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[–] jon@lemdro.id 45 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Good luck debugging AI-generated code...

[–] jon@lemdro.id 5 points 5 months ago

What, the generic Windows driver wasn't good enough...?

[–] jon@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago

Try again, you still don't understand the concept.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

In mathematical terms it's perfectly acceptable to talk about the limit of an expression as some value tends towards infinity. E.g.:

limit (1/x)  = 0
x→∞

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_(mathematics)#Infinity_as_a_limit

[–] jon@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

NP. Yes ABS is designed to avoid exactly that issue, essentially by implementing in a mechanical way what drivers used to do manually - pumping the brakes etc.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're "brakes" and it's "braking". Yes, I know the previous commenter got it wrong as well.

The usual problem with slamming on the brakes is that it causes the wheels to lock up and slide instead of slowing the vehicle down.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, exactly. We already have exceptions for these dogs now in many cases.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

Relativity only applies to local reference frames and not to the recession rates of cosmologically distant objects.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't find any reference that says it's moving away from us at twice the speed of light, which would violate Relativity. The fact that it is further away from us in light years than the age of the universe in years, is due to the fact that the space itself is expanding.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It doesn't. Gravity is caused by mass not spin. The planet's rotation about it's own axis will create a centrifugal effect that offsets gravity, but the effect is negligible for anything rotating as slow as planets.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

You will know us by the trail of our rubbish.

[–] jon@lemdro.id 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I grew up several miles from Pocklington (the home of the business named in the article) and having any industry up there other than pig-farming would have been a welcome change. The British government forced this country into an idiotic referendum on a matter where very few people understood the consequences of the "Leave" decision, and then doubled down on their failed gamble by fucking up the post-Brexit negotiations.

Blaming entrepreneurs, who were simply trying to create a business & employ people, something that this government purports to support, for lacking the foresight to realise how incompetent and self-serving this government is, seems delusional.

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