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ChillyWater commented on Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)   ux.stackexchange.com/ques... · Posted by u/wscourge
delecti · 2 years ago
Oh is that what "Distronic" does? I literally work there on a backend system that has that term for one of the features, and I've just never known. I always thought it sounded like something AV related (it sounded "disc" adjacent).
ChillyWater · 2 years ago
Or, the system automatically keeps your car a specified distance from the vehicle in front of you.
ChillyWater commented on Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Technology?    · Posted by u/readonthegoapp
ChillyWater · 3 years ago
Definitely not serious, but super fun: "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
ChillyWater commented on Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/drones
mcv · 3 years ago
So what happens when you'd normally need to vomit?
ChillyWater · 3 years ago
Nature finds a way :) (Door #2)

I suppose if it was an alcohol poisoning situation or something like that, I have to get my stomach pumped.

ChillyWater commented on Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/drones
bionsystem · 3 years ago
I have a serious case of acid reflux, I eat 4-6 maalox a day and sometimes another one or two during the night if the pain wakes me up. It never goes into my mouth or throat but the stomach pain is really annoying.

Will try this as well although pictures of the positions would have been welcome.

ChillyWater · 3 years ago
I had acid reflux from the time I was 15 years old. By the time I was 22 it had eaten holes almost through my esophagus, so I had Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication surgery. They basically wrapped part of my stomach around the valve and it tightened it up. No more heartburn.

On the down side, I no longer can vomit, so there's that. (Confirmed after the not-so-smart decision to try every booth at a chili cook-off.)

ChillyWater commented on Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection   vox.com/features/23191527... · Posted by u/smn1234
pkulak · 4 years ago
I'm pretty lucky for an average American, all things considered, and live in an area with a grocery store 15 minutes away by foot, and most everything else under 30 minutes by bike. Public transit isn't amazing, but there's 60 miles of light rail and a decent bus network. My family of 4 still needs (wants?) one car, but we only put about 8000 miles a year on it.

All that said, I feel a bit trapped here. I've yet to find somewhere else in the United States I'd like to move to if I had to move. Manhattan would be fun, but whoa boy...

ChillyWater · 4 years ago
Not a single good place in the entire United States to move to?

Miami, Savanna, Boston, NYC, Austin, Vermont, Minneapolis, Duluth, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Nashville, Colorado, Scottsdale, Vegas, Tahoe, San Diego, Seattle ...

It seems like there are a lot of different climates and feels to choose from ...

ChillyWater commented on Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality   wsj.com/articles/writer-l... · Posted by u/gumby
goatlover · 4 years ago
It's not hard scifi, but so what? Most scifi isn't hard scifi. Ben Bova's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy would count, I think. Nothing too fantastical there, just an extrapolation of existing science and technology to terraforming Mars.

But then you don't get any aliens or speculative technology that way. Which most future science fiction is interested in. That or robots and galactic colonization. Dune and Foundation are just as fantastical in their own way as a Remembrance of Earth's Past. And yet, they're classics and cornerstones of modern science fiction.

ChillyWater · 4 years ago
Red/Green/Blue Mars is authored by Kim Stanley Robinson.
ChillyWater commented on SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy   techcrunch.com/2018/09/10... · Posted by u/vfc1
jemfinch · 7 years ago
The length of the minute and second are arbitrary.
ChillyWater · 7 years ago
Dream-killer. :P
ChillyWater commented on SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy   techcrunch.com/2018/09/10... · Posted by u/vfc1
AnimalMuppet · 7 years ago
72 new bursts, on top of 21 already identified, in five hours of data. Total of 93 bursts in five hours, for an average of one every 3 minutes 14 seconds. That's... rather surprising.
ChillyWater · 7 years ago
If it is actually an average of one every 3 minutes 14.159265359 seconds ... now you've got something.
ChillyWater commented on Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips   greenharbor.com/fffolder/... · Posted by u/Tomte
dandelany · 9 years ago
..? Jack Handey != Al Franken
ChillyWater · 9 years ago
Without checking the interweb, isn't Stuart Smalley == Al Franken?
ChillyWater commented on They Write the Right Stuff (1996)   fastcompany.com/28121/the... · Posted by u/fawce
lallysingh · 9 years ago
Anyone have any good pointers on the processes they use to get their error rates so low?
ChillyWater · 9 years ago
I worked for that organization from 1996-2005. Nothing earth-shattering:

- Requirements Reviews with Customer, Requirements Analysts, and Testers all sitting around the same table going over them word by word. (e.g. 12 people to review changing an interface by one parameter so that a new value can be displayed in the cockpit.)

- Code reviews with 8 people around the table going over the changes line by line.

- Independent organizations performing unit tests and system tests on the software. Again, with 10 people around the table going over your test results line by line, plot by plot.

u/ChillyWater

KarmaCake day145August 27, 2009View Original