pixelnator

742 pts · March 22, 2020


This is how the Finns did it during the Winter War/Continuation War. Closed bottle with a stormproof match affixed to the outside. Less of a chance of igniting the fuel before impact and more reliable even in more inclement weather. The match ignites the liquid after the bottle breaks, not before.

1 year ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Friendship (feat. Lee Ritenour) - Let's Not Talk About It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5ef_KAZlY

And someone made a chiptune cover/mashup of it and the Super Mario Underground theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeVNm9ABFFY

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah I didn't really phrase it well, admittedly.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, nor is it Microsoft's fault here. But the kernel maintainers did not sit on their laurels and questions and concerns were raised about CrowdStrike's standards and practices pretty much immediately when it was discovered. And, with linux being linux, reverting to an older kernel did indeed restore normal operations. The kernel maintainers weren't at fault but conducted themselves in a manner responsible for their product. Just because you aren't at fault doesn't mean you can be irresponsible.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

You also have to accept that causing a massive global outage solely affecting the people who use your product is a very bad look regardless of it being the fault of a partner that you work with. Normal people are going to see windows bluescreens and see a problem with Windows so while it's true that Microsoft may be blameless the fact that this happened reflects extremely poorly on them. They'll be performing oversight and revising their systems of mitigation on avoiding this happening again.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

Oh a 100%. But it is a Microsoft product and they are responsible for their product, choosing the partners they work with, and having a system in place (be it a literal system or standards and practices) that can account for this or lead to repercussions if those standards and practices are violated. Microsoft isn't at *fault* but they are responsible for their own products functioning so even if it was 100% Crowdstrike in the end it's still Microsoft whose products are affected.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

While you're not incorrect, it's Microsoft's OS and they're the ones the buck ultimately stops at. So while it's incorrect to say that it was *caused* by Microsoft it's Microsoft's oversight that it led to such a bad outcome. No doubt there are tons of meetings happening over at Microsoft going over what happened, why it happened, and how exactly can it be prevented or mitigated in the future even if it wasn't *their* update that broke things.

2 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 40

Season 3 Episode 2: "Dead Man's Party" to be specific.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Pretty much. US politics is, ultimately, US politics and their own business but it would be stupid not to hope your ally remains sane and competent.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

There's a stark difference between a concentrated et of boiled water and a sauna measured at 100°C. The latter is survivable for a few minutes. I don't need to do some weird ad-hoc test when I have physically been in a sauna that has been at 100°C according to the thermometer on the wall, which is the commonly agreed upon method for measuring the temperature in a room.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

Define "quickly". It's perfectly survivable for a few minutes and the whole point of the sauna is to exit periodically in order to cool off hence why the ideal place for one is next to a lake. You can cool off in the cold lake and warm yourself up in the hot sauna.

A 100°C room is perfectly survivable in short bursts because your body has a lot of thermal mass (being mostly water) and because our bodies have a very robust thermal regulation mechanism. Ovens don't incinerate your hands instantly

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 6

Costs:
Magic Missile: 0 gp
Regular Missile: a functional healthcare system

2 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 3

It's a difficult process and requires commitment and the ability to course-correct, whether via an external party (i.e. a teacher) or ones own ability to see their own mistakes. It's simultaneously both something anyone *can* learn to do and something a lot of people *give up* on for totally understandable human reasons due to the amount of work and study it requires.

It's a growth-mindset thing. I don't think it's impossible for anyone but it requires work and some people can't overcome that.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

James Cook is an artist who draws with a typewriter. Brain-hand-coordination has little to do with it https://jamescookartwork.com/

There is a certain degree of hand-eye-coordination involved with drawing, you're not incorrect in that. However a much larger part of drawing is purely related to the brains ability to construct and deconstruct. Here's a drawing with my non-dominant hand. It shows that even though the lines are bad the construction is still there

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

The argument of "allows people to make the fast food equivalent of art for limited personal use" isn't wrong and I am not going to dispute that but the idea of "talent" is overly glorified and just boils down to "likes doing something and has a keen interest in honing their ability with said thing". It is a skill issue but barring actual developmental issues anyone can learn to draw if they're willing to put the hours into it. When you learn to draw you train your brain to work that way.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 6

It's the Force's leitmotif from Star Wars. It's in quite a lot of Star Wars pieces since it's a central musical motif and John Williams loves his leitmotifs but the track "Binary Sunset" is where it first appears I believe

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Whatever helps you justify the cost of dead children my dude.

Like you can frame it how you like but if America had tight gun control and banned guns then gun violence would get massively reduced. The process would not be easy and it would take a long time (we're talking generations) for the damage American gun culture has caused to subside. But it would get massively reduced.

It's like going "I shouldn't stop smoking because it makes me happy and my lungs are already fucked anyways".

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Which some people just rent (also the hat is actually more expensive since it's handcrafted and custom fitted)

2 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Chopin - Nocturne in E Flat Major (Op. 9 No. 2)
In case the song made you want to listen to it but you don't remember/know the name

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

This. And by the end of the episode he shakes hands with Picard (a gesture wholly unrequired by protocol) so it's not like Sisko hates Picard as a person. He just has associated trauma that he understandably can't just immediately brush off especially given that this was the first time they met in-person without Picard being Locutus.

2 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

The person in the video this audio is ripped from. There's a bunch of versions of the video all with different music inserted

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

The "normal" burger would be $8 and $5 on off-hours. When you introduce dynamic pricing like this you're building a system that enables gouging and companies will gouge 100% of the time if given the chance.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

In 2017 the public support for NATO membership in Finland was 19% Yes vs 53% No.

In February 2022 it was 53% Yes vs 28% No and the next month it was 62% Yes vs 16% No.

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

That's a fair take on it. We do need *some* word for describing loss-of-function regarding the human body but whether that word should be impairment specifically is worth discussing too. The basis of using impairment as a term is that a property of the human body is reduced in some way rather than your ability to do things you want/need to do being reduced (that would be having a disability). Still, words like impaired/disabled are inherently charged.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's the point he is making though. What he's discussing is the difference between disability and impairment, which are two closely related terms that describe separate things. Impairment is intrinsic and disability is extrinsic. To give an example a blind person cannot see. Their vision is impaired. They also cannot read standard books. They have a disability. The impairment is the physiological and the disability is the resulting complications from that.

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