Eq0

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Big Math comes knocking: “you mean Big Physics?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Keeping the floor dusted removes overall dust everywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are insane and I like that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one like that, it’s so dumb it had to go at random and often loses the way back home. I assume they still exist. The technology has definitely improved and you can jail break most of them. Last I brought was a little spy bot, honestly, but with some attention you can either overwrite the software (and keep the physical improvements) or block it from accessing the internet. [details figures out by my partner]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since that’s something you care about, I will offer an out of topic advice: robot vacuums (in general: vacuuming a lot) decreases the amount of dusting you end up doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twinkle twinkle little star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I will add my own story. Woman, in STEM, I mostly don’t care about what I wear, but sometimes I want to rock it just because. Put on make up, do my nails, wear a skirt. I kept that out of the office until I moved to a department with a flourishing gay community. If they can wear nail polish and skirts, so can I! I’m still usually the only woman in any given room.

  As a counterpoint, for a while I was the fanciest dressing person of the department because none of my T-shirts had holes 😒 also got told, jokingly, to not overdo it the one time I wore a shirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twinkle twinkle little star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you go in a field in which everyone wears short shorts and you get stared at if you don’t?

  Would you “not mind” if your company dress code (for a well paired white collar job) is pink shirt with orange blazer?

  Make it absurd and flip it to yourself. Suddenly, you want to wear “normal clothes” but you stick out like a sore thumb if you do. Would you feel comfortable? Day in, day out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a girl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I spin my partner, we match hips and my face is somewhere between their shoulder blades

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a girl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner is almost 2m tall. The have often complained that their size easily scares people off. I’m sorry about the anxiety. It sucks.

  I believe the world is better with you in it. If you want to chat, I’m available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a girl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can be the little spoon even when you are much taller than your partner ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Troubleshooting is such a big one! Like, you should be able to distinguish between a “I can fix it” issue, a “somebody can fix it” issue and a “my computer burned to the ground” situation… and act accordingly. I’m also okay with the first option being very limited! But please Google your problem until you vaguely understand what’s wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday update from the Prime Radiant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might give it another try, the first time around I found it forced and bland. Like Asimov tried to connect pieces that were not meant to connect, while not having a lot of inspiration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday update from the Prime Radiant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t like it :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great read, exactly what I experienced. On the other hand, we also really want to think about what knowledge is really important. Is knowing the difference between Internet and World Wide Web necessary? Or is programming in a random language? Knowledge is power, but there is just so much you can learn. Starting knowing that you don’t know and it’s not magic is, to me, already a great step, because from there you can learn. Expecting everything to be prepackaged is instead a very passive approach, and that should be discouraged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From the educators perspective, they get a lot more brain rot. They dropped in in-person socialization, long and medium term concentration and literacy of any type. I haven’t heard any positives yet… but I also fear that with every year, I am getting closer to the trope of “back in my days”-shake walking cane. So, hopefully someone comes to tell me I’m missing something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday update from the Prime Radiant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personal favorites: Caves of Steel and The Currents of Space.

  Obviously, the main Foundation trilogy is a glorious space opera, but I sometimes feel its writing is a bit too dry. It almost feels like ready a piece of theatre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a bit about teaching about computers/programming to kids in the first years of high school. Their understanding of anything computer is abysmal. They have grown up with smartphones and maybe tablet, never were able to tinker with anything. Even just what internet is was confusing to them. It had to be reframed as “when can you watch youtube” for it to make sense…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hate myself and i want to die lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t we likely play a significant role in the extinction of megafauna all over the world much sooner than that?

  Amazing topic!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hate myself and i want to die lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how you summed up at least 75% of science. I’m in this picture and… I have mixed feelings!

  Just because I’m a pedantic little academic: if you know how your data is crap, you can make an extra shiny model that doesn’t give only crap outputs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just FYI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Urgh! I rarely encountered it, but the need to tiptoe around (some) men’s who makes my skin crawl…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon does well in school⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t talk about Heinlein’s education, but my grandmother’s one was based almost exclusively in rote memorization. She “knew Greek” as in she could remember by heart sections of Greek texts and their translation. Same for Latin. History was learning by heart lists of kings, date of birth/coronation/death, but fairly little in depth understanding. Nowadays the focus in ancient languages in learning their culture and to translate, for history is learning not only dates but reasons and connections between elements.

  We also care way more about having the same education for everyone, that was really no concern a century ago. Each school was doing whatever they wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone has a phase⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! You go in with negative expectations, and end up pretty surprised!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone has a phase⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Lost City of D is a masterpiece in light weirdness definitely highlighted by Harry Potter popping up and messing things up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know one snippet of my father in law. Is it really sufficient for you to judge the whole man? I sure hope never to be judged so harshly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my case, they are overall nice and caring people with, sometimes, a bit of a blind spot. I was very glad when they came around on the climate change issue, that was the only sore spot between us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This gives me flashbacks to the one time in my life I really wanted to answer “okay boomer”

  My father in law was supporting the claim the climate change might exist, but it’s nothing we have to concern ourselves about because it’s going to take decades to do anything.

  And I was like: you have grandkids, they will be there in decades! And: you just experienced the first drought of your country, how is that not climate change??

  After half an hour going in rounds I gave up and bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship. Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild Robot!

  I cried so hard watching it. Told a friend, they lightly made fun of me but accepted the suggestion. They cried the whole movie too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Organic Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I misunderstood. Yeah, that’s common, but not a choice, they are different types of positions, with different fundings usually. You can’t switch between them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Organic Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of being able to choose