AbouBenAdhem

It sounds like she’s constructed two competing versions of you in her mind—an idealized version that always understands and sympathizes with her, and a second version constructed from all the times you’ve failed to live up to those expectations.

If you can’t be her idealized version of yourself, you can demonstrate that you’re not the second version, either. Focus on proactively doing things for her when she’s not expecting you to—everything you do that doesn’t match what her mental model of you predicts you’ll do will weaken that model in her head.

If I post a comment and someone afterward posts a better comment that renders mine superfluous, I’ll usually delete my comment to give the better one more visibility. But if someone has already replied to my comment, I’ll leave it for the sake of context, but downvote it to make sure people see the better comment first.

Jumping off the ISS wouldn’t cause you to de-orbit—it would just put you in a slightly more elliptical orbit that would eventually intersect the ISS again.

And if you did get into an orbit that took you down into the atmosphere, no parachute would save you—parachutes are for slowing to a safe landing speed from terminal velocity, not from orbital velocity. You’d need to go through atmosphere too thin to fill a chute, but still fast enough to burn you up.

I would never use an iPhone if my phone were my primary computing device. But I just make occasional calls and texts, and use a handful of apps (for instance, Nextcloud and Home Assistant connected directly to my home server, bypassing most of Apple’s ecosystem).

For a secondary device, I just want something simple and sturdy that I have to think about as little as possible—and for that specific use case the limitations are a plus.

I think there needs to be a senate & congress vote AND a majority of states need to ratify the amendment after which the Supreme court does a review.

I’m not sure a Supreme Court review is an official part of the process—the SC can review the constitutionality of ordinary laws, but amendments are constitutional by definition.

I think the reason you’re not seeing that kind of device is that zigbee is designed more for low-bandwidth, sporadic updates rather than continuous streams of live data like you typically expect from a probe thermometer.

Gil Amelio keeps refreshing the page to remind himself of his days as Apple CEO.

“You failed to adequately inform your investors about the risk of me.”

Move them together until their arms cross and it’s a new ad for X.

That makes me wonder—are there any major animal diseases for which humans are the reservoir species?

I think there should be a feature wherein every new community can designate a parent community and a minimum traffic threshhold; and if traffic falls below the threshold, posts and subscriptions are folded into the parent community until traffic picks up again.

It looks like this study isn’t actually about the effect of the drugs, but about the best way of communicating expected treatment outcomes to patients.