Trainguyrom
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- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 38 minutes ago:
Evidence suggests those that can tolerate lactose as adults are descended from farmers who drank milk to survive during seasons of bad yields.
Milk is full of great vitamins and minerals. I haven’t verified this claim but I heard someone say recently a person can entirely meet their entire nutritional needs on purely milk and potatoes, which doesn’t sound super pleasant to have as a diet, it’s certainly an easy baseline to meet
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 47 minutes ago:
They usually have the milk on hand for cooking, or just the kids menu. If my family of 4 can easily go through 2 gallons a week, I can’t imagine a resteraunt having problems using up milk before it goes bad unless they over-purchase
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 2 hours ago:
I’ve never had that problem. I basically always order milk anytime I eat out. Sometimes they only give me a kids portion or even a kids cup (it was extra funny when my wife ordered it for me and I was away from the table changing a diaper while visiting family), but usually I get a full glass of milk
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 week ago:
I think the worst part is they entirely ignored the most painfully obvious solution of implementing a “reddit plus” or “reddit premium” or “reddit red” and just gated third party app access behind a $9.99/mo subscription. I have a hard time believing most reddit users’ ad views are worth anywhere near that much per month. But instead they decided to burn a significant sum of goodwill on questionable premises and pissed off a significant number of power users.
The feeling I got from all of the communications was that /u/spez was jealous of Apollo and just wanted to kill off Apollo. Which would explain why they took such a scorched earth approach in trying to kill all third party apps
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
In the mid-19th century there was a doctor in Vienna named Ignaz Semmelweis. He worked in a maternity ward and took extreme focus on the extremely high mortality rate in his ward, and Semmelweis eventually found that hand washing before providing care was extremely effective at reducing the mortality rate (consistent hand washing dropped it from 18% to 2% mortality rate) specifically doctors would do autopsies in the morning then (without any sanitization) move onto their duties in the maternity ward.
Semmelweis had the seniority to mandate hand washing (specifically he identified Lyme to be very effective, but of course it’s very unpleasant to wash with Lyme) he had the data to back up it’s effectiveness, but what he lacked was the social capital to successfully shift the local medical culture to include handwashing before caring for sensitive prenatal and postnatal care. Specifically he was a dick about it. Because he was extremely outspoken about doing this unpleasant Lyme wash before providing care for which he couldn’t provide a good theory as to why it worked, he was replaced as the director, continued his advocacy with limited success and eventually was placed in an asylum following a nervous breakdown where he died of sepsis from a caretaker not washing their hands.
His work was never recognized until long after his death. He probably could have had more success if he wasn’t so annoyingly loud and outspoken about this hand washing thing. It was clearly the right thing to do but it took time and effort, wasn’t entirely pleasant, and it wasn’t yet the norm. He saved hundreds of lives while he was in charge and hand washing was mandated, but because his successor ended the handwashing mandate countless more died at his hospital alone.
The first successful soaps, in part created by a handful of individuals Semmelweis had inspired, were only successful when marketed as a cosmetic product to make you smell better (and by convincing people that they real!)
The point is, in advocacy, no matter how right you are, if you’re fighting against “the way we’ve always done things” you will always have a significant uphill battle and have to play the politics and not be too upsetting to the order of things until some momentum is built, because otherwise, no matter how right you are, you can simply be written off as a lunatic and too annoying to be worth listening to
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Oooh that sounds like a good idea! I’ve been noticing how much meat is taking a bite out of my food budget and trying to play with ways to stretch it a bit more until the kids are in school and my wife can start working.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we’re building megastructures around volcanos specifically to manage them instead of being subject to them.
Brings new meaning to “geothermal energy”
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
This requires a lot of concrete. A more economical solution would be to just move the volcano elsewhere. Plus then you can sell all of the new real estate where the volcano once stood!
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
I feel like with the direction of fire that’s more of a penis than a gun. I’m on board let’s do it!
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
if Westinghouse or Barrington had made outrageous claims to allure conspiracy theories then they might have got the Tesla treatment by thy internet instead and we’d only hear of Tesla in the science museum
Hey now, you get to hear about Westinghouse plenty in the railroad museums. A variation of the Westinghouse brake design is still in use on modern trains to this day
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
I think “quiet quiting” specifically refers to a sliding of your norms that remain within the outlined KPIs. For example, if you usually respond to requests within the hour and the organizational requirement is within 1 business day, starting to not respond to requests until they’ve sat for several hours without any actual change to your workload would be very noticeable, but ultimately its still well within the required timeframe
- Comment on Physics 2 weeks ago:
I went back to college in 2021 hoping to ride the recession recovery up with a new degree, got a 2 year Networking degree and I caught the tail end of the Great Resignation and snagged a pretty good job immediately after graduation.
I highly recommend going back whenever you feel up for it. Going into it when your even just a few years older means you can better appreciate the opportunities available to you, plus it’s a chance to do things you might not otherwise have done. For example, I stumbled into joining student government, and that was a blast traveling all over to visit other colleges for legislative meetings on the college’s dime. I made several friends and generally came out a better person
You could even do the crazy thing I did which is going back even though you really should wait, because my wife was pregnant! I started a semester the day after we returned from the hospital after my youngest child’s birth. I’m…not doing that again haha
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
If I remember correctly at the time powers that be kept standing in the way of her presenting this tech to the military purely based on her gender
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
If somebody told me five years ago about Adversarial Prompt Attacks I’d tell them they’re horribly misled and don’t understand how computers work, but yet here we are, and folks are using social engineering to get AI models to do things they aren’t supposed to
- Comment on PROOF 5 weeks ago:
holy cow I never knew that existed. I gave the first 5 minutes a watch and its wild how they tried to turn snarky novels dripping with thinly veiled social commentary into a children’s television special
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been using bing at work and it’s surprisingly good. It’s got tracking and ads and crap but it’s really more like Google was a few years ago than anything
- Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
For someone who’s over 25 with a clean driving record you can get good coverage for one vehicle for about $500/6 mo. My wife and I have no tickets and 1 accident (deer on a county highway on a blind curve, completely unavoidable, but totaled the car) and our rate hasn’t changed in the 3 years since we last made any adjustments
- Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
Car insurance generally hates young adults. I paid through the nose for 6 months of crap insurance through progressive than immediately jumped to a broker who got me a lower rate on better coverage (and actually knew what the right amount of coverage was) and they’ve consistently got me more coverage for a lower rate ever since. Granted some of that probably comes from my aging out of that high risk 18-25 bracket but still
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 1 month ago:
This has been big on some of AMD’s workstation and server chips because Windows generally doesn’t know what to do with the unexpected NUMA Node layouts. Or the scheduler just can’t handle 128 cores. So abstracting that away with Linux’s superior scheduler can help significantly on certain hardware
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
I can’t quite read the top bottom part because it’s upside down. What are flat earthers outside of Australia getting paid to do?
^posted from an instance hosted in Australia^
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
I honestly have to pretend that sexism in STEM is nowhere near as bad as I know it is for the sake of my own mental health. I’ve heard incredible stories of blatant sexism from colleagues and friends that I just can’t fathom
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
This funny story really brought a lot of great accounts out of the woodwork to block!
- Comment on The return of Gamergate is smaller and sadder 1 month ago:
I mean the flip side of this is that by doing nothing you’re letting them write the narrative. I feel like whatever this mess is, it’s starting to grow, so a more legitimate source calling it what it is can be helpful
- Comment on Malaria 2 months ago:
His company has also doomed some billions of people to using Excel, but on the other hand some number of millions of people get the pleasure of using Excel
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 3 months ago:
I tried pirate trainer in a VR demo booth at a con and lost 2 hours thinking it has been 20 minutes!
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 3 months ago:
flipping a coin enough times that one day it lands on its side
There was a twilight zone episode based on this premise too!
- Comment on Anon's uncle watches Andrew Tate 3 months ago:
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- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
Ah so a very different point in your career than most of us seem to have thought. Probably your best bet is to get an easy cert that shows basic PC knowledge and/or start throwing applications out in all directions. If you can get 6-12 months on your resume at a slog of a callcenter or other shitty entry level support role that should be enough to kickstart you into an IT career if that’s the direction you want to go. Get onto a corporate helpdesk and use that time to figure out what you need to learn and go from there.
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
My favorite are the services that keep rejecting the randomized passwords so I have to manually think of a password. I ain’t creative enough on the spot for that! Just accept my /dev/urandom output dammit!
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
What gets me is the people that don’t know their own passwords, don’t know how/where to look them up, and don’t even understand how to reset their passwords
I worked support for a phone manufacturer for a while and helped a lot of poor lost souls struggle to get back into their Google accounts on their new and replacement devices. I got a lot of them in, but some may have never gotten out of authentication hell