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magiccupcake

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  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • by definition, half of people pay less than the average.

    I hate to be nitpicky, but that's not what the average is. In averages a small population of people who spend way more can bring averages above the median (which is the split between halves of the population).

    For cars in particular I prefer using medians as they are much more likely to be aligned to what most people experience.

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • Averages can mess this with this kind of statistics, where small group of people can bring up the average cost significantly.

    Gas is also expensive, my wife spends about $130 a month a gas alone. They are also likely factoring in all costs too, including personal property taxes (which where I live gets much more costly if the vehicle is worth over 20k), and all maintenance. So things like tire changes, replacement batteries, oil changes, and everything else, averaged over the lifetime of the car.

    You won't see most of these with an electric car at nearly the same cost. Electric cars see much lower operating costs, but only if you can afford it, and can charge it cheaply. Many people I know can't as they live in apartments and would have no way to charge an electric car.

    For us personally, looking at buying a new electric over my wife's paid off car, increases in personal property taxes and insurance negate much if the financial savings of having a lower operating expenses. Combined with a high initial cost of the vehicles it doesn't save anything financially.

  • Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week

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  • Well Ana now has a perk that gives speed boost to nano. That combo has always been good, but with that it would be even better.

  • Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week

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  • I wouldn't know anything about that, but with respect to the overwatch team, they don't seem to be implicated in that controversy.

    Example

    I can't imagine the fight for equality in game dev is over, but at the same time I haven't heard anything particularly controversial. If you have other evidence of wrong doing do let me know.

  • Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week

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  • I took a long break from overwatch after the release of overwatch 2, but they have been made some big changes that have brought me back.

    No more heros locked behind battle passes, free loot boxes, 6v6, great performance, sound design and the new perk system is nice. The game is more balanced than it ever was as overwatch 1, even it it's still not perfect.

    I don't agree with everything, paid skins are absurdly expensive, and heros do seem designed to sell skins, but that's really not new either.

  • Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?

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  • Instead of trying to stop sweating, work at making it more effective, and dry faster.

    A powerful highspeed fan will do the most, and if your house is humid, maybe a dehumidifier to help your sweat evaporate.

    Counterintuitively, lowering your excerise temperature may make your sweat accumulation worse. You'll sweat less, but it won't evaporate as quickly leaving you more drenched.

    Similarly, drinking cold water doesn't cool you as much as you think it would.

  • Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social

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  • If 0/0 < 0 would error?

    If 0 < 0 evaluates false

    That makes it even worse???

  • Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social

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  • Every user (remote or local) has an "attitude" which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.

    This pains me because it is functionally equivalent to

     
        
If downvotes cast < upvotes cast

  • Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?

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  • An astonishingly easy fix would be to just add a tax like a property tax based on vehicle weight. Make it scale enough to be prohibitive, but anyone who needs it will be willing to pay.

  • How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?

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  • Soap changes the surface tension of water and will be able to penetrate the phone when otherwise it wouldn't be able to.

  • How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?

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  • No, don't use soap! It changes the surface tension of water and can allow to enter your phone when it otherwise wouldn't be able to.

  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • Honestly if I value your own life and survival, which most people do, your best bet is to be docile and comply.

    Actual resistance is better done planned in advance, the US even helpfully write its own guide during WW2

  • Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes?

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  • It's certainly not going to dry very much in 30 seconds though

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  • Don't forget the fundamental scaling properties of llms, that openai even used as the basis for strategy to make chat gpt 3.5.

    But basically llm performance is logarithmic. It's easier to get rapid improvements early on. But at later points like we are now require exponentially more compute, training data, and model sizes to get now small level of improvements.

    Even if we get a 10x in compute, model size, and training data (which is fundamentally finite), the improvements aren't going to be groundbreaking or solve any of the inherent limitations of the technology.

  • How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?

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  • Even accounting for inflation arcades should be cheaper.

    The compute hardware costs much less and is much more power efficient.

    Other power hungry features like lights and displays are both cheaper and more power efficient.

    The argument that they still need to be expensive makes so little sense, other than the physical space they occupy.

  • Ok, honestly, is cast-iron really any better than a non-stick, stainless, copper (anything else?) pan?

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  • As someone who learned way more about pans than I really want to know, let me say that a good cook can make good food in any pan, however some pans are more suited to tasks than others.

    First off, searing meat in a non-stick pan (traditionally Teflon) is a bad idea, the pan can reach temperatures that produce toxic gases, and are known to kill birds that are more sensitive to them than we are. The coating that makes them nonstick isn't very durable and will at most last a few years before being useless. While other kinds of pans are likely to outlive you.

    Other common pans include cast iron, stainless steel, carbon steel, and ceramic non-stick (non-toxic, but are delicate)

    Specifically for searing meets, my favorite is stainless steel. It holds heat similar to cast iron, but is slightly more conductive and can transfer a lot of heat to sear meat. Meat also literally bonds to pan and can be used to make great flavorful sauces with deglazing. Cleanup is easy, if anything is really stuck just boil water in it to loosen. Alternatively stainless steel holds up decent in a dishwasher. Cleanup can't be easier than automatic. However, stainless steel is still quite heavy.

    For general purpose cooking my personal favorite is carbon steel. It's seasoned like cast iron and can be quite nonstick, but is much lighter making it feel very similar to nonstick pans, which are made with aluminum.I won't lie, seasoning has a learning curve. Seasoning is very tough under some circumstances, and very delicate under others. Notably acid will eat the seasoning away.

    Cast iron is great, but it is so heavy that it is inconvenient to use.

    All will work with induction, except for cheap aluminum nonstick pans

  • Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter

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  • They're human like everyone else, and try to use language that is specific and descriptive. In this case the word direct observation has become to mean something very specific In the field of astrophysics. It's not out of malice or anything, just results from the difficulty of scientific writing, so you use words that already have established meaning.

  • Scientists have finally ‘seen’ dark matter for the first time

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  • Direct observation ≠ direct detection

  • Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter

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  • I would argue that dark matter is much more based on indirect observation, things like rotation curves and baryonic acoustic oscillations.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    magiccupcake @lemmy.world

    STUDY: How Cars Are Making Us All Depressed (Even If We Don't Drive) — Streetsblog USA

    usa.streetsblog.org /2020/10/28/study-how-cars-are-making-us-all-depressed-even-if-we-dont-drive
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    magiccupcake @lemmy.world

    Somebody is having a fun day