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Already commented on another, but my understanding is that water flossing isn't as good at removing plaque as actual floss, since it isn't as directly abrasive. It's great if you wouldn't floss normally otherwise, but migrating from flossing regularly to only water flossing regularly is a downgrade in dental hygiene.

I'm pretty sure studies have been done that show it doesn't have the abrasive power of actual floss, so it's not as good at removing plaque. Fine at removing solids generally, which helps, but actual floss tends to be better.

I know that the American capitalism thing is a meme at this point, but working in software, every company I've worked for isn't against you taking breaks or doing whatever as long as things get done. I've played foosball with my VP during normal hours before, and it was slightly awkward but good fun.

The usual issue I see in my industry is that you constantly accumulate more responsibilities without any corresponding increase in pay. It's especially bad for morale when you see someone leave, and their responsibilities get distributed to the team, but no one gets any part of the old person's salary as a raise to make up for the added responsibilities even when the higher ups refuse to hire a replacement since you're all clearly handling it fine.

I find it personally difficult to eat a meal without meat at all, and I enjoy some of the plant based meats. They aren't all great, but beyond chicken is better than some chicken nuggets, and I forget which brand it was but one of them does better brats than most grocery stores.

Edit: Hard agree on hoping for lab grown meat to progress. That feels like the actual future of meat consumption to me.

98% of people watching wouldn't understand what's going on anyway. The rules would get thrown out instantly, and that would be widely perceived as "winning."

If you have any sort of moderator to actually enforce the rules, they'll just end up getting death threats for actually enforcing them because that's "biased." Especially if only one side violates the rules. Wont matter that the moderator is only enforcing the rules on that side because the other side is following them and doesn't need enforcement. Don't know how likely this particular scenario is in the case of two politicians debating, but this is part of why scientists and other people who engage in logical debate can't engage with bad actors in good faith.

Sebo one works great, it's honestly so overbuilt I'm more concerned about it wearing holes in upholstery than stalling. Sounds like a jet spooling up.

Remote power generation becomes much more useful since you can eliminate transmission losses. Things like covering the Sahara with solar panels to sell energy to Europe become possible to think about.

There are only 30 theaters that project 70mm IMAX film. There's plenty of others that do digital IMAX.

I tried switching to Pixel 7 Pro last fall, and I'm ready to go back to Samsung or try an iPhone next. The stupid thing loses GPS accuracy to outside of a block radius every other day. Also, every once in a while the app switcher just breaks because a Pixel service gets stuck. And the phone tends to crash every week or so if I don't reboot it.

I've been meaning to try graphene os, but haven't found the time to make that switch yet.

I'm very happy with my Garmin Epix (gen 2). It's got a nice AMOLED screen, which works better for me cause I'm honestly mostly using it indoors, and I don't really need 50 days battery life or anything like that. 13 days on pretty high settings is plenty for me...

The watch has its own built in GPS antennas, and works fine without a phone during activities, since I saw you should about GPS stuff elsewhere in the comments. I'm pretty sure it needs to sync data to a phone eventually though, for full functionally.

This is probably overkill for you, and you can get one of many much cheaper options from Garmin since all you care about is heart monitoring.

Apple watches are the only ones I know that do the full EKG thing if that's something you're interested in, as far as other options. If you already have an iPhone, I've only heard good things about the watches too. Pretty sure their adventure watch only really loses to Garmin on battery life.

Ask the experts from help, and learn from them. Don't ask things you can legitimately learn really easily on your own by just doing a quick read of the code, but the bar for questions to not be stupid is pretty low. In most projects with any complexity, it's probably overall saving the company money if you ask someone who knows and can save you time, instead of wasting a ton of your time reaching the same conclusion. But next time that problem comes up, you should know how to solve it, so it saves everyone time.

On the good side, I spent the majority of the movie smiling, and overall enjoyed it. Some of the jokes definitely really landed great.

The acting was great, the balance between doll like and real movement was well done by everyone.

Main complaint was some of the more serious parts felt like they were going way too long, without anything to justify paying attention to them after a while.

Not sure how I feel about the feminism stuff, though I do feel like I may have gained some more appreciation for what the world feels like to a lot of women. The parody of men was what it was, but I can't say it didn't all have real roots, and generally was a reasonable balance of cringe and hilarious. It did not make me stop smiling, just made me wince at the same time.

Simu couldn't keep from smiling himself, which was hilarious. I'm glad he was enjoying himself so much.

1. Setup my vimrc.
2. Clone the project, and realize that whatever repo managing system they started using 3 years ago requires setup steps not in the README and breaks everything at the slightest touch.
3. Build the currently relevant project in whatever build system they started using 3 years ago (CMake is quite nice).
4. Fix my vimrc to be compliant with whatever tabbing they use.
5. Realize that for some reason, someone made a commit in the file I'm reading that uses 3 space tabs. And worse, someone approved that PR.
6. Make changes via vim.
7. Debug via print because setting up gdb or JTAG on embedded systems is usually more effort than its worth.
8. Realize it's a timing issue and reluctantly go find the JTAG debugger.

1. No, though I've thought about buying one just so I have a dedicated space for this that isn't inside my bags. Was looking at Ruggard, can't say anything about them since I don't own one yet.
2. Probably. I don't use mine commercially, just have a ridiculous amount. So I'm about to tag mine as a rider to my renters insurance for something like $10 a month for ~20-30k coverage.

Oh nice, that's what I get for not reading it

Complete speculation on my part, but privacy laws? My understanding is that in the US, broadly speaking, you have a right to privacy where it would be reasonably expected, which I've usually heard defined as places you can't easily see from the sidewalk. If my understanding is true, then this would be an invasion of privacy just like some creep standing on a ladder peeping on people in their high fenced backyards, and there are generally laws against such behavior.

I understand where you're coming from on the first part, but I'm not sure how I feel about silencing anything that's true as a strategy in... Anything. I get how it helps, and I'm not saying I don't keep quiet on little things throughout life, but ideally I'd like to live in a world where wrongs are always acknowledged. The problem is getting people to understand the relative prevalence and weights of those wrongs in reality.

I struggle with my opinion on violent action all the time. A lot of the time I see nonviolent protest as increasingly irrelevant in the modern world. But I also worry about what society will be if we accept various levels of violence. I know it's a slippery slope argument, but justifying anything can honestly be really easy, and any line we draw can be argued to be arbitrary. Currently I think rhetoric that's inciting violence is something I'll generally frown upon, and I lean towards accepting that that's outside of a societally good right to free speech.

I was really just doing a horseshoe theory bit. I'm willing to accept the downvotes since I didn't feel like stating my personal thoughts on the current political situation added to the intent of that comment.

Edit: thanks for editing your comment after I replied. Though maybe it was just a delay in federating the edit. The only bit of "both sides" that I'll say is that some people on both sides have attempted to silence nonviolent opinions. This really isn't saying much, considering that in any large discourse some idiots will always do this on every side. One side is actually banning books and trying to rewrite history in blatantly false ways.

It's the horseshoe theory of politics. Both far ends of the spectrum have more in common with each other (being basically fascists) than they really have differences (different core issues they rally their fascism around).

Both only really look at the other's extreme, and see fascism, but aren't self aware enough to see their own. Or they dismiss their own as only the extremists, not realizing how this may apply to the other side.

I definitely agree that this isn't surprising. Honestly the biggest factor for me is just the fed rates making mortgage rates ridiculous. This slowdown in home turnover was basically engineered by the fed in order to slow down the rapid home inflation we were seeing as everything reopened from the pandemic.

Still, it's something worth putting out there so everyone's aware of what's happening.