I_Has_A_Hat

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago

If you can't tell it's AI, then it's a problem entirely made up in your own head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

The only time you should be doing head calcs as an engineer is to double check that you have a reasonable answer with the actual calcs on your actual calculator.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Never, in any engineering field, have I EVER seen anyone simplify pi to 5. For that matter, I have never seen anyone simplify to 3. It is always 3.14. I feel like pi simplification is a weird meme that people think engineers do but is never practiced anywhere.

It's like if there was a meme about chefs saying they always replace eggs with grapefruit. No they don't, and it's nonsense to think they do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

18-25 has always, and will always be, the demographic with the lowest voter turnout. By a significant margin. Nearly every election, people seem to get this idea that "This time it will be different! The youth are really fired up this time! It's important, so I'm sure they'll turn out!" And then the election happens and they never even break 50%.

It's not a messaging problem, or an outreach problem. There is essentially nothing that can change it. The issue is, and say it with me; 18-25 has always, and will always be, the demographic with the lowest voter turnout.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not every penguin is a Linux penguin. Don't you think if that's what they were going for, they would have at least made it black, or gotten the shape right?

Like a boomer calling any game console a Nintendo...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So your plans for those happening is just wishing and good vibes? Fuck outta here. No one's talking about implementing any of that, and you're pinning the suffering of the lower class on the HOPES that MAYBE better policies would be made... Eventually... At some point...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The rich would feel nothing and change little. The poor would struggle and suffer. Do better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Suffer and die slowly? Where's the profit in that? Now organ farms, THERES a moneymaker!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Wear pants.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You know what's awesome about humor? Out of all the positive emotions, it's the only one that is never fully eaten by depression. I think that's kind of amazing about the human mind, that even in the deepest darkest pit, there is always some laughter to be found.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"White men are all privileged babies who face no real struggles at all and should be ridiculed any time they speak. They are responsible for all the problems and should be ashamed of being who they are!"

Later...

"OMG why are so many white men embracing right wing influencers who tell them their feelings and struggles are valid and they aren't responsible for all the evils of the world?!"

We're all in the same boat folks. And while privilege absolutely exists, it is more often based on wealth instead of skin color. Articles like this, even satire, are meant to distract from the very real class war with a made up race war.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Oh, see, you're under the impression that this is about public safety. It's not. It's about giving insurance companies an excuse to deny claims.

 

Is it just a matter of not being worth it? I see cooling towers releasing what appears to be a ton of steam, pretty high up. If that steam were captured at the top and allowed to condense, wouldn't that result in a ton of water with a lot of gravitational potential energy? That water could then be released and used to power water turbines. Maybe I'm overestimating the amount of water being released as steam, or underestimating how much is needed to spin a water turbine to get a meaningful result, but it seems like wasted energy to me.

 

I'm aiming to get the 30k steps in a day achievement and was wondering if the app considered a day as in a calendar day, or if it's 30k steps in 24 hours?

30k steps comes out to about 15 miles. If the app goes off 24 hours, I was considering taking a backpacking trip some weekend and hiking half in an afternoon, stopping for the night, and doing the rest in the morning. But if it goes by calendar, I'd have to adjust my plans.

 

I'm moving across the country in a few weeks and am trying to plan my route as I'll be driving a moving van with a car towed behind it. The entire drive will be 16-17 hours.

Google maps seems limited for searching everything I'd want to take into account for the route (pull through gas stations, height requirements, avoiding mountain highways, etc.) and was wondering if anyone knew of a better way to plan out the trip?

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