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If you think every comment with a personal anecdote tangentially related to the article is “nonsense” and “r/x” material then you must be constantly frustrated by nearly every HN comments section of sufficient length.
I understand that a wavy wall will be stronger than a straight wall of the same thickness, therefore if you need that additional strength it technically uses fewer bricks to reach it.
That said, if the alternative is a 2 layer straight wall, is the wavy wall equally as strong? Or is it just stronger than the single layer wall?
Without knowing anything about the subject matter, I’d assume that the strength goes in order of single-layer straight, wavy, double-layer straight. No? Seems like needing just the amount of strength the wavy wall provides, and no more, would be a fairly rare use case. Leading to double-layer straights most of the time anyway.
I have a hard time with this mentality. I would have agreed a few years ago perhaps, and do still agree that we all have our own aptitudes, but the level of absolution in a statement like this just isn’t really quite as applicable to humans in my opinion. There are things I never thought I’d be capable of that I’ve recently begun to excel at.
What I thought was a hardware limit turned out to just bug in my psycho-software that needed a patch. Obviously at the extreme end’s of the spectrum, the human hardware limit is very real. But for most (healthy) people, engaging in most activities, I believe that any perceived immutable barriers or obstacles are almost entirely psychological.
I’ve been told I should be scared of the world ending because selfish greedy humans are destroying it for literally as long as I can remember, and I’m over it. I can’t bring myself to always be anxious about it. It’s either live a lifetime of worry or say fuck it and live my life.
I recycle, I rideshare when I can, I take the steps that are convenient to me to help, but I just can’t be bothered getting that worked up over it anymore.
In any other situation I firmly believe the benefits Typescript brings very quickly outweigh the small amount of added complexity.
The fact that there's an entire school of thought out there (I know you aren't the only one) that really thinks psuedo-forced sterilization of the poor is better than just getting our resource consuption and generation under control is kind of sickening frankly.
The fact that you can't easily find any record of these events outside of Fox News is a part of the issue and "mass scale" censorship.
Rather they're just tired of blatant censorship some individuals face when expressing an opinion that goes against popular politics of the time.
There's a middle ground between allowing literal nazi's to do whatever they want and blatantly influencing discussion on a mass scale by silencing those you disagree with.
Could you explain this reference? I googled Glaswegian and it appears that it refers to someone from Glasgow, but I'm not sure how that's relevant in the context you just used it.