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- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 5 days ago:
I still have some of the earliest modern LED bulbs on the market–old Philips ones, the AmbientLED (i think) with the yellow casing and large heat sinks.
I bought a couple of those for an enclosed fixture inside a skylight. The ceiling height there is 20 feet, plus another 2ft into the skylight tunnel. I bought those LED bulbs (at $40/each) because I never wanted to change them. Both bulbs were still fully functional 15 years later. I have since sold that house, but I bet they’re still functioning.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 weeks ago:
Legally they cannot.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to know how close I was and in what ways I can become a more interesting candidate, but nobody is going to give me a realistic answer.
I can tell you from the employer side there is nothing to gain by answering this question asked by a candidate, and everything to lose which is why you the candidate almost never hear a response.
There are some legally protected reasons you cannot be turned down for a job. Its all the stuff you’d think of: race, religion, marital status, sex, age, etc. The likelihood you were turned down because of one of these illegal reasons is usually very low in the USA. I’m proud to say for the hiring efforts I’ve been a part of, these have never been considered criteria for disqualifying a candidate. Its always been for things like lack of knowledge/education, criminal history (example multi-DUI for a job that requires driving or conviction of embezzling when put in charge of company finances ), etc.
However, any documented reason a prospective employer gives back to a candidate becomes a liability. Will that candidate sue the company claiming that they weren’t hired because they think the position required some not married, which would be a crime of the employer?
- Comment on Ask and ye shall receive. 2 weeks ago:
“To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.”
- Comment on People on Tik Tok peddling these scams 2 weeks ago:
Kale has a naturally high pH, so it’s basically just an antacid.
I have mild reflux, but know what triggers it after what time of day and can make easy diet adjustments to avoid those triggers too late before bed. For whatever reason, I never considered looking at the alkaline level of the foods I eat. In just doing so now, I see a whole bunch of my regular diet. Have I been unconscious choosing these to mitigate my reflux? I mean, I seek out these foods (that I now know are alkaline) because I like them, but do I like them more than just for their taste?
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 3 weeks ago:
In modern parlance, this has been my working understanding too:
But yeah since computing came along disk has also been used more for magnetic media (hard disk) while disc has been used more for optical media (compact disc).
Optical:
- compact disc
- laser disc
Magnetic:
- 3.5" diskette
- 800GB ard disk drive
…and just to point out there is some disagreement
Magneto-Optical , such as Sony MiniDisc, is sometimes referred to Disk and sometimes as a MO Disk.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 4 weeks ago:
No worries!
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 4 weeks ago:
Only about 300 years, from your own link you kindly provided:
I think you need to read that carefully again. Squirrels have been in North America for millions of years before Europeans arrived. The part you quoted was where Europeans took a specific species of squirrel found in North America, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), back with them to England.
The rest of that quoted piece talks about that specific species of North American squirrel’s spread around other parts of North American.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 4 weeks ago:
Squirrels are an invasive species, they’re not native to North America.
Just how many tens of millions of years do a species need to exist in a place before you consider it native to that land?
“The earliest known North American squirrel fossil dates back to the late Eocene epoch, about 34 million years ago.” source
- Comment on If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? 4 weeks ago:
Only by gov’t-licensed necromancers, otherwise there’s a risk of witness tampering.
Somewhere in Tokyo there’s a manga author furiously taking notes on this as the plot line. Three months from now a new manga will hit store shelves:
“I got killed and now I’m the key witness at my own murder trial”
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 4 weeks ago:
a glitch that excluded my pet rent and water bill. I ended up with over $1,000 in late fees. Despite hours on the phone, it turns out their system doesn’t really do auto-pay and requires a fixed amount instead of covering the full rent
You got over $1000 in late fees from a single month of not having the full amount?
- Comment on I'm not a good liar but need to pretend I like my current job and not rant about how much I dislike it till I find a job I like more. How do I make my coworkers and supervisors believe this lie? 5 weeks ago:
So, how do I become a better liar to the tune of: I want to keep working here, I like what I do, I like seeing patients leave healthy and independent to live their lives… until I find a job I like more?
Every job you are employed at should be a place you learn skills or gain knowledge about how to get the next job you want at a future employer. Change your mindset to this: You are now moving on to your new employer. You want to be the best you can be for the new employer. What do you need to learn now to be successful there? Now, put yourself in a position at your current employer that you can learn those things. Is it building better intake or reporting process? Perhaps a certification to handle specific care or dispense specific pharmaceuticals? Compliance is always a big one. Is there an audit of some kind that someone needs to learn the rules for to implement or check in your current workspace? Figure out what that is for your future employer and get excited about that work, the work that enables you to leave where you are today!
- Comment on If you feel like you're always being watched, can you really claim to have integrity? 5 weeks ago:
A person’s actions to being a good person is much more important that a person’s thoughts. The most well meaning inactive person may be at best a neutral impact on the world, while the most sinister villain of internal thought that acts only altruistically would be considered a hero.
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 1 month ago:
My whole thread was specifically about Android. You know what? You’re looking to salvage a victory out of this based upon pedantry. If you’re that bad off that you need that, go ahead and take the win if you can call it that. I hope your circumstances get better in the future.
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 1 month ago:
Read better.
Oh my, this is embarrassing for you. Look at my very first line in my quote:
"Nothing prevented Epic from opening their own Appstore on Android. "
So is this where I tell you to “read better”?
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 1 month ago:
Your comment was:
they’ve taken Apple, Google, and Samsung to the cleaners over this shit.
The article is talking about a new app store. A new app store wasn’t part of “this shit”. Yes, Epic sued and got changes to Google’s app store pricing, but that has nothing to do with this article’s topic. I’m not that invested in this conversation, but you asked why I responded and that’s why. I hope you have a fantastic day!
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 1 month ago:
I’m pointing out that what the article is showing (Epic opening their own app store) was always an option for them. The court ruling on Google’s app store didn’t enable that. It was always an option. This isn’t true on the Apple side, though. A non-Apple app store on iOS would be a significant change.
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 1 month ago:
Nothing prevented Epic from opening their own Appstore on Android. Heck, Amazon runs their own you can load on your Android phone if you want.
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 1 month ago:
Well crap, are there other companies I need to add to my list along with “Goya” for "never going to buy their products again?
- Comment on What is the anime obsession with maids? 1 month ago:
I understand why anime takes place in high school a lot, because its intended audience is high schoolers.
That doesn’t match my understanding of why so much anime is depicted in high school. While, yes there is a lot of anime targeted at high schoolers, as it was explained to me is that high school is the last time in Japanese culture where your future is undefined on a path. As soon as you leave high school you’re into one specific education, vocation, or career path where deviation after choosing your path is rare or not social acceptable. High school period is the last place in Japanese culture where everyone is mostly equal and unbound by expections. Many of the stories follow the nature of change or growth. So this requires the point in character’s lives where you can tell it.
Other story tropes used to transport older characters back to this time include:
- body swap to a younger body or de-aging where social rules allow a person to change again
- isekai, where the character is transported to another world (where the same rules of defined path don’t apply)
- reincarnation, where the adult protagonist is reborn into the body of a child or teenager, again to place them in a point in society where change or freedom of choice of path is allowed
Some of the above is just my speculation. Other portions is what I’ve learned from others. If this is wrong and other people here know definitively, please correct me. I don’t want to be spreading wrong information.
- Comment on Feeling cute. Might delete later. 1 month ago:
Please tag your content appropriately: NSFJDV
- Comment on Get her a publisher 2 months ago:
Rumor has it Dreamworks has already optioned the movie rights.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Friends should build you up, not tear you down.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s just hard, to feel like you don’t deserve any of the success that you’ve worked very hard on.
How does this manifest? As in, you’re proud of an achievement, share it with your friend, and they say things that diminish it? Can you describe a scenario where you’ve experience this with your friend?
- Comment on Goodbye, old friend. 2 months ago:
“Don’t forget to stop by the give shop and pick up your ‘hitchhiking stone’ keychain!”
“Why do they call a cheap piece of plastic shaped like the rock with a small split ring attached to it a ‘keychain’? What does any of this have to do with digital encryption keys?”
“I don’t know either, but make sure to buy one as a souvenir.”
- Comment on Goodbye, old friend. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Goodbye, old friend. 2 months ago:
Future Martian geologists. “This rock has no business being here. There must have been a glacier at some point that moved it here.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Or maybe get your news from somewhere else besides “guy on tic tok sitting in his car”
“Ed Allen, with IBEW 66, said the fentanyl report was not true and the report that 20 linemen were taken hostage was a hoax.”
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 2 months ago:
This is one of the fascinating things I learned about all the nuclear testing the USA was doing in the 70s 80s and 90s. They weren’t trying to make bigger bombs (that was 50s and 60s) it was making the same nuclear material in the bomb more completely used. The more of the material use, the less fallout.
For reference, the Hiroshima bomb used less than 2% of its fuel. Of its 64kg of uranium, only about 1kg actually split. The rest of the highly radioactive Uranium was just spread around by the explosion as fallout.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 2 months ago:
That map doesn’t look like it touch on the fallout at all, just the damage from the explosion.
Depending on how efficient the bomb is, and the direction of the winds, highly radioactive unspent fissile material will travel for miles. This stuff will shave decades off your life.