LOL, no they won’t. They’ll just make you throw out your nail clippers and water, while routinely missing shit that’s actually dangerous.

Atlantan here. Idk, go ask [email protected] or something.

I learned Python after I already knew C, and I will forever be grateful for that.

I took an Operating Systems class in undergrad whose first assignment was to implement a simple web server in C, and it was fine. Later, I took the same prof’s grad-level class and had to do basically the same assignment again, and all I could think was “wow, this is incredibly tedious: this whole thing would be literally two lines of Python.” Python absolutely ruined my patience for writing C (or at least, for writing C socket code that has to manually juggle IPv4 and v6 struct addrinfos and whatnot).

Ha, you haven’t lived [in Hell] until you’ve tried to maintain a Jython build, with Python package dependencies (not just Java ones), in a production environment, in the 2020s.

In America, the way it’s supposed to work is that your parents aren’t supposed to need your financial support.

The Adventures of Captain Proton from Star Trek: Voyager!

IIRC the movie from Home Alone 2 was the sequel: Angels with Even Filthier Souls.

It’s kind of like the piccolo thing in Star Trek the next generation with picard.

I highly doubt the resemblance was coincidental.

Alternatively, Hawking proved that he was unpopular and nobody wanted to go to his party.

But the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) happened after the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC).

Even if you can pedal just fine, there are always those situations that are sort of marginal: when you’re feeling kinda lazy so you’re thinking of just driving instead of biking, or it’s a little further than you want to go, or you’re running a little bit late or don’t want to exert yourself and end up getting sweaty, etc. Those are the times when having an e-bike can really make the difference.

Ah, like this?

The key there is to double-check that all your lug nuts are tight (let alone installed at all, LOL!) when you swap from your street wheels to your autocross wheels, and vice-versa.

Same goes for your motor mount bolts if your engine fell out, I suppose!

(In all seriousness, though, nothing you can do just trying to drive stick is capable of launching the engine out of the car. The worst-case scenario, aside from losing control and causing a wreck, is a money shift – accidentally downshifting to too low a gear and over-revving the engine – but even if it managed to blow a hole in your engine block, the bulk of the thing would largely stay within the engine compartment.)

The key is to understand what the controls do instead of memorizing a procedure.

When you start the car, you probably don’t want it to instantly lurch forward. So, you need to decouple the engine from the wheels, which you can do either by putting the transmission in neutral or by pushing in the clutch (or both). Once it’s running, either you can let the clutch out in gear to start moving, or let it out in neutral if you want to remain stopped for a while.

It’s not so much that one procedure is “correct;” it’s that you decide what you want the car to do and manipulate the controls to make that happen. It’s only not correct if it does something you didn’t intend.

Another fun fact: occasionally, that’s a legitimate technique. I have an old manual Toyota 4Runner 4x4 that actually has a “clutch start cancel” button you can use if, say, you stall in a tricky rock-crawling situation. You can crank the starter to crawl forward without risk of rolling backwards, like might happen if you actually started the engine and tried to use the clutch.

Especially !cats.

“Oregon Trail” generation

Hey. Shut up.

The '90s were a decade ago, and always will be!

This is Lemmy. All the communities are for posting about corporate dishonesty!

The Entertainer

I choose to believe you mean this instead of this.

I’m going for the Dr. Venkman combo: “Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”