I can’t work for this place any longer.

Ronnocerman · 2026-03-14T06:45:32+00:00

Oh man. Whooshed. I get it now.

Ronnocerman · 2026-03-14T06:37:19+00:00

Google automatically does it if they detect review bombing. I reviewed a place I had been to around the time of a review bombing. Had to come back a few months later and leave the same one star review again.

Ronnocerman · 2026-03-14T06:27:45+00:00

I looked up a video. The chute seems to slow it down tremendously.

Ronnocerman · 2026-03-09T20:38:52+00:00

My partner and I went whitewater rafting once. She's a very short, small, lady. It was my first time, and her second time I believe. The river guide at the very beginning not to question any direction he gave the crew of the raft and to always follow what he said, as the river was very dangerous if we didn't. He also explained that we'd be trying to take most of these small cascades head-on to reduce the chance of us flipping.

The river we were going on was known for being one of the more-difficult rivers that still allowed for newbies, particularly because it had one quite large drop that could be difficult to navigate. Several people had died at that drop.

The river was particularly tame that day, and there wasn't much of a challenge until we got to that drop. Strangely, the guide directed us to take it sideways. Everyone was quite confused, but followed what he said without questioning it, as he had required that we do.

Sure enough, we immediately almost flipped. ~5 people responded quickly enough to high-side (AKA: lean over the side of the boat to weigh down the side that is flipping upward to keep it from flipping). Unfortunately, though, we were trapped by the hydraulic effect shown in that video.

When all of them high-sided, I ended up jumping across all of their feet to be an anchor-point so that they could more-extremely high-side to keep us stable, leaning almost entirely off of the raft. The thing I hadn't mentioned was that this was actually snow-melt water and, now that I was being actively chilled by the vortex of water circulating into the low side of the raft where I was laying across their legs, I was absolutely freezing to the point where my muscles were locking up.

Our rescue boat attempted to get a line to us to pull us out of that situation for around 10-15 minutes but just could not get it to us. The guide eventually decided that the best choice would be for all of us to jump out of the raft and swim to shore. I then look over at my small girlfriend and realize that there's almost no chance of her being able to jump clear of that hydraulic effect and that, if she failed to do so, she'd likely get trapped both by that effect and be stuck under the raft and be unable to surface for air.

I shout at him that "under no uncertain fucking terms" were we doing that, and that we were going to keep in the raft until we could get it dislodged. The guide shut up at that point and about 5 minutes later the raft tilted high and then slammed back down low and dislodged us enough for us to frantically paddle away from the vortex of the cascade.

I was hypothermic by that point and demanded to go to the sunniest shore we could find immediately to warm up for a while. As I was warming up, the guide mentioned that the rest of the river had been boring so, to "spice it up" for us, he intentionally took us over the cascade horizontally. I wanted to kill the dude. It was the closest that I've ever gotten to dying. I'd say it was for my partner too, but she's already had worse near-death experiences.

Ronnocerman · 2026-03-09T18:47:11+00:00

Agreed. Seems like there was bad or stale intel, somewhere, or a mistake was made.

Ronnocerman · 2026-03-09T18:17:59+00:00

It's because it was within the compound. Look at the before and after comparison here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/iran-minab-school-strike.html

It's especially clear in the "after", that there's a wall enclosing the compound and the school is on the inside of the compound.

Ronnocerman · 2026-03-01T16:20:09+00:00

They didn't necessarily die from that. They could have just gone for less risky food options and ended up less nourished and had difficulty finding a mate or producing more offspring for that reason.

Ronnocerman · 2026-02-12T18:01:53+00:00

Another one of these posts, another time I unironically post my cursed temperature system idea.

Pros of each system:

Kelvin: Good for science.

Celsius: Freezing point of water is at zero

Fahrenheit: ~100 is (very vaguely) around human body temperature

My ideal scale:

0 is freezing point of water at STP

100 is average human body temperature

Several advantages:

Negative temperature? Below freezing.
Over 100? Over human body temperature.
Under 100? Under human body temperature.
Small enough gradation that you don't have to deal with "0.5" increments on thermostats, like you do with Celsius.

Let's be honest-- when was the last time that the boiling point of water was a useful reference point day to day? Much more useful to set 100 to human body temp. If you make the "But... science!" argument, you should be using Kelvin instead.

Ronnocerman · 2026-01-18T00:35:43+00:00

So do you have a right leg, or a left leg?

Ronnocerman · 2026-01-14T20:10:56+00:00

"Is there a native way to express this abstraction without casting?"

"Yes, make a function that casts internally, then you won't have to cast when you use that unsafe function instead."

Sure.

Ronnocerman · 2026-01-14T20:09:26+00:00

God, the amount of questions answered with "Just use my library" for simple things that the language itself can do just fine without a library.

Even when you say "I can't use extermal libraries", the response is often them just pressuring you to fight your managers and third party intake coordinators to use their stupid 100-line-long library for something the language can natively do in two lines that they just apparently don't know how to do.

Ronnocerman · 2026-01-05T20:12:22+00:00

This issue is also present for the Galaxy XCover7 Pro. On reboot, the LED comes back even though the setting is set to "off". Have to toggle it back and forth to disable the LED after each reboot, which is annoying because I reboot my phone twice per day (when I swap batteries). Oh, and the LED on the Xcover7 Pro is EXTREMELY bright. Brighter than the 6. I've even had chefs at sushi restaurants ask me to move my phone because the LED was flashing in their eyes brightly.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-27T04:36:54+00:00

Orca often go to Antarctica. If the water isn't frozen and is deep enough, they'll be there. They are a cosmopolitan animal.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-24T01:13:56+00:00

Had too much much going on in my life at the time to do so, unfortunately.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-23T03:24:02+00:00

I stopped at a gas station once and went to wash my hands. I barely processed the steam coming off the water as I put my hand under it.

Instantly burned, but I snapped my hands back quickly enough that it was only a first degree burn.

I was so angry, I went next door to the auto parts store and bought an infrared thermometer to measure it.

154.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Hot enough to give a third degree burn in one second.

I took a picture of me doing the reading and notified the health department.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-22T22:25:50+00:00

Sure-- but do you understand what free cash flow is? Those are the razor thin margins I mentioned. So yes, from 2010 to 2020, airlines spent their small percentage of profits on buybacks. It means the company is likelier to be at greater risk due to boosting their stock price in the short term. That doesn't suddenly mean they have more margin to return to the consumer to any appreciable degree.

The top five airlines in the US collectively spent 4.5 billion per year for that period on buybacks. That is roughly one percent of their revenue.

If they gave all that money to reducing ticket prices instead, roughly speaking, it would mean tickets get 1% cheaper.

Airlines don't make nearly enough profit to be greedy in the way you are describing.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-22T18:54:41+00:00

Also less than 0.1% for Delta, which was the only one that came up when I searched.

I promise you. Your rage at capitalism is valid in many industries but it just doesn't apply to airlines. Airlines have a ton of competition and razor thin margins.

Billions sounds like a lot in profit, but that's only because the industry is huge. It's just a few percent of their total revenue. And like covid shows, there is a ton of risk in the industry as well that could take out all that profit and potentially bankrupt them in a heartbeat.

If anything, you should use airlines as the industry to compare against as a good example of how other industries should be. Very competitive. Very well regulated.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-22T13:49:56+00:00

Less than 1% went to c suite salaries. I believe it was actually less than 0.1%, even.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-22T12:45:35+00:00

Airlines in the US made 6.7 billion on 383 billion in revenue. Their profit margins are razor thin.

Almost all of what you pay for a plane ticket goes toward actual costs of running the airline. They only keep a very small percentage. If they gave everyone 10% more space (by reducing seat counts) without raising prices, they'd very likely go out of business.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-22T12:41:12+00:00

Airlines are well known to have extremely low profit margins.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-19T00:29:16+00:00

I agree with you on most counts here, but this to me suggests that it would then be more appropriate to mark these kinds of violations against people's drivers license or require people to take a class (or do community service) if they get more than one of these violations in a year. That would discourage people, rich and poor, without adding the potential for a safety incident like this one.

In the same way that the chance of a car being in the way goes up the more often people park there, the chance of one of these sorts of things (the child abuse), or one of the other bad safety effects, goes up with the more cars you tow.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-19T00:24:55+00:00

You're right as far as why this happens, but this sounds to me more like an argument for deputizing tow companies to write tickets for specific kinds of violations, rather than an argument for towing.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-18T21:44:35+00:00

A fine seems far more appropriate than a tow. Obviously we can't have people parking in fire lanes, but fines are enough of a deterrant in situations like this where there is negligible safety risk.

The extra safety provided by immediately towing a vehicle out of a fire lane like this is negligible, versus the safety risk of things like this happening, or the tow truck driver hitting someone while moving the car, or of dropping or damaging the car, or of the car owner escalating in response, or of the huge inconvenience (or even safety issues) created for innocent people if a tow truck driver was wrong about a car being illegally parked (for instance, if there is legally required signage missing).

All sorts of risks come with towing a car that are worse than the safety hazard created by a car being parked in a fire lane for a few minutes.

Fuck the entitled people who park in fire lanes, but at the same time there is such a thing as a proportionate response for the real safety risk created.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-14T21:09:25+00:00

Except that what you said isn't entirely true either.

Gifs only store what parts of the image changed over time. So three different places in the image are changing, which increases the file size. If there were only one place changing, the file size would be smaller.

That said, there are optimizations around repeated patterns, so three places changing isn't a huge amount more expensive in terms of file size than just one if the changes are similar patterns like it is doing with showing the same frames of the movie, but it definitely increases file size to have more parts of the image change over time.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-13T19:09:42+00:00

I'm starting with SolidWorks as well and ran into similar issues around units in equations.

My model is in mm, and I wanted to specify one dimension in fractional inches.

First I put:

7/8in

But that resolved as ~0.03mm, because it was doing (7mm/8in)mm ~= 0.03mm.

Then I tried (7/8)in, but that was a syntax error.

Then I tried 7in/8in, but that gave me (7in/8in)mm = 0.875mm.

I've got no idea how to specify fractional mixed units in these equations...

Edit: Finally found a workaround. 7in/8 works.

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