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New comment by cassac in "One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot"

cassac — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:11:46 +0000

You are right, 100db is only like a motorcycle. As loud as a motorcycle but only 12mm? Not Impressed! Get it together little fish!

New comment by cassac in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

cassac — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:05:32 +0000

The real surprise is that anyone trusted google about anything in the first place.

New comment by cassac in "Git commit messages are useless"

cassac — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:17:12 +0000

Its posts like this that ensure I’ll have a job for years to come. Comments are worthless too, I mean, just read the code!

New comment by cassac in "Record global temperatures and U.S. billion-dollar disasters"

cassac — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:56:38 +0000

I’m curious to how close this tracks with population growth.

New comment by cassac in "3D Printer Auto Bed Leveling Mesh Visualizer"

cassac — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:54:36 +0000

Prusa Link/Connect also has this.

New comment by cassac in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

cassac — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:20:03 +0000

Just like “unlimited vacation.” Whenever someone says it you know there is something going on and you aren’t going to like it.

New comment by cassac in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

cassac — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:17:36 +0000

They also pulled this bait and switch on Universities.

New comment by cassac in "Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths"

cassac — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:09:53 +0000

I think at Disney Worlds Animal Kingdom in the Avatar ride queue they have some pretty cool examples of this. I always wondered how they did it and now I know.

New comment by cassac in "As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit the workforce"

cassac — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:14:13 +0000

I don’t know why anyone would disparage anyone taking care of their own kids. The “workforce” sucks and people should be ashamed they’ve been convinced a “career” is something they should aspire to at all costs. Maybe instead of giving people money to pay for child care they should give people money and just let them stay home and enjoy being with their children.

New comment by cassac in "Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes"

cassac — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:54:22 +0000

I do not know the reference. Is it that people claim the middle lanes are faster?

But I do know that a lot of people across a lot of topics over estimate their ability because they don’t know what they don’t know. Science as a topic isn’t special in this regard.

Jr devs are great examples. Your code is garbage and I am brilliant, just let me change this thing here and OH MY THE SYSTEM IS BROKE PLEASE HELP ME! Intermediate knowledge and negative attitudes.

New comment by cassac in "Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes"

cassac — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:15:34 +0000

Intermediate [insert topic here] knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes.

Topics: Science, Sports, Cooking, Driving, Programming… literally anything.

I didn’t need a study to know this.

New comment by cassac in "Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?"

cassac — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:31:57 +0000

Lots of people can tell the difference and simply don’t care. I care about black levels but I don’t pretend that people who don’t care are clueless.

New comment by cassac in "Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)"

cassac — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 04:27:06 +0000

But you can still pass in the right lane. So a slow driver in the left lane has someone riding their tail and are also getting passed in the right so they can’t even change to the slow lanes anymore. Add in left exits, moving over for vehicles on the shoulder, and speed limits that adjust based on road conditions and you have the perfect storm of it only being enforced in the worst cases.

New comment by cassac in "Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)"

cassac — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 21:35:20 +0000

The US version (varies by state) of the fast lane is garbage which is why nobody follows it. If you want a passing lane then you need a non passing lane and I don’t think US drivers are willing to make that concession.

New comment by cassac in "Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories”"

cassac — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:29:18 +0000

Well in my opinion the kids who were working in factories were working on the latest tech. It most definitely sucked and was horrible but the experiences would have prepared them for what the US needed.

I think the equivalent today would be forcing kids to do tech work, as we are out of the industrial age and into the Information Age. But tech work isn’t dirty and going to kill you so there is less incentive to force it on marginalized groups.

That’s why I think it was maybe just a perfect storm of circumstances.

New comment by cassac in "Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories”"

cassac — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:15:28 +0000

From my understanding Japan didn’t have much child labor, and while I think they had less natural resources, their war production was dwarfed by the US war production. The US pivoted so fast I think at one point in a single month they built more aircraft or boats than the entire war for Japan.

New comment by cassac in "Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories”"

cassac — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:04:45 +0000

I do think that the time period and what the kids were doing were an important part of it. Being at the late stage of the industrial age and early stage of the machine age made them familiar with exactly what the US would need and used to the sacrifices and hard work it would require. I don’t think you could in good faith compare it to modern day meat packing or farm labor though I agree many would like to make them the same.

New comment by cassac in "Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories”"

cassac — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:36:05 +0000

One thing I often wonder is if the US could have pulled off WW2 without these kids having this experience. They would have been at their prime at the time and would have had the grit and know how to get stuff done that maybe the following or previous generations wouldn’t have. I’m not condoning it in any way, just something I ponder.

New comment by cassac in "Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans"

cassac — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:25:24 +0000

The only thing important part is “these books are banned” and “these books are encouraged.” That you don’t care about the specifics says more about you than the ban.

New comment by cassac in "Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans"

cassac — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:21:28 +0000

That’s an interesting take... Like, you can write any book you want using the English language, as long as you use Kanji to write it down? You wouldn’t consider that a problem?

But regardless you are only reinforcing the point that it was a real ban. The fact that they were banned and the books they didn’t want banned were encouraged really only continues to make my case.