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- Comment on Habits of Insects 4 weeks ago:
China has a problem. It isn’t good at finding the best people and putting them into science (or whatever else). Instead it gets the loyal people and gives them the best jobs, they then select people below them however they will
People then strive for recognition and advancement so scientific fraud is rife
- Comment on Habits of Insects 4 weeks ago:
This idea has been around for a while. Make government more efficient by putting a private enterprise person in charge
It never worked because the private enterprise person got efficiency by having a cool project or forceful personality in the private enterprise which let them pay their employees poorly. Or maybe they paid their employees well and had excellent success. But then they have government employees who are hard to fire, have highly specialist knowledge, aren’t in it for profit and so the private enterprise maverick is usually [worse than] useless
I don’t expect it to work this time either, especially as Musk is more interested in Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 6 months ago:
As in Margaret Thatcher was an Englishman?
- Comment on wait for it 6 months ago:
Everything is under control
- Comment on Every base is base 10 6 months ago:
Every base has ten, but it’s made of two digits
Binary 0, 1, 10 Ternary 0, 1, 2, 10 … Decimal 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Hex 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10
Each has the right count of digits for its base before you go two-digit - binary has two (0, 1), etc
- Comment on Being courteous [Off the Mark] 6 months ago:
I don’t know, 7 is a bit of a cannibal. π just is a little in the way
- Comment on Justice 6 months ago:
It was on a Russian Antarctic base, why would international waters be a consideration?
- Comment on .rar me 7 months ago:
The best thing to do with a tarball is to bzip it
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 7 months ago:
My government agency when hiring all the roles in an IT team put those sort of stupid ranges in the headline, but if you drill down to a specific role you see the actual range
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 7 months ago:
So about 1d8 con damage instantly then 1d2 con daily.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 7 months ago:
Melee area effect weapons. There’s a wand of fireball in Balders Gate 3 that is bent and has melee range. This is like that, but the fire is only analogous to fire and the effect lasts longer and does damage slower
- Comment on Don’t upvote this 7 months ago:
I suffered negative side effects as if it were a real meme, and a bad meme at the same time
I had to refrain from voting
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 8 months ago:
I think you’d start in Capetown
- Comment on It is truly magic 8 months ago:
It’s a pretty easy switch, the differences are all mirrored
- Comment on It is truly magic 8 months ago:
We have a roundabout with a pond. The ducks like it, and they’re really disturbed
- Comment on It is truly magic 8 months ago:
My town built lots of roundabouts, and the population are used to them, but they have a problem with unbalanced traffic, and it’s been growing, so traffic has been getting more unbalanced - more people coming from directions the engineers who planned the road didn’t expect
The real problem, of course, is that though they are trying they are not able to replace the traffic with mass transit. The buses get stuck in the same traffic, light rail seems impossible, even with political will
- Comment on mmm space chocolate 8 months ago:
I feel they would blow un-popped maize everywhere
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 10 months ago:
Ours didn’t (in the 1980s). They were hot in summer
- Comment on mHz is superior 10 months ago:
To expand on that, 1 mHz would be 1 thousandth of a cycle per second/one cycle per thousand seconds
- Comment on Anon tightly groups her shots 11 months ago:
Or she’s an alcoholic
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 11 months ago:
They’re a petro state. Attempts to keep them from profiting from oil have completely failed, as Russia can sell it to their friendly countries
- Comment on You know how bad it needs to be to be ignored for over 2 decades! 11 months ago:
When was the mad cow prion problem in UK beef?
- Comment on How to burn belly fat if I have cervical spondylosis and scoliosis? 11 months ago:
The best performing diet that has published research is low carbohydrate or keto.
That means avoiding high sugar and high starch foods like bread, pasta, potato, fruit, juices, processed food
The best description I have seen is nothing made of wheat, rice, grain, no vegetables that grow underground, no pumpkin, no fruit, as much meat, seafood, fat as you like.
The current health advice is to avoid canola and vegetable oils as they do specific metabolic damage. The safe plant based fats are coconut and avocado. All animal fats are safe.
The odd thing about this diet is you can eat fat and get thin, but it makes sense in that it trains your body to burn fat, which is what you want!
Dr Ken Berry on YouTube has good advice about starting such a diet.
- Comment on People who park in the handicapped ramp boil my blood. 11 months ago:
You couldn’t even get a cart out"
No harm trying though
- Comment on People who park in the handicapped ramp boil my blood. 11 months ago:
“sand”
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
The first one is MASH
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
Gen x got MASH reruns and internalised the theme song “suicide is painless”
- Comment on I dont understand why I have to bring a bottle to the restaurant 11 months ago:
Not until the diabetes kicks in
- Comment on I dont understand why I have to bring a bottle to the restaurant 11 months ago:
Report the bug to mlem. I presume they have a community so you can do so on lemmy
- Comment on Weather app asking for permission to manage calls 11 months ago:
Weather wants your location so you can get weather for where you are