I bought a cheap scientific calculator for math class. When I tried to multiply .5 by .5 it gave a long irrational number instead of .25. then I had to try to explain to the store clerk why that was wrong before they would accept the return
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Squibblesto Canada•Iconic Canadian ice cream brand [Chapman's] absorbing ‘immediate’ cost hikes due to tariffs2·22 days agoIt’s the most common brand at every grocery store here in NS
Squibblesto Canada•Iconic Canadian ice cream brand [Chapman's] absorbing ‘immediate’ cost hikes due to tariffs1·22 days agoIn Nova Scotia there’s also Farmers/Scottsburn, right?
Dinosaur comics and SMBC are my two big ones
Oh the irony of reading this on a social media site rather than his website
SquibblestoAMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.world•How much wood...?English53·1 month agoThe way quarter and rift sawn are shown, it would be virtually impossible to cut. There’s no through-line that a sawblade could actually make.
Sacrifices had to be made in the name of aerodynamic efficiency
Squibblesto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•*looks around* Stamets ain't exactly wrong26·1 month agoI heard somewhere the guy said that in the hopes that musk would give him a Tesla or something 😅
Squibblesto Star Wars Memes@lemmy.world•I'm sure you needed this mental picture todayEnglish3·2 months agoMaybe Chewie got hungry one day?
Squibblesto Star Wars Memes@lemmy.world•I'm sure you needed this mental picture todayEnglish19·2 months agoWookies canonically have 6 breasts: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Breast/Legends#Behind_the_scenes
I wish I did not know this.
Squibblesto Canada•CBC Marketplace | When is a deal really a deal? We tracked prices at Old Navy and Canadian Tire to find out7·2 months agoStock track is also pretty good (https://stocktrack.ca/?s=ct) and it works for more sites than just canadian tire.
True story https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/
Probably a mix. This was at Cineplex in Canada which also does the IMAX shows here. Maybe they were just behind the curve
That’s Tom from MySpace. Everyone got added as his friend so he could peep on anyone he wanted
In an interview about silicon valley the creators said they interviewed a lot of people in the industry and had to actually cut out a bunch of stuff because it wouldn’t be believable by people outside the industry. One small example was the valuation. The VC people they talked to said pied piper would have gotten a lot more money than what ended up being in the show
I think the Pentagon Wars is about as close as it gets for now. Not about programming of course but all about company bureaucracy and feature creep
Huh I guess I haven’t been to a 3d movie in quite some time. I definitely remember had tilting used to work
Weirdly though it wasn’t remotely close to the right answer so I don’t think it was floating point malarkey. I always assumed some defect but I guess we’ll never know.now I wish I had kept it so I could have sent it to Matt Parker for his calculator reviews