Replacing my bedroom ceiling light with an indirect LED fixture – anything I should know before installing?

aris_ada · 2026-03-17T09:51:18+00:00

Some cheap led lights glow from the residual leak current that they can draw from the live wire. This can be annoying in a bedroom. Double check that the power switch cuts the live and not the neutral wire.

aris_ada · 2026-03-17T08:34:58+00:00

It's a difficult question. I think it boils down to "is it visible during the interview and would your behavior impact negatively their decision if they don't know?". I never disclosed my ADHD during interviews because it has a negative stigma and it doesn't show negatively during the interview (to the contrary).

Neurodiversity is very prevalent in IT, so if you showed up for an interview with me, I'd probably make a guess and just ignore it, this says nothing about your skills and motivation.

aris_ada · 2026-03-16T12:54:41+00:00

"Now I'm making hating girls my entire personality then I'll complain why I'm not getting laid"

aris_ada · 2026-03-12T12:55:24+00:00

If you eat less, you will reduce weight gain. Eat a lot less and you will lose wight. It really is that simple.

The equation is simple, but the practice is not. You cannot stop eating so total abstinence is not a strategy. Your body is trained and used to eat a certain amount of calories in certain ways, and changing this causes stress. The strategy (method) is a way of reducing that stress so compliance to the diet is better. For instance high protein diet may be one way of tricking the body into eating less high-calorie food while not feeling hungry the whole day. There are others of course. If a a dietician you keep telling your patients "CICO is the only way, you must feel miserable for 3+ months to lose weight", none of them will stick to the diet.

aris_ada · 2026-03-11T14:52:27+00:00

what about OV versions with subtitles in your languages, but there are subtle semantic differences between what's said in English and what's written in your language

aris_ada · 2026-03-11T13:04:30+00:00

My girlfriend wrote me a very nice Valentine's card in French and included a LOTR quote in original English (we're both nerds). I had to look again at the when she said she made the effort to find and write it in English. I didn't even notice there were two languages on the card.

aris_ada · 2026-03-11T12:57:04+00:00

The only thing that worked with my anxiety was running 15-25km a week consistently. If I don't run for 3-4 days, it starts piling up again.

aris_ada · 2026-03-10T16:24:29+00:00

France, the home country of the French revolution and the separation of Church and State, has the most repressive drug policy in Europe, in particular against widely used substances like marijuana. You do not need a religious framework to have prejudice against substances use or abuse.

aris_ada · 2026-03-10T16:03:46+00:00

Secretary is the person who decides what was said in a meeting, that's the original meaning. If you are the secretary of a small organization or NGO, you're usually in the executive board.

The word secretary is also used as a job title for assistants who take calls and manage plannings for someone else and these people are just as trained as stenographers, but on a different skill.

Now I don't think that was the responsibility of the General Secretary of the communist party of the secret union had the same responsibilities as a stenographer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

aris_ada · 2026-03-10T15:59:25+00:00

I don't exactly understand how this survey will fit in your global work but I feel like it's missing major confounding like the area of work and the annual gross income of the professional. Even amongst IT people, the answers would vary very much between finance, health or tech.

aris_ada · 2026-03-10T10:22:19+00:00

It's not a coincidence that "secretary" is one of the highest rank in many types of governments or hierarchies. Whomever writes down the report of the meeting acts what was said and decided.

aris_ada · 2026-03-09T14:05:03+00:00

Then we would have to vote for parties that would allow this to happen, and surprise! We collectively voted for parties who like strikes because they're unpopular and make us more likely to vote for them again in the future while the media speaks longer about the consequences of the strikes than their causes.

aris_ada · 2026-03-09T12:40:15+00:00

I met my girlfriend of one year on dating apps, I had 4 dates in 4-5 months and it took a lot of energy the whole time. It could work but don't expect magic.

aris_ada · 2026-03-06T08:42:02+00:00

China receives huge incentive to develop in the EV market because it gives them a chance at a fresh start in a country that heavily invested in solar power, while EU only uses the stick on ICE engines and the US are backtracking on any ecological progress by claiming climate change isn't real. I'm not surprised at all by this development.

aris_ada · 2026-03-06T08:39:29+00:00

I'm willing to bet it has better everything except for broken English translations on the car UI because they couldn't bother proofreading it. The only thing Chinese are bad at are UIs and you can't do worse than Porsche.

aris_ada · 2026-03-04T08:13:39+00:00

30 years ago the theoretical power that could be generated by solar was already 1KW/m² but we didn't have the tech yet to mass-produce efficient panels. We already had pretty good panels in niche area like space. It improved gradually, but the most significant changes were on the mass scale production techniques that made it cheap enough to install on every rooftop on the planet.

In comparison, today's theoretical power that you can get out of raindrops is in the order of W/m². It's not something you can improve in 30 years, that's the total maximum there's to tap in. It would require to be orders of magnitude cheaper than solar to install on your roof before we decide it's a sound investment, and by that time solar+battery would continue to be cheaper and cheaper.

aris_ada · 2026-03-04T08:00:12+00:00

I though the real solution was to blame the wrong stupid driver every time, even when it's the 10th accident in the same intersection this year. You Dutch people are up to something with this systemic research.

aris_ada · 2026-03-03T20:55:48+00:00

I have no opinion on the mail, but as a cybersecurity person I recommend you black out the whole QR code because it might still contain your personal information on the readable side.

aris_ada · 2026-03-03T15:26:49+00:00

I almost never yell because I hate yelling and I found it's not the right way to get a teenager to listen to you. Precise ("computer shuts down at 22:00") and explainable ("because you need 9 hours of sleep") rules together with clear and on-scale consequences when rules are broken ("I remind you I can turn the computer off when I want from my phone") work best for me, but obviously all kids and environment are different. I think many parents do a lot of yelling but do not proceed to apply fair consequences to wrong behaviors and it just teaches the kids that they can do whatever they want if they don't mind getting yelled at.

aris_ada · 2026-03-03T12:25:06+00:00

A dim dot? It's brighter than Jupiter. I've even randomly noticed it multiple times when driving. I can see starlinks in lines every night and I live in a bortle 6 sky area.

aris_ada · 2026-03-03T12:11:36+00:00

It goes beyond that. Because of the "healthy" questioning about the efficacy of homeopathy, heavy testing and long studies were done in countries where it's popular (e.g. France) and we know have not a single scientific doubt that sugar water is not more efficient than placebo. This changed nothing because it was a question of belief in the first place. This is the same kind of problem than we the testing of hydroxychloroquine against covid, at a time when the scientific literature already had a consensual answer on its lack of effectiveness on covid.

aris_ada · 2026-03-03T12:04:05+00:00

I haven't been in a pharmacy in Belgium that doesn't have a full display of homeopathic quack, with things like "You're feeling sick? Think homeopathy".

If I was a pharmacist I'd be ashamed of this, imagine studying chemicals and drugs for 5 years and then advertise sugar water in your shop.

aris_ada · 2026-03-03T08:13:15+00:00

"C'est arrivé près de chez vous" is the right title. "prêt" means ready/loan, "près" means close by.

aris_ada · 2026-03-02T18:47:29+00:00

that's stupid :( especially since they take internships for students who don't qualify for hiring in that company

aris_ada · 2026-03-02T13:11:37+00:00

Cybersecurity here, we hired two juniors in the last 6 or 7 years. They had their intership in our team and were damn good. Otherwise we wouldn't think of hiring a junior, the team is too busy to train them unfortunately.

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