emuspawn

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[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, my name is on that probe! Good luck with the solar plunge little dude!

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 2 points 3 weeks ago

I would tell you to fight me, but I guess I need to add an GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 argument to my KDE Konflict Picker first....

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 13 points 3 weeks ago

Tom Goa'uld

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

....coho on the blowho'?

..I got nothing...

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 3 points 1 month ago

It is.....I would like a Fediverse video platform, but this one ain't very cash money.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

A reminder that Loops has a TOS that effectively grants them an unlimited license to use your likeness for whatever purpose they desire. Including AI generation. https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service#7

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 13 points 1 month ago

There are a couple 'Other - Please Specify' fields I definitely filled out with 'Do not do AI'.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get the joke, but with no prior context it's kind of a jerk move to assume the player already opened it if they asked for a perception OR an investigation. A Mimic would normally just ambush you OR attack when the player opens them. If it was opened it's probably already attacking, and if it was closed then performing a perception shouldn't cause initiative until rolled (if the mimic noticed you noticing it, for instance).

I'll....I'll crawl back into my dingy nerd tavern now...

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ah, this looks like it's a snap to use.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 1 points 2 months ago

Supply chains are literally chains of suppliers, e.g. vendors. Your 'simplest electronic product' could absolutely be constrained by whom you choose to work with.

If your vendor locks you into buying from a certain source, and their vendor requires the same, and so on up the chain, how would you describe that dynamic to differentiate from a single vendor being the point of restriction?

To your point that the phrase didn't exist, here are three supply-chain oriented papers that directly reference the phrase: This paper is exploring the social dynamics of buyers and sellers:

Lock-in situations in supply chains: A social exchange theoretic study of sourcing arrangements

Specifically, we believe that the examination of lock-in situations between a manufacturer and its supplier, i.e., instances where for all intent and purposes, one party is heavily dependent upon the other party, with few alternatives, under social exchange theory, can provide new insights into controlled self-interest behaviors (e.g., strategies) in on-going supply chain relationships.

This paper is about supply chains in plastic management, but the phrase is here:

Business models and sustainable plastic management: A systematic review of the literature

Barriers frequently mentioned were high costs, complexity of new systems, supply chain lock-in and low customer buy-in.

And here's a paper about optimizing your supply chain where it is referenced as something to avoid:

Orchestrating cradle-to-cradle innovation across the value chain

This one even has a handy definition:

Supply chain lock-in:

Contracts and strong dependencies with suppliers not supporting circularity (e.g., either due to non-willingness or lock-in in production facilities optimized for linear concepts). 

I suppose if you would like to be super extra pendantic Wikipedia does have you covered with "Collective Monopolistic Vendor Lock-in".

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In case you needed to look it up like I did:

Impact of gravity on fluid dynamics, gravity waves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave

Impact of gravitational fields in astrophysics, gravitational waves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

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