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  • It's honestly shamefull to see people downvoting and calling you dumbass for raising questions and concerns about bidets. I'm not bidet trained either, and I don't really have a strong opinion on them, but these responses almost make me want to take a stance against bidets.

  • When the lots are wide or several spots are free, I agree, I might pull in front first. But tight parking lots need that extra precission you get by backing into a lot. I have far more often been stuck for a while behind someone trying to pull in front first into a tight spot when backing in would have been quick and easy.

  • While that's true regarding insulation, the degradation of materials might be different at different temperatures. It might not be an issue as I have no idea what the materials in an ice cream truck are, but if you want to maintain a hot beverage-temperature, several types of paint, treatments, walls and floors might fail over time.

  • I'm not downvoting you, because this is the type of comment the thread is asking for. But I really need to question this one. To me, it's obviously geometrically easier to back into tight parking lots. I'm not sure if you're in the US, but here in Norway, parking lots are generally a lot tighter than american parking lots. When you have only about a meter of total clearance and a narrow road along it, there is no way in hell to pull in front first.

  • When countries vote for their neighbour, that is usually not enough to change the end result. The most popular song usually still wins. But Israel is assembling political votes all across Europe. Only a few percent of the voters need to be rallied to completely overtake the public votes. Also considering that Israel supporters are motivated to vote 20 times, people voting for their favorite song will likely only vote a few times, if at all.

    Yes, Eurovision has always been political to some degree, but it hasn't really swayed the results this much ever before.

  • For a system I worked on a few years ago I got the password requirement:

    • Only upper case letters A-Z, no letter or symbols.
    • Exactly 7 characters.

    I was also recommended to make it a single word to make it memorable.

  • I have had a similar scenario. I was in the shower, letting the shower thoughts run. Then i suddenly flinched as I became unsure if I had taken the phone out of my pocket before entering the shower. I slapped my hand instinctively towards my naked leg to feel if my phone was there. Then I instantly realized how stupid I was.

  • The tile placement game in Satisfactory is worth a mention. I never fully understood the points system, so I never really rode the game to decent scores, but it was a fun break from the vast size of the rest of the game.

  • I use it 100% of the time when the rules of traffic prompts me to use it.

    Within a small single-lane housing area: I blink.

    When exiting my driveway and the road reaches a dead end 100 meters in the one direction, so it should be very obvious which way I'll go: I blink.

    The roundabout in town which is so tiny that it looks more like an intersection, and when heading straight through it: I blink.

    It's so much better to have a habit of blinking and making unambiguous signals than to forget it. It helps with the flow of traffic and probably lets everyone get where they need to go quicker.

  • I have a great system where I load up a lot of bags into my car so I basically always have access to reusable bags when I drive to the store. And then I promptly forget the bags in the car when I shop and end up with freaking single use plastic anyways.

  • Ah, the Norwegian subtitle crew had creative freedom when translating that line. The official translation was "hipp hurra kølletryne" which would translate back to english as "hip hooray club face" ("club" as in golf club or hockey stick - which of course also is a goofy euphemism for penis).

  • Antimatter doesn't really do anything by it's own, but if we let 1 kg react with 1 kg of matter (non-anti-matter), we get E = mc2 with m = 2 kg. So 1.8 * 1017 J, or 1.8 * 1011 MJ. If we assume that 10 MJ/kg is represented by about 1 cm, the bar would have to be 1.8 * 1010 cm or about 1.8 * 108 m. A standard A4 piece of paper is about 30 cm tall, so 6.0 * 108 A4 papers are needed. I.e. 600 million papers.

    So we definitely have enough paper, but it would be a very tall stack.

  • From a board game review standpoint, the slowness of the game is my biggest issue. Losing a game of monopoly isn't just counting the score and shrugging off a "good game". You realize that the game is lost way before you actually lose. Meanwhile, you will have to spend a long time - possibly hours - just going through the motions. Roll the dice, pay your dues. Every small gain is slowly erased by the grinding losses. I refuse to play monopoly again.