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cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/salvatorelasorella/statuses/116678706656567174

Giugno 1953

Una fotografia pubblicata da Popular Mechanics mostra una sfida tra sei persone e l’OARAC, computer sviluppato da General Electric. Il compito era calcolare il quadrato di 8.645.392.175: nessun concorrente ottenne il risultato esatto, mentre la macchina completò il calcolo rapidamente e senza errori. L’episodio contribuì a diffondere l’idea dei computer come strumenti capaci di superare l’uomo in velocità e precisione nei calcoli numerici.

@computer

Not eaeth-shaking case of precedent but a nice reminder of why legal systems exist and why many have become disengaged by them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47186075

https://lemmy.world/post/46959884

I opened this thread and clicked the image to zoom and it was all blurry. I thought the Op had out in. Low quality image to the post but when I clicked and downloaded the image and opened it, the image was much higher quality.

Is this someone using the "thumbnail" field in the post feature which maybe isn't used that often which is why it hasn't come up for me before? I'm no fediverse expert, is it someone cross posting from another linked site or app and that's why it's displaying differently?

Just strange to have such a low quality image when clicking on the image to view vs. downloading a higher res version.

TIA

Oregon is often listed as a "progressive" state, but in fact, has failed to keep up or institute some worker, job and wage pieces and are embarrassingly behind as of 2026:

• Washington and California both have statewide minimum salaried/exempt wages. As of 2026, the minimum annual salary an exempt(salaried) WA employee can be paid is $80,168.40, and in CA it's $70,304. WA's bill is particularly progressive and in the last 3 years has caught up to and now passed CA for the required state salaried minimum. New York, Maine and Colorado also have salaried minimum thresholds. Meanwhile, Oregon has...nothing for salaried/exempt employees and only toes the Federal line, current still at $35,536 since 2019 when a Texas lawsuit and corrupt judge clawed back an Obama increase to $47k. More on that history across presidential administrations since 2004 here but at any rate, it's embarrassing Oregon hasn't moved on this despite Democrats having total control--easy to see who pads their pockets.

• Oregon has no job posting salary disclosure requirements. Both CA and WA have required job posts to have the salary range in them as of 2023. Oregon, continues to provide employers the benefit of darkness where inequality pervades and employees invest the time and effort in application to jobs where by the time an employer may disclose the salary the grip of sunk cost may not leave the candidate with other options. This is embarrassing and could be easily fixed, the only people advocating against this are greedy, or incompetent--even a basic passage of this is not hard and decent employers already do it as they don't want to waste candidates' or their own company time.

Not sure if this is the website or a new version but I had my phone in my pocket all day while working, went from 100% to 35%, had an incognito single tab open at finance.yahoo.com and that's what android said did nearly all the battery usage.

Could be a different website wouldn't and it's just yahoo frequently updating/pushing content I didn't even have my phone open/active hardly at all, it was using so much the back was warm which is what had me check even what was using it and why the battery was so low.

149.0 (Build #2016150063), b20f603334b8677ba67ed2fb12a1043b3c8c6933 GV: 149.0-20260318190823 AS: 149.0 OS: Android 16

Surely this will be the team where Harden isn't a toxic, defense avoiding premadonnna?

What is CLE doing?

What are the grizz doing?

App used to automatically load posts from what I recall but no longer seems to even under "all" categories so it's certainly not a "tiny communities/no new posts” thing. If I scroll back to the top of "all" and drag down to refresh, new content loads

Boost/Lemmy/android/pixel8a but seems like a server issues unless I've missed a setting somewhere?

Right wing media and think tanks consistently blitz the news and press when tax increases are discussed, threatened or, in the recnent instance of Mamdani, the new more progressive mayor of NY, that progressive taxation policy drives the rich to leave.

I wanted to share this article about the UK media outlets misleading, inaccurate and over representation of coverage here of the identical issue as the same schlock fear mongering without any data is done there as in the US. I assume the playbook is the same in Canada, Australia and elsewhere but would be interested to hear from those better informed.

Coordinated, well funded attacks on critical democratic infrastructure are not coincidence globally, they are the playbook.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/29858954

As someone >90th percentile in height and >75th percentile in weight for the US, I've found in the last 5 years I now no longer fit into most "Large" size clothing and need to buy more "Medium" sized clothing. I haven't lost/gained weight nor shrunk(that I'm aware of). Statistically, numerically and culturally this seems strange.

Anyone else find sizes that "should" or "used to" fit have morphed and you now shop different sizes where your body size hasn't changed?

A few random calculators: https://tall.life/height-percentile-calculator-age-country/ https://simulconsult.com/resources/measurement.html?type=weight