Rodeo

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[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Surely its meaning is arbitrary.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If everything is arbitrary, nothing is arbitrary.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love newpipe for exactly that reason. I don't like being suggested videos, I want to search for something specific and watch those videos about the specific knowledge I'm seeking at the moment. If I want to waste time then I take a moment to think about something I was wondering earlier that day, and look that up.

If I'm going waste time I might as well learn something about whatever.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't imagine being so beholden to a for profit company that I spend three whole months putting up with shit I don't want to see in the hopes that eventually it will get better.

It's just crazy to me how important YouTube is to some people.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The unit circle is hardly arbitrary.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once you have the model you should at least get a quote from a machine shop. 99% chance it's way too expensive, but you never know and quotes are free.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure Luna, Terra and Sol are all poetic names that used in works of fiction but aren't used by actual organizations.

Other moon names like you listed are the scientific names, recognized and used by institutions like NASA.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I work in trades and I actively avoid that "camaraderie", because 99% of the guys are total douchebags whose idea of camaraderie is completely misplaced.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

In the days of doing math by hand, that might have mattered.

Let me introduce you to this little thing called a calculator.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yes, it really does. Degrees are arbitrary, radians are derived from the unit circle.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How often do you find yourself writing upside down in space?

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

German cable providers cheaped out and didn't upgrade their infrastructure for quite a while.

This is always the real reason.

Rich people being cheap.

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