Can I interest you in a website with a whole bunch of increasingly ridiculous trolley problems? Source: 12 months ago

Maybe test yourself here first before you answer: Absurd Trolley Problems. Source: 12 months ago

You might enjoy this if you have't encountered it yet. Source: about 1 year ago

I'm confused about what 'considered morally fine' would even mean here because people who agree on what is generally the right or wrong thing still do make exceptions when presented with a moral dilemma. Like, I can agree no one is entitled to other people's politeness, yet at the same time that being nice is 'the right thing to do', because people don't need a defense for being nice. If I asked "Should it be... Source: about 1 year ago

Not the exact one here but a version you can play: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/. Source: about 1 year ago

I experience time drift with devices not connected to NTP like cheap stopwatch/microwave clock/etc, but my all my devices connected to NTP stay synced on their own. For example: - my Windows time settings says: "Last successful time synchronization: 3/7/2024..." (This ~41 hours ago and not manually triggered.) - https://time.is/: "Your clock is 0.4 seconds ahead." I'm a little surprised there is a 0.4 second... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

It's my first quartz watch and I love it to bits! Made me realize that the accuracy of a quartz movement is no joke. I knew nothing much about watches until I started this hobby back in September, and I've still got lots to learn! But from the little I've learned so far, lots of videos say how accurate quartz is, but I didn't realize how accurate it was until I was cleaning some of my mechanical watches. Seikos, a... Source: 7 months ago

Hi all! Need advice to buy a new trail bike 140 fr/140 back, under 2500 $. On all I need an XL size as I'm 1.96cm and 97kg. Mostly I will do soft trails and maybe in 1 or 2 years after I will progress some harder ones.Maybe is better to buy a cheap one then upgrade over time.is is really that good the fork on the h10 Fox 34 Float Performance 140 3-Position vs the h30 Marzocchi Bomber Z2 140 ? Source: 7 months ago

Was wondering, because I put my mechanical watch and digital correct to the second via time.is , how people years ago had to correct time differences? Source: 8 months ago

I just tested it against https://time.is on my cell phone (using wifi calling because network strength is abysmal where I live). I don't have a precise measurement but it was imperceptibly close, within 100ms probably. Certainly close enough to set a clock for non critical purposes. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago