Not all ovens have that. Pretty sure mine doesn't, though my induction hot plate does. And tbh it's kinda annoying because the timer finishing doesn't always mean it's done cooking, it might just mean time to add the next batch of ingredients or flip whatever is baking. But I've got two other timers on other devices within reach, so I just pick the most convenient one for the current objective (or just look at the time and try to remember on my own).
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And the blindness gets in the way of a lot of physical communication, though cultural differences could make even that difficult impossible to understand even if both parties can see fine.
And I wouldn't blame anyone for being nervous about what the uncommunicative person on their porch with a curtain rod might intend.
If there was an advice post that just asked what to do about a random stranger on a woman's porch that was holding a curtain rod and wasn't communicating, I'd bet "call the police" would be the most common response. It's so easy to judge the best actions when you know the extra context the article provided.
Going for less known names can also help, as they are trying to build/maintain a reputation in addition to sales.
IKEA is an interesting brand because it spans from incredibly cheap to nice quality, and personally, I find the cheapness is more in the material selection than the design. Like the furniture I got from them at my last place all survived the move to my current place, even the one I got frustrated with and stopped caring if it made it when taking it apart, it still stands solid today. They are one of the few that has decent value, though their prices can get pretty high at the high end.
Yeah, I think at this point I do get the placebo effect first, pretty much immediately after taking the vitamin b-complex, as it works faster than I'd expect my body to really access those nutrients (though it is water soluable, so maybe it does start getting absorbed immediately), and I have had times where it feels like just the B is going to do the trick but then the tiredness returns a few mins later and I add the magnesium.
My approach to supplements in general is an assumption that I generally get most of what I need from my diet (which is better these days than it used to be earlier in my adult life), but that I'm probably not meeting all the needs consistently, so I'll supplement it occasionally, either with a dose of multivitamin when I'm not feeling like anything is missing or with specific ones if I'm experiencing potential deficiency symptoms. I don't want to supplement into overload, which can be as bad or worse than deficiency.
Also gotta watch out for the scam supplements, or ones suggested based on single properties without considering other consequences of them.
Eg, a little while ago, I bought some bromelain on a whim after seeing a claim it could dissolve eye floaters. Before taking one, I realized I had acted too quickly in buying them and did more reading and found out that even if it can get past the blood brain barrier and into the eyes (which is dubious at best), there's nothing to stop it from dissolving other proteins inside the eyes, ones that aren't just minor annoyances (speaking about my own situation, I understand floaters can get much worse than just annoying), and end up hurting your vision.
Even if you could see the screen easily, a (good) desk and chair make a huge difference. Also, laptop + sand might turn me into Anakin.
Yeah, it's more of a late stage capitalism "luxury" where the difference isn't so much in the quality as in the price because people conflate "price" with "quality" and "desireability".
And I do understand it, at least to a degree. I try to do research on more expensive items or ones I'm looking for quality in, but it's kinda exhausting, and often a cycle of "I want thing, see it in store and remember I want it, look at options, no idea which (if any) are decent and which suck, start looking online, decide I don't want to do this right now, move on, forget to do research, repeat next time I'm at that store".
The easy mode of doing that would be look at options, assume cheapest ones suck, most expensive is too much, get one of the ones a little cheaper. At which point, the seller just needs to set a higher price to get a sale on the crappy ones.
I've suspected for a while now that a good chunk of common health issues might be caused by malnutrition. Like energy needs are being met and/or exceeded, but not necessarily the case for each nutrient.
Like I've started to recognize when I'm protein deficient. I get a headache and general unwell feeling. I'll have an appetite for things with protein but it doesn't just feel like hunger.
And personally, if I'm feeling depressed and unmotivated to do anything, even what's usually fun, I can resolve that with a vitamin b-complex supplement (usually I take vitamin D and K2 with it, so those could be playing a role), and if that doesn't have me feeling better (as in normal, not just "less depressed") within 15 minutes or so, I also take a magnesium supplement. This may or may not work for anyone else (it requires that your depression be caused by b and/or magnesium deficiency), but it has consistently worked for me since 2020, when it helped get over the exhaustion that might have been long covid.
Micronutrients are essential for many different body functions and I think it's easy to miss some if you don't have a lot of variety in your regular diet, especially if you mostly eat processed stuff where the process could inadvertently remove or change the nutrients into something we can't absorb.
I agree that one's biome can also play a big role, though I think nutrient intake (both what you consume and what you absorb) and gut biome health can end up in a vicious cycle because those microbes also need the right nutrients to stay healthy and can be exposed to substances that are fine for us but toxic to them. I haven't looked in a while, but this was my objection to all the studies that "showed" glyphosate was safe, as the ones I saw were mostly about how it doesn't react with any of our own bio-processes, but no information about whether that's the same for the bacteria we have a symbiotic relationship with.
Yeah, I thought it might be a different kind of AI, at least, until it fucking said "LLM".
They don't assess risk, they correlate words. Even if they can be massaged to use a tool to assess risk in a more accurate way, they don't evaluate risk assessments and determine how that should affect strategy or tactics, they correlate words. They don't even do math that puts a value on human life to determine if an action is worth the cost, they just correlate fucking words. All based on given training data, so anything they can offer for real is already out there, and everything else is suspect because it's purely based on correlations of words.
It's like reading the Art of War and thinking that means you're ready to be a general.
But something AI might do is introduce uncertainty that might get used to try to excuse a nuclear strike a human wanted to do.
I also just noticed the irony in covering their nakedness being a part of "original sin" but churches today lead the puritanical positions against general nudity and sexuality.
Also funny in that bad fiction way that it was about disobeying some arbitrary rule and it's never explained or even really acknowledged that humans shouldn't have knowledge. Like it's such an obvious form of control, right in the first story, not to mention how many of the ten commandments were about establishing a hierarchy rather than any kind of morality.
Like it's accepted history that Constantine was looking for a way to unite the far corners of Rome, since it was hard to motivate people to join legions to fight for people half a world away after they ran out of easy land to promise. So he just happened to find the "true religion" that he needed, that had a bible that was taken literally until it was so obviously incompatible with reality that it was now metaphors that could still describe reality if you back up and squint and assume dumb shit like "many cultures talk about floods, therefore they must be talking about noah's flood!"
Which is kinda like saying, "Wait, people in your culture die, too? That's proof that we were all kicked out of paradise and lost our immortality!"
Also ignoring how the old testament god acts more like an immature dictator throwing tantrums than a god, yet there's plenty of stories of people defying that god despite these apparent displays of miraculous power.
While I agree with your conclusion, stick your hands under the water palms up and see which way your thumbs point.
Unless the picture depicts someone washing their hands and dick in a sink, though in that case it's the arms that are wrong.
Yeah, she's just following orders.
Don't want to start my day off with anger at an annoying sound. Waking up me might just dismiss that instead of snoozing it in annoyance.
I wonder if that was selected as a way to resolve the love triangle once Lucas realized that there's a reason romantic comedies usually make one of the members of love triangles villains, or at least don't let the audience get as close with both competers. Shows/movies that do are instead dramas, which are a completely different tone from the light-hearted romance he was going for.
If you want a demo on how bad these AI coding agents are, build a medium-sized script with one, something with a parse -> process -> output flow that isn't trivial. Let it do the debug, too (like tell it the error message or the unwanted behaviour).
You'll probably get the desired output if you're using one of the good models.
Now ask it to review the code or optimize it.
If it was a good coding AI, this step shouldn't involve much, as it would have been applying the same reasoning during the code writing process.
But in my experience, this isn't what happens. For a review, it has a lot of notes. It can also find and implement optimizations. The weighs are the same, the only difference is that the context of the prompt has changed from "write code" to "optimize code", which affects the correlations involved. There is no "write optimal code" because it's trained on everything and the kitchen sink, so you'll get correlations from good code, newbie coders, lesson examples of bad ways to do things (especially if it's presented in a "discovery" format where a prof intended to talk about why this slide is bad but didn't include that on the slide itself).
I bet if these get used that soon after there will be new extreme maintenance videos that make those cell towers look like nothing. Probably some guy hanging from a powered cable climbing device, showing the things on the ground getting smaller and smaller, occasionally taking a puff from an asthma inhaler because they were told an oxygen tank would cause weight issues (it's actually about financial issues), until enough people die that they realize it's cheaper to pay for oxygen than training new workers.
Depending on how the turbine is set up, it could generate AC power instead of DC. I believe they even have several options on how to do this.
I wonder if the way they tested it to get those higher numbers was something like finding a field where birds were roosting with windmills present, then fire off some massive fireworks at night and assume any bird that died did so because of the windmills.
Assuming they didn't just pull the numbers out of their ass and actually designed a bad faith experiment that could inflate bird deaths.
Wait, you have a hammer for knocking stuff together but are missing a hammer to knock stuff apart! Please correct this.
I've written a microkernel for an embedded device before and enjoy that kind of thing. I haven't had to use any of my kernel experience in the year or so I've been on linux.
My linux install (Fedora) took a while because I was reading up on a bunch of the options instead of just taking the defaults. Ended up mostly just using the defaults and the ones I did change, I kinda regret because the snapshots that I wanted to save disk space by avoiding would probably come in handy if I break something and don't know how to fix it.