[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Vance was definitely the kid in grade school that plucked and ate the hair of the girl who sat in front of him. I wonder if she's okay.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Could still be hair!

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

R releases all have code names that are Peanuts references, like "Bunny Wunnies Freak Out".

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

While they have a large number of guns, they can still only operate one at a time.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Abuse is terrible, but if it's going to happen it couldn't happen to a more deserving cunt than this guy.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago
[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

It seems Anthropocene is the label, there's just some disagreement over when precisely it began.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

One good latex pillow for me.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Another interesting contributing factor are safety regulations and their knock-on effects, which weren't immediately obvious when they were implemented.

For instance, in an effort to reduce pedestrian fatalities from frontal collisions, vehicles in the US were mandated to have at least three inches of crumple space between the hood of the car and the engine block. The thinking being that more crumple depth would help prevent fatalities and serious injuries that occurred when a pedestrian hit the hood of the vehicle, which would deflect, allowing those soft human bits to continue right into the (not soft at all) engine block.

Well increasing the height of the hood of the vehicle meant that they had to raise the A-pillar, which raised the height of the window opening on the doors, since the bottom of the side windows generally lines up with the hood on passenger vehicles. This meant that the side body panels of the vehicle just generally increased in size, and in an effort to maintain a proportional look, the wheels also had to increase in size otherwise they would look weirdly small. And to maintain a comparable amount of visibility out the windshield and side windows, the roof of the vehicle had to be raised to compensate for the new position of the window sill in the doors.

So something that was intended to just add an inch or two of height to the hoods of existing passenger vehicles to satisfy a safety need, ended scaling up the entire vehicle.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

The key is focus your time and effort on the ones that are really important to you, and be able to adapt to changes. This way you can make the switch to a less abusive product / platform / tool / whatever it is more easily when it inevitably goes to shit.

This is the user-side responsibility of interoperability.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Indices vs offsets. A lot of people mistake the two because they took CS 101 and thought it was so cool to say I sTaRt cOuNtInG fRoM zErO.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

What sort of Linux compatibility can we expect with this generation?

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