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kuerbel commented on The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening makegathergrow.com/blog/r... · Posted by u/squircle

laborcontract · a year ago

Composting is one of the most unexpectedly satisfying things to do. Don’t even need to throw food in it (vermin bait). Just cut greens and carbon. As a bonus you can pee on it. You can also go to Starbucks and ask for their used coffee grounds, which they’ll happily prepare for you. Couple weeks and you have earthworms everywhere. Several more weeks and all those damn boxes from Amazon are nowhere to be found.

The bonus is that you start to go down a regenerative rabbit hole that’ll turn you into a mycorrhizal fungi maximalist.

kuerbel · a year ago

I like the hugelkultur graben bed. It basically composts itself. Very low maintenance in comparison.

kuerbel commented on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes cnn.com/2024/05/20/middle... · Posted by u/spzx

ars · a year ago

Or, and I assume you have not considered this, but maybe you should, there is no genocide. And virtually everyone except for some noisy activists knows this.

You live in a bubble if you think social media represents people. Social media represents the highly motivated ones. It does not reward quiet thinkers, it rewards "useful idiots" who have brainless slogans.

The normal people who actually think about things don't participate because they have better things to do than useful idiots.

And then you have people like me who also have better things to do, but feel obligated to post occasionally to at least try to reduce the amount of misinformation.

kuerbel · a year ago

> there is no genocide

So the ICC already decided on this? No? Well, then I wouldn't be so sure about this if I where you. Because starving a population, denying them water, fuel and medicine amounts to genocide in all but name.

kuerbel commented on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes cnn.com/2024/05/20/middle... · Posted by u/spzx

kuerbel · a year ago

That is not true. It is still at around 40k. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-m...

>They showed 24,686 dead which appeared to be a downward revision from the figure of about 35,000 which had been reported earlier in May, with 7,797 children and 4,959 women confirmed dead, about half the toll cited in previous reports. But the UN said on Monday that estimated overall death toll remained about 35,000.

>Farhan Haq, a UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed. Haq said it was expected that, as the process of identification continued, the official tolls among women and children would also rise.

kuerbel commented on Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

exitb · a year ago

I can't wait until a computer will first "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" us when trying to download a Gameboy rom or write a Star Wars fanfic.

kuerbel · a year ago

then boot up linux and light a candle for linus torvalds

kuerbel commented on I might've been a rocket scientist (like my dad), but I was a girl exponentii.org/blog/i-mig... · Posted by u/luu

aaplok · a year ago

It's not too late for you to decide to spend more time with your daughter and less time working. You both could go part-time. If you are afraid that your career won't wait, remember that neither will your children. You might need to discuss with your wife about this, but it is a decision that you should make together, not her or you alone.

My wife and I have taken about equal share in raising our kids and honestly I am prouder to have managed to spend time with my children growing up and to be married to a woman who doesn't have to rely on me to survive than of anything I could have done in a slightly more successful career.

kuerbel · a year ago

It's what I would be in favour of too. I also wonder, do full time carers not worry? What if tragedy strikes, it's not that uncommon - an accident during commute is enough to render someone unable to work? Also I wouldn't want to put the pressure of being the sole breadwinner on my partner at all. To me it wouldn't feel like an equal relationship somehow.

kuerbel commented on I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/wk_end

zahllos · 2 years ago

This is very common where I am (Switzerland) and I agree entirely with your conclusion. It's not uncommon to see posts open for over 6 months and it often seems like this is because no candidate is good enough.

In the intervening time, a candidate not quite ticking all the boxes but with motivation and energy could have learned what they needed to and moved whatever the project is forward.

kuerbel · 2 years ago

Do you think it might be because of the higher salaries? I live in Germany and they hire more easily, even though after usually 6 months it is harder for them to get rid of you than in Switzerland.

kuerbel commented on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom tuvsud.com/en/press-and-m... · Posted by u/tckr

CraigJPerry · 2 years ago

>> boil down to surface rust on the braking discs

You don’t fail for surface rust, it’s not a check that’s done.

You fail for dangerous imbalance of braking force. When the car is run on the drum roller (rolling road powers the cars wheels) and the inspector presses the brakes, the braking force applied by the car is measured. You get a fail if your braking performance is likely to unsettle the car in high braking force scenarios.

Failing here is a real problem. It doesn’t warrant a dismissive surface rust claim.

Tesla does already periodically apply brakes even when regen would be enough to keep on top of surface rust. Tesla even applies brakes when excess water is detected:

“To ensure brakes remain responsive in cold and wet weather, Model 3 is equipped with brake disc wiping. When cold and wet weather is detected, this feature ...”

This has been a common feature on many brands for around 10 years at this point.

kuerbel · 2 years ago

The manual clearly states that the breaking discs need to be cleaned every, what was it, 25k km. Thats a job for a mechanic. Also in the DIY section it says that the brakes should be burnished as well.

kuerbel commented on Normal Operating Sounds tesla.com/ownersmanual/mo... · Posted by u/mvansch

CraigJPerry · 2 years ago

I’m not sure I agree with Tesla on this diagnosis. To me that sound is metal rubbing against metal with friction.

Before I investigated pads and discs, my first port of call would have been any ball joints. I don’t know the typical Tesla suspension make up but if there’s any bottom ball joint at the control arm / wheel carrier interface or tie-rod end, then that would be first.

Either way, definitely sounded like a failing ball joint to me. I’d want to visually inspect the dust boots for cracks, use a pick to check it’s still fully packed with healthy grease, then with wheels in the air, manipulate the wheel - hands at 12 o clock and 6 o clock, rock back and forth (testing bottom ball joint). Hands at 3 and 9 o clock (testing tie rod end).

Of course brake pads on discs can also fit the profile of “metal rubbing against metal with friction” but in that particular recording… unless the audio has been messed with (which from listening to some other clips I think they have applied some hi and lo cut with roll off in post)

kuerbel · 2 years ago

This one is normal (every tesla I know of does this, ymmv of course). However their older model 3 and y were equipped with some very shoddy engineered suspension arms which, over time, started to creak because water can enter them. Also all the water from the front window was/is distributed more or less directly over the suspension arms. Newer models have somewhat better suspension arms equipped.

kuerbel commented on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox old.reddit.com/r/youtube/... · Posted by u/csvm

jiggawatts · 2 years ago

Netflix does the same thing. Actually, speaking of infuriating corporate bullshit, allow me to go on a rant about Netflix and subtitles.

They give you the option to choose between like four, maybe five languages. That's it!

If you want subtitles in any of the other hundred or so languages that they have available, well... no. Just no. Learn one of the four they've picked for you.

If you call their support, they'll gaslight you and mumble something about "copyright", which is patent nonsense. Copyright doesn't restrict Netflix from showing more translations for their own content that they made themselves. They own the copyright on it, which means, literally, that they have the right to do whatever they please with the copy. Including showing the associated subtitles to you.

You see, what actually happened, is that some too-smart UX guy at Netflix couldn't make a language picker look nice for that many options so he asked a too-smart data science (lol) guy to figure out the most common languages for each region.

Here in Australia they picked English, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese because we have a lot of immigrants from those countries. I'm sure they used very clever algorithms on big data clusters to figure that out. Good job, well done.

Never mind that every other streaming app vendor figured this out. Netflix and their $500K total comp Stanford or wherever graduates couldn't. So they instructed their call centre staff to lie to their customers.

Then they had someone write this idiocy: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/101798

"If subtitles for a title are offered in a language but do not display on your device, try another device."

Oh, oh, I'll go do that right now! Let me try my PC... nope four languages. On the TV? Four languages. Actually, I have a phone... and... oh... four languages.

PS: Thai (only!) subtitles are "special" and use eye-searing HDR maximum white. Like 1,600 nits white that literally leaves green after-images etched into my retina. They have a support page and a pre-prepared set of lies for the support staff to read for that piece of shoddy engineering also.

kuerbel · 2 years ago

I don't know about browser options, but on the android app I can choose between 7 different audio languages and 29 subtitles. Looked it up just for you with an episode of "The good Doctor", which is not a netflix original. I live in Germany. Definitely not an UI issue.

kuerbel commented on WHO – Physical Activity who.int/news-room/fact-sh... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

clnq · 2 years ago

So 7-9 hours of sleep, 2.5-5 hours of moderate physical activity if you are healthy and not require more sleep or activity for chronic conditions. 8-9.4 hours that a software engineer (in games) is expected to be at a screen which bossware tracks. Plus an hour for lunch, which is kind of throwaway. All together, that makes 18.5-24.4 hours a day.

But where do you fit other adult responsibilities, chores, social life, spiritual life, self-care, entertainment, learning, hobbies, intellectual pursuits, and other things? Where do you fit your commute, shopping, and kids - the non-negotiables? So something has to give. Sleep or exercise, right? Perhaps this is why we're all so unhealthy?

kuerbel · 2 years ago

2.5-5h exercise per week not day and simple things like taking the stairs instead of an elevator, going for a walk during lunchbreak, taking the bike instead of the car, cleaning, shopping (usually involves walking) etc all count.