It's also a tower that has famously been deliberately un-straightend just enough to remain a tourist attraction while remaining stable.
What?!? The tower was slightly straightened for safety reasons. It was never intentionally made to lean more.
Readit Newssteadicat commented on Nano Banana Pro blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
steadicat commented on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information blog.burkert.me/posts/in_... · Posted by u/curioussquirrel
I miss RSS too much, I have decided to start using it again today. For those who are in it, what is your favorite client?
This app made me fall in love with RSS after years of trying: https://feeeed.nateparrott.com/
steadicat commented on Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease tuni.fi/en/news/myocardia... · Posted by u/DaveZale
Alcohol-free mouthwash is even more likely to cause tissue damage because they almost all contain SLS. Some people are more sensitive to it than others (causing the mucosa to peel) but it causes mild damage to everybody.
Almost all? I just checked and Act, Crest, CloSYS and many others are all SLS-free and alcohol-free. The only one with SLS I could find is Listerine Cool Mint.
Maybe you’re thinking toothpastes? SLS in toothpaste is indeed hard to avoid.
steadicat commented on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure tailscale.com/blog/freque... · Posted by u/ingve
This is why 24 hours is a particularly bad timespan for reauthentication. With e.g. 16 hours, you’d at least get a predictable prompt on each new workday.
One time I led a project and ran daily standups by screen-sharing our Asana board so the team could review in-progress tasks. Every day, right in the middle of the meeting, Asana logged me out. I’d rush to log back in to finish the review, thus ensuring we’d repeat the cycle exactly 24 hours later. This silly dance lasted the whole project.
steadicat commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl
You’re either exaggerating or don’t spend much time in NYC. Half of Broadway is closed to cars now, same with Wall Street. We have summer streets where they close many on weekends. Lots of dedicated bike lanes and a few isolated paths throughout the city. Could there be more? Sure. Are they completely absent? No.
I think we just have a different idea of what it means to be closed to cars. I live right by the stretch of Broadway you mention, so I’m very familiar. This is what it looks like: https://flatironnomad.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/4.2-Pla...
There is no restriction of through traffic. Effectively pedestrians are still confined to tiny and overcrowded sidewalks.
By comparison, here’s what a pedestrian street looks like in the non-US city I grew up in: https://sana.ae/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Corso-Italia-Stre...
Keep in mind that cars are still allowed for emergency services and (night time) deliveries. But the difference is night and day.
This is exactly what “the US can't imagine itself without cars” means to me.
steadicat commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl
>IMHO the real problem is cars. The US still can't imagine itself without cars.
All of the US except NYC. In NYC 45.6% of households own a car. In Berlin it's 49%.
https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/u-s-cities-with-th...
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/car-free-berlin-li.113268
You’re kind of proving the point here. NYC has fewer car owners and yet NYC doesn’t have a single pedestrian street or street closed to through traffic. Sounds like a city that can’t imagine itself without cars even though it’s completely realistic.
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I've seen a few people use a soft inflatable or plush collar that's more flat, and doesn't go up around the face, instead of an actual cone. That way the cat's the whiskers aren't disturbed while still preventing the cat from worsening wounds by licking. At least some cats seem to be a lot more tolerant of that style.
I tried this but cats, being (almost) liquid, can very easily wrap around the soft collars and reach pretty much any part of their body.
steadicat commented on On tea and the art of doing nothing thomasjbevan.substack.com... · Posted by u/vitabenes
TIL about the existence of white tea. Thank you!
Fun fact: "White tea may have first appeared in English publication in 1876, where it was categorized as a black tea, ..."
So white can be black sometimes!
White tea is actually closer to black tea than the name implies. Because – unlike green tea – it is not steamed to stop the oxidation process, it oxides naturally as it dries. This puts it somewhere between green tea and black tea in terms of oxidation (which is also where oolong is BTW[1]). Some oolongs and white teas – if brewed similarly – are very very close to black tea in terms of flavor.
[1] The technical difference between oolong and white is simply that white is processed naturally, whereas oolong has more “steps” (oxidation, drying, steaming, etc.). The steps can be manipulated to give the tea a different character. Oolongs are often roasted, for example.
steadicat commented on Why do arrays start at 0? buttondown.email/hillelwa... · Posted by u/snikolaev
> The 1 makes a lot of sense in a human world, when we count, we start at 1, we talk about the "1st", counting on finger starts with 1, etc.
It is more like counting from 1 is just a leftover from times where zero was not commonly considered as number. Once one have zero, it makes sense to use it as an initial ordinal (see e.g. set theory, where zero is both initial ordinal and initial cardinal number, way before computers).
Another example is time and date, we start counting of days from 1, but counting of hours (at least in 24-hour notation) and minutes from 0.
> Luis started explaining why Lua was 1-index with this sentence: "The 1st argument ...."
Note that for spoken language, it is "The first argument ..." and 'first' is etymologically unrelated to 'one', but related to 'foremost', 'front', so it make sense to use 'first' for the initial item in the sequence even when using counting from 0.
When talking about discrete things, 0 has a specific meaning: it is the absence of things. It does not make sense to count the 'first' element as the 0th. When you encounter the 'first' element, how many elements do you have? 1.
This is of course different for continuous quantities. When counting seconds, for example, we should absolutely start from 0.