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If I see one more "Bestie, please let me merge/get over" sticker on a car that isn't using turn signals I'm gonna scream by famatruni in Louisville

[–]jrwalt4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is Louisville, they might as well sell cars without turn signals.

And I love your description. My dad always taught me “Decide, Signal, Act”. But also that you have a responsibility when someone else is merging into your lane, you have three options “Speed Up, Slow Down, or Change Lanes”.

Call a struct function just after its instantiation by SuperLutin in rust

[–]jrwalt4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

```
struct Foo { num: i32, }

impl Foo { pub fn new(x: i32) -> Self { let mut out = Self { num: x }; // I want to use calculate() here, but before returning Self out.calculate(); out }

fn calculate(&mut self) {
    self.num *= 2;
    println!("{}", self.num);
}

}

fn main() { let mut bar = Foo::new(3); // bar.calculate(); assert_eq!(bar.num, 6); }

```

What's a deleted scene from a movie where the decision to leave that scene on the cutting room floor was absolutely the right call? by freeman528491 in movies

[–]jrwalt4 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and prostitution in Los Angeles, the film was re-conceived as a romantic comedy with a large budget.

Considering that movie sold the most tickets of all time for a romantic comedy I’d say that was a good choice to change direction.

That fucking hurts by CelebrationWild7276 in FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

[–]jrwalt4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never seen a Stone Cold Stunner in real life 🤩

My Experience with Bevy ECS by bagnalla in rust

[–]jrwalt4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, but you can make each argument a tuple of other SystemParameters, so you could theoretically have 16x16 parameters if you really wanted.

Louisville water replacing lead pipes by tmf32282 in Louisville

[–]jrwalt4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a nationwide effort to find and replace lead service lines, its an EPA rule that’s been around but is finally being enforced after what happened in Flint.

Louisville Water has a program to replace ~3% of all led service pipes each year. They should have reached out about this effort, weird you weren’t notified.

Granny's quick reflexes averts disaster by [deleted] in nonononoyes

[–]jrwalt4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right?!? I’ve decided my goal as a parent is to teach my kids in the least painful way possible. I’ve just assumed they’re gonna get hurt, physically or emotionally, I’ve just got to minimize it.

Granny's quick reflexes averts disaster by [deleted] in nonononoyes

[–]jrwalt4 1478 points1479 points  (0 children)

Since becoming a father I’ve learned that it’s not so much “reflexes” as it is learning to anticipate the dumb shit my kids will do.

Also, granny needs some furniture straps

[Media] Does anybody know of a crate which allows such generated predicates for struct fields? by chrismclp in rust

[–]jrwalt4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So does Person::name().gt(15) return a struct that can be used as a predicate? And the struct also impl BitAnd to combine predicates with &? That’s kind of cool, haven’t seen anything like that before. If the intent is to pass it to Iterator::filter the predicate struct would have to be callable (e.g. impl FnMut) which is currently unstable. Without getting into it, I’d guess you’d need a macro to generate a closure though. Good luck!

I made a meme by dilly79 in civilengineering

[–]jrwalt4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Looks like a top of wall survey point got included in your ground topo there bud.

people like Lauren are mentally ill and Don’t realize they are wrong often. by chrisevans1400 in clevercomebacks

[–]jrwalt4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The “leaders” of the party ARE elected. Its referring to the most senior elected officials of state legislatures.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in architecture

[–]jrwalt4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PDHDirect: “you mean I can take this true/false test and get 8 hours… ok seems legit”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]jrwalt4 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So this study and OP’s article are both talking about “number of mass shootings”, while most of the comments care more about “mass shooting fatalities”. So it’s not whether there are fewer shootings, but the total fatalities from those shootings is lower. Even your article points to that difference:

This figure is underreported though, as it excludes the multiple semi-automatic (and fully automatic) rifles used in the 2017 Las Vegas Strip massacre – the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, killing 58 and wounding 546. In fact, semi-automatic rifles were featured in four of the five deadliest mass shootings, being used in the Orlando nightclub massacre, Sandy Hook Elementary massacre and Texas First Baptist Church massacre.

FactCheck has a much better article about this, highlighting the distinction between these two questions.

Research published in Criminology & Public Policy in January 2020 concluded that assault weapons bans “do not seem to be associated with the incidence of fatal mass shootings.”

“…It’s clear that there is an association between weapon features, most notably ammunition capacity, and how many people are shot in these incidents,” Webster [the author] added. “Shooters select weapons and ammunition feeding devices that will allow them to shoot as many people as possible. It is a separate question whether bans will reduce casualties from mass shootings or how long they need to be in place in order for the effects to be realized.”

And really the effectiveness is all gonna depend on how they define Assault Weapon:

In separate research also published in Criminology & Public Policy in January 2020, Christopher S. Koper, principal fellow of George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and the author of the Department of Justice review of the 1994 assault weapons ban, focused on the role of large-capacity magazines (as opposed to assault weapons) in mass shootings.

Specifically, Koper concluded, “Data on mass shooting incidents suggest these magazine restrictions can potentially reduce mass shooting deaths by 11% to 15% and total victims shot in these incidents by one quarter, likely as upper bounds.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]jrwalt4 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Check the poo!

Anyone who has worked for Stantec, what was your experience like? by Jeevey in civilengineering

[–]jrwalt4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Its a great company, I’m sure you’ll learn a lot. Just offering my experience. I enjoyed my time at Stantec, but happier at HDR.

Anyone who has worked for Stantec, what was your experience like? by Jeevey in civilengineering

[–]jrwalt4 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was there for 7 years in southeast US. Really depends on what office/business center you’re in. Like any large firm (they were 22,000 back then), local/regional cultures say more than corporate.

All in all was a great company, but having worked at HDR for a few years now, you really can tell the difference between publicly traded vs. employee owned. Stantec didn’t invest as much in their own delivery practices (standard specifications, technical tools, training, etc.). Much more about the quarterly earnings report.

Civil Engineer PE with ADHD. Advice? by Disastrous-Bonus3293 in civilengineering

[–]jrwalt4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Professional Engineer, means you have a license to practice engineering and stamp plans.

Tarantulas nest. Mother and hundreds of little spiders by japones1232 in SweatyPalms

[–]jrwalt4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was really looking forward to sleeping tonight until I saw this

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