Eiri

joined 5 months ago
[–] Eiri 7 points 5 hours ago

Better late than never to not encourage an exploitative employer, I guess.

[–] Eiri 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm Canadian, but... Fruit, I guess. Some fruit we get from places like Greece, Spain or Italy, both canned and fresh. We could live without them, but surely there'd be moments in the year when we couldn't get fresh peaches, for example, at the supermarket, without European imports.

But it's not a majority. We get quite a bit from South America, North Africa, and, astonishingly, as far as South Africa, too.

Though there isn't much else. It's rarely worth it to import food from another rich country, all the way across the ocean, in today's world.

Though interestingly, I bought "canned" soup (actually packaged in a plastic bag) that came from Lithuania, of all places.

[–] Eiri 2 points 2 days ago

Get away; it's about to explode!

[–] Eiri 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's good and all but man is that person a big fan of aria properties.

To be clear, they're not bad, but they're a little brute-forcey. There's often a way to achieve the same purpose without them.

For instance, instead of aria-pressed with buttons, you can just use radio buttons and labels. And your can just put heading elements in your sections instead of naming them with aria properties.

[–] Eiri 7 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Huh? I thought having no valid moves that wouldn't lead to the king's death was a loss. How DO you lose then?

[–] Eiri 85 points 3 days ago (48 children)

I don't get it

[–] Eiri 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Survive. So cold. Such a bad night of sleep. Ugh. I hate mornings like this.

[–] Eiri 3 points 3 days ago

On my app I just see the tildes.

[–] Eiri 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Isn't that true, all other things being equal?

[–] Eiri 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, but if the acceleration is gradual, shouldn't it be fine?

Or are you referring to the constant centripetal acceleration felt by the object as it's spinning?

Man is physics class far away

[–] Eiri 1 points 4 days ago

Oof, self-driving cars are crap. Not looking forward to busses. But are car manufacturers really the same ones that make public transportation vehicles?

[–] Eiri 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What prevents them from doing exactly that?

Lots of (all?) satellites have propulsion systems to make orbit adjustments anyway. Is it that complicated to bolster them a bit for that purpose?

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Discovering new communities (self.lemmy_support)
submitted 4 months ago by Eiri to c/[email protected]
 

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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