Soft disagree. I use the Qi charger to charge my phone overnight or while it’s sitting on my desk. The USB cable is when I need it charged quickly.

This way, my phone’s charging port is protected with a plug when I’m not using it and it is immaculate and unlikely to fail while I have it.

(My previous phone’s charging port almost failed and would stop working if I used it for all charging. Using Qi for the bulk of the charging kept the port working for when I needed it, like in the car or to the computer.)

N95?

Phone etiquette for the 2020s:

Message:

Hi, I wanted to talk about X. I think it’ll take about 5-10 minutes. When would be a convenient time to call?

Phone calls themselves don’t annoy me. People who expect to call you at any time and then get upset you won’t drop what you’re doing to speak to them annoy me.

Passed through earlier this year specifically to visit Caldea mineral springs. Absolutely worth it if you’re nearby.

‘Renegade breakaway province’

apparently my city literally literally banned public rail funding

How to say you’re in America without saying you’re in America

YouTube awareness ads some dystopian black mirror shit

Wasn’t the point of IPv6 to remove the need for GCNAT?

Just been diagnosed but haven’t started treatment yet. I’m excited for the next stage of life!

I mean, Australia is one of the best places in the world to send nuclear waste. Seismically inert, sparsely populated in remote areas, strong regulatory competency to ensure a compliant industry. With it buried deep underground, life on the surface won’t be affected nor will the hydrology.

Know when to ask for help. You can’t always hold the world on your shoulders.

Thank you!

Please someone ELI5 what this metric means

Isn’t there a Chinese Tesla factory?

I first try to think of the broad headings. If I can’t do that yet, I write out dot points of my ideas and see if I can group them.

Next, I start expanding the headings out with as many dot points as I need.

When I want to add more detail to a dot point, I indent that further, or write a sentence/sentences under it.

When I’ve got sentences for everything, I start to remove the scaffolding and group into paragraphs.

Example

Say I want to write a how-to guide to change a car tyre. I initially think of two main things:

Tools required

Procedure

Now, let’s add some dot points

Tools required

• Jack
  • What is it?
  • Where to find it?
• Tyre wrench
  • What is it?
• Spare tyre
  • Does your car have one?
  • Differences between spare tyres and normal tyres

Procedure

• Prepare the car
• Prepare the jack
• Jack up the car
• Remove the tyre nuts
• Remove old tyre
• Place new tyre
• Tighten nuts
  • Check tightness
• Lower the car
• Test new tyre

Notes

• Plan to replace spare tyre if used
• What if you have no spare tyre?

Notice how I added a new heading when a thought came to mind?

Now I’ll keep adding detail until I’ve got paragraphs.

Tools required

• Jack
  • What is it? A jack is a device you use to raise the car wheel up above the ground so you can change the tyre.
  • Where to find it? You can usually find the car jack in the boot of your car, but check with your vehicle owners manual for specific locations. Your car might not have a jack, in which case you will need to source one from elsewhere.
  • Safety Jacks carry significant weight, so can be unsafe if damaged or not set up properly. Check that your jack isn’t damaged before using it. Moreover, you will need to ensure your jack isn’t on a slippery surface or a surface that could be damaged by it. In that case, you can place a plank of wood under the jack.
• Tyre wrench
  • What is it?
• Spare tyre
  • Does your car have one?
  • Differences between spare tyres and normal tyres

Procedure

• Prepare the car
• Prepare the jack
• Jack up the car
• Remove the tyre nuts
• Remove old tyre
• Place new tyre
• Tighten nuts
  • Check tightness
• Lower the car
• Test new tyre

Notes

• Plan to replace spare tyre if used
• What if you have no spare tyre?

Then keep doing this until you’ve finished it! Remember it’s normal to rearrange things as you go.

But was it drinking raw milk?

Oh we already know this. There are parts of the genome that, if even slightly changed, cause terrible, terrible things.

Mutations can happen anywhere, but serious mutations (that may affect the basic things a cell needs to do in order to exist) result in cell death and therefore don’t manifest in the population — the population continues on as though the mutation had never existed.

In this way, natural selection conserves some parts of the genome while less essential parts can vary more freely without being deleterious to the organism.

For example, most non-bacteria (including all plants, animals, fungi, protists) have special proteins called histones. Histones are used to package the DNA together and wrap it all up. Cells can’t function at all without a these proteins, and the most important histone proteins evolve so slowly that they’re almost identical between a human and a pea. (Humans and peas shared a common ancestor over half a billion years ago.)

ETA: My molecular biology knowledge is rusty, but IIRC the way DNA is packaged and unpackaged can also reduce or increase the risk of DNA being exposed to potential mutagens. So if it’s wrapped up, it’s harder to access and tamper with

Baroque music sounds absolutely shit. Composers try to mix in so many different voices that it’s the musical equivalent of a TV panel show where everyone is shouting over one another.

On that note: harpsichords in ensembles are background noise at best and very few people would notice their absence.

I don’t understand your point but it seems interesting. Could you rephrase?

As a fun aside, the Americans and Russians both experimented with this idea during the Cold War. Check out YouTube for some info on the designs