WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] @ WalrusDragonOnABike @reddthat.com

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How many feet of extension cord will a home owners association let be seen drug out on the front lawn? PVC pipe and a small shovel are cheap. Easily fixed in an afternoon. Not exactly fun and assumes the person is physically able to do that.

What if there are no exterior outlets? Most homes do, at least where I'm at. If they're in the back, that might not be practical still. Depending on the situation, adding a outlet could be less than $100. Which, if you can afford an electric car and gasoline, should be pretty affordable. But adding a dedicated circuit would certainly add more expense.

You going to leave a window open with an extension cord fed through it? Maybe fine if you live somewhere without neighbors… probably a good way to get robbed otherwise.

People put entire AC's in their windows. There's ways to ways to lock windows that are partially open 100% of the time.

What is the exterior outlets were shittily installed and are aren’t rated for whatever your particular flavor of electric vehicle you purchased?

If its just the outlets, fix it. A GCFI is like $20? So just replace them if they aren't already GCFI. Bigger issue is amps in the circuit. Unless it happens to be on a 20amp+ circuit, there's not really room for other things to run at the same time I think and it would probably be better off on its own. Also, if you have a lot of people there and have two vehicles you want to charge overnight, each would need its own circuit.

Live in an apartment complex? Then its not your home to be building a charging station at. A lot of apartments in the last couple years around here have been adding charging stations (including the one I'm at).

Of course situations vary. So, its not always practical or cheap. But you don't need a fancy level 2 charging station to charge a plug-in hybrid.

that doesn’t mean you can afford to build out a charging station at your own home.

You you suggesting its normal for people to not have outlets at their house but own electric cars? Haven't outlets been standard for decades in homes?

Pink and brown, I think?

Badeline isn't evil I thought.

Due low voter turnout, it should probably be at least 6 just to be safe if you're in the US or UK (95% confidence interval wouldn't include 0 or 1 voter, assuming 60% turnout)

Laser death rays are probably effective at preventing them from voting, but also may lead to the laser death ray user to not being able to vote either. So probably not worth it.

At least online, it seems like the only Americans who call themselves far left agree those are all centrist positions. It's only "centrists/progressives*" (moderately far right Americans) and other flavors of far right who still often dont generally call themselves far right (trump enthusiasts, alex jones types, proud boy types) who label basic things like universal health care a far left idea or just call it impractical atm.

*I feel like 10 years ago, people who were at least moderately left were the main people using this term, but in the last few years, people right of center have been using the label to try limit progress by pretending they're just trying to be practical/realists about what can actually be done.

Just checking an art degree guide: https://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/architecture-course-4-b/

One of the classes that can be chosen is: 6.4400 Computer Graphics, which has a programming 101a/b class as a prereq (granted, it uses python instead of C++, but pretty sure they used C++ as their language-of-choice for the programming 101 language until recently).

Given the variety of digital art (video games, VTube avatars/VR avatars, more traditional-style digital art, etc), having the tools to make those kinds of things can be useful for making responsive/interactive digital art.

Depends what your spending is like. Someone who earns like 30K/year should get about 65% of their earning if they retire at 65. You'd have to save like another $1500/year (including company matches) to make up the difference.

If I kept working til I was like 70 and my pay only keeps up with inflation, I'd get about 130% of my spending via social security.

Some servers only allow upvotes. Some only show local downvotes, so it at least minimizes their impact.

Can't say the intro has ever been particularly useful, even if new to the field. If the methods aren't detailed enough to understand the methods, then you are going to have to look elsewhere. The intro isn't going to have that information. If you want a general summary of the field, a dedicated review is far far better than most scientists trying to fill space to get to the science.

The author is in the comments apologizing for the mistake.

At least the AI saw personal medical info and Nope!'d out of that?

Its just an intro. Who cares if its shit? Just need words there that sound like the author wrote them because its expected in case someone accidentally reads it instead of skipping it as usual.

If you use it to just get started, but actually read it and have the expertise to fix mistakes and make it relevant, it's probably fine. Not necessarily because it's faster, but because some people just suck at getting started, and having nonsense to correct is easier to start correcting than turning whitespace into something.

Much less appetizing if you pronounce it "pee". Unless you are into that.

Probably things like homophobia.

Or what didn't happen? That the public didn't get a chance to vote on how Bill Gates spends his money?

Been in a lab meeting (biochemists) with a group who were naming a new method they made. They started with the acronym and decided what it would stand for second.

Even with issues like polio where he's supposedly doing good, he does lots of harm from my understanding. Probably not though malice, but being a know-it-all who uses their money to shape policy, the end result is still the same. Having a tech billionaire in charge of medical policy has caused many more people to suffer from polio as a result than would have without his meddling. And that's the problem with billionaire: even if they try to be good, they're no dieties and giving that much power to unaccountable individuals means they can accidentally cause lots of harm. And often the have perverse incentives (see Bill Gates and all he's done to hurt education in the US, for example).