[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

It's a paraphrased quote from a TV show

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago

2% milk is just water that is lying about being milk.

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's exaggerated but yes, this map really reminds me of many large Chinese cities. It's probably true every major city has a People's Square. I think the map is based on Beijing.

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I don't seem to understand something regarding how interest is paid on a mortgage. Say the loan is for $100,000 at a 5% rate for 10 years, paid monthly.

I would think that on the first month, the interest I have to pay $100,000 × (0.05 ÷ 12) = $416.67. However the mortgage calculator says that the first payment is actually $412.39. While it's not a huge difference, it's a difference nonetheless and I can't really figure out where it comes from.

My intuition is that it's somehow related to the fact that interest is compounded daily, but when I take r = 0.05 ÷ 365 and N = 365 × 10 payments (keeping leap years in mind for later), and calculate the first 30 days, I get $409.70, and the first 31 days give $423.32. I guess that the "actual" number is some kind of weighted average since the calculator doesn't ask at which month your loan starts.

So where is this $412.39 coming from? In reality when paying a mortgage, do you see the interest fluctuating as it decreases, depending on the number of days every month?

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 weeks ago

A guy came from the future, using time travel technology, and the achievement he touts is simply going to the moon?

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I recommend watching the whole interview, it's hilarious.

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 40 points 4 months ago

Somebody should tell him decibels go into the negative numbers

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 51 points 5 months ago

Funny but not so accurate. We don't actually know when Legolas was born, we don't know that the mithril coat was actually forged in Erebor (it could certainly have been brought during the resettlement from the Grey Mountains), and we don't know what "some young elf-prince long ago" actually means and that none was born since the fouding of Erebor (I don't think we have an exhaustive list of noble elves from the text).

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 91 points 5 months ago

Pull a docker image of an old distro into an apptainer sandbox, install what you need within, then make a .sif image, should work pretty much in perpetuity. You can also try to make an Appimage.

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 52 points 9 months ago

BJ almost certainly stands for Beijing here (although the company is apparently Qingdao-based). You see it a lot in China, including very oblivious "I ❤️ BJ" T-shirts worn by old ladies.

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 39 points 9 months ago

Nothing wrong with that... Most people don't need to reinvent the wheel, and choosing a filename extension meaningful to the particular use case is better then leaving it as .zip or .db or whatever.

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Pretty interesting talks, especially focusing on safety.

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 36 points 11 months ago

I've been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it's news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.

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The picture is from very early in the episode, I'm trying not to spoil it to anybody. The new Star Trek show "Strange New Worlds" just released an episode that mostly takes place in present-day (more-or-less) Toronto, with familiar city sites in almost every scene. It's a pretty good episode for Kurtzman-era Trek, although it's hard to concentrate on the plot as Torontonians.

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