bstix
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- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 6 days ago:
Don’t worry. I’m on a streak. If I keep it going for 30 days I will unlock the flushing feature without having to pay for premium.
- Comment on Anon tries to be attractive 1 week ago:
- Comment on Just meet an 86 year old Vietnam veteran with 2 People Hearts, and he said "Platoon" 1986 was the movie that best portrayed his Vietnam experience. 1 week ago:
Well, the movie was made by a veteran.
- Comment on How do I win a fight with a lion? 1 week ago:
Catnip and hakuna matata
- Comment on Subway lovers posted 1 week ago:
At Subway the customer picks the stuff that goes into the sandwich.
It’s basically build your own food, except it’s someone else’s fingers in your food.
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
Some countries are like that. There are pros and cons to it though. The unions are stronger when people bother joining.
Also, being covered by an agreement at your work is only part of what unions offer. They have other services for members, like getting your salary checked, legal support, salary insurance, various discounts for stuff, etc.
It might be tempting to save the membership fee, but don’t be a leech. Someone worked hard to get the benefits for everyone. Join the union.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
It would be nice if organisations were run by people who were so dedicated to the job that they’d do it for free or at least on a survival wage, but it is difficult to find someone with both the right qualifications and the willingness to do it cheaply.
The figures aren’t outrageous for those positions and as a non-profit they do have a board who made the decision to pay those amounts.
It’s not like a private company where the owner/CEO can just grab the money. The board members voted to hire someone and offered those amounts.
If you want to change this kind of thing, you need to attend the annual meeting in which the board is elected. I’ve been elected to a few board positions in non-profit organisations and let me tell you: It’s really easy to get on a board. Most places have difficulties filling the positions or you can easily outcompete other candidates simply by wanting to be there. It’s boring as fuck, but important stuff sometimes happens and it’s a good experience to have.
So if you want to actually contribute to that non-profit, you might want to save your few dollars and instead give them some of your time to help them in the right direction. Assuming you’re dedicated to the cause in the first place that is. If you have something to say, you will be heard, because quite frankly, half the board members only come for the free food.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Some animals are more equal than others.
- Comment on if statement == false 2 weeks ago:
Yes sure. Code is logical stepwise. By including the “only if” it implies that other stuff is taken into account, which it isn’t at that moment in code.
I mean, I don’t need to extend the implications of an IF statement. It already does exactly what it says.
Anyway , “fuzzy logic” does exist for people who want “sometimes if”. It’s useful in certain cases. I’ve only ever considered it in music production, where things very often get to the point of complexity where it makes a (sometimes) useful difference.
- Comment on if statement == false 2 weeks ago:
The “only” part implies exclusivity, which may be false, because other things might run the code anyway.
IF “I can see the sun” THEN “It’s day.”
Nothing wrong about that. However if we make it exclusive:
IF AND ONLY IF “I can see the sun” THEN “It’s day.”
That’s obviously wrong. I can actually not keep the day away by sitting with closed eyes in my mothers basement with the curtains shut.
“Only if” might make sense in a legal contract, but there’s no way a piece of code can stop other pieces of code from calling the same functions.
- Comment on levitation 2 weeks ago:
In gonna save y’all from downloading a pdf.
Abstract. Diamagnetic objects are repelled by magnetic fields. If the fields are strong enough, this repulsion can balance gravity, and objects levitated in this way can be held in stable equilibrium, apparently violating Earnshaw’s theorem. In fact Earnshaw’s theorem does not apply to induced magnetism, and it is possible for the total energy (gravitational + magnetic) to possess a minimum. General stability conditions are derived, and it is shown that stable zones always exist on the axis of a field with rotational symmetry, and include the inflection point of the magnitude of the field. For the field inside a solenoid, the zone is calculated in detail; if the solenoid is long, the zone is centred on the top end, and its vertical extent is about half the radius of the solenoid. The theory explains recent experiments by Geim et al, in which ** a variety of objects (one of which was a living frog) was levitated **in a field of about 16 T. Similar ideas explain the stability of a spinning magnet (LevitronTM) above a magnetized base plate. Stable levitation of paramagnets is impossible.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
church organ donation.
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on Europe(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the time of day. They wake up American pissed, but after 11am: Both.
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 3 weeks ago:
when you need to manage mold/fungal growth and too much cover killing grass
“Need to” or " need to " …
The grass will be fine.
- Comment on They nailed it 3 weeks ago:
They’re both right. Ennio Morricone did the soundtracks for both films.
I can understand your old man confusing he films. All the 1970s spaghetti western were filmed at the same locations, using the same actors, same writers and the same composer.
- Comment on They nailed it 3 weeks ago:
He got the composer right though.
- Comment on They nailed it 3 weeks ago:
Nope.
“Ecstasy of gold” is in the same movie, but this song is called “The Good, The bad and the Ugly - Main theme”
- Comment on Drink the climate change away 4 weeks ago:
I’m trying to follow the logic here.
SodaStream —> Zombie apocalypse
in just one easy step? Sign me up!
- Comment on Doctor: noone has passed this test before! 4 weeks ago:
Did the doctor not react to your missing reaction?
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
Objects are great for game programming.
Stuff like enemies, bullets, loot, items, etc. are constantly changing and affecting each other. This makes it difficult to program in fixed functions that run through and crosscheck a bunch of constantly changing arrays. It makes logical sense to have objects with their own functions stored in dynamic lists instead of arrays. A lot of the properties are used by several different objecs, like coordinates or health points, so it also makes sense to describe them in classes.
So, I’d say that it’s a useful way to classify data that is very dynamic, or when different functions need to run depending on that data.
I don’t like putting all code into classes, because a lot of code doesn’t need that kind of flexibility.
- Comment on Cleanliness is more important 5 weeks ago:
Just lick it off.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 weeks ago:
Not through the mouth though.
- Comment on Average Swedish dining room 5 weeks ago:
I think the price is alright, if you like it as it is. It appears to be well maintained, however it will require a major overhaul to make work with any other kind of interior. It might be costly to heat and it would cost a lot to update the windows and heating system.
It’s located close to a large road, the cargo railway, the harbour and industrial areas. The area is build very densely, with neighbors behind every wall. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily a very noisy place, but it’s definitely not blissfully quiet.
For the right person, it may be cheap, but it’s not exactly what the majority of house buyers are looking for.
- Comment on Average Swedish dining room 5 weeks ago:
I love the idea of having the library double as a stage for the dining room.
- Comment on So this is how liberty dies... 1 month ago:
Try lifting the pillows.
- Comment on Best country of Chile 🇨🇱 1 month ago:
The southern archipelago looks like a Minecraft biome. Completely void of people and with just island after island it appears as if it would be fun to explore. It’s probably too cold to enjoy though.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 1 month ago:
I’m thinking worldwide. George Bush paved the way for a lot of populistic right wing politicians in other countries, showing that reckless incompetence is fine as long as you put on a suit and pretend to know something about economy.
He then dragged the entire ensemble of headnodding clowns into a war in Iraq on a false premise. Yes, Saddam was an asshole and needed to go, but he did not have chemical weapons. The entire war was about taking full control of oil, that Bush’s croonies had planned long beforehand.
Then there was a little financial crisis called “the great recession” in 2007 and onwards, and of course history has a tendency to point backwards, but I think it’s fair to say that the complete lack of oversight of the financial institutions was the main cause. The cause of this crisis was G. Bush Junior and all the other conservative government leaders in suits claiming to be “fiscally responsible”. If only they had been “financially conservative” that would’ve better, but they didn’t even attempt. It was pretty much as irresponsible as it gets.
I don’t think Trump or the USA as a whole can litteraly destroy the environment, because they’re not that many, 300k people of 8 billion worldwide, and I also don’t think Trump will initiate any wars directly, but they’ll do nothing to stop the existing wars, and we will see a worldwide financial crisis as soon as the next budget doesn’t get approved or earlier.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 1 month ago:
This election has the same dreadful feeling as 2000.
Nevermind the crazyness, it’s the certainty that something worldwide bad is going to happen due to the incompetence of the American government.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 month ago:
Maybe Biden could pack the Supreme Court before leaving office.
It wouldn’t be a great idea in the long run, but it’d potentially stop the entire system from functioning right now.
- Comment on the distance 1 month ago:
Sacré bleu !
