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howrar ,

Just make it an acronym, P.O.

Maybe double up to make it sound cute

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(Meta) So many questions here are not open ended. Does anyone care?

There are a significant amount of questions here that do not follow the criteria in the sidebar, especially “1. Open-ended question” and “5. An actual topic of discussion”. It seems some folks want others to do research for them, or to troubleshoot some random issue....

howrar ,

Lemmy needs the ability for mods to move posts between communities. There’s plenty of posts that would make for great discussions but that are not where they should be. Moving them would make more sense than shutting them down altogether.

howrar ,

With notifications going to the OP?

howrar ,

Ah shit, the Oral-B one? It’s the only floss that I can get between my teeth. :(

howrar ,

A tax on bulk purchases of plastic may end up being passed down to consumers

Which is how it should be. The cost is being paid either way. It’s either the consumer that pays, or we all pay for it.

How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude?

So awkward, but come on it says right there on the package to wash those mushrooms or whatever it is… You’re not their mom but you don’t wanna eat feces or whatever ended up on the produce. A quick rinse is never going to be perfect but it’s better than nothing....

howrar ,

I’ve never had a problem with this, raw or cooked. The insides of my washed mushrooms are always dry.

howrar ,

It doesn’t matter if they actually absorb water or not. Just try the mushrooms side by side, washed and unwashed. Decide based on what you prefer.

howrar ,

That relies on you being able to acquire this C4 without the authorities noticing and putting a stop to it.

howrar ,

Also for deciding when to retire or how much money you can/should spend to maximally enjoy your life.

howrar ,

This again assumes you can successfully pull this off. Get into an accident on your way to the woods and get paralyzed from the neck down? Too bad, you live now. Crazy cousin has a sudden moment of clarity, recognizes the insanity of what you’re doing, then has you committed to an asylum? Too bad, you live. Spend a few hours toiling to set up your contraption, collapse in a puddle of exhaustion, then have a change of heart because why the duck are you putting so much work into trying to off yourself? Well, then you live.

howrar ,

I don’t think you understand how hypotheticals work. When someone says “suppose X happens”, it doesn’t means X can or will happen. They’re asking you to imagine a scenario where it does happen. How the rules of the universe changes to allow it to happen can be up to you, and there’s many ways that you do it, but some will lead to more interesting thought experiments than others. You proposed a rule change where knowing when/how you die with absolute certainty means being immune to all harm until that point. I don’t think that’s a very interesting scenario to think about, so I proposed an alternative that is closer to how our universe actually world and can simply be explained by very good (or bad, depending on perspective) luck.

howrar ,

We really need to place more value on publishing negative results, reproductions, or even just raw data when you can’t conclude anything from them. I don’t know how to make that happen yet, but it’ll solve a lot of these problems.

howrar ,

I’m pretty sure credit card companies already take care of preventing and reversing fraudulent transactions free of charge.

howrar ,

It’s still a thing, but it’s a multigenerational process.

howrar ,

I’ve had the opposite experience myself. Protein shakes keep me full for about as long as water. Protein rich whole foods are much more satiating for the same quantity of protein.

howrar ,

200g of spinach sounds like a very reasonable amount for a single meal. I don’t see the problem here.

howrar ,

That’s like saying ibuprofen is snake oil because it doesn’t cure headaches. No one is taking it with the expectation of a cure. It’s just meant to help manage the problem.

howrar ,

Spinach has a lot more than just vitamin k, and so does everything else you eat. It would do you some good to actually record what you eat on an average day and take a look at their total nutritional content. A varied diet consisting of mostly whole foods will almost guarantee that you meet your daily needs. If your particular diet doesn’t, this exercise would reveal where the holes are. I’m willing to bet it’s a lot easier to patch up then you think.

Also, it seems that you only need 25g of spinach to reach your daily needs. That’s a ridiculously tiny amount of spinach. Considering that vitamin K is fat-soluble and can be stored, a single 200g meal of spinach will satisfy your vitamin k needs for over a week.

Sources: USDA says spinach has 483µg of vitamin K per 100g spinach. Health Canada recommends 120µg of vitamin K per day for an adult male. FDA also uses 120µg for the purposes of nutrition labels.

howrar ,

The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.

Same type of work, sure, but the fruits of their labour are going towards shareholders. The point of public work is that it’s for the public good.

howrar ,

I feel like if anything has the right to be ridiculously expensive, it’s art.

  • It’s not a necessity for survival.
  • It’s not a necessity to live a fulfilling life.
  • There’s so much else available to us that can fulfill the same purpose that are cheap/free.
  • A one time $435 cost feels a lot more expensive than lots of small purchases adding up to the same amount, meaning this is more likely to be purchased exclusively by people who can actually afford it, unlike the latter which can trick people into spending more than they can afford.
  • It funds free entertainment for everyone who don’t have the ability to pay.

What’s the downside?

howrar ,

Worse than what they’ve been doing for the last decade? It seems to me like this is a better state of things because it’s clearly a lot of money for one big purchase, so you know immediately that it’s not something you can afford. Better transparency, so less manipulative.

howrar ,

I think I’m missing an important part of your argument here. What are they doing that you consider to be dishonest?

howrar ,

Ah, I see. Though I would call this manipulative, not dishonest.

entities that seems honest are the most secretly dishonest

It’s the converse. By definition, dishonest entities (that are good at what they do) will appear honest.

Definitions aside, let’s go back to my original argument. To rephrase it a bit: A transparently manipulative entity is better than a deceptive and manipulative entity. So why protest the added transparency and not the manipulation?

howrar ,

I don’t think forking Firefox is going to change what you see in the add-on store. You would need someone to run their own store. Or just install the plugin manually.

howrar ,

This is a problem with the add-on store, not the browser. Do the forks have their own add-on stores? Or do they just use the same one that Mozilla provides? To the best of my knowledge, the only forks that have their own stores are the ones that wouldn’t be able to use Firefox plugins anyway (e.g. Palemoon).

howrar ,

You don’t think a country with 20% of the world population and a culture that heavily emphasizes academics is capable of producing anything of scientific value?

howrar ,

I grew up in a multigenerational home. Grandparents spoke one language, my parents spoke another. Used to play with the neighbours a lot and picked up a third language from them. Then started elementary school and learned a fourth there. It seems to work well to have each person in your life exclusively using one language.

howrar ,

But now you have the means to change that with a free $15!

howrar ,

Cooking can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Could it be that you’re having problems because you’re going too far into the complicated end?

If you care to share how things usually go wrong for you, maybe you’ll get some useful tips in return.

howrar ,

Interrogate them if it’s necessary. Until they stop with the “Do as much as you like” and instead instruct you with “Put about a cup of X and about a quarter of Y by volume”. If you got this you are nore prepared for the measure by eye and feel.

I get around this by asking them to make the specifics dish, gathering all the ingredients for them, then weighing everything before and after to get exact numbers.

It really is a matter of “do as much as you like”, but without an intuition on how different ingredients taste and affect the dish at varying quantities, you’re not going to know how much you like. So getting that starting point to experiment with is very important.

howrar ,

The food wouldn’t be in a form factor where they can turn sideways and get lodged in your throat. It’s so unpleasant when that happens.

howrar ,

And also waking up

howrar ,

Maybe an advantage of this setup is that you ensure that your bus factor is high and you’re constantly testing it to make sure it stays high? Kind of like how Netflix uses ChaosMonkey.

howrar ,

You can also check the ingredients. It should have exactly one ingredient, and that’s peanuts. Maybe salt too.

Best way to backup files

I have about 500GB of data (photos, documents, videos etc.) that I have accumulated over the years. Currently, I keep them on my computer and rsync all additions / changes once a month or so to an external hard drive. Do I need to be worried about data loss (sectors going bad, bit rot, bit flip, whatever it is called)?...

howrar ,

It’s always a good idea to have an off-site backup (e.g. in case of fires, robbery, natural disasters, etc). If you prefer to manage them yourself, an option is to find someone else who also needs an off-site backup and exchange disk space. You do your off-site on their machine, and they do theirs on yours. With external HDDs, you can just have someone else hold on to it for you at a different location. You can come up with fancier schemes to reduce the chances of data loss or to make the process simpler if you care to do so.

howrar ,

That wouldn’t communicate that this scratches the same itch as a hotdog made of meat.

howrar ,

The egg is such a small part of mayo that I’m pretty sure it doesn’t contribute any flavour. It’s just there as an emulsifier.

howrar ,

Isn’t the main health concern due to the nitrite from the curing salts? If there’s no meat to cure, there’s no need for curing salts.

TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.

The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!

howrar ,

Is this a good thing? Consuming plastic means releasing all the carbon that they’re made of.

howrar ,

That’s how things work in the AI community. Publications all go through various conferences and journals that are free to submit to. In many of these avenues, if you submit something, the cost is to get a certain number of papers reviewed (not necessarily doing it yourself, but you have to find someone capable of doing it). The publications are then made freely available for anyone to read. Everything is organized by the research community for the benefit of that same community.

howrar ,

It’s also the only viable route to doing science for most people. So even if you’re aware of the problem, you just have to grit your teeth and play the game if you want to pursue your passion.

howrar ,

I’d be surprised if being born with a specific face configuration isn’t protected in the same way that race and gender are.

howrar ,

Treat people well, and people will like you.

howrar ,

My local bakeries use paper bags. But they also don’t sell sliced bread.

howrar ,

Somehow, we manage to accept organ transplants despite it hurting one healthy person a little to help an unhealthy person a lot. What’s stopping us from treating birth control the same way?

howrar ,

A: “Oh hey you got a little choc on the side of your mouth”

B: “Oh, thanks”

B (in their head): “Oh no, how embarrassing. How can I face A again? Time to avoid them for the rest of eternity.”

howrar ,

I don’t do this myself, but I know people who have expressed similar worries.

In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?

With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...

howrar ,

Right, so if that’s the discussion you care about, that’s totally fair. Most researchers I know couldn’t give a rat’s ass what you call it as long as there’s something to call it. I think we’ve all long accepted that no two person will have the same idea of what intelligence means.

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