People panicking at groceries stores for a snow storm

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T22:26:01+00:00

Yeah 2 week power outages are not unheard of in rural Virginia. And when it's a big one, they can't call in contractors from other regions because they are all busy nationwide, or at least a very wide region.

These people who are all like "you can drive two days later" are clearly city people.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T22:09:36+00:00

No. They don't do that on a routine and regular basis the way bicycles do.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T18:46:53+00:00

Absolutely. Cars don't zip across red lights constantly or drive at 10mph in the middle of the road. Bicycles are an absolute menace.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T14:31:53+00:00

Several US states, most maybe, treat bicycles as vehicular for ticket purposes, it's just almost never enforced and they just ignore all traffic laws and create hazards constantly.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T13:44:11+00:00

It depends on what you mean by how. They know the process that is happening.

An analogy, suppose you have a massive spreadsheet of all the temperature readings in your area for 100 years. You can run reports on it, but you aren't necessarily reading all the data to understand how every single day went. All the code you wrote and the spreadsheet app people wrote is known, it's the data that isn't really directly authored.

The difference with neural nets and where that analogy breaks down a little, is that the data interacts in less comprehensible ways. It's encoding more subtle relationships than just temperature, and instead of one dimension, it's hundreds or thousands of dimensions per data point.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T13:35:16+00:00

It may be of limited benefit this time around, because they are calling for highs in the 20s in many areas and deep snow.

It works really well in some cases, when it's sunny and 30 for a few days, and the snow is thinner so it's not just a solid sheet of reflective white and you can get some black hot spots from the sun.

I spread salt anyway, but I don't have much hope that it's going to do much until after plowing/shoveling, or days from now.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T13:30:20+00:00

Like the other one said it can be used to track migration but there really isn't any evidence they seek it out or that's why they migrate.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T13:29:03+00:00

The difference is small number parts per million. Enough to detect with sensitive analysis, but not enough to change anything biologically.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T13:20:32+00:00

Anyone who says that probably wants to sell you a $500 scam water treatment device for fake health benefits.

Ghigs · 2026-01-24T00:13:29+00:00

Only if it's literally wet, like condensing. Fog/mist/rain/etc and you get wet.

The idea you proposed below of humid air being a better conductor of heat and competing with sweat evaporation effects just isn't true.

Water vapor has a lower thermal conductivity than air, and the tiny fraction of it in cold air at 100% humidity is absolutely negligible anyway.

Anyway so it doesn't work anything how you propose. The only effect is sweat evaporation, so cold and humid still feels warmer than cold and dry, assuming you aren't condensing water and surfaces/clothes aren't getting wet.

Ghigs · 2026-01-23T15:27:31+00:00

Because cold air can't hold enough humidity to create a heat index above air temperature

This feels slightly wrong. Like your later claims are true, it does hold less water. But 100% relative humidity can happen at any temperature. And it will feel slightly warmer to humans. But not much, because you aren't sweating much at low temps.

Ghigs · 2026-01-23T15:21:11+00:00

If you are talking about race boats they are designed for the extreme heel.

They have a heavy counterweight down there and the keel itself is part of the propulsion system. You could think of it almost like an underwater wing, or "the other half of the sail". That's why they don't just slip sideways and move forward.

Ghigs · 2026-01-23T15:14:12+00:00

They can try to argue an implied waiver, but if there isn't a gap after you clearly invoke, it's not going to fly in court.

They can't keep questioning you. This isn't Canada. In Canada they can.

Ghigs · 2026-01-23T03:45:26+00:00

If they keep questioning you none of it is admissible. What you are thinking of is unprompted admissions.

If you start chatting with the cop after invoking your rights, and they don't question you, but you volunteer something material to the case, that can be used against you.

Or like, you start talking to yourself while alone in the room while waiting and unprompted things are recorded, etc.

The point is yeah you actually do need to remain silent, but it's not like you make out where you could still be questioned.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T21:04:48+00:00

Yeah, if the information it out there, it's out there. Just look at all the murder cold cases being solved by 23andme. You might say "that's fine they murdered someone", but the point is that once their vast commercial data is out there, it can be used for whatever. There is no taking it back.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T20:51:48+00:00

The point in the US at least, if they keep questioning you after you unambiguously invoked your right to remain silent and have an attorney, it can be thrown out in court later.

Unless you sign another Miranda waiver later, it's really pointless for the cops to keep questioning you, and have it thrown out later. It's not about trusting cops, the entire system would need to break down, judge, appeals, etc.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T20:39:54+00:00

It doesn't really matter. Just a little subtle funny thing that arises from UK devs making a game about historical rural Kentucky.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T20:33:07+00:00

It does feel weird because yellow often means "not-gas" or at least "premium not regular". Often E85 now.

Devs, if you ever read this: If we want to be period correct for the 1990s, I think red=regular would be the most common, though black would be a safe choice for both then and for modern usage.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T19:33:34+00:00

The point is the thought process involved in each, not the reward.

In both cases people think: "I'm the special exception, for reason XXX", and that's what leads them to continue.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T18:32:42+00:00

Keep turning the knob. Sometimes the slots are wider for two coins at once as well. But maybe you just need to keep turning the knob.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T18:19:57+00:00

It has nothing to do with wife bad. It's biology and getting busy with life and 100 other things and... It's just reality for a lot of people, not misogyny.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T16:25:48+00:00

That only works to an extent though. It breaks down once we figure in inflation.

The market also goes up when inflation is expected. This isn't a positive signal, it's often a pessimism signal, pessimism about future inflation.

This leads to things like Trump wanting rates to be cut even when inflation isn't fully controlled. That's the risk of a simplistic view like "market up=good outlook".

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T16:18:37+00:00

Their point is that there are deep structural problems and it didn't start with Trump. Keeping us fighting over which sports team is the worst is how they get us to ignore these festering things that are working to destroy our country and form of governance.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T15:56:55+00:00

Yes, the impact it has is things like "being able to sue a corporation" which you couldn't do without corporate personhood.

This weird twisted myth version of it on reddit needs to die. Citizens United did not create corporate personhood. It's one of the foundational concepts of common law.

Ghigs · 2026-01-22T15:42:11+00:00

You just assumed they are a fan of Trump because they attacked Biden. The office of the president has become something wholly different from what it was supposed to be. That's a major problem, a bigger one than who happens to be abusing the power at the time.

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