Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

Nah, let the computers do the things that they're good at, like calculating time differentials. And let people reference something real, like the sunrise and sunset. The whole daylight savings time vs. standard time is dumb, and political timezones are unfortunate, but any time system becomes meaningless when it becomes too decoupled from the way people actually experience time. I don't care when noon is in Europe, noon will always be roughly midday for me. I don't expect that's an unpopular opinion for anyone that spends any significant portion of their time outside.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago

All baking recipes should be in mass for the dry ingredients and volume for the wet ingredients, definitely NOT weight. Because measuring flour by grams (mass) makes sense, but measuring flour by pounds (weight) is fucking stupid. Lots of people in this thread pretending to be smart by using SI units, but were apparently asleep in class when the teacher covered the difference between weight and mass. If you're going to get picky about such a trifling difference between a volume of sugar and a certain mass of sugar at least get the details correct.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

In the US it must be Springfield because there's so fucking many of them that they ~~named~~ made a TV show after it.

Stupid sexy autocorrect.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

What do you think consequences are? Think it through again.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No consequences means no benefit either.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago

There will ALWAYS be mistakes, bias, and corruption. There is no such thing as incontrovertible evidence. And even if there was some fantastical magical way to know absolute truth, that is still a pretty poor justification for more murder.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Execution of innocent people is (and always has been) the entirely predictable, inevitable, and probably unavoidable result of capital punishment. There is no getting around the fact that, as long as the state executes prisoners, innocent people will be executed and "the state", i.e. taxpayers, will pay more for it than they ever would have imprisoning the convicted for life.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the one being combative here. You're attitude is pretty condescending and alienating. Are you okay?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You totally missed the part where OP said she was looking into Python because she ALREADY WORKS IN GIS.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

She already works in GIS and is looking to supplement that work with python. Python is used for more than geojson and web development in ArcGIS Pro. I've use it for constructing labels, simple field calculations, symbology, data processing etc. and in general ESRI makes it pretty simple to implement compared to the other terms you've listed. All she really needs to get started using Python with ESRI products is an simple python course and googling for some ArcGIS examples, which are pretty abundant. I remember taking one ages ago that ran the code in the browser, but I can't remember it now.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's a damn shame that we haven't built a microwave that actually listens to the pops and stops when the pops slow, just like every bag of popcorn instructs you to do. We've got gun shot detectors; you'd think we could build a chip to analyze popping popcorn.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TV static in recent movies and shows that are set in the past almost always instantly pull me out of the narrative because no one seems to be able to get it right and some are just stunningly bad. It's usually very subtle, so much so that I'm not sure I could even describe what's wrong. Makes me feel old to notice it.

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