Eiri

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Honestly even Imperial would help at this point. Clothing sizes, in general, are based on basically clouds and dreams and vary wildly by brand or even by model.

I just wish the world standardized. I don't care how. As long as it's standard.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's wild to me that people just buy the same shoe over and over. I'm not a fashionista by any stretch of the imagination; I just have one, maximum two, pair(s) of footwear per temperature slice, and I don't even have any formal ones.

But even I would want something new, even if my old pair had served me well.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Feels vaguely threatening lol

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

I'm a woman and I was born in the 1990s. I do live in North America though.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 25 points 19 hours ago

The US are just a bad parody of themselves at this point.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone loves Bernie.

But dang it the man is 83. He should be enjoying the last years of his life in retirement. It makes me sad to think he still needs to be working in politics.

He's as old as Trump, who is already too old for this shit, will be at the end of his term.

Maybe there should be a hard limit at 65 or something for politicians. Both to keep out people in whom dementia is clearly starting to appear and to let old people frickin' rest.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I wanted some foreign goods to get more expensive. To end slavery, not to escalate a trade war!

I should have checked my vicinity for any stray monkey's paws when I made that wish.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Upscale it to 4K for no reason

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

A few things:

  • Pretty much all PC prebuilt companies favour glass and RGB, in part because RGB is popular, in part because it makes the system look more expensive, and can help feel like it justifies the costs.
  • Tempered glass, as is used in PC cases, tends to shatter into cubic-ish fragments, not into knife-like shards, like you might be used to with most glass or ceramic items. Having to pick glass shards out of your skin because your PC case broke is extremely unlikely, even if it broke on you.
  • While cases with no windows absolutely exist on the prebuilt market, they generally still have RGB. For example, Dell/Alienware systems.
  • Some cases have two options for the side panel (often along the lines of perforated vs glass) and, in general, if that's the case your prebuilt company is using, they'll ship you the extra panel that came with it with your system. If there's a PC you want that only has glass on the side panel, look into the details of the case itself. It might be one of those.

With all of that said, if I were you, I'd look into prebuilt companies that, in general, have a record of providing quality systems, and then look into turning off the RGB.

For instance:

  • HP/Omen
  • Starforge
  • IBuyPower (although I think it's been a little hit-or-miss over the years? Not sure)
  • Maingear (very expensive though)

You may want to look at Linus Tech Tips and Gamers' Nexus. They both review prebuilts.

LTT does it in the form of their secret shopper series, where they show the experience of a complete newbie buying and getting support through the phone.

Gamers' Nexus purchases individual systems and review them in depth.

Both channels make great content and should help you come to a decision.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I'm a front-end developer. I sometimes need to solve algebra problems. I'm pretty bad at it because I , but my knowledge that a problem is solvable by math comes in handy maybe once or twice a month. It's just that on the few occasions that there's algebra that I can't figure out how to solve (maybe once a year), I may ask for help from a colleague.

Examples of cases where math comes in handy:

  • Pythagoras when I need to figure out the x/y components of a diagonal distance
  • Width/height calculations from a variety of parameters

In summary, as long as you know what math is capable of, you probably won't have major issues. There will pretty much always be someone around to help with the math part if necessary.

As for calculus... I forgot all about the one calculus class I've taken and I've never suffered for it.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh god. I was so focused on Trump I forgot this dimwit came with him as a package deal.

 

One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.

On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.

Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?

 

Sometimes, when I'm really cold, it can take over an hour to warm me up, even with a heating blanket. The quickest solution, a hot shower, feels really inefficient with all the heat going down the drain.

That got me thinking about microwaves. They heat food (partly) from the inside, contrary to simple infrared radiation.

Could we safely do that with people?

I found a Reddit thread where a non-lethal weapon and people getting eye damage because they stayed too long in front of a radar dish.

Could some sort of device be made that would warm specific areas (say, a hand or a leg) without endangering sensitive areas like the eyes?

Would it actually warm someone up from the inside? Would it be possible to make it safe?

Would it present advantages in cases of hypothermia, compared to heated IV fluids?

 

I don't see how it's a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each.

My gut feeling is that the stock market would not suffer, and less resources would be wasted, if trades and updates to stock prices were limited to, say, one batch per hour.

There are probably reasons the system is the way it is though.

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