Eiri

joined 9 months ago
[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

You mean, beep when they're finished?

Many microwaves have a semi-hidden feature to mute all sounds. Usually involves long-pressing one of the number buttons.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I also don't understand it in the slightest.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Poiluevre? Wow I didn't know that.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I meant getting elected. As for old people voting, you have a point, but if old people's views don't matter at all, then you can easily imagine a world where policy doesn't care about them, which might be dangerous.

I just wish we had fewer old people. It sounds like I'm arguing for a purge... But I just mean I wish our birth rates were stable instead of going all boom-and-bust.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The world would be so much better off if you just couldn't be elected after a certain age.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Could a similar meme be made between distributions?

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, sure, I learned with Adobe products, but I also think the UX in Photoshop is pretty annoying.

I'm not sure it's that easy to determine which one is objectively the better app. There are too many subjective factors.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Been a while since I've tried to use it for anything serious myself but recently I tried to just crop an SVG that had random extra empty space in its canvas and it was an adventure. I think I gave up after 20 minutes and gave it back to the designer who has an Illustrator license

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Looking forward to giving it a try. If it's more user friendly than Inkscape and less costly than Illustrator, I'm in.

 

Crap steel?! What an opportunity. I just must give them all my bank details.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Well i mean we're talking houses here, not record-breaking high-rise buildings.

As for issues with structural wood... Tbh they're pretty rare. Probably more common than, say, the steel in your walls rusting or something, but still, not to a worrisome degree.

The main one is insects. Water (leading to mould) is also a thing but water infiltrations are terrible news no matter the material so...

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (10 children)

What makes wood unfit for structure? I don't know much about buildings, but it looks pretty strong and flexible to me?

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (18 children)

But like, what's the structure of the house made out of? I can't imagine the structural bits can be made out of bricks?

 

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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