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- Comment on I'd believe any of them. 11 hours ago:
I’m assuming it makes sense to him in a weird way to add bacteria to water.
A - Plausible food fungus reasons B - Billionaires buy proper equipment, toilet brewing seems odd for a rich person C - Very impractical way to wash pits D - No reason to tell people and no benefit over just using regular water
- Comment on I'd believe any of them. 14 hours ago:
It’s also the option that makes the most sense.
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 3 days ago:
BRBRBRBRBRBR
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 3 days ago:
Glad somebody is onto it, now they just need to make the the rest of the buttons into a pad and I’ll have my idealised version.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 5 days ago:
Easy to wipe true, but what if instead of a capacitor button we can have a magnetic control board with magnetic push keys?
It would be fully removable, attachment magnet snaps it into place and then it’s essentially a button with a magnet physically travelling up and down.
The I really hate the capacitor buttons since if you get pasta that boils over it fucks with the buttons pretty fast and the “off button” is just not good for quickly turning it off when flooded. It’s same for pan cooking sauce that splashes a bit, wiping the surface moist rag can have mixed results, paper towels become a requirement. There’s just a lot to not like.
A standard knob, as long as it’s not designed by an idiot, can be very simple by having a piece of heat resistant non corrosive material stuck out of the stove top and the button having a 1cm gap under it. Just make the pin chonky and you can drop a pan on it without anything happening. Lift the button off and it becomes still very easy to clean.
- Comment on Banana for scale 1 week ago:
Meter was defined as 1/10M of the length from equator to the pole. It’s not exact because the size was established by people literally measuring the distance while traveling. They got really close though. Rest of the units were derived from that length such as 10cm cube of water is 1kg and so on.
Meter is pretty useful though, a large step step is around one meter so you can measure a field by walking after a bit of practice to get the step right. The height of people’s waist is around 1m also.
The point you make about counting is not really an advantage since in metric we count in meters, 10s of centimeters, centimeters, 100s of meters or kilometer which is roughly 10 minutes walking.
The difference is that when you need to do calculation or anything scientific it becomes super easy to convert between units. A cubic meter of water is 1 metric ton (1000kg), 1L of water is 1kg so you can just measure 250ml of milk (~ a cup) by adding 250g of water to a bowl. A tablespoon by adding 15g and a teaspoon by adding 5g.
It makes cooking and baking a lot easier since you don’t need to bring out a whole range of measurement equipment because you can often just use a scale instead.
Then we have Fahrenheit temp scale. Goes from 0 very cold and 100 very hot. Both are intuitive after a while but metric make it very easy to reason about larger ranges and how close to freezing something is outside.
Bottom line is that both are very arbitrary but any time you go outside some regular guesstimates of “this is x long” metric becomes easier.
- Comment on Banana for scale 1 week ago:
Beat me to it
- Comment on Banana for scale 1 week ago:
We have also units in metric, except it’s always the same ones. Horse is around 2m and a small banana is 15cm, a human foot in around 30cm.
You can measure the parts of your body to get to the same point reference pretty fast and it’s very relatable when you live in a non-imperial country.
- Comment on When you're in a rush and need to eat on the go 1 week ago:
Most bottles made in this shape are unsafe to heat. It’s not common so it’s not cheap.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 3 weeks ago:
Students visa allows part time, don’t remember the exact hours but around 18 per week I think. Employment prospects are pretty nice when going into hospitality or tourism but I’ve been out of the country for a while so I don’t know how easy it is to get a job. There’s also some work for disabled kids to be found, you could also find a role in your field if it’s a high demand field potentially. Also Icelandic in just not expected of people since it’s hard to learn so I wouldn’t worry about that.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 3 weeks ago:
Little higher is a bit of an understatement.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 3 weeks ago:
I’m from Iceland, if you go study in Iceland you’re guaranteed Northern lights. If you buddy up with someone with a car you can see plenty of sights since Icelanders in Reykjavik don’t go out too much but are very often up to going out to the country. If you like camping Iceland has amazing camping grounds, mornings are cold but camp sites have often heated kitchens and hot showers. Requires a tent, sleeping bag and inflatable mattress and a car.
Easter uni break is a whole week, budget for renting a car with other students who are staying in Iceland to go to more distant places.
Downside is that is pretty expensive, especially compared to Hungary. Hungary has shit rail but Flixbus can get you anywhere you want with less money and comfort.
Both very good options.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 4 weeks ago:
No anime on the list means they’re just uncultured.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 1 month ago:
Next topic: When and when not to pronounce a consonant as schwa /ə/.
Spoiler: It depends
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 month ago:
Latin American Spanish might disagree so both sin and thin pass. Book came out before the languages split after all.
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 1 month ago:
Ah, improper keming
- Comment on Is this true? 1 month ago:
Why not both? -your average dark souls enjoyer
- Comment on Buying new trends is a choice 2 months ago:
Gaming industry collapse doesn’t sound good, I’ve been liking indie games a lot.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 2 months ago:
Not gonna deny it. I’m very happy that at my company we’re good enough to do the code gatekeeping so the code doesn’t become shit. Judging from a bunch of devs I’ve worked with they’ll write themselves into a corner using AI at the speed of sound instead of asking for help on how to restructure.
- Comment on Reform UK unveils massive £50bn welfare overhaul to scrap PIP 2 months ago:
This reminds me of when the government cut benefit payments for at home caretakers so it pushed a lot of people to get services that are waaay more expensive.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 2 months ago:
My take is that right now we’re in a software building boom. Making software is a lot cheaper now but maintaining software not as much. I think programmer numbers right now have flatlined but will probably grow in the future as we write more software.
Pivoting to trades is a much safer choice and healthcare will be a guaranteed job security because of demographic changes.
- Comment on Would hammering websites on black Friday actually cost companies money? 2 months ago:
Without some proper security issue to take advantage of such as a very intense custom search and automating it with a script to spam it while cycling IP addresses you’ll not get anywhere.
A single person doing something expected continuously is unlikely to be able to spend $1 of capacity at pretty much any website.
If you want to make a dent you need to aim for around 100k small requests a second that actually hit the database and not just cache.
The issue is that if you want something they can’t cache you have to be logged in, but if you’re logged in you can be blocked. You could target small/medium businesses but that’s probably not the ones you’re after.
- Comment on Those damned leftists!!!1!! 2 months ago:
It’s not far off from the time I was living with a gay throuple and one other in a 100m2 apartment.
- Comment on Time for therapy 2 months ago:
If my kid does something cool I do a “impressed” face
- Comment on Time for therapy 2 months ago:
As an autistic person I used something similar to learn how to smile.
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 2 months ago:
I agree, I’m used to the opposite now but “pulling on the content” like you do with smart phones makes more sense.
- Comment on The kids are alright 2 months ago:
Just tried it, it can go in and out without touching because I have a big mouth.
- Comment on Guys Did I Get Scammed? 2 months ago:
Security code / 3D secure is not mandatory. It’s in theory enough to make a purchase but will be flagged for potentially fraud very often.
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 2 months ago:
This is what I stay on Lemmy for
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 2 months ago:
That one would be almost impossible to beat unless you recognise the the boom/bust cycle. It sounds interesting