bluGill

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it is a budget plan. They are buying 2,000,000 SMS messages per month because 25 years ago with g1 and g2 protocols it made sense to sell them that way, and then trying to divide that between their 10,000 customers without running out. Similar for voice and data, they buy so much and divide between all customers.

  Contracts could be sold a different way. However nobody wants to because the big companies want an option for budget minded people to get a little money out of them, while still giving them bad enough service that they all but the cheapest will run to the "big boys" with the unlimited plans. The budget companies need something they can sell that is cheaper than the "big boys", realistically they have exactly the same product and so somebody needs to introduce some artificial limit someplace to make it work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Keychron k6, and a separate phone stand. That is a full size (60%) mechanical keyboard connected with bluetooth. I have and use others (see the other replies) when I need max portability and a quick comment. However a real keyboard beats anything you can do on a touchscreen. I recommend you get one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I used thumbkey for a couple months. I could use it, but it was never fast. YMMV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of those forests need to burn regularly. Check with a qualified forester for your area but often the forest needs to burn so who cares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of those forests need to burn regularly. Check with a qualified forester for your area but often the forest needs to burn so who cares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because high price is what makes them exclusive and so they compete on high price. Then they give everybody a scholarship - something else they can compete on - which with a little math gives you the real price.

  A friend of mine is department head of a local private university. He says that they have consistently found nobody chooses a university for the low price. Meanwhile some choose against a school because if the cost is too low "you must get what you pay for". If you get admitted to that school you automatically get a 40% scholarship - which is to say they don't even want 40% of the money they are charging, but marketing insists they need to charge at least that much. Most students are getting other financial aid above the automatic scholarship as well, only the rich pay the real maximum price. Students who care about costs are looking at what scholarships the school offers them, which is to say everybody knows the sticker price is a lie and they ask about the real costs.

  Until people start rejecting the system it won't change. You alone are not enough. So let this be advice to you: don't look at the sticker price. Ask someone to give you a the price after all scholarships apply. It will likely be much more affordable. Though do take your time to understand the fine print, otherwise you could find the scholarship doesn't apply to you after you have the bills and so must take a large loan to pay them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people don't care about the color. For whatever reason the factory started making them in red so that is what people bought. Other colors exist if you look for them, but there is rarely reason to look. People just grab something cheap and move on without thinking. If the red was sold out they would grab the blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You never go to parties where there are more people than storage space for cups? Americans often do this. Often at a park. We can get this in a 100 pack for the cost of of 4 real glass cups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Solo is the brand that makes them. They make other colors too but red is by far most common

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google reCaptcha intentionally failed without telling me, how is this allowed??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might break some sort of law, depending on what country you are in. However you will spend millions of dollars on a lawyer if you try to do anything about it. Depending on your countries laws you might or might not get that back. And that is assuming you win, there is always a chance you lose despite having an "air tight case" (you might find a lawyer that will take the case for the winnings, but not charge if you lose).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you avoid AI music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy real CDs from artists I see play in person. Or CDs of artists that are long dead.

  CDs are key, streaming random tracks you have no clue what you will get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Nurses are not bound by the same rule is a lawyer is to a defendant or a wife to a husband or a priest? If someone says something on their death bed why are we suppose to report?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of those are absolute.

  If your bankruptcy lawyer discover you committed murder they don't have to keep silent (I'm not sure what the law or bar ethics rules are, but probably they need to report it - they don't have the right skills to defend you). Asking a bankruptcy lawyer for a referral to a murder defense lawyer would probably be protected though - even if they don't know one.

  A priest can keep silent or not. Different religions have different rules. In some you confessed and their job is to pray for your spiritual forgiveness and they won't say anything. In others they will say doing your time (turn yourself in) is the right action. In some cases they can make a judgement call of what to apply.

  A doctor cannot talk about your health conditions to random people. However they can talk to those with a need to know, if your condition is criminal then those people may get a need to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They always have been. Long before the internet political parties have been using rage bait to fund raise and get the vote. You might not remember it, and it might not have been as in your face if you were not an identified person who would respond, but I have got snail mail from various groups that are some variation "guess who is harming our children" every few months from some group or another - often from opposing groups in the same month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctors see so many people seeking to fuel their addiction that they can no longer tell who isn't. Addicts seek out information on what people with rail problems say and how they act - they practice those things. As such they cannot tell who is real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The labor market isn't going to decline that much in our lifetime.

  I'm reading 100 resumes because they got past the automated scan system. I interview about 5 because an interview requires a lot of investment on our part. Interviewing 100 people means we can't get anything else done. My job isn't to hire people it is get engineering work done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is they are looking for different information and putting that information into the parts humans will read makes the humans more likely to reject you.

  Sometimes humans and the machine care about the same thing, but when there is a difference you don't want the humans to reject you for having information the machine needs.

  Last time we were hiring my boss gave me 50 resumes to read and half an hour to get the job done. Not only is that less than a minute each, but the ones I forwarded on got 3-5 minutes (as did 1-2 rejects), if you want to be hired you need to capture my attention in a few seconds - anything that won't capture my attention needs to not be on the resume even if the machine needs it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn't redundant.

  You want your resume for humans to read, which means your respect their time (remember they have the power and you as unemployed have time) so they don't throw you into the trash. That means you ensure that the things in your background that make you look good to them are easy to find.

  You want the forms to be things that the machine is looking for, even if they are not interesting. The machine might verify so don't lie, but a lot of things the machine is looking for are boring things that the box needs to be checked - since they are boring you don't want them on a resume - but not having them someplace means the machine rejects you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There shouldn't be the same data except for intentional or trivial duplication. Your resume is for humans to read. The form is for machines to verify you can do the job and that you really have experience for the job level. These are different purposes and need to be treated differently.

  Write your resume for humans to read, so figure out what they are looking for and give them that. sometimes 5 years in a job is just one line "I wasn't letting my experience rot but otherwise you don't care so I won't waste you time", while a single year of interesting to them work can be 15 lines.

  Write the machine forms to be honest - they might check that you really worked those dates and had the job title so don't lie. They will flag a gap in dates but the 2 years fast food is just as good as anything else. They know what java is so if that is a checkbox item you better have it, but they don't know the difference between 10 years extensive experience and I saw java for 15 minutes every year for the last 10. (don't lie about your abilities, but if you know the job won't be writing java you just need to convince the machine you have enough java to check the box and move onto the humans who make decisions).

  Note that I assume above you have done some research. You can't always figure out if a job that wants 10 years java really is writing java, or if java is a buzzword - but often you can. Don't submit any resume until you have 15 minutes research into the job/company, but time limit your research to no more than a couple hours (set a timer at 1 hour and decide if either the research is interesting anyway; or you know you have a good chance and are learning things that give you a better chance).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good leadership is dearly needed in the world and so we pay for even the hope that someone might be. Technical skills are important, but not as important

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So why am I bald. Worse, I'm the whitest person in whatever city I'm in (when I was in Stockholm it was a tie), and as such burn easially if the sun hits my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Focus your spamming on jobs that you have a reasonable shot of getting should they read the resume. Even 10 minutes of research on a company can often figure out something you can put on a resume and cover letter that would greatly help your chances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨: Do people who were blind from birth see anything in their dreams, or is it just audio and textures?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of blind people can see the sun. Blind really means that their vision is so bad that we cannot correct it to anything close to normal and not that they see anything at all. Each experience is different, but likely they can see enough that for purposes of your question they are not blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For most people the short answer is, mains power is so reliable that it's not worth your bother to worry about the emergency situations. As long as things work, even a significant amount of inefficiency doesn't add up. So stop worrying, just get things working.

  If, on the off chance, you actually are using emergency power a lot, for whatever reason, then yes, this is a worrying about. In that case, you no longer want a short answer. You need a long, complex answer that covers all the different possibilities. So you need to start studying. Be prepared to spend months working at all the details for your specific situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Songs are often mastered differently for different media. Streaming services often do this automatically. Mastering is why vinyl often sounds better than CD even though CD should be better, CDs enabled the loudness wars which vinyl couldn't handle so vinyl got a more musical content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Strict working hours are important for jobs like assembly line work where if you are not at your station nobody else can do any work. Often they do build enough slack in that they expect you can take a couple bites here and there between doing your work. Though this isn't the most sanitary so it isn't common anymore.

  For anyone doing work that doesn't depend on others being at their station at the same time a strict shift doesn't make sense, and there are not many assembly lines left like that (the assembly lines I have seen lately are much shorter and your team of 10 needs to work the same shift but your team can choose lunch time, and if you get the team's work done faster everyone can even get an extended lunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ar15, but they are the same other than details

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people claim when they buy lets say an M16 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle it is for hunting or self protection? Could you just bow and arrow during a hunt for more of a challenge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While many hunters own an M16, they're not a popular hunting round. The typical M16 doesn't have enough power to take down the deer. You own M16 because it's fun to fire once in a while. You want a more powerful rifle or often shotgun depending on where you are because that's what puts foods on the table. If you want to challenge, you will get a bow and arrow or a muzzle loader. They're lots of fun. However, they take a lot more practice.

  There is no one best hunting gun. That is why hunters will tend to own at least four or five guns. You want a 20-gauge shotgun for small birds. You want a 12-gauge for larger birds. You need a small rifle, say a .22 or something in that range for your squirrels and rabbits. And then you need a bigger gun, like a .30-06 common for your deer. Since guns do break once in a while, you will try and have a couple spares. Usually you're hunting with a buddy and if a buddy has a spare that would be good enough that you can borrow it if you need it. But for one of your hunting trips, you will be that buddy that the other person borrows from. Often when you're young you will buy a cheap gun that works but it's not very good and so you'll keep that while you buy a more expensive one which again adds to your collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I retire I can I get a decent home for about 200k in canada with about an acre to live on that is out in the boondocks, and grow some weed and vegetables? Other questions inside.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, but access to medical care will be hard and that is important to retired people in a way younger don't understand. Access means you want a good hospital with doctors on staff who know how to treat you. There are stroke procedures only a few hospitals know how to do that are much better than typical treatment elsewhere as on example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually but I've seen exceptions. Modern low flush toilets beat the legal and thus common regular flush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That should be part of your plans. Which neighbors are you helping. Who knows about your stash in case you die in the disaster - hopefully they survive.