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  • If a person fell into the singularity of a black hole that had particles from our atmosphere, are we back to on earth again? (My vote is "s/he dead and no even if not", but I think it's interesting to think about).

  • I get the feeling, but if the business has no say in getting recommended, aren't you just punishing businesses that may not even know this program exists? That would suck for very small businesses.

    Edit: my brain was thinking recommendations not paid ads so please disregard.

  • It depends upon the definition of "on", I suppose.

    If jumping or falling count as not being "on" earth, the fact is not true since there is (a) almost no chance with so many people that one person (probably a child) somewhere wasn't jumping or falling and (b) we can't definitively prove things one way or the other with regard to (a).

    If we do say "OK, human-body-powered times not in contact with earth don't count" (assuming the human is responsible here for cases where they fall, for simplicity), we would have to move on to vehicles. Driving a vehicle that contacts the ground seems pretty "on earth". I suppose boats would as well. What about planes, thought? They're definitely "in the air" when they're not "on the ground" (I'm sticking with English here since the post is in English; we could open another can of words worms for other languages).

    So next we have to say "things flying in the atmosphere don't count" then we have to either define atmosphere or define an arbitrary line of Xkm above the average surface of earth. In the case of the former, how much atmosphere counts as atmosphere?

    I guess we could move on to gravity well after that.

  • I think it depends on the background. If coming from the computer gaming world, it wasn't necessarily all that impressive. If someone were particularly into Zelda or was console-only, I think it was probably seen as much better.

  • This is a mod not a Bethesda game.

    Edit: though, to be clear, I agree on the rest about 76 and all the bait and switch. I was a paying ESO customer when all that happened and unsubbed and uninstalled as a result.

  • For FPTP, we need to get more local and regional elections to move to something like ranked-choice voting and have it go from there. IIRC, some states are trying to ban it "because it's confusing" since they realize it opens up more than the traditional two parties. Voters can vote for other candidates in their primaries as well (many people do not seem to vote in primary elections).

    More people also need to be voting, even as powers try to make that more difficult. We also need more young people to run for offices, but I fully understand why they wouldn't want to.

  • I was porting our old code from PHP to Go at a previous company. I laughed as I copied my then-six-year-old comment "I'm promised by xxxxx that this is a temporary measure

    <link to slack convo>

    ".

  • Asinine business logic can still make some things very hard to read and digest no matter how well-planned and well-written it is (particularly if it is rushed by the business meaning that engineers don't have time to do it well). As such, there are places where code can't/won't be self-documenting to a useful degree.