ForgotAboutDre

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The torque better not be too strong with this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their isn’t one way to make a flat head screwdriver. Some a chisel and some are slots. The slotted ones are better but more expensive.

  Both still slip from the screw and are a pain to manually screw (slotted less so).

  Pozi is the best + type screw. It’s pretty much standard for UK construction. The only time a different type is used is sometimes Phillips for plaster board or external hex and internal torx for long or large screws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Head and shoulders has anti-fungal properties. That may have been the source of your smelling problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s a choice that’s been made not to. The same people peddling this narrative are the ones that push the ideology that lead to the reduction in the government capability to provide services like health care and housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mac isn’t UNIX based, it is UNIX and comes with many of the UNIX tools a user would expect. Completely different situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They charge as much as they can and have for a long time. They would still do it if they made lots of money from albums and streams.

  What’s changed is the secondary market is controlled by the primary ticket sellers and they have better awareness of how much they can charge. People expectation of ticket prices has slowly changed and the prices always push at that.

  Dynamic pricing exists now because it’s easier to implement. Not because the artists don’t have enough money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to get a good read on these things. You’ll only see the perspective of the person that thinks they were cheated by the IRS. The IRS won’t make Reddit posts about people carrying out tax evasion.

  Likewise you say the IRS dont think it’s a business. They probably carry out much stricter measures than that. Probably much stricter than the people complaining on Reddit. The people complaining also only “think” it’s a business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t much sugar in brains, so their teeth may last longer than the average alive human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you have to pay for online privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enough people pay or concede their privacy. The people that avoid it were already using ad blockers and not making them any money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its subsidies that keep it cheep. Producing beef doesn’t provide free milk. Typically different varieties of cattle are used for dairy and beef. But dairy cows may end up in low grade beef - except when they are put to pasture after their useful life and given a year to rest (this beef is more expensive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crystals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Placebos is measurement error, not effectiveness. People that believe something works are more likely to report improvements when taking that medication irrespective of its effectiveness. Placebo effect is just misreporting, noise or unaccounted phenomena. It’s literally how we define something doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crystals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Placebos don’t work. It’s a common misconception. Placebo effect is the error in measuring not any actual effect. It’s literally the barrier we use to define effective and non effective.

  Anyone claiming they have something that provides a placebo effect to help is fraudulent or ignorant.

  In the UK it is illegal to proscribe placebos. Because they don’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People advocating for teaching of personal finance and taxes in schools were always the ones not paying attention.

  I know this because I’ve seen them say that, I’ve also seen them not pay attention when the topic was addressed when they were in high school. Many of these topics are mandatory in Scottish High schools and have been for most millennials and younger.

  Anyone that can comprehend the most basic algebra and statistics a secondary education would give you can understand taxes and finance from free accessible websites/library books. Best practices for personal finance and tax laws may change, so your likely to have to learn some of it again. It’s vital schools provide the more abstract but timeless skills of maths, reasoning, reading and comprehension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miracle cures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didnt bother reading the second since the first was blatantly misleading.

  The second looks like they’re trying to p hack hack their way to a result.

  They also have more relapses in the curicumin group in the second 6 month period than the control group. They also have enough people leaving the control group to cause a shift in their p value to make their results insignificant.

  The second papers findings are weak and they aren’t very robust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miracle cures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The evidence is much better for SSRI, and it isn’t great, but the referred paper even points out that the curriculum wasn’t as effective as an SSRI.

  The meme remains true, no proper or valid studies exist. The existence of a paper doesn’t prove that, the paper is self addresses it wasn’t a proper study. They just did it in a dishonest way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miracle cures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This study is absolutely terrible.

  The study found no differences in the first four weeks. More than 10% dropped out during the study. The study was too small a sample to draw any serious conclusions from. The conclusions they did draw from were a subsample of people they declared treatment resistant. They even say in the paper their isn’t enough data to suggest their was any benefit, just not forcefully enough. Just enough to make low information readers think the study was successful.

  This study was done in response to two other studies. One which showed no benefit another that suggested a benefit, but the study lacked a control group. So no meaningful conclusion could be drawn.

  Finally the researchers were funded by ‘health supplement’ groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miracle cures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The placebo effect doesn’t help. It’s just noise in the data collection process. It’s particularly problematic with human trials that rely on subjective evidence. Humans have a bias that actions have effects, even when they don’t (gamblers blowing on dice, wishing on a star etc).

  Any intervention will have people think that the outcome has changed because of the intervention. This doesn’t mean the placebo effect helped, it just altered the recorded outcome. If it was a device was used to make the measurement, rather than human opinion, we just call it noise/error.

  It’s a common misconception that the placebo effect does something. It does nothing other than artificially increase subjective measurements. Placebo effect is stronger in very subjective medical conditions such as pain, shiny packaging and brand names are reported to provide greater pain relief. Such medicines are so tightly regulated the formulation and supply leaves very little opportunity for medicines to actually have an effect. You don’t see the same effect when it comes to reducing the size of cancer tumours or altering directly measurable quantities.

  Doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe placebos in the UK. Because it’s dangerous and a source of corruption. Such as King Charles selling homeopathic services to the NHS. Doctors do recommend such services, they do this primarily to dismiss patients and their issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google will know. They gather all WiFi and Bluetooth data in the name of location services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Android defaults to lying about your Mac address, which can be frustrating if you want to manage your home network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Military and intelligence services are bothered by China. The government not so much. The conservatives are happy to sell our nuclear and communication infrastructure to China. It was the backlash in the media that made them change course.

  The British government agreed to allow China to work on nuclear power stations in the UK, it was the intelligence service that made them reduce Chinas access to its design and operation.

  This is the same government that stopped the EU from restricting cheap Chinese steel into the EU (prior to Brexit). Recently the UK closed one of its major steel manufacturers. We can only recycle steel in the UK now.

  Steels needed for boats and tanks. Especially if a land war in Europe broke out, or a naval war in the Pacific.

  The conservatives are weak on all advertising. The shear amount of gambling adverts in the UK are abysmal. As well as direct marketing to children for high strength vapes. We nearly got rid of nicotine addiction in young people, it’s was falling significantly prior to vapes being allowed to advertise to children. They don’t care, they’ll sell anything to the highest bidder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They made an Irvine Welsh detective drama series called Crime. This was excellent. It does seem like most of their dramas are overdone police/detective shows. Crime had great writing and dark humour. But I don’t think it would have been picked up by ITV if it wasn’t a police drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no validation process, even for BBC iPlayer. They ask for a postcode because the regional content within the UK is locked to different countries and regions (ITVX content is on STV player in Scotland).

  There isn’t a way for them to check your TV licence on ITVX. Even then a TV licence is only required if you watch the livestream broadcasts on the app. If you watch catch-up, streamed but not live broadcasts, a TV licence isn’t required except for BBC iPlayer. An IP address outside the UK isn’t likely to work either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨military industrial publishing complex⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The articles published to the journal. That’s where the peer review happens. The university will then host a copy of the published paper with open access. The university doesn’t peer review this, it just provides the hosting. Often the motivation for doing this is compliance with open access. Many areas have well regarded journals that authors want to publish in that are closed, but the research is funded on the condition of open access.

  These papers hosted by the university may have different formatting, but will have the same content. They are often harder to find as the references will be to the same paper published in the journal. Some paper search engines will include links to the university’s free access page, but you often have to search separately on a general purpose search engine to find that copy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨military industrial publishing complex⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this once. They wouldn’t give me a copy, I didn’t push it because they were retired and did try to give me advice about contacting librarians to add the journal to their subscription.

  I do imagine your people publishing more recent work would be more open to sharing their work.

  For anyone else seeing this the university of the author often also publishes their papers free access. Even when the journal the paper is published in is paywalled. So it’s worth checking that. This is especially the case if the work was funded by bodies that require open access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The metric system uses a similar principle. 1 liter is a kg of water. It’s just named better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before all phones were phablets, a tablet was a good middle ground between phone and laptop. Especially for casual browsing and media not having a keyboard in the way and the better battery life was a real benefit to sofa computing.

  Now we are seeing phones encroach on 7 inches, what would have been a small tablet a decade ago their use case has dwindled. Now they are a laptop alternatives or child minders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The iPhone was a big departure from smartphones. They used a better touch screen technology, one that was more responsive without a stylus. They also made innovations in how a touch screen would be interacted with. They then packaged it up into a sellable product. They were the ones that figured out the UX of device. The concept existed before, but it wasn’t a product that could sell because the UX of touch screens was so bad.

  All the other smartphone manufacturers followed apples change. Android was completely reconfigured when it launched.

  As far as consumer Innovations its one of the biggest. It ended feature phones and all other types of smartphones. They connected it to the iPod jumping the product category from business user/professional only to everyone. It wasn’t that it was fashionable, it was that it was useable that lead to their success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooooooooooooooooooot⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydro power uses running water not hot water.

  Squeezing can be converter to electricity with pizeo electric. Heat difference can be converted into electric directly with peltier devices. Both of these are very inefficient ways to make electricy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World first UK prototype could pave the way for constant energy all the time - from space | Science & Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The higher up you are the longer it takes for the sun to set so you get a longer day. You can see more of the earth. Or the earth appears smaller, so is less likely to be blocking the sun. The higher you go the easier it is to always be able to point at the sun.

  A geostationary orbit has a 42, 000 km radius, the earth has a 6000 km radius. It’s like looking at a 30 cm ball from 2.1 m meters away. Not much will be obscured from your view. It like a ball on the floor at the opposite end of a room, you would expect it to block the view out the window.

  There may be times when the sun is eclipsed by the earth, but this will be infrequent. If the satellite isn’t in the same plane as the earth and sun, then this will be unlikely. The UK is relatively far north. So the satellite would be looking ‘over’ the earth during night to see the sun. The satellite would only be a small fraction of it total distance to the sun further away at night. So the power generation impact will be minimal. The elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun would be a bigger factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨acceptable screws⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a common misconception. Phillips was not supposed to solve over torquing. It was designed to allow higher torques, stop slipping and self centre. It was only really good at self centering.

  A screw designed to stop it being over toqured is a terrible idea. The screw should be smaller to prevent if higher torque is needed. If over torque is an issue then reducing the power to the driver is a much better solutio (easily done in industrial setting Phillips was designed for). You can also reduce the size of the screwdriver supplied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨acceptable screws⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Posidrive is very common in the UK. Especially in trades. They are so common screwdriver sets will include posi and slotted with no Philips. Philips is still common in electronics.

  Posidrive is much better than Phillips, but just as easy to quickly screw lots of things. Torx and hex take longer to align and have many more sized drive ends. Posidrive has three sizes and 90% of them are number 2. But if you need more torque then they are no good. But at that point you need to switch to a different tool like an impact or wrench.

  A washing machine I recently had to repair had three different sizes of torx and it isn’t obvious which one till you test fit. Posidrive is easy to identify the size by eye and many different screw diameters share the same posi head. Coupled with self alignment they are just more convenient. I have Robertson bits from multipacks but never needed them.