ch00f @ ch00f @lemmy.world

Posts

61

Comments

1,534

Joined

2 yr. ago

We should probably still turn off the orphan-crushing machine.

You need a control experiment. Try sleeping with a heatpad without your boyfriend before you assume it's the heat pad.

It DOES NOT matter if it’s done with 3 feet to merge or 300 feet to merge. There’s no efficiency gain.

Merging early leaves unused road. Shoving the cars into fewer lanes makes the traffic jam longer and makes it impact more interesections far behind the actual hangup. If you can merge early without slowing down, sure go for it. I'm mostly talking about the scenarios where it's already slowed to a crawl and people feel like they have to merge early to not be seen as "cutting in line."

Edit, also to add, if everyone merges early even at speed, eventually, the car density in the reduced lanes will reach a point where people naturally slow down and you have bumper to bumper traffic.

I suggest Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt for more.

Zipper merging.

If your lane is closing ahead, it is better for everyone in traffic if you drive all the way to the end of the lane and cut in at the last moment.

Note that this does not apply to exit lanes. The basic rule is if late merging blocks someone from going somewhere, merge early. Otherwise, merge as late as you can.

cleanpenis.fart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZlWIW5ZdM

I think parking your Miata under someone's truck would be a hilarious prank.

No pretty sure they're me.

Though this is a pretty decent book. The version I read in 2009 had updated all the pop culture references to make it more relatable.

It started happening on other sites too. I think it's the "Yet Another Smooth Scrolling WE" I had installed in Firefox acting up. Disabling the plugin and scrolling has improved.

Makes a lot of sense, thanks.

Wasn't the whole point of layaway to keep the physical item from being purchased by another customer until you could pay it off? How many items today completely sell out?

Elder millennial, and I've never fully understood layaway.

Yo momma so fat she sat on a binary tree and squashed it into a linked list in O(1) time.

Something poetic and quaint about a link to a Wikipedia article titled "Tree"

Is it because the amps are high

Yes. I don't know about for motorcycles, but in a car, it's like hundreds of amps. That's a lot of fucking amps.

You're used to seeing your mirror image. You aren't perfectly symmetrical, so your reflection looks slightly different than your image in a camera.

I think when I first saw this comic, the punchline was "what's a four?" which I find funnier.

Whether their employer would be happy to know about it is another story

This is the angle I was thinking.

I was watching the screensaver of a Big Buck Hunter arcade cabinet at the bar last night, and one of the minigames involved shooting roaches crawling all over a house. The cake in the kitchen was definitely the Portal cake.

Any storm big enough to knock out cell towers would probably ground all flights.