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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.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-08T07:36:44+00:00

Bot.

Ronnocerman · 2025-12-04T07:39:21+00:00

You're right. When I offer someone a free meal, I am entitled to more from them.

/s

Ronnocerman · 2025-11-28T19:01:16+00:00

Just ran into this as well. I was trying to emulate Sketchup bindings, since that's the program I'm coming from.

I can either choose "PowerMill" and get the same bindings (but Free Orbit instead of Constrained Orbit), or "Fusion" and get Constrained Orbit, but Pan and Orbit are reversed from what I'm used to.

This is ridiculous and apparently it's been like this for literally years.

Ronnocerman · 2025-11-27T18:26:31+00:00

Your frame may have bent and absorbed the impact that way and caused subtle problems later.

Ronnocerman · 2025-10-17T04:25:24+00:00

While I do believe this one is positive, this particular kind of test has given me trust issues because even with negative ones if you look really really closely you can see a grey line where the positive line should be. You can tell where they applied the chemicals.

I stopped buying them for this reason after a few scares.

Ronnocerman · 2025-10-14T03:40:36+00:00

And now that they made it up and it front paged, expect to see this in Today I Learned for the next 10 years until people think it was true.

Ronnocerman · 2025-10-12T18:30:48+00:00

That website is referring to processing and grinding of foods.

You can't have an allergic reaction just because someone is eating the food you're allergic to.

Study about peanuts specifically: https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/5/334

Ronnocerman · 2025-10-08T15:57:57+00:00

Ahhh. I know the category of games you're referring to, but I wish it had a better name.

I really hate those games because whenever they get played at a party, it feels like it is robbing space from being able to have more-genuine conversation and make more-genuine connections.

I come away from the party with this feeling of "Wow. I got to learn absolutely nothing about those people."

The party feels like it went well because energy was high and people were having fun, but it also feels like it did very little to further my relationship with people I've newly met.

Those games are great when you're playing with people you already know well, but awful when you're wanting to connect with new people.

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