TheTechnician27

Mar-a-Lago resigned 😂

That’s 03:14 if it’s HH/MM, you absolute heathen.

You know, I never really considered automatic anti-vandalism mechanisms we have in place on OpenStreetMap, but they surely exist. All that to say I think we’re good on OSM too. lol

/> programmer /> humor Congrats, OP, for not giving a single shit.

I love how “brokethe terms of our contract” still works.

NASA’s Voyager engineers are like the final evolution of your uncle that keeps his 1974 Chevy C/K running at 400,000 miles. It’s the same autism across an ocean of resources.

It's quite literally a joke about the Antarctica trip. There *was* one who changed their mind and was heavily ostracized for it.

I'm noticing (to my tastes) a pattern with LastPlaceComics: funny premises and well-executed but overstay past when the strip should've ended. End before the 6th panel, and this comic is instantly funnier. (The first example I saw of this the one where two teens pull up to a fast food drive-thru and ask for an Order 66 as a prank, but the employees really do it. It's a solid comic until they run the joke completely into the ground with multiple too many panels)

Competition is the catalyst of innovation. Keep going, and you can make better-quality milk to sell.

Yeah, and? If you actually edit OSM, you know there’s zero compelling reason to make an application that prefers official_name:en-us. Want to know how I know? Because instead of wasting my time making shit up to be outraged at, I went and looked up how often this key shows up. It’s five.. In the entire world among billions of key uses, this one is used on five objects, This will not ever happen; it’s complete nonsense. Even if it were made (it will not be), Nobody would use it. Literally what on Earth usefulness could it possibly have within the already niche ecosystem that is OpenStreetMap? My dude, my guy, if they were targeting bullshit names Trump made up with an EO, they could literally just fork an existing OSM application and then hardcode in “Gulf of America” and “Lake America”. And most importantly, It doesn’t matter. That’s what the official_name key exists for – to distinguish it from the name people actually use. That’s why it’s a separate key to begin with. You’re complaining about OpenStreetMap being accurate, and in order to do that, you have to invent some fever dream application that nobody would ever create and nobody would ever use.

it’s in the data Correct, because that’s what official_name means. The US government, one of two countries encircling it, officially calls it “Lake America”. That’s why it’s official_name:en-US specifically, not official_name=. The name= key, the “primary name of the feature in the real world”, remains and will remain “Lake Ontario”. It’s not the name that is likely to show when viewing the map I’ll correct you and say that there’s no “likely” about it: it’s not the name that will be shown when viewing the map. That’s the name= key, which is “Lake Ontario”.

True. Golf courses are famously meticulously quarantined environments where large-scale toxic waste would never leak out into the surrounding environment. I totally forgot too that "golf course" and "wildlife habitat" were both mutually exclusive and the only options for toxic waste disposal.

Darth Boomer: "No... *I* am your father." Luke Y-walker: "No, that's not true! That's *impossible*!"

68°F.

If you think of 20°C as super conveniently being room temperature (68°F) and use that as an anchor; you can then, within about +/- 40°F, think of every +/-5°C as about +/-10°F. For example:

• 20 - 10 = 10°C (50°C) is approx. 68 - 20 = 48°F
• 20 - 20 = 0°C (32°F) is approx. 68 - 40 = 28°C
• 20 + 10 = 30°C (86°F) is approx. 68 + 20 = 88°F

That is, if you use 20°C/68°F as an anchor, take the difference in Celsius from 20°C, multiply that by two, and add it to 68°F, you have a decent approximation of what the temperature is in Fahrenheit. That's assuming 20°C is the only anchor you have and that you never want to learn what other temps are – just a compact, minimal-memorization algorithm that gets you close enough for the rare times you need it.

(The real algorithm is that x°C = (y°F - 32) ÷ (1.8))

I had my first actual small internal crisis the other day where I felt brief but real panic, like I was drowning: The *Titan* submersible is less than two months from its three-year implosionversary. Time stopped feeling real. Like, no, right? Surely no?

I see your point. Educated elites like you can take their time reading, and realized that the governmentz plan to subsidize sustainable energy production is, scientifically speaking, a load of shit. Go figure.

???????????????? What the fuck are you talking about????? Yeah, I took several minutes to read some of the preprint because I care about climate action and wanted to be more informed generally, but the level of due diligence you had to do before writing – literally just reading the subheader – would've taken at most a third of the time it took to write your stupid, bullshit comment in the first place. I'm not saying you should've been fucked to specifically read the study; I'm saying you should've been fucked to read anything besides a 10-word headline.

If you're trawling around on Lemmy, you have the time and means to do what I did, but I don't even care about that; I care that you did nothing and thought that qualified you to smear the article you didn't even try to read.

"Anti-intellectualism is sticking it to those snobby elites!" I think you'd get along really well with Trump supporters, because you clearly both accidentally fell into your ideologies by being proudly and willfully ignorant.

Sorry to say that I did look at ResearchGate before posting and did find this. However, this is a "Request full-text" entry, meaning you need an account to message the authors about why you would like to access it and hope they accept your request.

I still appreciate you trying to help.

Even then, I think the comic would be funnier if the dissolving man weren't saying anything at all, but that's less about cutting out panels and more generally about not making the joke overwrought near the end.

All snow doesn't instantly melt above freezing just like all the water in your pot doesn't instantly evaporate when you turn on the heat. The temperature can rapidly fluctuate up above freezing while there's still a bunch of snow on the ground, and that takes a while (sometimes days) to melt. Melting is affected by factors like shade, snow depth, etc., so while the picture shows no snow, there might be plenty surrounding it – which could be expected accounting for survivorship bias (namely that the lovebugs are unlikely to be lovin' on top of a foot of snow).

what have you gentlemen accomplished?

I mean the highest standard of living in human history and arguably a system whose current problems are mostly fixable, but moreover, "your shit's not working right so clearly [thing] is better" isn't an argument. Humans have this bizarre cognitive bias of "this thing isn't working, so clearly my idea is the future". See: the far-right.

Try VisualEditor on e.g. Wikipedia. You notice idiosynchrasies if you're doing something specific or are pretty experienced, but overall, the difference between the editor and the preview (fully rendered page) is trivial unless you're messing around with a few specific elements (even then, a quick 'Preview' fills in this gap).

"Peace for our spine."

and at whose expense?

If you think anarchy is some kind of substantial deterrent to an underclass when we're talking about the same people with functionally the same underlying morality that create and enforce them in democratic systems, I have a bridge you can barter for. More equal e.g. economic systems can thrive under democracy; democracy is not the problem.

for how many?

Difficult to quantify given it's difficult if not impossible to decouple life-changing advances in quality of living from the nations and systems that facilitated them. For how many, though, compared to before? For near-basically everyone. Life is still unbelievably shit in major swaths of the world, and yet human life overall is still improving in most areas, still has obvious room for betterment, and is still markedly better than before. There's still plenty of Return to Eros shit we need to fix and C-suites to jail, but we obviously can fix it under democracy. We of course have minimal data for actual anarchy, which leaves a convenient argument from ignorance for anarchists to cling onto.

I guess what I was getting at earlier, come to think of it, is a subtype of the argument from ignorance. "Well we've just never tried it, which is why it's way better than this thing that's tested and has problems."

Yeah, totally understandable!

Okay, if you want to be exceedingly pedantic and call me on using "standard of living" in place of its hypernym "quality of life", then by all means. I'm glad your 15-second glance at Wikipedia has enlightened you that one of the main concepts in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which measures things like access to social services, food, clothing, etc.) is filthy capitalist propaganda; I *meant* quality of life. Edit: If I had to add to the list, it'd be animal agriculture destroying the environment and torturing and murdering billions of sentient, emotional creatures across the world (let alone commercial fishing) for superfluous human enjoyment. Something you statistically take part in for no good reason, although I'm proud of you if you don't.

In a series of social media posts on Monday, the US president compared warnings about AI to the “Global Warming Scam”, that he said was “being perpetrated by the Radical Left Dumocrats”. I don’t drink, but I’m buying a bottle of vodka to celebrate when the aneurysm comes.

ELI5: Why use /e/OS over Graphene? This isn’t a rhetorical rant; I’m genuinely curious. Edit: See below. I misphrased this question.

A little Johnny Apple seed ready to grow into his new role.

The power of PubMed compels you!

I’m guessing this means you got your master’s before transformers made sequential data processing so parallelizable that it’d be commercially viable to let Bob down the street into the “we” who wouldn’t be dumb enough to give them that ability. I think your assumption was reasonable.

As someone with ADHD, I really just hope this post sets an example for use of Grovers as an accessibility feature for shitposts going forward.

“The truth is, we spent a long time trying to tell this game’s story with cutscenes made entirely by our own hands,” the statement goes on. “The results were devastating every time. We came to believe we could not properly deliver this game’s complex, difficult narrative that way, and that is why we turned to AI. But if that choice hurt your experience, the fault is not in the tool. It is in our own shortcomings.”

Man, if this is true – that they agonized over the cutscenes but decided they couldn’t and that AI would be better* – then I feel legitimately bad for them.

I went in assuming it was strictly a lazy “ah, fuck it” kind of thing, but even though this still wouldn’t be acceptable, it seems like this team really is hard-working, cared about the final product, and actually did think AI could deliver a good experience. Deluded, but that seems like part of a larger culture of delusion in SK.*

• Notably, the article remarks on how sentiment around AI in South Korea is vastly more positive than e.g. the US.

Brother, the article is talking about Element Pro.

Happiness across the lifespan follows a U-curve.

xkcd.com/1138/

One year later, the AI crisis is far worse: for the world at large, and for me in particular. In July 2026, The Times of India, one of the oldest and largest English-language papers in the world, ran a feature about me hallucinated by AI robots. Knew it was going to be Times of India. Complete, utter trash. Genuinely appalling excuse for journalism. The last time I read one of their articles, they were reporting on a story that happened two years ago in Korea as though it were happening in 2026.

Don’t go talkin’ ‘bout that dang ol’ orgy, man, dang ol’ g-gross, man.

Sorry, I realize that question could be interpreted in two ways: I meant for Fairphone not to try to get Graphene working on their phone. I know Motorola is trying to do that right now, for example.

Did you not even read the article? This was in an internal document.

And clearly you particularly care about major structural injustice.

something something ask me literally anything about using or contributing to OpenStreetMap or about what it is/the state of it. get hyperspecific; see if I give a fuck. Source: reasonably long-time user and contributor

codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

Earthbound-battle-sprite-lookin’ ass

Pictured: Lauren Boebert’s office.

I mean I think this run-on sentence is demoni- I mean, problematic.

“To help us reach our goal of releasing Star Citizen from early access within more than 50% of its backers’ lifetimes, we’ve partnered with Burger King…”

That’s a lot for what amounts to “I want to sweep China’s systematic abuse of the Uyghurs under the rug.” Edit: Oops, they went on to do a genocide denial below. Wonder how that happened.

Found the article. (or at least it seems to be, given it studies “60 samples of belly buttons” and finds “2368 phylotypes of bacteria”. I don’t see anything in this study about “1458 bacteria completely new to science” or anything about the Japanese soil thing. It’s entirely possible I’m looking at the wrong study, but generally, it’s a safe assumption that the source for memes like this is a half-remembered telephone game at best.

(It’s a joke m8)

Look around you.