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I'm thinking of it a different way. In order to join a social media network these days, I need to have some assurance that it's going to be worth my time. They didn't provide any, so screw 'em.

When you make a post, I think HN asks you to summarize the article in the comments (or something like that, I haven't submitted anything in a while)

Ah I see, thanks.

How do you detect that it's plugged in? Just detecting voltage would mean that you'd unplug it and it would stay energized, right?

Neither 1/36th or 1/12th are used, and the other two aren't fractions. We don't say six and a twelfth feet, we say six feet one inch. With distance, fractions are only used for fractions of an inch (apart from trivial uses like "one and a half miles").

Plugs and sockets have the wrong gender for this. On the battery, you'd have a male plug with live 240v contacts, ready to short against anything, or anyone, that's conductive. This is the same reason why male-to-male extension cords are labeled "suicide cords".

When we use fractions for measurements, the denominator is virtually always a power of two. The only one I can think of that isn't is a fifth of alcohol, which is really just its own unit at this point.

To know that 0.32 m is smaller than 43 cm I have to actively think, but I'm guessing you don't. I've never had to think about 3/4 vs 1/2. Even 5/16ths vs 1/4 is intuitive for me.

Let's test it out. I'll become pope, you become the emperor, and we'll see who gets there first.

Nah, ditch the wife. Become a cardinal in the Catholic church, then get elected pope. From there it should be fairly trivial to re-establish the Papal States to their largest extent.

This one burns oil, not coal.

This is Hackernews - the unreadable font size is a feature, not a bug

If you kill the lawn, won't the invasive plants take over?

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The nirvana album doesn't have a space - for me, searching for "nevermind" gets me straight to the album