evasive_chimpanzee
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- Comment on Why do people from Western societies always seem to complain? 1 day ago:
Social media gets more engagement (and therefore more ad money) from people who are upset, so it intentionally shows you stuff that’s bad/stuff to complain about.
Also, it’s important to complain about stuff. Not too much, but definitely some. If people never complained about 16 hour workdays in poor working conditions, we’d still be doing that.
- Comment on How can Doge access critical government infrastructure and fire people if it isn't even a real department? 2 weeks ago:
there’s tons of mechanisms to stop that from happening
There are tons of such mechanisms in the United States as well. Unfortunately the mechanisms essentially boil down to laws, policies, and norms. Doing an illegal action does not pull a lever that deposits you in jail. The whole system relies on the people in power choosing to do the right thing. That’s going to be a potential issue in any country with centralized power.
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not clever enough to come up with a good example on the spot, but you could have something along the lines of a scheme where the word selection corresponds to a not-obvious code. For example, if you wanted to secretly send the word “hello”, and you’ve previously given your receiver a code word “apple”:
Hello > 7 4 11 11 14 Apple > 0 15 15 11 4
Adding the code word to the secret message, you’d get:
7 19 0 22 18 > H T A W S
Then your message could be something like:
How are you doing? Today, I went to the store. Avocados were on sale. When do you want to meet up? Saturday looks good for me.
There are definitely way better methods to do the encoding part, and probably also better ways of doing the concealment part.
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a whole bunch of different steganographic methods. You wouldn’t necessarily have to apply them to audio signals, you could apply them to the text itself. It’s certainly trickier, so you would want to keep the plain text very short so your ciphertext doesn’t get too long or weird
- Comment on Hope you had a great christmas 1 month ago:
In addition to what others said, they likely have different percentages of livestock. Beef vs. Dairy vs. Sheep, etc
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 2 months ago:
The term that people should look out for is “creamline” or “cream-top” milk. It’s whole milk that is unhomogenized. It basically separates in the bottle, so there’s a layer of cream floating on top of skim.
I couldn’t say for sure, but I’ve heard it’s better for making cheese/yogurt/etc.
Personally, I wouldn’t buy it just for drinking cause I don’t think it lasts as long.
- Comment on I have no idea where to post this rule 3 months ago:
This is the lab behind the poop knife. They are absolutely experts in this kind of thing.
I need to read the whole paper, but I suspect the weight/wind resistance ratio of the javelin is better, and that the motion of launching an atlatl dart is affected by the downward angle. The railing on the scissor lift likely has an effect, too.
- Comment on Problem? 4 months ago:
Yeah, reviewing is about making sure the methods are sound and the conclusions are supported by the data. Whether or not the data are correct is largely something that the reviewer cannot determine.
If a machine spits out a reading of 5.3, but the paper says 6.2, the reviewer can’t catch that. If numbers are too perfect, you might be suspicious of it, but it’s really not your job to go all forensic accountant on the data.
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 5 months ago:
Coffee beans aren’t beans. There are some beans that are roasted as a substitute for coffee, like the seeds of the Kentucky coffeetree. In times of shortage, people have tried many things to replace coffee, like dandelion and chicory root. For the most part, the substitutes arent as good as the original, so people don’t stick with them. There’s a chance someone has tried to roast and brew pinto beans or whatever, but they probably taste bad.
- Comment on Choose your fighter! 6 months ago:
I wish there was an easy way to across to people that “music with unclean vocals” ≠ “screamo”.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 7 months ago:
It’s cause they are built from petroleum
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 7 months ago:
Shade doesn’t have to block any of the view. Many very modern houses with giant windows use these principles.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 7 months ago:
NightHawkInLight has a bunch of videos on making it
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 7 months ago:
I haven’t watched the video yet, but vernacular architecture back in the day commonly set shading elements like awnings at the right height/angle such that during midday in the winter, sunlight would still directly go through windows and hit interior floors and walls. During summer, the angle of the sun would be high enough that direct sunlight could not reach windows.
You can get pretty far with just those passive designs. There are tools to help you find the dimensions you’d need based on where you live without having to do any calculations yourself.
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 7 months ago:
Corollary: do not assume anybody doesnt speak English.
- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 7 months ago:
These pressures are all gauge pressure, not absolute pressure. 1 bar gauge pressure would be about 2 bar absolute.
- Comment on Ironing 7 months ago:
Elbows have always been allowed on the table. The rule for fancy dining was that you couldn’t have elbows on the table during a course, i.e., when people are actively eating, but before/after, it’s fine. That’s a reasonable rule to be considerate of space.
- Comment on Ironing 7 months ago:
Fold your clothes immediately after drying, while they are still warm. Also, dryers that can add steam really help if you’ve got a few things that need wrinkle removal. Also, handheld steamers are cheap.
Mostly, avoid needing to iron by avoiding wearing formal business attire.
- Comment on If an oven only has fan forced mode do i still need to set it to the fan forced temperature in recipes? Ie 160 instead of 180. 8 months ago:
Yes. It cooks faster with the fan. Btw, it’s also referred to as a “convection” oven as opposed to a “conventional” oven. Air fryers are just small convection ovens.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 9 months ago:
Read “a mathematicians lament”, by Paul Lockhart. It was originally a short essay (25 pages you can find free online), but expanded into a book that I haven’t read yet.
In a similar vein is Shape, by Jordan Ellenberg.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 10 months ago:
Maybe, but it wouldn’t be a fast process or guaranteed, so I didn’t risk it.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 10 months ago:
This is an area of law governed at the state level. Some states are much better than others. Personally, I have not lived in a state that has a 3rd party hold the money (and I’m not sure if any do that). I did rent in a state where any charges that the landlord claims that they shouldn’t is met with triple damages. So if they keep $200 instead of the $100 of actual cost to repair something you broke, they owe you $300. It really incentivizes landlords to only charge accurately (e.g., not for standard wear and tear), and generally deposits were much lower there than in other states I’ve rented.
Lots of states also charge interest on any deposit money not immediately given back to the renter.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 10 months ago:
They gave me an itemized receipt where carpet cleaning was the only item on the receipt when I moved out of a place with wood floors. I actually recorded the whole final walk through with the person from the company walking through saying that it was perfectly clean and that I should get my whole deposit back.
When I complained, they said that it wasn’t carpet cleaning, it was just regular cleaning billed as carpet cleaning. I said I would take it to small claims court, but I never told them about the recording.
They decided to refund me just enough that the money they kept was equal to the cost of filing a small claims suit.
- Comment on puns 11 months ago:
- Comment on Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F! 1 year ago:
My understanding is that the predicted low is for the upcoming night, not the lowest temperature in that 24 hour block
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 1 year ago:
They are mostly ground source over there, which shouldn’t be affected by cold snaps.
- Comment on Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer... 1 year ago:
It’s a plastic ball with a tiny hole in it. When you open the beer, the compressed gas, nitrogen and co2, sprays out of that hole into the beer, making it creamy and frothy. Guinness isn’t meant to be carbonated like most beer, so it’s never “foamy”
- Comment on Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer... 1 year ago:
If I’m not mistaken, the guinness can is the same size as other US pint (16 oz) cans, but there is less beer volume because of the widget.
- Comment on Where can I find recipes without the author's personal anecdotes? 1 year ago:
I think what happened is that back in the day, recipes were super sparse and crappy. Think of the typical “grandma’s recipe” written on an index card with half of the ingredients not listed as having any specific amount, and the only directions would be “mix” and “put in a hot oven”. Then you had websites that basically did the same thing. Allrecipes is a good example of this; not too much fluff, but there are so many crappy recipes on there. Unless you know who made the recipe (like chef john), it’s hard to trust a lot of them.
Then you had websites like serious eats where they wouldn’t just give you the recipe, they tell you how and why they made choices about ingredients, process, etc. That stuff is all super helpful if it’s what you are looking for, so Google et al. would give them and sites like them search priority. They also need to make money, so the added space for advertisement is a plus for them.
Now, anyone can spend a little bit of money to start a website, throw down a lot of useless preamble, and get the same search engine priority as serious eats. Most of those are garbage.
No one is going to do the work to put out great recipes for free, though, so there’s gotta be some compromise. If you are willing to spend money, there’s a lot of great cookbooks, and the ebook versions of them are easily searchable. New York times cooking, Bon Appétit, and America’s test kitchen/cooks illustrated have extensive catalogs of fairly barebones recipes if you are willing to spend money on a subscription.
There’s also apps and browser extensions that chop the unnecessary stuff off of a recipe, but just keep in mind that a lot of those sites that pop up when you just Google a recipe suck.
I think some of the best recipes you can get with no pay wall or unnecessary text are from the websites of companies that actually sell ingredients or equipment because they are basically just advertising for themselves. For example, king arthur baking company has good bread recipes cause they want you to buy their flour. Similarly, anson mills has a lot of good stuff. Those companies have dedicated test kitchens of professionals.
What I wish I had was a way to create a whitelist of sites/authors that I could search for recipes
- Comment on why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread? 1 year ago:
Washlets don’t require hot water or electricity, though, they can pull right from the toilet water supply
