JR1427

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by JR1427 2y ago
I stopped reading the news, having been someone who thought it was morally "right" to be "informed". I feel much better since I quit. I still end up hearing about things, through talking to people etc, and I will still r
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Also, if 120m were made, but they are now fetching 30+ dollars, then there can't be that many around anymore, so are they really that long-lived? It doesn't matter if they _theoretically_ last a long time, if people are still goin
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by JR1427 2y ago
I remain to be convinced. We rarely smash glasses in my household. Normal glass is (presumably) cheaper and less resource intensive than this special glass. Sometimes making things less durable actually is better. Over engineering and speci
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by JR1427 2y ago
I really love projects like this, where you learn a lot by just getting stuck in. I built a simple 8-bit computer using a Z80 chip. You can read about it a bit more here https://www.jake-reich.co.uk/zx-jakey
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by JR1427 2y ago
Yup, setting limits in advance is the way to go. "okay, just one more episode" definitely doesn't work!
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by JR1427 2y ago
I remember a kid in school who had an alarm set for 1750, so he would have time to run home from the park to catch The Simpsons (which was shown daily at 1800 for years, with two episodes on a Friday!)
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by JR1427 2y ago
My dad (still) lives in Chilton.
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by JR1427 2y ago
I spent a lot of time walking and cycling the Ridgeway as a kid and teenager. At one point I lived with my mum in a village just off it, and my dad lived in another village off it about 9 miles away. I walked that route often, alone and wit
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by JR1427 2y ago
You can also easily cause interference, which might not be directly dangerous, but can certainly be problematic if you're causing problems on important communication channels.
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by JR1427 2y ago
I tell this to everyone: be wary of hypotheses and results that are very appealing.
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by JR1427 2y ago
I'm not saying its evil or anything, but on demand TV is IMO not a good thing for kids. It can be a real battle to get my daughter away from Bluey. Back in my day, we had to wait at least a day for the next episode, or often a week, or
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by JR1427 2y ago
Yes, and the OP's son also just wants to have fun with his parent!
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by JR1427 2y ago
One success story is that of the imageJ/Fiji project, which provided/provides a standard way of writing and running image analysis workflows.
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by JR1427 2y ago
In my experience, getting someone else's code from a paper to run is a PITA. In life science, the person who wrote the code is often not really that experienced in this kind of thing, and certainly didn't have ease of sharing and
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by JR1427 2y ago
Yes, I know that neither has to be loyal. But I know of examples where a manager has said things like "you need to decide if you are loyal to the company" etc. I really dislike this.
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by JR1427 2y ago
What annoys me, is when companies expect _you_ to be loyal, when they would get rid of you in a heartbeat. For the vast majority of employment situations, it is simply a transaction. There needn't be any talk of "loyalty", wh
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by JR1427 2y ago
I think it's also not just about kids who can't swim falling off floaties, but also that the floaties will hide a drowning child.
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by JR1427 2y ago
Not all pools allow them. At first I wondered why, and eventually figured it out.
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by JR1427 2y ago
Similarly, there was a time when my daughter got very car sick, and I desperately wanted an "avoid roundabouts" option!
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by JR1427 2y ago
I said "throw away work". Throwing away code is fine!
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by JR1427 2y ago
I second that academia can be terrible for burnout. In an experimental subject, experiments that can take months to prepare can fail for reasons that you can't do much about, and all you can do is start over. I used to describe this fe
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by JR1427 2y ago
This is my feeling, too. I'm all for clean oceans, but we shouldn't think that this is the biggest threat right now.
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by JR1427 2y ago
There are some stretches in the UK where rubbish collects by the roadside in large amounts, tangled in hedges etc, presumably because winds concentrate it there.
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by JR1427 2y ago
One thing I find interesting is how much more traction the problem of litter in the ocean has gained, compared to litter everywhere else, or any number of the other problems we have. I wonder why this is. Perhaps people can still see the oc
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by JR1427 2y ago
Houses rarely need AC - we usually only get a few hot days in a row, with time for houses to cool down in between hot periods. It is also usually possible to get airflow through a house, and cool things down enough. Different story for badl
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by JR1427 2y ago
I was also momentarily confused by this, but I assumed they meant 4 days in the office.
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To clarify, I don't close my ears to everything going on in the outside world. I just don't get my information from news websites or tv stations etc. I still like to talk to people about what is going on. I find that less stressfu
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by JR1427 2y ago
One thing that has helped me over the last two years is not watching or reading the news (I've haven't done social media in a decade). I know some people will think it is morally wrong of me to not be interested in the world and s
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It's fascinating that this topic has riled so many people!
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Yes, a "motor" can also mean "car", but it does not mean "internal combustion engine".

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