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gifvenut commented on Flame retardants found in consumer products linked to cancer cnn.com/2024/04/01/health... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

megamix · a year ago

I wonder how one can measure this. Has it been proved that safety systems lead to fewer accidents? Seriously, I'm asking.

Have the number of accidents with fatal outcome decreased? If so, how can it be linked to safety systems? Etc etc So many questions.

gifvenut · a year ago

Yes, studies seem to indicate so:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/parts-partnership-for-analytics-resear...

https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2143

Of course the systems are complex and make the car more expensive to repair, but that’s another topic.

gifvenut commented on Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011) thenewatlantis.com/public... · Posted by u/gradus_ad

mavili · a year ago

Very simple: the Arab world has been battling with Western colonialism cancer for the past couple of centuries, they haven't got any time left to spend on scientific matters or improve.

Ready, set, go! Start downvoting

gifvenut · a year ago

So you didn’t read the article then.

gifvenut commented on Receive push notifications from your rice cooker shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/... · Posted by u/ColinWright

morder · a year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI Great Technology Connections video about how it works.

gifvenut · a year ago

Your video explains how traditional rice cookers work. However it doesn’t explain how fuzzy logic in a rice cooker works.

gifvenut commented on A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation saunatimes.com/sauna-info... · Posted by u/jmacd

givemeethekeys · a year ago

Because, he's FORTY FIVE! He's FRAIL with one foot LITERALLY in the GRAVE!! j/k. Someone mentioned that he has 45 years of experience. That makes him closer to 65. If he's still doing cool shit, thats pretty cool.

I wish they'd explain the problem in a short sentence before diving right in. Maybe this blog is for people who already know what the issues with an electric sauna are... bad ventilation, I assume.

gifvenut · a year ago

If you read the article, the problem is explained quite well:

> In my simple mind, the Finnish Sauna is just a type of Heat Treat Furnace or Oven that you load humans into and try to provide them with three characteristics. (1) not oversaturate their lungs with their own Carbon Dioxide waste products from being enclosed in a sauna with poor ventilation and limited fresh air volume changes (called Air Mixing in the study), (2) create an enjoyable Temperature distribution within the sauna environment (called Temperatures in the study) and lastly (3) provide a well distributed Ladled Steam Humidity cloud throughout the Sauna (called Air Condition in the study). Basically, everything you would expect for a good Finnish Sauna experience.

The rest of the article explains the ventilation needed for this.

gifvenut commented on WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Tomte

pests · a year ago

Does it? I decode it instantly and understand the meaning just like I know what a "fishbowl" is. There is no "decoding" or even nonsensical input in this case.

You are just being stubborn and trying to adhere to an outdated standard. Upgrade or get replaced.

gifvenut · a year ago

But you are not everyone.

gifvenut commented on If You're So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week? hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

begueradj · a year ago

> "Insecure overachievers are exceptionally capable and fiercely ambitious, yet driven by a profound sense of their own inadequacy. This typically stems from childhood, and may result from various factors, such as experience of financial or physical deprivation, or a belief that their parents’ love was contingent upon their behaving and performing well."

It's all there.

gifvenut · a year ago

Culture plays a part too. I may have all those things but still work a steady 40 hrs a week. In fact, my employer gets worried if I work more than that, because they recognize the importance of downtime for employee performance.

gifvenut commented on US safety regulations make it difficult to automakers to add adaptive headlights cnn.com/2024/02/15/cars/h... · Posted by u/egorfine

midasuni · 2 years ago

Good. Adaptive headlights are won’t he U.K. and there are many cases when they don’t work and end up blinding people.

gifvenut · 2 years ago

> Adaptive headlights are won’t he U.K.

Come again?

gifvenut commented on US safety regulations make it difficult to automakers to add adaptive headlights cnn.com/2024/02/15/cars/h... · Posted by u/egorfine

randcraw · 2 years ago

Based on my strongly negative experience with automatic high beams (2019 Honda Ridgeline), I'm very dubious that smart headlights will hit the intended target, much less continue to do so as the vehicle's hardware ages.

gifvenut · 2 years ago

Seems like your sample size of one vehicle is quite small. My experiences have been fantastic.

gifvenut commented on Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed danluu.com/impossible-agr... · Posted by u/_xivi

true_religion · 2 years ago

I went with anything that moves unpowered or not that is not also a living thing is a vehicle so long as it falls within the light cone that could theoretically be projected from the park grounds directly upwards if it were in a vacuum.

Not many people agreed with me, but it’s a strict rule that I could imagine something like the military trying to enforce over a top secret area.

It blocks everything ambiguous so only the horse was not a vehicle.

Overall I think it’s a good experiment as it shows why it’s good to enumerate examples of what is and isn’t part of a rule in order to adjusted it the future.

gifvenut · 2 years ago

Light cone? But over the park is not in the park.

gifvenut commented on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines cbsnews.com/news/fda-slee... · Posted by u/pizza

wyldfire · 2 years ago

It does explain it, in the second, third paragraphs:

> The FDA said that since April 2021 it has received more than 116,000 medical device reports of foam breaking down ... amid reports they were blowing gas and pieces of foam into the airways of those using the devices.

gifvenut · 2 years ago

The reporting in this leaves a lot of questions. I can understand pieces of foam, but that the machines were harming people by blowing _gas_? The air that we breathe is a mixture of gases. What other type of harmful gas could a CPAP machine blow?