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cheald commented on Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers nytimes.com/2025/08/22/tr... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

Spooky23 · 5 days ago

I agree. I’m 6’4”, 255 lbs - framewise, I am a gorilla. I can’t even get an exit row seat as my son isn’t old enough to sit there.

It’s ridiculous that seating is so tight that there is no way for me to be comfortable for any significant flight and it’s miserable for anyone other than a child around me.

Whenever I can, I fly in a premium cabin. But if that’s not an option, I’d rather drive 7-10 hours than fly economy.

cheald · 5 days ago

Same boat here. I'm 6'10", 260, and athletic. I'm very acutely aware of the shrinking space available on aircraft, and there's precious little that I can do about it. I typically just get an aisle seat and raise the armrest after takeoff (and then spend the whole flight dodging people going to the bathroom and refreshment carts, but it's better than nothing).

There is a problem with heavily obese people taking up significantly more horizontal space than is actually fair, but it's absolutely compounded by the airlines shrinking the per-passenger space to the size of the average passenger.

cheald commented on Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

avidiax · 16 days ago

This is certainly an improvement over a lab test, but a continuous monitoring solution would dramatically expand the utility.

You could rate employers on the median cortisol levels of their employees during and after the work day.

At an individual level, those of us that are not very self-aware of our stress levels could monitor it objectively and determine stressors and implement and monitor interventions to reduce stress.

cheald · 15 days ago

This would end up having effects like causing employers to discourage their employees from drinking coffee or exercising, both of which acutely raise cortisol levels.

cheald commented on Wild pigs' flesh turning neon blue in California phys.org/news/2025-08-wil... · Posted by u/bikenaga

GeekyBear · 22 days ago

Information on why some states and the Feds have chosen to attempt to eradicate feral pig populations:

> How are feral pigs destructive? Let us count the ways.

They are invasive and cause millions of dollars in agricultural damage each year, rooting and trampling through a wide variety of crops. They prey on everything from rodents, to deer, to endangered loggerhead sea turtles, threatening to reduce the diversity of native species. They disrupt habitats. They damage archaeological sites. They are capable of transmitting diseases to domestic animals and humans. In November, a woman died in Texas after being attacked by feral hogs—a very rare, but not unprecedented occurrence.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/feral-pigs-are-inv...

cheald · 22 days ago

They also breed extraordinarily quickly. Females are capable of reproducing at only 3 months old, are fertile year round, have a gestation period of only 115 days, and produce litters of 4-6 per pregnancy. Even with control efforts, populations have been growing at a rate of ~20% annually.

cheald commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

naravara · 23 days ago

The weight loss mechanism largely just comes from suppressing appetite though, so it still lines up with the penance for sin narrative. It’s not that different from wearing a hair-shirt and whipping yourself if you find yourself having lustful thoughts. Only instead of a whip you just feel kind of uncomfortable and nauseous if you eat too much.

cheald · 22 days ago

That's true of semaglutide, but newer peptides like tirzepatide (a dual-agonist) and retatrutide (a triple agonist) have additional effects like improving insulin sensitivity, and simultaneously slowing the release of glucagon and activating glucagon receptors, which directly increases fat oxidation and thermogenesis.

cheald commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs

nostrademons · a month ago

That makes more sense, but if that's true, you can avoid the extra tire wear by driving like a granny (which reportedly works, according to one of the other comments here).

cheald · a month ago

Well, if you can convince my wife of that, you're more than welcome to try. I just crossed 100k miles on my Model 3 and I think I'm on my 5th set of tires.

cheald commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs

nostrademons · a month ago

This doesn't make sense. A Tesla weighs about as much as an SUV. We don't hear about SUVs eating tires.

If Teslas specifically are in the tire shop more, perhaps it's that Teslas ship with shitty tires. I've heard of a number of car makes that ship with really fragile OEM tires as a way to get you back into the shop for service.

cheald · a month ago

It's a combination of the weight of the vehicle and the torque that the electric motors produce.

cheald commented on DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components daisyui.com/... · Posted by u/a_bored_husky

90s_dev · a month ago

Right but it comes after a long line of similar CSS frameworks with the same promise, starting with Bootstrap, and there were large movements about 10 years ago of whole orgs deserting those frameworks because of serious issues. Are you saying Tailwind somehow has resolved those? That was the main reason I didn't try to learn it considering it to be just yet another CSS framework's conventions.

cheald · a month ago

Tailwind solves a somewhat different problem. It's maybe easiest to think of it as a bunch of aliases for writing inline styles. The fundamental problem with CSS at scale is leaky abstractions, right? Tailwind moves the abstractions down a level, so that rather than attaching semantic classes, you're just composing the properties of an element directly, except you don't have to remember if you used px or rem for this padding, or what the media query for a mobile breakpoint is. This tends to reduce the incidence of high-gravity classes which tend to accumulate features, at the cost of some verbosity vs something like Bootstrap, though it's significantly less verbose than equivalent inline styles would be.

cheald commented on CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems colton.dev/blog/tailwind-... · Posted by u/coltonv

chuckadams · a month ago

Some judicious use of @apply would go a long way. But for some reason a few years ago they were actively deprecating its use, favoring the above insanity instead. Now @apply seems to be back in good graces, but I guess not everyone got the updated memo.

cheald · a month ago

@apply in CSS modules to compose the above sort of thing into something more semantic and readable without creating a bunch of global artifacts is definitely the way to go, IMO.

cheald commented on DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components daisyui.com/... · Posted by u/a_bored_husky

90s_dev · a month ago

I've been writing CSS manually since it came out. The latest additions make it less difficult, like & and nesting, variables, etc.

But overall, CSS is just really difficult to scale well properly. I should probably learn Tailwind at this point, instead of continually rolling my own CSS.

So now I have DaisyUI bookmarked since the site is excellent and looks so useful.

cheald · a month ago

I've been writing CSS by hand since the late 90s. I resisted Tailwind for a long time, but I tried it on a pet project and I get it now. It doesn't fundamentally do anything that you can't do in CSS already, but it sort of "quantizes" the DX such that the vast majority of the CSS you'd usually end up writing boils down to a set of conventions.

You can still write your own CSS as needed (and probably should, for some of the more esoteric Tailwind cases), but stupid stuff like flexbox directives and padding/layout that you do literally everywhere become a lot easier, especially with things like the Tailwind VSCode plugin which provides autocomplete, reflection on defined variables, and linter errors for duplicated or incompatbile expressions.

cheald commented on Thingiverse is cracking down on gun-related models using a new automated system tomshardware.com/3d-print... · Posted by u/MrMember

superb_dev · a month ago

The Liberator is fully 3D printed, except for a single metal nail:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-liberator-the-worlds-firs...

cheald · a month ago

And it still requires assembly, is sensitive to tolerances, and is functionally a plastic zip gun - an inferior variant of what you could easily produce with nothing more than a trip to your local hardware store. A better comparison is the FGC-9, which is specifically designed to be manufacturable without access to any regulated parts, and even then there's quite a bit of specialized materials sourcing and assembly that has to be done (including rifling your own barrel out of hydraulic tubing using electrochemical machining). The story that people are just rolling fully-functioning firearms off of their 3D printer is a tale told to frighten hoplophobes.