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Comment Re:Actual best ways to reduce carbon footprint (Score 1) 114

ut in speed limits for the large aircraft. Right now airline flights fly fast to reduce total travel time. But the wait to get onto the flight is so long, not even counting the wait to get your luggage and/or rent a car means the actual percentage gain in time is not meaningful

Depends on the airport, time of day, route, etc - for much shorter routes , for much longer flights that seems absurdly impossible though.

Why would you include waiting at the airport though in the travel time (boarding and baggage retrieval, which also assumes someone has to be checking on bags too (another potential assumption error))? I mean, if the measure is getting between two points, why not just compare the travel between two points (which can include taxiing to the runway, to the gate, at the airport)?

Comment Modulex (Score 2) 22

I really wish they'd bring back the Modulex line of bricks (which was meant for architects and capable of making proper scale buildings due to the 5:5 width/length ratio (vs LEGO's 6.5:5 width/length). If I want to make scale models using LEGOs currently, I CAN, but there are some tricks I'd need to employ that would blow the size of my model up even more size-wise (and given the size of LEGOs some of the model ideas I want to make can get kinda hefty).

Comment Public Domain Dat is here again! (Score 1) 36

And with it, a slew of comments on YT, Twitter/X, etc, by idiots who exlaime "the public domain is a mistake" or what such fiddle faddle when they see character-turned-into-horror-movie slop (ignoring that good things take time to be made, and that the public domain serves a very important purpose).

Good thing people can't slap other people through their monitors, I'd have very sore hands in resposne to those nitwits.

Comment Re:I have to say by now I approve (Score 1) 90

Maybe another silly question, but how many of the memory vulnerabilities and other bugs we see from those utilizing C would be more likely to be mitigated if programmers in C were not just made well aware of them / their cause, the ways to prevent them (either on the job or in relevant education in school or elsewhere), AND if programmers and engineers had the time they needed to design things properly, implement them, and TEST THEM (as in, if the development processes slowed down for fuck's sake)? Sure feels like everything (not just program development) is way too fast paced these days.

Comment Re:I have to say by now I approve (Score 1) 90

My number one recommendation is to not do open-coded buffer or string manipulation by using pointer arithmetic. This simple to do but almost all of C OOB issues I see are caused by this.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is it a problem with using pointer arithmetic, a problem of not ensuring you do proper bounds checking (even having a maximum boundary for instance), and the like, or even both?

Comment Re:Stop coddling these children (Score 1) 238

The issue isn't with everyone having problems, or which ones are more or less severe than others, though. It's about those who have certain proiblems getting certain accomidations.

Can we all (especially those calling those who need accommodations spoiled, coddled, or the like) stop being retarded for ten fucking seconds?

Jesus Christ!

Comment Re:Yes, ADHD exists. Fakes mess it up for others (Score 1) 238

Fakes mess it up for others

Fakes are used as an excuse for others to mess it up, and do so knowing they never get criticized (despite directly causing the mess ups) because somehow we've been programmed to ignore the actual causes and think way too simplistically.

For instance, fakes didn't cause schools to overcorrect so badly as to reject valid claims, the schools did period.

Comment Re:Reminds me of the miracle cripples on planes (Score 1) 238

Reminds me of the miracle cripples on planes

Another moral panic that IMO is based on an extremely gross oversimplification. I know people who can walk short distances, or have other conditions making mobility difficult... and people where that manifests itself as a problem at large airports, but not at really small ones - so in that case for instance it would make sense to need a wheelchair to get through the larger one and not the smaller one.

Are there people legitimately abusing this? Absolutely. The answer, however, is not to stigmatize people needing things like this conditionally - that makes the person framing it that way, IMO, the asshole.

Comment Re: Good for her! (Score 0, Flamebait) 154

which no one needs

Can we please with the interjection of opinion when talking about facts in this manner? YOUR OPINION is not fact, MY opinion isn't fact. You not seeing cases that may exist for something similar =/= "non e exist," nor does my seeing use cases mean there aren't bad use cases either.

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