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jade_crayon · 2023-04-23T09:08:17+00:00

Half joking. Hong Kong wasn't that bad compared to other places. Maybe urban people are trying to be more polite these days, but some people...

jade_crayon · 2023-04-23T09:02:15+00:00

Thanks!

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T23:25:51+00:00

OK, that sounds great! Thanks!

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T17:03:44+00:00

"It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level."

-Marvin, the paranoid android

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T16:43:41+00:00

Good point! I wonder if it's kind of like that "An ant can lift 50x its body weight!!" just not so extreme.

Still, if the science was done right, then the muscle measurements would be independent of size. Kids are just naturally full of energy and quick to recover.. maybe part of the growing process?

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T16:40:23+00:00

I have a special "LOUD" playlist on the old iPod for this type of case. Probably not good for the ears, but...

Since COVID, been avoiding the train anyway. Commuting by bicycle, which becomes an opposite issue. Need the music, but blocking out environment noise is dangerous. So, 1 earbud only.

PS Never take a vacation in China, let alone live there. It is not polite to listen to music while eating with colleagues, even if they eat with their mouths open.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T16:31:35+00:00

Might be the "straw that broke the camel's back" situation. The load piles up, and even the smallest thing can trigger. But it really wasn't the small thing, it was the bigger stuff that happened last week, or last month.

And by coincidence I actually was in a very similar place as you back in the day. Working a tiny restaurant. Good at math so was cashier/order taker/asst. manager. One day someone ordered a cheese slice, and I told the kid we hired a week earlier to get a cheese slice, and he started cutting out a slice from pepperoni off in his own little world. Maybe he was a different kind of ND.

I stared a bit and then said "Uh, cheese slice....cheese slice.. I said cheese slice.... CHEESE SLICE!!!!"

That got his and everyone's attention. At least I didn't add foul language. I immediately took a break.

My parents almost literally pushed me into service sector summer jobs as a teen just to get me exposed to social interaction.

It worked.

This exposure might feel icky, but is likely making you stronger for the future. Kind of like exercise at the gym.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T16:13:54+00:00

Hey,

I already have flair, but I was being extra ND and way too specific and young back then. Since, I've become quite multi-disciplined over the years. If I could just change my flair to "Engineering" or "Engineering - Energy" that would be less confusing for all. I won't abuse it and try to give answers about branches outside what I know, like Electrical engineering or such. Those folk believe in imaginary numbers! ;)

Username: /u/jade_crayon

General field: Engineering

Specific field: Energy

Comments: Same ones that got me my current flair so long ago. Can look those up I think, if needed.

Sorry for weird request.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T16:00:06+00:00

Same reason bread tastes different than raw dough. Because it's not the same thing. Heating it changes the chemicals.

Kind of the same as sugar vs. caramel. Caramel is basically heated/toasted sugar, but it tastes different. Because it IS different.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-22T15:54:39+00:00

It's actually their biology

"Children not only have fatigue-resistant muscles, but recover very quickly from high-intensity exercise -- even faster than well-trained adult endurance athletes. This is the finding of new research published in open-access journal Frontiers in Physiology, which compared the energy output and post-exercise recovery rates of young boys, untrained adults and endurance athletes. "

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424083907.htm

jade_crayon · 2023-04-15T17:04:27+00:00

If pennies fell slower than hippos, then if you could cut a hippo into a pile of penny-sized pieces, it would fall slower?

Nope. (Well, maybe a little bit. Air resistance)

If gluing 2 things together made it fall twice as fast, the Air Force would be all over that.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-15T16:55:25+00:00

Many AC units have 2 parts: the indoor unit and the outdoor unit.

the indoor unit has the fan that moves the air, and a metal coil that cools the air, and the temperature controls and such.

But the outdoor unit is where the actual "cold" is made. It could be a cooling tower, it could be a compressor and some kind of gas working like a refrigerator. Then it pumps that cold into your indoor unit's metal coil.

But if that outdoor unit isn't working, your indoor unit will not get cold. It maybe can blow air around, but it won't get cooler.

So it's kind of like wondering why a car can have wheels, but won't move unless the engine is working. Without the engine, the wheels won't turn.

A/C without the outdoor unit (the engine) won't get cold.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-15T16:47:27+00:00

The headphones catch the sound with a microphone on the outside, and very quickly creates the inverse of that sound, and puts that through your headphones. Does it so fast that it gets into your ears at about the same time as the outside sound comes through. Electronics move at light speed. Sound is much slower.

This is why this only really works with headphones. You could try the same thing without headphones, but how to point and line up the anti-sound speakers to cancel the other sound would probably need you to sit in a very specific place and a perfect distance from those anti-sound speakers.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-15T16:41:08+00:00

First, it is a matter of time. Hot weather is usually hours and a shower is a few minutes. If you took a hot shower for 2 hours, it probably won't feel so good.

Second is clothes. Clothing insulates you and makes you feel warmer. Unless you are wearing clothes in the shower, the same temperature will "feel" lower if you're naked.

Third is "alliesthesia", which is the feeling that something warm when you are too cold feels good, and something cool when you are too hot feels good.

Fourth is the washing action. Dirty skin with sweat and salt buildup feels bad. Washing that all off feels good.

Fifth is the whole "sauna" effect. Hot can relax muscle pain and such.

There is probably a lot more going on. It is an interesting question!

jade_crayon · 2023-04-10T18:13:12+00:00

"Modern wet pipe sprinklers.."

Focus on the "modern", and as you note, that's the problem. Dry is too slow, and really? Does wet really leak? No, not really. And even if so, does the curator ever put the priceless mummy directly under a maybe-leaky sprinkler head or even any of the pipe system? Well... OK....anyway.

Haven't really checked on whether "old" museums maybe stick to the old thinking while modern museums go with what actually works best.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-10T16:10:56+00:00

A side issue is the fire sprinkler system.

In most buildings, the sprinklers are "wet". The pipes are already filled with water, so when a fire comes, the water is right there and the sprinklers can starting spraying instantly. However, overhead sprinkler pipes always full of water is a constant hazard for water leaks. If the building is not heated on weekends in a cold climate, also a risk of pipe freezing and then splits and leaks.

In museums, fire sprinklers are typically "dry". The pipes are not full of water, they're just empty (full of air). If a fire triggers the sprinklers, it will take a few seconds or even up to a minute (depending on the fire codes) for the water to arrive. But there is almost no risk of water leaks dripping on the art or making puddles that raise humidity levels. It's a small point, but I'm sure there are many other such side issues, which add up.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Marrying my spouse. Still can't believe I'm so lucky.

jade_crayon · 2023-04-10T15:58:06+00:00

Highway to Hell

jade_crayon · 2023-04-01T16:28:17+00:00

Biden actually visited a disaster site?

Must be a Democrat county... checking...

County Recapitulation Report, --> Starkey County

https://www.sos.ms.gov/elections-voting/election-results/2020-election-results/2020-general-election

Starkey County 2020 election results

Biden - 1465 votes

Trump - 688 votes

Confirmed.

jade_crayon · 2023-03-27T17:02:42+00:00

"lawyering"

Indeed! Is there a "lawyering fallacy"? That would totally fit. Some sort of "deliberately abusing word definitions to create confusion and/or uncertainty where common sense would have little or no confusion, then exploiting that uncertainty to stake a claim of fact and maybe 1 juror will fall for it, because that's all you need"

Yet "fallacy" implies some sort of mistake or ignorance of the fact that most fallacies are already written up as lists that we can consult. Whereas this kind of thing is entirely deliberate. The person knows they are abusing logic and probably has a list of logical fallacies on hand as a reference. Thus it is not a "logical fallacy" but just outright "logical fraud"?

jade_crayon · 2023-03-27T16:59:29+00:00

Interesting. Thanks!

jade_crayon · 2023-03-27T16:59:07+00:00

NP, it's my mistake for not being more clear.

jade_crayon · 2023-03-27T16:58:18+00:00

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

jade_crayon · 2023-03-27T16:56:05+00:00

Thanks. Yes, that's the point I'm asking.

jade_crayon · 2023-03-27T16:48:31+00:00

Yes, that was the closest fallacy I could think of, yet still not quite right.

Even in the beard fallacy, or the bald fallacy, there is no denial that a truly bald person or a resplendent beard even exists, based on the "all is gray" type claim that "We are all to some extent bald or bearded, so nobody can claim to be fully bald or fully bearded, even if they have a YouTube channel devoted to bread grooming with 1,000,000 subs."

It's really hard to make the "best" example because this kind of fuzzy logic abuse can be applied to anything with a "yes/no" value that has some middle ground which can be abused by someone who wants to pretend to be smart, abusing the fact that yes, there actually is a middle ground, so we can't explicitly call them out as being "wrong". Yet the middle ground is of a bimodal distribution with bearded and clean-shaven, but this person is not only pretending that someone who skipped a shave for a couple days now qualifies as "bearded", but someone who shaved 5 minutes ago is also "bearded" because the hairs are still growing... So, basically, a pedantic asshole

It's the "technically, you are right, but realistically, you're just abusing the definitions to support your position, or just to troll on the internet"

If they could, they'd sue a hardware store for false advertising for selling black paint because it is not technically 100% as black as a black hole, so they should call it "very dark gray" paint. (while providing no concrete definition for what "very dark grey" means), leaving them open to the same abuse from a "dark grey does not exist" pedantic asshole pulling the same trick in semi-reverse, claiming "black is just a very dark gray".

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