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Even 'shot' isn't truly definitive. Normally, it's taken to be 25ml, but some places define it as 35ml. Plus, a shot of what? Malibu is about 20%ABV, vodka around 40%, and absinthe usually 70%+.
the scale is a bit fucked TBQH
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A shot here is 44ml though.
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So yeah, entirely fucked :D
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How many 30cl bottles of beer to a pint? 5 %Vol, if it matters.
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Just under two. A pint is 568ml.
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A shot here is 44ml though.
Seems there's no real standard.
(large table at the link listing various countries)
:shockedface.ods:
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TIL shot size in the UK is only regulated for whisky, gin, rum, and vodka. And that the standard single shot size in Japan is a double in the UK, and a triple in Germany
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I had trouble figuring out how to enter my 12-ounce beer cans in pints, too. Did it allow fractions? I didn't try.
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@boomzilla said:
It's an alternative to going to a mechanic and paying them to test your emissions as a periodic requirement for registering your car.
Oh, so govt is demanding that you do this crap?
Never heard of that nonsense before.Ontario does that. It was introduced, I dunno, mid 90s? You had to get your car tested once every two years. $80, mechanic hooks the tailpipe up to a computer, revs the engine. If it passes, great. If not, you need to fix up your car. If you can't fix up your car, you can't renew the registration and need to take the stinker off the road.
For a while, the program worked just fine. Well, except for the fact that for most cars, if you get the oil changed before the test, it'd most likely pass. Or you found a "mechanic" who "knew the system". Aside from that-- well, it did take a butt load of stiny-ass cars off the road. So project success.
But it's also a revenue generator, so we can't have that. No, not at all. Can't just stop the program either. Because, again-- $$$.
So instead, let's just make the program cheaper to run so everyone makes money. Instead of doing an emission test, let's just hook a reader up to the car's computer. Take some readings. Because computers don't lie or fail in anyway.
Well, except if the car's "check engine" light has gone on recently. For any reason. At all. Like if the oil needed to be changed. Or gas cap was left off. Instant fail.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Or you found a "mechanic" who "knew the system".
Ha. When I lived in Massachusetts, approximately everyone did that.
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App that lets you simulate the blast radius of various sized nuclear hits, mashed up with Google Maps.
Fun fact: a meteor strike centered in London will shatter windows in Newfoundland. (And then end all life on Earth, but still-- those poor newfie windows!)
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Very insightful post IMO.
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Wait, there's someone talking absolute sense on Reddit?
I guess miracles do happen after all
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BASIC compiler and interpreter in Minecraft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4e7PjRygt0&feature=youtu.be&a
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Very insightful post IMO.
That's true, but he's missing the elephant in the room: Islam[1], which enshrines the idea that women are emotional, dangerous creatures who need to be controlled. Telling these guys they need to treat women better is saying "your Bible is wrong". That's a huge hurdle.
[1] at least as it's practiced there. Not every country is that way. But Mohammed's treatment of women was pretty shitty too, so....
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the idea that women are emotional, dangerous creatures who need to be controlled
Men are too! They're just conditioned to do the self-controlling, rather than waiting for someone else to do it for them.
And don't get us started in the younger iterations!
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BASIC compiler and interpreter in Minecraft:
20 Hz is all you'll ever need amirite? I would have been more impressed with a compiler, at the moment it appeared it was merely an interpreter. Also, that prime-finder function tho...
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I imagine he didn't want to spend three weeks programming a sieve of Eratosthenes
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spend three weeks
Well, considering he's not a career programmer, it probably would have taken a bit longer even.
His apparent love for armor stands does leave interesting questions though. Is there any practical reason he couldn't store the metadata in a more traditional Falling Sand entity? Who knows.
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Telling these guys they need to treat women better is saying "your interpretation of your Bible is wrong".
...which may be a distinction without a difference, but whatever...
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@FrostCat said:
Telling these guys they need to treat women better is saying "your interpretation of your Bible is wrong".
...which may be a distinction without a difference, but whatever...
Well, no, you didn't FTFM. The status of women as second-class people at best is deeply embeded in the Koran, starting with how their testimony in court is only worth half a man's, or how it takes four witnesses "of good character" I think it says to a rape to be able to charge someone with it.
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It'd be an open & shut case, if only the Koran were citable...
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It'd be an open & shut case, if only the Koran were citable
I think it's only in Australia so far where reading from the Koran is a hate crime[1].
[1] CBA to look it up. Someone was, IIRC, being sued by a Muslim for something or other--probably "hate speech". In court he wanted to read verses from the Koran that would show he's just saying what's in the book, and was told he couldn't do it.
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A great opinionated web framework for developers who just want to Get Shit Done.
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###Ember - get shit done
A great opinionated web framework for developers who just want to Get Shit Done.
Ember, a great web framework for developers who just want to Make Shitty Shit
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Get Shit Done
it’s that Ember makes decisions for me
That's great when the decisions are compatible with what you need to do.
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TrumpScript
- No floating point numbers, only integers. America never does anything halfway.
- All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is inconsequential to us.
Not for blakey:
- In its raw form, TrumpScript is not compatible with Windows, because Trump isn’t the type of guy to believe in PC.
:EDIT: happened with the onebox thingy
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Good read on the rise of Wahhabism :
in the previous 20 years Saudi Arabia had spent $87 billion on promoting Wahhabism worldwide. As of 2007, the money had been used to build more than 1,500 mosques, 210 Islamic Centres and dozens of schools.
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Amazon’s customer service backdoor:
https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4#.5gul5n3ms
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That's amazing. The guy even thought to give a fake address for WHOIS, and it still didn't help.
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TotalBiscuit has one final meltdown and disconnects from social media for good.
You can follow his twitter for more details on what this one was about. Basically, someone posted a good article critiquing his latest video, TB dismissed it offhandedly, then people criticized him for that, then he blew a gasket.
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disconnects from social media for good.
sounds like a rage quit to me.
those are almost always temporary in my experience.
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But he knows if he returns to social media, he'll only have to deal with the morons trying to analyse every word he says for their quota of drama.
It'd be bad enough if he were healthy but he's not.
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It'd be bad enough if he were healthy but he's not.
hmm? how so?
i confess Totalbiscuit is not one of the youtubers that i follow much at all.
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In October he announced that he had liver cancer that was probably terminal. A few days ago there was an update from him that the tumour mass had reduced, it hadn't spread to other organs and the chemo was having a positive effect.
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In October he announced that he had liver cancer that was probably terminal. A few days ago there was an update from him that the tumour mass had reduced, it hadn't spread to other organs and the chemo was having a positive effect.
oh. well... Best of luck to him then.
Cancer sucks.
wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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###RCC: Free scanner to scan Windows Root Certificates for untrusted ones
Cleaning up malware from my PC, this came in handy. Didn't find anything I didn't already know about, but it's good to have the peace of mind nonetheless.
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Douglas Crockford — of JavaScript infamy — on monads and promises.
The curse of the monad is that once you get the epiphany, once you understand - "oh that's what it is" - you lose the ability to explain it to anybody.
The juicy bit starts at 8:37
They say to understand monads you first have to learn Haskell and category theory. [...] I think that is true in the exactly the same way that to understand burritos you must learn Spanish. [...] It turns out you can do a lot of stuff with burritos without knowing any Spanish. [...] I'm not saying you shouldn't learn Spanish. There are lots of good reasons to learn Spanish. [...] In the same way it's good to learn Haskell. [...] It can teach you a lot, it's a good language to learn. It's just not necessary to learn Haskell in order to understand monads.
And then again at 11:58:
Turns out the language you need to learn is JavaScript, because it has the higher order of stuff that we need and it doesn't have any of that type stuff to get in your way so you can just think about what's going on
He goes on to explain how
unit
is a constructor that wraps a value inside a Monad object andbind
is a method of that particular Monad that takes a function and calls it with the wrapped value.This explanation worked quite well for me, specially the simple step of interpreting
bind
as a method of the monad instead of a global function, and helped me get a better glimpse of how monads work.He also explains
lift
, but you'd better watch the video for that. I think the curse is geting to me ;)And don't forget your semicolons, people. It's really important.
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He goes on to explain how unit is a constructor that wraps a value inside a Monad object and bind is a method of that particular Monad that takes a function and calls it with the wrapped value.
This is probably the eighth or ninth time that I've almost understood this.
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This is not a spam bot, it is all real and you can do this too :-|)
Man makes $10K a month sending potatoes in the mail
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monad names are preceded by the definite article. The List Monad, the I/O Monad, the Continuation Monad, the Maybe Monad (a rare transgender monad),
:Guacamole:
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##Why You Should Learn JavaScript in 2016
A little counter balance to all the recent javascript doom and gloom.
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##Why You Should Learn JavaScript in 2016
A little counter balance to all the recent javascript doom and gloom.
Because "know thy enemy"?
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The Vicar on how music streaming services should work to make both the artists and fans happy. More questions than answers, but an informative piece nonetheless.