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MisterBastahrd

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MisterBastahrd··on 1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide
I think it's fairly obvious that the court system is more metaphysics than physics. Even when the laws are clear, we still have politically motivated jurists who will put their own denominational spin on the application of said laws.
MisterBastahrd··on Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Was doing this with food storage containers.

I looked above my fridge one day and saw about 40 tupperware lids that I had never used and would likely never use. I went through them, saving the large containers for large meals (think Thanksgiving leftovers) and some moderate sized containers for eating for the week. Everything else got tossed and I instead purchased two sets of food service containers. They accomplish the same goal, they're all the same size, and they don't take up nearly as much space.

MisterBastahrd··on Humane's daily returns are outpacing sales
Cell phones and smartwatches can already fill this niche. This is an expensive, single-function dongle. It was obsolete before it ever hit the market.
MisterBastahrd··on Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood
Those watches have crystals on them.
MisterBastahrd··on The Private Life: On James Baldwin
Being gay and black in America in the 1950s has a way of steeling your resolve given the alternative.
MisterBastahrd··on Making your own hot sauce
If you're worried about sanitizing your gear to prevent infections in your product, do yourself a favor and buy some starsan from a homebrew shop. It's a food-safe sanitizer you use on the gear (bottles, spoons, etc) to ensure that it's safe.
MisterBastahrd··on Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time
I am an employee of a subsidiary of a publicly traded company. We have team members who were purposefully moving further AWAY from the office so that they didn't have to comply with the policy. I simply have ignored the policy altogether. My manager and his manager both agree that it's silly (both of them live outside the range as well).

My day is full of too many impromptu meetings that require me to be on zoom, and the environment at the office is utterly counterproductive to having those conversations or getting real work done. If I had to stop what I was doing and find a conference room every time I needed to communicate with a remote co-worker, I'd spend half my day walking to and from a room.

MisterBastahrd··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
The last war that directly affected this country in any conceivable manner was WWII with Pearl Harbor, and that never reached the mainland. Before that, you needed the Civil War. Sending young, poor bastards off to die to protect the profits of their economic betters is a pathetic way to "unify a country."
MisterBastahrd··on Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
I didn't say anything about training, because training has nothing to directly do with competing.

I was talking about competing. I don't care how they train. The purpose of competing in the event is to win, and in those circumstances, gear should be normalized as much as possible. There are always going to be differences in size, strength, etc. The purpose of the competition is to find the best in the world, and gear prevents at the competition that if some teams have items that give them a huge advantage over others.

MisterBastahrd··on Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
Let's not be intentionally obtuse.
MisterBastahrd··on Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
Well, if this is the case, then wouldn't a person who gets out to an early start have a tremendous advantage over the rest of the group since she'd be swimming largely without interference for the first length of the race while the trailers would have more turbulance? Also, I've never understood why there aren't more standards for Olympic tracks / pools / gear. For example, everyone should be required to train in and wear identical apparel when in a timed event like swimming so that nobody gets a technological advantage.
MisterBastahrd··on Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
Kids say mama almost universally and regardless of their local language because it's an easy sound to make.
MisterBastahrd··on The sinister, shocking rise of dog attacks on postal workers
Let's not forget that there are entire breeds of dogs who were created for the purposes of guarding territory and livestock and happen to look cute.
MisterBastahrd··on The sinister, shocking rise of dog attacks on postal workers
Yep, but also people kept their dogs inside during COVID. Then they put their dogs outside so that they wouldn't make a mess of the house when they RTO, and the dogs are unsocialized to strangers in a territory they're marking as their own.
MisterBastahrd··on Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
How long before companies start putting AI restrictions on new account creation simply because of the sheer amount of noise and storage issues associated with bot spam?
MisterBastahrd··on Why doesn't advice work?
The thing is, even if someone listens to you with great intent, their life experience will usually preclude them from having to give any actionable advice. That's why, if someone is seeking you out for advice, you might want to stop and take the time to talk to them about their issue. They're seeking you out because they feel that your experience and problem resolution could potentially be valuable to them.
MisterBastahrd··on Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops
No they won't. Because future Fords that detect speeding are future vehicles from a defunct manufacturer.
MisterBastahrd··on Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court
Boneless wings are a euphemism for a heavily battered, more expensive chicken nugget, which won't typically have any bones because of the way they are processed.
MisterBastahrd··on How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?
What I want to see is an olympic sprinting event where the first 20 meters are dry land and the last 80 are a non-newtonian fluid.
MisterBastahrd··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
How many 90 year olds do you know who have jobs that are 24/7? Unlike his predecessor, Biden has taken the job seriously.
MisterBastahrd··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
I'm from the bayou. I know damned good and well what I'm talking about. Roofing and construction for a living is not the same as occasionally going outside and sitting around in the heat.
MisterBastahrd··on 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
Uh-huh. Let's see all those soft keyboard jockeys be efficient at hanging drywall and working on a roof all day long with no air conditioning in Texas or Arizona. They won't. They don't have what it takes.
MisterBastahrd··on Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
I work in this space with hundreds of clients and tens of thousands of email templates and literally zero use plaintext as the primary templating option for marketing emails. None of them.
MisterBastahrd··on Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans
Tell ya what, take two cans of coke. One, just open and pour into a glass. The second, pour into a glass and microwave it for a couple minutes. Take a sip of each and let us know how much gas is in each glass.

There's a reason that Starbucks isn't selling hot nitro brew.

MisterBastahrd··on Premature Abstraction
There's no greater joy in life than jumping through an abstract object, an object interface, and a factory method only to find out that the factory only services one object.
MisterBastahrd··on Bye-bye Bitcoin, hello AI: Texas miners leave crypto for next new wave
Well, as long as they're keeping energy rates high and the state continues to pay them to... not use so much when load increases, might as well keep that grift going.
MisterBastahrd··on Ford spends $3B to expand large truck production in plant previously set for EVs
If you want cars to be smaller, you're going to have to put an upper limit on the size of vehicles on public roadways. I think a lot of people would actually be receptive to smaller vehicles, but auto manufacturers have put virtually zero effort into a way that easily expands back-of-vehicle storage for grocery trips, etc. I'm not sure what the solution is, but popping out the rear seat and hauling it out of the car ain't it.
MisterBastahrd··on Ford spends $3B to expand large truck production in plant previously set for EVs
Well, the other thing they know how to do is make a product that people actually want to buy. Not sure how Chinese manufacturers are going to be able to do anything to change that. There is a specific demographic who will buy ONLY these trucks for their personal use. They are rugged, reliable, and last forever with proper service.
MisterBastahrd··on I am starting an AI+Education company
Cool.

I'm a process oriented learner. While I can read any fact or trivia and retain it with no effort, things that require steps I only really learn by repeatedly doing them. So if there's an AI, for example, that can create problem sets for me to do with something that I am attempting to learn, and then explain to me the steps after I've attempted to find the solution, then I am more likely to retain that knowledge in the long run.

This would have been especially beneficial to me in my college statistics class, for example, where I had a prof who was... not much of an educator.

MisterBastahrd··on About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills (2022)
Many school districts are still feeling the full effects of parents who were "educated" during the "Leave No Child Behind" era.
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