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Population of the UK split into 4 equal quarters
  • I can't find it now but I seem to remember a proof that a collection of points could be divided in half by a straight line, first by assuming that no three points were collinear, then by picking any point on the plane, drawing a straight line through it, then rotating it around that point until you could get half the points on each side. The implication of this though is that you could pick someone in Aberdeen, which the above map would seem to suggest isn't possible.

    The location of the second line would have to be determined by sliding it along the first, rather than rotation, so it could end up resting on 0, 1 or 2 points. Either way you're probably close enough. The proof, for or against, is outside my mathematical ability.

  • Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
  • 5G for HermitCraft S9, 10G for Enigmatica 6 Expert (looking at Working Set in Resource Monitor). I've rebuilt impulseSV's iBuy as an autocrafting tower in my E6E world, and I needed more detail than I could glean from the videos.

    Firefox is a bit more tricky to work out because it's split over multiple processes but if I kill it while watching Resource Monitor the Available Memory jumps by about 9G, with 56 tabs open.

  • Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
  • Have you ever had Windows break so badly that you had to burn an install disk...

    As a programmer, yes under Windows 3.0 I could crash the computer so hard that the only way to recover was to reformat the hard disk. It got progressively better in later versions and everything from Windows 2000 has been virtually uncrashable.

    My most recent hard crash was when I had a VM, two Minecraft instances and Firefox all open at the same time and Windows ran out of memory (so I upgraded from 32GB to 64GB). It does make me wonder why some of that didn't get swapped out though.

  • The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.
  • And I am clarifying that as I continue to subscribe to this service, circumstances may require that my payments will exclude currency, and include regular visits to The Pir[REDACTED]te Bay.

    Edit: sorry, Rule 2.

  • Does anyone else get so tired and depressed from saying you're good when people ask how you are?
  • It helps to understand what is being communicated here. It's not a genuine request for your health status, it's a friendly greeting. The last thing anyone wants in response to "how are you" is a list of everything that's wrong with you. If you struggle to cope with replying "fine" or equivalent, refuse to answer the question and respond instead with something like "hi/hello!". The non-sequitur will jar them for a moment and hopefully they'll learn not to ask dumb questions.

  • Silly beliefs, silly questions
  • Interesting question. I thought it said as much in Gen 1:24-25 or Gen 2:19, but a quick scan suggests the first reference to male and female animals is in the Ark arc.

    It is possible Gen 2:21 could be interpreted to mean God did the rib thing for all male animals, but I think that'd be an unusual extrapolation. Those verses appear only to be talking about Adam. I think male and female animals were created together in Gen 1:24-25, but I can't point to any specific words that support that.

  • Teams destroying relationships
  • Speaking as a developer myself, it's likely not the devs' fault that Teams is as shit as it is. They are all intimately familiar with its shortcomings and are perfectly able and willing to fix them, but are prevented from doing so by management who insist that shovelling crapware down their customers' throats is far more important.

  • Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps
  • Well that's OK. It's not uncommon for different countries to name bits of land and water differently from everyone else. Take Germany for example. The locals call it Deutschland. The French call it Allemagne. Or there are the Falklands, known by the argybargies as Las Malvinas. If Donny McFart in North Mexico wants to call that bit of water the Freedom Gulf or whatever then good for him! As long as he realises it works both ways.

  • How are slavery reparations fair?

    This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

    The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

    Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

    When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

    Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

    Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

    (Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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