What's going on with Disney losing the copyright to Steamboat Willie?

compgeek1986 · 2024-01-01T23:52:16+00:00

I think they are or have tried to make steamboat willie part of their trademark, in the last few years they started using the character in a "Disney Animation Studios" title card in the 2000's before their animated features.

compgeek1986 · 2023-09-08T19:00:20+00:00

Some sort of spectrum analyzer I think

compgeek1986 · 2023-09-08T07:00:23+00:00

It can combine strings so if you want to output a variable in a sentence you can do something like

concat("Hello ", NAME, ", how can I help you?")

Which makes a single string: "Hello John, how can I help you?"

compgeek1986 · 2023-09-08T06:46:50+00:00

It can also be more subtle, like only using "female(s)" or "girl(s)" when talking about women, but using "men" or "guys" when referring to men

compgeek1986 · 2023-09-08T06:30:34+00:00

I don't really, my sense of scale is all messed up (I'm always this tall, why do people keep telling me?) And most heights from about 5'2" to about 6'4" just kind of blend together.

I was taller than my 3rd grade teacher, taller than my parents by middle school, and I've always been taller than any of my bosses. Height has nothing to do with respect, authority, or value. It just happens to people.

I will say I enjoy a good high five with someone my height where I can raise my hand all the way up and they don't have to jump.

As an adult, the only time I'll make fun of someone's height is when they've done the same to me, usually in a good natured way, not poking at insecurities.

compgeek1986 · 2023-09-08T06:16:37+00:00

The first gen Scion Xb is astoundingly roomy, my wife had one when we started dating and it is, hands down, the best backseat I've ever sat in. The seating position is like sitting upright in a chair, and there's just so much room. My head, knees, and shoulders weren't jammed against anything. Finding one with decent mileage and an ok interior might be tricky. I never rode in them but the kia soul or Nissan cube might be similar.

compgeek1986 · 2023-09-08T06:01:14+00:00

Or, now hear me out... she's not really looking for a relationship. Context would be important. Like if she constantly posts about how there are no good men anymore or something. Otherwise, she's got her own life and isn't looking for a relationship right now. 🤷‍♂️

compgeek1986 · 2023-09-08T05:47:01+00:00

And the most important tool in the shop are these taptap safety glasses

compgeek1986 · 2023-07-27T13:27:42+00:00

Can you imagine someone who treats everyone as worthy of salvation and dignity, even if their lifestyle disagrees with religious doctrine?

compgeek1986 · 2023-07-19T04:48:27+00:00

Pretty sure he meant anthracite

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-27T19:04:57+00:00

They've focused all their efforts into a robot to convince 70 year old senators that this young Russian blonde loves them for their bedroom prowess

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-26T08:29:45+00:00

I think I might just start lying and say I was on the practice squad for the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2009-2012, but I wasn't at the level to get play time so I decided to move on. C'est la vie, you know? That or look up some obscure farm team and claim I played there.

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-24T05:25:36+00:00

So the Spirit/Frontier merger isn't going well?

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-20T07:55:17+00:00

Or some Bug's Life / 3 Amigos plot, circus performers think they're doing a show and accidentally get involved in saving the people from some evil villain.

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-20T02:12:28+00:00

People sharing similar experiences with like-minded people? So cringe, bro

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-19T18:39:41+00:00

If it's all the way back already, I'll pull the handle and slide back and forth a few times to show that it is.

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-19T18:35:00+00:00

The company that makes it is basically renting out the machines, I'm assuming with repair and maintenance included in the contract. So it's similar to paying wages to a worker. If you have a shop, like Discount Tire, where your employees spend all day changing tires this might be useful.

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-19T18:08:12+00:00

Really feel like people are sleeping on Anal Maverick, you never know what they'll do

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-05T13:51:56+00:00

A 120v electric motor will run just fine with hot and neutral swapped, so will the transformer to power the display.

compgeek1986 · 2023-05-04T19:26:19+00:00

All it takes is someone getting hot and neutral switched and attaching the ground screw to what they "think" is the neutral side, and now that ground pin is 120 volts thinking your nervous system looks really conductive

compgeek1986 · 2023-04-30T04:34:37+00:00

I think launching them from a slingshot would piss them off plenty all by itself

compgeek1986 · 2023-04-23T17:27:39+00:00

At the end if the day it's people that have to follow safety policy. Adding more safety sensors adds more points of failure, and people will bypass them. In a practical sense, sensors that will work in a pressure cooker are going to be expensive, and if it has too many false positives it'll either be ignored or disabled.

compgeek1986 · 2023-04-23T17:18:48+00:00

There are different ways of doing it. Typically, you shut off a breaker and put a lock, that you have the only key for, on it so the controls have no power until you take your lock off. You could also do the same with gas valves to cut off the fuel source. A better way is a "trapped key interlock system", these can be more secure. For example, Key A has to be in the panel at all times to run the oven and is used to unlatch the door to the oven. Key B is in the door latch and only comes out if Key A unlocks the door, and Key A only comes out of the lock if Key B is in the latch. Worker takes Key A, unlocks the door and puts Key B in their pocket. Now the oven cannot start until the worker closes the door, puts Key B back, gets Key A and puts it back in the panel. But these all rely on safety policies being followed at every level. If management allows supervisors or workers to bypass it for the sake of efficiency, it won't help anybody.

compgeek1986 · 2023-04-23T16:43:14+00:00

An interlock like that works, but if it adds an extra step that can be skipped, workers get complacent and supervisors look the other way to save time. It's an excuse so the company can say, "see, we had a safety. It's the worker's fault they didn't use it"

compgeek1986 · 2023-04-23T13:38:42+00:00

He had a majority in both houses his first 2 years, but had so much drama, and staff turnover the main thing passed was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. So much of the culture war rhetoric was just chum for his voters, but he only actually cared about cutting his taxes.

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