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HamsterRage @lemmy.ca
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Daily multivitamin supplements don't help you live longer, study shows
  • There's a term called "healthspan". It refers to how long you are capable of having an active, healthy life. Many consider it to be more important than lifespan. Ideally, you want your healthspan to equal your lifespan.

    It's probably likely that the things you do to increase your healthspan will increase your lifespan too. But not, apparently, multivitamins - assuming that they have an impact on healthspan.

  • How big is your desk?
  • Many, many years ago I used to have two Wyse50 terminals, running split screens each with two parts. I did a lot of support on remote systems (via modem!) and I would have a session on a customer system, source code and running on our test system and internal stuff. I didn't have space for a third terminal.

    At another job I had an office with a "U" shaped desk. I would spread printouts across half the "U" and swivel around between the computer and the printouts.

  • Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times
  • I always thought of "Briton" in that last sense, while "Brit" has the meaning of anyone living in the UK (almost). But that's from an outsider's perspective.

    As my English cousin corrected me, though, "I'm English, 'British' could be anything!". She wasn't, of course, talking about the difference between English and Welsh, or Scots.

  • Make a raid 5 with two almost full disk and another one empty
  • Technically, he would have three drives and only two drives of data. So he could move 1/3 of the data off each of the two drives onto the third and then start off with RAID 5 across the remaining 1/3 of each drive.

  • Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass
  • I really like that water molecule analogy. Personally, I have always viewed it as so feature of the topography of our universe in a higher dimension. Think about two two dimensional people living in a spherical plane. The furthest actual distance they could get from each other would be the diameter of the sphere. Yet they wouldn't even know of the spherical nature of their universe.

  • Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass
  • I'm not sure that they saw it as a "placeholder" at the time. It wasn't until Mickelson and Morley demonstrated that the fixed frame of reference demanded by aether wasn't there, paving the way for Relativity, that it was abandoned.

    I don't see people treating Dark Matter an a placeholder right now either.

    But, like I said, I'm not qualified to comment.

  • Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors
  • I'm not sure what you're getting at.

    All I'm saying is that, for Christians, the text of the Bible has been mostly locked down since the Vulgate Bible at around 400 AD. The content is what it is, and is the basis of the faith.

    At this point it doesn't matter if someone mistranslated the Hebrew, misquoted Jesus, made Jesus up entirely, or forged an epistle. It's been in there for 1600 years and it's authenticity or accuracy is moot.

    Arguing about the origin of 1 Timothy is like arguing about the colour of the wings on the fairies that live at the bottom of the garden. It's all made up rubbish anyways.

  • Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors
  • I'm not sure about the value of questioning the authenticity of something that has been canon for almost 2000 years. It's like quibbling about how the Latin translation of the Old Testament doesn't match Hebrew sources.

    Who cares which misogynistic jerk wrote that passage? It's been part of the bedrock of the faith of countless generations of misogynists since then.

  • The hottest place on Earth is cracking from the stress of extreme heat
  • Death Valley appears to be a very contained thing. When I was there, the temperature in Las Vegas was 108. When we started down into the valley the temperature started to rise dramatically. Half way down, it hit 117 and I had to stop to get out to see what it felt like.

    But then the temperature kept going up as we went down into the valley. We hit 126 for a while approaching Badwater, and it was 124 when we got out at Badwater.

    And this was in May, around 15 years ago.

    The point is that when you go there, you see that Death Valley is a meteorological phenomenon created by, and contained by the geography of Death Valley.

    Yes, 108 is hot, but there was an almost 10 degree increase as soon as you crossed the ridge into the valley and started down. The idea that Death Valley climate will somehow spread to the surrounding area just doesn't make sense.

  • Protesting is getting weird...
  • As a Canadian driving around the UK I always found these signs strange. When passing one we would raise our fists in the air and shout, "End road work...end road work everywhere!!!".

    It amused us.

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    Group Shot

    For some reason, the wife decided to pull out all of the amigurumi critters that she's made since she started doing this at the beginning of the year.

    So, here you go, the group shot:

    !

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    The Wife's Latest Creation

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    She said that the pattern was awful and that she had fudge all kinds of stuff to make it work. The hat needed to be completely redesigned.

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    This sub is not ready yet @lemmy.ca HamsterRage @lemmy.ca

    Still Not Ready?

    I'm beginning to think that this sub will never be ready. What's the hold-up????

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    Amigurumi!

    The wife has started to make these amigurumi creatures. Here's her latest two.

    She uses worsted weight wool (she tells me) which generally results in bigger creatures.

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    1981 Mockingbird Supreme

    I wanted one of these back in 1980 when I was 16. I remember that they were $1,200, but they might as well have been $1,200,000 as far as I was concerned.

    Many years later I had the $$$ to buy one, and this one is a beauty. Koa, with Bill Lawrence pickups.

    Look at all the knobs and switches!!!

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    What Does the Big Number in the Top Right of Each Post Mean?

    This is the beside the time since the post was created. I cannot figure it out.

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    Battery Usage With eSIM

    I live in Canada, where we are graced with the most expensive cell phone plans in the developed world. One of the "features" of my plan is something they call "Roam Like Home". With this feature, I can use my data and time from my plan just like I haven't gone anywhere, for the low, low price of $15 a day!!!

    This is activated automatically the moment that they detect that I am roaming. I cannot opt out of this "feature", and the only way to avoid it is to put the phone in airplane mode and then activate wifi. There is a cap to the number of days you can be charged, but runs on a calendar month basis, so if you are away across the end of the month, you can get charged more than that maximum.

    For me, the answer came in the form of eSIMs. I ditched my old Galaxy S9, and bought a Pixel 7 in May. Then I purchased an eSIM for France for both data and talk (30GB for 30 days for around €45) and went to France for 24 days.

    I was really pleased with the Pixel 7 in the week or two that I had it before we left on vacation. The battery life was way better than the S9, and 2 hours at the gym, with YouTube Music on Bluetooth and "Strong" running to track sets and timing left me with close to 90% battery left. It would be closer to 50% on the S9.

    No heat issues here in Canada.

    When the plane landed in France, the eSIM automatically activated, and I turned it on for both data and voice/SMS. Nothing could be easier, and it works like a charm.

    At around this time, the issue with hot Pixels started, and eventually Google found the issue with their servers that was causing this. Hot Pixels with short battery life faded from the news.

    But not for me.

    Ok, so battery life was still better than my old S9, but not by much. And it got hot, too. It seemed to be particularly bad when I set up a hotspot for my wife - as this was the plan, she would use wifi off the Pixel hotspot since her phone doesn't support eSIMs. Out and about, I could expect to lose up to 15% in the first hour, and then it would maybe go even faster after it was down below 70%.

    Taking pictures seemed to be especially hard on the battery, too. Not surprising, really, as the new camera features use a lot of computing power. We had Android Auto in our rental car, and Google Maps would drain the battery at almost the same rate that the car would charge it.

    I was waiting for the new updates to drop, hoping that might have a fix, but as of June 13, we still haven't seen it. In the meantime, we've returned to Canada and I've turned off the eSIM.

    And now the battery life is back to where it was before we left. I haven't once noticed the phone getting hot either.

    So there you go. Has anyone else noticed this kind of issue with eSIMs?

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    This sub is not ready yet @lemmy.ca HamsterRage @lemmy.ca

    When will this sub be ready?

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