BartyDeCanter

Yeah, no. Most members of most militaries haven’t directly killed anyone, even during wartime.

My ex-brother-in-law killed a family of four while DUI. The cops really screwed up the investigation so he was able to get the charges down to a minor moving violation. He never saw the inside of a jail.

When I was in high school a friend of a friend that I knew and had hung out with at a couple of times was a serial killer/rapist. He was one of the last people executed by that state.

Edit: My grandfather killed some Nazis in WW2. Several former coworkers killed people in the line of duty as soldiers. And, I worked as a records clerk at a nursing home, so I knew several doctors and nurses that had taken people off life support.

“Salting the Earth” is an idiom that references possibly apocryphal stories of ancient warfare where an invading army would literally put large amounts of salt or salt water in the enemy’s fields so that they wouldn’t be able to grow crops. This was done to make sure that the population couldn’t rebuild and become a threat in the future. Nowadays it is used to mean that someone is making really, really sure that something is destroyed and not coming back.

Edit: Part of the meaning is going out of your way in a big way to do it, because enough salt to actually have an effect, or digging a trench to get the ocean to fill the fields would have been astoundingly expensive.

To be fair, he was almost certainly using Arabic numerals.

/s, obvs

My version is definitely wordier, but I like it.

    
add-alias() {
  if [[ -z "$1"  ||  -z "$2" ]]; then
    echo "Useage: add-alias <alias_name> \"<command_to_alias>\""
    return 1
  fi
  echo "alias $1='$2'" >> ~/.bash_aliases
  source ~/.bash_aliases
  echo "Alias '$1' for command '$2' added and sourced."
  
}

And, of course, the first thing I test it with is $ add-alias alias-add add-alias.

Oh I have, a few times. Mostly them seem to be into mild restraint kink, though I know at least one who is into cross dressing.

My 13 year old Thinkpad runs Linux great ‘cos Linux…

Well now I have something else to add to my pile of half completed projects. sigh

Thanks! I suspect this is not too difficult to Monte Carlo model, with different routes, number of busses and delay distribution curves, possible adaptations, and impact on costs.

I read a paper a veeerrryyy long time ago that discussed this topic. What I remember from it is that yes, this absolutely happens and no, there isn’t a very good fix. I don’t remember all of the details, but IIRC one bus gets delayed until the second bus catches up and then they are stuck together until shift changes happen.

Speculating, what I think happens is this: Imagine a simple circular bus route with evenly spaced stops and two busses on it. The busses start at opposite sides of the circle at the beginning of a shift. Each bus is going to be hit with random delays from time to time. Now, if the distribution of the delays is evenly random, then the spacing between them will be a random walk that tends towards them staying the same distance apart. But I suspect that the distribution of delays skews both both toward a dragon-king distribution and toward one bus.

A typical skewed delay could look like an unruly passenger. There aren’t too many of them, but enough that one bus will get one in a shift. The buss is first delayed when they get on, then maybe again before they get to their stop, as the driver gives them a warning, then a third time as they get off or are kicked off.

Once one bus is delayed it will have more passengers, since more time will have passed since the non-delayed bus came by, which will end up delaying it even more until the non-delayed bus catches up with it.

All of the possible fixes I can think of either cost $ or reduce service.

Add more slack time between stops, so that most of the time a bus can wait for a bit at each stop. This could work, but reduces capacity.
When one bus catches the other, have stop taking passengers and jump to the other schedule. If the 2nd bus passes the first it’s going to have the extra passenger issue, so the two buses will just start playing leapfrog. This doesn’t fix anything and possibly just makes it worse. If the second bus hangs back until the first is far enough ahead, it just lost capacity.
Have a spare bus that can jump onto the first busses schedule until it can empty and catch up. That requires a spare bus and operator on standby, which is expensive.

Did you get the audio working on it in Haiku? Thats the only thing keeping me from running it on one of my 130s.

What?!? Someone played with the English language in order to make lyrics rhyme and scan? How terrible!! glances at Shakespeare

My religion isn’t really based on belief, just practice. And I do the practices because they make me feel better and more connected.

Whenever my ex was low on gas she would park in the driveway in such a fashion as to block me in so I would have to move her car and probably end up just taking it in to work and get gas on the way home.

There is a huge amount of C code underlying most things, including the Linux kernel, most compilers, the Python interpreter, etc. At the same time, C doesn’t have dynamic arrays as a built in type but they are often critical to the operation of all of those. So, C developers keep implementing them in specialized ways for all of their applications.

Well, except that without a pocket computer kids, and everyone really, will spend much less time on social media, getting notifications, seeing ads, and all of the other things that most phones push at their users.

Really, I think that headline applies to anyone, not just kids.

… he says, posting from a smartphone.

This is such a banger! The into guitar tribute really sets it up.

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You've probably met someone who has killed a person

You've probably met someone who has killed a person

Can't stop till brimstone

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i use this one a lot

So 5 stars then

Linux is the reason Windows apps are bloated these days

Oh you got me

Histograms at the bus stop.

Histograms at the bus stop.

Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

So-called 'free thinkers' rule

Closest my wardrobe allows

Piano man

Why do you personally believe in your religion?

Interesting

The Final Final Layer_new(3)

Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study

Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study

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