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  • bstix@feddit.dktoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldRoundabouts are Woke
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    3 hours ago

    This looks like a perfectly ordinary round about to me, except for them driving on the left. It doesn’t have multiple car lanes.

    The round abouts with multiple car lanes are indeed confusing to some people, and the ones I’ve seen all have the bicycle lanes offset to make crossings further from the center or dug out under the road.



  • win an argument

    Is that your idea of what a conversation is?

    People can have conversations, dialogue and small talk without having to constantly confront each other with arguments.

    Even in case you’d want to discuss something or persuade somebody, argumentation is usually the worst approach to present your point of view.

    Nobody ever really wins an argument.




  • bstix@feddit.dktomemes@lemmy.worldNone of these
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    Well, you can’t make Tetris in HTML without including some other language that has loops and variables.

    I’m also not sure if you can do it in Excel without using VBA, which is a programming language. Excel doesn’t do circular logic in the document sheets.

    Anyway the issue or joke is the lack of definition of “programming”.

    HTML is a text encoding system. It’s not that different form something like the Morse code. It’s only instructions for how to decipher a series of codes. It takes input and presents it as an output, starting from the beginning and working its way to the end.

    In my very unofficial opinion, a “program” is something that is able to “run” by itself, so that the code itself has instructions for which part of the code to run.

    If you decipher a morse code, it doesn’t suddenly have instructions that force you to go backwards in the code and decipher from there or to jump to different sections. The text output might tell you to do so, but if you follow the text, then you’re doing something else than deciphering morse code.

    HTML works the same. It start from the top and interprets its way down. It can have some conditional statements, but nothing that will make it go backwards and rerun the same instructions again.

    The interpretation is of course more advanced than Morse code and it can call other languages to do stuff, so HTML is basically a document describing a job procedure in that way. The individual jobs can be reoccurring tasks, but the document itself isn’t.

    So in my opinion it’s not “running” anything. It’s just a document being printed on screen.

    I’ll admit that “one-shot” programs are a thing, and documents with variables do exist, so it’s not clear cut. A programming language should be capable of those things though, and HTML isn’t one on its own.











  • That’s not possible with the system in my country, but I agree, it ought to be standard in EU too.

    I think the machine attracts more people with lots of cans and also teaches more people not to bother refunding often.

    My point, if there is one, is that when technology makes life easier, it’s human nature to become even lazier, to the point where the technology doesn’t solve the issue it was made for.


  • bstix@feddit.dktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAmazing.
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    A local store just upgraded the deposit machine, so instead of depositing one single can at a time, I now empty an entire bag of hundreds of cans into the machine and let it sort it out. It’s great, saves lots of time and makes everything easier. Instead of bringing a shopping bag with 20 cans everytime I shop I can take an entire sack of 200 cans every month or so.

    Unfortunately… the same kind of people who used to cause queues with their 200 can garbage bags at the usual refund machines also figured this out, so now they’re causing a queue at the new machine with trailer loads of garbage bags full of thousands of cans.

    I have no idea where they get all those cans.

    video of the machine


  • The Milky Way is in a sort of orbit around the center of the Local Group which is the name for the local group of galaxies. It’s not a clean circular orbit and it’s not possible to calculate the rotation time, because the pull from other galaxies is stronger than their collective centre of point of gravity, but sure, it rotates overall on that scale too.

    The next levels are different. The Local Group is part of a larger supercluster of galaxies that do not seem to rotate. It’s more like flows of galaxy clusters. Depending on the point and scale we look at, it may be shrinking or expanding. Perhaps there is some rotation to it, but the scale of both distance and time is so incredibly large that it’s meaningless.

















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