Ah, yes, quite a few systems use that. Iirc, when I first got into research I believe it was SPSS that have me pause (maybe STATA) when dates seemed to reference day in the 60s. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the specifics, but I always thought it was a neat way to handle dates.

Maybe it was 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch

You are correct, I should have said there was an atomic clock out the window that the walker looked out at.

https://www.quora.com/What-if-you-walk-forward-on-a-ship-moving-at-light-speed#%3A~%3Atext=You+would+experience+nothing.%2Cof+travel+wouldn't+exist.

Because of relativistic effects, from your point of view on the train you would just walk forward. But you would notice a strange effect while the trains were accelerating: your atomically synchronized wristwatch the clock you can see out the window has slowed down and stopped counting time. So it seems that your journey to the front of the train takes no time at all.

From someone standing on the side of the tracks catching a glimpse of you and the train as you whizz by, the front of the train is moving at light speed. You’re at the back of the train completely frozen still, unable to move forward because the front of the train is moving away at light speed.

Weird things happen when you’re talking about the limits of physical reality.

Sound is air vibration

Sound is not exclusive to air, it can be generalized to vibrations in any media. Whale song and dolphin echolocation are certainly sounds, and we’re almost always talking about them propagating in water rather than air.

which has to travel from one place to the next

No, that isn’t how sound works. In air this would be a description of wind, not sound.

just transfer kinetic energy to the adjacenct atom

This is actually a good description of how sound waves propagate.

(Pay)checks and (account) balances?

What do you mean by moist?

They’re just poking fun at a typo in your post title

That’s not what “insider trading” means, not even a little bit.

Lying and stealing

Also, interplanetary timezones and leaps.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13227444

https://lemmy.world/comment/13227488

Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.

“Err” generally sounds the same as “air” as most people speak it, at least in the accents I’m familiar with. Think of how error sounds.

and air on the conservative side.

err

It’s pretty niche, but https://alternativess.com (sport archery retailer)

It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.

Yup, the arugula/balsamic combo is the same way I’ve enjoyed pear pizza. Delicious.

Pear works well on white pizza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

This quote sounds a lot more like eugenics than euthanasia.

ctrl-f Kelly on that page