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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • What is the point of sharing something on social media?

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  • Many reasons. Searching for opinions and perspectives like you seem to be here. Searching for information and recommendations to resources. Sharing interesting things with friends and family.

  • what are some ways to make R&D affordable? most of the time companies go bankrupt because development is expensive

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  • most of the time companies go bankrupt because development is expensive

    Any research or sources to back such a claim before continuing on to the question? Cursory websearching about top causes of bankruptcy and R&D costs doesn't come up.

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    Looking to build a drawing robot with my 9yo daughter for a science fair. How and where do I get started?

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  • Is the science fair looking for DIY projects or experiments? If experiments, as I suspect most science fairs are, what is the experiment? What is the hypothesis?

    Next, let me tell you a little story about my buddy taking his Significant Other on a camping trip. He was experienced and all about it, SO grew up in a city with no yard and thinks the outdoors is unnecessary. Cue a backcountry trip with rain, raccoons getting into the food, colder temps than expected, and SO will now never give Buddy's favorite hobby another shot. It is ruined for SO forever. If you are trying to get a young person interested in STEM stuff, don't be like Buddy. Introduce them via a light-duty, fun, heavily vetted project you know you can be successful at. Doubly so when there is a deadline for success imposed by the science fair.

    There are companies online that sell Line Follower Robot kits. If building a LF robot meets the intent of the science fair, consider one of those kits instead of attempting to design it from scratch.

    1. kiddo is introduced to age-appropriate skills and concepts
    2. everybody knows an adult helped her, she's getting no boost from a complex self-invented thing that she obviously didn't do herself
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    Let's say, hypothetically, that the real Matt Walsh was actually a progressive gay guy that just makes fascist propaganda for the money. What would it take for you to forgive him? (hypothetically)

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  • Forgive him? I don't watch his content now and I never would. My forgiveness would be irrelevant to him, and a waste of my emotional energy for no gain.

    The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy, blah de blah catchphrase. I am apathetic about Walsh.

  • Why weren't you at elf practice?

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  • I've already passed my certification tests. No more practice for me!

  • You are now inside the body of a high profile person you know nothing of. How would you try to maintain the facade of that individual with least suspicion?

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  • Fake being sick. Like vomiting, diarrhea, extreme fatigue sick. That can explain away lots of unusual behavior, plus an excuse to bow out of any commitments for a day or two.

    Then research the hell out of this person online, and study their calendar/diary/whatever.

    Hopefully they are wealthy along with high profile, so I can easily retire from the public eye if needed. Recent elections made me reconsider my values and how I want to spend more time with family, yada yada, who cares what the reason is so long as it sounds aspirational enough.

  • Trump administration wants to go on cyber offensive against China

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  • The US has never attacked Chinese critical infrastructure before, right?

    Uh, I would not bet my money on that.

  • What fraction of holiday gifts do you ignore, regift, or discard?

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  • Near 0% regifted or discarded.

    Family does a Secret Santa and everyone posts a wishlist. I get items from my wishlist, no issues.

    My friends and I only gift things to each other like homemade food/drinks, handmade stuff, or experiences. If it's a thing I can't eat/drink, I thank them, let them know, and take it to work to be devoured by someone. No issues.

    SO is a competent gift giver, and we mutually agreed to a <$100 spend, so it's low stakes.

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  • I would ask about impactful technology advancements. Telephone? Automatic transmission cars? Electrical and Internet infrastructure bringing them to every house? Ask for stories from the time she first got access to them.

  • What was your first word today?

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  • I haven't said anything out loud today. I'm the only one home and I felt like relishing it instead of leaving the house.

  • Teens abandon X and Facebook as TikTok and WhatsApp gain momentum, report

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  • Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?

  • Teens abandon X and Facebook as TikTok and WhatsApp gain momentum, report

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  • That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren't "abandoning" FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.

  • What name that's common today do you think will be considered an "old person name" in the future?

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  • Lol, nailed it.

  • what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?

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  • "Milk" from nuts and oats is just a word. Call it oat juice, oat extract, make up a new word and call it oat zligbab. The actual thing being drunk is not far from the realm of things we already drink and eat. Getting hung up on it being called "milk" is a superficial and disingenuous argument against it.

    If you want to compare the extremes of industrialized processes, are you familiar with commercial dairy farming?

  • What name that's common today do you think will be considered an "old person name" in the future?

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  • Mine. I have one of the most common girl's name in the year of my birth. About 10% of my female high school classmates had some variant of that name. I know of one girl under 10 with that name now.

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    Is your car a dude or a chick?

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  • I have never gotten the point or the fun in naming or gendering inanimate objects.

  • what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?

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  • Ages like milk...

    Drink a full glass of milk at every meal. Otherwise, your bones will turn to pudding and you'll get kidnapped at the mall because you'll be too soft to put up a fight. Or whatever scare scenarios Big Milk pushed in the US in the 80s and 90s.

    Now everyone's drinking nut and oat milk because of health reasons and also drinking the milk of another mammal is kinda weird.

  • Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers

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  • Meh. I don't care. I'm a mechanical engineer by education. While I've used it in many jobs, none in a way that requires certification.

    In the US, certification is needed in civil engineering and only small subsets of mechanical and electrical engineering. I've worked with many engineers who don't even have a university degree in engineering. I'm not precious about other people calling themselves engineers.

    Except for that stretch of time when hotels were trying to hire janitors as "custodial engineers" and offering like $10/hr. Eff that noise. That made an already deteriorating job search experience on LinkedIn worthless.

  • When applying for a new job do most employers still require drug scans and do they also go through your social media?

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  • Obviously this is going to depend on country, locality, industry, and specific company.

    I live in the US in an East Coast state. I don't know anyone who gets drug tested anymore, unless they are working in a sensitive industry (aerospace, as guided by the FAA) or have an accident on the job and are tested after the fact.

    There are overlapping state and national laws. My state has legalized marijuana, but the national government, via the FAA, says "No" if I work in certain jobs. I do work in aerospace but not in one of those jobs that the FAA cares about drug testing for.

    I always assume my social media will be searched.