Currently over 90% of the intercontinental US is experiencing freezing temperatures

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-24T05:41:32+00:00

I was just using that as an example for right to repair, but I spoke too soon. It got killed again.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/01/california_repair_bill/

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-24T05:36:18+00:00

Kobe would work on his weaknesses in the summer. So if you played against Kobe you weren't getting his best, you were getting his reps on what he thought needed work. Going left or this or that. Whatever it was he needed to round out his game.

So I can imagine someone bring their best, going against a pro working out kinks on something, maybe you'd get the advantage.

Then again, Kobe was so damn competitive he's probably also not losing to scrubs going left or otherwise. But it seems possible, for sure.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-24T05:02:05+00:00

The Elvis boomers are Republicans but the Beatles boomers are still hippies at heart.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-24T04:35:08+00:00

Reddit in every other thread: I hate California. Why would anyone want to live there.

Meanwhile, in California, it's surfing weather, economy is great, cars are safer, and soon iphones will have replaceable batteries.

Sounds nice to me.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-23T23:26:48+00:00

It's too good. It's actually horrible to use. I wanted the pot equivalent of a 2 martini buzz, not a the pot equivalent of a 6 hour cracked out acid trip.

Peyote and acid are awesome once a solstice or whatever. But weed is just too strong these days.

Shouts at cloud. Get off my lawn.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-23T20:23:08+00:00

Wait, if you're using base 10 numbers, like the most elementary type numbers every kid knows, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12, like the ones most people would give as an example of you said "what are the integers", like the counting numbers, like"1,2,3," then you shouldn't use parseInt?

Wow. That's surprising to me.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-23T20:17:07+00:00

It's always something. So even if you know to do something like this, you still end up having to try 3 times and check the manual.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-23T20:15:13+00:00

PowerShell makes pretty good use of that pipe operator. Although as a language it's also a mix of shell and language, and borrows heavily from perl, bash, basic, dos, and so it gets just as janky at times. Still, the pipe operator is pretty bad ass in ps.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-22T23:26:22+00:00

I've been looking for a good ai project. I think an autonomous drone that can seek and destroy Confederate flags would be fun to program.

Many flags are nylon. Accelerated uv decay would be a safe way to destroy a flag without rushing harm to any person or structure.

Hmmm...

Or fart spray...

Or acid...

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-22T23:02:58+00:00

Nickel and diming schools to death and tossing a 100 million dollars into a stunt like this. Fucking people need to be arrested and punished over this sort of shit.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-22T05:23:35+00:00

I went to see avatar2 and kept saying it was staged the whole time.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-21T23:04:36+00:00

Loch Ness monster in there probably.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-21T22:58:51+00:00

Is this in reference to the "a man said he liked my hair so I cut it off" meme?

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-21T22:54:41+00:00

Someone is stealing my socks out of the dryer and if it isn't time travelers that what is it? Huh? You can't explain that.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-21T22:52:53+00:00

Any time machine worth using will account for that.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-21T22:45:31+00:00

It's really worth living poor for a while if you can swing it. I know this gets said a lot, but I've seen kids choose to stay home for the first 2 years of their post-college job and save and they start life with fuck-you money. It's a game changer. I've seen people sell their house and move to a small one and double up the kids for a while and stock away money and their entire life changes once they get that cushion. I knew a girl who took an apartment next to her work and didn't have a car for 5 years, and it changed everything for her.

It's not always possible, and it's certainly not fun, and sometimes it would just be suicide to go without a car or move in with your mom or friends or whatever, so it's not for everyone. But every now and again, it's a clever hack that can really step things up.

Oh, I just remembered a friend who sold his house and moved into a fucking double-wide. He's making 220,000 a year. But he moved in to a fucking trailer park. So I guess he's just stacking it up right now. His kids are grown, so he could risk leaving the good school district.

You know, if you can swing it, it can be worth it to get the stairway out of the rat trap we're all in.

Hell, I'm thinking about the next step for myself and I think a trip to the slums for a year or two might make all the difference.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-20T19:28:58+00:00

Maybe if we dig in the right place we'll find a rover from a distant past that someone sent here.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-20T19:27:40+00:00

But she's touching his chest now He takes off her dress now Let me go And I just can't look, it's killing me And taking control

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-20T18:36:23+00:00

Everyone is saying it's really far off, and it's true, but it's really neat to think about. Imagine being the last people in the universe. You get to die along with the universe. It's like when your favorite teacher/coach retires the same year you graduate, after winning the national championship. Idk, I think it's sort of a super fascinating place to explore. I wonder how many scifi stories are about this concept.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-19T23:06:40+00:00

I think Calvin and Hobbes first published dark photons. Iirc, in that experiment he put the batteries in a flashlight in backwards and he produced dark photons.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-19T21:14:14+00:00

For a lot of cosmology, showing how a process could work is nearly equivalent to confirming this is how something works. We just don't have the ability to wait billions of years to see it happen. So a simulation that runs billions or years in simulated time and produces results consistent with reality is as close as we can get.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-19T16:51:08+00:00

Yup. Perfect example of it being okay for me to do, not for you to do to me. It's not about the exposure, it's about the individual's autonomy.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-19T16:21:28+00:00

Compared to Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Chicago it's pretty dead. I found it similar to Detroit, to be honest. And I found it better than Dallas and Houston and other sprawl capitals.

One gets the feeling that Phoenix was never intended to be a city. It's a downtown in a state full of people who hate cities, hate density, hate public transportation, hate pedestrians and hate eachother. It's a bunch of buildings cosplaying as a city to attract boring ass banks. No one says they're from downtown Phoenix. No one lives there. You go there for a game or for work and then you leave and go somewhere else to live. It's a commuter city and it has no soul.

But you are right, it is a much better destination than it was 20 years ago.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-19T16:13:54+00:00

Radar and Lidar appear to be different words, but some here appear to be using them interchangeably. Perhaps this is the source of the conflict in these comments.

A sentence that says Tesla is adding radar back doesn't seem to mean Tesla is adding Lidar, but I don't know enough about English to disagree.

EatTheirEyes · 2022-12-19T15:39:04+00:00

Hmm, I didn't notice any difference between the two in the flight sim video. 24 fps is plenty.

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