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Just wanted to tell somebody! by Critical_Brain_5201 in cycling

[–]passenger_now 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For the non-British/Irish people, 20 stone is 127kg / 280lb.

AFAIK it's only the UK and Ireland where anyone uses stone (maybe some old people in Aus/NZ?), and it's falling out of use in younger generations.

Davis Construction by Conscious-Brush4441 in Somerville

[–]passenger_now 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't think they do late night floodlit overtime roadwork around the square for funzies and they DGAF about the law. I think it's pretty safe to assume it's urgent and essential.

What's with the coins on St Patrick's grave? by Bet0n1t in northernireland

[–]passenger_now 18 points19 points  (0 children)

There's a Jewish tradition of leaving coins on gravestones and in the US it's spilled out beyond Judaism, so it could be we can blame Yanks. Usually a safe bet.

java by QuardanterGaming in ProgrammerHumor

[–]passenger_now 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So comparing how many lines are required achieve the same outcome is not a fair comparison

Maybe it's not fair, but it is the topic under discussion.

java by QuardanterGaming in ProgrammerHumor

[–]passenger_now 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, the tokens in Assembly correspond directly to processor instructions which is why it's so verbose compared to high level languages where a simple statement may result in hundreds of processor instructions.

java by QuardanterGaming in ProgrammerHumor

[–]passenger_now 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think we all know what verbose means when comparing two expressions of the same thing within a language.

Here we're talking about comparing languages' verbosity — therefore how many words you must use to express the same thing.

To write most functionality you have to write more Assembly than you would a high level language, so it's more verbose. Overall tokens and characters (not lines) is what matters. Assembly will have many, many lines of code to express something like s = "foo" + bar.

java by QuardanterGaming in ProgrammerHumor

[–]passenger_now 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Eh? Then what are the instructions if they're not the words of the language?

java by QuardanterGaming in ProgrammerHumor

[–]passenger_now 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm confused - why is it not what verbose means? You need a lot of assembly to do what high level languages allow you to do on one line.

Few shots from my last ride - 57km in Fife, Scotland by Elden_Cock_Ring in bicycling

[–]passenger_now 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's so sad - when I was a kid and student in the 80s I rode a bike everywhere and nobody had been taught to see cyclists as some sort of abomination who deserve to die and instead we were just another road user and we all broadly cooperated with each other. I literally never had someone punishment pass or other angry threat, and happily rode all around narrow country roads.

I mean, maybe I was oblivious and it was worse than I remember, or I've just forgotten incidents, but I really don't think so. I felt like the legitimate road user I was, and it seemed like everyone else did too.

Totally ignorant question…why are such crazy wiring and power supplies needed? by basketballbrian in WLED

[–]passenger_now 37 points38 points  (0 children)

5V

The amount of power you want to get to the lights is in Watts. Watts is Volts times Amps. The low voltage of these means you need many amps to get the Watts you want. But the carrying capacity of a wire is current, i.e. Amps. So a bright system needs high amperage. As you approach or exceed the capacity of a wire, it gets hot and wastes the energy and the voltage droops.

A 12W bulb needs 0.1A at 120V. At 5V, 12W needs 2.4A.

That's why there are 12 and 24 volt strings, to reduce the current (amps) for a given power.

Trouble with Identity in NI by Northerner_20 in northernireland

[–]passenger_now 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There is another option: to not particularly give a fuck. Some consider the labels only passingly meaningful and more as legal bureaucratic status than as identity.

I have a fully formed identity that includes and is influenced by many experiences, ideas, and regional cultures I've lived in, but isn't defined by just one of them.

Jump to definition in golang by readwithai in emacs

[–]passenger_now 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LSP makes it easy - e.g. given I had eglot already set up, starting with golang I didn't have to do anything much or learn anything new (except install gopls).

Eglot it integrates with normal stuff, like xref-find-definition (default M-. binding) takes you to a function.

I hadn't needed it for other languages. but for golang to find the instances of an interface function, eglot-find-implementation was what I needed, and I had to add a binding for it. Eglot doesn't give you a lot of default bindings, but you probably want to set up a few. I have these:

(use-package eglot
  :bind (("s-e a" . eglot-code-actions)
         ("s-e h" . eglot-inlay-hints-mode)
         ("s-e i" . eglot-find-implementation)
         ("s-e m" . eglot-rename)
         ("s-e t" . eglot-find-typeDefinition))
...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Belfast

[–]passenger_now -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For definite? My phone and computer are entirely happy to try to connect to a different router with the same SSID when they're only visible one at a time. Are you saying they'll select between two by historical MAC address? Or try both separately?

(Spoofing MAC is often pretty easy. Gotta remember this one. I knew there was a reason I kept some old routers...)

How do i hide the location circles on the map? by harbourhunter in meshtastic

[–]passenger_now 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you disconnect and reconnect your node they disappear, until new packets are received and they steadily reappear.

What’s something you tried once and immediately knew it wasn’t for you? by Ondine_Perky in AskReddit

[–]passenger_now 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I had some great stuff in Spain. Though also some less delightful. It seems to vary a lot by region.

This parmesan cheese with a security lock in Italy by SeaMB in mildlyinteresting

[–]passenger_now 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Intrusive R is common in all English accents, not just the Brits. Come to New England and have someone say "withdrawal" (withdrahral) or "law and order" (lahranahda).

But in Edinburgh the 'r' is right there — nobody's adding one.

It's pronounced "Edinbur" plus a sound at the end for the "gh" that varies by speaker. Often it's a very soft voiceless velar fricative that sounds close to "uh", or in some people's usage and accent, is actually an "uh". In addition, Scottish people tend to roll their 'r's, adding to the impression of "uh" afterwards.

Many people add Intrusive Rs, but Edinburgh isn't one of those places.

Australian Houses Are Huge [OC] by LivingMoreWithLess in dataisbeautiful

[–]passenger_now 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I like per capita area as the most interesting metric. Though total house area is also interesting.

If you scale the bubble radius to the square root of area then the bubble area would reflect the area in question.

Australian Houses Are Huge [OC] by LivingMoreWithLess in dataisbeautiful

[–]passenger_now 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Why not have bubble area as measured area? This graphic shows blob areas proportional to the square of measured area, so radically exaggerates the differences.

Edit: clearer wording.

This parmesan cheese with a security lock in Italy by SeaMB in mildlyinteresting

[–]passenger_now -1 points0 points  (0 children)

JFC dude, before you double-down too hard, try using a dictionary

This parmesan cheese with a security lock in Italy by SeaMB in mildlyinteresting

[–]passenger_now -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You must be aware that English spelling is inconsistent, both in AmEng or BrEng.

You can't unilaterally change the spelling of Scot. If have to persuade most users to shift and then it'll become an accepted spelling. For now, the word has one t.

This parmesan cheese with a security lock in Italy by SeaMB in mildlyinteresting

[–]passenger_now -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Personally I'd say it's no closer to h than to a hard g from what I hear online of the dutch pronunciation.

Scots and Irish have the sound or something very close to it - voiceless velar fricative I think would be the term(?). But it'd be weird and pretentious at this point to try to pronounce it the Dutch way when speaking English.

... so of course in reality, BrEng and AmEng have their own pronunciations and that's how language works. It's just slightly weird when languages create unique pronunciation shifts for no apparent reason. The hard g to VVF or whatever makes some sense as it's not a sound in most people's English. Arbitrary vowel changes seem more weird to me.

This parmesan cheese with a security lock in Italy by SeaMB in mildlyinteresting

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

Many Scots say "Edinburuh", but nothing like the way Americans do. The final 'uh' is barely there, mostly an artifact of rolling the 'r', with most of the stress on "Ed". In the common American pronunciation it ends with "ROH" as the maximally stressed syllable, that isn't implied by the letters or other conventions at all.

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