meal.

[–] gerryflap 8 points 6 days ago

Meow meow :3

 
 

My transition to full on Linux gaming mostly went okay, but recently I've started running into some issues with more demanding games. In games like Cyberpunk 2077, Stalker 2, and inZOI I sometimes get KDE and/or Wayland crashes when the VRAM runs out. In Cyberpunk I can avoid it by not enabling RTX, which is fine. But Stalker 2 and inZOI are basically all-in on raytracing and therefore seem to also fully eat up my 8GB of VRAM.

Is there any way of constraining the games to like 7.5 GB or something? Because they seem to actively work to stay below 8GB, so clearly there is still stuff they can clean up. And even if they'd go over the limit, I'd prefer the game to crash rather than basically having Wayland restart, losing everything I had open. I'm curious for you experiences

 

So as it turns out, photographing moving cars while manually focusing and with relatively little light in the shade is quite hard. This one was quite sharp, but some others failed a bit more

Location is the Twente Rally in the east of the Netherlands

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by gerryflap to c/photography@lemmy.world
 

Finally some sun again :) Shot with my Canon EOS 40D and my dad's Cannon 70-200mm f/4 L lens.

Bonus sheepies: Sheep lying in the grass enjoying some sunshine

Sheep with a bell doing sheep things

 

Shot with my Canon EOS 300, pretty much directly into the sunshine as God intended, using Ilford HP5 plus 400 iso black and white film.

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