I feel like raising the height of the hood so it lines up with the bottom of the windshield would instantly fix this car.

Don’t know if that would create frontal visibility issues though.

Phones can figure out its location using gyroscopes and accelerometer

This is plainly false.

The error stack-up from the imprecision of a phone’s MEMS sensors would make positioning basically impossible after a couple of dozen feet, let alone after hours of walking around.

There are experimental inertial navigation systems that can do what you describe, but they use ultra sensitive magnetometers to detect tiny changes in the behavior of laser suspended ultra cold gas clouds that are only a few hundred atoms large. That is not inside your phone.

This is a little bit like having AIDS, getting a flare-up, and then saying “well I’m glad at least something is happeing”.

I understand the frustration at the general political ambivalence following “the end of history” in the 90s and the endless wars in the 2000s, but a flare-up isn’t going to make the aids go away. In the absolute best case impossible scenario where everything that’s been going on miraculously stops tomorrow we’re still locked into another 50+ years of consequences from this administration, just like we have problems decades afterwards that can be traced back to the Reagan administration.

In a worse case scenario, well, let’s just say that neither Germany nor Italy today are particularly better off or highly progressive compared to their neighbors. Like I said, having a flare-up does not cure your AIDS.

If someone has a counter example from history I would unironically genuinely love to hear it, because at this point I’ve given up hope of the world becoming a socially better place in my lifetime.

She was jealous of them? I had assumed she had an allergy, or just couldn’t tolerate being around animals for whatever reason.

That’s not even choosing between her and the cats, that’s just choosing not to date a person who just told you they’re psycho.

I am reminded of this blog post.

The fact that less infrastructure is needed per person (or per building) in many places compared to North America is probably a contributing factor as well, especially if we’re comparing NA to Japan.

Yeah, I really wish it wasn’t like this, but replacing a phone’s OS is a lot more like flashing a custom bios than installing an OS on a hard drive.

Just as we shape our experiences so to do our experiences shape us; the swarf is a part of you now.

RIP

It kinda brothers me when I see something attributed to an entire country when it really only has to do with a small group or area within that county.

Like a single town in India could do some thing, with 95% of the population having no idea about it, and the headline would say “look at this thing India did!”. I use India as an example because I feel like this happens with non english speaking or non-western countries more. Like, if it were US researchers that made the silence gun the caption would say “researchers at Harvard” instead of “the US did this”.

I think its appropriate to use that phrasing when its something that was done as part of a national government project or policy, if its something that exists across a wide swath of the population/area of the country, or if you are comparing a thing across two countries (e.g. the Taiwanese semiconductor industry vs the South Korean one).

I think most vehicles would have a pretty rough go of it if they fell off of a cliff though, especially if they turned upside down.

It should probably say, “off the Antarctic coast”, or even “X kilometers off the Antarctic coast”.

I agree about popups and executables (what an absolutely moronic decision to include that crap in browsers), but all the JavaScript BS and “please let us track you” cookie banners in modern websites is a thousand times worse than any use of <blink> or <marquee> could ever be.

(I wanted to post pictures of cables too)

Can you recommend a recipe that uses mushrooms?

Having a legacy is overrated IMO. I would settle for just knowing I had a net positive effect on the world, but even that’s a pipe dream.

What is the “everything” that Rust is being used in? From what I’ve heard its being used in the same place you’d use C or C++, not in any other niches.

How hard is it to just say “I don’t like that scent”?

The definition of jank is that it at least sorta works.

If it doesn’t its not jank its just broken.

I assume this causes the pufferfish to expire?

I ask because it makes me think of those toads you can lick. Psychoactive substances that are derived from animals are a pretty rare category, and ones that can be attained without harming the animal are an even smaller category within that. So its an interesting thing to think about.

The thing to understand about large organizations is that appearances matter a lot and the people working in them have to look busy. This is well known phenomenon among low level employees but it applies to managers and even executives too (who have to put on a show that they’re increasing shareholder value and that their company is special somehow).

So, why do advertisers care if someone says “fuck” but not about someone whose spewing pseudointellectual misogynistic bullshit? Because there’s someone whose job description is “brand value” and if they’re not upset about something then they don’t look busy. The amount of “fucks” per minute is a really simple metric that (now that speech recognition is as good as it is) is really easy to measure. In other words its an easy way to look busy.

Of course it doesn’t hurt that the guy’s boss is probably a conservative anyway, and so doesn’t mind the misogyny so much, but looking busy is the main reason.