bss03
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- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 day ago:
I go with a ponytail, and haven’t had even a trim in 2 years.
If I had my preference I’d go in about once every few months to have more vivid hair dye applied, and get a trim then.
- Comment on DIY restaurant 1 week ago:
Yeah, there are certainly ways of preparing eggs that aren’t allowed in 24-hour diners (no line cook is doing “Scotched” egg next to your bacon), but poached or boiled are both allowed most places, on top of the normal fried options (sunny-side, over-easy, over-medium, over-hard) and scrambled.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
The increased mass increases the force of gravity on the outer particles which ends up reducing the radius more than the increase due to the layer of new hydrogen, IIRC.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 weeks ago:
Wow! Between BG3, CO:E33, and Slik Song, all the AAA lies are falling away. They don’t have to cost the user an arm and a leg, they can be beautiful works of art and love from small(ish) teams, and they can be an experience that is so rich in player choice it’s practically unique and highly replayable.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 2 weeks ago:
~40M copies, ~8B ppl, so ownership rates are about 2.5%.
You might meet one of the lucky 10k that learn about Stardew Valley today, and you can enable them with a gift purchase.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 2 weeks ago:
My solution for this feeling is to gift copies to others. I figure that worst case I support ConcenedApe and best case I help spark more Stardew joy.
(Right now, I’m between jobs, so I can’t buy for you, other readers.)
- Comment on It is. Just accept it 2 weeks ago:
Often people wait too long before starting to defrost their holiday turkey, which can take many days. (I’ve heard something like 2 days/kg [24hours/lb], but never done it myself) Inexperienced cooks will then try to “save time” in the oven by increasing the ambient heat, ruining the food.
Either that or it’s some confusing analogy with climate change that I don’t “get”.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, maybe I was ambiguous. The violent/revolutionary approaches would be to achieve some sort of climate recovery, which might obviate needing an “exit plan”.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, we not only have to reach net-0, which is a pipe dream with the current leadership / collective will, but we’ll need to figure out some method of carbon capture that can actually be net-negative AND deploy it on scales far beyond any sort of “carbon capture” that has been planned, whether their number were sane or just hype to get some of the “pork barrel spending”.
I suggest making sure you have an “exit plan” for when it get worse than you’d like, which I expect to be in my lifetime. There are more violent, revolutionary, or both approaches, but I won’t mention them explicitly.
Even if we replaced all energy production “magically” with solar/wind/tidal, we’ll still have to keep extracting oil to make plastic!
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen auto-calculated tip of all combinations of with/without tax, with/without percent discount, and with/without individual item discounts.
I wish tipping would end, by mandating a living wage for all workers from the chef to the diskwasher and including all the waitstaff and everyone else in both the front and the back. But, until it does, I try to be generous with my tips, but also kind to people that can’t or are simply tired of “tipflation”.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe a comp’d desert (or app) that’s ~$8 ?
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 month ago:
The way I had it described to me was that veganism is against the exploitation of all animals, including “stealing” honey from a hive.
But, “vegan” is a label at least as malleable as “Christian”.
To some people, this Foie Gras might be vegan, if they can’t find the exploitation. To others, large-scale U.S. produce might be non-vegan since it depends on exploitative labor (humans are animals) practices. To a few, mussels are vegan because there’s no mind to suffer or be exploited. To a very few, plants that show a “pain” response are non-vegan, even if that response happens over time, as long as it has a clear trigger in human interference (which is expliotation due to the “pain”), despite the complete lack of a nervous system, which humans (and other animals) use to feel pain.
Anyway, I’m NOT a vegan, but I do try to limit my meat consumption. It just feels like the amount I used to eat isn’t really globally sustainable, and I take up too many resources in to many other ways, too.
- Comment on This is WAR. 1 month ago:
Everyone is a Forklift Operator until the real Forklift Operator shows up. Drawfee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgdyhIuEhw
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 month ago:
Everything 1Upsmanship puts on their “Celestial Hard Drive”.
Or, Minecraft.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 1 month ago:
Dr., this is Captialism; that level of empathy is toxic.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 month ago:
Universal love and Transcendent joy
But, if you can’t do that, I’d like to enjoy the things I used to (~ 2019?) enjoy.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 month ago:
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- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 month ago:
I did know that. I don’t recall pronouncing it incorrectly since learning that fact, but I don’t talk about those books or their author frequently.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 month ago:
It’s “Lay” because it’s borrowed from / referencing “lay person” i.e. not a member of the (TeX) priesthood.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 month ago:
People should be able to name their own babies.
I disagree. I think persons should name themselves. But, I understand there are practicalities that require some name to be assigned by outsiders at least until the person can talk.
For things that aren’t conscious or are incapable of speech, I think we collectively assign a name. I’m fine giving higher weight to the name chosen by the “creator” or “discover”, but I’m not fine with giving them veto power / final cut.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 month ago:
It’s “up tack”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_tack
I always pronounced it bottom because of en.wikipedia.org/…/Greatest_element_and_least_ele… or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_type which is how the Haskell report (where I got comfortable with the symbol) uses it.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 month ago:
LaTeX (/ˈlɑːtɛk/ ⓘ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek,[2] often stylized as LaTeX) is a software system for typesetting documents
Note the pronunciation is distinct from /ˈleɪˌtɛks/ the material.
But, sure everyone has to make that joke at least once.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 1 month ago:
South Korea is OVER so… some problems there, too.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 2 months ago:
Maybe he’s got a finer point, but it actually just looks like an argument against categorization. It’s like saying I don’t trust math about “triangles” or “scalene triangles” or “rhombuses” when you find out about the special properties of the equilateral triangle or the square.
The fact that there are differences between elements of a category does not eliminate the utility of the commonalities shared by elements of a category. It does limit that utility, yes.
For example, just because you are getting plenty of protein, if you somehow completely avoid one of the amino acids that the human body uses but can’t synthesize, then eventually you will have some fairly specific health problems. That’s not strong evidence that it’s worth micromanaging your macronutrients by tracking your intake of all amino acids individually. (It might be; I haven’t seen it studies either way.)
Maybe I’m missing some context, but I also get the “anti-science” vibe from the image.
- Comment on Moon Dust 2 months ago:
Not every error bar represents a Gaussian, if for no other reason that most error bars aren’t symmetric.
The error bars for small sample size relative to population size are Gaussian.
Error due to a non-representative sample can have a variety of shapes, but their distribution might also be unknown. We do frequently, almost implicitly, assume unknown distributions to be Gaussian, but we should recognize that’s not necessarily a true fact about the universe.
- Comment on Moon Dust 2 months ago:
It’s a very non-reprrsentative, very small sample. The error bars in the statistical inference to the whole population includes both “very common” and “one-in-a-million”.
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 2 months ago:
When I started it was more of a walk (2.0 mph; 30 minutes), but it still wore me out.
Now, I do a 7min mile on Wednesdays, try to get my 5k @ 2% incline down to 28 minutes on Satruday (did ~32 minutes yesterday), and try to get a 10k in under the “club limit” of 1hr on the treadmill on Sunday (did 6.15 mi. in 1:02:00 [2 minute cooldown] today).
It’s the best way to get my recommended weekly cardio I’ve found.
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 2 months ago:
Don’t kill the part of you that’s cringe, kill the part that cringes.
– Kabona Drawfee
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 2 months ago:
Same… and my back no longer hurts after I started running. The back pain actually went away before the weight did.
- Comment on What the fuck 2 months ago:
My fave minimalist loss:
:.|:;