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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drowning in grid scale batteries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean I can’t have my new plastic in a particular shape for a WHOLE WEEK? I knew the commies were up to no good when they said technology could make the world a better place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The town I grew up in, and the next town are connected by a road (shocking, unusual, I know). There was an 8 month period where the police departments and politicians all agreed that there should be a way to pass high urgency alerts back and forth, in case there’s someone fleeing along that road, or anything like that.

  It was eventually decided that the viable ways were:

  1. a desk agent would fax over a document and call to notify/confirm about the event.

  2. one department would have to replace some substantial portion of their IT system so it could work with the other system.

  3. they could pay for a custom solution, maybe.

  They settled on option 1, and it worked. Every time I hear politicians talk about sharing information across organizations, I think back to a working meeting with two vendors going down a list of protocols and standards, eventually deciding there was no common ground. It’s been made difficult, and no one in the industry appears to want to fix that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can trust me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My dorm building in college had exit doors that were undersized for the fire codes. They fixed this by moving the exit/entrance door to one side of the hallway, and adding an emergency exit door on the other side. The emergency exit door had a single red sticker on the push bar that said “Emergency exit - Alarm will sound”, and it really would. It happened at least 75 times in the first month after everyone moving in.

  They fixed this by sending everyone 75 angry emails about it. The same thing happened the next year, and also every year since then. I heard (but could never confirm) that putting double doors for the entry/exit doors would have cost a total of $3,000 more, for the multiple exits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An impossible choice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about to go to sleep. I’ll sleep better knowing I have $19, but probably wouldn’t sleep at all knowing $7 billion is showing up tomorrow. I don’t think I’m cut out for the billionaire life, but I’m prepared to try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Anon the asshole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of kinds of surprise that can be wonderful in the right context. Perhaps easiest is when someone tells you they want/would like something, you keep an eye out for opportunities, and surprise them when it comes around. (My wife wanted to see a comedian. I subscribed to their newsletter, and then got (refundable) tickets when they were performing near us, years later.) There can also be things that you are confident someone else will like, which they don’t know exist. (I bought a friend a battery operated pruner after seeing him struggle to keep up with bushes.) Or small things that someone likes (flowers, chocolate, breakfast in bed, depends a lot on what they are into).

  The guitar repair was the worst kind of surprise: something irreversible, which the surprisee clearly knew about, and has chosen not to do at every single opportunity - while the surpriser doesn’t know why they are choosing not to. That’s not respectful, which is the absolute minimum requirement for a surprise to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think she’s Ariana Minuta now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's their rear end clearance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laugh it off, then send it in, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is it Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. It looks like the orange portal is being moved by a hydraulic cylinder (aka laminar flow), which means the relative positions and velocities of things moving through the orange portal are conserved, and A is correct.

  If instead that’s (yuck) an air fired cylinder… Then it’s going to be B.

  If the movement is handled by a threaded rod, then the box will emerge from the blue portal spinning, and (perhaps contrary to expectations) if the orange portal is moving because of gravity, then the bouyant force of the box progressing through the portal will stop it from falling further, and the box will end up just less than halfway (because of the angle) through the blue portal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anobody seen Odyssey?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disclaimer: I have only seen the trailers. Multiple things were from substantially incorrect regions or time periods. They could have at least tried.

  Also, I bought a Nolan movie to watch at home once, and the sound balancing was complete garbage. It was disappointing that he let his pretentiousness make his movie unwatchable. Maybe someday he’ll understand what art is for.

  Unless the people in my life that watch more movies than I do say it’s really good, I won’t see it, but also won’t be reviewing it for Rotten Tomatoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally HR does something right⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to eat at my desk, until I read research that showed you are more productive when you take a real break, time away from the work context, etc. Now I’m in a position to exploit a team of people by making them take a real break, too. Same with vacation, I’ve had to chew people out for checking in on work when they’re meant to be optimizing their brains.

  Research also shows that walking breaks, and 7 hour work days help total productivity, so I’m trying to make those happen… But corporate culture is strongly indoctrinated into the “I spent more time on it, there must be more accomplished” cult… Even though what we produce is code. Sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slash ess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not yet any commands run in the current SQL session

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can I skip the exercise part?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t sleep 8 hours within a 30 day period, you should seek medical help. I can sleep 8+ hours in just a week, and I’m not even that good at sleeping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My opinion is that posting anything publicly enough that I hear about it is at the very least a de facto invitation for my opinion on it. That would be different if it were e.g. paparazzi reporting on the potentially private affairs of the wealthy and famous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOR THE LAST TIME YOU'RE NEVER THE ONLY PERS- oh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I unroll mine (eating as I go), and enjoy it flat. At first that was what I expected…

  When my nephew was 3, he would eat the center of a croissant, and ignore the rest, that’s similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Map of all AI data center in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And posts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The NON BREAKING ZERO WIDTH SPACE character is directly adjacent to the FEELING OF BEING STRUCK IN THE FACE BY A BASKETBALL WHEN YOU WERE NOT EXPECTING IT character. I really wish they had left the fifth circle of Hell out of the Unicode standard :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1$⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He has a plus one, and a minus one, a plus two, and a minus two, and so on. This is analogous to how conditionally convergent series can be modified to give any finite (or infinite) sum merely by changing the order of the terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨outsmarted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Firm ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨????⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I (and my siblings) had a total of 6 hamsters. 4 died of old age, 1 suddenly bled out overnight, and 1 died pretty young, but nothing was obviously wrong, so I dunno.

  My neighbors had more than a dozen rodents (including 5 guinea pigs). They all died horrifically, including 4 that were killed by mouse traps. Because of course you should have mouse traps, and also keep small rodents that you allow to escape constantly. As an adult, I think the parents were seriously negligent in teaching their children, and then also negligent in buying more rodents for the grinder after the first two or three met horrible fates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNAddy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get a similar vibe from psychology. There’s a number of “experts” that are out in the field, doing the hard work day after day, putting in those hours… And hopelessly blinded by their own confirmation bias and survivorship bias. Clinical therapists in surveys prove very willing to overlook strong research in support of certain methods because they believe they see results in their clinical work that can’t be reproduced in a lab.

  Then each field also has a research wing, slowly carving a path towards useful ideas, expending tremendous effort for each new finding, method, and result (even negative results!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry, force of habit my B⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s not a 55 gallon drum, don’t even bother bringing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The restaurant didn’t murder the guy, but the reviewer requested a seat in the non-murdering section, so seating him right next to it loses a star.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … And he can do it again in 2-5 hours ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I made paneer, following a recipe I’ve used dozens of times before. The resulting cheese was perhaps softer than usual, and even after squeezing it and dripping for hours, the slow drip of whey continued, unabated.

  I dared to try a bit. The texture was just as expected, with the familiar squeak as the cheese broke apart upon chewing, and just a hint of extra liquid. The flavor was also fine. I could have added more salt, but that’s a problem I’ve run into before, and I usually cook the paneer into something, so I would just make a saltier sauce.

  I decided it would be fine to leave dripping overnight, but I thought something was unusual. It was late, and dark, and I was ready to go to sleep, so I needed an answer to the lingering doubt at the back of my mind. The bowl I hang cheese over to drip is one of my largest bowls, but I dumped out the accumulated whey anyways - then I went to bed.

  In the morning, my wife woke me up in a panic, and I came downstairs to discover that the bowl had filled, then overflowed with whey. I dumped the bowl once more, cleaned up the mess, and then promptly dug a pit to bury whatever this approximation of cheese was. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will flow down into the water table, and bacteria will digest whatever is in the Great Value whey.

  In either case, I have made the important decision that the outcome is not my fault. Walmart is responsible for whatever occurs, and if I need to sell this house at some point in the future, I hope Walmart will disclose the state of affairs to the buyer, because I most certainly will not.

  Three stars out of five.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most of those “this is how the locals say it” things are clinging to a fading past. My favorite was a Kitchen Nightmares episode where the owner tells Gordon Ramsay that New Orleans is pronounced “Naw-Lins” (with some drawl, not sure how to write that exactly), but every other time before and after, he says “New Orleans”.

  I grew up near Baltimore, which people variously insisted should be “Bee-mer”, “Balmer” or… A couple others. The only one I’ve seen actually play out is residents of NYC primarily referring to it as “The City”, but that one is also pretty normal, so it makes sense that it would survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some cheeses are luminescent.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that she’s an English major, but how is that an excuse to not know that cameras typically have a flash so they can illuminate the object being photographed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Something Beans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not safe for le-outdoors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaysadilla⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dick with wine? Sounds like Friday night, amirite? Err… For straight women, obviously. And gay guys. And handsome prime numbers that… Nevermind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: I'm stuck in traffic and the liquor store closes in 5⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Powerade, “Very Real Power” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh5XrXMwB2U

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nothing to see here⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only enough fish fingers for like… 0 children.