[–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

It depends. It looks like the orange portal is being moved by a hydraulic cylinder (aka laminar flow), which means the relative positions and velocities of things moving through the orange portal are conserved, and A is correct.

If instead that's (yuck) an air fired cylinder... Then it's going to be B.

If the movement is handled by a threaded rod, then the box will emerge from the blue portal spinning, and (perhaps contrary to expectations) if the orange portal is moving because of gravity, then the bouyant force of the box progressing through the portal will stop it from falling further, and the box will end up just less than halfway (because of the angle) through the blue portal.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    It's a signal that you aren't actually using your revolving credit, which makes it less relevant for determining your credit worthiness. The formula is stupid only to the extent that the input data is bad. Otherwise, it would be an easy hack to raise your kid's credit score to open a bunch of credit cards for them at birth, and do just the bare minimum to keep the accounts active.

    They could report a long history of the balance, and use some kind of historic weighting function, or they could report both the amount currently due, and the amount paid each month, or both. The institutional players don't want to reveal more than they have to to each other. Each of them is trying to know the most about you, and deny that to others.

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  • The studio probably doesn't set out with an exact artistic vision, and then arrive there as quickly as possible. Much more likely they decided 15 (or whatever) artists is enough for this project, and they are paying them until the project is done. For the artists, that means if they've met the bare minimum, then chasing smaller and smaller things to keep busy... Keeps them busy.

    Likewise, the studio is (hopefully) still within their estimate for the art budget, so there's no one breathing down their neck about cutting costs there. It's not worth it to fire people just because the work is done, especially if they might need that capacity for something close to release.

    Technically, the director (or someone) probably could tell them "That's everything for now. Doomscroll until we need you again", but that's not really best for anyone - so effort spent on meaningless detail wins.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 week ago

    Disclaimer: I have only seen the trailers. Multiple things were from substantially incorrect regions or time periods. They could have at least tried.

    Also, I bought a Nolan movie to watch at home once, and the sound balancing was complete garbage. It was disappointing that he let his pretentiousness make his movie unwatchable. Maybe someday he'll understand what art is for.

    Unless the people in my life that watch more movies than I do say it's really good, I won't see it, but also won't be reviewing it for Rotten Tomatoes.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I used to eat at my desk, until I read research that showed you are more productive when you take a real break, time away from the work context, etc. Now I'm in a position to exploit a team of people by making them take a real break, too. Same with vacation, I've had to chew people out for checking in on work when they're meant to be optimizing their brains.

    Research also shows that walking breaks, and 7 hour work days help total productivity, so I'm trying to make those happen... But corporate culture is strongly indoctrinated into the "I spent more time on it, there must be more accomplished" cult... Even though what we produce is code. Sigh.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    Did you tell it to not make any mistakes, and double check its work, and write valid, comprehensive integration tests and stand up a development environment, and make a team of QA agents to verify that the development environment is running correctly?

    Not doing that is a recipe for disaster. Oh, and tell it to make backups.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    To settle on an answer, we need a sufficiently precise definition for both "door" and "wheel".

    I'm going to argue from the definition that a door as a manmade object intended to allow the passage of a person from inside an enclosed region to outside of an enclosed region, or vice versa.

    Similarly, I'm going with a wheel being a manmade object intended to support the weight of an object attached to, or resting upon it, and designed to smoothly rotate to allow the attached object to move.

    Because I have allowed for very small wheels, while requiring doors to be pretty large, I suspect wheels are more numerous. Ball bearings are probably the most common wheel, and there are at least 2,000 of them in my house, plausibly enough to outnumber the doors on my house, my car, and every house and car in my neighborhood.

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    Somewhere in the universe, there's another intelligent lifeform, with development at a stage roughly equal to our own. They make and share video recordings edited to be emotional, informative, inspirational, or entertaining, and you know and recognize all of it (translated to your native language, of course).

    You just don't know where they are, what they look like, the overall story lines, and possibly a way to convince anyone else that this is a real thing.

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