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coolkicks , 22 days ago to Nuclear Energy in US support for nuclear energy at record high, poll shows

This is hopeful, and we need more nuclear, but I have very serious questions about the methodology to this survey.

The prior marks on the line graph indicate not all categories of response are represented, as the don’t add up to 100%. Then there is a sudden change over the last 4 years where the % supporting jumps to the mid 70s and all four periods add up to exactly 100%.

This, to me, feels like a question change on or around 2021, or a methodology change that’s not clearly labeled, and casts doubt on the integrity of the research, especially given the generally modest level of knowledge about nuclear, which, according to my read of the article and survey details, doesn’t appear to have changed at any point.

coolkicks , 26 days ago to Home Improvement in Looking for some HVAC suggestions to better cool my stifling second floor

Just piling on at this point, but we made 2 changes last spring that made summer so much more tolerable in our house.

1. More insulation. I bought a cheap thermal camera on Amazon and found entire closets and a bathroom with no insulation. Those rooms are a solid 10+ degrees cooler now.
2. More ventilation. Half my house didn’t have any soffit vents, but had attic vents. Adding soffit vents made that half the house 5 degrees cooler all on its own.

And we haven’t found ourselves needing it, but a mini split has popped up a lot here already and is a great idea.

coolkicks , 3 months ago to US Authoritarianism in The Cost of Living a Decent Life in America is 96,000 Annually

By eating them. Out of the bucket and full tummy.

coolkicks , 3 months ago to US Authoritarianism in The Cost of Living a Decent Life in America is 96,000 Annually

I’m in the family bucket on the right.

coolkicks , 3 months ago to US Authoritarianism in The Cost of Living a Decent Life in America is 96,000 Annually

I still remember six figures being the key to posterity. And now you may still starve.

coolkicks , 3 months ago to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation in XXX

Just looking at employers in my professional career. Two. One for 15 years then the current for 3.

Looking at my direct and diagonal leaders, they seem to average 3-5 years a role, and I consider staying with my prior employer for so long a mistake. I made career progression and promotions there, but it still slowed me down vs changing employers.

coolkicks , 4 months ago to Privacy in Github vs. Email Aliases

Sure, self-hosting is a great option for very large projects, but a random python library to help with an analytics workflow isn’t going to self-host. Those projects, along with 27,999,990 others have chosen GitHub, often times explicitly to reduce the barrier to contribution.

Also, all of those examples are built on thousands of other FOSS projects, 99% of which aren’t self-hosting. This is the same as arguing only Amazon is a bookseller and ignoring the thousands of independent book publishers creating the books Amazon is selling.

coolkicks , 4 months ago to Privacy in Github vs. Email Aliases

GitHub has 28 million public repos

Gitlab is has less than an order of magnitude as many Under a million in 2020, and nearly 80% without FOSS license.

Is it everyone’s favorite, or best, or most feature rich. Nah. Is it where the FOSS projects are. Yes.

coolkicks , 5 months ago to math in Is there statistical credibility to the idea that any one rare experience is unlikely to happen to any one person, but at least one rare experience is likely to happen to each person?

The example that comes to mind is the Birthday Problem.

If you are in a room with 22 other people, there is a 22 in 365 chance one of them shares your birthday. Relatively unlikely. But there is a 50% chance there are two people in the room that share a birthday. Much more likely.