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Do you have a source for that? Or any more info? It’s not that I doubt it, I ask because some details like my work email, job title and place of employment has been leaking into the hands of marketing companies and I an trying to figure out how.

You’re not wrong. I think the problem here is that the context of who we’re talking to is missing. I only talk to people in this way who I know well and do the same with me, I have like 3 people in mind. I can understand how it would be frustrating if you did this with someone random at your company.

Hmm I totally get where you’re coming from but I have used a “hi” in the past to basically probe and figure out if a friend or colleague is available for real time conversation because I suspect that the conversation will need to be a quick back and forth, lasting only minutes, rather than an extended asynchronous chain lasting multiple days.

Ah yup, I definitely read that in the context of undergraduate degrees, I think you’re probably right.

It’s not just the atmosphere that’s an issue though, having a laser in earth’s orbit track something on mars’ surface and vice versa would require some incredible tracking, it would be easier to go from orbit to orbit

I was reading the example of UC Berkely appearing to have gender bias in the admissions and read the following:

“it showed that women tended to apply to more competitive departments with lower rates of admission, even among qualified applicants (such as in the English department), whereas men tended to apply to less competitive departments with higher rates of admission (such as in the engineering department)”

That’s the opposite of what I would expect, I’d expect that English and the arts in general would be a lot easier to get into than stem, that’s how it is in Australia

Edit: When I say get into I mean get into university, not getting into the industry

I was with you until you said it’s disgusting, how is it disgusting to put an extreme emphasis on health, when it’s been neglected for like all of human history.

Like sure, maybe it doesn’t make sense for most people to put so much focus on something they have little control over, but disgusting? Nah.

Also trusting science is a complete misunderstanding of science. That’s how religion operates.

Edit: Also also, I have some faith in the scientific process, as soon as business and money enters the picture though all trust goes out the window. Corporations do not care what poison they give you, as long as it does not affect their bottom line. Have no doubt that they will ignore their scientists if they can get away with it.

I think you might be experiencing a bit of a dunning-kruger effect

Also, in my experience there’s a huge difference between having an intuition for something and having an understanding of something to the point where you could model it.

It’s not clear which part of the comment you meant when you said it’s not true, but PTFE is a PFAS, exactly how toxic it is or isn’t I don’t think is well known yet but people have been living with PTFE implants.

To be fair many of the games on this list would be trivial to preserve as long as windows remains backwards compatible with older software, and not too hard even after that. Breath of the wild and Tarkov stands out as exceptions

I think you’re right in general but in Australia and I think some other places as well we have a 10c refund on plastic bottles made out of PET (Also glass and aluminium) Most of our PET bottles, for stuff like soft drinks is now also made partially out of recycled plastic, many are made out of 100% recycled PET

If I understand correctly this is only economical because there is this whole system where all plastic soft drink bottles are made of PET, and so easily identifiable as PET and to get the refund you have to take it to a collection point where the only plastic entering the system are these bottles.

It’s actually hilarious how easy it would be to catch the criminals if they don’t take extra precautions like wearing masks. Just have some fake wifi looking cameras in easy to spot locations and use wired real cameras.

Hardest part would be finding a consumer system that still uses hardwired cameras

I’ve seen people cooling solar panels by using coreflute/Fluteboard at the back of a panel and circulating pool water through the channels. I think I saw this on Linus Tech Tips weirdly enough, not sure though

I live in Aus as well, and I don’t expose myself to News Corp at all. Can you explain to me what the heck the issue is? We have so much space and we don’t need that much more solar, how is anyone’s crops at risk? Is this just a complete non issue? Like i agree that solar panels shouldn’t be installed over the top of crops but is that even a thing that is happening? Don’t the farmers have almost complete control of what goes on their property anyway? So confused

I wasn’t talking down the financial aspect of your comment, I was saying that the language you use is so idiosyncratic with that community that, in being an outsider, I can’t tell if you’re making fun of it, or are a part of it. “…basic investment vehicles that will grow your savings reliably…” this is what I’m talking about.

Also I’m not American so it’s not reasonable to expect me to know what the SEC is, and I don’t have a 401k. We have an entirely different retirement system in my country.

No, I really don’t, and most people probably don’t. My job has absolutely nothing to do with finance, luckily.

The state of the crypto world is such that i genuinely can’t tell if you’re being satirical by using a bunch of jargon and acronyms that mean nothing in the order you used them, or not

I don’t disagree if you only think about cars, but I’ve seen a lot of smaller electric vehicles gain popularity very quickly. Things like escooters and electric bicycles. For some people these work really well for commuting.

I once threw a weight with a transformer wire and some string attached to it over a high tree branch in my yard to see if it would make a decent antenna for my SDR, it worked! It was an extremely inexpensive ~5m antenna

Huh, I guess I live in the EU now…

> Leaving space in fronto of you and trying to keep a constant speed also reduces this effect

I would like to see some sources on that claim. Or some reasoning.

The thing is I live in one of the cities with the longest commute distances and I’ve spent a lot of time in stop and go traffic thinking about this exact thing. I used to think as you do. I would focus on a truck in the traffic far ahead of me and try to use it to maintain a constant speed at the average of the highway speed. in my experience it creates this laggy elastic effect that probably doesn’t help.

Recently I heard that you should try to maintain an equal distance between the car in front of you and the one behind you, and I think this actually works better (obviously this is my anecdotal experience)

Of course safety comes first always

I used to listen to so many podcasts, and I would put up with the occasional ad read by the podcasters and baked into the audio

When dynamic ads became a thing in podcasts I was shocked. I thought something was wrong with my phone when I heard the first dynamic ad on Spotify. I actually questioned whether some adware had found its way onto my phone. For minutes I couldn’t figure out what was going on. That was also the day I disowned Spotify as it was a service I explicitly payed for to avoid ads.

These days the ads are everywhere and the baked in ones are longer and more frequent. I came to realise there’s fewer and fewer podcasts worth sitting through ads for. So at least in my anecdotal experience that’s why I don’t listen to podcasts as much anymore.

I think theories are worth considering and discussing.

Often the cause of a phenomenon has multiple causes but we humans and especially our media like to imagine every single event has a single cause, it’s a strong bias.

In other words, it’s entirely possible that culture, education and LED lights all have significant effects on birth rates

You make some excellent points… but I wish I could block all text messages that have links in them. I know this wouldn’t work for everyone but it would be a brilliant option for me lol

The only text messages I get from humans are from old people and from coworkers. Humans don’t ever send me text messages with links.

The only legitimate links in text messages I get are from parcels tracking things and many scammers spoof those text messages.

Meanwhile I don’t think I’ve ever received a spam message that doesn’t contain a link, at least not in the last 5 years

The solution is extreme, and I’m sure some legit messages will get blocked but man I really wish on iOS there was a native way to block any messages containing a link.

Java is probably the language I use the most but I hate how much boilerplate it has. Something I’ve found to help with that is using Java Records instead of classes, a record is kind of like a struct, but I don’t think it’s exactly the same, there’s no boilerplate and something I quite like about them is that their fields are immutable (more specifically “private final”) which works well with more functional programming, something that can be quite clunky with classes in java

Anyway I’m not a software engineer so take what I say about software with a grain of salt. Also I feel like other java programmers will hate you if they need to read or use your code. For example lets say you had a 2D point data type that is a record. instead of things being like “pos.add(5)” if pos is a record you need to reassign it like “pos = pos.add(5)” where add returns the pos as an object. Similar to how BigInteger works in java.

Anyway I love records because there’s zero boilerplate, it feels very similar to me to how structs are written in rust and go, or how classes are done in scala. I just never see anyone talk about it. I guess that might be because most people programming new projects on JVM are probably not programming in java?

Why do you put a zero in front of the year? It took me way too long to figure out what you meant by “01976”. I have never seen anyone do this lol. I’m aware that date codes on components sometimes do that kind of thing but using it in text is just bizarre

I’m always so confused when I read about heat pumps online. In Australia we’ve had heat pump based air conditioning for like decades as far as I understand. Using them to cool indoor spaces is almost essential given how hot it gets in some parts of Australia. However I’ve never come across such a system that isn’t what we call a reverse cycle aircon, that is, it can also heat an indoor space. We do have evaporative coolers in places that experience dry heat, those cannot work in reverse of course, but they are not heat pumps either.

What confuses me is that, I could understand if this is uniquely an Australian experience to have this in your home, office and shops, but don’t all modern cars have heat pump air conditioners? They usually don’t reverse to heat the inside space, the car instead just dumps the engine’s heat into the interior space and/or uses resistive heating, but still the technology is exactly the same! It’s just missing one component and configuration that makes it reversible.

Maybe I’m way wrong and it’s a completely different thing but idk

Do you guys have… fridges? Freezers?

Different perspective: We absolutely can do better than git… for non-text files that can’t be merged or stored as a sequence of diffs

I (briefly) looked into using git as an alternative to PDM for solidworks CAD files and it turns out git is absolutely not a good fit for this use case. Not surprisingly, I mean it wasn’t designed for that at all.

Point remains though that the world needs a better version control system, something like git, but that works with non text files, because boy do the actual solutions I’ve tried suck compared to the git experience

Software engineers are so lucky to have such a powerful tool for free, mechanical engineers or their companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for version control software that is far worse

PDM is a bit more than just version control but the version control is what my company wants and it’s so painful

I thought ancient meant 1000+ years ago?

I find this so interesting because I also live in Australia but I will always press the button if close enough without much thought. I’ve gone my whole life thinking of this as just a normal thing, if not a slightly good thing for being the person who can be bothered to press it. So i was completely unaware of this unspoken thing haha.