Really depends on the situation. If you have to land an aircraft on the moon, you better get the value of π right.
However when estimating the distance to another galaxy, you’re not gonna fly there so you just want to know the order of magnitude: is it 10^9 or 10^15 miles away?
I’m glad it did. Imagine: People keep complaining about Xitter, refuse to use Mastodon, then suddenly all migrate to Meta because new platform hype. This almost actually happened and I think the only reasons it didn’t is that Threads is inaccessible in Europe and from what I’ve heard the app was crap.
Reddit never had any issues with r/Piracy. They don’t host anything, they just refer to websites that host stuff. If anything they’d help companies to discover what websites they should take down.
What was that? (startrek.website)
FYI (files.ohai.social)
Cats are weird. (lemmy.world)
This is Cleo. She’s a bit strange.
Add-on: same password, same identity. (lemmy.world)
Inspired by a similar meme about applied math, I present: applied physics (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I don't have a Xlyophone tho .. (lemmy.letthewookiee.win)
Too bad about the age difference. (lemmy.world)
Why are barns in the United States often red? (i.imgur.com)
Anon does not sell drugs (discuss.tchncs.de)
sleep (lemmy.world)
Do they also know C++ or Python? (lemmus.org)
France wants your browser to censor the web, and Mozilla is petitioning against it (foundation.mozilla.org)
More context: blog.mozilla.org/…/france-browser-website-blockin…
Adventure, excitement! (lemmy.world)
X is working on ID verification, what’s next? (lemmy.world)
First, I’m not going to give any social media my ID....
Like I get there are several reasons people remain. It just feels kinda weird to listen to a podcaster or youtuber go off on twittter, yet they still use twitter exclusively.
"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product? (lemmy.one)
I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”....
Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds (hexbear.net)
This still baffles me, but I guess it's good for federation? (i.imgflip.com)
Context: sh.itjust.works/comment/2181865
Ohio? rule (lemm.ee)
Golang be like (i.imgur.com)
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular....