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morrowind, in Has anyone notified Elon?
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s all fun and games until you have to implement goingToCrashIntoEachOther()

tourist,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

<span style="color:#323232;">void dont() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    fuckenNoseDiveLmao();
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
lars,

Did a Japanese lunar probe write this?

r00ty, (edited )
@r00ty@kbin.life avatar

Well I think goingToCrashIntoEachOther needs to return another drone object. Then don't can take that object. Based on self.serialNo and other.serialNo a mutually beneficial avoiding manoeuvre could be executed.

If you're about to crash into more than one other drone.. Good luck the function specifies "EachOther" meaning just one other drone!

tourist,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

this calls for a whiteboard

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

That’s what interns are for.

lobelia581, (edited )

// TODO: needs improvements but works 99% of the time

return false;

ifGoingToCrashDont,

This looks good. PR approved.

ApeNo1,

return (staticCrashCounter++ % 100 == 0 ? true : false);

Scubus,

To improve that, you could get rid of the comment to save space.

j_roby, in Capitalism really just reinvented sleeping outside SMH

Headline reads: Millennials ruining the wall industry

jaybone,

Avocado walls.

MacNCheezus,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

What happens next will SHOCK you

Rolando, in You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life?

Imagine the following scenario: you meet someone in college, and when you graduate at 22 you don’t want to split up. They say sure, let’s live together, but we need to get engaged; if it doesn’t work out we can just break it off. After a year you realize your lives are much better together. You decide to get married but not to have kids until you’re 30. If it doesn’t work out you can divorce, but you sign a prenup and at least no kids would be involved.

If you both have clear and compatible career goals, that scenario saves you a lot of dating drama and gives you valuable support. I wouldn’t call someone in that scenario “weird.”

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

I think the main point here is people around those ages aren’t fully capable of making those kinds of decisions in the first place.

There’s a reason why most marriages end in divorce after all.

Get married before you have a clue. Get a clue after being married a couple years. Get a divorce because you realize you had no idea what you were doing.

Lucidlethargy,

This is 100% a data-driven fact. It can’t apply to everyone, but it’s a really great average.

Those who wait until after 25 have a 25% chance of not getting divorced.

Francois, (edited )

The way you phrased it is not quite what the study says.

They’re not “25% likely of not divorcing” (which would mean there’s a 75% chance of divorce).

They’re “25% less likely of divorcing”

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

What purpose does engagement and marriage serve there? “Must be this financially trapped to continue?”

variants,

Yeah I’ve noticed at least a lot from my high-school group that dating for about 4 years is a good amount of time, me personally and a lot of close friends seemed to have hit their hardships in a relationship around that 4 year mark. Also moving is a good test about how you do in stress haha

terminhell, (edited )

Been married for 10 years now. There’s one thing I’ve found to be the ultimate relationship tester:

Furniture Assembly.

If you can survive assembling a few pieces of IKEA puzzles together it’s probably going to last XD

SomeKindaName,

I just don’t get this. I’ve never had any issues putting together furniture or dated anyone who had trouble with it. I can’t think of a single ex where furniture assembly was an issue.

immutable,

I think furniture assembly is more about being able to work together for a common goal and communicate what you need the other person to do and listen to what they need you to do.

For some reason a lot of people struggle to assemble ikea stuff (I honestly don’t know why, I’ve assembled dozens of items and it’s not rocket science). But there’s definitely been moments when I’ve been assembling some shelf and need my wife to assist with a two person step. If the assembly has been frustrating you have a really good test of how well can the two of you communicate through frustration and work together.

So maybe you are great at ikea assembly and don’t have the frustration factor, or you are a wonderful communicator and listener. For a lot of people though it’s that “this is the 12th step, I’m annoyed because I did the 9th step backwards and had to undo some shit, I’ve stripped this fucking screw… I’m gonna slide this piece and you need to guide it past the shelves, past them, you see how it’s hitting the fucking piece of wood, I need it not to do that!!!”

You probably shouldn’t marry everyone you can build a shelf with, but if you can’t effectively communicate when frustrated doing something trivial like building a shelf with someone you should work on that before tying the knot.

terminhell,

^^^^ Exactly what I meant 😅

shuzuko,

Our way of surviving furniture assembly is for him to Go Away And Let Me Do It, because I can follow directions and he just tries to slap things together without looking xD

I love my husband! Knowing when to just let the other person get on with shit is a pretty good litmus test, I agree, lol.

terminhell,

Maybe it’s bad luck, but half the time the instructions are physically impossible to follow on certain steps.

brbposting,

Better than teaching stick shift?

If anybody still knows what that is!

davel, in that's how it works, right?
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lobelia581,

thanks dude, glad i got step one down

OrderedChaos,

I’d rather just be a master of the craft in my imagination.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

As a fisherman, I’ve been told I’m a Master Baiter.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )
SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Fuck I loved that game like you loved my mom.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

FYI I only learned within the last month or two that it got a few remakes. They got decent reviews on Steam too… Sorta like…

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Sorta like my mom?

https://i.imgur.com/WrbzRwF.gif

RIP_Cheems,
@RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

But then we can’t see it

Dirk, in Just sayin
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

No person should be allowed to own more residential property than they’re realistically need for living.

blanketswithsmallpox,

Do you allow couples to own two houses then? How do you prevent two people living together from not owning a second house to rent?

Also, you’d be surprised just how little a person needs to live in lol.

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

I don’t think we need to make this literally true - we can put in a lot of wiggle room, because we just need to restrict doing this at scale

Say, no more than 2 homes per household, 1 extra for each additional adult. You want a vacation house, or a place near work? Fine. You want to buy another house and take your time moving? Fine. You want both? Make some compromises.

Or we could make the limit 5 per household - that would be excessive, but if they couldn’t rent them out it would still decomodify housing, because it’s people buying homes at scale that really is killing us

From there, you’d crack down locally - if you want to live in the boonies, I don’t care if you have 5 acres. If you live in a city with a housing shortage, maybe you only get a certain square footage per person, maybe certain areas are primary residence only, or however you want to slice it

JeSuisUnHombre, in Yo Dawg, new Outlook just dropped

It also has built in ads

sirdorius, (edited ) in Lemmy about to implode.

The fun thing most of these games aren’t even truly capitalist. City builders like Cities Skylines, Tropico and Anno have little or no free market and you’re just in control of a centralized planned economy.

The only truly capitalist games I saw on that list are X4 and Offworld Trading Company since you play as a single private owner competing with others on the market.

Lesrid,

My friends who play PDX games with me and know my politics sometimes tease me about the game using currency or referencing profitability. And then I remind them that we’re all meticulously planning our economies with virtually nothing left for a privileged class to decide. And our decisions, though made in a context of imperialism, aren’t being made for personal wealth but state power.

SuddenDownpour,

Except when you’re playing Victoria and the capitalists decide it’s time to build the 34th arts academy with the building capacity it took you sweat and blood to build.

therealjcdenton,

Cope

Allero,

The first game it has shown me is…

WORKERS & RESOURCES: SOVIET REPUBLIC

Gabe knows some irony

reverendsteveii,

idk, space warlord organ trading simulator seems pretty spot on for late capitalism

GiveMemes,

Cities skylines is definitely a capitalist economy as you literally make your earnings by changing tax rate and the only thing you control insofar as unmodded goes is zoning and city services lmao

OmenAtom,

Its not capitalist, its a planned economy. Taxes can exist outside of capitalism

GiveMemes,

This just in: America not capitalist. You have exactly as much control as the average American town/city does in that game. Control of zoning and road development isn’t a “planned economy” lmaoo. The entire game is based in and around a capitalistic society and the demand created by said society in your town for it to grow that’s the whole reason for the demand bars.

Anamnesis, (edited )

You also don’t really have to worry about satisfying the demands of huge multinational corporations. So it’s pretty idealized, as though capital has no undue influence on state-level political decisions.

capital, in Which pill do you choose?

Used to want the red pill but I have a kid now. Resetting would almost assuredly cause me to end up with a different kid.

I’m team blue.

ZoopZeZoop,

There’s a related movie that I highly recommend: About Time.

Blaze,

Very good movie

capital,

Oh yeah I love that movie. I have it on my server.

Elaine,

This. My kids and my pets - I’d be haunted for the rest of my life knowing I traded them in. I’ll take the 10 mill and be happy.

Veedem, in God bless the imperial system and bald eagles 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (oil too)
@Veedem@lemmy.world avatar

By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world.[18] The subway carried 1,793,073,000 riders in 2022.[6]: 2 [note 5] On October 29, 2015, more than 6.2 million people rode the subway system, establishing the highest single-day ridership since ridership was regularly monitored in 1985.[20]

The system is also one of the world’s longest. Overall, the system contains 248 miles (399 km) of routes,[10] translating into 665 miles (1,070 km) of revenue track[10] and a total of 850 miles (1,370 km) including non-revenue trackage.[11] Of the system’s 28 routes or “services” (which usually share track or “lines” with other services), 25 pass through Manhattan, the exceptions being the G train, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and the Rockaway Park Shuttle.

The NYC system was built a century ago and operates at an astonishing level considering its for one city and is so relatively inexpensive.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway#:~:t….

Enk1,

And this appears to be a shot of a closed station that appears to be lit by flashlight - my guess is someone urbexing an abandoned station. There are quite a few stations in NYC that have been closed in the past century and aren’t well maintained. Some are still passed by active trains even though there’s no longer a stop there.

x4740N, in No take backs?
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

This just made me realise the matrix is also an allegory of capitalism

antidote101,

…as well as for whether you’d choose to know harsh realities over comforting dreams. Capitalism has a few choices and perspectives in this regard.

winterayars,

Yep, the matrix is capitalism (a system of control) and getting unplugged is class consciousness.

ExLisper,

I thought matrix was going to school and getting unplugged was graduating.

sealhaslupus, (edited )

and also an allegory for transitioning

edit: there’s a reason why the wachowski brothers are no longer brothers

steakmeout, in Trig

Yeah you are. You can’t use electricity without it.

EmoDuck,

This is a DC only household

CaptainBlagbird,
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world avatar

Shut up Thomas, Nikola won!

Pelicanen,
CaptainBlagbird, (edited )
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world avatar

From the first sentence:

[…] uses direct current (DC) for electric power transmission, in contrast with the more common alternating current (AC) transmission systems.

So, actually actually. ;)

KSPAtlas,
@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz avatar

How do you run your appliances?

EmoDuck,

I don’t, I’m actually Amish. I’m writing to you from a steam powered thinking machine

lugal,

TIL I’m an HTML developer because I’m surfing on the internet

steakmeout,

The meme said they didn’t use it not that they didn’t apply it.

mexicancartel,

You use HTML but don’t develop in html when surfing web

Mostly_Gristle,

Nah, I hired an electrician to handle all that for me. Now if I want electricity all I have to do is stick a plug in a socket, or flip a switch. It’s way more convenient.

bobs_monkey,

If the power into your house is off from 60Hz (or 50 depending on your region), an electrician isn’t going to do diddly.

HerbalGamer,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

Neither am I cause I don’t know what that means.

datelmd5sum,

How could it be off frequecy at house level? Aren’t the generators at the powerplants being spun at 50 or 60 times a second?

Trainguyrom,

My understanding is that if electrical demand starts outstripping supply the sinewave can start getting badly mishapen.

From watching videos about synthesizers and playing with VCV Rack I’ve learned far more about waveforms than I ever did from any electrical education or research

bobs_monkey,

Not exactly. There’s a ratio of RPMs of the drive motor to the specific input of the alternator that generates the correct frequency. It depends on the way the alternator is designed (ie number of poles) that will yield the correct frequency, almost like a gear ratio, that is optimized for efficiency, and power plants have to constantly make slight adjustments to the drive motor speed the keep the frequency exact (usually done automatically within the drive control system).

I’ve never seen frequency be an issue in a residential system, but in theory it could happen.

datelmd5sum,

I don’t know how it’s in 60Hz regions, but here the generators are in 3 phases, 120 degrees apart. The voltage gets transformed to up to 400kV, still in 3 phases, and then down to 400V when it’s distributed to peoples’ homes. Then you can pull 400V 3-phase or 230V 1-phase from your wall.

bobs_monkey,

It’s the same here, though we have varying degrees of transmission and distribution voltages via transformers and regulators. In my area, power comes into our valley from the 500kv lines through the open desert, into the valley at 33kv, and stepped down to 5kv for neighborhood distribution that the single phase 240/120v transformers tap off for the EOL.

More of what I was getting at was that generation is more or less the same across regions. Some external fuel source (whether it’s diesel, natural gas, nuclear, steam, etc) does its thing to drive a rotor that’s connected into an alternator which is essentially an electric motor but instead of the electric motor doing the driving, it’s being driven which generates power, and the RPMs of whatever given fueled drive mechanism are not necessarily 1:1 with the alternator speed.

frezik, (edited )

It used to be common for clocks to be driven directly off the electrical frequency. The US Navel Observatory would call up generator plants and tell them to slow down or speed up a little to make a correction to all the clocks. I’m not sure if that still happens, though.

bobs_monkey,

I’ve heard that trope before, same reason clocks in US schools/govt institutions were always plugged into a wall, hence these. Nowadays, NTP has rendered that obsolete.

spicytuna62, (edited ) in Southern Heritage
@spicytuna62@lemmy.world avatar

Unfortunately, it was removed a couple years ago.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dd074e5b-f720-48bc-a05b-bee2b2993fcb.jpeg

But the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is coming down. So that’s nice.

Doombot1,

You just had to tell us, didn’t you? /s, and that’s good news on the second point

SupraMario,

Which sucked that they pulled it down, cause holy fuck was it hilarious watching that thing get vandalized. Pride colors was always a classic go to.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Sadly, there’s still a giant carving honoring the Confederacy on a big cliff in Atlanta for all to see. 90 feet tall. And it was definitely part of their heritage because it was completed in… 1972.

If there was ever a good reason for the invention of dynamite…

Tja,

F

didnt_readit,

“Amateur sculptor”

I never would have guessed lol

ilinamorato, in vanity plate 1III1I1
bdonvr,

Link for the alt text

xkcd.com/1105/

Da_Boom,
@Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Link for the mobile user

m.xkcd.com/1105/

ilinamorato,

Dang, thanks. That’s the link I meant to post.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Reminds me of the “NO PLATE” story.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/auto-no-plate/

Which is… apparently TRUE? O_O

ilinamorato,

Dang. That’s a major UX flaw in BMV and police systems.

Anticorp, in This Event is True. Image is false.

So nobody thought to tell the goalie that the game was over? He didn’t hear anyone leaving the field, or the crowd dispersing? This is weird, especially since snopes says it is true.

DarkSirrush,

Fog dampens sound more than you may think, it’s very possible he heard absolutely nothing, and with it being so thick no one would be able to tell he was still there.

Anticorp,

I wonder if the entire time he was thinking his team must be running a monster offense since he hadn’t had to defend in so long.

Nastybutler,

He did, according to his autobiography quoted in the Snopes article.

JustMy2c,

With so much fog, nobody wonders why someone is 15min late :D

Kase,

I like to think that there was a person holding the camera who knew all along and just wanted to see how long the guy would stand there

Zipitydew, in IRS be like

I get the intent here, but it’s a really bad comparison. It’s certainly easy to get confused about without base level awareness of finance and accounting things.

The DoD is a government cost center. It doesn’t generate revenue. Therefore nothing to tax. Meaning nothing for the IRS to audit.

That’s why the federal government has other audit authorities and often contracts independent auditors to help. Those people are auditing department spending and assets related though. This type of audit is not to check if taxes are owed. It’s more like making sure the department bank account is correct to keep this simple.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This. Congress is in control of auditing the Pentagon.

The most the IRS would do would be auditing the incomes of people who work at the Pentagon.

Badly put together meme.

JoYo,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

s/IRS/GSA/

TurtleJoe,
@TurtleJoe@lemmy.world avatar

I also want to add that many landlords were beginning to demand that their tenants pay with venmo, or other e-payment services, and those leeches need to pay their taxes.

ryathal,

Which the IRS has acted on, and most these platforms have to send documents to the IRS for anyone that crosses a certain threshold. They are going to have to prove it isn’t income or claim it.

pingveno, (edited )

I found this article on the audit. It’s also about boring but necessary things like stockpile management, automation, climate risk, and bookkeeping. It’s broken into 30 sub-audits. It sounds like all of these must be fully passed as “clean” for an audit to not be considered failing.

galloog1,

Yep, I’m not sure why folks think this is anything more than some company lost a gas mask somewhere. It’s me… I’m the problem it’s me.

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