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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But this isn't entirely stupid. Many Americans have very limited vacation time; weekend getaways are the norm, and are optimized for. This means that for a lot of folks, skiing on a weekend (or even worse, a long weekend) means that lots of other people are doing the exact same thing.

Specifically, I'm in San Francisco, so heading up to Tahoe for a weekend/long weekend is a standard thing to do. It's about 200 miles each way, so you're going to need to recharge. Which wouldn't be a problem except that everyone else is doing the exact same thing, on essentially the same schedule; this is a recipe for delays when the infrastructure is vastly inferior to the gas station network (and the charge time is obviously greater than the few minutes spent at the pump).

You might think that you could optimize for the daily trips and use rentals for getaways, but using chains on a rental car can be problematic/against TOS. Which can be a problem going up to a ski resort (AWD often ok, but not guaranteed).

I'm all for phasing out dinosaur burners, but the issue is not without nuance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you put on potatoes? Ketchup. What color is ketchup? Red. What color are commies?

I rest my case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

IIRC there are vast differences between the states. My recollection is that there is a very strong red state/blue state correlation, which is absolutely shocking (/s, obviously).

Also, https://www.cmqcc.org/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Lots of games worked just fine on a 486...

Commander Keen and Lemmings should keep you busy for a few evenings at least.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

That's an unfair characterization.

It's not just the things they don't like that can't happen...it's also the things they do like that must happen! See, for instance, prayer in school. (Separation of Church and State only applies to satanic stuff or something, idk...)

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It's almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed


there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!

I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it's independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still...the computer "knows" what it's displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think an email address is required to access their respective app stores, but is it actually required for creating an account?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You're right


the first result I stumbled upon was the Simple wikipedia result which erroneously calls an epoch 1,000,000 years ( simple wiki link ).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Millenia is thousands, ~~epoch~~ "Mya" is million years ago.

But as my stat mech professor once said, "what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?"

Edit: thanks to bisby, MBM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Except a millennium ~~millenia~~ is a thousand years, not a million years.

~~65-145 epochs ago might be the correct wording?~~

"Mya" would be the correct term.

Edit: corrections from MBM, bisby.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard the joke about the SEO manager who walks into a bar pub saloon watering hole place to meet friends great cocktails beer on tap?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (7 children)
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