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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's less and less reason to do it (and it's never 5). On systems without floating point you might want to round it a bit, but only if the specific thing you're doing allows it, and even then you're more likely to do a fixed-point approach by using e.g. 314 and dividing by 100 later, or adjusting that value a bit so you can divide by 128 via bitshift if you're on a chip where division is expensive. However, in 2025 you almost certainly should have picked a chip with an FPU if you're doing trigonometry.

And while rounding pi to 3 or 4 is certainly just a meme, there are other approximations which are used, like small-angle approximations, where things like sin(x) can be simplified to just x for a sufficiently small x.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Which country is this? I think both American and European (or at least Norwegian) washers use standard plugs (although American dryers do not), so I'm just curious which areas use something custom for that.

A regular plug should be able to supply a washer with power, but dryers are a different story in countries using 110V power.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Love how you took the time for a point-for-point rebuttal while ignoring that I already acknowledged all of that:

Most of this can be achieved in other ways (like a smart plug measuring the current draw and a simple monthly reminder), but non-techies want turnkey solutions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (6 children)
  • It can tell you it's done, so you notice the notification after a couple hours instead of finding musky clothes a day or two later
  • It can tell you it's time to do the self-cleaning cycle
  • If you're doing something unusual, like washing reusable diapers which need extra rinse cycles, you can upload a custom program for that to the washer
  • Even more unusual, someone had stacked units and was too short to reach the buttons on the washer, so they liked to start it via the app instead of getting a stool

Most of this can be achieved in other ways (like a smart plug measuring the current draw and a simple monthly reminder), but non-techies want turnkey solutions.

I can't see any reason to have WiFi on your dryer, though.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I honestly think he's still team Trump and always was, he just dropped the mask and is now trying desperately to put it back on to save his stock.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not sure Dr. Oz would have been any better, though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Sure, but that's not what's going to happen as a side effect of taxing unrealized gains, like what was discussed in this thread until now. A gradual transfer of ownership to the workers would have to be nudged in some other way.

In competitive industries (read: tech) this does happen to some extent in the form of stock being part of the compensation, but that's not going to happen organically for every employment situation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most countries don't pay their farm workers below local minimum wage, and yet somehow they produce food.

It is often done by foreign workers, though. Just above board, above or at minimum wage, which goes a lot further in their home countries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

As far as I know only the primary uses ranked choice, not the general election?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Give up control to whom? Some megacorp with infinite money would just buy a majority stake (often referred to as a hostile takeover) and wind up owning everything to an even larger extent than today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Running copper between different buildings like that is risky, because if they have different ground potential you could get current traveling through the cable and zapping the equipment. A lot of people use fiber for those runs for that reason.

If you want to solve your issue as cheaply as possible while eliminating the aforementioned risk, move AP2 to where AP1 is and replace AP2 with a PoE-powered access point. This will ensure all devices are powered from the same house, and you get rid of the failing device.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not afraid of voicing my opinion, but what's the point? Everyone is firmly in their trenches, so at best you get approving nods, at worst you get an argument which is equal parts futile and frustrating.

The only times I mention it is when my opinion is across the grain. For example, whether to require voter ID is a hot topic, and in my opinion it's being discussed all wrong. Why is no one pointing out that everyone should be able to get a proper ID? That's the real problem we should solve. So much stuff other than voting requires ID, so life must suck if you don't have one. Let's fix that!

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