Beat me to it by 30 minutes

It’s okay! There are no hurricanes in the forecast ever since we stopped forecasting them, so everything is fine.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

They have electricity with variable rates, and were waiting for the price to go down before enabling the AC.

The edges of the panels not lining up at all should be a hint. Watterson was only allowed to get creative with the panels on the larger Sunday strips, and he made it look good when he did.

I unfortunately think a lot of people have those feelings. I don’t think I’m well equipped to help you deal with that, but I really hope you have the means to talk to a therapist about it. Every person is worthy of love, and that includes you. I really hope you will be able to see that some day.

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.

You are worthy of love, and there is someone out there for you, somewhere.

I totally get your feelings about dating sites, although I dislike them for different reasons. Maybe it’s better to try meeting people through other means?

You could join some kind of club which interests you and meet people that way, perhaps? It might take some pressure off, since you’re just doing something you enjoy and meeting people in the process. Maybe you get a new friend or even partner, maybe not.

There are even specific events for single people, where you do some activity together. I don’t know how the dynamic is on those events, though, because clearly they all know why they’re really there.

Luxury! How about getting a piece of a kernel shell stuck between a tooth and the gum, and taking three days to get it out?

I wouldn’t bet money on Trump being capable of googling things, and he’s definitely incapable of admitting he doesn’t know something by asking about it.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!