I was entirely confused for a moment- I think you might be getting an echocardiogram, rather than an electrocardiogram. If you could hear an electrocardiogram, there would be something seriously wrong with their machine- It’s meant to be a passive electrical measurement. Echo on the other hand is exactly what you described, an ultrasound of the heart.

I was actually thinking you might have a strong interoception, which is when people have an awareness of their own heartbeat signals- super rare but super cool.

Try putting the egg in later, so it’s still soft after cooking.

You can buy crispy onion pretty cheaply, put it on at the end to give it a little texture.

Try it soupy, try it dry. Try draining it and adding the seasoning to the dry noodles.

Big spoonful of peanut butter / gochujang / miso / langaoma

Frozen veggies.

Mince meat, shredded chicken,

There’s also heaps of different brands, give em a whirl.

I find another part of this story pretty wild- The US ‘rebuild’ was done over dry land, then a canal was dug underneath.

There’s a section in the Mars trilogy where several pages are given over to describing how a farm is laid out, with the wind coming over this rise and hitting this rock, which means a little pool of moisture forms in this particular spot, making a little ridge in the soil that shelters a bit of grass. Oh and someone blew up a space station with a missile.

The location of light switches relative to the light.

I once left a club for good when they played Love Shack and Rock Lobster back to back. I tolerated the first one, but when they played the second straight away I just stood up and walked out, vowing to never return.

Bwow, badadaDa, danananaa…

The only way to win the game is to not play.

It sounds like you currently care more about the people at your job than your job itself. Perhaps you can tell yourself to flip that?

We are a reflection of the people around us. Maybe next time your colleagues are lazing around, instead of joining them and ignoring the work, you can join those two you admire and ignore the others?

I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted. People don’t like it when you show them there is shades of grey in any argument, they just want to get outraged simply.

Precisely- it’s a concept that is ingrained in people to the point where anyone who doesn’t understand it is viewed as lacking. However, it’s needless.

I don’t need to understand IP addressing subnet routing to go to a website. Why should I need to understand a file and folder structure to find an old tax document?

You use an interesting example- personally, I feel like while files and folders have their place, I prefer they be part of the background and not presented to the user. Take photos, for example. If I’m looking for pictures of my dog, I don’t want to go into the 2022 folder, then the August folder, then look through all those files, back out into 2022 then go into the September folder, etc. I just want to type ‘dog’. Or pick from a dropdown list of common tags, or anything other than digging through files and folders.

Don’t even need an Opal card- just tap your phone or your bank card.

The network is also massive. You can tap on in Kiama and tap off in Scone. That’s about 400km, roughly equivalent to Berlin to Frankfurt, on regular metro trains. Might take a while, but you can do it.

Am I in the minority, thinking that the London Underground is actually pretty amazing? Wherever I was across the huge area the city takes up, I rarely needed to check a timetable- There would be a station within walking distance, I could be relatively confident that a train would turn up within fifteen minutes and get me to basically anywhere in London in fairly short order.

Give me 2, but less mirrors- I’ve spent enough time in hotel lobbies, thank you. But if it were more theatre lobby than hotel lobby, I’m all for it.

Agreed, but your point will usually be a lot better received if you aren’t a dick. SpaceX is a great example- it’s a great company, but the head of the company taints the whole thing they are trying to achieve.

It comes down to respect. Even if I’m wrong, treating me with respect will mean I’m more likely to respect you, and if I respect you I’m going to respect your argument.

You’re absolutely right, you absolute fuckwad, and well said, even if you are a shit eating waste of a human.

(Sorry I don’t mean it, I feel bad now…)

You’ve got good points, but your needless insults makes your argument fall on deaf ears.

Yeah- Square and level are two different things. I can get a cube and rotate it any way, opposite faces will still be square to each other (technically parallel) despite not being level.

Interestingly, two perfectly vertical walls cannot be square to each other.

Linux newb here. What does this mean? My knowledge of systemd is that it is responsible for things like mounting disks and running networking. So does this mean I can ask systemd to grab a new IP address every x hours, even if the machine is asleep?

You’ve got a shelf full of fifty boxes. Forty five of them are sold. You’ve got five people working in the store across three registers. You want to make sure that the people who ordered one get one, so you pre-allocate them by printing out all the orders and attaching them to the box.