estiaan

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by estiaan 2y ago
Do you have a source for that? Or any more info? It’s not that I doubt it, I ask because some details like my work email, job title and place of employment has been leaking into the hands of marketing companies and I an trying to figure out
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by estiaan 2y ago
You’re not wrong. I think the problem here is that the context of who we’re talking to is missing. I only talk to people in this way who I know well and do the same with me, I have like 3 people in mind. I can understand how it would be fr
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by estiaan 2y ago
Hmm I totally get where you’re coming from but I have used a “hi” in the past to basically probe and figure out if a friend or colleague is available for real time conversation because I suspect that the conversation will need to be a quick
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by estiaan 3y ago
Ah yup, I definitely read that in the context of undergraduate degrees, I think you’re probably right.
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by estiaan 3y ago
It’s not just the atmosphere that’s an issue though, having a laser in earth’s orbit track something on mars’ surface and vice versa would require some incredible tracking, it would be easier to go from orbit to orbit
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by estiaan 3y ago
I was reading the example of UC Berkely appearing to have gender bias in the admissions and read the following: “it showed that women tended to apply to more competitive departments with lower rates of admission, even among qualified applic
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by estiaan 3y ago
I was with you until you said it’s disgusting, how is it disgusting to put an extreme emphasis on health, when it’s been neglected for like all of human history. Like sure, maybe it doesn’t make sense for most people to put so much focus on
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by estiaan 3y ago
I think you might be experiencing a bit of a dunning-kruger effect Also, in my experience there’s a huge difference between having an intuition for something and having an understanding of something to the point where you could model it.
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by estiaan 3y ago
It’s not clear which part of the comment you meant when you said it’s not true, but PTFE is a PFAS, exactly how toxic it is or isn’t I don’t think is well known yet but people have been living with PTFE implants.
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by estiaan 3y ago
To be fair many of the games on this list would be trivial to preserve as long as windows remains backwards compatible with older software, and not too hard even after that. Breath of the wild and Tarkov stands out as exceptions
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by estiaan 3y ago
I think you’re right in general but in Australia and I think some other places as well we have a 10c refund on plastic bottles made out of PET (Also glass and aluminium) Most of our PET bottles, for stuff like soft drinks is now also made p
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by estiaan 3y ago
It’s actually hilarious how easy it would be to catch the criminals if they don’t take extra precautions like wearing masks. Just have some fake wifi looking cameras in easy to spot locations and use wired real cameras. Hardest part would b
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by estiaan 3y ago
I’ve seen people cooling solar panels by using coreflute/Fluteboard at the back of a panel and circulating pool water through the channels. I think I saw this on Linus Tech Tips weirdly enough, not sure though
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by estiaan 3y ago
I live in Aus as well, and I don’t expose myself to News Corp at all. Can you explain to me what the heck the issue is? We have so much space and we don’t need that much more solar, how is anyone’s crops at risk? Is this just a complete
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by estiaan 3y ago
I wasn’t talking down the financial aspect of your comment, I was saying that the language you use is so idiosyncratic with that community that, in being an outsider, I can’t tell if you’re making fun of it, or are a part of it. “…basic inv
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by estiaan 3y ago
No, I really don’t, and most people probably don’t. My job has absolutely nothing to do with finance, luckily.
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by estiaan 3y ago
The state of the crypto world is such that i genuinely can’t tell if you’re being satirical by using a bunch of jargon and acronyms that mean nothing in the order you used them, or not
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by estiaan 3y ago
I don’t disagree if you only think about cars, but I’ve seen a lot of smaller electric vehicles gain popularity very quickly. Things like escooters and electric bicycles. For some people these work really well for commuting.
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by estiaan 3y ago
I once threw a weight with a transformer wire and some string attached to it over a high tree branch in my yard to see if it would make a decent antenna for my SDR, it worked! It was an extremely inexpensive ~5m antenna
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by estiaan 3y ago
Huh, I guess I live in the EU now…
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by estiaan 3y ago
> Leaving space in fronto of you and trying to keep a constant speed also reduces this effect I would like to see some sources on that claim. Or some reasoning. The thing is I live in one of the cities with the longest commute distances
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by estiaan 3y ago
I used to listen to so many podcasts, and I would put up with the occasional ad read by the podcasters and baked into the audio When dynamic ads became a thing in podcasts I was shocked. I thought something was wrong with my phone when I he
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by estiaan 3y ago
I think theories are worth considering and discussing. Often the cause of a phenomenon has multiple causes but we humans and especially our media like to imagine every single event has a single cause, it’s a strong bias. In other words, it’
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by estiaan 3y ago
You make some excellent points… but I wish I could block all text messages that have links in them. I know this wouldn’t work for everyone but it would be a brilliant option for me lol The only text messages I get from humans are from old p
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by estiaan 3y ago
Java is probably the language I use the most but I hate how much boilerplate it has. Something I’ve found to help with that is using Java Records instead of classes, a record is kind of like a struct, but I don’t think it’s exactly the same
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by estiaan 3y ago
Why do you put a zero in front of the year? It took me way too long to figure out what you meant by “01976”. I have never seen anyone do this lol. I’m aware that date codes on components sometimes do that kind of thing but using it in text
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by estiaan 3y ago
I’m always so confused when I read about heat pumps online. In Australia we’ve had heat pump based air conditioning for like decades as far as I understand. Using them to cool indoor spaces is almost essential given how hot it gets in some
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by estiaan 3y ago
Different perspective: We absolutely can do better than git… for non-text files that can’t be merged or stored as a sequence of diffs I (briefly) looked into using git as an alternative to PDM for solidworks CAD files and it turns out git i
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by estiaan 3y ago
I thought ancient meant 1000+ years ago?
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by estiaan 3y ago
I find this so interesting because I also live in Australia but I will always press the button if close enough without much thought. I’ve gone my whole life thinking of this as just a normal thing, if not a slightly good thing for being the

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