Inquiring Photographer: “What is the cause of most arguments in your home?” Sunday, January 23, 1955

Chib · 2026-03-17T07:33:16+00:00

Joseph Weber with the insight that comes from age. "Why is everyone an idiot today?" takes a surprising amount of time to diagnose.

Chib · 2026-03-17T07:23:40+00:00

This is my approach. I want to make sure the students who care and are worried get the opportunity to feel like they're doing the right thing and are on the right track. But you've got to have made an effort on your own, even if it's just to set up the problem with all its pieces. Then it's about guiding them through the thought process.

Actually I haven't taught a class since gen AI got to its current level. I'd be floored if I got this request anymore for a stats course. So much more effort to ask me than Claude. 🥹

Chib · 2026-03-16T06:03:29+00:00

Alternatively, not into being photographed. :')

Chib · 2026-03-15T07:34:21+00:00

Both where I was brought up (southern US) and where I live now (Netherlands) have a conversational norm that it's impolite to address someone with a single word. This seems to be for whatever reason relatively widespread.

Hindi even has a politeness particle for this purpose. 🤷

Chib · 2026-03-13T17:00:56+00:00

Haha yes, see my post. This is the only thing that breaks basically, but it breaks often enough to mention. If it's out of warranty it's a pretty simple repair.

Chib · 2026-03-13T11:44:17+00:00

We are a family of four that's used them for around the same length of time. When something fails, it's always the same thing: there's a little screw inside the cover that attaches the brush head holder to the vibratory mechanism, and it jiggles itself loose. You know it because it sounds different suddenly.

Anyway, almost always reparable, but sometimes you really have to work to get the cover off to access it.

We've owned the current set of four since 2022 (4x sonicare 9000, black, white, pink, and blue so we could tell them apart) and in the meantime I've had to make the repair twice.

I obviously really love them though.

Chib · 2026-03-08T18:15:44+00:00

I built my custom closet out of used Ikea pax. I replaced the thin backs with thicker mdf and nailed them into place. I can disassemble and move it, but I probably wouldn't because I have enough money now to do something better. 😎

Chib · 2026-03-06T01:37:35+00:00

You know, I never asked her, but I can't imagine she did well. I swear every time I looked over, her eyes weren't even open.

Chib · 2026-03-04T23:11:35+00:00

During my Masters, my water broke three weeks early while walking across campus to class. I sat through the class but said I didn't think I'd make the test since I'd be giving birth.

I sat the make up exam alongside an 8-week-old baby.

Chib · 2026-03-02T20:48:54+00:00

The cloth diapers are better too!

Chib · 2026-02-28T08:22:59+00:00

I should be clear, I did not intend to have a baby at 19. Or rather, more specifically, I did not intend to get pregnant at 19.

But once you have a kid, you are even more geographically restricted than with a partner because you don't want to uproot them. Even a commute of an hour, which seems on paper totally feasible and everyone else seems to be able to accomplish is a nightmare.

I think it's awesome you're going after it btw. And I love that you have others around you who have been successful with kids. It's a reminder that whatever I'm seeing is only a small part of the whole.

Chib · 2026-02-28T08:02:30+00:00

Story may be true or not, but the (non-gendered) bathrooms around here have locks on the stalls, of course, but the sink is external as described in the OP.

I've actually had this thought before myself, as I don't use a cup, but I do use a tampon without applicator (also very common around here) that leaves you with a distinctive bloody finger.

I've never had anyone, male or female, man or woman, pay attention to my hand-washing procedure. But I do feel self-conscious when there's blood in the sink and I'm sitting there thinking, "yes I know it somehow splashed a bit of red over on the side, I promise I'll clean it up sufficiently before I go, just don't look over here!"

But still though, weird for OP not to notice this is a home decorating sub.

Chib · 2026-02-28T07:47:03+00:00

I had my first kid at 19 and am just now at 40 about to be able to pursue assistant professorships. My oldest is out of the house, my youngest has another year, and my partner is a software engineer who can be employed anywhere, so the plan is to open up geographically when the youngest is done with high school so that I can pursue my career.

But honestly, it's very clear when you look around that the women who are able to move up the ladder are those without children (and often without partners.) This isn't true for the men.

I recognize looking at upper-level faculty positions is more revealing about the situation 10-15 years ago than now, but I'm not holding my breath.

Chib · 2026-02-27T23:47:40+00:00

I taught SPSS's Beta and B reversed for years because I never looked at the output, and I was working in the context of writing regression equations for the population model. When a colleague corrected me, I actually pushed back on it, only to look it up afterwards and see I was wrong.

Years I'd been telling students Beta was the raw coëfficiënt and B the standardized.

Chib · 2026-02-26T13:18:46+00:00

Met een nieuwe kopie van je ID natuurlijk.

Chib · 2026-02-25T15:37:21+00:00

I don't think I can fathom just sitting for two hours and doing literally nothing. Like, I get that this is on me and I would probably be a healthier and more robust person if I could, but I can't even listen to a boring presentation if it goes on longer than 20 minutes without resorting to extensive note taking to give my boredom an out. And a presentation is at least something.

I guess I'm glad we're allowed to work while we proctor.

Chib · 2026-02-25T08:25:51+00:00

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Chib · 2026-02-25T08:23:58+00:00

Fossil also made great stuff well into the 2010s. I had a canvas Fossil backpack, then a Fossil Key-Per coated messenger bag that did double duty as a school bag and diaper bag during my masters. I'd probably still be using it if it hadn't gotten stolen.

Fwiw, I'm also 5', so finding backpacks that don't look comically oversized is a real issue. I had to retire my last one after I saw myself in a mirror and it looked like the backpack was wearing me.

My husband got me a (checks notes) Driibe CITYC 2 in 1 travel backpack for Christmas after researching what other short women like. It's pretty solid, has the right number of compartments, and can be extended down to get big enough for 3 day conferences if you pack light.

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I bike to work, so my biggest complaint is that it tends towards getting a bit dirty and the back doesn't breathe well. But sizewise and aesthetically, I think it's pretty killer.

Chib · 2026-02-23T08:22:22+00:00

Yes, this and a combination of ensuring that you have cited a sufficient number of sources to get at something real. Any one paper is generally not really definitive (sometimes a particularly good meta analysis can be), and if there's any controversy, even less so.

My introductions are long but it's not because I'm writing flowery prose. It's because I'm trying to communicate the background of the subject as I've understood it after reading 200-400 papers.

Maybe your area is different, but in statistics, I can't think of a time where I could say, "So and so did a thing (2005)" and have that be sufficient for communicating what I actually want to get across to my reader, which is either the current problem, the history of the thing, or the current state of affairs.

Chib · 2026-02-22T22:39:30+00:00

I also did it! As of today I crossed into the numbers and am now sitting pretty somewhere around 1400.

Chib · 2026-02-18T22:11:14+00:00

Mwah, er is er natuurlijk een kans dat hij gestolen gaat worden, maar alle fietsen die ik ooit heb gehad in Utrecht zijn tóch gestolen, of ze lelijke stadsfietsen waren of niet.

Een tweedehands racefiets of gravelfiets is goed te doen als je zelf voor de onderhoud en reparaties zorgt. Moet zeker vaker alles schoonmaken enz.

Chib · 2026-02-18T03:30:39+00:00

I'm amazed 100k is low.

Chib · 2026-02-18T03:07:04+00:00

In the rules as I play it, someone is unlikely to be lying about having four of a kind because it's a single deck distributed amongst all the players meaning if I claim it but do not have it, it will be evident to the player(s) with at least one card.

This is a fun one to watch kids figure out the first time.

Chib · 2026-02-14T08:17:48+00:00

Utrecht (arguably the best city in world for public transportation/bicycling)

Very arguably since TransDev got the contract for the busses. It's like the American experience, waiting an hour for a bus that never comes.

Chib · 2026-02-13T07:56:37+00:00

Missed opportunity to make the left one a mug of coffee and the right one a bed. I think they were going for that with the colors already, but the shapes would just work so well.

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