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 Discussion on question by JBH: Would …

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Grimm The Opiner
Jun 9, 2024 02:26
I'm feeling like this doesn't make sense, and that unless the two axis of rotation are perpendicular, you're not actually rotating round two axis, but the two rotations simply resolve to a single axis "half way" between the two... But then again, anyone marginally competent with blender (ie: not me) could create a ball, parented to a "frame", and rotate the ball on a tilted axis and the frame on a straight up and down one.... and see what happens. Then we'll know.
 

 Discussion on question by eyelash: Ho…

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Grimm The Opiner
Aug 18, 2023 21:08
@MikeScott a bit of simple google-maths says different. A single nuclear reactor can power roughly 2 London's worth of homes, and costs 10's of billions, plus has running costs. Now we move to a single million dollars up front cost to power any city sized demand for power forever. Climate change is done. Pollution is done. Every energy intensive problem is solved, from desalination to recycling of all kinds of material, everything including water is more plentiful. And then, we'll create a whole bunch of new problems based on that plenty. That's a changed world! :-)
Grimm The Opiner
Aug 18, 2023 21:08
I think you need to specify not just how the energy is free, but how plentiful it is for the upfront cost. Building a million dollar machine that can make a cup of coffee every minute won't change things much. A million Dollar machine that can power a city, that changes the world beyond recognition.
 

 Discussion on answer by keshlam: How …

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Grimm The Opiner
Jul 30, 2023 04:14
Correcting your co-worker's coding style, if it is appropriate, is the manager's responsibility, not yours wrong, this is why all code is peer reviewed, it is our responsibility to correct one another - and to be corrected and take it with good grace.
 

 Discussion on question by Rhymehouse:…

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Grimm The Opiner
Dec 9, 2022 22:11
Direct combat is unlikely. After the introduction of fire arms horses were used in Dragoon formations. Errr, some were, yes. But the battle of Waterloo was in 1815 and cavalry were used extensively and effectively.
 

 Discussion on question by Display nam…

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Grimm The Opiner
Dec 9, 2022 15:57
You should definitely get an offer letter from another company, if that's what your employer wants. Then accept the offer, and once you have a start date for the new role - quit your current one!
 

 Discussion on question by Anonymous C…

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Grimm The Opiner
Nov 7, 2022 03:13
Considering that pretty much any (non-American) motorcycle can effortlessly out accelerate pretty much any car (top end Teslas being an exception) the OP is going to be very busy chasing "reckless accelerators"...
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Aug 17, 2022 19:08
As @AlexP says, you need people to sell to, to make money. And killing people costs money, there's no economic incentive for mass murder. (And the AI that can do anything people can, better, will simply take over anyway.) The fact is that every time anything gets automated wages go up, as they are directly related to productivity. A human driving a truck earns more than a man carrying a sack. A man managing a fleet of automated trucks would earn more than a man driving one truck.
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Feb 1, 2021 17:39
I like the fact that Troy McClure from the Simpsons also has a DeLorean.
 

 Discussion on question by Pender: Sen…

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Grimm The Opiner
Jan 18, 2021 13:20
@jamesqf .....*and* when he got transferred away from the original team to try and make his way in a new role, the OP dragged him back. (The actual sequence of events might not have been in precisely that order - but it would look like that to him.)
 

 Discussion on answer by sds: Why do r…

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Grimm The Opiner
Sep 8, 2020 14:20
The side that wins the post-revolutionary power struggle is the clique with the most tactical skill, not the "moderates" or "extremists". Interesting point of view! Of course, ever tightening the definition of what it takes to be an ally of the revolution, and casting the views of your opponents (especially nuanced or merciful ones) as solidarity with the "other side", is a very effective tactic; and would tend to push the movement toward extremist - or at least extreme - interpretations and acts. Revolutions are characterised by ever increasing frenzies of denunciation and lynching.
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: Could yo…

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Grimm The Opiner
Aug 11, 2020 12:32
To my understanding, the clock rating a CPU is given is the based on the speed at which that CPU started to give errors. So, even if running a CPU 100X faster might not break the chip, it would still produce nonsense.
 

 Discussion on question by regetex580:…

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Grimm The Opiner
Jul 14, 2020 16:48
I think you need to nail down exactly what powers psionics have. Some answers assume faster than usual reflexes, others assume they can simply slow their perception of time without reacting or moving faster - and your question offers both descriptions of their powers: "Some psionics have also ability of Bullet Time They are not faster then normies but they are able to perceive the enemies in slow motion." and "...most of them tend to rely more on their strength and reflexes"
 

 Discussion on question by w.k: Why do…

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Grimm The Opiner
Jul 12, 2020 05:08
Hollywood does use foreigners to play foreigners. Typically, Americans and Canadians play the Americans, and Brits play everyone else.
 

 Discussion on question by Franck Dern…

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Grimm The Opiner
Mar 13, 2020 18:21
The real question is - why do they weigh the luggage but not the passenger?
 

 Discussion on answer by Radu094: Why …

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Grimm The Opiner
Mar 10, 2020 20:23
I'd have assumed the answer was basically F=MA and landing gear strength (any given plane running a heavier load must land more softly); maybe I didn't understand the question...
 

 Discussion on answer by Kain0_0: Is i…

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Grimm The Opiner
Jan 14, 2020 03:33
Ships in The Expanse almost always have their guns pointed the wrong way as they decelerate And when they accelerate too. In the expanse, main engines are used to decide the broad path of the ship, that path will hopefully be strategically useful. When firing they point the ship in whatever direction suits best. When dodging incoming fire they use something like KSP's RCS to make small strafing movements. In the one time I know of where there was an engagement at close range, and with cover, ALL manouevring was done with RCS.
 

 Discussion on question by User1337: C…

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Grimm The Opiner
Dec 10, 2019 17:22
For any future visitors: if you ever think your boss might fire you in response to you quitting, be sure to hand your notice in to HR.
 

 Discussion on answer by gnasher729: N…

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Grimm The Opiner
Dec 10, 2019 14:38
I would never tell an employer "I'm willing to leave", this can trigger them starting to replace you. If asked about the conference I'd maintain the position that I'm not going, and make no kind of contribution to organising the conference trip, and keep looking for a new job at least until the company backs down on the conference. Maybe even beyond that, depending on how sour the manager gets over this.
 

 Discussion on question by Blueblood: …

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Grimm The Opiner
Nov 28, 2019 12:42
They do not need their heads to work - do they need their heads to see?
 

 Discussion on question by Obscerno: W…

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Grimm The Opiner
Sep 25, 2019 14:05
My feeling after reading the answers, thinking a bit, and assuming a live horse, is that with exactly the right sized cliff a horse could save the rider from injury while ending up injured itself. A motocross bike can land "comfortably" from a height you really wouldn't want to fall from using just a foot or so of suspension travel. A horse's several-foot-long legs could absorb the fall by a combination of buckling and breaking, the rider just has to make sure not to have the poor beast fall on them. It's much the same way your legs can get injured in a fall while leaving your head unhurt.
 

 Discussion on question by Dick Jones:…

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Grimm The Opiner
Sep 5, 2019 12:42
Just cos it's interesting; I saw an article where one off prototype airplane-esque small drones were being made with a form of 3D printing, but not additive construction (ie: building up layers). Instead they had something more like "shooting lasers through a container full of plastic snow". Where additive construction (sort of) sticks each layer to the one before with all the possibilities of weak joins, the lasers approach was more like a piece cast in one go.
 

 Discussion on question by Wasabi: Is …

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Grimm The Opiner
Aug 29, 2019 07:05
A thought just occurred; when enviro-types say "lungs of the planet" they usually mean to suggest "produces the oxygen we breathe". But lungs, well, lungs consume oxygen and produce CO2...
 

 Discussion on answer by Kevin: Taking…

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Grimm The Opiner
Jul 5, 2019 04:03
@B.Goddard Realize that this is eventually going to hit the fan and all the people involved will suffer. Indeed. The employee's attitude of "I didn't get the email so I don't know" is quite immature - once any current employee tells them the rules, they know the rules, and are now deliberately breaking those rules. It would actually be in the employee's best interests for someone to talk them out of this behaviour as quick as possible.
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Apr 17, 2019 07:38
She no longer works for your firm. Surely a relationship with her is no more their business than a relationship with anyone else who similarly doesn't.
 

 Discussion on answer by Rory Alsop: A…

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Grimm The Opiner
Apr 12, 2019 09:05
The false widow, cellar, woodlouse and redback - woodlouse..!?!? The humble cheesey-bob is not a spider, and definitely not dangerous...
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Apr 12, 2019 09:03
@Thomo Australia is its own weird exception - even the daffodils bite.
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Feb 28, 2019 14:29
Plus most devs I know just consider themselves to be, and to always have been, "devs". Despite having at times been through multiple roles like: junior, senior, and principal developer, team lead, "architect", design authority, scrum master...
 

 Discussion on answer by The Wandering…

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Grimm The Opiner
Dec 4, 2018 21:47
Interesting take on it. But, AIUI, you don't expect a fired employee to contribute anything in their notice period - in fact, you generally walk them straight out the door.
 

 Discussion on question by Cyonis: Anx…

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Grimm The Opiner
Oct 18, 2018 16:01
Why are you using Linq to filter that list, a couple foreach work too the good news is, you are the better coder. So, whatever needs to be done, can be done from a position of actually being right.
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Sep 27, 2018 12:59
One for some astro-knowledgeable type to address; how much smaller would the Sun get before it stopped doing fusion? Cos if it did that before losing half its mass then there would be a sudden cutoff of "Solar contributions", which might contravene point C.
 

 Discussion on question by Michael Was…

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Grimm The Opiner
Sep 18, 2018 16:57
@Luaan The engines could have been made extremely efficient if they'd opted to have death star simply roll to its destination - although it doesn't seem to in the films.
Grimm The Opiner
Sep 18, 2018 16:57
They were still getting estimates. #blueharvest #stewie
 

 Discussion on question by David Hook:…

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Grimm The Opiner
Jul 12, 2018 14:31
@DaveG I asked how many of the OP's candidates are doing that. (Might be hard to say, of course.)
Grimm The Opiner
Jul 12, 2018 14:31
@DaveG "Not necessarily" what, exactly?
Grimm The Opiner
Jul 12, 2018 14:31
How many of your candidates (you might have to guess this) are coming to you during a break in, or straight from, a shift at their current job? A rule of thumb in my domain is that anyone attending an interview in a suit is currently unemployed.
 

 Discussion on answer by Magisch: How …

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Grimm The Opiner
Jul 6, 2018 05:50
@LeopoldT Banks are IT companies, but they refuse to realise it. Sometime soon it will occur to Google (an IT company) to launch a bank. They will have the code done, in a modern stack, in a weekend. A week later there'll be a dozen more. The old banks will be gone so fast we'll hardly believe they ever existed. If banks want to survive, they need to behave like the IT companies they refuse to accept they are and get their stack up to date sometime last week. (All timings in this post are approximate. :-) )
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Jun 7, 2018 15:23
Sheesh... Must admit this movie maker's HUD shorthand never bothered me... The robot can "see" its surroundings, the robot is aware of which things in its surroundings are believed to be humans. The HUD /green highlights is the movie maker's shorthand for showing this. The robot might select areas of its field of view for more intensive image processing as they might contain humans - the movie maker shows us a roving crosshair to suggest this...
 

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Grimm The Opiner
May 27, 2018 04:01
How brainwashed are the GAU? More, very, or totally immune to morale shock and suppressing fire? And for how long? The Japanese were apparently almost unshakeable at the start of WWII - but that started to wear off in the face of large losses.
 

 Discussion on answer by Jeff Zeitlin:…

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Grimm The Opiner
Apr 11, 2018 18:17
Just to clarify a plot point - he never sees Nancy again, but simply remains certain she's nearby and/or arriving imminently? Is that kind of horrifying? : )
 

 Discussion on answer by Grimm The Opi…

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Grimm The Opiner
Mar 8, 2018 05:42
@Lag If people want to live and work and do business around the cities, why shouldn't they? Why should the state try and make them "spread out"?
Grimm The Opiner
Mar 8, 2018 05:42
Good points raised about building higher as well as out. London has rules about building high - in order to "preserve the skyline". These should also be relaxed. I'll add a note to that in the answer.
 

 Discussion on question by ArcWraith: …

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Grimm The Opiner
Feb 22, 2018 17:06
The series that starts with The Painted Man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Man envisions a population beset with monsters. It uses the supernatural to both conjure them up and provide respite and defences. As your question talks about monsters rather than animals, that suggests fantasy so you might take refuge in the supernatural too. Also, you haven't really explained why crops need protecting against animals/monsters that eat people.
 

 Discussion on answer by BoboDarph: Fi…

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Grimm The Opiner
Feb 16, 2018 22:34
+1. I'd give you an extra imaginary plus 1 if you also recommended suing the BnB host for illegally filming people and lying about a theft.
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Jan 28, 2018 22:00
@mickburkejnr If you take a week off sick, your BF is 5. Drag yourself in on wednesday because a server caught fire, then go back home, and your BF is 16. It's idiotic. Regarding Mondays and Fridays, a "single" day off might well be three days ill, one work day plus the weekend. And what does the BF say about a Friday and a Monday off? You might well be ill all weekend but it's calculated as two illnesses. All that said, it is somewhat telling that a whopping 40% of office sick days are on Mondays and Fridays...
Grimm The Opiner
Jan 28, 2018 22:00
I fell foul of the idiotic "bradford factor" while working at one place - ironically dragging myself in while still feeling bad, then relapsing, made my score worse than just not bothering. Also, people who get migraines quite often need to rush home, medicate and rest, and can be in the next day. Some mental illness can be fairly transitory - at least in terms of being "too bad to come in today". To clarify; the Bradford factor is for idiots, from idiots
 

 Discussion on question by akaioi: Psy…

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Grimm The Opiner
Nov 24, 2017 21:32
Animals which use their heads to kill have heads which are up to the job. My mutts have been accidentally kicked or kneed, spun themselves head first into furniture, and on one occasion repeatedly face smashed through a hard woody bramble patch to reach a tennis ball. All without harm.
 

 Discussion on question by L.Dutch: Pr…

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Grimm The Opiner
Nov 13, 2017 22:25
Sounds like you're in the middle of a war you didn't choose. Company wants the company language to be English, project lead (and quite possibly others) do not. The assertion that speaking in a language several team members have no understanding of is "efficient", is total rubbish.
 

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Grimm The Opiner
Nov 7, 2017 21:53
Would it be immoral to prolong the interview so they get ever more drunkerer, then when you judge the time is right, stand up, shake the lead interviewer by the hand and say "I'm amazed but pleased that no-one's ever got 100% on the technical interview before, thank you very much for the offer, $80,000 is right about what I was looking for - as soon as I have something in writing I can accept."...?
 

 Discussion on answer by Lilienthal: H…

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Grimm The Opiner
Nov 7, 2017 04:18
Good answer. The OP shouldn't worry one wit that the manager might have a shouting fit in front of the office, the only person that would reflect badly on is the manager. And once people find out it was over the OP handing giving notice, the manager will look even worse. Give letter, say as little as possible, explain nothing. (Until the exit interview! :-) )