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  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3106: Farads
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    They were all done by scientists or engineers.

    The meter was defined based on what they calculated as 1 millionth of the length of Paris’ meridian.

    The second was 1/86400 of a day, which makes sense with the angle/circle nomenclature on the clock.

    The gram was initially set to be the mass of 1cm³ of water at 4°C - which is why 1l of water ≈ 1kg.




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    Everyone is betting Tonga will not get itself into a war.

    But if it hypothetically happened, I assume they would be pressured to use an alternative war flag by the international community.

    On a more serious note, applying international laws against sovereign states is always more complicated than to enforce them against individuals and organizations operating inside of signatory states.


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    The red cross sign has a very specific meaning and protection under international law. They don’t want the symbol to be used outside of the agreed uses because they don’t want that meaning, and consequently the protection it affords, to get muddled.

    They also don’t like when a red cross is used on a random first aid kit in the real world.








  • To be fair to the US Congress (AFAIK) no one as been formally at war since 1945 - and unless I’m forgetting anything it would actually make the US Congress the last ones to declare war on anyone.

    Since WW2 everything is framed as a peacekeeping mission (when approved even if only implicitly by the UN Security Council), a civil war, helping the legitimate government in a civil war (US in Vietnam or Soviet Union in Afghanistan for example), or when every other excuse fails a pre-emptive special military operation (US in Iraq, Russia in Ukraine, Israel in all of their neighbours + Iran).



  • You don’t even need to go at a low level. Lots of programmers forget that their applications are not running in a piece of paper in general.

    My team at work once had an app running Kubernetes and it had a memory leak, so its pod would get terminated every few hours. Since there were multiple pods, this had effectively no effect on the clients.

    The app in question was otherwise “done”, there were no new features needed, and we hadn’t seen another bug in years.

    When we transferred the ownership of the app to another team, they insisted on finding and fixing the memory leak. They spent almost one month to find the leak and refactor the app. The practical effect was none - in fact due to the normal pod scheduling they didn’t even buy that much lifetime to each individual pod.