myrrh's recent activity
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Comment on The Costco of housing is…Costco? in ~design
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Comment on Deaths mount and water rationed as India faces record heat in ~enviro
myrrh ...i'm in a part of the country rife with climate denialists, and since - this decade, really - i've noticed that they're largely not denying climate change anymore, they're just denying that it's......i'm in a part of the country rife with climate denialists, and since - this decade, really - i've noticed that they're largely not denying climate change anymore, they're just denying that it's an anthropogenic phenomenon and insist that any climate adaptations are anti-industrial fallacy...
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Comment on How it feels to get an AI email from a friend in ~comp
myrrh ...i recently bumped into a former colleague for the first time in a couple of years and asked about her new job: she text-messaged me afterward a painfully-obvious AI-enhanced description of her......i recently bumped into a former colleague for the first time in a couple of years and asked about her new job: she text-messaged me afterward a painfully-obvious AI-enhanced description of her role and how she missed working together, which i cringed upon reading but kind-of-shrugged-off as english is her second language, so she's always struggled to communicate well in written form...
...still, if i hadn't known her as well as i do, in a strictly professional context i'd've found her AI correspondence immediately offputting, which is ironic since she uses it to appear more professional...
...you know the linked-in heebie-jeebies?..yeah, total linked-in heebie-jeebies...
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Comment on US judge denies request to restrict Donald Trump statements that could endanger law enforcement in classified records case in ~news
myrrh ...so i wonder: if trump were to waive his right to a jury trial, and cannon were to find him not guilty, would the prosecution be entitled to appeal any irregular processes or would that......so i wonder: if trump were to waive his right to a jury trial, and cannon were to find him not guilty, would the prosecution be entitled to appeal any irregular processes or would that constitute double jeopardy?..
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Comment on Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $700 million in ~games
myrrh ...in two years, star citizen will match duke nukem forever's development cycle......in two years, star citizen will match duke nukem forever's development cycle...
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Comment on Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles in ~design
myrrh ...international building code is an american code designed by americans for the american market: it evolved from an early twenty-first century merger of the disparate BOCA, southern, and uniform......international building code is an american code designed by americans for the american market: it evolved from an early twenty-first century merger of the disparate BOCA, southern, and uniform building codes and is rigorously updated every three years to address the contemporaneous development and construction industries in the united states...
...IBC follows evidence-based best practices and routinely culls cruft where appropriate...
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Comment on What do I do if I don't have any clothes? in ~life.style
myrrh ...find a sweater and a pair of jeans that you like, buy two more just like them; find a t-shirt and a pair of boxers that you like, buy fifteen more just like them; you'll never have to think......find a sweater and a pair of jeans that you like, buy two more just like them; find a t-shirt and a pair of boxers that you like, buy fifteen more just like them; you'll never have to think about clothes again...
...16 t-shirts and boxers + 3 sweaters and jeans are sufficient for two weeks between laundry plus emergency spares...
...anyone who cares about your wardrobe isn't worth your time; get out there and save the world...
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Comment on Big Tech has slashed its office presence in San Francisco by half in ~finance
myrrh (900,000 / 1,600,000 ≈ 45% less, not less than 45%)(900,000 / 1,600,000 ≈ 45% less, not less than 45%)
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Comment on In Berlin, I experience icks I never thought possible in ~travel
myrrh ...many US state capitals are second or third-tier towns, too, often focused on government administration and education while larger cities are the main engines of economic activity... ...in fact,......many US state capitals are second or third-tier towns, too, often focused on government administration and education while larger cities are the main engines of economic activity...
...in fact, that's often promulgated as a virtuous arrangement to avoid conflicts of interest in governance...
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Comment on Hard cider - making old orchards new again in ~food
myrrh ...sprouts stocks lucy glow apples for a week or two each year and they're fantastic......sprouts stocks lucy glow apples for a week or two each year and they're fantastic...
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Comment on Eclipse playlist recommendations in ~music
myrrh ...so tomorrow morning my wife and i are re-routing to ouachita national forest, which constitutes our seventh change across seven hundred miles this week due meteorological conditions... ...of......so tomorrow morning my wife and i are re-routing to ouachita national forest, which constitutes our seventh change across seven hundred miles this week due meteorological conditions...
...of course i can't resist the rare opportunity to wear my 2017 eclipse t-shirt from golden pond observatory in land between the lakes national recreation area: i told her it means i can boast about chasing eclipses back before they were cool, before the band sold out with their next album...
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Comment on A Star Citizen player has jumped to a new system for the first time ("server meshing" test) in ~games
myrrh ...the massively-multiplayer sandbox is still in alpha development, so unless you enjoy tinkering with unstable + incomplete works-in-progress, no... ...that said, the single-player campaign went......the massively-multiplayer sandbox is still in alpha development, so unless you enjoy tinkering with unstable + incomplete works-in-progress, no...
...that said, the single-player campaign went feature-complete in october, so we should see a beta release of squadron 42 by 2025...
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Comment on US nuclear missile program set the launch code to "00000000" during the cold war in ~engineering
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Comment on Beyond the water flow rate: Water pressure and smart timers impact shower efficiency in ~enviro
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...low-flow showerheads use less water flow (GPM) at greater pressure (PSI) to encourage shorter-duration showers, since people perceive pressure as a proxy for flow and will otherwise shower for......low-flow showerheads use less water flow (GPM) at greater pressure (PSI) to encourage shorter-duration showers, since people perceive pressure as a proxy for flow and will otherwise shower for longer durations to account for reduced flow...
...flow rate is typically modulated by a diaphragm in the showerhead (which can be removed for full-flow showers, natch!) and pressure modulated by the spray pattern through which that flow rate is directed...
...there comes a point at which that perceptual tradeoff no longer obscures the reduced efficacy of lesser flow rates, and people take longer showers to compensate, hence the end-user hack of removing flow-restriction diaphragms...
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Comment on A mistake in a Tesla and a panicked final call: The death of Angela Chao in ~transport
myrrh ...my stepmother died this way thirty years ago in six feet of water, right down to the emergency response: she was driving a new oldsmobile 88... ...it's a common-enough class of accident that i......my stepmother died this way thirty years ago in six feet of water, right down to the emergency response: she was driving a new oldsmobile 88...
...it's a common-enough class of accident that i doubt the tesla design had anything to do with it...
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Comment on Windows95man – No Rules! (2024) in ~music
myrrh ...clearly an overwhelming popular vote on account of the pants-free performance gimmick......clearly an overwhelming popular vote on account of the pants-free performance gimmick...
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Comment on If your morning routine were the subject of a montage in a movie, what would be the song that played over the top of it? in ~music
myrrh ...yeeks, i clicked through the video and immediately recognised hey, that's where i ride my bike!..this classic banger
...yeeks, i clicked through the video and immediately recognised hey, that's where i ride my bike!..
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Comment on If your morning routine were the subject of a montage in a movie, what would be the song that played over the top of it? in ~music
myrrh (edited )Link...as i struggle to roll out of bed and finish my morning tea within an hour... -
Comment on Lighthearted movie about someone finding a new direction? in ~movies
myrrh ...second vote here for joe versus the volcano; that film is criminally underrated......second vote here for joe versus the volcano; that film is criminally underrated...
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Comment on In your opinion, what is the appropriate number of outfits to rotate through at work? in ~life.men
myrrh ...this is similar to what i've done for the past thirty years; i started from N*5+1 identical shirts and N+1 identical pants, where N are the number of weeks i cycle between laundry, but recently......this is similar to what i've done for the past thirty years; i started from N*5+1 identical shirts and N+1 identical pants, where N are the number of weeks i cycle between laundry, but recently i switched to an array of colors in otherwise identical shirts...
...after a few years, a couple of coworkers confessed that they'd bet whether i literally wore the same thing every day, secretly marked the back of a sleeve, and money changed hands when i came in with a fresh but otherwise indistinguishable uniform the next day: since then i've quit caring what other folks think and literally wear the same shirt all week as long as it stays clean...
...over the years, i've found that, like pants, with fresh undershirts every day i can often go a full week before outershirts merit laundry; i choose colors for myself, not my coworkers...
...i can't say much but: keep your eye on the scandinavian flat-pack industry...
...as ever, though, the bar to affordable housing isn't the houses, it's the land and infrastructure...