3/2 makes sense as a way to represent how someone would actually say it out loud. “Three two beer” is common term used to describe beer with 3.2% alcohol by weight. "Three point two percent beer* works but is just shortened and 3/2 is a pretty good way of capturing the sound.
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joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?2·2 months agoYep. imperfection is a feature not a bug.
Trying to eliminate every variable and be able to follow a precise formula is absurd. And if you manage to do that you are going to make food that is as good as what you can buy in the frozen section of any grocery store. That highly processed stuff is made by eliminating all the variables and following a precise formula.
Just enjoy the variation, taste your ingredients and food at every step you can and adjust until you like it.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in 1975, after Gillette introduced a two-blade cartridge razor, Saturday Night Live aired a fake commercial for a three-blade razor. Gillette introduced one in 1998. In 2004, a satirical ...English16·2 months agoGet a safety razor and a variety of blades. You might need to try a bunch of blades to find the ones you prefer but what works best for you will depend on the razor and you. You don’t have to spend tons of money on the razor but you can. I use an old (1950s or something ) Gillette I found on ebay like 15-20 years ago. See nicer new ones but mine works so I just keep using it. Anyway, razor barely matters, blades depend more on you than anything.
Edit: Just looked on ebay. Lol, vintage ones are spendy now - I think I paid a couple bucks for mine. Did see a new stainless steel basic version for under 15 bucks. I’d start with something like that and a variety of blades.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?6·3 months agoWe did this too. We used hacky sacks, socks and idk what else that would absorb lighter fluid and then play in the dark. Learned what burning hair smells like and melted some shoes but we kept doing it.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?6·3 months agoIf you don’t care enough about the topic to take a few seconds to proofread and format your questions why would I care to decipher them? 12 year olds learn that taking the time to write a first and second draft will improve the final product.
Definitely some acceptable variation between informal chats and emails being sent to whole teams so know your audience.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•What If We Made Advertising Illegal?2·3 months agoYou and I both. But we are not the norm. And advertising works (even on us when we do end up seeing them).
It’s bizarre to me to be around my parents and others who just let ads play, and watch them, and engage about them. But people just get used to them and everyone thinks THEY aren’t swayed by them. We are though - which is why I would completely support banning ads beyond basic signage for businesses and outside of dedicated locations where I can go when I actually need something.
Mint is the plan lol.
Yep. Why bother learning when it won’t work tomorrow. I miss software that was bought and didn’t change, says the old man to the cloud.
And I’m pro learning but for most things I’m not a pro user. So my flow is learn something, think wow this is great I can do so much. Set it aside for weeks/months. Come back to it, download a huge update and and spend the time I had to work on it waiting. Come back again later and find out I need something else or whatever. Eventually it works but now I the thing I wanted to do has changed. Pretty much gave up on pcs years ago. Am looking for one for the first time in years because I actually want to try linux again.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!English2·4 months agoYeah, no game has done to my heartrate what pubg did. Absolutely the most intense game I’ve ever played. Wish I could play that again for the first time.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!English17·4 months agoSuper Mario World - just a fun game. Lots of little secrets and fun to speed run.
Titanfall - I played an absurd amount of this one and really wished there was a 3rd one. 1-2 remind me of the pattern seen in trilogys where 1 sets the stage, 2 deviaties pretty far and polarizes fans and then 3 uses the best of both while trying to feel more like 1. (Mario 1-3, Halo 1-3). My favorites in this pattern tend to be 3 so I’m disappointed I never got Titanfall 3.
Pubg - when it was new. Lost me years ago now but that first 6 months to a year was awesome. So many crazy games and absurd fun.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Antiwork@lemmy.world•Mentally checked out of my job of a decade. How to proceed?5·5 months agoTake another job anyway. Your job search doesn’t have to stop just because you started a new job. The change, even though it’s not the end goal, might help. You might make more money, be able to set boundaries about effort/expectations early, and possibly find connections that will help you get to the end goal of finding something really new. Be honest in interviews too, really treat that like you are interviewing them and make your boundaries known where you can.
I’ve taken my own advice too. I never actually changed industries but was able to find something that worked for me. Plus I’ve met a lot of people along the way which has directly resulted in more and different job opportunities. Anyway, don’t give up on the dream but do be flexible on how you get there.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the biggest deviation from someone's religion or faith you've seen in an individual without them ceasing to be that religion or faith?2·6 months agoI’ve heard cafeteria christian for this. It really seems to apply to most religious people. They do what they want and pick and chose what doctrine works for how they actually want to live, then rationalize why that is OK. Some of that ‘logic’ is wild…
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Tesla shares slide after it reports first drop in annual deliveries3·6 months agoThis is a joke ntended to illustrate the sometimes absurd oversimplification that has to be made to do certain calculations. An apple falls out of a tree from 20 feet off the ground, how long does it take to hit the ground. Well, what is the drag coefficient? Assume it’s a sphere. OK, what about the texture, the air temp, wind, is the ground level and flat, etc etc. And as the problems increase in complexity the number of variables increases exponentially. So your professor might tell you to "Assume it is a spherical cow of uniform density“.
Often these estimates are actually quite good and trying to account for all variables isn’t needed.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Please help resolve a disagreement in our home1·7 months agoSeriously! Don’t store shit you don’t actually use and better yet don’t buy it in the first place! And sure, the random gadget is handy that one time per year, but the time saved that one time was completely negated by all the time spent digging through a mess.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Please help resolve a disagreement in our home3·7 months agoI am proud to say that I don’t have this drawer. I grew up in a house with this drawer and always hated it. Nothing new is added to the kitchen without considering the actual need and anything that goes unused for any length of time is getting reevaluated.
Could you un max out other areas? Eliminate duplicates elsewhere so things in this drawer could be moved to the newly made space?
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account8·9 months agoYeah, this makes sense. Think the thought still holds though. Just needs to be explained with the normal distribution meme.
joshthewaster@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump signals support for reclassifying pot as a less dangerous drug, in line with Harris' position.8·10 months agoWe did prohibition once already. The result was that all the little guys went out of business and the big guys ended up in positions to be the only guys. I wouldn’t discount that as being a possibility for weed.
It would be interesting to see the ratings adjusted for age. Probably no great way to do that without skewing some other aspect but could be fun. Secretly I just want the data to skew so that TNG ends up on top.