steanne

in a SPECIFIC month. it's only 28 for february, and then only sometimes. it's only going to affect months where the month contains more days than the month after it. january, march, may, august, and october.

of those, however, there's more than one date in january which would error, so the total is more than 5. 6 or 7 depending on if it's a leap year

steanne··on Cheapest and Most Expensive Appliances to Run Each Year

a few here and there. i only found one i was willing to swap my stovetop one for this last summer.

steanne··on Flu deaths in the US (2017-2023) per week

...to the point of extinction, for at least one strain.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/covid-may-have-pushe...

steanne··on Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality?useskin=vector#T...

steanne··on Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for

> Open-source alternatives to tools you pay for

this seems like an odd choice of phrasing. those two things are not orthagonal.

steanne··on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

"they are not bright" is common in english

steanne··on Solar energy storage breakthrough could make households self-sufficient

metal hydride hydrogen compressor

steanne··on MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer

if you have x number of pieces of cultist gear on then townspeople will assume you are a cultist, which seems reasonable.

steanne··on MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer

this gets used a lot for veloren

steanne··on Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered

the US. not just wreathes: whole-ass trees and specially-painted beams. i can speak for the mid-atlantic region; basically, any building that has a ground-breaking ceremony might also have a topping-out one.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/12/why-do-construction...

https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Topping_out

steanne··on The Decades-Long Travesty That Made Millions of Americans Mistrust Their Schools

steanne··on A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations

this effect is also the source of the name for the blue ridge mountains.

steanne··on My elderly parents can't resist answering the phone

i wonder if the within-three-rings push dates to when there were actual operators connecting calls. their employer would not want them to be spending a lot of time waiting.

steanne··on I’m a climate scientist and I think society will collapse by 2050. I’m preparing

http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia

steanne··on Solar cycle is more powerful and surprising than predicted

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/solar-events-new...

"Do scientists think that changes in solar irradiance due to the 11-year solar cycle could be strong enough to cause the current change being measured in Earth's climate?

In a word, no. "

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