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- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 hour ago:
This vexes me
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 hour ago:
I am literally shaking
- Comment on Can you share 2 days ago:
Deeper daddy!
- Comment on I saw what you did there 3 days ago:
A folding job site saw fits nicely into a closet. The nicer ones are very nearly "cabinet grade" as they say. There's also safer ways of doing this, though perhaps not more compact.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 3 days ago:
I mean there's other things besides brain rot. Also people did raise kids prior to iPads.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
So an entire third of the road is basically left empty so people can speed?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
From a purely traffic load perspective, the whole "fast lane" thing doesn't make a huge difference, and the aggressive obsession with it is actually a big part of the psychology which creates traffic in the first place. Traffic capacity is generally optimized when everyone is traveling close to the same speed and has enough following distance to safely maintain that speed, which is why speed limits are set for the slowest road users. Just in general, speed does not increase road capacity beyond a certain fairly low limit because it requires dramatically increased following distance, or in the absence of such responsible behavior, it massively increases the frequency of traffic disruption.
The worst case is a few people traveling much faster than the slowest road users, as these few users both take up more space, and cause more disruption. The "fast lane" concept is rooted firmly in an unfortunate behavioral reality and has basically no real scientific basis beyond that. Even if you had perfect robot drivers with perfect reaction time and the ability to see far ahead of themselves, the critical capacity speed only increases slightly because the maximum stoping distance is still limited by rubber and asphalt.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Then leave another gap. There are finite idiots in the world, and you cannot actually go backwards.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Right, if you think about the creation of traffic as a negative speed wave which causes compression, and traffic alleviation as a positive speed wave which requires rarefaction, then it becomes clear why traffic is so stubborn. When people are so bunched together, no positive speed wave can propagate. Which is why you literally get to to the point where the original idiot slammed on the brakes and the traffic magically disintegrates. If everyone stayed 5 car lengths apart in traffic, that alleviation would actually propagate backwards as fast as the initial congestion.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Hey I studied this in grad school for a bit, and it really is just "someone does some dumb shit which leads to a cascading wave of additional people doing dumb shit which propagates backwards for miles." Basically when the offered load is getting close to the maximum load, all it takes is one person aggressively changing lanes to throw that section of highway into gridlock, and it will remain that way until the total integrated traffic flux across that incident boundary again falls below the critical offered load inflection point.
Basically, pick a lane and just stay in it. Maintain proper following distance. Counterintuitively, the following distance should be for the speed you want to drive, so even in traffic it should be like 5+ car lengths even though you are going slow. This is because it reduces the offered load, and once that number falls below the critical point, speeds will increase again. Bumper to bumper traffic basically prevents that from happening because it dampens the ability for a "speedup" wave to propagate.
Of course this is all impossible for humans. All it takes is a few idiots to throw off the balance.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 6 days ago:
Immanuel Kant has left the chat
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 6 days ago:
There are STEM versions of economics as well which really end up being more behavior science and anthropology crossed with game theory.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 6 days ago:
I have worked at several startups where I was like employee number ten, and you can always feel the culture shift the moment they start hiring MBAs.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 1 week ago:
Ah yes, a micropenis only a mother could love
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 1 week ago:
Presumably the average temperature of the room pre fart Includes the gas in your colon.
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 1 week ago:
People are missing that the fart is under pressure is the body. Increasing the gas volume from your colon to the room will produce a drop in mean enthalpy due to the reduction in mean gas pressure.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
That one looks attached at the front ...
- Comment on A simpler time 1 week ago:
White people yelling "I'm rick James bitch" at hims is literally why he stopped doing comedy for like a decade.
- Comment on A simpler time 1 week ago:
What?
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
A perfect example of why median exists
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 1 week ago:
Rest assured if there's a bubble I can make trouble in it.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 week ago:
Those people were correct.
- Comment on number box o number box 1 week ago:
Excuse me, but a tensor is actually a blob of numbers which extends the concept of a matrix to a sequence and stride data structure.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 week ago:
Literally none of this is my problem. I do not give two shits what other people's children do on the Internet.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 week ago:
we as a society do need to do something to prevent children from being able to access pornography
Yes, it's called "parenting"
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 weeks ago:
Having a larger focal point farther back from the aperture should also reduce parallax, I crease field of view and improve depth perception.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 weeks ago:
Me, thanking my houseguests for asking if I have a favorite model train, understanding that their polite engagement is consent to hear the abridged version of my history of train presentation which only takes three hours:
- Comment on Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees 3 weeks ago:
People like this almost always have some kind of red flag on their resume. Software engineering is tight right now but not getting interviews after 900 applications suggests there's a more systematic issue here.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Are we talking about the Christians who very explicitly opposed the concept of a religious state? The ones who put that concept front and center in their Bill of Rights?
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
Honestly low-key technophobia has always been a major sentiment in otherwise tech-focused parts of the internet and it has always fascinated me.