Eq0
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- Comment on Living the dream... 12 hours ago:
Sometimes I feel like a boomer being my years. I can’t watch a show and be on my phone. I either stop one or the other.
- Comment on So much... 1 week ago:
Big Math comes knocking: “you mean Big Physics?”
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
Keeping the floor dusted removes overall dust everywhere
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
You are insane and I like that!
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
I had one like that, it’s so dumb it had to go at random and often loses the way back home. I assume they still exist. The technology has definitely improved and you can jail break most of them. Last I brought was a little spy bot, honestly, but with some attention you can either overwrite the software (and keep the physical improvements) or block it from accessing the internet. [details figures out by my partner]
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
Since that’s something you care about, I will offer an out of topic advice: robot vacuums (in general: vacuuming a lot) decreases the amount of dusting you end up doing.
- Comment on Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages 1 week ago:
But you are not Amazon. By this I mean that Amazon is not going to stop at old as-of-yet untranslated books. It will try to monetize it as hard as possible. And the next “Harry Potter” or “Dune” could be machine translated, losing a lot of subtext and dumbing down to the minimum any work of literature.
There are indeed so many ancient texts only available in their original language. So much “medicine” from the renaissance that’s waiting as a hidden jewel. A first rough translation could be a first step towards detecting new elements as of yet hidden. So many positive uses, none that Amazon will pursue.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 1 week ago:
I will add my own story. Woman, in STEM, I mostly don’t care about what I wear, but sometimes I want to rock it just because. Put on make up, do my nails, wear a skirt. I kept that out of the office until I moved to a department with a flourishing gay community. If they can wear nail polish and skirts, so can I! I’m still usually the only woman in any given room.
As a counterpoint, for a while I was the fanciest dressing person of the department because none of my T-shirts had holes 😒 also got told, jokingly, to not overdo it the one time I wore a shirt.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 1 week ago:
Would you go in a field in which everyone wears short shorts and you get stared at if you don’t?
Would you “not mind” if your company dress code (for a well paired white collar job) is pink shirt with orange blazer?
Make it absurd and flip it to yourself. Suddenly, you want to wear “normal clothes” but you stick out like a sore thumb if you do. Would you feel comfortable? Day in, day out?
- Comment on What 2 weeks ago:
I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
Troubleshooting is such a big one! Like, you should be able to distinguish between a “I can fix it” issue, a “somebody can fix it” issue and a “my computer burned to the ground” situation… and act accordingly. I’m also okay with the first option being very limited! But please Google your problem until you vaguely understand what’s wrong.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 2 weeks ago:
I might give it another try, the first time around I found it forced and bland. Like Asimov tried to connect pieces that were not meant to connect, while not having a lot of inspiration
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t like it :(
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
Great read, exactly what I experienced. On the other hand, we also really want to think about what knowledge is really important. Is knowing the difference between Internet and World Wide Web necessary? Or is programming in a random language? Knowledge is power, but there is just so much you can learn. Starting knowing that you don’t know and it’s not magic is, to me, already a great step, because from there you can learn. Expecting everything to be prepackaged is instead a very passive approach, and that should be discouraged.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
From the educators perspective, they get a lot more brain rot. They dropped in in-person socialization, long and medium term concentration and literacy of any type. I haven’t heard any positives yet… but I also fear that with every year, I am getting closer to the trope of “back in my days”-shake walking cane. So, hopefully someone comes to tell me I’m missing something
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 2 weeks ago:
Personal favorites: Caves of Steel and The Currents of Space.
Obviously, the main Foundation trilogy is a glorious space opera, but I sometimes feel its writing is a bit too dry. It almost feels like ready a piece of theatre.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
I know a bit about teaching about computers/programming to kids in the first years of high school. Their understanding of anything computer is abysmal. They have grown up with smartphones and maybe tablet, never were able to tinker with anything. Even just what internet is was confusing to them. It had to be reframed as “when can you watch youtube” for it to make sense…
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 2 weeks ago:
I love how you summed up at least 75% of science. I’m in this picture and… I have mixed feelings!
Just because I’m a pedantic little academic: if you know how your data is crap, you can make an extra shiny model that doesn’t give only crap outputs
- Comment on Just FYI 2 weeks ago:
Urgh! I rarely encountered it, but the need to tiptoe around (some) men’s who makes my skin crawl…
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 3 weeks ago:
To decrease gas from dried beans: while soaking change the water once (roughly one hour in) or boil them 2-5 minutes before the soaking and throw the boiling water. This second method also shortens the soaking to only an hour if I remember correctly.
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 3 weeks ago:
Exactly! You go in with negative expectations, and end up pretty surprised!
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 3 weeks ago:
The Lost City of D is a masterpiece in light weirdness definitely highlighted by Harry Potter popping up and messing things up!
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 weeks ago:
You know one snippet of my father in law. Is it really sufficient for you to judge the whole man? I sure hope never to be judged so harshly!
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 weeks ago:
In my case, they are overall nice and caring people with, sometimes, a bit of a blind spot. I was very glad when they came around on the climate change issue, that was the only sore spot between us.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 weeks ago:
This gives me flashbacks to the one time in my life I really wanted to answer “okay boomer”
My father in law was supporting the claim the climate change might exist, but it’s nothing we have to concern ourselves about because it’s going to take decades to do anything.
And I was like: you have grandkids, they will be there in decades! And: you just experienced the first drought of your country, how is that not climate change??
After half an hour going in rounds I gave up and bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship. Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 3 weeks ago:
Wild Robot!
I cried so hard watching it. Told a friend, they lightly made fun of me but accepted the suggestion. They cried the whole movie too.
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 3 weeks ago:
Even more far fetched: Italian fascism considered itself the continuation of the Roman Empire (the middle ages did not count, somehow). Does it mean that they were 2000 years old for a bit? But then, nowadays Italy consider itself the descendant of fascism (with a tinge of shame) but not of the Roman Empire. Can we pick and choose our lineage?
China consider itself ti have been a consistent country since (handwave) basically forever. Is that enough?
- Comment on Nokia solos 3 weeks ago:
Mine was lost in a pile of frozen snow from Christmas break until defrosting, roughly April, when it was found in a puddle. Dried, charged and worked several years more.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
I also wonder: what’s the goal of teaching this? Sure, a cursory lesson is a good idea, but making it a fundamental step seems nonsensical in a world that doesn’t require it at all. It’s like teaching how to sharpen a quill, it’s not needed anymore
- Comment on I remember watching this commercial late one night in the 90s on MTV, and wondering WTF?! What are your thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
This does not belong is shit posts. This belongs to “giving me a kick in the stomach” section.
Minorities know they are the first ones in the list. That’s why they are the first ones protesting, but also the ones try to fawn their way out. But after the minorities (pick the best ones to gather consensus), it’s everyone else.