Yeah, try riding a folding bike with small wheels, you wobble a lot more.

It’s not about the magnitude of the rotational inertia (which is roughly the same or maybe a bit higher on larger wheels that are probably heavier), it’s about the center of the gyroscopic effect. It’s at a greater height if you have big wheels, and closer to the ground if you have small ones.

I think it only holds if it’s a magic engine that always hits the same max RPM regardless of load, and the transmission is the same.

Otherwise the top land speed record would be held by a monster truck.

The answer to width is rolling resistance.

Tires stick to road which is great for accelerating and breaking, but it makes maintaining your top speed harder. This doesn’t matter if you have a big engine, but it makes a difference if you’re cycling.

For a road bike, you want to minimize the contact area of the tire with the road so you have very narrow tires and inflated a lot so that they don’t deform much under your weight.

The type and width of tires changes depending on what you’re riding on. For off road you have wide knobbly tires that will catch in mud and push you forward. For riding on a beach you have very wide smooth tires for traveling over sand.

The diameter is about stability. If you have small wheels turning fast it effectively lowers your center of gravity due to gyroscopic effects (this is a massive over simplification of the physics) big wheels turning more slowly results in a higher center of gravity, which is more stable.

Cars have four wheels and don’t need to care about this.

Ok real talk here.

Work to rule and malicious compliance only works when you have the backing of a strong union, or workers rights. In the US, for most jobs, they can fire you whenever they feel like it, and for no reason at all.

If anyone senior decides you’re fucking with them, even if there’s no proof, and they’re completely running on vibes, they might just fire you anyway.

My advice is copy the other porters. They know how much they can get away with, and find a decent hiding place for when you’re on a break.

I think the idea is create the community, add some initial content, and then post about it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world

I had never realized how much Halle Berry looks like Zoolander till I saw the third picture.

Yeah, there’s two problems with this.

1. Congress is non-functional and can’t act as a check on the executive branch or the courts. In the past they’ve passed fuck you laws where they initially passed a law saying X, the supreme court interpreted it to say Y and then they passed a clearer version of X. This hasn’t happened in a long time.
2. The supreme court likes to reinterpret the constitution. This means if you want to correct the supreme courts interpretation you have to pass a constitutional amendment. Even if Congress functioned properly this would be difficult.

The idea we’re talking about wouldn’t work anyway. The problem is, many of the state supreme court judges are also batshit.

The only way round this is to copy other countries that have functional judicial systems and stop making judges either political appointments or directly elected. They need to be professionals selected on merit, and firable, or at least replaceable after a term, if they’re incompetent.

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Man looks like a cross between Jimmy Savile and Ian Watkins.

It’s like he’s been genetically engineered to fiddle kids.

If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.

“What should I have to give thee! Let me rather hurry hence lest I take aught away from thee!”

I always liked the Linux ones over Windows. No random bullshit depending on who made the drivers, just a solid set of options.

Could do with being prettier through.

The main differentiator of fish over everything else is it prioritizes intuitive behavior over backwards compatibility.

Zsh is to bash as c++ is to c. Most bash scripts and habits will work in zsh, but zsh is just more convenient and has more options. Fish is intentionally different.

Do I wish fish had existed instead of bash so we had a nicer terminal experience? On the whole, yes. But I also couldn’t be bothered to learn another shell where most of the instructions online won’t be able to help you, and I ended up sticking with zsh.

Nah, you can actually see some of them developing AI psychosis.

https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/this-prominent-vc-investor-just-had-a-chatgpt-induced-psychosis-on-twitter-heres-what-this-means-197ae5df77f4

You’ve got to understand that most AI execs aren’t technical people, they’re hype men. And LLMs are weirdly good at hype and the illusion of technical correctness. So they don’t have a problem with it.

Sam Altman saying he uses chatgpt to tell him how to act with his baby is one of the things he’s said I actually believe. Of course he’s also a got a team of nannies he couldn’t be bothered to mention, but the trust for chatgpt is there.

It’s also the font on the pop-ups, and the AI logo.

There’s a very generic style of Facebook cartoon that these things absolutely nail.

Bragging rights and improved sleeping ability from the knowledge that the devs are being supported.

The serious answer is it’s often easier for people in a company to buy a license key than it is for them to arrange a donation to the devs. So this is an easy way to make small donations.

so I confuse the number of ounces in a pound quite often, amongst other things

When do you need to use either of these?

I know the number of pounds in a kilo so I can understand the Americans when they talk about weightlifting and how much people weigh. I don’t think I’ve ever used an ounce in my life.

Right. That’s why they overreact to everything, and bring old military equipment on swat raids.

They’re much more likely to panic and drive an APC through the crowd or return fire on a mostly unarmed crowd using automatic weapons.

Just ask yourself, “what has Israel done recently?” and remember that US police train with them.

I live in a walkable European city.

My nearest library is 5 minutes away, there’s a bigger library maybe 20 minutes away, and for anything further I’d take public transport.

It’s interesting. There’s a lot of talk about how chatgpt makes people lazy, but honestly I think Google killed the “read the manual” ethos.

Back in the day when you couldn’t just search for everything, you needed enough understanding of the manual to find anything in the index.

So a key part of figuring anything out was reading at least the start of the manual.

Now, fuck it, you just type into Google and try to guess enough context to understand what’s going on.