notapantsday
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- Comment on Do bike tires increase pressure in summerm 9 months ago:
you also don’t hear about it as much because people tend to bike more in warm weather so it’s more likely for you to go long stretches of time without biking when it’s getting colder.
Off topic, but I think it’s funny how cycling is viewed in different parts of the world. You look at it as a hobby that is naturally done less in the winter. For me it’s just a way to get to work and I still have to work when it’s cold, so obviously I’m still cycling just as much. And this is true for a lot of people, the bike rack at my job is almost as full in the winter as it is in the summer.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
This feels like something that would be illegal in the EU. I have no idea if it actually is.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 9 months ago:
Nylon can be washed in the dishwasher, but in my experience it does degrade a bit over time. Silicone on the other hand tends to absorb any smell or taste, including dish washing detergent.
- Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses? 9 months ago:
Also, check out this one weird trick to get positive results almost every time: just use 20 different end points!
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 11 months ago:
However, I find it much easier to check if the given answer is correct, instead of having to find the answer myself.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 1 year ago:
Never ever. It wasn’t the reason why I got my current phone, but I thought I would use it at least sometimes. I don’t.
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 1 year ago:
…in the US
- Comment on Risks of CPR 1 year ago:
While we’re on the topic of CPR, I want to address the myth that CPR “almost never works”. It’s great at what it does, which is pumping blood through the body enough to keep vital organs supplied with a bare minimum of oxygen so they can survive.
However, there’s usually a reason why the heart has stopped beating and in most cases, CPR can’t reverse that reason. If the patient is in a car crash and has completely bled out, CPR won’t get any blood back into their system. Or if they’re at the end stage of a terminal disease, CPR can’t magically cure the disease.
But in cases where the cause for the cardiac arrest is simple and easily reversed, chances of survival are much higher. For example, if someone is drowning and you get them out of the water within a few minutes of cardiac arrest, CPR is very effective, with the majority of patients surviving. Here’s a study with 113 patients who were resuscitated after drowning and only 8 were confirmed dead. For 20 patients, the outcome was unknown, but even if they all died as well, that’s still a 75% survival rate.
- Comment on Risks of CPR 1 year ago:
Yes, a heart that has completely stopped beating cannot be restarted by defibrillation. It only works in a condition called ventricular fibrillation, when the muscle fibers of the heart are still contracting, but are no longer “in sync”. This causes the heart to twitch chaotically, which is not an effective way to pump blood. And without blood pumping, the heart itself does not receive any oxygen as well, so it will eventually go into a complete flatline after a few minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation.
The electric shock helps the fibers resynchronize. If you want to see the effect directly, here’s a video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCbawp9ZSnY
Be warned, it shows an open chest and an exposed heart, most likely during heart surgery. They are using spoon-shaped internal defibrillation paddles. In the beginning, you can see the heart in ventricular fibrillation. It’s twitching chaotically and not pumping any blood. After defibrillation, it starts contracting rhythmically again.
- Comment on Risks of CPR 1 year ago:
I’ve never heard of a punctured heart personally, but I do think it’s possible. A punctured lung is much more common. But both conditions are usually treatable if the patient survives.
CPR does carry some risks, but not doing CPR is guaranteed to be lethal. So any risk (to the patient) is worth taking at that point.
- Comment on FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use CRISPR 1 year ago:
There’s a new, more effective malaria vaccine coming out right now:
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 1 year ago:
No argument here. I recently talked to someone who works for an insurance company and he said it feels like working for the mafia.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 1 year ago:
You’re generally correct. Insurances are a bad investment from a purely financial standpoint. Never get an insurance to save money or to avoid cost. Don’t get insurance for things that you can easily pay for from your savings or for things you can do without. For example, don’t get insurance for your flagship smartphone. Even if you can’t afford the same model again if it breaks, you can always get an entry-level or used phone for a fraction of the price which will do fine for daily tasks until you have saved up enough money.
But there are cases where losing money is just part of the problem. For example, health insurance can literally save your life by paying for a treatment you otherwise couldn’t afford. Or personal liability insurance - if you cause more damage than you can afford to pay for, you can lose your house and pretty much the kind of life you may have lived up to that point. On the other hand, if you’re already broke, living in a shitty apartment and hardly own anything of value, then there’s no point getting that insurance.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 1 year ago:
Exactly, as soon as the money goes from your bank account to theirs, they can do whatever the fuck they want with it. Not saying that’s a good thing, but that’s how the system is currently designed.
- Comment on So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels? 1 year ago:
What does ‘strip’ mean in this context? (not a native speaker)
- Comment on Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” 1 year ago:
Because AI is unpredictable. Which is not a big issue for art, because you can immediately see any flaws and if you can’t, it doesn’t matter.
But for actually useful work, you don’t want to find out that the AI programmer completely made up a few lines of code that are only causing problems when the airplane is flying with a 32° bank angle on a saturday with a prime number for a date.
- Comment on What do overnight shift workers do when the clocks change? 1 year ago:
At my hospital it’s just luck of the draw. If you get the night shift in the spring, you work an hour less while being paid the same and in the autumn you’re working an (unpaid) extra hour.
The craziest thing was when my girlfriend had a patient die of non-natural causes during that night. In these cases, police have to be notified so they can investigate whether there was any wrongdoing. The police arrived a few minutes before the time of death of the patient, because in the meantime the clocks had been moved back an hour. Apparently they had also never had that situation before, so they were unsure how to document it correctly.
- Comment on Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? 1 year ago:
They offer the chance to push the average number of occupants per vehicle below one.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
The whole idea is to make it easier for humans to remember and more difficult to brute force. Long passwords are much harder to brute force than complex passwords with lots of special characters. And they’re a lot easier for humans to remember.
There are enough words in any language that it’s virtually impossible to guess the correct four words, even if they’re in the dictionary.
- Comment on Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 1 year ago:
I had to do the reverse switch and it sucks :(
- Comment on The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation 1 year ago:
It’ll always be X (formerly known as Twitter) to me.
- Comment on The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation 1 year ago:
Disinformation on X (formerly known as twitter) of all places? Oh my, things are really going downhill if we can no longer trust the information on X (formerly known as twitter).
- Comment on Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade 1 year ago:
My Huawei Mate 10 pro (2017) was the last phone that felt like an upgrade. Everything since then has been better in some respects, worse in others. Just a replacement for a phone that is physically too broken to be used any longer.
I don’t think I’ll ever spend €1000 or more for a phone anymore, even though I could afford it. I’m just not willing to spend that much money on a phone that offers hardly anything new. Maybe if they finally make a fairphone with a decent camera, I would pay a premium for repairability so I can use it for more than 3 years before it inevitably falls apart…
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall 1 year ago:
Yet he thinks people are going to pay for it?
The people who produce the garbage will pay for it and maybe a few journalists who want to report on the newest pile of garbage, trying to create enough outrage to generate a few clicks on their shitty “news” site.
- Comment on Sony expects a delay in smartphone market recovery till 2024 1 year ago:
In some aspects, cameras have even become worse. They started optimizing their software for the wrong metrics, which leaves you with heavily over-processed images that always look a little off. This can make otherwise boring images seem a bit more interesting, but if you’re actually trying to take good pictures, it can seriously ruin your shots.
I think Sony is one of the few manufacturers that allows you to choose less aggressive processing.
- Comment on Why is there so much hate against children here? 1 year ago:
I once came across a reddit thread where physical violence against children was seen as a normal and necessary means of parenting. And it was a mature thread in a mainstream subreddit with thousands of responses. This was the consensus and anyone disagreeing was downvoted into oblivion.
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
A lot of people don’t even want to drive, but in a lot of places there’s just no viable alternative.
- Comment on Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff 1 year ago:
The difference is the ‘L’ in LPG. It turns liquid at a relatively low pressure and takes up much less space then. Hydrogen does not do that, so it has to be stored at a much, much higher pressure. For example, a medical oxygen bottle or a scuba tank has around 200 atm of pressure. For cars, hydrogen is usually stored at 700 atm. And the pressure inside an LPG tank is around 8 atm at room temperature.
- Comment on [HN] If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose 1 year ago:
More weight also means exponentially more damage to the streets, so that would be one more good argument for higher taxes.
- Comment on Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please) 1 year ago:
I hate those manly male scents for true men™ so much. I’ve now switched to odorless deodorant which is so much more expensive but it’s worth it. And when I want to smell nice, I use a perfume that actually smells nice.