Flag Admiral Stabby earned that knife.

If you have a grasp on distance rather than speed, you could figure out how quickly that speed would get you across that distance, assuming straight-line travel.

Let’s say I live 10km from a relative (about 6 miles) and I know it takes them about 20 minutes to get here when the road’s clear, that means I know they’re doing about 30km/h (18.6mph) on average to get here. Pretty standard for urban driving. At an average speed of 300km/h that journey would take 2 minutes.

Equivalently, a 2 minute journey now takes 12 seconds. This ignores the fact that there’d have to be one heck of an acceleration and deceleration at either end to get that average, but nonetheless, 300km/h is scary speed.

Or to put it another way, one accidental twitch of the steering wheel at that sort of speed and even the best downforce in the world isn’t going to stop you turning into a break-neck, sideways, tumbling disaster.

You could watch car disaster videos online if that helps. Or if you don’t like the idea of potentially watching people die, seek out people playing sandbox games like BeamNG where they set up horrifying scenarios, but no-one gets hurt.

As long as it’s free-range, organic, low cannabinoid hemp, I can get with this, man. Most stoners will be too stoned to notice it’s the clean-livin’ hippie kind of hemp, and hey, it’ll be great for the environment too.

I bet it works great with my SATA mulch bin.

Somewhat ironically, it was about 10 years ago that I had to quit, and that was because of my mental health.

In my case, I’m a vanilla cis-het male, but if you go out along that other axis, the one that’s neurodivergence, well, that’s where years of trying to get by in a world heavily geared to neurotypicals finally took its toll and my brain just couldn’t take it any more.

This must be the new landscape. Before I had to quit, the male-dominated IT landscape I worked in had no apparent cross-dressers. Or furries for that matter. Admittedly, the companies were relatively small so maybe they didn’t hit the threshold for there necessarily being someone who didn’t present as cis male.

A handful of gay dudes, sure, but pretty sure none of them dressed this way. Even if one of them hit some level of stereotype and did drag in their spare time - which I have no evidence of - that’s not the same as whatever this is.

I’m surprised that got through the vetting process, which I thought existed in most places.

Here in the UK, potentially offensive plates are altered or just plain skipped. There was a sitcom in the '90s that used one such “illegal” plate as an end-of-episode visual punchline, which had, up to that point, only been referred to as a “pornographic number plate”. There’s no way it would have made it onto the road in reality. P one five five OLE as I recall.

To give you some idea of how stringent it is here, back in 2007, one region had one of their region codes temporarily changed to TN from SN so that their plates wouldn’t start with “SN07”, i.e. “snot”. Something similar almost certainly happened in 2017 for the SH region code, but I don’t remember any news stories about that.

If the pricing is itemised, you could price the impossible feature at an exorbitant rate.

Either way, has your company previously sold this feature or is this just a mistaken belief about the existence of the feature that the customer has somehow invented themselves?

If the feature isn’t on any of the customer’s previous itemisations and they’re the ones who made it up accidentally, suddenly seeing it on a new itemisation with a sky-high price tag might make them realise without explicitly telling them, which may or may not be what you (as the individual) want. I assume your boss will get wind of this one way or the other, so you could get them on-side by suggesting this idea.

Is this feature something one of your company’s rivals might be able to implement or is this one of those situations where the feature would literally break the laws of physics? (Or mathematics, etc.) If the latter, it might be easier to come clean to the customer with a full explanation. If the former, your company needs to get on R&D immediately. Consult experts in the field. And that’s where the exorbitant rate comes in.

How much of this your company shares with the customer is down to your chain of command. How much you share with the customer is down to how much it will affect you personally one way or the other.

Lots of ifs, buts and maybes here. Good luck. I think you need it.

Technically, if you ignore the inherent contradiction in the name, some languages treat NaN as a falsy number and the IEEE standards admit trillions of possible NaNs.

FWIW, I’ve a relative who dislikes fish, but who often makes an exception for local fish & chips. Locally the preference is for haddock which is what’s generally served, and what that relative gets.

The same relative is less fond of cod, so I guess the advice there, if any, is if you try cod and don’t like it, try haddock. Or vice versa.

Ada is a language that leaves a lot of things “implementation dependent” as it’s not supposed to grant easy access to underlying data types like those you’ll find in C, or literally on the silicon. You’re supposed to be able to declare your own integer type of any size and the compiler is supposed to figure it out. If it chooses to use a native data type, then so be it.

This doesn’t guarantee the correctness of the compiler nor the programmer who absolutely has to work with native types because it’s an embedded system though.

This has ended in disaster at least once: https://itsfoss.com/a-floating-point-error-that-caused-a-damage-worth-half-a-billion/

ELI5

paradigm

You must know some terrifying five-year-olds.

Where I live, most stops have been in place for decades if not a century at this point. No-one remembers why the all ones that exist now exist where they do, only that they exist there. Some actually migrate over time due to new construction and other factors.

But to guess how they got where they are, at least generally speaking, someone would have designed routes for public transport around main roads and important industrial areas mainly so that workers could get to work in a morning. Businesses may have even lobbied local government or bus companies for a stop near where they were if one wasn’t already planned to be there.

Anecdotally, I know a stop near where my parents live was deliberately placed at the far side of a road junction so that factory workers who wanted to get off there were getting off past a fare boundary. That meant that if they caught the bus closer to work rather than a quarter mile up the road, they’d have to pay extra money. Actually, it’s so old a thoroughfare it might have been a horse-drawn tram stop originally. Same fare shenanigans though.

That stop migrated to the “cheaper” side of the road junction nearly 30 years ago, but as far as I know, it’s still treated as though the fare boundary occurs before it.

Anecdote 2: There have been embarrassing stories of workmen upgrading bus stop shelters only for locals to tell them, and the local news, that the bus service that would have stopped at it has long since been cancelled due to budget cuts. Bureaucracy is a wonderful thing.

I tend to use right shift for pretty much everything. The arrow glyph has worn off the key I use it so much.

Important factors:

1. British English keyboards, like the one I have, tend to be ISO, with a larger shift key on the right. Bigger target. Easier to hit.

2. I have at least a couple of passwords that each have at least one shifted character from the left side of the keyboard and it’s much easier to use both hands when I need to type those.

3. It might even go back to the fact that most of my early typing was on a Commodore 64C and the positions of surrounding keys. Hitting shift-lock or run/stop by mistake would have been a nuisance. Caps lock isn’t quite as annoying because it’s not a literal mechanical toggle, but even so, the right shift avoids that particular error.

From what I understood on the recent "live"stream, it can be turned off.

But as others have said, there are many performance mods that don’t change the core game experience. Getting those set up can be a bit of a chore, even if you choose a different launcher that manages them for you, but it can be worth it.

Until very recently I had Minecraft Java running smoothly on a PC that was 13 years old. 1st gen i7 with a similarly aged Nvidia card.

…and I still run the same mods on the new PC. Saves energy, and reduces fan noise a bit, so might as well.

$ man woman 
No manual entry for woman

Linux knows the importance of consent / If you’re not one already, Linux can’t help you understand / <Your own interpretation here>

In this instance, I think there was some suggestion to write code in mostly lower case, including all user variables, or at least inCamelCaseLikeThis with a leading lower case letter, and so to make True and False stand out, they’ve got to be capitalised.

I mean. They could have been TRUE and FALSE. Would that have been preferable? Or how about a slightly more Pythonic style: __true__ and __false__

FWIW, the new user flag is a green leaf over on fedia.io. Different platforms do it differently. Or not at all.

Bringing “no garden” back out of the analogy equates to no computer at all. The fountain is all the crapware and spyware shovelled into Windows these days. The billboard is the ads they want inject into everything.

The alternative is Apple. They don’t want to install a billboard just yet, and there’s no obvious fountain, but there’s a nightmare HOA who tell you how you have to live and if you don’t live their way you have to move.

Here’s an analogy: You can do your own gardening, or you can hire one of the two landscaping services in town.

This sounds great, but these days, no matter who you hire, the people who show up 1) want to install a fountain and an advertisement billboard that will run off your water and electricity supply and 2) want the right to take what they like from your house by default, they’ll mysteriously “forget” and do it anyway even if you pay them not to.

Furthermore, with their latest package, one of the landscaping companies are basically saying that if you don’t have a yard large enough for their fountain, you have to move house, which is only marginally better than the other one who will only work on gardens for houses they sold in the first place.

(A previous version of this comment involved the word “lube”. I’m sure you can imagine the rest.)

99% of people want a drop-in replacement for Windows that will install and run every possible Windows-compatible application, game and device without them having to make any extra effort or learn anything new. Basically Windows but free (in all senses).

Any even slightly subtle difference or incompatibility and they’ll balk. Linux can never be that, and Microsoft will keep the goalposts moving anyway to be sure of it.

Sure, a lot more works and is more user friendly than 15 years ago, but most people won’t make the time to sit down and deal with something new unless it’s forced on them… which is what Microsoft are doing with Win11.