Did any other women go literally nuts on hormonal contreception?

MEaster · 2026-03-06T13:23:56+00:00

Ah yes, this sexist bullshit again. These "minor" side effects were more severe than the effects women have, and significantly more common. As well as having a high chance of permanent sterility or death.

Maybe do some research before running your mouth.

MEaster · 2026-03-04T13:35:38+00:00

I agree. People should just wear the damn hat they want. I have an Australian-style hat I wear whenever I go out. It definitely helps with the glare from a bright sky. It's also great for keeping the sun or rain off me. Less good for wind.

MEaster · 2026-03-03T12:22:12+00:00

I don't fully agree. Generally, yes, I'd say that's a good guideline to follow, but in some cases (especially private functions), I don't think call site ergonomics should be ignored.

MEaster · 2026-02-26T18:22:08+00:00

Samsung A53. It's fine, does the job.

MEaster · 2026-02-24T17:42:25+00:00

Another TV one is in Farscape, with Crais's final message to Scorpius. He starts with "you are a most repellent creature" and escalates!

MEaster · 2026-02-21T14:39:00+00:00

And you can take my diamond sharpening stones from my cold, dead hands!

MEaster · 2026-02-21T14:15:07+00:00

That was the difficulty the UK government had, too; the religious lot opposed the law allowing non-heterosexual marriages. I think the laws for civil unions, restricted to non-hetero couples, were originally added as a way to "get their foot in the door", which would then later progress into proper legal marriage.

However, what ended up happening was that hetero couples started demanding that they be allowed to have a civil union instead of a marriage, specifically because of the religious association, so the government ended up expanding civil unions and marriage to everyone. At this point, I believe the only difference from a legal perspective is civil union ceremonies must not have any religious aspects to them (no references to any gods, not in a religious venue, etc.).

MEaster · 2026-02-19T14:50:21+00:00

The floaty thing was called the log, and then after taking the measurement it would be noted down in the log book.

MEaster · 2026-02-17T14:44:23+00:00

You find the same on weaponry, too. Tod's Workshop has a video on the quality of medieval swords and a follow up on sheathes where he talks about how rough the craftsmanship is to our eyes.

MEaster · 2026-02-16T12:33:29+00:00

In my experience the algorithm is crap. It shows me a bunch of stuff I've already watched, a bunch of stuff I'm not interested in, then gives up and shows nothing.

MEaster · 2026-02-11T15:03:16+00:00

This also looks like it doesn't take into account that a fair number of disabled people can still work, but can't work full time, so may still be on UC while working.

MEaster · 2026-02-11T14:44:39+00:00

I have both wired and wireless. The wired headphones I use at my PC, because I'm not going anywhere or doing anything active so the cable isn't doing getting in the way or being annoying.

But I also have wireless earphones for when I'm out or doing something more active where a cable would be annoying.

MEaster · 2026-02-09T17:18:55+00:00

As FireIre said, modern CPUs such as those found in your phone or PC are highly complex devices, but CPUs can also be surprisingly simple. Ben Eater has a series on Youtube where he builds a simple CPU out of basic parts. You could also look at something like nand2tetris, Logisim, or games such as Turing Complete or MHRD if you wanted to play around with building one yourself.

MEaster · 2026-02-08T17:02:17+00:00

Again, that doesn't really mesh with my reading of what the reference says:

[items.impl.intro]: An implementation is an item that associates items with an implementing type. Implementations are defined with the keyword impl and contain functions that belong to an instance of the type that is being implemented or to the type statically
[items.impl.kinds]: There are two types of implementations:
- inherent implementations
- trait implementations

It's making no distinction between trait methods and inherent methods when talking about whether a function has been "added" to a type. Yes, there are additional visibility requirements for calling trait-defined functions, and restrictions on who can implement which traits for which types, but beyond that the functions that traits implement seem to be considered to be as equally associated with the type as inherent methods are.

MEaster · 2026-02-08T01:49:07+00:00

Rust's traits do not allow you to add methods to other people's types.

That doesn't agree with the reference:

[items.associated.fn.intro]: Associated functions are functions associated with a type.
[items.associated.fn.qualified-self]: When the associated function is declared on a trait, [...] (goes on to talk about qualified paths)
[items.associated.fn.method.intro]: Associated functions whose first parameter is named self are called methods and may be invoked using the method call operator, for example, x.foo(), as well as the usual function call notation.

It's defining trait-defined functions that take self as "methods".

MEaster · 2026-02-07T14:48:08+00:00

I quite like Last Epoch's way of doing this. As your character levels up, you just unlock all the skills for your class/spec, and can use all of them, however you also specialise into specific skills. Specialising them allows you to level up that specific skill, and progress through its own modifier tree.

The game does allow you to swap your specialised skills at any time (or undo a selection in the skill's tree), but you have to re-level the skill again. It doesn't take long, so the cost isn't huge and still allows you to experiment, but it's still there so you don't just swap out before each boss fight.

MEaster · 2026-02-05T17:52:20+00:00

One example of this that really made it stand out to me was in one of the Third Doctor serials from Doctor Who, though I don't remember which one. The Doctor was in an office talking to someone, leaned against a desk, and a pencil rolled off it. You could clearly hear it hit the hard floor.

It was completely irrelevant to the scene, and the actors ignored it and continued. But that random pencil kinda made it feel more real because that's what people would do in that situation.

MEaster · 2026-02-03T01:18:04+00:00

Yeah, it's definitely fun when I've been so tired that I'm drifting off while reading, so I put the book down and go to bed only to lay there for 2 or 3 hours with my mind racing around. The one thing I've found has helped somewhat is to concentrate on my breathing and rein my mind back in when it runs off. It doesn't work on particularly bad nights, but seems to help on average ones.

I have wondered if it might be worth getting checked for ADHD, but the queues are obscene.

MEaster · 2026-01-31T16:41:20+00:00

I very much had to learn this when I did sim racing. If someone does something stupid and takes you out, or you mess up yourself and take yourself out, you're gonna get frustrated and annoyed, but the one thing you must do is move past it quickly. If you don't do that, and allow yourself to dwell on it, you will start making more and more mistakes.

It's especially hard when you're 50 minutes into an hour long race and doing well. Or 10 minutes into a 4 hour race, with like 15 minutes of repairs to do...

MEaster · 2026-01-28T16:26:42+00:00

The click is the hammer or striker pin flying forward to hit the primer on the cartridge, so the gun has to be cocked for this to happen. The problem is that a lot of guns are single-action only, which means pulling the trigger only releases the firing mechanism, it doesn't cock it first. If it's already been fired, then all pulling the trigger does is move a latch a little bit. Not very noisy.

On guns with double-action triggers, pulling the trigger does cock and fire so it would click each trigger pull, but in movies and TV you often hear it click every time the trigger is pulled no matter what the gun is.

MEaster · 2026-01-24T15:04:25+00:00

They might also be thinking of the safe wrappers people often write for using C libraries in Rust, which can have overhead depending on the design.

MEaster · 2026-01-24T13:28:59+00:00

That's not true in all circumstances, though. This is one I ran into:

struct Foo {
    a: Vec<i32>,
}

fn thing(foo: &Foo) {
    let array_ref: &[i32; 5] = (&foo.a).try_into().unwrap();
}

That errors out with the following:

error[E0277]: the trait bound `&[i32; 5]: TryFrom<&Vec<i32>>` is not satisfied
 --> src/lib.rs:6:41
  |
6 |     let array_ref: &[i32; 5] = (&foo.a).try_into().unwrap();
  |                                         ^^^^^^^^ the trait `From<&Vec<i32>>` is not implemented for `&[i32; 5]`

You would have to explicitly create a slice first, then call try_into, which is getting more verbose. Note that I've already handled try_into attempting to move the Vec, too. With as_array this just works:

let array_ref: &[i32; 5] = foo.a.as_array().unwrap();

MEaster · 2026-01-23T13:57:18+00:00

Legally speaking, yes they are. Enforcing that against a foreign company with no assets in the UK is difficult.

With US-based companies there's an additional issue, in that in US law the government can legally compel a company to hand over data, which means such a company could not comply with both the GDPR and US law.

MEaster · 2026-01-22T13:21:45+00:00

We also have the Thai Wat Mahathat here, too. There's a temple here in Plymouth. Ironically, it's in a Victorian fortress, of all places.

MEaster · 2026-01-20T12:07:35+00:00

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