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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
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  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[โ€“] xeekei@lemmy.zip 76 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You know you're a tech nerd when 256 sounds more even than 250 or 300. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It kind of is "more even".

256 is just 2โธ
250 is 2x5ยณ
300 is 2ยฒx3ยนx5ยฒ

Any division of 256 with an integer and integer result will be even. Most divisions of 250 and 300 with an integer and integer result will be odd.

[โ€“] Klear@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Even that is odd.

[โ€“] copd@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Disregarding the trivial exceptions... waves hands

[โ€“] silasmariner@programming.dev 17 points 7 months ago

Or a maths nerd!

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Or when it's bothering you that it's 256 and not 255... aren't we counting 0 anymore? :/

[โ€“] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Or when it's bothering you that people forget the difference between counting and indexing.

You can index to 255 in an 8 bit number, but your count is still 256 when you get there.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If there are two things I hate in this world, it's off by one errors.

[โ€“] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dangerous_Idea

One of the most annoying books I ever read. Every page made me feel stupider and more uneducated.

[โ€“] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Superficially, this book looks like one that I would enjoy (if not for your anti-recommendation causing me to steer clear). Because of this, I would wager that you would have an interesting answer to "if someone was considering the above book, what's a book you would recommend they read instead?".

In the spirit of "take a book, leave a book", one of my favourite non-fiction books for a general audience is "Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life". This recommendation is beyond the topic of the current thread, but in terms of enjoyable books that made me feel smarter, I love this one; I read it as a biochemistry undergraduate, and I was surprised at how much I learned from it.

[โ€“] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion.