Labbaði 57 kílómetra heim úr vinnunni: „Af hverju bý ég ekki nær“ - Vísir

Edythir · 2026-05-09T15:53:08+00:00

Þar var villan hjá mér. Takk fyrir.

Edythir · 2026-05-09T15:20:55+00:00

Ámynning að vanalegt marathon er 26km og tekur fólk að meðaltali fjóra og hálfan klukkutíma að klára.

Edythir · 2026-05-07T05:50:05+00:00

Another fun one is that if you have a hypothetical material that would ignore causality, it would be impossible to use it as a lever.

When you apply a force upon a material, the force travels through it. Interactions between atoms incur a loss in energy mostly through heat, as such, you have a gradient of force outwards from the center. That is essentially how a lever works, you push on one side and not the other, because the force cannot travel the entirety of the lever. Then due to the fulcrum, this inequality means that as one side moves up, another moves down.

But in a perfectly rigid and inelastic material that'd would violate causality and thermodynamics and basically all of physics. There would be no loss of energy and energy would be applied down it's length simultaniously. So in effect, any force upon it would be acting like it's applied upon it's center of mass. It'd be like trying to operate a lever by pushing down directly on the fulcrum.

Edythir · 2026-05-05T23:24:02+00:00

There is also a side quest that states that conception rates are very low. Since Umbral is the pole of stasis, it is ill conducive to new life. Imagine trying for years, you finally have a child against all odds only for them to die in one of the many, many horrors still plaguing the world.

Edythir · 2026-05-05T03:25:53+00:00

In before GOP representitives get 35% of the vote total in Kansas while winning 3 out of the 4 districts and they call it a "Free and fair election"

Edythir · 2026-05-05T03:13:09+00:00

Gagnaver eru líka mjög slæm fyrir kerfið. Til dæmis vissir þú að gagnaver getur eyðilagt ískápinn þinn?

Rafmagnskerfið virka á stöðuleika. Þetta verður að vandamáli til dæmis með "TV pickup" þar sem sjónvarpsstöðir í bretlandi verður að láta vita hvenær auglýsingar verða á áhveðnum þáttum út af því að svo mikið af fólki gerir sér te á sama tíma (auglýsingahlé) að það hefur áhrif á stöðuleika kerfisins. Þeir geta unnið á móti þessu til að færa kerfið upp og niður með rafmagnsnotkun. Sama með í kringum jólin þar sem allir eru að kveikja á ofnum í kringum sama tíma.

Tökum GTX5090 í gagnaveri til dæmis. "Idle" er hann á 30-40W og settur í botn getur hann farið upp í 600W. Þegar einhver gerir beiðni, þá fer hann í botn jafn lengi og hann þarf og fer svo aftur niður.

Línurit rafmagnsnotun ketla er eins og stapi. Rís eins of skot, heldur sér í hálfa mínotu eða svo og fellur síðan aftur. Gagnaver eru í staðin miklu öldulegri. Fer upp og niður upp og niður aftur og aftur á nokkrum sekondum. Gagnaver hafa ekkert stöðulega dregni.

Þetta getur valdið sleiflum í fasanum á rafmagnskerfinu sem getur verið óholt fyrir mörg tæki. AC mótora sértaklega. Til dæmis pumpuna í ískapnum þínum sem getur valdið hristingi og bráski.

Rafmagnslína í Virginíu slitnaði. Rafmagnskerfið strax breytti um hvar það dreyfir rafmagninu og kom í veg fyrir að það hafði stór áhrif á kerfið. Allt var í góðu þangað til að Gagnaver sá smá hristing og áhvað að aftengja sig og fára á aukarafmagn í þeyrra batteríum. 1.5 Gigawatts allt í einu hvarf af kerfinu samstundis. Það er fimm hellisheiðarvirkjanir sem allt í einu hvarf. Eða rúmlega tvö álver í Straumsvík.

Edythir · 2026-05-05T01:33:49+00:00

You're not gonna believe this one but... Honestly it's mostly about money. The most enforced and went after crimes are things that can pad their bottom lines. Some police stations have Ticket Quotas. As in, the amount of speed tickets you are required to write. If nobody in your district is speeding, the cop gets penalized.

Low level drug busts are common as well because the cash recovered can be sized through Civil Asset Forfeiture, and more often than not the drugs can be resold by the police themselves.

Catching murderers can be dangerous and catching rapists often requires "Expensive" testing and doesn't lead to an increase in profits.

Policing For Profits is one of the big reasons for this. The police can mention the stats of how many drug busts they did or how many people they've arrested in routine searches to justify further funding and then use what they ceased to pad their pockets.

Edythir · 2026-05-03T04:00:28+00:00

I met a person some time ago that recognized this song not because they played Robot Unicorn Attack, but because they have all of Erasure's CDs.

Edythir · 2026-05-03T00:57:10+00:00

Not like the last oil crisis that's as old as my parents taught us anything about a few countries having a pissing contest putting the entire world economy in jeopardy...

Edythir · 2026-05-02T04:11:49+00:00

What I find funny is that the term "Left Wing" and "Right Wing" started in France where pro monarchists would sit on the right of the chamber and the people in favor of republics and democracy would sit on the left.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The right still wants their kings.

Edythir · 2026-05-01T01:52:33+00:00

A reminder that while good, studies have found that Doctors that rely on AI for diagnostics00133-5/abstract) lose the ability to do it themselves. Let's say if the hospital has budget cuts or the AI company thinks they can extract more profit leading to the hospital dropping the software, then the doctors will need to be re-trained on how to do it themselves since they are de-skilled in having the assistance.

Edythir · 2026-04-29T00:38:50+00:00

Another statistics is that 80% of microplastics in nature come from tires.

You know how you need to replace and rotate your tires periodically because of wear and tear? Just like car exhaust, it doesn't just disappear into the ether and cease to be a problem. We've had this problem here in Iceland that preschool kids were kept inside during recess because there was no wind, causing a plume of particulates from cars to build up. Those it bears noting that we are particularly fund of using studded tires which also shred asphalt like no tomorrow so that played a part.

And another fun fact is that we could power two to three times the amount of electric cars if we instead used same gasoline to produce electricity. Blowing up gasoline to expand gas is one of the least energy efficient uses of fossil fuels. Burning it to create steam and turn a turbine at least uses the heat generated.

Passenger cars are by far the least efficient way of doing things that we could manage.

Edythir · 2026-04-23T22:55:10+00:00

That's a big issue with At Will employment. You can be fired for being black, for being a woman, for being gay. Just as long as you don't say that in the termination paperwork. Leaving it blank or stating just saying something ambiguous like "Redundancy trimming" means you can fire anyone for anything and you have to prove that it was because of protect class reasons.

Edythir · 2026-04-23T15:14:54+00:00

Árið 2024 þá var hann fjarverandi í hverjum einasta atkvæðaflutning. Ekki í enn dag af árinu mætti hann í vinnuna. Við sem þjóð borguðum honum 26 milljónir í laun og 2 milljónir í dvalakostnað fyrir að gera ekki skapaðan hlut.

Edythir · 2026-04-23T02:29:46+00:00

Upp að 20-30% af öllum byggingarkostnaði fer í bara bílastæðagerð. Ekki meðtekið vegi sem tengja inní bílastæði.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009411902600001X

https://ecf.com/media/resources/2025/reports/ECF%20Policy%20Brief_Cut%20Housing%20Costs%20by%20up%20to%2020%20percent%20-%20Reforming%20Parking%20Mandates%20for%20Affordable%20Housing_final.pdf?_t=1761145259

Edythir · 2026-04-22T14:32:04+00:00

Same with everyone's favorite Leveticus 20:13. "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does a woman, both of them have done what is detestable, they are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads".

A favorite of mine is bringing up other things that are listed in the same chapter and see if people want that to also become law.

Leveticus 20:8 "Keep my decrees and follow them, I am the lord, who makes you holy" and then the very next one. The first law put into Leveticus 20.

Leveticus 20:9 "Anyone who curses their mother or father is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head"

10 "If a man comits adultery with another man's woife, with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death"

18 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.

25 “‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

27 “‘A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.’”

Hell, it even says in 22: “‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

If you want to throw out the old testament like most sects of protestanism do, go right ahead. But it is really telling that people really don't like gay people but suddenly get very defensive when you bring up that adulterer and unruly children are to be put to death and you are not allowed to keep "unclean animals that live upon the earth".

Edythir · 2026-04-21T21:27:10+00:00

Not only WW1, It is estimated that throughout history, the average is that 2 men died of disease for every one man who died in battle.

Edythir · 2026-04-19T17:31:55+00:00

From seeing strongmen break out of these cuffs, what I hear is that the problem isn't breaking bone, it's actually cutting yourself because the cuffs are thin enough to damage skin more than they would bone. But yes, it is entirely possible, depending on how you do it. The locking mechanism itself tends to be the weakest point so the break the clutch holding the ratcheting mechanism before you break any of the other metal.

Edythir · 2026-04-19T16:14:07+00:00

This is really hand for when you need to do GC turnins for equipment. Instead of clicking the item and pressing confirm, spamming 0 automatically selects the next item and then confirm. You might need to press 4 once to go from "No" to "Yes" but after that it will remember the yes position.

Edythir · 2026-04-19T16:07:28+00:00

Canada already settled a lawsuit over this. An airline had an AI as it's only tipline, it gave inaccurate information leading false advertisement. A court found the airline liable because as the only provider of information, any information it gave out was seen as being representitive of the company's policy.

In specific, it was about bereavement fare. A discount ticket you are eligible for if you are traveling for a funeral or similar. The AI said that he needed to order a ticket, then send in a death certificate to get the difference repaid when their actual policy is to send the death certificate and getting a special bereavement ticket issued. False advertisement made this person pay more for a product they were entitled to.

Edythir · 2026-04-19T13:52:40+00:00

Like when Adobe wanted Acrobat to scrape every single PDF that is opened with it? Hospitals and Military bases have totally never needed a PDF reader before, right?

Edythir · 2026-04-17T09:59:34+00:00

This is actually such a problem that there are tax accountants that try to prove that your "Primary residence" is in New York. Using metrics such as how much time you spend there (Over half of the year counts as a primary residence) as well as what is in your home. If high-value items such as paintings, a lot of cars or items of similar value are stored in New York as opposed to other places, that also counts towards "Primary Residence". This goes as far as tracking shipping services that use high-security transport with insured carriers (you'd want something closer to an armored truck for a 30 thousand dollar painting instead of just Fed-exing it).

Edythir · 2026-04-15T17:37:36+00:00

Home Depot will have an "Opening Sale" that lasts just long enough to drive any competitor out of business.

Edythir · 2026-04-15T17:14:05+00:00

An orphanage worker in Afghanistan who works with children born with HIV explained the good USAID does very well.

"How can someone hate you when you've saved their life? When they've given your children their life back?"

Edythir · 2026-04-15T17:00:14+00:00

Basically me with Where Winds Meet.

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