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  • It is the disintegration chain of each atom and the particules and half life of all.

    Half life is the time it takes for half the atoms to disintegrate. The first letter is the emited radiation (alpha, beta, gamma).

    You can derived how dangerous each of these materials is from these informations.

    On a quick glance, radium should be the deadliest one, because the half lives are all very short, so that's a lot of deadly radiations. On the other hand, uranium is said to be on a critical mass, which could be a chain reaction.

  • It's the delusion stage, when you think companies are places where you do professional work. Then you learn no one cares about properly doing your job. In fact, they'd rather you do not.

  • A dev work on some code. It works, great, job done.

    An engineer comes to see this work. It hasn't been thoroughly tested, it only works on the dev computer in his coding environment. There is no documentation. There is no comments in the code. Half the features are missing because the story didn't talk about them. Installing the "software" is made by hand and only one person knows how to do that. Some libraries are used with various licences, some are outdated, some can't be maintained, some will download stuff on their own. Performances are shit. I certainly forget a lot of stuff.

    Now the engineer will work to solve all these non code problems.

    Now the problem is that software companies don't care about engineers because they have managers. Managers will consider engineers like developers and ask them to work like developers. They will also tell the engineer that his lunacies are too time consuming, which means too expensive, so they will go in the backlog and be forgotten.

    Yes I'm disillusioned and depressed about working in software development. It's not like this everywhere. Some companies have an engineering culture. Especially when they come from older industries, like electronics or car etc. But I haven't had the chance to work in one for 5 years now.

  • Attraction is a mindset as much as it is a feeling. It is tied to desire. Desire is what you want out of an imaginary relationship, so to say.

    I see 3 kinds of romantic desires: sex, social status, and emotional intimacy (or friendship). The first is obvious, and is usually about appearance, but it can also be about what the sex will be about (kink, experience, whatever). Social status is more about how the relationship is perceived or what it can bring (regular family, social standing, money, religion,...). Last one is about friendship basically, that is being with someone and knowing this person.

    The desires breed attraction. They can change over time, and you can suppress or exacerbate them. Some situations can also wake them like food can wake hunger.

    If you want to avoid some problem relationships or if you seek deeper relationships, you'll feel less attraction from sight, simply because you'll need deeper knowledge and connections from a person to see what you desire and see the attraction grow.

    As for how it feels, it depends on the desire it feeds from. And it depends on the situation and the person. It depends on the moment itself.

    There, my model for all this.

  • You can survive with many external means. But that's the thing: you need external means to survive because you cannot survive otherwise in this environment.

    And yes, even in dry weather doing work in direct sun when temperature is over 40C is madness. Even a healthy adult can die in this environment. You should at the very least have proper garments and drink a lot.

  • Let's say you have 20AC vs this monster +13. The monster hit on 7+. So you have 30% to avoid a hit. This means on average you'll avoid 1 or 2 out of the 5 attacks of the big baddy. Which can definitely save your life!

  • That's why we're starting to use wet bulb temperature to measure these things. This is the temperature measured with the measuring bulb of the thermometer wet, so it accounts for wind and humidity, and it reflects how humans would feel and survive.

    38°C wet bulb is a deadly temperature. Not like you may die if you are unlucky or have specific condition, but like healthy you adult humans die in this weather. Because wind and humidity are such that your body cannot cool itself.

    In more temperate or dry places the heat should not be an underestimated danger either. But indeed the danger comes more at 40°C and higher and specific circumstances (stupidity being one of them).

  • We had the same in France until not so long ago. It is a democratic principle that you voluntarily and freely pay your taxes, rather than the state take your money without you hvving a say in it.

    It is both a principle of transparency and consent for taxes.

  • Well, if you omit batteries then you are mostly true, although with covid there was a huge shortage of electronic components that would affect solar a lot, at least depending on where you live. Batteries is a big unknown now, because with all the demand for it, we simply can't build enough batteries to feed all the grids with it.

  • Proton works great for me. Windows also has problems with selecting the audio source. I only have one monitor so I can't tell for the others.

    I find it very unfair that people will forgive any shortcoming of windows but Linux should be absolutely perfect or it's not usable. No one can make a printer work on windows better than on anything, and projecting a presentation is always going to fail 50% of the time. When it fails on windows, it's a stuff problem, but when it's on Linux it's a Linux problem somehow...