Hugin

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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Us is a big country and when we formed it could take days to get from states to the capitol. Legislators and leaders might be away from home for a year or more and needed to get their home situated.

So there is a lot of time between elections and assuming office in national positions. Results had to go from state to national, get certified, return the results, get your house in order, travel to DC, hire staff, and arrange housing (if congress).

It's also why 200 years ago the electoral college made sense. There wasn't time to hold runoff elections. These days with fast information and travel it's a garbage legacy system.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Human speech has a fairly consistent information density. It's right about what the human brain can comfortably process.

Languages that sound fast and rapid fire have more sounds per information on average. So it's less that some cultures speak quickly and more that the speed of that language for normal human information exchange.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Before I knew any of the horrible stuff about him I still couldn't get into his books. There is a focus on style and tone at the expense of narrative and plot. That just doesn't work for me at all.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago

There is a big difference between knowing a persons reputation and knowing their actions. Sometimes a person with a bad rep does small things you pick up on that reinforces the feeling. But you still don't actually know enough to accuse them.

It's a big deal accusing a powerful person. They are usually going to deny it and people are going to ask for proof. If all you have is rumors and a feeling it only hurts you.

It took several women coming forward with what happened to them to get the public on their side. Imagine trying to accuse him when all you had was rumors.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

You are probably not farming to much. It's easy to over plant and have to spend most of your energy watering.

You can plant more when you have more levels in farming, better tools and, sprinklers. Parsnips are quick growing and a good source of xp.

You will want to start working the mine for ore to make sprinklers. Energy is your big limiter there. Use forrage for energy and avoid mining rocks that don't have what you want.

Killing monsters has a chance to spawn a ladder and the fewer there are the more likely a rock spawns a ladder. You can get much deeper on your energy by fighting before mining.

Don't ignore the community center. The unlocks are very helpful.

Most villagers hit the salon on Friday so it's a good time to say high to everybody. For finding a villager at a particular time check the wiki or install the map mod that adds the villagers.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I held my nose and voted for her. She would have been so much better then Trump but she was still a bad candidate.

Critiquing the unpopular policies she ran under and lost with might help the Democratic party get it's shit together next time.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As an engineer you learn to be very careful about what you say to non engineers.

A trivial example.

What if we make change x?

It'll make some things harder and some things easier.

One week later.

Why are you having problems? You said doing x would make things easier.

More complicated example.

Can this be used for real time control?

Define real time.

Just answer the question.

I can't it's a bad question. I need to know what you are trying to control.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

This feels like a condensed version of what a teacher must go through when reading a lazy students 3 page paper.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can inherit it from a psychopath.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Cells make too many of them to not have a purpose. There is a large energy cost to manufacturing 10k-100k per cell. That's enough for selection to remove them if they were useless.

What's probably going on is they have an important but uncommon purpose. Like a fire extinguisher. They are in most buildings but a lot of people will never see a situation where one is needed.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In this case the class action would be youtubers and other content creators not users of Honey.

 
 
 
 

A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water.

At about 1.30am, a vessel crashed into the bridge, catching fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below, according to a video posted on X.

“All lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge. Traffic is being detoured,” the Maryland Transportation Authority posted on X.

Matthew West, a petty officer first class for the coastguard in Baltimore, told the New York Times that the coastguard received a report of an impact at 1.27am ET. West said the Dali, a 948ft (29 metres) Singapore-flagged cargo ship, had hit the bridge, which is part of Interstate 695.

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