mkwt

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also this classic xkcd

  Oh no. Are you telling me that an xkcd numbered in the 2000s is a “classic” now? Yikes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ice cream is always about churning air into cream. But nowadays the air ratio has definitely gone up. Seemingly across the board.

  And that assumes that you’re not buying a brand that has gotten into the fakery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Election Analyst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not embedded (using Jerboa).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Air Force Overpaid Boeing for Soap Dispensers by Nearly 8,000%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The commercial product likely is not the part specified in the approved aircraft drawings; does not come with certificates of conformance and the necessary traceability paperwork; and probably was not subjected to environmental stress testing, among other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak performance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not clear if they properly matched the Reynolds numbers and other similarity parameters to properly make this comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump cosplaying⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  E. coli is a coliform bacteria. That means it’s found in, you guessed it …shit. So E. coli is a great topic for a shitpost.

  How the E coli gets from the shit to the meat is left as an exercise to the reader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do airlines prefer to fill in non emergency seats before they start placing passengers on the emergency ones?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some airlines nowadays are trying to sell the exit row seats at a premium as an upgrade.

  We should also mention that if you are uncomfortable with sitting in the exit row, federal regulations require the airline to reseat you in a different row on request. You don’t have to provide a reason why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stars & sharks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Polaris goes in and out of North Star status on the 26,000 year precession cycle. So for the duration of humanity (let’s say 100,000 years), there have been decent chunks of time where it’s not in use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOTY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Category: existential horror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another aspect to this is that Android is Linux, but it is not GNU / Linux. This is true both in the literal sense of not using GNU coreutils or glibc, and also in the broader sense.

  What I mean by the “broader” sense:

  • no X or Wayland
  • GTK or Qt support is something an application has to bring with them.
  • filesystem is substantially reorganized
  • users and system permissions setup substantially differently

  To the application programmer Android Linux looks like a completely different ball game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is missing a “just right” image for reference, and so everyone can criticize the author’s cookie preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uranium doesn’t usually glow in the dark? If you can see a blue glow, you need to get the heck out of there, or submerge it in a lot of water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fracking has granted the United States independence from OPEC, and turned the US into the largest exporter of oil. This, the US now has the pricing power on the world oil market. This has huge geopolitical implications.

  Back in the 2000s it was completely different. All of the geopolitical wonks were pushing renewable energy as a means of OPEC independence. And now that independence has been granted, but we still have the oil.

  Meanwhile, as others have stated on this thread, the immediate problems from fracking have been mostly fixed, including the earthquakes. Long term, I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen with all of that dirty wastewater going back into the ground.

  So on balance, there’s a good reason for the leadership in both parties to be on board with fracking: oil still rules the world, and fracking lets the United States rule the oil markets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … = -1/12

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to labcorp for a while when I needed monthly blood draws for my doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  —BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE— Side effects include all of your contacts calling you freakin nerd.

  —END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. I would like to go back to beans, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things that we hate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even worse if you think your idea is just the best darn thing to come along since sliced bread. And then Dr. 1995 comes along and lays out the whole thing in a footnote in a paper on a different topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is how I feed my omnivorous fish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope you have some peer reviewed clinical studies to back up a controversial statement like that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a bong an instrument? It has been featured in many songs even having credits for bong solo.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Watermelon Man” by Herbie Hancock has a beer bottle solo credited to Bill Summers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How exactly do insurance deductibles work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve met the deductible for the plan year, the deductible is now off the table. And presumably you need to look at your policy to see what it covers after the deductible is met.

  “50% before deductible” is an odd term that I haven’t seen in an health insurance policy. Usually, coinsurance doesn’t kick in until after the deductible is met.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of people understand the concept of light-seconds, which can measure distance in seconds.

  Allow me to introduce the gravity-second. 1 gravity-second of mass-energy is enough mass-energy to have a Schwarzchild radius of 2 light-seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Set G = 1 and c =1. Then equations like r = 2m make dimensional sense.

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨little hopper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you see, in 1793, 'Merica requested the metric artifacts from France so we could be metric too. France sent over a kilogram, but the shipment was lost at sea. And that was a little sad.

  All joking aside, US feet, inches, pounds, and so on have been secretly really metric since 1893.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mirror on the Wall, who has the smallest p of them all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding onto this. p < 0.05 is the somewhat arbitrary standard that many journals have for being able to publish a result at all.

  Is you do an experiment to see we whether X affects Y, and get a p = 0.05, you can say, “Either X affects Y, or it doesn’t and an unlikely fluke event occurred during this experiment that had a 1 in 20 chance.”

  Usually, this kind of thing is publishable, but we’ve decided we don’t want to read the paper if that number gets any higher than 1 in 20. No one wants to read the article on, “We failed to determine whether X has an effect on Y or not.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A large part of food cost is processing.

  A regular burger patty is processed by butchering a cow, running meat through a grinder, and then pressing the grind into patties.

  A vegan burger patty has to combine multiple ingredients and seasonings with different preprocessing steps, and then it still has to be pressed into patties.

  Out of this, cow butchering is by far the most intensive and costly processing step, but the cost of that is amortized over many cuts of meat, not just the hamburger.

  The vegan patty has more things to process in it. And if you’re looking at Beyond or Impossible, then some of those things are fancy lab grown proteins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'll km/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually pretty important to being able to solve engineering problems in the real world. Invariably, every little sub industry has its own cursed unit system. And dimensional analysis is great for solving real problems on its own.

  And if you get to a high enough physics level, they start setting hbar = c = 1 or G = c = 1, and you never have to worry about it again.

  I’m the mean time, it’s worthwhile to learn the trick to do this stuff fast-ish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turns out, that was the one piece that we needed.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those SSTs constantly blow out every window in the city. Seriously, there’s a reason this picture never came to fruition. And it’s because the FAA did a 6-month study of sonic booms in Oklahoma City, and that study was cut off after only a few weeks after citizens angrily called their representatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if the moon is up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetBlue makes you watch an ad to connect to wifi⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this 4k video from an arbitrary source, like a random YouTube video? Or from United’s website?

  I haven’t flown outside is Southwest in a while, but they have a bunch of licensed video content that is hosted locally on the plane. And therefore cheap.