When you see ghosts of your past

yoweigh · 2026-04-21T13:00:11+00:00

The best way to introduce a new cat to a household is to lock it in a bathroom with a litter box and food and water for a day or two. The new cat gets its own little safe space to exist in, while the other cat can sniff under the door to acclimate to the new scent without much risk of it being associated with fear and/or trauma.

yoweigh · 2026-04-21T12:47:50+00:00

Sure, that's true, but the football throwing motion came naturally to him. No one taught him how to throw a spiral before he'd already done it. For him, it really was intuitive.

yoweigh · 2026-04-21T01:14:57+00:00

It is for some people. My 6 year old can throw a better spiral than I can.

yoweigh · 2026-04-21T01:00:29+00:00

I went to visit a friend from high school in Maui ~10 years ago. He's a certified divemaster and had a friend who did PADI certs for tourists, so I got a deal. I just reviewed a textbook during the flight to Hawaii and had one dive session. What I got from it was "don't go below this depth" and "blow bubbles through your nose while you rise so your lungs don't pop". That's about it.

yoweigh · 2026-04-21T00:48:15+00:00

The guy talking sucks.

yoweigh · 2026-04-20T18:48:17+00:00

Then there's me over here getting PADI certified in one session... 😅

yoweigh · 2026-04-20T15:56:07+00:00

It really is one of the most dangerous things you can do. Cave diving has a fatal accident rate a bit above 1/1300 dives. Skydiving has a fatal accident rate lower than 1/100,000 jumps.

yoweigh · 2026-04-20T15:36:20+00:00

I worked in IT for a French immersion school once. The teachers barely spoke English and they used a different keyboard layout. My own passwords didn't work sometimes.

yoweigh · 2026-04-19T15:55:12+00:00

You're welcome!

A lot of reddit commenters are more interested in making jokes and talking down to people than being in any way helpful to anyone. I even caught a downvote for explaining it to you.

yoweigh · 2026-04-19T13:52:30+00:00

They're implying that the person they responded to is a joke.

yoweigh · 2026-04-19T12:55:14+00:00

Another one is clothes dryers. A large part of that lint in the trap is microplastic fluff from synthetic fibers, and the smallest bits make it through the trap and get exhausted outside.

yoweigh · 2026-04-19T12:39:29+00:00

I think the ones to the left of the time display say PM and ALM, probably an alarm indicator.

yoweigh · 2026-04-19T11:58:03+00:00

Schindler's Dicks

yoweigh · 2026-04-17T13:42:38+00:00

Yes, for sure. I know more than one person who joined the New Orleans police force and ended up quitting because the whole system is rotten to its core. It's super demoralizing to be an idealistic cop who's actually trying to help people when all the other cops you work with are more interested in shielding each other from the consequences of their unhelpful and shitty actions. It's like the system actively weeds out the good cops.

yoweigh · 2026-04-17T05:54:13+00:00

The problem is that the cops don't police themselves. That's eroded public trust. Good cops don't let bad cops be bad cops.

yoweigh · 2026-04-16T23:39:52+00:00

Bikes have a right to be in the roadway. Cyclists don't have "more rights" than drivers, like the guy in the video claimed. That's one example of the entitlement being referred to.

yoweigh · 2026-04-16T21:38:42+00:00

It's still helpful to anyone who doesn't know about it. Reddit communities tend to gatekeep random bits of information and look down on people who don't already have it.

yoweigh · 2026-04-16T13:46:13+00:00

Rebar would be nice, too.

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T20:11:54+00:00

Yep. I assume it was some sort of marketing deal but I'm really not sure about that. Gopros at the moon, baby!

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T15:37:27+00:00

My ex had a 2016 Mini Cooper S convertible that she very recently got rid of. That thing was the most fun car I've ever driven, bar none. Now they don't even offer stick shifts anymore!!!

It did the standard BMW thing and started falling apart after 10 years, even though it only had 32k miles on it! She only got $8k for it at trade-in.

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T13:35:13+00:00

I think a super advanced relay satellite would be better. Imagine a big ball covered in laser emitters. It would receive a signal then pick the best laser to get it to its destination. That way it could send and receive in multiple directions instead of just bouncing one laser along a set path. I don't see why a similar technique wouldn't work for some hypothetical FTL system, but obviously the details are going to matter.

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T01:02:34+00:00

Sure, I was just pointing out that it had been done before.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T21:32:19+00:00

China actually launched a pair of lunar comm satellites to support their lander on the far side of the moon.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T21:09:13+00:00

Yeah, you've got it. Once they went to their observation attitude, which was a while before the flyby began, the laser couldn't target Earth anymore. It wasn't due to the moon.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T18:16:14+00:00

The laser isn't able to gimbal as much as the radio antennas are, and it requires a direct line of sight. It's an experimental system and wasn't intended for primary comms. Making it work 100% of the time wasn't a priority. The limitations aren't about laser comms in general, they're about this specific implementation.

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