First of all nothing infuriates me more than the fact that 1" thick is always means erratically anywhere from .67 to .75
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @UnknownEnby and
Well, that's how the lumber industry works Facts and forestry don't care about your feelings
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
It's funny that he touts his CompSci degree but then argues against rounding which is the great compromise you often make when penning code for microprocessors.
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Replying to @JackJackington @arthur_affect and
you would think someone who knows binary numbers would understand 2+2 can be anything depending on hte base you are working..
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Replying to @renmiri1 @JackJackington and
Yeah it's 10 in base 3 and 4 in literally every number system in which there can be a 2 in the first place. But the value underlying the system in which it's framed is still the same.
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @JackJackington and
/sigh "in the system it is framed" is the key piece you are missing... Values don't mean anything without context. And we haven't even gotten to quantum mechanics...
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Replying to @renmiri1 @JackJackington and
A thing whose properties are such that its state is in constant flux is also not actually altered by the momentary observation of a particular state at a particular time. It is not forced to assume a state by the observer. That's the state it was in at the moment of observation
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @renmiri1 and
That's not actually how the spooky stuff in quantum mechanics works, like the whole reason it's spooky is that it's not just some banal observation about not being able to clearly see certain things because they're too small
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
The double slit experiment is so disturbing to people because it demonstrates that observation *does* seem to fundamentally change what is being observed
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Well, sure, no one can make you believe anything if you don't want to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @renmiri1 and
Show me how 2 plus 2 can equal 7 in the decimal number system and you'll make a believer of me. So far nothing that anyone has said has actually contradicted what I've said.
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @arthur_affect and
No broken tools, no extra steps of taking .6 as .5 to accumulate rounding error
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