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New comment by cannonpr in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

cannonpr — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:17:11 +0000

Considering the very traditional issues they had with the demagogues… I don’t think they would find anything about our social media surprising at all.

New comment by cannonpr in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

cannonpr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:35:03 +0000

Is his experience really that peculiar? He obviously picks an apartment that meets his comfort level, but apartments go through cycles of deterioration and repair, and staying at a static level of quality is economically very difficult at most market segments, given the industry’s engineering choices. So he selects an acceptable starting point and then watches it deteriorate below that. Eventually the apartment drops too low for its market segment and undergoes partial remanufacture; the cycle then repeats until something not easily repairable wears out, at which point it shifts market segment entirely. This loop usually continues until the whole building is remanufactured, unless it’s of historical significance.

New comment by cannonpr in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

cannonpr — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:33:01 +0000

Fair question, though it assumes citizenships are simple things you “use,” which you either need or don’t. They’re not. People attach all sorts of baggage, duties, and rights to them. Mine are a mix of ancestry, residence, and ones I helped my spouse with. They’re not things I “need,” they’re just where my family and life have been. European family trees often produce this. The original point still stands: even when you’re entitled to a citizenship, actually obtaining the documents takes real time and money.

New comment by cannonpr in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

cannonpr — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:04:00 +0000

It’s not automatic, it requires applying and at times can take years of proving in terms of paperwork, that is by definition not automatic. I have personal experience with the Greek, German, and Italian systems, prepare your self for 1-2 years to gain it even if you have rights to it.

New comment by cannonpr in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

cannonpr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:10:04 +0000

Wanting to play Leisure suit Larry and space text adventure games properly was when I finally “cracked” English, after that I become rapidly fluent. However I feel like it didn’t do my sense of humour any favours.

New comment by cannonpr in "Jumping into cold water can stop your heart"

cannonpr — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:17:45 +0000

I’ve been swimming both winter and summer since 1ish years old though less so post 30’s due to locale, and I’ve never had much of an issue with gasping with cold water impact, sure there is an urge but I’ve always suppressed it without issue. Yet literature is adamant you can’t ? I wonder if it’s habituation or just a biological quirk.

New comment by cannonpr in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

cannonpr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:05:45 +0000

While I can understand the sentiment, it should be expressed with less vulgarity, and frankly, workers should show more solidarity to one another, not because of “deserving it” or not, but simply because it’s the only way out of the pit they put us in. Otherwise we are forever dragging each other back in.

New comment by cannonpr in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

cannonpr — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:20:40 +0000

From a mechanical perspective ip68 is perfectly achievable mechanically and watches have been achieving it for a long time, however… with what sort of margins for the manufacturer and what sort of cost for the consumer ? Additionally a lot of them require pretty carefully adherence to instructions torques and tolerances to achieve the same waterproof rating. Personally I’d be very happy to have a phone that says, if you swap the battery you might lose the ip68 rating unless you follow the resealing process within tolerances.

New comment by cannonpr in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

cannonpr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:44:52 +0000

Petroleum diesel and jet fuel degrade via oxidation, hydrocarbons react with oxygen to form gums, varnishes, and sediments. Biocontent does accelerate degradation but without additives most diesels will be severely degraded at most in 12 months. That’s before we get into water contamination and fun things like Cladosporium resinae.

New comment by cannonpr in "Golden eagles' return to English skies"

cannonpr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:57 +0000

The red kites are fun, I do enjoy seeing them and they are a great addition to biodiversity. However they also on occasion bring a packed lunch (see pigeon) to my garden, upon which time I either have to watch a somewhat horrifying nature documentary live, or in some cases they just leave an injured pigeon that I get guilt tripped into patching up and rehabilitating… I’m somewhat split about the situation…

New comment by cannonpr in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

cannonpr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:02:53 +0000

Because it’s one of many events that violates our belief in our selves more than the nature of human society and man as a social animal based on studies of what we actually are.

New comment by cannonpr in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

cannonpr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:43:30 +0000

It can look bad, but this is just an aspect of human behavior en masse that we don’t normally get to see. A long time ago there was an incident on a military base. A man had gotten up on a building to commit suicide, and while the officers tried to convince him not to jump, the drafted soldiers gathered underneath and started chanting “jump, jump” because of a rule that said witnessing the suicide of a fellow soldier cut down their draft length. Anyway, point being, situations where group A can benefit by harming group B are always problematic with large groups of people. The internet has produced novel and worse things than this.

New comment by cannonpr in "Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way"

cannonpr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:33:21 +0000

So to a large extent I appreciate that argument, however I feel this applied more to throwaway comments or sales outreach, writing with low information density. In this occasion the work that went into it is a lot, it would be lost or inaccessible to me otherwise, I am genuinely grateful someone stuck their work in an LLM, said tidy this up to post, and hit enter.

New comment by cannonpr in "Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way"

cannonpr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:17:03 +0000

Because it contains information of value to you ? I mean if it doesn’t, just don’t read it.

New comment by cannonpr in "3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide"

cannonpr — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:32:28 +0000

No, I am just buying import Japanese jeans from the folk that bought all of the original high quality jeans making machines when the Americans moved to the flexi stuff, the jeans I buy last with next to no damage for 10-15 years despite near daily wear. I will grant you that I am paying a premium for both import, and a particular quality of fabric, but honestly I look like farmer Joe mostly.

New comment by cannonpr in "3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide"

cannonpr — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:09:59 +0000

A “quality” jacket in the 1930s would cost 300-400$ or more inflation adjusted, it would also look less fashionable today, and feel somewhat less comfortable due to several concessions for durability in design. A durable quality jacket back then was also holding a majority market position, rather than being a niche good, which means that “quality clothes” do still seem to exist, but I’m always looking at 500-600$ for durable jeans or coats.

New comment by cannonpr in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

cannonpr — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:30:45 +0000

The problem is most data shows PTFE as having significant pyrolysis after 400-500c in reality it starts to break down enough to poison you around 260c. In general though under those temperatures it’s not particularly problematic, ofcourse ideally we should just never make the stuff to begin with as it’s manufacture and its eventual breakdown are both horrible for everyone.

New comment by cannonpr in "C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)"

cannonpr — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:54:40 +0000

Having just finished renovating a 140-year-old home with solid brick walls that was slowly collapsing and deteriorating due to the aforementioned professionals’ application of modern and chemically incompatible materials to it… I’m not sure I agree. It’s also why a lot of the UK’s building stock is slowly rotting with black mould right now. Literally none of the professionals I hired, before I trained them, knew how to properly repair a type of home that represents 30% of the UK building stock.

New comment by cannonpr in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

cannonpr — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:13:28 +0000

I’m afraid we tried that for quite a few centuries, with very little effect. Infact most major world religions had phases with heavy punishment, condemnation, belittling, and you are going to hell stuff over gambling. Yet here we are.

New comment by cannonpr in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

cannonpr — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:27:36 +0000

“Degenerate gamblers” is the kind of stigma that stops people and their families getting help for addiction. Even if you believe it’s a moral failing, the families deserve better.