Readit Newssideshowb commented on The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics hackaday.com/2025/07/23/t... · Posted by u/CharlesW
One part of what's driving cars to all look the same is mandated fuel-efficiency targets, which make aerodynamics a primary design factor that overrides nearly all others. Sacrificing any amount of aerodynamics is unlikely to happen under that regulatory environment.
In that case, estate cars would like a word with the current crop of SUVs
sideshowb commented on Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand phys.org/news/2025-06-qua... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
My regular mechanic does that.
"How much to get this car working again?"
[sucks through teeth...]
sideshowb commented on Are children better off when one parent has a job or when both do? pewresearch.org/short-rea... · Posted by u/libpcap
Why did they ask the teens? How would they know if their personal situation was better or worse than the alternative?
So many variables unmeasured. How many hours per week? What sort of job? Something the parent finds meaning and purpose in, or just a paycheck? Surely these moderate the sign of the outcome
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sideshowb commented on The vocal effects of Daft Punk bjango.com/articles/daftp... · Posted by u/qzervaas
sideshowb commented on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/vinhnx
Horses for courses...
If the game in the article captures what these are about, it didn't do anything for me. Interesting to read, though.
I've enjoyed some games that have a cozy vibe while actually presenting me with puzzles to solve. Monument Valley for example.
I don't know what the state-of-the-art is, but there was some work done that suggested that memories are formed encoded in the language you know at the time of formation.
I dug up some of this a while back[1].
My dad, who taught our language to immigrants, mentioned that it was known in that field that immigrants who lost their native language would also lose a lot of the knowledge they had from their home country, like stuff taught at schools.
Thus the memories might be there, one just can't make sense of them anymore and so they become forgotten.
I suspect it goes deeper than language even. We have associative memories, right? Given our learning, modelling, pigeonholing of the world along with our changing bodies, our older selves are unlikely to experience anything close enough to what our younger selves experienced to trigger that association and recall the memory.
sideshowb commented on Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020) thebetter.news/housing-fi... · Posted by u/ColinWright
You write “You can give these people houses but without treatment they will still be begging on the street.”
Your choice of words makes me wonder whether you would agree that an addict who sleeps in an apartment is better off than an addict who freezes their ass off in an alley at night.
Maybe solving for housing first is a way to eliminate some of the suffering in the world. By demanding that their life “is in order” before providing housing, I think we are demanding the impossible from someone who clearly is not capable of making perfect choices.
FWIW I didn't read that as an argument against providing housing, I read it as an argument in favour of providing housing and treatment.