When I got my second, I had a bidet and it made a huge difference. That and a bit of vaseline to prevent too much irritation. It's an uncomfortable process so taking every win you can saves your sanity

Most people don’t think along this axis. It’s the same reason why if you asked somebody how a toilet works or the functionality of P-trap (both things a majority have interacted with/seen more frequently than a plane window), they’d probably give you a blank stare.

Makes me think of Jackson's electrodynamics - yit always seemed to me a hazing ritual. I remember a story of someone asking him a question from the book and he basically said "how the hell would I know?"

I enjoyed the book and class myself but it did not make me a better physicist, just a better mathematician

Considering 2 hours ago is 7AM EST, you might want to wait for America to wake up before jumping to conclusions.

The article isn't even about military readiness either. Making the military more friendly to married couples is a fine goal, for sure, but the ones who chose that life know the caveats involved and if they don't like it, they leave.

China may have the largest branches of services, they are hardly the best funded and most prepared. Wars have not been decided by who is bigger for a long time.

And to top it off, the Russian progress into Ukraine is largely stalled and has mostly been a shitshow for Russia. Their propaganda machine is scarier than their military incursions.

Easy! Keep it in the backyard

Might need to be careful about doing that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAjAySmuvz0

More unaccountable nonsense "technocratic" fake job bullshit. Get mandated rent from the boring beige-loving 90%, dump the 10% that somehow stick out.

Also, that backyard looks like the least cluttered part of that neighborhood. I can't imagine being so scared of living in a multi story building that I'd do that to myself.

My pixelbook is the same way. However, I custom made a debug cable so I wouldn't have to pull the battery out which often destroys it because of all the adhesives they use

There is also a cultural component to saying hello/hi before stating your request. Almost every Asian/Indian person I have worked with starts a conversation this way. I asked a friend one time and they just said it is polite so I stopped caring

the point is not to "not" say hello. But to have your message include the actual reason for contacting them.

so instead of 8:14 "hello" 9:15 "actual question"

sent 8:14 "Hello, actual question"

Mentioned in another thread - I use it to write unit tests for me.

I give it a function, tell it to write a test and it largely gets it right most of the time. I have to tweak it but the time spent is a lot less than if I did it myself

Wouldn’t the other way round be even more productive?

I feel so dumb that I didn't consider this until reading your comment.

I never use ChatGPT for anything I don't already know how to do.

The biggest thing I've had it writing for me recently though - unit tests. It writes them much quicker and even though I have to tweak them, the shell is done and allows me to focus on more important things after I verify and modify them.

Every time I have opened Teams, I have had a problem. I have a "not simple" webcam/audio setup with virtual webcams and audio sources and half the time, Teams will show black and audio will not work, and the sources won't show up in the list.

Not only that, every time I've gotten a Teams link for an interview, the desktop app tells me "this version is only for organizations" then the webapp refuses to load.

A huge pain when every other client I've used (Discord, Webex, Zoom, Google Meet) works with minor tinkering.