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beAbU··on How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
Just get a carpet washer. Your kids will make a mess on the carpet sooner or later. Regardless of your potty training regime.
beAbU··on How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
What's the unit cost of a nappy in your area? Here it's like €0.05 each, so monthly maybe €50 max incl wipes. I'll have to actually measure how much we use in a day though.
beAbU··on How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
After nappy number 200, which you'll reach by the first month probably, you'll become very good at gauging nappy fullness, and the nature of the filling by touch and smell alone. At that point the blue stripe is basically meaningless. I can tell if my baby needs a change just by picking her up.
beAbU··on How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
The irony of your comment is that it is actually possible to train cats to use the toilet, and it's not even that difficult.

But other than that, I fully agree with your sentiment that it's like war. My sibling comment to yours quoted Sun Tsu: "even the best laid plans will not survive contact with the enemy". My favourite example is when our 3 month old decides to have her weekly Big Shit after we get her all cleaned and dressed up for going out somewhere, right as we walk out the front door.

beAbU··on How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
My partner wanted to try the same thing. And cloth nappies and exclusive breastfeeding, and infant hand signals, and every other zeitgeist baby thing you can think of.

In principle EC sounds interesting, but then our daughter arrived, it has balls to the wall survival for 3 months bow. We ended up bottle feeding, use disposable nappies and sometimes we put her on her side to sleep so that she can fall asleep easier. Terrible parenting if you ask any parenting influencer! Neither of us have the time, energy or mental fortitude to get baby naked and over the toilet in the 20 seconds between when the grunting starts and the poop comes!

My advice to you as a new father, assuming you will also be the father and your partner the mother: go into all this with an open mind, and focus on doing what your baby needs, not what you want, and definitely not what the internet says you should be doing. Sun Tzu said the best laid plans don't survive contact with the enemy, so don't get hung up when your plans fall apart when your little one arrives. Support your partner in the things she wants to try, but be pragmatic and prepared for all alternative outcomes. Keep baby's butt dry, keep their belly full of milk (breast or formula or both is perfectly OK), keep them warm and love them loads. That's literally all you need to do, and you will be awarded with the most amazing smiles and giggles by month 2-3.

beAbU··on PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon
I had a PC with an old PII or PIII cartridge.

The cpu and heatsink was fully integrated into what looked like a NES cart, with an integrated fan and everything. It was not really possible to separate the cpu and the heatsink as the locking mechanism to keep the cart in place on the motherboard interfaced with the heatsink assembly.

So I'm a little dubious of that no-heatsink claim.

beAbU··on Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The more you fuck around, the more you find out.

beAbU··on U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot
Adtech
beAbU··on MacBook Neo
Shipping macOS on iPads will near instantly vanish a very large cohort of their macbook users.
beAbU··on MacBook Neo
That would cannibalize their ipad lineup
beAbU··on MacBook Air with M5
Unplug before closing. I'm not sure where I read this, but this is the cause for the backpack cooking. When plugged in it goes into active sleep or something, not really sleep. When unplugged and it goes to battery mode, and activates the real sleep mode.

Something something windows something something shitty power management.

Try it for yourself and see if that makes a difference. It worked for me!

I remember at some point dell had a warning to not sleep your laptop and put it in a bag, as it can actually cook the lcd panel!

beAbU··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Here in Ireland in December civil twilight starts at like 08h, and if you are lucky, you'll see the sun only at 08h30. For many, that's mostly darkness all the way to the office.
beAbU··on A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks
I'm not above asking the barber to leave an inch on the top, but then I'm not going to ask him to leave 15mm on the sides. At least keep the system consistent within a sentence :)
beAbU··on iPhone 17e
I know good network connectivity is not a privilege that everyone has, but on google photos I can scroll back all the way to 2007 when my digital photo collection started (I uploaded everything I had manually), and it's as if all those photos are local on my device.
beAbU··on iPhone 17e
> and double the starting storage at 256GB

Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's important?

I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm using 85GB at the moment, including the OS.

Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-device storage. I'd rather the storage be smaller, and the savings going toward more battery or whatever.

Am I the only one?

beAbU··on A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks
>... >1,000 kg, or 700 pounds of milk

Why do you mix your units like that.

beAbU··on Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities
So you are saying the Ivy League pool is the one with more better candidates?

The same pool where connections, rather than merit count? Where the candidates have (probably) been coddled by their loaded parents all their lives? Where they fake disabilities in order to get affordances such as better housing, "support" animals and so on?

beAbU··on 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
Why don't you ask you AI for its opinion?
beAbU··on The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
Bacon
beAbU··on Layoffs at Block
My take is that if AI really improved productivity, then that makes labour effectively cheaper. Usually, when labour is cheap, then you buy lots and lots of it so that you can get a lot of things done.

I think it's called the Law of Demand?

Companies over-hired during COVID because the money was free thus making the labour cheap. Why are they not over-hiring now, during a time when workforce productivity is supposed to be at an all-time high?

Instead we are seeing layoffs, blaming AI, because the free-money chickens have come home to roost. These CEOs want to save face and not admit they were short-sighted during COVID.

beAbU··on Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
> make so much more money doing the same job in the US than anywhere else.

Unless you are comparing with top-paying faang employers, the difference is not as stark I think.

Once you deduct the higher cost of every day things, medical expenses, education fees, and other social safety net stuff that you typically get for free in EU, and compound that with a weak dollar, you'll see that the typical EU salary is probably not all that bad. Otherwise, as you say, companies would have outsourced to EU rather than India for example.

beAbU··on How will OpenAI compete?
Ads are a little more insidious, and normies aren't nearly as allergic to them as they should be. But whether openAI can achieve their revenue targets by ads alone is a different question.
beAbU··on How will OpenAI compete?
Regardless of whether there is value in chat history or not, for some people it is important.

Back in the day during the music streaming wars there were tons of "move your playlists from A to B" services. Streaming services could not hold on to customers because all their playlists were on there.

I'm sure that similar services will pop up for chatbots.

Also, you can always just ask your chatbot to generate a file with your chat history, given that it's all part of the context anyway.

beAbU··on How will OpenAI compete?
The moment openai starts charging for their service properly, people will start shopping around.

See power users such as devs with coding assistants that have model selection dropdowns allowing you to switch on a whim. There is zero loyalty or stickiness in the paying user crowd.

beAbU··on The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die
> No radiator

Almost all EVs come with a radiator and cooling loop these days.

beAbU··on The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die
During my Hyundai Kona's service last year the tech kicked the tyres, shone a flashlight underneath and checked all the fluid levels. Then they washed it and told me to come back next year.

I paid like €120 for it.

Not sure where your "ev services are expensive" rhetoric comes from.

beAbU··on Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
Hand to heart honest, I had a listen to this, and this is the only version I know. This was a very popular song when I was in university in 15 years ago.

I did not realize it was shatner!

beAbU··on Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
The moment that crypto is cashed out at a bank, no matter how sketchy, a record is created in a ledger. This completely destroys the so-called anonymity of cryptocurrencies.
beAbU··on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
Hah, I wonder how thick a German, Dutch or Afrikaans dictionary would be if it included all possible spaceless compound words. Literally any concept can be compounded together to make a new word.

Roovleisslaghuisinspekteur =

Rooi = red

Vleis = meat

Slag = butcher

Huis = house

Inspekteur = inspector

"Inspector who controls the quality of red meat in butcheries"

beAbU··on Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
True, but this does not happen for large transactions, due to being vulnerable to the $5 wrench attack (1)

For big transactions where something of actual value is exchanged, both parties will want an escrow, and this is where a public exchange comes in.

1 - https://xkcd.com/538/

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