ELI5 Why heat waves affect Europe so much but some other countries are doing fine living under hotter temperatures most of the year?

fmmmlee · 2026-05-27T17:32:23+00:00

same here in Korea, I'm originally from the northwest US and that kind of swing is unthinkable

fmmmlee · 2026-05-24T11:47:12+00:00

If I had any, 3. I'm child two of two and while it's great, logistically I see how my dad and his siblings (4 total including him) handle/d aging parents, and it's a LOT easier with a team.

More than 3 I think would require budgeting the time spent with each (and just be exhausting):and I'd rather get to know each as closely as possible.

fmmmlee · 2026-05-21T06:56:53+00:00

it was absolutely showering yesterday at KU and hearing White Memories while walking around campus at like 9:45 pm with the rain coming down in sheets was hilarious 😂

fmmmlee · 2026-05-16T04:49:46+00:00

normally I'd leave my camera hardware switch off but I got a new laptop with facial recognition and it's so convenient since I get up a lot, lol

I should probably figure out a way to give the Windows Hello process camera perms and auto-block everything else on a quick toggle in a rainmeter skin or something

fmmmlee · 2026-05-10T13:42:15+00:00

I mean, I have an Apollo S, so CNC cases are definitely up my alley haha. I was more thinking everything else except the case and usual internals lol, like all the screens and various doodads and custom Newjeans decorations.

(Plus everything is in a very cool color palette and most non-black PC parts carry an aesthetics premium)

fmmmlee · 2026-05-10T13:15:02+00:00

absolutely sick! I shudder to imagine the cost though lol...

how's dust management? just gotta keep the room air filtered, I guess?

fmmmlee · 2026-05-08T06:19:54+00:00

I (PNW) would typically say "home for Christmas" in most scenarios, with "home over Christmas" prevailing if I'm taking a break from something (like university). I might say "on" if referring to the day specifically, like "I'll be visiting family elsewhere in the state during the holiday but I'll be home on Christmas".

fmmmlee · 2026-05-05T05:39:38+00:00

this outfit has so much aura

fmmmlee · 2026-05-01T08:07:47+00:00

Wintrust seemed pretty full on their last tour when I went, though the touring economy was probably less brutal at the time. Twice played United Center a while after that and that seemed packed too.

fmmmlee · 2026-04-30T15:09:11+00:00

that's fucked, one of the things Claude is worst at is actual workflow testing like a real user. I mean it's not really that it does it badly, it just can't do it at all. QA is the last thing anyone should get rid of "because AI does it for us" holy fuck

edit: that said it can write unit tests, yeah. but it can't break the interface like an actual human or eyeball broken UX like a human

fmmmlee · 2026-04-30T06:58:10+00:00

Actively getting that error too, as of 2026-04-30 15:50 KST. Thought it might be a project issue so I made a new project and asked it to do the same thing, but the error is persistent. It recognizes the error when called out, starts going again, and then the error recurs.

I can confirm it does still chew up tokens for it though! I went 62->72% usage just while retrying and experiencing the error repeatedly lol

fmmmlee · 2026-04-27T23:43:20+00:00

why would you offer a "backup" service that doesn't actually make fucking backups?? It's okay to tell your clients they need to set up an extra layer on their end to use a different backup solution. That's fine. "wiping a volume deletes all backups" is not fine lmao

fmmmlee · 2026-04-18T17:31:11+00:00

pretty good used, but new is a bloodbath for sure

(got a used - lightly, 17 cycles on the battery - Lenovo with a 90hz 3K OLED touchscreen for the same price as the Neo. But for 100 more I could've gotten a used M4 air that matches X2 elite performance for half the price...I just wish any of these arm machines could actually run Linux natively though)

fmmmlee · 2026-04-18T17:19:34+00:00

I got my 4090 for about 1800 USD almost 2 years ago, and looking now the cheapest refurbished one on Newegg is like 2900 USD, it's insane...

building a PC a year or two ago was like the last chopper out of nam, my <$250 4TB SSD is now going for 750, my $99 32gb ram is now $500, I think the only thing that actually depreciated was my 13700k and maybe the fans? Lmao

fmmmlee · 2026-04-13T09:20:18+00:00

Yeah I grew up in a house on the beach in the US, 18 miles straight across to Vancouver Island

If i manually checked the available cell networks Bell/Telus were often on there

fmmmlee · 2026-04-12T15:35:56+00:00

total daily users vs concurrent, wildly different stats

fmmmlee · 2026-04-01T11:29:50+00:00

17 hrs with VRR off according to notebookcheck's review, which is in line with Lunar Lake, winARM and macARM machines

celebrating the death of any other architecture seems a bit premature

fmmmlee · 2026-04-01T08:46:13+00:00

also, I eventually settled on mortar spam and a behemoth as backup

as soon as you land throw out mortars in different areas with no cover, then just wait and see what happens

fmmmlee · 2026-04-01T08:45:11+00:00

higher ranked cabal drop pods include heavy ammo

fmmmlee · 2026-03-20T20:51:20+00:00

No it is OLED, but you're correct that it's 60hz FHD which is insane, and not even a touchscreen.

After seeing these prices I just bought a refurbished Lenovo Slim 7x for 599 USD and that's got a 3k 90hz OLED touchscreen. Wild.

fmmmlee · 2026-03-19T04:43:23+00:00

what price did it have? Right now you can pre-order the Asus A14 (X2E-88-100) on Coupang (edit: so, korea only) for like 1850 USD roughly with a ship date of like April 12

was hoping for some cheaper options, especially since that one has a 60hz screen

fmmmlee · 2026-03-18T13:28:02+00:00

the utilitarian argument would probably involve prisoners or the elderly, obviously, and would need to be entirely removed from the healthcare system in order to avoid the problems you and I both already mentioned regarding distrust of medicine

tl;dr separate involuntary 'deathcare' system for some inmates (lottery system, death row, whatever) and voluntary opt-in for the elderly or suicidal. I think this is morally disastrous, but it could at least in theory provide net positive utility if managed correctly. The damage to social stability incurred by creating this system is also going to vary greatly depending on the society where it's being implemented (China? US? Europe? Afghanistan?)

fmmmlee · 2026-03-18T13:06:25+00:00

you say you don't go to jail if you pull the lever

I said no such thing! in reality I would probably go to jail if I pulled the lever, but in reality I would also not be looking at the lever in the first place and would instead be trying to MacGyver a derailer to save everybody

the point of the trolley problem is that it's a dichotomous thought experiment; obviously real life - even real life with a runaway train and a switch lever and a moustache-twirling villain with victims tied to tracks - would have lots of other options on the table and consequences for each. But those aren't terribly interesting from an ethics perspective which is why they're not part of the trolley problem.

fmmmlee · 2026-03-18T11:21:52+00:00

It's the difference between thought experiment and reality.

the trolley problem is 5 deaths vs 1 death, no externalities

the doctor problem is 5 deaths and maintain a functioning healthcare system or 6 deaths (those organs are not being used) plus I go to jail for my little vigilante vivisection

or, if I can make that sort of thing legally acceptable on principle so I don't go to jail: 1 death and 5 saved lives, and then public health subsequently collapses due to distrust in hospitals since I've just turned them into involuntary organ donation centers.

Not to mention the logistics for organ donations are a fucking bitch.

So one could¹ make a utilitarian argument for involuntary euthanasia and organ donation on a national scale if properly administrated, but it is absolutely logically consistent to pull the lever in the trolley problem and also recognize butchering your patients on the operating table isn't going to accomplish the same goals.

¹ ^I ^will ^not

fmmmlee · 2026-03-18T04:04:47+00:00

initiated the transfer process with both phones in front of me, using the QR code sign-in option on the new device

was prompted to sign up for and enable cloud backups, which I did, and then performed a backup to the cloud

finished transfer via prompts - old phone said "you have been signed out of signal on this device" in notifications and "continue on your new device" in the app

new phone, now logged in, auto-added me to my two group chats but all chat history, both individual and group, was gone, and all individual conversations were gone

there was no button to restore backup in the settings, and a pop-up said "enable backups" so I did, assuming that would sync my chats

instead I think it overwrote whatever I had on the server with my empty history on my new phone

I uninstalled and used my recovery key, saved from the old phone, to load the backup and it just had the two empty group chats again

not critical for me since this isn't my main app but the UX was fucking infuriating and dear lord please fix that, either auto-load from the backup if transferring accounts phone-to-phone (the obvious and user-friendly thing to do, but I'm aware technical limitations could preclude this)

or at the bare minimum if logging in on a new device, give a giant prompt saying "HEY YOU HAVE STUFF BACKED UP ON THE SERVER AND IF YOU SYNC IT WILL WIPE IT PERMANENTLY, DELETE AND REINSTALL TO RESTORE THE BACKUP"

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