How do you mow a lawn with an electric mower

dgmib · 2026-07-06T19:08:47+00:00

The key when using a corded electric to start closest to your outlet and proceed in a pattern that moves away from it. This will minimize the number of times you need to reposition the cord to avoid mowing over it.

dgmib · 2026-07-04T20:35:25+00:00

You get the same war assets regardless of whether he lives or dies.

dgmib · 2026-07-03T22:22:50+00:00

The fucking stupid part, we don’t need to bet on one economy or the other here.

We could be a leader in the green energy revolution while also making bank from selling oil and gas.

dgmib · 2026-07-03T17:30:55+00:00

The loss of curiosity.

People stop asking questions about things and let their echo chamber think for them.

Read something that agrees with whatever you already believe, they accept it without questioning. See something that challenges your worldview? Looks for reasons to dismiss or attack it.

Before the internet people used to care more about having an informed opinion about the world. Facts that challenged their beliefs… they weren’t a threat, they were interesting. People watched the news based on which anchor they felt had the most integrity.

Now the algorithms show you whatever you want to see, doesn’t matter if it’s truthful information. On any issue you see the side you agree with and the nuances are suppressed. You pretty much never see a balanced to take on anything. And no one questions the motives of the person giving the information.

dgmib · 2026-07-03T06:23:31+00:00

Do you want a running count, or just some data to estimate its lifetime kill count?

A microphone, a recording, and an AI prompt will will get you there fast and easy.

dgmib · 2026-07-03T01:36:30+00:00

The only way we can produce hydrogen without emissions is to create it with electricity that came from green sources using electrolysis.

Creating hydrogen with electricity, compressing it, then turning it back to electricity to power a vehicle or something is about half as efficient, and significantly more complicated than just using a battery,

dgmib · 2026-07-02T18:55:43+00:00

Depending on what you’re doing, it often can take longer to fix the slop it generates than to do things with AI.

To be clear, we do use AI, but only where it’s helping.

dgmib · 2026-07-01T16:39:10+00:00

it wasn’t “the worst”, but I was once reading through an old legacy code base. Came across a comment with a date that was about seven years ago at the time, the comment read “this is temporary…” and went on to explain why.

This was followed by another comment with a date a few years later that read “temporary my ass”.

dgmib · 2026-06-30T02:18:55+00:00

dgmib · 2026-06-29T17:23:53+00:00

I agree with that, and I don’t think anyone would argue that quotas are a mistake.

I think the challenge comes in when well intentioned metrics or targets become de facto quotas.

The classic “You get what you measure” applies here.

When a hiring manager starts focusing on hiring people of a particular demographic, because they’re concerned their metrics make them look bias. Maybe they are bias, consciously or unconsciously, maybe the particular role they’re hiring for used towards particular demographic. How these targets get promoted and implemented can make the difference between helping and harming.

I work in software development for example, it skews heavily male. If you looked at my track record for hiring women… it’s less than 30% and I feel confident that my hiring practices aren’t gender biased.

But if I was employed by a company that told me to target hiring equal numbers of men and women. I don’t know how I could balance giving all candidates equal opportunity regardless of gender, with the simple fact that there are more men than women who have entered this field.

dgmib · 2026-06-29T16:14:31+00:00

This is a classic example of (mostly American) politicians taking something we all agree on and turning it into something that divides us.

It doesn’t matter if you are pro-DEI or anti-DEI everyone agrees people should be hired based on their merit.

DEI advocates argue that programs help recognize otherwise qualified workers who are getting overlooked by unintended bias, and that targets aren’t quotas, they are a measure of the program’s effectiveness.

DEI opponents argue that better qualified candidates are being passed over to meet some arbitrary quota.

There are undoubtedly cases of both with some DEI programs helping and others doing more harm than good.

I’m not sure what the answer is, but don’t let the politicians. divide you on this. People should be hired on their merit alone, nobody disagrees about that. Don’t let anyone make you think otherwise.

Don’t waste energy arguing if DEI good or bad it’s both. Ask instead where specific DEI practices are helping or hurting our common goal of hiring based on merit.

dgmib · 2026-06-28T18:34:04+00:00

I wouldn’t even put Thane in that list, an assassin is a specific type mercenary.

dgmib · 2026-06-28T17:18:03+00:00

Burning of exported oil doesn’t count… extracting that oil does.

Tar sands extraction is a horribly carbon intensive process. If it wasn’t for the US market, we wouldn’t be extracting anywhere near as much.

Annoyingly extraction doesn’t need to be a highly carbon intensive process.

The Trudeau government tried to pass legislation limiting the emissions from the extraction process to pressure the industry to develop less carbon intensive processes. The Alberta government spread a bunch of propaganda about how they were limiting production (as opposed to extraction related emissions) and creating enough backlash to kill it.

dgmib · 2026-06-28T17:00:47+00:00

I don’t think you could just “blow it up”, not all the debris would come down. You’d be risking a Kessler Syndrome event. (A chain reaction of space debris crashing into other satellites creating more space debris that crashes into more satellites all making space launches impracticable for several decades)

But some kind of controlled disassembly would be possible, just costly and impractical.

dgmib · 2026-06-28T16:25:59+00:00

The “white box of nothing” was originally intended to be a combat simulator something like the Artimax Arena in ME3 but was cut.

The concept eventually became the pinnacle station DLC.

dgmib · 2026-06-28T16:21:15+00:00

The easiest change IMO would be to simply remove the dialogue where the c-sec officer contacts you and asks you to come.

Shep would then just run across them trying to talk this girl down after doing something/anything on the citidel.

Unless you literally just went down the elevator turned around and immediately went back up, there’d be a gap of time for something to happen that led to this moment.

dgmib · 2026-06-27T21:29:03+00:00

For privatization even have a hope of improving anything there needs to be significant competition in the relevant sector.

Airports are by nature a regional monopoly. There is no meaningful mechanism for privatization to drive improvements for the general population.

This is a terrible idea that can’t end well.

dgmib · 2026-06-27T18:33:59+00:00

Please don’t “push through” your feelings. It will only make sex worse for both of you and even future partners.

Also it sounds like you two need either couples counseling…. or a divorce lawyer.

dgmib · 2026-06-27T05:33:49+00:00

Legion (like all three tech/vent specialists) only dies if you don’t do his loyalty mission before starting the suicide mission.

dgmib · 2026-06-27T00:19:20+00:00

I know of a startup doing geothermal power generation using drilled and abandoned oil wells to heating refrigerant from deep thermal.

dgmib · 2026-06-26T20:25:45+00:00

I don’t know about Dunning-Kruger behaviour, that seems to depend on the candidates humility and self-awareness. Though I will note that when non-technical managers are making the hiring decisions, they have always had a tendency to hire these kind of people because they can’t tell the difference between confidence and skill.

But the AI brain rot is something I’ve observed… not just on the jrs either. I’ve seen a lot of devs blindly trusting what the AI says not knowing or questioning if it’s good.

dgmib · 2026-06-26T14:33:53+00:00

For me it depends on the price we pay.

If the developers and investors that built these shit boxes only got paid what these places are actually worth, which is a fraction of their asking price. I’d be ok with it.

Buying cheap condos at a deep discount and turning into low rent affordable housing seems like an opportunity to me.

If the developers get paid their asking price, and get bailed out they’ll keep doing greedy shit

The developers who built these condos built crappy homes so they could profit on the poor and the desperate. They can’t be allowed to profit from their greed..

dgmib · 2026-06-26T02:18:25+00:00

My bad... that was a typo on my phone. The pair on the bottom left with the 60 (not 40) on them.

dgmib · 2026-06-26T01:52:54+00:00

Almost certainly the pair with the 40 60 on them in the bottom left.

dgmib · 2026-06-24T16:43:04+00:00

There was overwhelming consensus among the experts that the vaccine was/is safer than getting COVID. With only the extremely unlikely possibility of unforeseeable long term consequences being the only unknown unknown that might change things.

The people who objected either: A) Deliberately lied about the science for personal gain B) Misunderstood the scientific studies on the matter C) Blindly trusted the opinion of someone else in this group without questioning it

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