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I mean yeah test it rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

I don’t make the rules

oddly specific in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 54 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

A previous version of this article said it was "not clear why WhatsApp settled on the oddly specific number." A number of readers have since noted that 256 is one of the most important numbers in computing, since it refers to the number of variations that can be represented by eight switches that have two positions - eight bits, or a byte.

Lol, weird way to say that 256 is a power of two, and computers operate in base two.

WA road toll hits decade high as five people killed in 24 hours in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road, report says in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

You would assume wrong. The vast majority of customer traffic in the zone is not by vehicle. So even if car customer traffic dropped to literally 0% the business would still retain pretty much all of their customer traffic.

The main business concerns are regarding deliveries, not customers coming in cars to manhattan lol.

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Paris opens river Seine for public swimming for first time since 1923 (www.reuters.com)

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Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine on Saturday as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 after an extensive clean-up operation spurred on by it being used last year as a venue in the Paris Olympics.

Three sites along the banks of the Seine in the city will be able to welcome over 1,000 swimmers daily until August 31, local officials said, to the delight of the Parisians and visitors who were among the first to take the plunge.

"Really nice, I'm impressed, surprised," said 24-year-old Victoria Cnop, a Brazilian who lives in Paris. "I never imagined being in the water close to the Eiffel Tower."

As well as the three sites within Paris, 14 swimming areas outside the capital's boundaries will be set up on the Seine and the Marne rivers. Two of those already opened on the Marne in June.

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