they have compound eyes, they can focus on multiple things

no, the company i worked at went bankrupt.

well, not always. for about 35 years, sure.

every time this comes up i am flabbergasted.

this year was my most complicated tax filing yet since i was involved in a bankruptcy, switched jobs, bought a house, contracted work on the house which was eligible for tax credit, and got an inheritance within the span of a few months. it took me almost 20 minutes to do, which was basically only because the tax agency don't package their various calculators in the pre-filled form and i had to double-check the credit thing.

it drives me mental, then i hear about "tax month" and i feel it could be worse.

this specific style has been proliferating the past few weeks. there's some new model that's really good at just two-tone comics. it's immediately obvious when doing a side-by-side.

it was, i miss it. surprisingly little smoke, but we did get some good arcs going.

doom's netcode is weird as well, all the clients run in perfect lock-step. seems like it would be weird on non-duplex networks.

i have absolutely been called over to laugh at a circuit board. hell, i've done it myself

that's also a good reason to not have the screen fully close. less danger of stuff getting inside.

yeah but you're not folding it 100 times a day. if you're an avid reader, you're opening and closing it 10-20 times a day tops.

no, and yes. i'm not going into more detail for fear of doxxing myself but basically we wanted the waveforms generated by a high-voltage short circuit.

later tests involved help from a power company and actual high-voltage lines.

we were recording the magnetic fields generated by a high-energy short circuit. we hung a mouse trap from one of the lines, with a lead going to one of the others, so that they fused together when it sprung.

it is normal here, yes. larger appliances get three phases, and single-phase outlets are split between them as evenly as possible.

we hijacked a conference room on a shared floor for a week and built a three-phase high-voltage line in there by hunting around the building for which sockets were on which phase, then plugging them into industrial transformers.

insisting on calling all tissues kleenex is how the company loses the rights to the name

"your instance" is where you made your account, so lemmy.world

take a breather and come back to it later, the place will still be here :)

could be worse i guess

a ps4, sorta.

this is gonna sound weird but giveaways used to be illegal here. there have been laws about lotteries since the 1300s, and in the 1700s the king decided that lotteries needed to have his personal stamp of approval or they were illegal. this has been changed and churned over the years but as it last stood, even temporary lotteries needed to have a license to operate from the local government. this also meant that only the state was allowed to run casinos. weird, i know. this only changed in 2019, at which point we got inundated with commercials for online casinos and the part of our healthcare system that deals with gambling addictions instantly collapsed.

anyway, to get around the need to seek a lottery license, giveaways usually had an "utslagsfråga", an elimination question. this way the person managing the giveaway can show that there was some skill involved in the selection process, which makes it a contest and not a lottery. so technically i won a contest for a ps4, not a giveaway.

wouldn't that make it only work on windows? or dos, even?

you're thinking of the greeks. the norse gods were separate.

we do have the submarine thing but i didn't feel like doing that many conjugations