chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 3 days ago:
For me it’s for traffic. There’s about 4 major routes I can take between my home and office, and with different traffic changes (wrecks, construction, conventions, etc) the difference between them can be over an hour.
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 3 days ago:
That’s what happens when the boomers refuse to let go.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 5 days ago:
For some media formats there were legitimate issues.
For instance, American NTSC encoding’s 30fps (29.97 actually, but not diving into color encoding right now) refresh rates were due to the 60Hz American electrical grid, whereas PAL encoding’s 25fps was due to a 50Hz electrical grid.
It’s also why American tvs showing a panning shot of a film (24fps) or a European TV program will sometimes look choppy. They added filler frames when re-encoding for NTSC.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 5 days ago:
Were GBCs region-locked?
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 6 days ago:
Nope. The concept of the contract is that those who do not practice tolerance are not protected by it.
It’s also worth exploring what intolerance is.
Thinking members of a religion/party/social group are wrong or crazy isn’t being intolerant - that’s simply disagreement. Intolerance is saying they shouldn’t be allowed to exist or to have the same rights as you.
The fascists discriminate on religion, sexual orientaion/identity, gender, political affiliation, race, national origin, and more. They are wildly intolerant, and therefore do not have to be tolerated.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 6 days ago:
I didn’t play the second of the remake games because it was a PS5 exclusive. I usually buy into one platform (it was Xbox this gen) and hop on late in a console cycle for the other side to get cheap consoles and games, but for the first time consoles are getting more expensive over time, so I still don’t have a PS5. It’s on PC now, but building a PC costs as much as a modest house right now.
- Comment on Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night | After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move. 1 week ago:
Bilbo Baggins is in the files. By conflating “in the files” with “took part in the crimes” a lot of innocent people will be falsely accused.
And that’s the point.
Trump and team want so many innocent people to be called out that it provides cover for the guilty.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 1 week ago:
Things were bad in the 80s in general.
Look at movies from the time. Revenge of the Nerds has one of the nerds dressing up in the same costume as a jock to have sex with his rival’s girlfriend. And when she finds out after the deed, she loved the rape so much she decides to dump her boyfriend.
Blade Runner - the beloved classic sci-fi has Harrison Ford pinning a woman who says no to a wall and sexing her up as the romantic climax of the film.
- Comment on Price gouging 1 week ago:
It’s a joke.
But also, there are other, better forms of metal printing. One is to use metal powder and laser-weld it layer by layer.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 1 week ago:
A lot of people don’t understand the difference between service dogs and ESAs, including store owners and employees.
The American with Disabilities Act does not include ESAs, and businesses can prohibit them.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There’s a mix that’s designed to work with rim fire and other lower-velocity stuff. It’s not as powe4ful, but is more-easily triggered.
A dumb friend put some in a chewing tobacco tin and launch it from a skeet launcher to shoot with a shotgun using bird shot. I personally would not be that close to anything I was blowing up, even with a plastic shell.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
That’s a horrible plan for a start-up.
How do your investors cash out?
- Comment on Hrmmm 1 week ago:
A phone can upload automatically, so even if they take it the video is out there.
Just use a burner phone bought with cash.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
This is at least an area where I’ve seen improvement in many denominations. The Episcopal Church in particular has gotten pretty hard-nosed about its sex abuse training. I was volunteering for a food drive and they made me take a 6-hour course along with any other volunteers who hadn’t been through it because children may be present and they have instituted strict rules.
The training had video confessions of people who had used church activities as a way to become “trusted” sonthey could abuse children. They talked about what they did and how they used their positions of trust to grrom their victims (e.g. “accidentally” touching kids while playing to gauge their reactions).
They then make crystal clear that the rules they have are not optional, or meant as an attack on the adults either. An adult roughousing with kids or talking with a distressed kid alone is most-likely not a rapist. We all understand that, so when someone says “hey - make sure to leave the blinds open with talking to Kelley” or “Steve - we can’t play flag football with the kids” it isn’t an accusation. It’s a reminder that we’re there for the kids and we all follow the rules so that if someone evil does show up they can’t engage in probing through “harmless fun”. If anyone can’t respect those rules they’re not allowed to participate.
The one exception we had for the “no touching” rule when I worked for a Methodist church was for a specific teenager who was usually very sweet but had developmental issues that would occasionally lead to extreme behavior, including occasional violent outbursts. For him we had a few specific adults that had special training (and waivers) that were allowed to restrain him. We also made one of his parents accompany any activity he was involved with. I only had to physically intervene one time when we were bowling and he took a ball into the parking lot to attack cars.
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been popped by 120 volt a few times.
It hurts like a motherfucker, but should throw a breaker or GFI before it kills.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 2 weeks ago:
There were no regional managers named Jhonny. Your friend is a liar and you should cut them out of your life.
- Comment on One way to guarantee your paper blows people away 2 weeks ago:
That person truly did great things for Civilization.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 2 weeks ago:
Bevlcause half of Gen Z is under 21 and the rest is broke?
- Comment on Draw! 2 weeks ago:
They don’t want people who can easily walk away. They need you to live paycheck-to-paycheck in fear of losing your job at all times.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 2 weeks ago:
They take the same cut as companies that monopolize the app stores on their hardware.
They take more than other PC platforms.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 weeks ago:
It’s more nuanced than that.
Choosing not to release on Steam isn’t easy because it’s not a balanced market, at all. It’s trying to release a Disney-style animated movie, but only in adult theatres.
Steam is the 900-pound gorilla. Yes, they have a good interface, but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue. Epic has a shit interface, but they take well-under half of the fees Steammdoes for the same game.
Gabe is not your friend. He’s a billionaire yacht-collector. Half-Life 2 wasn’t designed to be a great game. It was designed to launch a digital storefront that allowed Valve to rake in 30% of all revenue for games sold on the platform - which is often a larger percentage than is paid to the actual people making the games.
Why are we defending a system where the fucking checkout system is valued as much as the people making the games?
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 3 weeks ago:
Just click the footer, check a box to make changes apply only to a single page, and do whatever the fuck you want.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 3 weeks ago:
That’s what people have said for years, and it’s a bullshit solution that shouldn’t be necessary. Word has had 40 years to address simple shit like this.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 3 weeks ago:
“Hey Word, I’d like to remove the header and page number from page 6 and only page 6.”
“Go fuck yourself user”
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes you actually have to go to the top line of the extra page, select that break it won’t let you delete because Word is the fucking worst, and change the font size to be impossibly small.
- Comment on Noooooo 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Any time I want to talk off the record it isn’t because I’m trying to be sneaky and corrupt. I’m usually just venting or being super sarcastic.
No secret handshake deals occur over phone calls, but sometimes I’ll hold a “Come to Jesus” meeting with someone over the phone because I’m trying not to take them to court and tear down their house they built without a permit or inspections. I have to convince them with pretty frank language that I’m being nice when I’m trying to drag them through the process of having their plans reviewed and building inspected, and that if I stop hounding them it’s because we’re getting prepping warrants and injunctions and bidding out demo contractors.
- Comment on Noooooo 3 weeks ago:
I work in municipal development. When I want to call you instead of emailing you, it’s because what I’m going to say is something pretty frank that you’d rather not have a written record of. You, Mr Civil Engineer, don’t want your client to do an Open Records request on me and find the email where I had to explain to you, in detail, that water flows downhill and that your drainage plan shouldn’t show water moving parallel to contour lines.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s like the difference between being in the blast radius of a fission bomb vs a hydrogen bomb. Does the size of the blast really matter glfrom ground zero?
When it’s 100 degrees outside, I avoid the outside as much as possible. If it’s 120 degrees outside, I avoid the outside as much as possible.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but blue (Mercator) preserves direction and shape, which were all that really mattered for navigation by sea, so Mercator was a fantastic projection for centuries.
And we still use it today for smaller scale areas, since it does a remarkably good job at preserving all 4 features (shape, area, distance, and direction) close to the map origin line. Universal Transverse Mercator is a system that has 60 zones of Mercator turned sideways.
The reason it’s Transverse is because, unlike lattitude depending on a defined equator, longitude has an arbitrary meridian, so by turning the map sideways we can move the distortion point, and any map area that doesn’t stray too far East or West will be very accurate.
Think of trying to map something like Chile or Florida, where the area of interest is pretty far North to South, but not East to West.
- Comment on Real and True 3 weeks ago:
My GIS rig is different than any of those.
Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.
Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.
I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it’s a big TV on the wall of my office that’s usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I’m meeting with people in my office.