I used to use one of these old serial Microsoft trackballs for a few years. They use less desk space and they were much more reliable than contemporary ball mice.
I think the high quality of even cheap optical mice has made them obsolete. Their high precision means that they also don’t need a lot of desk space and they are more reliable than trackballs.
I think the main reason to use one of them today is probably nostalgia and personal preference.
It’s the cheap additives used to cut the stuff that do the trick.
The peasant railgun is kinda weird tbh.
It first uses game rules ignoring physics (using the ready action to pass the object super fast along the line of peasants), to then flip and ignore game rules while using physics (not applying the rules for throwing an object but instead claiming that physics “realism” demands that the object keeps its speed and does damage according to the speed, not according to game rules).
Fun meme, but really doesn’t make sense in game.
And if that’s not enough, try military strength edibles.
We had a reorg about a year and a half ago. Before that, there was an app team, a web team and a backend team. Now there’s a webshop team and a website team, each containing app, web and backend people.
The web and app people have been complaining that whenever people from the other product talk about in daily doesn’t matter to them. That wastes 5 minutes a day of their time. So we had 4 retrospectives, 4 workshops and 3 discussion meetings on how to restructure the dailies to save time during daily. That’s about as much time as would be wasted over the course of maybe 200 dailies. We still don’t have a decent plan. The current idea is to split the dailies and have two dailies, and everyone who is not web or app (so backend, testers, product owner, team manager and UX designers) need to be in both dailies where all the announcements will be repeated twice.
We apparently don’t have bigger issues.
(And there’s me, backender, sitting there listening to both web and app people chatting away for 10 minutes a day about things like accessibility and layouting that really don’t matter for me, just barely listening in case someone mentions my name, so I can quickly scramble and act as if I was following along what they were saying.)
Now Android support shouldn’t be too far of a stretch.
That’s why the US is in dire need of a new constitution: bad decisions from over 200 years ago still shape the way politics is done right up until today.
Always great when people see problems that are so old they are literally mentioned in the old testament and think that it’s a new thing that only emerged yesterday.
And even if you ignore the old testament, half of the gospels is Jesus fighting the Pharisees, which are exactly that.
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On my laptop there’s two USB ports on the back and an Ethernet port in between. Ethernet is exactly as wide that an USB A connector fits into it and feels close enough to the real thing.
There’s also the Lenovo proprietary power connector, which has almost identical dimensions to USB A, so it feels like putting an USB A connector in the wrong way.
It’s basically impossible to plug in a USB connector blindly into this laptop. I always have to shut the lid to plug in USB.
This. So much this.
It’s one thing to threaten, it’s a completely different thing to move.
Unglaublich dummer Test. Die Fragen sind extrem simplifiziert und es gibt keine Gewichtung.
Hitler hat damals den Holocaust durchgeführt (in dem Test also “Zuwanderung einschränken”) und Tempolimit 80 auf der Autobahn eingeführt. Würde sich mangels Gewichtung gegenseitig aufwiegen. Weil ein Tempolimit und der Holocaust ungefähr gleich viel wiegt, ge Zeit-Redaktion?
Das liegt daran, dass das Spektrum in dem Test völlig nutzlos gewählt ist.
Die AfD hat z.B. bei “Der Staat soll sich aus der Wirtschaft raushalten” eine Position ganz in der Mitte des Spektrums. Was klar ist, weil kein machtgeiler Politiker seine Politik komplett aus dem wichtigsten Machtthema raushalten will.
Nach dieser Bewertung ist Trump und war Hitler auch “links”, weil sich beide durchaus kräftig in die Wirtschaft einmischen/eingemischt haben.
Ist natürlich eine komplett dumme Einordnung. Ähnlich sieht es bei den anderen Fragen aus.
Dann bleibt natürlich die Frage der Gewichtung. Der Test scheint alle Antworten eins zu eins gleich zu gewichten.
Beantwortet man die Fragen für Hitler, dann kriegt man z.B. “Starke Einmischung der Politik in die Wirtschaft”, “Tempolimit 80 auf der Autobahn”, “Hohe Steuern”, “Hohe Steuern für Reiche”, und “Zuwanderung einschränken” (Juden vergasen war keine Option in dem Test), also alles ganz toll links.
Durch diese dumme Gewichtung wiegt halt “Tempolimit einführen” “den Holocaust ausführen” vollständig wieder auf.
Wenn also selbst das Textbuch-Beispiel eines Rechtsextremen auf dem Test als ziemlich links abschneidet, dann ist der Test offensichtlich Mist.
Ich hab zum Spaß den Test mal so beantwortet wie Hitler ihn beantworten würde und bin zwischen den Grünen und der Linken gelandet.
Wenn du nicht dort rein passt, warum willst du den Job?
Und wenn du deinem zukünftigen Chef sagst, dass du dort nicht rein passt, warum denkst du dass er dich will?
Als Vorgesetzter würde ich mir nie jemanden ins Team holen der nicht rein passt, weil das langfristig zu deutlich schlechterer Motivation und damit Performance führt als ein potentiell guter Mitarbeiter an den Tisch bringt. Da nehm ich eher einen Schlechteren, der gut ins Team passt, als einen Besseren, der es nicht tut. Mit dem, der nicht ins Team passt, werde ich in der Zukunft mehr Probleme haben als er wert ist.
Allerdings würde ich an deiner Stelle auch deine Position überdenken. Es gibt nur sehr wenige Jobs wo Kommunikation und Kooperation unnötig ist. Jemand, mit dem man nicht über Dinge reden kann, die einem Spaß machen, mit dem kann man selten über die Dinge sprechen, die keinen Spaß machen aber wichtig sind. Generell klingt mir aus deinem Beitrag sehr viel Überheblichkeit durch. Das könnte dir komplett unabhängig von dem Team in dem du landest Schwierigkeiten machen.
Und wenn du nicht schaffst zu Netzwerken, dann wird es generell mit der Karriere auch nichts. Solche Leute können dann ihre “Karriere” als ewiger Unterling fristen, weil sie nie das Soziale und die Politik auf die Reihe kriegen, um mal tatsächlich Karriere zu machen.
FPTP is just an ancient, outdated system that really sucks. Unmitigated FPTP is mostly employed by countries that have been “alive” for too long without a major crisis that caused a new constitution to be passed. (And not only some measly amendments, but full re-writes).
Schauen wir uns mal seine Forderungen an:
Finanziert soll das werden durch Anheben des Spitzensteuersatzes und der Unternehmenssteuer.
Wenn das Kommunismus sein soll, dann ist Mamdani der ambitionsloseste Kommunist von dem ich je gehört hab.
I think the point was that to change the system away from a 2-party-system, the people who got into power via this system would have to agree to change to a different system which would likely lead to them not being in power.
Politicians are directly disincentivized from changing to a better system. The only direction they are incentivized to change the system to would be a 1-party-system with them in power.
That’s why a change to a better, more fair, more liberal electoral system only ever happens when a country is re-founded, e.g. after a lost war or after a revolution.
Btw: If you ignore the 10 amendments to the US constitution that were ratified in the first year (which were basically zero-day patches) and the two amendments that don’t have an effect (prohibition and cancellation of the prohibition) you end up with 15 amendments.
France had 15 full constitutional rewrites over about the same time period.
Because the US has a constitutionally enshrined two-party system.
The constitution doesn’t mention the two-party system by name, but it defines an election system that can do nothing but create a two-party system.
That’s because it’s first-to-the-post: The winner takes it all, the loser gets nothing.
Take for example a situation where there are three parties. One is far left, one is center left, one is right. If 25% vote for far left, 35% vote for center left and 40% vote for right, it’s clear that the majority would favour a left candidate, but the right one will win.
This means, splitting the vote is a lost vote for your compromise candidate (e.g. a far left voter would prefer a center left one over a right one), so people vote for one of the major parties, which doesn’t allow third parties to ever emerge. Most people would just not risk voting for another candidate who has less chance to win.
A run-off system would drop out the least favoured candidates, giving people a choice to vote for a compromise candidate. This would allow people to be more risk-friendly with their first vote, which could allow a third-party candidate to actually make it into the run-off round.
A coalition-based system allows multiple parties to be in government at once. That would allow e.g. the far left and the left parties to form a coalition, which allows for finer compromises.
This.
Ficticious force doesn’t mean that it doesn’t act like a force. From the frame of reference of the car, it totally liiks like there’s a force pushing you into the car seat, and as a passenger in the car, there’s no way to judge from the acceleration alone whether the car accelerated or the Earth’s gravity field changed.
Or to put it differently: it feels identical to stand in a space ship accelerating upward at 1G and standing in the same space ship while it’s parked on the surface of Earth.
I think it’s totally valid to run a realistic game where realism takes precedence over game rules, but then the “passing of the object” part fails.
It’s also totally valid to run RAW game, but then it fails like you said.
So no matter what game you run, the railgun makes no sense.
What would make sense with a RAW game is to use the railgun for fast travel/fast transport, but then again for it to give a decent advantage, you need thousands or millions of peasants who willingly cooperate, which also won’t really work in most games.