WalrusDragonOnABike

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Also sometimes how having a body feels like.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

You do hits for $20 and even autograph the victims?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

When you're clients are a handful of companies who will more aggressively change insurers than consumers to save a penny and have their own legal teams, it becomes harder to price gouge or illegally deny claims.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The character in this meme is a white male, so it's not political. /j

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Picked my area and 29K puts you in the middle class, which is like $13/hr, and its pretty close to the national average for COL.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Based on which definition?

I feel like by most commonly used definitions I would be. About half my income (before taxes) goes into savings, my position is considered management, I make between 75%-200% of median national income, I have a graduate degree.

I don't make half that rate though.

Not sure I think middle class is a useful method of classification though, but still curious why that specific number.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

DST means you also have things like CST vs CET and given some places start DST earlier or later than others and some ignore it all together, we probably have at least 50 time zones.

Always fun trying to schedule international regular meetings when suddenly there's a week when half the people's times changed and the other half's times haven't yet, so you try to figure out which time would exclude the fewest essential people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

From my understanding, its mostly a logistics things. Some tiny towns are expecting to having huge surges of people and their infrastructure can't handle it. So they're telling people to stay at home instead and declared states of emergency. One school district already bought the glasses and are just giving them to students because of this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I only program non-seriously for work on occasions and I've rarely used copy/pasted code. Except maybe some of my own code because of using lazy logic trees to deal with variation in the data being processed. Doesn't need to be pretty or efficient. Just needs to work well enough so I do a less manual work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Kilo comes from greek and has meant 1000 for 1000's of years. If you want 2^10 to be represented using greek prefixes, it better involve "deca" and "di". Kilo (and di) would be usable for roughly 1.071508607186267 x 10^301 byte. KB was wrong when it was invented, but they were only wrong for decades at least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

At least online, it seems like the only Americans who call themselves far left agree those are all centrist positions. It's only "centrists/progressives*" (moderately far right Americans) and other flavors of far right who still often dont generally call themselves far right (trump enthusiasts, alex jones types, proud boy types) who label basic things like universal health care a far left idea or just call it impractical atm.

*I feel like 10 years ago, people who were at least moderately left were the main people using this term, but in the last few years, people right of center have been using the label to try limit progress by pretending they're just trying to be practical/realists about what can actually be done.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just checking an art degree guide: https://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/architecture-course-4-b/

One of the classes that can be chosen is: 6.4400 Computer Graphics, which has a programming 101a/b class as a prereq (granted, it uses python instead of C++, but pretty sure they used C++ as their language-of-choice for the programming 101 language until recently).

Given the variety of digital art (video games, VTube avatars/VR avatars, more traditional-style digital art, etc), having the tools to make those kinds of things can be useful for making responsive/interactive digital art.

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