[-] guy@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Not a car, but I've got a bicycle light that does this. Turns on when it's dark and also when you brake. So definitely possible

[-] guy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Haha, most people here do tech it seems. Well, me too.

People seem to think I'd be good at maths and my entire job is like maths. I'm not and I don't view it that way. There's a lot of problem solving and engineering, but I find it very creative and expressive

[-] guy@lemmy.world 163 points 3 months ago

The sort of comeback so good you think of it later on and write a comic, wishing you'd said it at the time

[-] guy@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago

Much like the words "fake steak" or "not really steak" wouldn't confuse me into thinking it was really real steak, just because the word "steak" is in there, "vegan steak" doesn't either, because I'm not incredibly stupid

[-] guy@lemmy.world 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Raise prices at peak times? โœ…๐Ÿ’ฐ
Lower prices ever? โŒ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Properly done dynamic pricing rewards customers with cheap prices for going at off-peak times, and the opposite on-peak. However this other form of "surge pricing" is really just price gouging under another label

[-] guy@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago

I find myself staring sometimes, but it's because:

  • Things that move distract my attention.
  • I've spaced out and didn't realise where my eyes were pointing.
  • I'm trying to work out why you look so familiar, unsure if I know you.
[-] guy@lemmy.world 70 points 6 months ago

== is a heathen with no rightful place except equality to null. All praise ===

[-] guy@lemmy.world 103 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In the sentence "you have a problem", "have" is the main verb. When reduced to the clitic "'ve", it becomes a weak form and is only expected to be used as an auxiliary verb. These types of verbs must be followed by the main verb. "a" is not a verb. Thus, we insert "got".

If we do not insert "got", the stress in the sentence moves and it sounds overly affected.

I'm not too sure, but I think "be" ("is", "are") is the only verb that can be contracted and still remain a main verb. I'm not too sure why.

[-] guy@lemmy.world 125 points 7 months ago

Fuck would that question come up on a trivia night. No chance. That's a specialist subject

[-] guy@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago

With a little knowledge, it's not very hard to make your own messaging app and share it with those you know. And there's plenty projects online that give you what you need without having to write the code yourself. Alternatively, there's just plenty dark web and under the radar apps already that won't bend to this ruling.

What it is, though, is very inconvenient and annoying to do so.

But if you're an actual criminal, then there is this solution here that can never be subject to this ruling.

So what this clearly means is that the EU will violate the privacy of all the everyday people that don't handle that inconvenience, pushing the serious criminals to dark channels.

[-] guy@lemmy.world 86 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's a silly nitpick anyway. The monster, Adam, calls the doctor, Victor Frankenstein, his father. Surnames are inherited, thus they are both Frankensteins.

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