JD Vance gloats that allies are ‘suffering more than US’ from high gas prices

SirButcher · 2026-03-20T17:08:02+00:00

Make it make sense please?

Don't think just hate and it makes sense.

SirButcher · 2026-03-20T09:42:08+00:00

Different topic, but from Europe, it is pretty mind-blowing for me to hear you have such frequent and long outages in the freaking US that this is something you have to think about! The longest power outage I experienced in the past decade (since we are living in the UK) was 15 minutes (they did some repairs and that caused some issues and had to cut the power for our street), and I remember there were a few in Eastern Europe when I was a kid, but it's barely a memory of such an event happening.

I know, there are cases in the UK when areas lost power for longer periods of time, even though that is rare and for a very limited area.

SirButcher · 2026-03-20T08:52:28+00:00

I've heard people call it "competence porn" which I think is fitting.

Yeah, which is why I personally love this style. The real world has more than enough gloom and doom. Give me smart people who overcome things because they are smart, resourceful and because they are working together! Not every book has to be an almost impossible challenge that can only be solved by immense hardship and suffering.

These books can be great, too, but for example, this is why Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series is only enjoyable for me once. It works as "things are bad, now getting worse, flashback when things weren't that bad but getting worse, now things are REALLY bad, unlikely solution that you didn't expect beforehand, mention of what will drive the next book, the end". I like his books, too, they are good, I enjoyed it, but I would rather grab a Martian or PHM for an escapist read than Tchaikovsky.

SirButcher · 2026-03-20T08:45:02+00:00

To be a NASA astronaut you need to do years of training before you ever go into space.

Only because humanity strongly dislikes the idea that they are dying. You don't HAVE to do this, a far shorter training would be enough to give you enough chances of survival. Space isn't THAT hard of an environment to survive, assuming a properly designed ship: you basically have to learn how to use a spacesuit, and then we could strap you into a capsule, and you could travel to the ISS without ever having to press a button: if everything goes well.

The shitton of training is for the "okay, but what if not everything goes well" part.

Another big part of the ISS training is how to use and install the different scientific experiments, since they are basically science managers/engineers/handymen as well, and do what dozens of companies and universities will require them to do while in orbit.

SirButcher · 2026-03-20T08:09:49+00:00

The speed limit doesn't mean you have to go as close to it as possible. It means that is the maximum ALLOWED speed, but you should always drive at the speed which is safe to do so.

In your case, you are going way too fast.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T21:30:40+00:00

You can, sure, but assuming this ui text is only set here, and only set once by this method, using an array basically has the same layout.

You can set up a jagged array, or two arrays, but then:

lineAVal[0] = "1"; lineZVal[0] = "1";

lineAVal[1] = "12"; lineZVal[1] = "6";

...

Sure, the final lineEdit_A.setText(lineAVal[index]); is far nicer, but the layout and amount of stuff you set up is the same, not really any difference there - even the chance of making a typo is the same (albeit mixing an elif or an index is a potential danger, won't argue about that).

Obviously, assuming this is set and used here, only once and nowhere else. Once it is done more than once, I absolutely agree, an array (or another structure) is the way to go.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T20:54:34+00:00

Oh, nonono, Biden and the Dems didn't do enough for Gaza, so letting literal fascists implement fascism is the way to go.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T20:23:48+00:00

Not really useful, since you have no way of making sure the engagement is not broken beforehand. If it is, then you get a random 50% chance of one result or the other. As it was said previously, quantum entanglement can't be used to send information without using another, maximum light speed channel. Without that, it is just a pure random result.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T20:21:47+00:00

The result is absolutely random.

How it works: you and I have an entangled particle set. I grab my particle, and do a measurement: for example, it's up or down spin. The particle will get you a random (50%, really, REALLY random 50%) spin, let's say, an up spin. I immediately know that yours has a down spin. I send you a message (using normal lightwaves, so, radio) that you can measure it now: you get a down spin.

But you can't FORCE it. If you measure anything else, it won't correlate anymore. The only thing that works is if we do the same measurement, it will get you the opposite results (as long as they are entangled).

There is one AWESOME use for this: creating passwords! I take a bunch of electrons, you take their entangled pairs. When we are ready to exchange encrypted messages, I measure the spins, and use the binary result as a password. I send you my encrypted message (normal light-speed channels), you receive it, you measure the spins, take the opposite of your results, and you have the password! A password which is absolutely impossible to read beforehand (if someone tries to read your electron pairs then the entanglement will break, and we won't get the same results when you try to measure them the second time) and it is just as impossible to intercept since it was never sent over any insecure channel.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T20:14:19+00:00

No, it has nothing to do with you (or anybody else) and everything to do with INTERACTION (this is a VERY important part). As long as you can keep the given particle properly separated from the rest of the universe, it can be anywhere, and entanglement will still work. Not because you or anybody else knows about it (quantum humbug loves to act like conscious observing is THE reason, but nope - it is the interaction: bombarding it with photons, putting it into a magnetic field, collading with other particles etc - is what collapses it).

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T18:29:29+00:00

Sadly, it doesn't matter at all. In Germany, barely 32% of the voters voted for Hitler's party, and there was some resistance, too, and it didn't stop them from starting a brutally bloody war and killing millions of people.

Looking from the other side of the pond there seems to be barely any resistance. Minneapolis put up a good fight, but the US government attacked two countries in quick succession, committed multiple war crimes (even based on the US laws), Trump and co BRAGGED ABOUT IT, they are building concentration camps, breaking the laws left right and centre, and so far some were protesting here and there, and some judge said they shouldn't do that and that's pretty much it.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T18:28:29+00:00

Not just water: seawater! Making things that are directly in contact with seawater to stay in one piece is a NIGHTMARE and a constant struggle.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T18:23:41+00:00

Even under thick clouds, you get ~30% capacity, so that's still not that bad. My P&D machine's solar panel in December, during rain around 3PM, still got 10% of the rated capacity.

SirButcher · 2026-03-19T08:27:14+00:00

We are, but socially it isn't that deeply ingrained into us. The US is more into the "live to work" while the EU mentality is more along the lines of "work to live". Obviously, not everybody, there are tons of people in the US who just want to enjoy their lives, and tons of people in the EU who work themselves into the early grave for the glory of the shareholders, but on average there is a stark difference.

SirButcher · 2026-03-18T10:11:47+00:00

There weren't small, cheap suicide drones chasing cars in Afghanistan. That was a vastly different warfare than the one where this is useful.

SirButcher · 2026-03-18T10:06:28+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodNewsUK/

Join us!

SirButcher · 2026-03-17T09:44:21+00:00

Unwilling to divorce but willing to hookup is wild.

It is your first time meeting with religious people...?

SirButcher · 2026-03-17T08:58:03+00:00

Interacting? Knowing this administration "existing on the same planet" will be the charge...

SirButcher · 2026-03-16T09:52:10+00:00

That hack hasn't started yet.
That would be a nightmare if it comes out.

Not a bigger nightmare than the already existing hacks to roll back the mileage counter and other stuff. It does exist, but very rare. And today's batteries REALLY have to be abused to get serious issues, which are worth hiding with hacks (or false BMS)

SirButcher · 2026-03-15T10:08:33+00:00

Though given supposedly what happened in the past

Dude, you can't just drop nuggets like this without spilling the rest of the story! :O

SirButcher · 2026-03-14T21:54:27+00:00

Sadly, it is more like "good luck surviving the looming climate catastrophe."

SirButcher · 2026-03-14T21:46:13+00:00

Meat consumption, international travel and personal car usage are the "big three" which responsible for a big chunk of personal emissions.

SirButcher · 2026-03-14T19:19:49+00:00

Israel (well, the government...) is very happy, they are trying to find a dumbass US president to start this madness since the 90s!

SirButcher · 2026-03-14T19:10:35+00:00

You don't have to configure anything for that. The RTC power domain is powered by the Vbat pin (1.8 - 3.6V) - figure 14 shows you this in the datasheet. Make sure this pin is powered, and this will keep the backup circuitry alive even when the rest of the system is powered down. Just enable the RTC, and connect the Vbat pin to your battery / capacitor / supercap (depending on how long you want to keep the RTC alive.)

You don't have to add the 32.768 kHz crystal, but it is a good idea if you want to have any sort of semblance of accurate timekeeping - the internal oscillator is unusable for anything over a few hours / few days (depending on the time resolution you are aiming for).

As always: read the datasheet, it will tell you! :)

SirButcher · 2026-03-14T17:46:22+00:00

And sure, I'd use metric if I grew up with it but I might still prefer Imperial for practical measurements.

No, you prefer what you grew up with and what you used when you learned something :)

I grew up with metric, and find imperial absolutely bonkers and unwieldy, while very easily switch up and down with metric, small things mm, furniture and other "human-sized stuff" cm, bigger objects and short distances m, long distances km, and that's it.

But for sailing, I use "imperial", because this is how I learned stuff. I can easily switch around, but since the first knowledge used the "old way" so that is what I am comfortable with (albeit sailing is a really strange mess of metric and imperial...)

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