Fermion

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[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The nearest Best Buy didn't have any headset demos. Maybe I should check one closer to downtown. My closest Best Buy has been retrofitted to be mostly fulfillment center now. The product displays are a bit on the meager side.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wish there was a place where I could try before buying.

I tried an occulus dev kit a long time ago which made me horribly nauseous. I know vr has come a long way since then so I'd love to see if the improvements are sufficient to make it usable for me now or if I'm just doomed to motion sickness with goggle displays.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scrolls were better for hiding stuff, cmv.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a lot of professors who put most of the grade weight on large projects. It made for a very heavy workload, but projects/ papers give a much better picture of how capable someone is of not only reciting knowledge, but also applying it.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

If you can grow some of the smaller varieties at home you might like them better. The bigger the melon, the more diluted the flavor seems to be.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I rented a Nissan that would scream at you for deviating from a lane. I couldn't turn it off fast enough. Driving on a small winding road was constant false positives. Even on the highways, faded and repainted lines was throwing false positives. It was more of a distraction than a help. When driving in an unfamiliar city I didn't need the car distracting me with its disfunction.

Turning it off was buried deep in a menu that was not convenient to find. There would be no way to quickly or safely toggle it on and off as conditions vary.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The results page the article is referencing is shorter to read.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/partial-automation-safeguards

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

750W is the idle draw.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Rada makes some pretty decent metal spatulas if you want specific recommendations.

The blade part is way thinner than plastic spatulas. Now that I'm used to the stainless steel ones, I feel clumsy and inept when I have to use someone else's nylon spatula.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a little hyperbolic. There's a lot of mechanics at play in generating microplastics. Fabrics have microscopically thin strands of plastics. It should be no surprise that rubbing up against thousands of tiny strands every time we move and wash synthetic fabric clothes releases many tiny particles. Plus clothes have to deal with UV degradation making the plastic more brittle.

The plastic components in an RO system should be specced to not leach plasticizers. They should have smooth walls and laminar flow. There shouldn't be much to abrade the plastic surfaces and shed particles. They may not be perfect, but water from an RO system will have orders of magnitude fewer microplastics. So an RO system still "does something about it."

We do need to address the problem, but I wouldn't want people to avoid beneficial remediation just because it has some plastic components.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a family member who studies fish at a post doc level. He had to learn a bunch of calculus and statistical analysis just to be able to actually make use of the data they collect. Anyone who wants to design and publish research has to have a pretty good grasp of a lot of math.

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