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I never tire of this gif, I could honestly watch it for hours. 🤩

@ Cards Against Humanity, great new card idea here for you! ⬆️

Actually I’ve been considering a shift into mushroom farming.

If they don’t already, they will probably make doing that a kill switch trigger. 🫠

I wish this weren’t so accurate. But I was laid off 6 months ago and I’m still looking despite having 6 years in SW-dev. That’s not the case for everybody, of course, but it’s a rough outlook for a lot of us in tech.

Only real advice I’ve got for OP: surround yourself with a good support network.

Really? https://github.com/ErsatzTV/next looks pretty active to me…?

Well…

You never call, you never write! … You’re the nastiest dirtbag I know in this stinking city! … If you don’t wanna talk to your mother, just avoid me like usual, huh?

Flock camera together. 😅

I’d make a few loose fishing line webs / a bunch of fishing line streamers. Line should be too fine for the drones camera to detect, but its propellers will hit the line and instantly gum it up. Just make sure your traps are only on your property. Bonus points ir the web, having caught a drone, can be reeled in from afar.

That they somehow convinced you it was a matter of resources to not protect citizens from peeping-toms is unfortunate. They have more resources than you could possibly imagine. They just don’t care, because they don’t have to, and their job is only to protect people in power.

Frogs in pots… And the reddit communities that people liked were still active once the protest was bashes down. Reddit nixed and replaced every mod that continued protesting in their subs.

Well then I’m one of the special few. 🤓

Beyond that, there were a bunch of people watching and posting upticking Lemmy usage stats. I recall it being tens of thousands (mainly joining Lemmy.world), but those who stuck around was much smaller. Unfortunately when I joined, the messaging around Lemmy & federation was poor and there were a lot of ghost-town communities.

You hiring? 🤓

What did you jump into instead? Any advice on transitioning out of sdev?

🎼 “525,600 servings - how do you measure a quarter-second spray?” 🎶 ~Rent, probably.

No, in US labeling, it’s all a rounding scheme designed to hide the facts thanks to junk food lobbyists.

“amounts less than 5 calories may be expressed as zero.” [Within whatever arbitrary(!!!) serving size the company elects to use for their junk.] So they just pick a serving size that, for instance would be 4 (k)cal, and then call it zero across the board to suit their desire to obfuscate the truth.

Not to mention, what they call a calorie is really a kilocalorie.

I’m from the US, if I could read, I bet this post would upset me! 😅

Hmm, maybe? But two things to (re) consider:

Saying “the cube imparts momentum onto itself” sounds like it would violate the law of conservation of energy. The ‘energy can’t be created or destroyed’ theory, so where did it actually come from? Did the cube suck force going at one vector (the portal) and convert it into the opposite vector? That feels like it violates inertia. And since momentum is mass*velocity, that means the mass of the portal would play into the math changing the cube’s own momentum. And I’d honestly assume the portal’s mass is zero, which still maintains it wouldn’t impart any energy onto the cube, right?

Secondly, regarding inertia from another standpoint, I have a thought experiment: let’s say the portal is coming at the cube blazingly fast, then immediately stops halfway through enveloping the cube, so it’s just chilling 50/50 on each side. By your statement of “it pushes the first part of the cube...” That would mean one half would have momentum at the same time the other half, not yet through the horizon, would still have none. Maybe so much so that (1) the cube would be pulled the rest of the way through even through the portal had stopped because half the atoms of the cube suddenly had momentum for some reason, or (2) the cube would rip in half (brittle cube I guess, but let’s ignore the material considerations for simpliciry) because half the cube now suddenly has momentum while the other half still has none.

So I think I understand your perspective, but I can’t yet get around what seems to be a few lingering problems. All the same, I’m enjoying the discussion, thanks net-neighbor!

Or, this, but mind blown --> The exit portal would be the thing that moves backwards to maintain the zero momentum of the cube 😅

My take:

The cube’s mass is x (eg one gram) and its velocity is zero, therefore its momentum (m*v) is zero. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, while objects at rest (e.g. momentum of zero), tend to stay at rest.

The thing which is moving, is the portal. At best, the event horizon of it reaches the leading-end then the trailing-end of the cube at the speed the portal is moving over the depth of the cube. If the portal moves faster, that distance is covered faster, and the full cube is entirely on the other end of the other portal faster [than a slower moving portal].

Since going through the portal is a frictionless and forceless action, the speed at which the portal fully envelops the cube would neither add nor remove momentum upon it. And if the cube did have its own momentum it would be maintained, but since it does not, the cube would not move until another force, like gravity, acted upon it.

So, A.