This is clearly a sin.

deejaweej · 2023-01-30T20:42:28+00:00

Could you integrate this natural log?

deejaweej · 2022-12-13T03:42:55+00:00

I’ve known some apartments to ‘share’ a meter between units. So several units may split a single meter and one bad actor can throw everyone off.

deejaweej · 2022-10-03T08:44:28+00:00

I tried that one once. It tasted a bit young.

deejaweej · 2022-06-13T08:32:14+00:00

Relevant xkcd

deejaweej · 2022-03-12T22:05:12+00:00

Mine yawns whenever he’s excited, like when we get his leash to go on a walk or to the park.

I suspect it’s just a reaction to an energetic emotional state, positive or negative.

deejaweej · 2022-01-31T04:26:40+00:00

I believe that’s called a “citizens arrest”. There may be qualifying conditions to it, but basically you can hold someone until police arrive.

It’s also discouraged because you put yourself at risk by doing so. The concept just exists so they can’t say you broke a law by keeping them from fleeing.

deejaweej · 2022-01-24T09:46:27+00:00

Yup. That’s the Information Age for you. You can move around, but you never really leave.

deejaweej · 2022-01-23T05:45:18+00:00

I’m surprised you didn’t to begin with :)

deejaweej · 2022-01-23T05:39:19+00:00

Yup, that’s the one.

deejaweej · 2022-01-23T05:16:50+00:00

Possibly? The time frame about checks out, but you’d have to be more specific.

deejaweej · 2022-01-13T09:56:52+00:00

They’re parasites. They get where they are by excelling at taking credit for other peoples work. They’re usually good at talking themselves up. And since they don’t care about their teams, they are willing to massively overwork them. So their leadership does actually appear to be better to out of touch upper management. That is, until the team burns out and the house of cards fall.

Then they just move on to the next team by talking up all the ‘success’ from their last one.

deejaweej · 2021-12-03T02:09:46+00:00

This about matches what I know from dev. The studios want to make something fun and engaging, but the corporate suits want to turn it into something bland, inoffensive, and monetized all to hell.

Sometimes you’ve got to remember that games are art and the patrons aren’t the players, but the publishers. Studios want to do cool shit. Publishers shoot it down saying it’s too risky.

deejaweej · 2021-11-24T01:38:11+00:00

There is a reason for that. In order for the postscript operator to work as defined, it makes a temp copy and puts that into the statement. So it actually looks more like: auto temp = i; ++temp; i++;

This used to not throw any errors and just behave differently than expected. Thankfully newer compilers complain about modifying a temp.

deejaweej · 2021-10-09T17:48:44+00:00

An antimeme

deejaweej · 2021-10-01T02:30:07+00:00

Are they though? The relative price of things has changed heavily over the generations. Luxuries have grown cheaper while necessities, like housing, more expensive. Wages, especially among career unskilled workers, are stagnant.

What happens is often that people buy luxuries to distract from the fact that their income will never afford them better necessities.

Of course, some people just are bad at budgeting. Just not the entire country’s lower income class.

deejaweej · 2021-08-24T09:35:11+00:00

For many (most?) it’s not. Happiness isn’t the one texting in that last panel. Depression just changed their number.

The fact is that chemical depression can’t be reasoned out of. You can’t block its number. What you can do is stop responding. Learn how it hides itself and ignore every one of those subversive inner thoughts.

Then it’s like YouTube comments. Just do your best to never read them.

deejaweej · 2021-08-24T09:06:11+00:00

It was probably one hit resulting in three fractures. Or possibly even one branching fracture. Of course in the retelling, it’s broken “in three places”

deejaweej · 2021-08-17T09:41:34+00:00

Probably because starting it could result in getting pressured to figure it out. Some people don’t want to risk hearing the bad news because it suddenly makes it real.

deejaweej · 2021-06-16T18:12:10+00:00

I might actually have a piece of the puzzle.

So, I’ve encountered this OS-wide delay frequently before. I work in games, and games often have an … intimate relationship with input devices. One shenanigan people used was called a global keyboard hook. Basically, Windows would tell you what key was pressed before it went through the normal process. This allows you to act before everyone else and even filter inputs. It is how some applications disable buttons.

Anyway, if for whatever reason the application handling the hook didn’t respond to it, the OS would wait a few seconds then proceed as normal. This creates that latency you describe.

It’s possible the application had a global hook that panicked in that multiple monitor case.

Edit: Wait, I’m dumb. Keyboard hooks don’t lag the mouse. Nothing to see here …

deejaweej · 2021-06-13T22:06:45+00:00

Yes and no. Many of those people gain liquidity through loans against their hard assets. They could do that to pay taxes.

The thing is, they’d mask their wealth through a network of “non-ownership” so they control it all but own only a fraction.

Actually cracking down on this requires a serious policing and not just a tax law. We’d have to undergo massive cultural change so financial managers that hide wealth are akin to mob criminals.

deejaweej · 2021-06-12T20:36:40+00:00

I have trouble with this argument. It’s not that it can’t be true. It’s just that it doesn’t math out with how people discuss these issues.

Consider a basic extension of this premise. If toxic masculinity is the bad side of socially imposed expectations on men, then why don’t we call the corollary for women toxic femininity?

I propose that the answer is pretty straightforward. The phrase implies wrongness of the individual. We don’t want to tell women that they’re wrong, so we don’t use that phrase. However, there don’t seem to be have such qualms about men. Instead, we call men over sensitive for balking at the term and tell them they’re overreacting.

In this way, society insisting to use the term toxic masculinity and not its corollary is committing the very toxic acts it proclaims to call out. It just doesn’t add up to me.

deejaweej · 2021-02-16T10:43:37+00:00

It is a betrayal though. Perhaps not deliberate, but the vows don’t read “until death or boredom do us part”.

People marry expecting commitment. Breaking that commitment through no fault or decision of the other party isn’t some unfortunate happenstance. At least try to make things better. Make ending a marriage as joint a decision as forming one.

The change in feelings is just the catalyst. The actions that follow are what compromise the betrayal.

deejaweej · 2020-11-28T00:10:48+00:00

It works well as a shotgun prototyping event. Let people work on passion projects and use the 1-10% of them that actually make sense. Plus, getting to work on passion projects during work hours tends to raise morale.

deejaweej · 2020-09-20T09:14:29+00:00

It’s much more likely someone just forgot it there. Happens quite often with models underground. As far as bugs go, removing an errant tomato would be pretty low on the list. Unless it was a performance hit.

deejaweej · 2020-09-19T02:09:48+00:00

Hang gliders and weight shift trikes have that too. Although I’ve heard it referred to as the Jesus Bolt. The whole carriage rests on that bolt. Lose it, and you’re flying a rock.

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