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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Look up the company Peaceable Kingdom and get them started even earlier. The games are basic, but they mostly are actually games where strategy and decisions matter, it's a great on ramp experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure Ben doesn't have ownership or control over Ben and Jerry's anymore, so I wouldn't put his baggage on them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Let's take windmill like in the example, it has 3 blades, each maybe at most 5 degrees wide (out of the 360 for a circle). So that covers 15 total degrees or 1/24th the wind area, so at absolute best, it's about 4% of the wind power in that area being stopped. But the blades don't actually capture 100% of the wind power, a good amount will deflect off, those blades are not 5 degrees wide, they're less and they aren't straight blades, so again they capture less. Further the blade only captures a small vertical section of its own footprint, so it captures dramatically less wind power. Lastly blades are spaced with a good amount of clearance from each other leading to even less wind power captured. In aggregate, even by entirely layman measure, these likely have an immeasurable impact on another wind farm.

I'd bet if you built a mile high, mile wide wind capture device that captured 100% of wind power going to it, and then put a 2nd one 1 mile directly behind that, you could just maybe get a few % measurable impact.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

It matters if you are concerned with things related to the honey other than taste and texture of the raw product.

But it is also a good point that quality imitations of foods are pretty rare, so it could be useful as an independent class of goods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This assignment is literally a fill in the blanks to complete a set of code to make it produce values expected by the assignment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm currently doing an online Master's with Northeastern. Honestly not surprised this happened, the quality of classes is WILD.

Taking 2 classes per term, and each term so far 1 class has been very well designed but also insanely easy, while the other has been so poorly implemented that the course learning materials don't actually help you do the coursework.

Probably most astonishing so far though is a course I'm taking now just served me with the literally exact same assignment that I did for a course I just finished. Now, granted that both classes are from the elective course choices, so not everyone will take both, but come on... and they grill me about plagiarism with every submission I make...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Did a quick check, didn't see any news about a stroke, so we don't have to worry about that at least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wish my tap was as good as Finnish water ...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does Factorio count? It's a good game, you can play multiplayer, the factory can always grow (at least until your hardware, or in the extreme the software, can no longer handle it) and if you're grinding for something rather than automating it, you're doing it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Per my quick research, 1 Dum Dum is about 25 calories, if we assume he eats 1500 calories per day, he'd die of malnutrition before he finished eating them over 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's an evolution of their 4 for $4 deal they started about 10 years ago, pretty sure it's national. It's just not well advertised compared to the more premium stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With Wendy's, if you're looking for cheap, gotta skip their premium meals and go to their Meal Deals, Sandwich, nuggets, fries, drink for $5, more if you want extra meat/bacon.

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