I mean seriously, how important can they be if they don't even bother releasing them in the USA or Europe....

Well,
I know about a (good no idea?) developer who had a lot of money.
He paid "online gamers" to harvest items for him in an online game.

Because he thought (and told so in public): "I love that game, and when I play it the 5h a week while I have time, I want to play it by the most potential".

Using an LLM for coding is more or less the same.

If you have to write 100 lines of code that you have clearly in your mind, and takes 3h to do right, but an LLM can spit it out in 30 seconds ... does that make you a bad coder? Using an LLM I mean? I would say your boss calls you a good coder, haha!

Focus the energy on any point of the planet - when the time is right.
And get away with it ...

How do you know? Who's checking?
Stupid question.

I am the one checking. Which was pretty clear from my previous post. /FACEPALM

What was your point?

Oh, you agree that "leaking" was tackled 100 years ago?

Because they did not run on pay check to pay check limits and/or still where able to do business without computers, or we simply do not know about them.

Again: a million dollar profit bakery which has 10 or 15 places to sell bread and 2 or 3 bakeries, with a computer crash still has the supply chain of incoming flour and other raw materials: as that was an agreed delivery contract months/years ago. So: no immediate harm. They might have some big long term customers (daily delivered) , and they just continue to deliver. Then the remaining customers are day to day passing customers.

While it seriously might be a pain ... they can continue.

And then look at the ransomware gangs: they are probably small teams ... they do not have the time to attack an absurd amount of companies, but have to do the research to find some which might pay.

Well,

he was obviously a pain and probably still is an idiot.
So in other words he should not have been in that job.
He probably was good at social engineering to protect his ass.

God that you got away from him!

They just started the construction of the biggest most gigantic unbelievable big water power plant along the Yarlung Tsangpo river.
Something in the size of 50 nuclear power plants. Of course the project is gigantic and will take a decade or more.

You learn about Kelvin in school.
In Physics, in 5th grade.

So I assume "99.9999% of the human population cann^Ho^Ht^H do that"

And outside of the US: no one is using F ... so your idea how many people can convert easy from C/K to F: is absurd :P

Obviously my assumption above might be wrong. Gosh, we should google now what the temperature scale is in Japan, Kenya or ...

Perhaps one of those uses F?

Of course in Physics we use Kelvin.

Having a random zero point makes no sense.

About the unit one could argue, as the "degree" (aka one step from one point to the other) is Celsius.

Sitting here after a beer, I have no immediate idea if there is a more plausible "stepping" rate.

For example one could have picked absolute zero and then use Fahrenheit steps. Would make sense or not? Question is: would there be a human conceivable step size that makes more sense in physics? Everything much bigger than Celsius, or much smaller than Fahrenheit would not make so much sense in daily life.

Perhaps you have a different idea what a significant digit is? (I assume you are American)

First of all: before the decimal point, all digits are significant. Ooops.

Then lets look at this:
19000K converted to Fahrenheit: 33740 F

So, you want to adjust this for "your significant digits", and cut it to 33000F.

Now, we "lost" 740F ....

Which translates back to: roughly 200K ... so let me check my calculator. It seems to be 190K. (Nice coincident, see below)

So: because of "your idea of significant digits" you want to lose 190K, in a unit conversion. Well, that explains Mars lander crashes.

Looking at the coincidental loss of 190K by "your conversion" to F, we talk about 1 percent

You want to lose 1% precision/information by converting to another unit? Because of: what exactly?

The measurements in the original article averaged/settled around "19000K plus/minus 4000K"
That is not a margin of error, but the range of measurements.

This is the logarithm of 7/3 (picked it as 7 and 3 are primes): 0.3679_7666
0.3679 I calculated by hand. The _ is the marker for "significant digits".
The 7666 after the _ marker: is a guestimate. Which is close enough for any real world applications, like finding your "exact" position on the globe by triangulating 4 stars in the sky. So the significant digits are: "0.3679" because they are a real confirmed part of log(7/3) and because I indicated with the "_" (and explained so) that the digits behind are not "significant" as I guessed them.

It is perhaps not good enough to land a probe on Mars, though.

Point is: Converting 19000K plus/minus 4000K translates to Fahrenheit as 33740 plus/minus 6740.33 (yes, for nitpicking purpose I did not round it) has absolutely nothing to do with significant figures.

Rot learning for your exam, is not the same as understanding.

Sorry: but do you really have "significant digits" before a decimal point in your country? Then I feel sad for your education ... as that makes no sense at all.

You lose 1% of accuracy by converting to another unit, and you find that: okay! ... as an engineer? You are working for Boing, right?

Of course, if you do not like my logarithm above, we could follow your "zero schema" and write it as " 0.36790000" into your log table. Then: my guestimate about the other 4 digits, is lost. And that increases your problem of landing a probe on Mars.

So, no damn idea why you insist a conversion from a scientific unit into another one has to lose 1% "precision" or "information" because of "significant digits".

That is simply not what "significant" means. I owe you $4444? No problem, I just transfer $4000. Or I just transfer $5000 ... hm, I have to think about that. Keeping your "error margins" transferring $4888 is cheaper for me and makes you hopefully more happy? Strange: 4444 was significant. And if it was 4400 and I convert it to the current currency exchange from Thai Bath to dollar, it would be: 144,121.14 THB versus 142,694.20 THB. That is a one month rent difference in SIGNIFICANT, for a simple apartment in Bangkok.

Anyway, if I have to rely on a payment then I need to pay my rent, I rather have it either paid "exactly" or rounded up, and not cut into: significant digits :P

That actually would make sense. But I guess /. is a cash cow, running on a single VM somewhere in a cloud and except for meta-meta-meta moderation (aka having some support email address): no one is actually working on this "project".

It means that it is proven that the person who has registered a nick name/login is "a real person" is a woman, looks like a woman and us adult.

What more do you need/want to store in a single flag?

I did apply common sense.
Hence my comment.

Or was I unclear in pointing out that 10,000 steps is to much?

Nice analysis.

In your /. text is obviously 5 digits and not 2.
Without explicitly indicating what is significant and what not: everything is significant.
I also never heard about such odd converting rules. But I am not a scientific writer ;)
But perhaps I had rounded it to 33700, or 33750? No idea.