overzeetop

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[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I'd never realized how convenient/natural a joystick is for adjusting your side mirrors. I'm not even sure my wife has the reach to both press a touchscreen in the center console and have her head in driving position to adjust the mirrors with real time feedback. Even I'd hate to have to tweak a mirror while driving with a touchscreen.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The implication is that it's your own blood, but I like the planning/forethought. I think you'll be going places. Probably at a run.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

There are a lot of never-maskers out there, but I’d say that I’ve seen at least an order of magnitude increase in general usage even years after the lock downs and mandate have been lifted.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Feel the hate. Let it flow through you.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Indeed, I'm not sure even testing is sufficient. My family recently got it (my wife and I visiting my parents), but thought nothing of it for a week. My father had a sore throat, my mother had watery eyes and some nasal congestion. My father masked indoors (because I don't want a regular cold either) and chalked my mother's symptoms to seasonal allergies (the cars were covered with Pine pollen all week). Then, on the drive home, my wife felt off. 10 hours in the car together. She slept in the guest room that night and, just for grins, tested for Covid the next morning. She was positive. We called and had my parent's test - both positive. I tested negative so I packed my things and rented a hotel room for the week and worked there alone. I tested every other day and was never positive, but I cancelled all my client meetings.

I still never "got it" but...is it really feasible I didn't have some low level? This is my second trip in a car for multiple hours with someone who tested positive the next day. Granted, I'm about 4 vaccines in (2xOG, 1 updated, 1 XBB variant), but so is my wife. I have to think that I had some sub-clinical level of viral load, or at least below the antigen test threshold, but I'm thankful I escaped symptoms.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Wage is worthless wording. Most ultra rich don’t have wages - at least not relative to their change in worth. We need to change how taxes fundamentally work.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (31 children)

Not to defend them or minimize the corporate stupidity, but it sounded like there were less than 100k people affected out of tens of millions (100m?) accounts. I get that it was a big deal for those affected, but a 0.1% outage doesn’t seem “major”.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Still cheaper than inkjets

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

But, also, this describes every response to a ML prompt.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago (15 children)

The description of an unexpected/(impossible) orientation for an on road obstacle works as an excuse, right up to the point where you realize that the software should, explicitly, not run into anything at all. That’s got to be, like, the first law of (robotic) vehicle piloting.

It was just lucky that it happened twice as, otherwise, Alphabet likely would have shrugged it off as some unimportant, random event.

 

I looked all over the Golden Circle for some kitschy souvenir shirt to bring home and was hoping for a call back to the 2008 Journey movie with Brendan Fraser. Doubly disappointed as Aníta Briem (Hannah Ásgeirsson) is a native Icelander.

Since I couldn't find one, I made my own.

(I didn't actually make it to the Snaefellsjokull glacier in either of my two visits to the island. Maybe next time, and I wear my new T-shirt.)

 
 

Those terrible cardboard things that you just never knew what you were going to get until they were developed? I decided on my last trip I'd make up a pretend set of prints to share with my online friends. Below is the sample. I knew there'd be some really exciting shots, so I ordered double prints when I sent it in for processing. Woo Hoo!!

(apologies if (semi-)humor posts are not allowed here)

 

Looking out from the coast of Aberdeen towards the North Sea as a spring storm rolled in, with a faint hint of the offshore wind farm just visible through the mist on the horizon.

 

Prague, Czechia, 2022; Charles Bridge in the background.

Bonus image: if you get up early enough in the morning, you can have the Prague Castle grounds all to yourself.

 

Edinburgh, Scotland, 2018

 
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