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- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 3 days ago:
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 3 days ago:
I’m still unsure whether they actually believe what they are saying makes any kind of sense and could actually be deemed a rational thought or whether they are just pulling our legs. Either way, engaging in any kind of discussion with them should probably just be avoided
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 3 days ago:
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 3 days ago:
In my defense: there already was a very deep comment chain before this and the whole thing was just infuriatingly stupid
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
Just went back to that thread. The discussion continued for 4 more hours after I stopped responding, and no, it did not go anywhere. That was definitely worth everyone’s time
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
Wanna swap?
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
Me, yesterday
- Comment on The burden of being different 5 days ago:
I think you might be reading a little too much into it. It’s just information that services will be closed that day, I see no political statement. They acknowledge it on the website: uvic.ca/…/2024+flag-lowering-remembrance-day+news
The other days you’ve mentioned are neither well known nor are they statutory holidays, so it makes sense to actually provide some context
- Comment on The burden of being different 5 days ago:
What am I missing? Remembrance day is a statutory holiday, what exactly is wrong here?
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 days ago:
The reflection in the mirror makes me think this is surely real. Even the best AIs don’t understand mirrors
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
That’s not sloppy, that’s simply wrong
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure there are other exceptions
- Comment on Printer ink solution? 2 months ago:
It’s looking at you and your stellar body
- Comment on To be rejected by a desk... 2 months ago:
A desk reject, also known as a desk rejection, is when your paper is turned down by a journal or conference, prior to them sending it out for review. It basically says: either your paper is rejected for technical reasons (i.e., not within the page limits or clearly written by AI) or it’s so shitty, nobody wants to waste the reviewer’s time.
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 2 months ago:
It’s different if you control the whole supply chain obviously, that’s one of the exceptions I talked about
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 2 months ago:
They are all enabling drug cartels, so no, none of them are good. We can’t go around and say companies if not by law are at least morally responsible for child labour and forced labour camps in their supply chain and at the same time ignore that every fucking dealer gets their shit from sources that do the very same thing. There might be exceptions for some drugs, I’m not that deep into it, but in general there is no moral way to sell illegal drugs.
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 2 months ago:
What’s a good person
Not the person I’m replying to, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 3 months ago:
Not if your goal is to reach net zero emissions at some point
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 3 months ago:
There are definitely use cases for battery-electric trains:
- We have these in Germany usually in areas with low traffic. E.g. if a train line is only serviced a couple of times a day, it’s more cost-effective to carry the batteries with you than to electrify the line.
- Another use case are train ferries. They are the reason why Germany also had Diesel-powered high-speed trains for a while.
- Another challenge in Europe is the lack of harmonization of power supplies of train lines between countries. In cross-border traffic, trains have to be adapted to work with different energy supplies. Battery-electric trains can add flexibility for these scenarios. E.g. Germany uses AC 15 kV 16.7Hz, the Netherlands DC 1.5 kV on low-speed and AC 25 kV 50Hz on high-speed lines. When a train goes from the Netherlands to Germany, it disconnects from the Dutch system and reconnects to the German system on the fly. For a moment in between, the train loses power. If the train lacks momentum or has to stop unexpectedly, the train is stranded and has to be pushed over the border by another train that is independent of the power supply.
- Comment on Anon meets a good man 3 months ago:
It’s very popular, I’ve seen it a lot
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 4 months ago:
🖕🤘 🤘👉
- Comment on Irish Journalist Excellence 4 months ago:
A bar chart for this kind of data makes no sense to me as the bar doesn’t really represent anything. A scatter plot is a good choice and adding a connection line for readability is imo not so bad. It should however be inverted going up to 1 and not down to 0.
