1+ 1 is 2 bits, not 1 bit

i didnt say it was a bit

1+ 1 can be 4 different values as 2 bits

0,0, 01, 1,0, and 1,1

4 different possibilities

wow, its almost like i was just doing base 2 math

There are 10 types of people in the world

those you dont know binary

those who know binary

and those who knew i was talking about base 3 the entire time

you do realize that if your using another base on your numbers your suppose to quantify that

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everything is considered to be base 10 if your not quantifying the numbers to be another base

this is painful

which you didn't do

Wow, that almost like that was the point

🤔

is he googling

one is big boi, one is smol bean

I never needed to know that

cobol

pL/1

I've coded in machine language, but small programs

I dunno, EBCIDIC I think is the standard IBM one

its just character codes but there are specific commands in machine langauge to do functions

its rather basic and boring

my father did punch cards, I was way too old to program in punch cards

I graduated in 94

I was programming for the 2,000 disaster that never came

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its a character code, they taught it in the same class as the coding for the machine language

that is all I remember

I had a card with all the commands

it wasn't that complciated

I got an A in the class

most of the coding classes I got an A in

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cobol I had a bad teacher

first class I got a C in it

couldn't live with a C, I retook the class several times

I programmed in cobol on the job, not sure why you think its a dead language

it might be dead now but when I coded it it wasn't dead yet

most of the data was already input, they were mostly read off huge reals of tape

I did no data entry, I was programming

I had one class on the machine coding

I knew the rudimentary basics of coding in machine language

I never needed it for a job, never used it professinally

did it have a name

the biggest problem with cobol is you need a priming read to start the whole process

then yo ucan do normal reads with cobol and its all set

I was showing someone the basics of cobol and they completely forgot and didn't know about the priming read

thru the entire input and output off

program blew up

I had a cobol teacher talking about a special method to avoid the priming read needed for cobol, but it was overly complicated and not worth doing

its basically getting your first record/setting it to read the first record

......

the point is that cobol doesn't work without the priming read

and if you think I'm not an expert in computer info systems, yhour wrong, I am

I know what I'm talking about

he asked what a priming read is

you need a priming read to get cobol to work

I said its getting your first record and/or setting it to read the first record

I believe its actgually grabbing that first record

the loop doesn't work without doing that priminig read

I'm well aware of how programming works

I'm not here to play 20 questions about my knowledge of programming

I've been retired for many years

you can think what you want, I already proved it

I told you I was retired

no matter what I answred you would still think I didn't know

not if you answered it correctly

I could pull out my cobol manual and quote you pages out of it, you wouldn't believe I own books

I answered the priming question correctly

you still don't beleive it

yea, I kept all my old college books

yea, that isn't going to happen

I don't take and share pics off my cellphone

huge hassle to figure out how to do it for starters

I'd have to upload the image

its ah uge fricking pain

I have a phone

*looks at the plus sign next to the text box*

you didnt answer it correctly, it was rather vague if not wrong

my phone is seriously acting up

do you want to cancel home

I didn't see any +

....

😐

next to where you type messages

its right next to the thing you see your texts one

its a plus in a circle

It's a pretty cool video tho

Yep

okay, lets review what that video actually proves

Lol

your math works if you accept that we live on a

I skimmed thru it

Its 9 minutes long ain't it

your math works if you acdept we live on a globe

I skimmed thru ti

I got the gist of it

i don't think you did

Mongolian?

It turns out the "eratosthenes works on a flat earth with a local sun" doesn't fly at all when you actually test it with more than 2 sticks

you guys all synced at the same time?

Not at all

yes

when did you take these measurements?

and did you do this all at the same time

😂

This was not us

Yet

fine, did these people do this all at the same time

I'm skimming it

its painful

don't

just watch it

9 minutes dude

Oof

what kind of cake?

what kind of jam?

strawberry

the one true jam

mmm

i dont know

i perfer german's chocolate cake

no other kind of jam is acceptable on a sponge cake tho lets be honest

did you guys take perspective into account?

the further something is, the smaller it looks

only curvy linear perspective

its a simple question

yes or no

jesus christ

c: none of the above

are you serious

did these guys take perspective into account

yes, perspective does come into it

Perspective has nothing to do with it

if you guys are all synced to the same sun at the same time, the sun is going to be closer to some than others

Its literally a stick and some shadows

some will be bigger sun if its directly over head or smaller if its further away

They literally give the benefit of the doubt and assume a flat earth to demonstrate that it doesnt work

you can see it changing shape slightly as it moves over the horizon

as with all perspective, it gets smaller as it gets further away

I think this whole test is bogus

you guys didn't take perspective into account

curvy linear perspective

I think if you did the test correctly you would find that its not far away, but local

bad math and bad science equals bad results

@Goldsteel i did it too, i was off by like 2%

earth isn't 40 Km,

how about fake math

wait did you do it eratosthenes style?

I think i did it a different way

goldsteel, that is hard math

say rip to fecore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2zGUAhrF4

faking math to trick people into believing to not trust their own eyes

I look at the pic and see the sun spraying light off in different directions, that isn't perspective

oh wow

FEcore is a drug front confirmed

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you give me garbage of people having touble figuring out simple stuff because they don't understand perspective

clearly you don't understand how perspective works

shawn got his hands on some leaked audio

look at a long hallway, get an idea how it works

stuff gets smaller the further out it is

you can see time lapse video of the sun moving

as it gets over head directly and noon, its at its zenith

and then as it goes off in the distance it gets smaller, that is perspective, the sun's size isn't changing

you just perceive itt is

if your on the flat map, each person would be seeing the sun at different times of the day

🤔

perspective directly plays a factor

whatever, that has nothing to do with me

conferences are big money

lol, great idea

That'll just be "government censorship"

yep

just admit to tax evasion

globe busters are making free videos

Like NASA does?

nah

I'm not paying them to put on live feeds every sunday

but they are getting money for it

I find no problem with people getting together to share info

good, they are not that well off and could use the money

I'm sure any taxes they are supposed to pay they will

you look at people who made millions who tried to avoid paying taxes and they ended up in jail

you know the guy was gay who one the first survivor

oh shut up kevin you obviously dont see anything wrong with fecore

runnign around naked

he ended up in jail

I know nothing about fecore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvdxXpWlU4 this guy is saying they are a scam

whatever, Jeran is trustworthy

not so sure about Karen but the other flat earthers support Karen so maybe she isn't all that bad

I don't like watching videos with her in it

she's talking about her cat or random stuf

not about flat earth

its irritating

you know marc sargent is banging her though

its a guess, but why else would he put up with that

appearantly its her show, he's the guest

I don't see Fecore being all that bad

they are doing tests

Tax avoidance bad

some of them might be engineers

Exploiting People for money bad

I'm not buying it, they aren't making money

oof

maybe from conferences but not from anything else

not from running experiments and not from doing youtube videos

not enough anyhows

I know they get donations too

but they need it spending their own money to do tests

they aren't defraiding anyone

I know jeranism has done multiple tests

not 1

rob skiba did one test I know of

pfff hahahhahahaa

so u watch these flat earthers

globe busters spent a considerable amount of time on ISS and space walks

moon landings

they had an expert on who was telling them all sorts of stuff they didn't know

about how the flag got wet and what not

inside info

you should go on globe busters

I like his dog

get powned by flat earthers

Isn't talking to you enough mental trauma

how can know anything about physics and still claim the earth is a ball

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cats are better then dogs

you are right

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https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/did-eratosthenes-really-measure-the-size-of-the-earth/

don't bother to read the article, short answer is no

why no?

I'm not sure, I only skimmed the article

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pfff

ahahaha

the article still says the surface is a sphere

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yes

because if you actually read the article it says that he already knew it was a sphere because of the Pythagoreans

all it is saying is that Eratosthenes wasnt the one who did it