Wikipedia suggests a common failure is to not change the angle of the water surface, leaving it parallel to the base of the tube rather than to gravity

Yeah it’s a term I heard in the 80s, “stop buzzing around and do something useful”

They’ve been evolving for 445 million years, they are immune to infections that would kill their ancestors. They just have the same shape which they find locally optimal

English has loads of words for the spectrum between fact and baseless claim, it’s just people have decided “truth” is contested, this is mostly that news on both sides of American politics report differently, producing often conflicting supposed facts, to the point where people say truth doesn’t matter anymore

People take that idea differently, from the sane end where it’s just the state of sectarian news through to the crazy end where they think nothing is real

Illustrative is one side of American political followers didn’t believe in COVID-19, the other side wore masks, avoided gatherings, and got vaccinated when vaccines became available

Individual control of truth is a superpower. It definitely violates causality, it also isn’t what those people really mean by “truth is subjective”

You might have to goad them a bit with “it’s only a theory”

It goes on to say “One typical study from 1989 found that 32% of college women failed the test, compared to 15% of college men.” A third of girls who made it into college couldn’t do it.

In my town the fact girls were worse than boys at maths was addressed, education of girls was improved

Now girls are better than boys at maths and no one seems to care

Things like wine is healthy, chocolate is healthy, berries are healthy, meat is unhealthy, eggs are unhealthy* all come from the weakest studies, 5 yearly food frequency questionnaires - where they all people to fill out how many serves of each food category the study cares about (the berry one listed about 12 direct berries out of the thirty or so that are popular; one meat one included “hamburger” in their meat category despite a burger meal usually having most its energy from the coke and fries).

The biggest problems include that the study can be warped several ways, the food list can change how people respond, the categorisation of foods changes everything, people can’t remember how many serves of whatever they had 5 years ago, so they pick the “most virtuous”, and after all that the most they can say is there might be an association between <food> and <health effect>

They report hazard ratios (how much the “wrong” food choice increases your risk of <health effect>) and usually get ~10%, everything outside nutrition needs 200% to say there’s an effect, cigarette smoking has a hazard ratio for lung cancer of 300% for a pack a day smoker**

*But “eggs are healthy” came from a study, feeding people eggs and testing their cholesterol, so if much more reliable

**The hazard ratios are usually reported as a fraction of 1 — 0.10 for many diet studies, or 3 for the smoker

Old enough to remember when women had loads of free time because washing machines and electric vacuums had been invented but they weren’t allowed to work after they were married?

Engineering a death by misadventure doesn’t seem ethical to me

Just wait for the people he follows on the internet to tell him

If we turn around climate change, even if we fail to avoid quadrillion dollar sea level rise, I’m going to call it a win

I hope we don’t lose too much before we do win though, or after we do

They changed the oils they cooked with from tallow to whichever vegetable oil is cheapest. Those newer oils burn at cooking temperature and add a flavour to the fried meat

That happened in the late '80s when the lies about saturated fat became popular

That’s what makes regenerative farming so good, all that piss and shit make it great for the crops, no need for other fertilizers

It’s just the way it was cut, in the context of the article “that’s for later” just means later in the article, cut from the article it looks like something you’re not going to cover

I’m not sure how you avoid it other than rewriting the lede to only talk about the main point.

From a drinking fountain?

Indeed you didn’t, except that that’s how I read “what its origin is”

I like that you do discuss the ethics in your article, shame you it came across as “not a problem now” in your post

Another is that once the context window resets, it often loses the information it was working from. If you want a long term maintainer for your code base, it’s better to train up junior engineers so that they one day would become experts on the code base that you or your business is reliant on. But the economy does not usually care about the distant future as much as the now.

Strewth*

*Australian for ain’t that the truth (literally ‘God’s truth’)

You’d die of water poisoning