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  • your phone can’t work if your carrier doesn’t know where you are

    on top of that, advertisers put bluetooth receivers everywhere, which will log your phone as having been nearby, even if you don’t connect

    on top of that, you can do the same bluetooth trick with wifi endpoints

    plus your phone has a gps/glonass/whatever receiver in it

    probably other reasons too but those are the ones i can think of off the top of my head

    yes you can maybe mitigate all of these, but there are probably ones i haven’t thought of that people much smarter than me have, so why take the risk?













  • Fortunately, the rules necessary to resolve the equation in this post are extremely elementary, so none of what you’re referencing has any bearing whatever.

    this would be like trying to tell a chemical engineer they didn’t know what they were doing based on your understanding of the atom as a ball of protons with electrons wooshing round it like they were moons

    very cute

    unfortunately, if you give the expression 1 / 2x to anybody who knows what they’re doing they’ll interpret it as 1 / (2x) because it would be absurd not to

    for reference, that’s why the calculator works like this. because it’s a tool designed primarily for people who actually know what they’re doing with numbers, so it works how they expect it to work






  • And in the “actual” order of operations, if we want to pretend one exists, 2( binds more tightly than ÷

    if you’re going via prescriptivism, then you’re wrong, because there are plenty of authoritative sources following the left hand model

    if you’re going via descriptivism, then you’re wrong, because this thread exists