chiliedogg

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chiliedogg,

It’s crazy that teeth and eyes are separate from the rest of healthcare.

chiliedogg,

Galaxy Quest bombed at the box office.

Even so, there was talk of doing a sequel or even a series after it became a cult hit, but it stalled when Alan Rickman died.

chiliedogg,

I once forgot a pear in my pantry when I left town for 2 months.

When I came back it was a stem in a puddle of black liquid.

chiliedogg,

I get that for most people, this is a nightmare. But for me, having lots of varied tasks is fun.

It’s why I took a job at a tiny city with 11 employees in City Hall. Nominally, I’m a permit processor, but I oversee the permitting process, GIS, coordinating third-party services, and more. Yesterday I made a map for the police, processed permits, drove across town to fix a manhole cover that came loose (we don’t actually have a public work department), took pictures for the city attorney of a mansion being illegally built and screwing up city utilities, and fixed a broken printer.

Yes, I’m stupid busy, but I enjoy the variety. I’m also paid more than double what most permit techs are, and have my hands in development, public works, finance, administration, and more. All of which will be useful later in my career when I want to move into city management at a larger town.

chiliedogg,

There’s a million squirrels and I love it.

chiliedogg,

It rhymes, but doesn’t fit the meter.

“By the final reindeer conceived” fits better, but changes Rudolph to the deceiver, not Yulish prince.

chiliedogg,

Fractional measurements are better than decimal measurements for anything where the level of precision is important.

Decimal measurements can only increase our decrease in precision by a factor of 10.

For example if your precision is accurate to 1/4 of a unit, you can represent that with fractions no problem.

What is that in decimal? “0.25” implies precision to the hundredth of a unit.

What if your measurement is half a unit, but it’s precise to 1/64 of a unit? Just don’t reduce the fractions. “32/64ths” is more precise than .5.

chiliedogg,

It’s not that precision can’t be arbitrarily recorded higher in fraction, it’s that precision can’t be recorded precisely. Decimal is essentially fractional that’s written differently and ignoring every fraction that isn’t a power of 10.

How can a measurement 3/4 that’s precise to 1/4 unit be recorded in decimal using significant figures? The most-correct answer would be 1. “0.8” or “0.75” suggest a precision of 1/10th and 1/100th, respectively, and sig figs are all about eliminating spurious precision.

If you have 2 measurement devices, and one is 5 times more precise than the other, decimal doesn’t show it because it can only increase precision by powers of 10.

In the case of 1/64th above, if you just divide it out it shows a false precision of 1/100,000.

chiliedogg,

Significant figures is what I’m talking about. The entire point of them is to prevent spurious precision. How do you record a measurement of 3/4 precise to 1/4 using sig figs?

You can’t do .75 because that’s implying a precision 25 times greater than the measurement.

You can’t do .8 because that’s implying a precision that’s still 2.5 times more precise than the measurement.

So it’s 1.

chiliedogg,

That’s not a number - that’s a sentence that takes up 3 times as many characters as 3/8.

3/8 is more efficient.

chiliedogg, (edited )

15/20

chiliedogg,

36 hours was like a standard hangover for me after I hit my 30s.

I’m now 40 and haven’t gotten drunk in years because it isn’t worth losing the rest of my weekend and going into the work week for 4 hours of marginal fun on Friday.

Happy Black Friday (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)

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chiliedogg,

Illegal in the US too. Watch out for weasel wording to get around the laws though.

“Compare to $25”

“A $25 value”

“Our lowest price ever”

“Hot Buy”

Notice how none of those actually say it’s cheaper than it was before.

chiliedogg,

It sounds like a deal, but it’s often the highest price they’ve ever had as well.

chiliedogg,

The first time I yelled at young people to get off the grass was oddly freeing.

I now fully embrace the grump.

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

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chiliedogg,

They’ll sometimes bring in the exact same form with a different SKU/UPC so it’s technically a new product.

Also look out for weasel words like “Compare To”, “X value”, or “Special Buy” where they aren’t actually saying it’s on sale.

chiliedogg,

I only need a truck to haul stuff a few times a month. But that’s often enough.

chiliedogg,

I drove smaller trucks for about 20 years. I actually just got a small cargo van (NV200), but still have my Colorado after the dealership offered me $100 in trade-in.

chiliedogg,

Your could always post about how much you hate cars.

chiliedogg,

Unity was the biggest stumble.

Publishers hate surprise fees, distribution platforms absolutely won’t pay per download, developers (companies) are stretching budgets as it is, and the individual developers are quick to anger and will hold a grudge for eternity.

They really gutted themselves.

chiliedogg,

Am I the only one perfectly fine with that option?

Like…shit costs money. Somebody has to pay for it. Ultimately it’s going to be advertisers, creators, or users. A company can’t be comelled to offer a service at a loss without compensation indefinitely.

The big change I want to see is for payment to remove not only ads, but tracking as well.

I already pay not to have ads. I’ll pay extra if it means they don’t collect my data.

chiliedogg,

The days before YouTube there wasn’t free HD video hosting. We had things like Newgrounds which were way, way worse when it comes to ads and the videos were like 240p.

But it was mostly flash sites back then because video costs a ludicrous amount of money to host, and it was way worse then.

YouTube absolutely will not make money without either ads or fees.

Some governments are doing the right thing by giving people control over their information and how it’s shared online, yes. And that does directly affect YouTube’s profitability.

So now YouTube is being forced to offer users a choice in how they pay. That payment can take the form of cash or private information.

chiliedogg,

YouTube was hemorrhaging money. They were just trying to hold on long enough to find a buyer.

chiliedogg,

I’m saying that any platform has to be financially viable. Bandwidth and servers cost money.

Name a platform that allows essentially unlimited uploads and hosting of HD video, doesn’t have ads, is free for all users, and isn’t losing money.

chiliedogg,

They won’t make people disable uBlock. They’ll just make it stop working, and people will just think the ads have gotten better or uBlock has gotten worse.

chiliedogg,

As someone who works on the city side of development review, I can firmly say I’ll trust a puppy alone with my dinner than a Civil Engineer.

chiliedogg,

Given the context, this seems more evil than is probably intended.

There are laws about collection and storage of rainwater all over the world unrelated to genocide. Water falling from the sky is the source of aquifers, lakes, and rivers that are important for everyone.

chiliedogg,

Sometimes.

I work in municipal development and how rainwater is handled is a huge part of my job. It usually comes down to whatever the developer wants is bad.

They either want to collect all water and essentially deny it to everyone else so they can sell it, or they want to pave over everything and refuse to detain stormwater and flood the neighbors.

It’s not at all the same thing as Palestinians wanting water for food and crops, but a lot of the time these laws start out as something sensible before being used as a weapon.

chiliedogg,

You are definitely wrong. I work in municipal development and a developer retaining water on site beyond what is necessary to offset their increased impervious cover is something that’s highly discouraged and restricted.

Water need to go to the rivers and aquifers, and damming it up for private use is a real problem.

chiliedogg,

You’ve started down a dangerous path.

I’m looking into how to squeeze in a 4th monitor now.

chiliedogg,

Only if it’s uncooked.

chiliedogg,

Positronic Grump!

chiliedogg,

I’ve come to realize adulthood begins when your favorite Christmas gifts are socks and other clothes.

chiliedogg,

For framing a house a nail is absolutely better. As the house settles, wood shrinks, and the frame flexes in storms or quakes the nails allow the wood to move instead of causing things to warp and break.

chiliedogg,

Ted Lasso and Shrinking are both made by Bill Lawrence, who also made Spin City, Scrubs, and Cougar Town.

It’s not Apple that makes the shows good.

chiliedogg,

Except when you’ve got Microsoft making a deal with Seagate to have proprietary expansions at 150 dollars a TB.

chiliedogg,

Dun-Dun!

chiliedogg,

“Soss” is how we pronounce “sauce” and I don’t know where you’re finding the “r” sound.

chiliedogg,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/196abdbb-9eab-4682-91d5-6cb39f2b20ce.jpeg

chiliedogg,

34: “War is good for business.”

chiliedogg,

He’s watering down the terms. “Fake news” is a perfect example. He completely stole the term and directed attention away from all the literally fake news websites created to help his election.

chiliedogg,

Samsung phones come with the Galaxy Store pre-installed as well.

chiliedogg,

And that’s not even touching what the French Horns are doing.

chiliedogg,

Why would he have been in jail prior to trial?

They don’t do pre-trial detention for fraud, and the only way for this trial to lead to jail time is a (deserved) contempt charge.

chiliedogg,

If you’re already paying for the Music subscription, it only costs that much more to have the whole family on premium music and video.

It’s actually a pretty fair price for all of that for the amount my family uses it.

I put myself, my gf, and my parents as users on the plan years ago and we all get unlimited, ad-free-ish (still have channel sponsored segments for anyone not using Vanced), streaming for less than 4 bucks a month per person.

It’s easily the paid service that gets the most use per dollar for my family.

I still wish it was GPM instead of YTMusic, because YT music still doesn’t have feature parity with GPM years after they killed it.

chiliedogg,

That’s where range issues pop up.

chiliedogg,

That’s exactly what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to make it harder to get around them while maintaining them more intrusive.

chiliedogg,

Having a monopoly is why it makes sense.

Who else is gonna spend billions building up a legitimate competitor in a extraordinarily expensive business where almost everyone loses money?

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