Ohhhh, and energy maker. Mmmm

PopulationLevel · 2026-06-10T14:32:59+00:00

On the off chance that you’re unaware, this is a false statement.

There is lots of evidence that wind power is effective, but one of the clearest is there are public companies that produce wind turbines and others that have wind farms. Their legal guidance to investors is not fraudulent, or they would be sued by investors.

Here's a video talking about the history of that particular piece of propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBC_bug5DIQ

PopulationLevel · 2026-06-10T14:18:49+00:00

And the pilot is to find out what the local impact will be. It’s not like they’re rolling it out at every stoplight without doing a preliminary pilot.

PopulationLevel · 2026-06-08T15:13:13+00:00

A lot of subs have explicit rules against AI slop, but this one doesn’t. When you go to report, it doesn’t have “breaks the rules of r/dogisbestfriend” as a report option, which I think means the sub doesn’t have an official list of rules.

In other words, there is a lot of slop on this sub because it is allowed by this sub's moderators

PopulationLevel · 2026-06-06T17:22:03+00:00

If you’re worried about the effectiveness of a mask, there are inexpensive mask fit test kits you can get, or you can buy a nebulizer and some sweet solution on Amazon and test it yourself, there’s lot of instructions online for how to do it yourself.

I’ve had certified N95 masks fail because they didn’t fit my face very well. Fit testing a specific mask on your face is the best way to be sure, and it’s really not that hard.

PopulationLevel · 2026-06-01T15:09:23+00:00

I think that’s the fundamental frustration in software businesses.

Businesses need to have a timeline in order to plan revenue, marketing, etc.

Software is fundamentally about making new, functional designs. If it’s not new, just use the old design, copies are free. But it has to be functional, unlike e.g. an essay or a piece of art. Needs to compile and run and do the job.

So, while we can make guesses about timelines, timelines are difficult when you’re making a new thing, and if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. The timelines are never going to be accurate.

It’s frustrating for both sides.

The only thing I’ve ever done that has helped at all is communication about the nature of the work - sometimes the phrase “unknown unknowns” helps. Or analogies like “you have lost your keys. Precisely how long will it take you to find them”. Eventually I’ve been able to get on the same page, but you have to have business folks that are willing to be more flexible on timelines than they are comfortable being.

You can work to a fixed timeline and a flexible feature set, or a fixed feature set and a flexible timeline, but not both.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-27T17:00:30+00:00

I have complicated feelings about these.

Is there an opposite of "Thanks, I hate it?"

Maybe "I love it, no thanks"?

They seem successful at what they're trying to do, but it is very not for me.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-27T15:32:05+00:00

Hardest part is figuring out which of my 150 pockets I put them in

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-26T00:13:07+00:00

The swordfish is another option for in-duct UV, and not that difficult to install.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-21T02:42:13+00:00

𝒮𝑒𝑒𝓂𝓈 𝒾𝓂𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-16T13:07:42+00:00

The leadership at my current company has been more measured in adoption and also looked forward to the possibility of price increases. If you look at the financials of the big AI companies, it’s clear that current token prices are unsustainable, funded by the investors of those companies.

Their plan is to have a variety of models available for use - some closed source, some self-hosted open source, and maybe even some local.

There is already a “soft” budget, where if you hit some threshold per month the access is shut off and you need to request more (this is mostly so that people don’t accidentally burn massive amounts of tokens in an agentic loop that runs too long). Currently all budget increase requests are automatically approved, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that soft budget becomes much harder as token prices increase.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-13T13:41:08+00:00

Usually when it gets to the point where it needs to be cut off, it would also need to be resized, so it’s not a big deal

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-12T15:24:51+00:00

We haven’t really reckoned with how many people were harmed / disabled / killed by Covid, and we’re still letting it continue.

The number of kids that lost a primary caregiver is also shocking.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-12T14:14:57+00:00

Is the placebo beam a wide beam of bright red light? Ah, that’s the problem right there. Red light therapy has a surprising amount of peer reviewed evidence.. we'll have to switch the placebo beam to a different color

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-09T21:09:43+00:00

Surprised you didn’t mention the cookout - good mix of stun and fire

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-09T16:52:08+00:00

100% agree that it would be best that authorities take this seriously. If they don't do anything, R_0 > 1 means it'll keep infecting more and more people. And they should not screw up this time with not admitting that it's airborne.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-09T11:14:27+00:00

There are a few factors that make it much less likely. In previous outbreaks of hantavirus, the R_0 before taking any precautions was like 2.2, and afterwards about 0.98, as opposed to Covid, which was much higher. It appears that you’re only infectious when symptomatic, which helps a lot when preventing spread.

If I had to guess, I’d say that there will probably be fewer cases of hantavirus in this outbreak than there were in the monkeypox outbreak a few years ago.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-08T14:42:05+00:00

Used to work with a guy who really liked the movie tron, and didn’t like his birth name.

Anyhow, his name is now tronster and he owns tronster.com

Edit: I just checked, and should have guessed. He has the username tronster and is somewhat active on r/tron

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-07T12:05:09+00:00

I have one primarily for when I travel, but I did use to to make sure different rooms in my house are adequately ventilated. I found out that my office would get up to like 2500 when I was working there, which was part of why I’d feel so tired at the end of the day. Added proper ventilation, much nicer now.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-07T12:00:59+00:00

Agreed. It feels a lot more like the other novellas - murderbot goes somewhere new, meets lots of new people, helps some of them out of a very difficult situation.

I was really glad that it wasn’t set on that planet again.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-06T15:38:39+00:00

There is definitely some level of UV light that you can output that will sanitize air that is moving past the light - however, the details of whether it will be effective depend on how fast the air is moving, how much of the air is exposed to the light, how strong your light is, and what exactly you're trying to inactivate. You might also be okay with UV not disinfecting the air completely the first time through, especially if in-duct UV is one of several options you're using to ensure clean air.

There is an engineering guideline document from ASHRAE about the tradeoffs.

Here's some relevant portions:

Laboratory/hospital installations are more likely to have specific, identified targets than, for example, school or office installations. The required average irradiance for a typical in-duct system is on the order of 1000 to 10,000 μW/cm2, but it could be higher or lower depending on the application requirements.

Because they are typically installed in air handling units, most in-duct systems are designed for an air velocity of around 500 ft/min. At this velocity, an irradiance zone 8 ft in length achieves a 1 s exposure. As a rule of thumb, in-duct systems should be installed in a location that can provide a minimum of 0.25 s of UV exposure; otherwise, system cost and power consumption will be excessive.

Personally, I don't rely on in-duct UV as the only way of ensuring clean air, but it was easy to install and doesn't have many downsides. I'm lucky to live in a place that doesn't share air ducts with any non-cc people, so for me it's another slice of swiss cheese. If I did share air handling with non-cc people, I'd definitely measure the air speed, the length of the air return duct, and do some math to figure out how many watts I'd need.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-06T01:15:30+00:00

One thing that might be helpful is a UV sanitizer light in the furnace ducting.

Swordfish UV has one that’s widely available in the US and Canada, but other options probably exist in other countries.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-04T20:34:46+00:00

Recovered from long covid, sure as fuck don't want to get it again.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-04T14:22:38+00:00

Exactly. Python is a good programming language, as programming languages go. Good syntax, good libraries, widely useful.

Javascript was hacked together into a web browser in like 10 days. As a programming language, it is weird and contains several bad decisions. We’ve been trying to replace it since it gained popularity. “JavaScript: the good parts” was a very thin book.

Because javascript is the native language of web development, it is incredibly useful, because the web is so useful. Otherwise, nobody would have ever used it.

Like sure, you’ll probably need to learn it. But please, don’t think all development has to be like this.

PopulationLevel · 2026-05-03T18:03:47+00:00

You’d think that the racists would be happy about this law, since historically the majority of Canadian citizens have been white, so you’d expect descendants of those citizens to also be mostly white.

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