CoggyMcFee

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[–] CoggyMcFee 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nate said today that a coin actually has a 50.5% chance of heads, so this is technically closer than a coin flip!

[–] CoggyMcFee 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can’t really see how this is different from anything except that it is an online movement. There have always been slogans, campaigns, and movements to get people motivated to vote. This particular movement is helpful to motivate people who might feel that their vote isn’t significant, as it helps them to think of it in concrete terms as a chess move against their MAGA loved one. I don’t see why that is so stupid. It seems like hating it is more of a knee-jerk reaction against people who use TikTok. While I dislike TikTok myself, this seems like one of the weakest examples of why it’s bad.

[–] CoggyMcFee 24 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, they want weeks of no official result being declared, during which they say Trump definitely won, so that when the final result comes in, if it’s Harris, they can say Democrats are trying to overturn the election

[–] CoggyMcFee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But if you don’t get the amount of candy you want in the end (and even with a slow pace my kids have always had more candy than they could ever finish), just buy some more. Who cares about the excess of candy?

[–] CoggyMcFee 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If your lonely, go to a bar. I'm trying to run these street with my kids and make some real candy profit.

If you just want a bunch of candy, go to Walmart.

[–] CoggyMcFee 4 points 3 weeks ago

How long was Prince "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince"?

For about seven years, and then he went back to calling himself Prince again.

[–] CoggyMcFee 48 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’m not as addicted to Lemmy as I was with Reddit, because there aren’t as many comments and niche communities and an algorithm messing with me, but like I check Lemmy throughout each day and if I’m honest there’s not much purpose aside from getting that hit.

[–] CoggyMcFee 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Not voting in enough Democrats into Congress to do anything and saying the Democrats didn’t actually want to do anything

[–] CoggyMcFee 3 points 1 month ago

You just fundamentally do not understand statistics and it’s tiresome

[–] CoggyMcFee 6 points 1 month ago

And here I thought it was not having the needed amount of votes that caused her to lose.

I’m sick of people blaming Hillary‘s campaign for all the horrible shit that ensued afterwards. Candidates campaign because it is in their best interest to do so, but at the end of the day, this is our government. It’s our job as citizens to educate ourselves on the candidates, the voting system, and the stakes of the election. We should be figuring out who best to vote for, whether they are good at campaigning or not.

So, while Hillary might have won with a better campaign, the blame for Trump getting into power firmly rests with the voting public. We knew what kind of person Trump was before he was elected, and we knew there was a vacant Supreme Court seat.

Don’t blame it on the fact that people weren’t manipulated well enough by a giant ad campaign.

[–] CoggyMcFee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It would also probably be a constant battle to keep it in effect anyway, because every state that has entered the compact can always leave. As long as you can shut off the compact by removing one or two states from it, it will be an unstable mess.

 

For example, if it says “bear left” versus “turn left”, what process is it using to make that nuanced judgment?

I see two possible ways:

a) It analyzes the map visually and has an algorithm to decide, based on the angle/curve/etc, which way to describe the turn.

b) Every place where two roads meet has metadata keyed in, indicating what type of turn it is in each direction.

I think option (a) is too expensive to be done in real-time by the end-user’s GPS, so most likely if option (a) is used, it’s done periodically on the server side to generate metadata as in option (b). And then perhaps this metadata is hand-checked by a person, and things the analysis gets wrong are overridden by a person, but all of this is just speculation on my part.

This question came up when some turn-by-turn directions incorrectly said to “bear left” at a standard, right angle intersection. I wondered if someone keyed something in wrong or if there is some little blip in the way the map was drawn at the intersection that we wouldn’t visually detect, but threw off the turn-by-turn.

I expected to easily find an article spelling it out, but I haven’t been able to and it’s driving me crazy not knowing for certain!

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