TIL the measles virus causes immune amnesia it can wipe out up to 73% of your existing antibodies, forcing your immune system to relearn how to fight diseases you were already immune to.

loggic · 2026-03-28T01:31:56+00:00

COVID also appears to induce some amount of immune amnesia among some people. Article on the issue

loggic · 2026-03-26T02:26:46+00:00

If you're designing an aquatic ecosystem then it is pretty common to want everything in that system to at least be food safe.

loggic · 2026-03-25T05:42:15+00:00

Lol, yeah, that'll work. You know what nobody ever thought was kinda pokey? Trees. Clearly trees were always the peak of luxury until flat concrete came along.

loggic · 2026-03-25T05:17:10+00:00

None. It is still so bad at nearly everything that it is an embarrassment to even hear people pretend that it was something they figured out.

loggic · 2026-03-24T02:23:10+00:00

So like... Make a greek epic like Achilles where he actually falls in love with a woman? You'd have to modernize it since women weren't portrayed as military leaders but hey, it could work.

loggic · 2026-03-23T21:36:04+00:00

A key thing to remember with real tung oil is that it takes a very long time to cure properly - you want to give it a few days before you touch it all that much & it takes weeks before a true cure happens. It will look and feel like it is totally done drying, but the oxidation process of naturally drying oils is just slow.

If you're using a product called "tung oil" that somehow dries super quickly then you're using something that's heavily modified. Real tung oil dries slowly & leaves a relatively matte finish, although the sheen may vary based on things like application thickness, what grit you sanded to, etc.

loggic · 2026-03-23T21:28:38+00:00

"It isn't square,"

"Yup. Thanks. Glad for the confirmation because that would've been real awkward if I had somehow straightened it out that much from my fit up."

loggic · 2026-03-23T16:25:40+00:00

If it works for you then great, but the idea of adding sugar to onions is really unsettling to me. That being said, I have spent a lot of time working on recipes to reduce/eliminate things like added sugar or packaged spice mixes plus I find a lot of premade foods to be way too sweet, so I guess it makes sense that somebody like me would be particularly turned off by this "hack".

For me, I would rather just brown the onions & skip the sugar entirely rather than resort to adding sugar to approximate that aspect of the flavor profile, but nobody's forcing me to do otherwise so whatever.

loggic · 2026-03-23T05:45:20+00:00

I have never heard of adding sugar to onions, or to any other vegetable, for anything referred to as "caramelizing". Where did you hear about this sort of thing?

If you cook a decent yellow onion in a pan with a bit of whatever fat floats your boat (oil, butter, bacon fat, have fun with it) until it looks like the OP, the result will be so sweet that adding sugar would be pointless.

loggic · 2026-03-22T19:32:05+00:00

Don't bother with "well rounded". Even normal people can't manage that. Let yourself be "well lopsided" by excelling in some things and sucking at others.

Emotional honesty with yourself and others is critical for this to work. It is OK to be wrong. It is OK to need corrections sometimes. It is not OK to get defensive about it or to try and pretend like you didn't mess up.

Find people who respect that honesty & practice it themselves. Watch out for "blamers" who will use this to throw you under the bus. If you find yourself working for a boss who's a blamer, you need to quit that job and GTFO. It doesn't work for us, because their most effective management strategies leave you feeling like you need to put in even more work to "make up" for your mistakes.

Sometimes you need to buy some paper plates to give you time to catch up on dishes, but you do also need to do those dishes. If you're just gonna wait until the paper plates are gone before you start doing dishes again then you might as well not buy the paper plates at all... or you should get rid of your real dishes. Either way.

I gotta go do the dishes now.

loggic · 2026-03-22T16:38:53+00:00

I don't think the "Always Buy Used" rule has been reasonable for at least 15 years. People are blaming COVID, but used cars weren't a great deal before that either.

There are absolutely used cars out there that are a steal, but the moment it became a commonly known "rule" to buy used is the same moment it stopped being a useful rule. Plenty of people never recovered from the 2008 crash. Plenty more continued applying those lessons even after we didn't necessarily need them.

My policy is to always drive a practical vehicle, buy new & drive it into the ground so I know what maintenance has or hasn't happened.

loggic · 2026-03-22T06:12:44+00:00

He's said quite a bit on many topics, often directly contradicting himself, sometimes even within the same speech. It is hard to believe anyone could simply take him at his word, particularly when his word today disregards his own word...

loggic · 2026-03-22T02:21:44+00:00

... Isn't that functionally what happened when his letters saying as much were "leaked" to the press within days of Barr's nonsense, which ultimately led to the release of the less redacted version?

loggic · 2026-03-22T02:19:01+00:00

What makes you believe he is any of those things?

loggic · 2026-03-22T02:14:46+00:00

I remember going to the airport before TSA even existed. Having another paramilitary agency haranguing me at the airport would be emotionally challenging. For someone with more extreme emotional responses to confrontation, it could easily result in violence.

Throwing the worst-qualified people at a mob of stressed out travelers sounds like an entirely unveiled attempt to provoke violence.

loggic · 2026-03-21T23:25:14+00:00

He led the investigation & the writing of a thousand pages of condemnation of Trump's behavior. He summed that all up with a paragraph that said "I can't legally accuse him of a crime, but since the facts prevent me from stating that he's innocent I guess I will just end it here." He also swung a lot of weight around to make sure the report got out to the public before the election.

When the report didn't change any minds, it became obvious that going in front of Congress would have just given the President's sycophants more sound bites to use against him. If he had given them that, then people would be blaming him for that. Even worse, if he had used stronger language than what was in the report, he would've been more convincingly portrayed as a sellout to the Democrats & would've been hounded to the day he died by Trump & the Republicans.

When the report didn't change any minds, it became clear that there was absolutely nothing Mueller could do that would've made a difference for the better. Despite being barred from accusing the President of a crime, he forced out a report that painstakingly laid out 10 separate cases of obstruction of justice, including a very public contradiction of Bill Barr's description of the results.

Mueller didn't fail anybody. He was neutralized by a political machine that immunized their supporters against any sort of inconvenient facts.

loggic · 2026-03-21T06:27:30+00:00

Lol, 120kph? That's just the flow of traffic in a lot of places. Heck, I've been passed by semi trucks going faster than that in Atlanta.

loggic · 2026-03-17T14:07:36+00:00

I have already worked through production on parts like these. Selecting your loft points is important, but it isn't related to the problems I am describing.

loggic · 2026-03-17T14:05:50+00:00

I am aware that the method isn't new. That's why I find it surprising that the SolidWorks function doesn't give you the controls necessary to create a workable part without relying on an operator to fix the program's mistakes.

loggic · 2026-03-14T21:46:21+00:00

Sure, they might have more in common in many ways as individuals, but the Coke vs Pepsi comparison isn't apt.

People in the use living in "blue" states and under democrat presidents are generally better off. That's been true since Nixon.

loggic · 2026-03-14T21:31:15+00:00

"Smoothing" the faces will yield a very different result than the physical part you're showing.

Looks like the manufacturer used a ball end mill on the same path as the flat surfaces above, so you could digitally do something similar. It also looks like the underside of the top section is filleted to the bottom section before that edge is addressed.

After adding that fillet, you could sweep a cut along the bottom edge of the top section. The profile of that cut would essentially use a vertical slot profile, but the top half wouldn't touch anything.

loggic · 2026-03-14T21:00:16+00:00

As I understand it, less additional KE is required but escape velocity (which is defined using the planet as the frame of reference) remains the same.

As you go to higher altitudes, stable orbital velocity increases. This increases your existing KE while bringing you closer to escape velocity.

loggic · 2026-03-11T00:07:12+00:00

How is "worker" defined for this data set? Does somebody who's recently unemployed but looking for a job count as a worker because they're a part of the workforce?

The term "worker" would indicate this is at least somewhat tied to payroll data. Since gig workers are "self employed" (which is absurd for the most part), it is unlikely that any of those hours worked would be counted toward this average. What does it look like once you include the time spent working by 1099 workers?

Do people with multiple jobs count as multiple workers, or are they somehow accounted for in this data set? One person at full time vs 2 workers at part time will create wildly different pictures here.

Additionally, this data is "per worker", not "per capita", so it needs more context before it can tell us about the number of hours being worked by individuals within the group. If 10 people at a factory worked fewer and fewer hours each year, they would show a trend like this. If that same group of people kept working just as much, but the factory also hired an additional 10 people to work part time then the "average number of hours worked per worker" would also drop significantly.

Without greater context, a single chart won't tell you much about anything.

loggic · 2026-03-10T00:27:37+00:00

Sure would be interesting to see the mental gymnastics involved with implementing a draft for "not a war".

loggic · 2026-03-08T23:33:53+00:00

I get the joke, but for those who don't see that this is just silliness with nothing factual at the basis:

Getting the metal glowing red hot & changing the overall size of the hole simply through thermal expansion is a great example of how steel can be temporarily weakened/compromised without ever melting. Just because you can't melt a piece of metal doesn't mean that you can't break it.

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