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cynar

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  • What's the most frustrating experience you've had with a website? (Sign-up, form, downloads, etc.)

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  • I suspect both websites are maintained by the same team (assuming they are maintained). For one of the (supposedly) most technically adroit countries in the world, their ICT is truly crap.

  • What's the most frustrating experience you've had with a website? (Sign-up, form, downloads, etc.)

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  • Oh, it also only worked in native Chrome. It went weird in Firefox, and apparently also played up with chromium.

  • What's the most frustrating experience you've had with a website? (Sign-up, form, downloads, etc.)

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  • USA visa application is hellish.

    Login is convoluted, and breaks password managers.

    It has a global time out somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes.

    On timeout, it lets you work, until you try and go to the next page, then just forgets you exist rather than saving.

    You can't save pages that aren't completely filled in.

    Some pages can take 20 minutes to fill in (it gets detailed, and you dare not mess it up).

    Oh, and it breaks pasting into some boxes, so no prewriting it in another document.

  • Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes

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  • Kids can also be amazing and caring. They just need the context and understanding of what is going on. Toys like this help a lot in that regard.

  • Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes

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  • It's a love hate situation. For a lot of children, they will use play to process and understand things. E.g. "Helping" a Barbie with the problems helps them understand why their brother gets special treatment.

    I've seen my daughter playing "classroom" with her teddies. It helps her understand better how school works, and what would be acceptable or not.

  • what are good in-person activities for making friends?

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  • You're on Lemmy, so I'm assuming you're of a geeky mentality. If so, a local hackspace/hackerspace/makerspace would be a good bet.

    On paper, my local one is a communal collection of tools we can all use. In practice however, it's an excellent social group for fellow weirdos. We just also have some really fun toys to use, when we need them.

    https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

    It's not fully inclusive of all of them, but a good starting point.

  • Democratic lawmakers denied entry to Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention site

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  • A mixed group would be better. It shuts down a lot of propaganda spins. It needs to be hard to spin as anything other than patriots Vs fascists (particularly not black Vs white).

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  • Quantum mechanical particles are very different things to classical ones.

    A slightly better way of thinking about them is quantised fields. Particles and waves are simplifications of the underlying effect. There is no classical equivalent to work with to this, so we try and understand it as particle-wave duality etc.

    In this case, a carrier particle is a (quantised) disturbance in the underlying field. If it has enough energy, it manifests as a physical particle. The higgs boson is an example of this. Below the required energy, you get virtual particles. These "borrow" energy, and so can never be seen directly, only inferred.

    By example. Photons are the carrier particle of electromagnetism. Give the field energy and you get photons (light). Without that energy, the photons are virtual. Existing only between the 2 acting entities.

    Different fields have different carrier particles. The photon is quite simple. It's effectiveness decays as 1/r^2 . The strong force carriers are more complex. They can emit more carrier particles, allowing the field to grow with distance rather than decay.

    To add more complexity. The various fields look to be aspects of the same field. At sufficient energies, they behave identically. We have figured out how to combine the electric, magnetic and weak fields. We have a handle on the strong field. The higgs field seems to also match into this. Gravity is a pain to study. We assume it should match in, but haven't managed to work out how yet.

    As for why the underlying field exists and follows the rules it does? We have no clue right now. The 'why' tends to follow the 'what', and we have yet to get a good handle on the 'what'.

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  • To fight Trump's funding freezes, states propose a new gambit: Withholding federal payments

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  • As an Englishman, the IRA were fairly critical to the political results. They kept the UK government from running roughshod over the Irish political parties.

    The IRA proved they were willing to cross critical lines (bombs aimed at large scale civilian damage on English soil etc). They also demonstrated restraint. They often provided warnings ahead of time. They focused on disruption not casualties. The underlying threat was clear however. If you (UK government) escalate too far, it's simple to switch from a bomb aimed at destroying a high street of shops, to one aimed at killing a high street of Christmas shoppers.

    The end result was that Irish politics stayed in the public eye, and the government took the safer path of negotiating in good faith. No-one was particularly happy with the results, but no-one was excessively unhappy with them either. Often the best you can hope for.

    In short, the credible threat is required to keep all parties honest. Most smart governments will see an escalating trail of protests as part of that. Unfortunately, the current US leadership doesn't seem that smart.

  • xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier

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  • I'm not going to knock her putting them to good use! It's done well by her so far. 👍

  • xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier

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  • Some places do electricity costs in 30 minute periods. If you know cost will spike when everyone gets home, and the sun sets, then running early makes sense. Other times, holding off for an hour might be more useful.

  • xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier

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  • Just most sources of power. Photovoltaic, wind and hydro aren't steam based.

  • Why do people consider Al Jazeera as a trusted source?

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  • Be careful with the taking average mindset. It's a default human one, and it's being abused. A lot of media outlets (particularly American right wing) are mouthpieces for the same few groups or people.

    Instead, try and look at their biases. Do they have a reason to mislead you. What akin do they have in a particular game. E.g. the BBC is still fairly unbiased on a lot of world news. They are far less unbiased on middle eastern politics now.

    It's an annoyingly complex problem to solve, on the fly.

  • Who remembers this?

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  • I can't see it as anything but white and gold. However, other photos clearly show it is black and blue.

    Interestingly, if I'm scrolling past, my brain will sometimes perceive it as black and blue for a fraction of a second. I can normally flip optical illusions at will. This one jams me in the wrong viewing mode.

  • Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?

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  • I saw a talk on the subject about a year back. It was discussing tokamak reactors, from an engineer working on them. The small ones can't sustain a break even state, but they are affected by the inverse square law to a larger degree. I believe China is about to start/has started construction on a power station sized test reactor.

    The pellet sort are a different type. They have different pros and cons.

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  • Some companies are still trying.

    I've got a ulefone 27T. It's the phone equivalent of a tank. It also includes thermal and night vision, and underwater video modes. I would also give it good odds of surviving being used as a self defence weapon.

    Downside is it's a relatively unknown Chinese brand.

  • Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?

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  • They are down to 2 main problems now. The main one is (the cost of) scaling up. Fusion reactors will be more effective then bigger they are. The tiny test ones are already past break even.

    The other is wall material. Apparently the radiation has an annoying ability to transmute the elements making up the wall of the reactor. They are working out a material that can maintain its bulk mechanical properties, even with random elements appearing in its internal structure.

  • ‘No Kings’ was biggest protest in U.S. history: data analyst

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  • Think of it as a medieval army forming up. An army didn't generally march straight into battle. They took the time to organise and prepare. It also acted as an opportunity to intimidate your opponents into backing down.

    The protests are the army forming up. Connections are made, wills reinforced and tied to a more focused cause. In many cases, the powers that be recognise the danger this represents and back down. When they don't, that's when things escalate.

    Protests like this are a necessary part of reaching the goal. They are a link in the chain. People don't want violence. It will be accepted, if required, but not joyously.

    Just remember, in a blunt head to head fight, the enemy would be the US military. You would need to either defeat them directly, or break their will. What would it take to cause large scale defections within the US army? Are people willing to pay that price?

    Failing that, the slower, less drastic methods must be employed. It's a war of psychological attrition, not a fist fight.