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wq31n1 | askhr_test | 0.94 | Termination during resignation period [AZ] Hello all! I have a question. The company I have been working for appears to be crumbling. We were supposed to FDA approval on a medical device in June that did not come through and they are being hush - hush regarding the deficiencies and plans moving forward. The company seems to be struggling financially and have been terminating long time (higher paid) employees without warning, or explanation. I have seen this coming so I secured a position with another company. I do travel for work and my schedule was booked through August so I was gracious enough to give six weeks notice as to not leave the company or my teammates in a bind. After 3 weeks, they gave me a termination notice citing that is their right to exercise in an "at will" employment state. I live in Az, company based out of Tennessee.) It is apparent they did this in order to not pay out my 60 hours of PTO I have stored in my account. The employee handbook says that if you do not give adequate notice or are terminated, that you do not get stored PTO. I do not find this practice fair or ethical, as I worked 3 weeks after my resignation as a favor to the employer. Is there any recourse? What should I do? Can they continue to get away with this? Thank you, in advance, for your help. | ikkwks2 | iklxr3c | 1,660,688,659 | 1,660,705,231 | 6 | 9 | When you know a company is doing this and you are in a state with no protection at all from wage theft (which the PTO deal is) - then you simply take your vacation then put in your resignation effective immediately when you get back. | I would file an Unpaid Wage Claim against them. You had a reasonable expectation of payment and it costs you nothing to file the claim. include their policy and copies of your written resignation. Can't hurt, might help. You have nothing to lose. Since they terminated you, they're also paying you within 7 working days, right? | 0 | 16,572 | 1.5 |
xvhw56 | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.96 | Eli5 How did travelers/crusaders in medieval times get a clean and consistent source of water | ir2tdv9 | ir13akg | 1,664,922,466 | 1,664,898,857 | 290 | 209 | Short answer they didn‘t… that‘s why WW1 was the first war in human history where more soldiers died by the hand of the enemy than illnesses starvation and thirst Edit: since there is a lot of disagreement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties Here it says 7-8 million combat related deaths 2-3 million deaths by accidents and disease | Crusaders didn't voyage all at once. Think of it more like a migration. They made stops in many ports and coastal cities to replenish. This was necessary especially for the many entourage of families, support, horses etc that traveled with. Also they traveled in waves, meaning by the time the entire army was arriving, the first wave already lived for months there, gathering information or setting up fortifications, livestock etc. | 1 | 23,609 | 1.38756 |
opnqe7 | askbaking_test | 0.92 | Using a food processor for carrots in a carrot cake? Hi, I was wondering if using a food processor would be okay for chopping carrots in a carrot cake. I ask because I noticed when I tested using a food processor that almost no moisture was drawn out of the carrots versus when I grated them a lot of moisture / water came out. Would using the food processor for finely chopped pieces impact the cake (maybe making it less moist)? I've normally grated them to great success but using a food processor would save a lot of time if it's fine. If needed here is the recipe. Thank you! | h66ny6b | h66izt6 | 1,626,995,062 | 1,626,992,671 | 12 | 11 | I'm just a hobby baker, but I puree mine because I don't like the texture otherwise. This also helps with having a nice moist cake | I use a grater attachment on my food processor. Perfect texture and moisture every time. Learned the hard way to peel them first though. | 1 | 2,391 | 1.090909 |
q702o6 | asksciencefiction_test | 0.84 | [MCU] Did Thanos intentionally keep himself out of the list of potential targets of the snap? Does that mean he violated his own rule of selection based on randomness? We see Dr Strange go through 14 million possibilities. The only time out of those that Thanos actually loses was the original MCU timeline, and even in that he survives the snap. So it's safe to assume he survives in the other 14 million timelines as well. Nobody wins Russian roulette 14,000,005 times in a row. Can it be thus concluded that Thanos intentionally excluded himself as being one of the potential victims of the Snap? So he actually broke his own principle of choosing victims completely at random? | hgfemdu | hgfnn18 | 1,634,087,295 | 1,634,091,468 | 13 | 61 | I don't think he excluded himself because he didn't do so on Titan with his idea of population control. Maybe he survives because the gauntlet recognized that he's the wearer. | If he didn’t, the that left a 50/50 chance that someone could’ve just picked up the gauntlet and undone it. He wanted to make sure he accomplished his goal which probably also included destroying the gems after he “snapped”. | 0 | 4,173 | 4.692308 |
4gsuya | askphilosophy_test | 0.96 | Are any schools particularly well known for their undergraduate philosophy education? I TA a class that meets in a maximum security prison and one of the students is getting released soon. He's expressed a desire to study philosophy once he gets out and has asked the professor and I for a list of schools where he might want to do that. Bracketing for the time being the practical factors involved in this decision, what should we tell him? I know what the top schools for graduate study are, and I assume their undergraduate programs are accordingly good to at least some extent, but are there any schools that have a particular reputation for quality undergrad philosophical education? I feel like I've heard UMKC brought up before in this regard, am I making that up? Thanks. | d2kkc10 | d2kl90q | 1,461,844,222 | 1,461,846,368 | 2 | 5 | If he has a strong interest in the cog sci / phil mind intersection, my school would be good. If he doesn't, as I suspect is true for most people, avoid at all costs. | Western Washington University has been recognized as having one of the nation's best philosophy departments among schools that only offer a bachelors in the discipline. | 0 | 2,146 | 2.5 |
z7s45h | askscience_test | 0.94 | AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Gretchen Benedix, a cosmic mineralogist and astrogeologist, and I study space rocks! Currently a Professor at Curtin University, I use the chemistry, mineralogy, and spectroscopy of meteorites to understand the formation and evolution of asteroids and planets. AMA! Hello all, I've been deeply interested in Planetary Sciences and the early evolution of the solar system. I'm also the lead on the initial Mineralogy/Petrology of the meteorites found by the Australian Desert Fireball Network (DFN), an interdisciplinary research group that is working to uncover the mysteries surrounding solar system formation. Digital observatories, part of the DFN, monitor a third of Australian skies, all night. The DFN images and studies the paths of fireballs in the sky, their trajectories, and orbits using intelligent imaging systems. As a geologist, I want to know where rocks come from, along with their composition and distribution. Trying to mesh those two is kind of the holy grail in figuring out what the solar system is really like. In 2006, an asteroid was named after me - Asteroid 6579 - for my contributions to planetary science. In August 2022, my work was featured in Interesting Engineering, and the publication helped organize this AMA session. Ask me anything about asteroids, meteorites, planetary science, and my work with the Desert Fireball Network. I'll be on 5 PM (November 29th US ET / 22 UT / November 30th 6 AM in Perth (GMT+8)) to answer your questions, AMA! Username: /u/IntEngineering | iy89ts9 | iy9v6wx | 1,669,731,920 | 1,669,754,959 | 2 | 7 | How can we determine with certainty that a meteorite found in Antarctica originated on Mars? | Hi Dr. Benedix, I am actually a PhD student in Astronomy studying protostellar disk formation and evolution. It’s really interesting to think about how the chemistry at these early stages connects to the chemistry of comets and solar system bodies (and even exoplanets/moons/comets). Actually I’m part of a program that’s trying to understand when the onset of planet formation occurs in protostellar disks. I have two questions I would love to know your opinions on: 1) What chemistry or molecules would you think are important to search for in these early stages of star formation in order to connect with the later stages? That is, potential molecular precursors of molecules or specific complex molecules you think would be interesting to find at the early stages of star and planet formation that we find in comets and the solar system today. To preface this, I mostly study molecules in submillimeter wavelengths so that’s what I’m familiar with, but with the launch of JWST I know there is a strong interest in the infrared spectroscopy of young protostars now. 2) Since there is some theorization that prebiotic molecules (I guess mostly water and amino acids) could have been delivered to earth via comets, what is our current understanding of this? What kinds of prebiotic molecules have been found in comets that would be important for life? Is it possible for RNA to form via surface reactions on comets? Or would this kind of reaction only be possible in an early Earth environment after the necessary molecules have formed / been delivered? Thank you for your time! | 0 | 23,039 | 3.5 |
cszxw1 | askengineers_test | 0.91 | Engineers, do you regret studying engineering/your discipline? What would you change if given the chance? | exi2duf | exie7fj | 1,566,319,608 | 1,566,326,507 | 16 | 20 | Did Mechanical, don't think I'd change a thing. I've had opportunities to do design and manufacturing engineering, work on things that have gone up to the space station, work on racecars, do some travel, software engineering and analyst work, marketing materials and magazine ads, you name it. Love the diversity and opportunities. | If I could do it all over again, I'd get my eyes fixed and go be a pilot I think. The thing I probably hate the most about being an engineer is going on the engineering subreddits and seeing this question almost daily, though. | 0 | 6,899 | 1.25 |
toa8ou | askacademia_test | 0.85 | How far back do you go when referencing ? Shouldn't we always end up at the original source ? No one can give a clear answer. I am unclear on referencing and every year I aks no one can answer it , so I am hoping this year may bring about some clarity. ​ I read article A and it has some useful info I need that they cited from article B. I presume I am meant to go and read article B now....but then it looks like it has come from article C. This just goes on and on...what makes it harder I have found is no one can actually say how far you go back and or which one to cite. I can't help but wonder if it is easier just to cite A? | i25q0ia | i25h517 | 1,648,270,007 | 1,648,264,819 | 26 | 11 | For references to original theories, I always say go back to the original source. Few things bother me more in journal articles than when I read an article that is explicitly about theory ABC which was introduced in, for example, 1980, but the article then proceeds to only cite articles from 2010 and on as their sources about the theory. Give credit to the people who made the theory, especially if the focus of your article is on said theory; you should know the original source(s) and use them! For references to replicated research findings, I recommend going to the most reputable source. Including multiple citations is always an option as well (at least in my field) though that can eat up a lot of words in our already limited journal space. | Which papers did you actually have to pull up to write yours? Cite those. | 1 | 5,188 | 2.363636 |
kvyk3n | askhr_test | 0.93 | [NJ] is it appropriate to ask about salary during first interview? I had a screening call yesterday with an internal recruiter. We both decided it was a good fit and we have a full formal interview tomorrow to discuss my background. Is it appropriate to ask about salary at this initial interview? She didn’t mention it in the screening call and I don’t want to waste everyone’s time moving through the entire interview process if it’s way off target. | gj17tqr | gj2kmbv | 1,610,480,970 | 1,610,505,159 | 3 | 4 | Yes | I think it's completely appropriate so you don't waste one another's time, even if it's a range. However, I'm in Canada where apparently it's verboten to ask before you see your first paycheque apparently :-/ Luckily, now that I'm in the public service sector, I know the pay going into interviews. | 0 | 24,189 | 1.333333 |
idpagz | askbaking_test | 0.98 | Over Hyped Recipes and Under Hyped Recipes. What recipes do you feel get too much hype for what they are? For every over hyped recipe please list one recipe you feel is wonderful and needs to be shared. | g2axalp | g2b90kk | 1,597,993,056 | 1,598,005,368 | 22 | 41 | I’ve never actually made it myself but there’s a Milk Bar in my town, decided to try a few items. Thought they were all horrible. For the good recipe: https://simply-delicious-food.com/lemon-coconut-oil-cake/ I *think* that’s the recipe. **do this with lime instead of lemon** I’ve made it several times and it’s soooo good and I don’t like coconut! I like to make the icing super tangy I’m also happy to share my choc chip cookie recipe but that would make this a very long post. Feel free to message me or ask for it here! Edit add: i see lots of red velvet being listed as overhyped. Red velvet might be my fave! I’m a glutton for cream cheese frosting and I feel like the cake part has a slight twang too. I’m not a big fan of chocolate so it hits just right | Over hyped: Cinnamon buns with frosting. Under hyped: Cinnamon buns without frosting. | 0 | 12,312 | 1.863636 |
tqh7pw | asksciencefiction_test | 0.91 | [Marvel] Why didn't Dr. Strange insure his hands? He obviously had the money. | i2hxr0c | i2hd55f | 1,648,508,905 | 1,648,499,483 | 17 | 5 | Insurance doesnt just throw money at you when you lose what's insured. Insurance most often covers the expense to repair the damage or recover/replace the lost asset. If your car gets damaged in an accident or you lose your car... insurance repairs the car, or replaces the car. If your home is damaged or you lose your home by whatever means (fire, for example)... they repair or replace your home. etcetera... and the coverages are limited. Strange had use of his hands by the time he left the hospital. Unfortunately, he didnt have the dexterity he wanted, but that's not what insurance would be looking at. Insurance doesnt guarantee medical miracles and can't "fix" what the best surgeons and doctors can't do. But insurance WOULD cover most of the expenses to try... (depending on his coverage, but let's assume he could afford the best coverage.) He'd only get some sort of financial award due an inability to work IF someone else was to blame for his injury and it could be proven (Drunk driver, for example). But we all know who was to blame for his mishap. | I'm sure he would have had income insurance. | 1 | 9,422 | 3.4 |
ngcqh5 | askculinary_test | 0.95 | Breakfast Sandwich Abomination Please keep an open mind while I lay out my breakfast conundrum... I love breakfast sandwiches, but absolutely despise the structural integrity of most of them. Cheese obviously helps keep the sandwich together , but it only goes so far. I’m wondering if there’s a viable way to have the meat, cheese, and egg elements assembled in a raw dough to prevent sandwich slippage? This sounds eerily similar to a breakfast style hot pocket, but I’d like to refrain from hard scrambled eggs and instead get a soft baked egg that will still be slightly runny after it’s time in the oven. Would it be a crime against nature to freeze an egg, peel it, then add it into the center or a bread dough to bake? Could a biscuit dough work? Would soft boiling said egg be a potential work around? I’m a simple man who just wants a runny breakfast sandwich, without the frustration of my top bun sliding away from my bottom bun. Please help, Reddit. | gys21fa | gyrslv7 | 1,621,479,974 | 1,621,475,172 | 14 | 3 | I'm surprised to hear this. In the NYC/LI area, a bacon egg and cheese sandwich is about as stable a sandwich as you can get. It's two fried eggs, a few strips of bacon (enough to make a good layer), melted cheese (usually American), salt, pepper, sometimes ketchup or hot sauce. Some people add avocado, potato, sausage, whatever they want really. It's built on a nice sized kaiser roll then wrapped in parchment paper at the deli. I think having the ingredients steam together for a bit is a key element of the deli BEC. I would seek out some fresh, fluffy, gently crisp on the outside but fluffy on the inside, kaiser rolls. Make sure you liberally butter both the top and bottom of the roll's interior before adding your ingredients. Cooking the eggs in butter is a good idea too. | My mom has been mocked for this in the past but she will dig out the guts of a bagel and fill it with a scramble of eggs and sausage and cheese w peppers and onions. | 1 | 4,802 | 4.666667 |
izp7hp | askengineers_test | 0.98 | How did you prepare for your mechanical engineering technical interview questions? | g7fh8xm | g6na8sx | 1,601,664,762 | 1,601,110,049 | 3 | 2 | Check out https://www.hardwareinterviews.fyi/. It's a tool that my friends and I made to prepare specifically for mechanical engineers. Typically in the past I would read textbooks and brush up on fundamentals as mentioned by TheJoven. The link above pretty much consolidates all of our efforts into one centralized platform. | I didn't. I felt if I didn't know the answers to their quesions off-hand, I didn't deserve the job they were interviewing for. They gave me the job in the end, it was 25% less than I was already earning. I hate interviewing... | 1 | 554,713 | 1.5 |
ub5bel | changemyview_test | 0.86 | CMV: LGBTQIA2S+ should be changed to SGM - sex and gender minorities Now before you get upset, let me be clear that I am NOT suggesting this change because it would make the term easier for straight people to say. Rather, I think that sexuality is a spectrum, and grouping people into one box or letter might make some feel like they don't fit. We say "racial minorities" both because it would be difficult to name each one in an acronym but also because some people fall into multiple categories - I feel we could do the same by using SGM. Let me also be clear that I don't think SGM should take the place of a specific sex/gender identity if an individual has one - if someone identifies as bi, we should call them bi. If someone identifies as asexual, we should call them asexual (and etc); but, if we are referring to a *community*, I think SGM makes more sense. | i62oiao | i62u2ju | 1,650,849,692 | 1,650,852,232 | 8 | 28 | I agree purely because you wouldn’t offend people when you left out letters because I don’t remember what they all stand for and I thought the plus included everything that wasn’t one of the main ones. Like lesbian gay, bi, trans + = everyone/thing else | There's a reason most people just say LGBT or LGBT+. It's the broadly known and accepted term for the community. There's been plenty of proposed alternatives (QUILTBAG, GSM, etc) which never actually pick up more traction because only a slim minority of the community actually use it. | 0 | 2,540 | 3.5 |
inlj3e | askphilosophy_test | 0.86 | How do I get started with learning Philosophy? I really like Crash Course Philosophy, but I've read on this subreddit that it's not a great source. Does there exist a book or video/lecture series that covers various aspects of philosophy broadly (without going into too much debpth) so that I can figure out which bits of this vast subject I'm interesting in learning about further? | g489hh2 | g486k3z | 1,599,399,144 | 1,599,396,996 | 8 | 7 | Same place for me, I am working my way through these https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/romp-through-philosophy-complete-beginners | https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhilosophyFAQ/comments/4ifqi3/im_interested_in_philosophy_where_should_i_start/ | 1 | 2,148 | 1.142857 |
edos5o | askengineers_test | 0.96 | Why cant petrol be used in a diesel cycle. It does self combust under a specific compression ratio which could be attained | fbj8j6w | fbjt6uw | 1,576,927,541 | 1,576,939,626 | 36 | 55 | A diesel motor will run on gasoline, for a while. Gasoline (petrol) isn't lubricating while diesel fuel is, and a diesel engine requires this lubrication from the fuel. Eventually a diesel motor running on gasoline would seize up and die because of this. | Older US military diesels could run off virtually anything that was flammable and could be pumped, jet fuel, cooking oil, kerosene, etc. Even then, gasoline is one of the worst options due to the lubrication and would usually have motor oil added like you would in a two stroke. Essentially most fuels will leave an oily film on the internal parts, gasoline will dissolve those and leave it clean (and thus prone to wear). A simple example you may see everyday is on the handles of fuel pumps. The gasoline ones are usually pretty clean since the fuel evaporates, diesel pumps will usually have that oily film leftover. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M35_series_2%C2%BD-ton_6x6_cargo_truck | 0 | 12,085 | 1.527778 |
vec11g | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.94 | Explain like I'm five years old: If depth perception works because the brain checks the difference in the position of the object between the two eyes and concludes how far away it is, how can we still see depth when one eye is closed? | icpa8yf | icpahxs | 1,655,469,148 | 1,655,469,287 | 35 | 3,264 | You really can't. Your brain does its best to extrapolate what it computes as depth with one eye closed, but the brain could be easily fooled. Someone who is blind in one eye will have significant depth perception problems. | Because that isn't the only piece of information your brain uses. It basically collates a bunch of different pieces of information: 1. Your eye is always moving slightly and when your eye looks in different directions, it sees different things based upon the relative position of objects in your 3D environment. 2. Over the course of your life you have lots of experience with seeing various objects and your brain develops an expectation of their size. So something that your brain believes should be large but looks small will be interpreted as being further away, and something that your brain believes should be small but looks large will be interpreted as being closer. 3. The parallax created with two eyes can be replicated simply by moving. How things change relative to other objects as you move laterally, and how their size appears to change as you move back and forth, gives your brain information with which to construct a perception of depth. | 0 | 139 | 93.257143 |
i5xkqo | askanthropology_test | 0.93 | When did humans decide that direct eye contact was a useful part of conversation? I have been watching *Morgan Spurlock Inside Man*. On Season 3, Episode 3, he visits Detroit Zoo. He also goes to Joe Exotic's zoo, but that's another story. The zookeepers at Detroit Zoo tell Spurlock not to look primates directly in the eye, because they see it as a threat. At one point, he forgets about that, and a gorilla lunges at him. When did humans decide that direct eye contact is useful and trust-building, instead of threatening? | g0tm9ut | g0tm5fm | 1,596,918,248 | 1,596,918,183 | 7 | 6 | If I'm not mistaken, some of our closest ape relatives do have direct eye contact between mother and child (as well as mimicking faces), but it has only been confirmed in animals kept in non-natural conditions. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy writes about this, among other related subjects, in her book *Mothers and Others*. Very interesting work. | In terms of animals, is it not the case that dogs, as domesticated an animal as I can think of, are almost singular in their ability to follow a human’s gaze, and advert their attention to that? | 1 | 65 | 1.166667 |
9oxlk9 | askscience_test | 0.91 | AskScience AMA Series: We're from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Our recent work in data visualization has led to the creation of a new colormap, cividis, for more consistent, accurate data interpretation - whether you have a color vision deficiency or not! Ask us anything! Hi Reddit! We're Jamie Nunez and Dr. Ryan Renslow, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Rainbow colormaps have long been known to make data interpretation difficult and sometimes even impossible for those with colorblindness, yet they are still very popular due to limited alternatives. That's why we developed an open-source Python module that can automatically convert colormaps into forms easily interpreted by those with or without color vision deficiencies. One colormap in particular that we created, called cividis, enables consistent and accurate data interpretation for both people with normal vision and those who are colorblind. Cmaputil can be used by anyone to create their own optimized colormaps and can be accessed here: https://github.com/pnnl/cmaputil Cividis is currently available in Python (matplotlib & plotly packages), R (viridis & viridisLite packages), COMSOL, and more. Read our PLOS One paper "Optimizing colormaps with consideration for color vision deficiency to enable accurate interpretation of scientific data" here: https://goo.gl/UDPWFd We'll be on at noon PT (3 p.m. ET, 19 UT). Ask us anything! | e7xsdn3 | e7xm9zm | 1,539,788,458 | 1,539,783,112 | 26 | 13 | To my non-colorblind eyes, cividis looks quite similar to the parula colormap which if I recall correctly is meant to address similar issues. What are the advantages, if any, to cividis over parula? | Hi and thanks for joining us today! Is viridis 508 compliant? | 1 | 5,346 | 2 |
6vqqo2 | askphilosophy_test | 0.95 | What are some examples of philosophers directly influencing societal developments? I'm a Philosophy student born and raised among people who smirk at the very mention of the word philosophy. They have repeatedly proven that they think of it only in connection with wasting time on asking stupid questions and not contributing to society whatsoever. I first tried changing their minds rather naively, just by talking about all the different questions philosophers of the world pose and try to answer. When that didn't work, I tried doing research on the importance of philosophy for society as such. This turned out to be harder than I thought, especially since I'm looking for the kind of examples you could relate to anyone in just a couple of sentences. So I need your help! I would really appreciate it if you could give me some examples or recommend materials in which to look for them. Thanks in advance! | dm33ol8 | dm3631a | 1,503,616,383 | 1,503,619,532 | 5 | 6 | Mary Wollstonecraft on feminism... | Foucault gave us some ways to rethink prisons and prison reform. | 0 | 3,149 | 1.2 |
qit3tf | askculinary_test | 0.94 | Why does a lot of Chinese restaurant pork taste so "porky"? I've noticed a lot of time when I order pork dishes from Chinese restaurants, the meat has an especially strong, robust pork flavor, which I love. Of all the pork I've ever bought in a grocery store, or pork dishes I've had from other types of restaurants, most of it is fairly bland and doesn't taste like much other than the seasoning or marinade/sauce it's cooked with. I don't think this flavor is based on any particular seasoning, or a specific cut, because I've noticed it in everything ranging from pork belly to char siu to ground pork. I eat a lot of Chinese food and I'd say about 75% of the time the pork has some amount of this flavor, and it's stronger and more likely in very traditional and high-end restaurants. For instance, the other day I got some ma po tofu from a somewhat upscale, pricy Szechuan restaurant and the pork in it was incredible. Another place where the chef prides himself on doing thing in a very traditional way has this great flavor in all their pork. I really have no idea what it is. A specific breed of pork? Some method of preparation before cooking? Aging? I'm at a loss. The couple times I've asked, they either don't understand what I'm asking due to language barrier, or just tell me they get their pork from a restaurant supplier, which doesn't help much since other restaurant pork doesn't have this flavor. If anyone has experience in Chinese restaurants and may be able to shed some light on this, that'd be great. | him74yb | himl961 | 1,635,577,577 | 1,635,589,126 | 8 | 23 | Could shaoxing wine be the flavour you're picking up? I've always been taught to marinate meat dishes in a mix of oil, salt, sugar, shaoxing wine, and soy sauce. | Its honestly just because they get their pork VERY fresh. I know what "porky" taste u talking about and I only ever taste it when I buy fresh butchered pork at the Latino grocery store. NGL, first time I tasted fresh pork I almost threw up because it took me by surprise and I was so used to the bland/subtle flavor that mass grocery store chains and restaurants provide. Chinese and Latino groceries tend to have their own animal farm/processing plants apart from the big companies so their meats are often cheaper and fresher. So if u eat in a small ethnic restaurant that's in their own community, 9/10 times the food will be a banger. PS. I'm still trying to get used to that "porky" taste 🤢 | 0 | 11,549 | 2.875 |
8vi94k | asksciencefiction_test | 0.82 | [MCU] Was there a 50% chance of Thanos snapping himself out of existance? Title says it all | e1nkhre | e1nrazh | 1,530,537,347 | 1,530,544,330 | 13 | 48 | Hes the last of his kind. Theres no need to balance the Titans anymore so no. | The snap was the IG expressing Thanos' will. He didn't have to say, or really think on a conscious level of what he wanted. So it killed 50% of the people in the Universe. As I can't think Thanos actually wanted himself personally to die, his higher priority thoughts included a don't kill me clause. What would have been more interesting is what would have happened to the Black Order, would they have lived. Under this premise, he might have also self selected the worlds he'd already been to from the mixture. | 0 | 6,983 | 3.692308 |
k98ahh | askculinary_test | 0.92 | Weekly Discussion - Holiday Traditions Before we get bogged back down in the details of making the holiday dinner, let's talk more generally about what we cook and eat this time of year. Does your family have a Christmas Goose like the Cratchit family, or roast beast like the Who's? What about desserts? has your nog and fruit cake been soaking in rum since last Christmas? What family, regional or cultural traditions do you follow? What makes your holiday tables different from the norm? Let us know and feel free to ask any questions about holiday recipes or menus here. | gf5f2xa | gf4bku8 | 1,607,502,356 | 1,607,476,709 | 12 | 7 | Tamales. I'm going to really miss that this year. | My stepmom always made ham, cream cheese and pickle rolls. | 1 | 25,647 | 1.714286 |
upmpuw | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.83 | eli5 How exactly is the source code of an app/software being "locked"? What is protecting it from being seen? | i8lqziz | i8lquvl | 1,652,552,710 | 1,652,552,652 | 31 | 10 | When you get a piece of software, you're getting a cake but no recipe. There is software where the metaphorical recipe is available for anyone who's curious, which is called "open source" software. Most anything you can walk into a store and buy off the shelf, though, isn't. | Source code is contrasted with compiled code. Computers don't have minds and do not "understand" commands or programs. They are calculating machines that perform various basic logical operations on binary values, and it is up to the programmers to use that in performing higher level logic. For example, the basic logical operations a CPU can perform are AND, OR, NOT, XOR, and NAND. These kinds of things are physically created "gates" within the structure of the CPU. An AND gate will take two inputs and output a signal only if both of the two inputs have a signal on them. An OR gate will provide an output signal if either or both of the inputs has a signal. A NOT gate will provide the opposite output as the input signal. XOR will provide an output signal if only one of the inputs has a signal but not if both do. Finally the NAND gate will provide an output signal if there is no input signal and if either of the two inputs has a signal, but not if both inputs have a signal. As you can see these kinds of basic functions are difficult to work with in creating a complex program without many layers of abstraction. Programmers tend to work using programming languages that summarize and convert combinations of these basic binary operations into a format more easily understood and written by a human. For a computer to do anything with this it needs to be "compiled", a process that takes this readable set of instructions and converts it into a form the CPU can process. The readable set of instructions is the source code while the compiled code is what is actually distributed to end users. Programs exist to try to de-compile programs but context, comments (notes to explain what is being done and why), variable names, formatting, and other things helpful for understanding what a program is doing are not available. For a program that might have 80 million lines of code, not having the source code makes figuring out how things are working behind the scenes quite difficult. | 1 | 58 | 3.1 |
cdoc51 | askengineers_test | 0.93 | What skills set MecE new grads ahead of others when looking to hire? For a new grad with not much experience, how can I set myself up to be desirable as an EIT? I was also wondering about how to quantify software skills like ANSYS, SolidWorks, Inventor. | etw1ue8 | etvynd7 | 1,563,251,089 | 1,563,248,284 | 10 | 2 | The answer is **networking skills.** "Who you know" would further your career more so than "what you know." | Software skills are not that important honestly. Some exposure is good but it will not be a deal break if you know solidworks and that company uses NX. Almost every ME out of school has a bit of CAD exposure, matlab, some programming, and maybe some CFD. Unless you have significant experience on a piece of software this is mainly a box to check. The real money makers are internships/co-ops in a relevant field. Ideally ones where you have something to show for it like something made or tested and a good ability to clearly communicate what you learned, what you'd like to learn next, and how that applied to the role you're looking for after school. A close second to that is having really good college level engineer extra circulars or research like Formula SAE, Rocket Clubs, Robotics clubs, machine shop, or research labs. The idea is to get exposure to designing, building, testing, and then iterating and learning. Bonus points for sticking with the club for a few years and taking on more responsibility as you go from 'team member' to 'team lead' to 'club president' type things. Essentially you MUST come out of college as a MechE with some level of hands on experience doing something. I interview alot of early career ME's so this is stuff I look for on a daily basis when reviewing resumes and interviewing. ​ ​ To actually answer your second question, the best way to 'quantify' your software skills is by creating a portfolio. They aren't as common in engineering so this is something that is a great way to separate yourself from other candidates. Research portfolio design and with a small amount of effort and some creativity you can have a wonderful portfolio to put a nice bow around your college career. Try to get a license to Adobe Publisher and find some high res pictures of your projects. Add little blurbs, some graphics, and figures, and it will look great. You can go all digital or go to fedex and have them printed on nice paper to include during your interview process. If you still feel lost head over to your college's industrial design or art department. Everyone there will be well versed in portfolios and you might even be able to take a portfolio class and get some elective credit for your hard work. | 1 | 2,805 | 5 |
55ox5h | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.8 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why are we so concerned with automation and/or robots taking our jobs when our society has already survived exponential shifts in machinery, such as the Industrial Revolution? | d8d40vc | d8dcc9m | 1,475,552,873 | 1,475,575,131 | 2 | 5 | To be fair, we're also concerned about violence even though society has already survived a great deal of violence. And we're concerned about food security in many places even though society has survived food security. And so on and so forth. We tend to be concerned for what might happen to us and our loved ones even if that threat is not an issue for the society at large. | This Thread is called Explain Like I'm Five, and yet people are giving such complex explanations. Well let's look at it this way: Back before the Industrial revolution, horses had a massive global population; one that rivaled the human population. But now, there are a scant few horses left in the world. Why? Because Machines took over the work that horses used to do. Its tractors instead of plows, cars instead of carriages, etc. During the last few hundred years, machines couldn't take over jobs, a worker still had to operate the machine, and the jobs that were taken over by machines were almost always very dangerous, or very physical jobs, so the guy who poured cane juice into the sugar synthesizing vat is now the guy who presses the button to activate the sugar synthesizing machine. Even in this case, there were many people that didn't want this, saying that the machine were taking over people's jobs. Now it's different. With the invention of the computer, nobody has to activate the sugar making machine, it can do that itself, so that's a job that's lost. And this process to happen with literally all jobs that aren't top level (CEO) jobs. Computers can now be accountants, managers, security staff, vendors, farmers, factory workers, drivers, etc. That's a whole lot of jobs being taken up. And thus we become the horses that I mentioned above. | 0 | 22,258 | 2.5 |
1zbzpn | askphilosophy_test | 0.85 | Summarise your favourite philosopher in a sentence... Thought this might be a cool exercise to stoke people's interest and maybe get them acquainted with less 'mainstream' philosophers. Doesn't have to be your favourite. Perhaps try and describe one or some of their biggest contributions. I'll start. John Rawls: If society has agreed discrimination over arbitrary things like sex, gender, race, religion etc. shouldn't hold people back, and that there should be compensation awarded to the handicapped, why then shouldn't our other arbitrary natural endowments, for which we can claim no merit, be considered in this light? | cfsdqcz | cfsgd7z | 1,393,761,690 | 1,393,774,362 | 5 | 24 | Francis Bacon: These are the steps and procedures to do science, and if you do it right, it will one day become a religion onto itself capable of reordering nature. | Aristotle: Hahaha, *women*, am I right? | 0 | 12,672 | 4.8 |
4v9dqq | askphilosophy_test | 0.84 | I'm having trouble understanding the "pitfalls" of positivism. In a lot of my lecture I've came accross some sort of concensus that positivism is inherently false. Even strong advocates of positivism retracted from their original position, but most of the critics of positivism use an analytic language that most often than not means nothing to me and I'm having a really hard time understanding what is inherently logicaly wrong with positivism. Can anyone explain them to me in a clear non self-referencial terms? | d5wmjid | d5wlqt6 | 1,469,838,670 | 1,469,837,274 | 10 | 6 | You may also be interested in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/2kvcjp/whatever_happened_to_logical_positivism/ IMO, the main reason that positivism is viewed as "inherently false" today is the prevalence of a variety of myths about the role of the "verification criterion" in positivist thinking. The more realistic reason for logical positivism not being a worthwhile position to pursue currently is that logical positivist descriptions of science failed--both in the details and in the big picture--to capture the actual conduct of science (see also /u/Noumenology's comment). In particular, the development of history of science with Kuhn demonstrated that a lot of scientific practice didn't look much like positivistic accounts of science (though Kuhn himself should not be taken as a more reliable source). Similarly, Putnam's though experiments ("It Ain't Necessarily So") are usually taken to indicate that the positivists' account of language was also wanting. In general, despite what you may hear, the works of the logical positivists are by and large insightful and interesting. There are serious problems with them, but they don't deserve the boogeyman treatment that they are often given. | Logical positivism/empiricism was, loosely speaking, a movement to make philosophy more "scientific" through verificationism. Basically, an positivist would say that a synthetic proposition was meaningful iff it was verifiable (i.e. it could be empirically verified, at least in principle). In this way, positivists threw out most of metaphysics and ethics as concerning meaningless propositions. However, an analytic proposition (i.e. those of mathematics) was considered automatically meaningful (after all, you can't empirically verify something like 1+1=2, it was just true by definition). So, the positivism required there to be a distinction between analytic and synthetic statements (since the verification principle applied to one but not the other). This distinction, however, has been shown quite persuasively to be false. Quine, in his "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," argued that the analytic-synthetic divide didn't actually exist. There are some philosophers who don't buy his argument, but it is my understanding that most do. And without the analytic-synthetic divide, logical positivism falls apart, which is why most people consider it debunked in some sense. If you want to read more about the analytic-synthetic distinction, I'd suggest starting here. | 1 | 1,396 | 1.666667 |
k60y0v | askengineers_test | 0.95 | Masters in CS with a Bach in Mechanical Engineering. Hi everyone, so I have a bachelor in mechanical engineering but since the final year of my degree that I've wanted to pursue a career as a software developer. Since I have basic knowledge in Visual Basic, C and Java, I talked to the main professor of the masters degree program in COMP SCI, at my university, and he told me that I could enroll in, as long as I took the 4 main classes from the undergrad curriculum. Those classes are " Software engineering", "Data Bases", "Systems Architecture" and "Intro to programming". So my question is, Do u think I should enroll in the masters program, or do something else ? Extra: In my country the masters program is 2 years long and the tuitions aren´t as crazy as in the US. Sorry if my English is not perfect, it's not my main language. | gejd1d3 | geid1uq | 1,607,035,278 | 1,607,019,558 | 5 | 2 | I got a job out of school as a software developer with bachelor's in mechanical. It's hard, not impossible. Some software engineering gigs don't even require a bachelor's. Try to get a job, then have the company pay for your masters. | If you don't have any job experience you might just end up making yourself unemployable. | 1 | 15,720 | 2.5 |
rbedun | askculinary_test | 0.96 | Kitchen Scissors: How do i keep the functional/sharp? I'll start by saying I do not use fancy kitchen scissors ; I use KitchenAid Scissors. Out the box they were great, but after about 6 months, they are dull and can't cut my vaccum seal bags. Most other things i would say the scissors tear rather than cut. For culinary folk are there trusted scissors out there? Do you sharpen them like any other knife? Thanks in advance! | hnnxmu4 | hno6st7 | 1,638,926,412 | 1,638,931,007 | 102 | 117 | In any fine dining restaurant that I've worked in, it's always been Joyce Chen Scissors that have been generally accepted as the gold standard. If you wanted something a bit more heavy-duty then a chef I worked with had these Mac poultry shears that could cut through near enough anything | I just wanted to add, I keep a regular pair of scissors in the kitchen for plastic & paper. That way the kitchen shears stay sharper for food. Paper will dull scissors so fast! | 0 | 4,595 | 1.147059 |
ngcqh5 | askculinary_test | 0.95 | Breakfast Sandwich Abomination Please keep an open mind while I lay out my breakfast conundrum... I love breakfast sandwiches, but absolutely despise the structural integrity of most of them. Cheese obviously helps keep the sandwich together , but it only goes so far. I’m wondering if there’s a viable way to have the meat, cheese, and egg elements assembled in a raw dough to prevent sandwich slippage? This sounds eerily similar to a breakfast style hot pocket, but I’d like to refrain from hard scrambled eggs and instead get a soft baked egg that will still be slightly runny after it’s time in the oven. Would it be a crime against nature to freeze an egg, peel it, then add it into the center or a bread dough to bake? Could a biscuit dough work? Would soft boiling said egg be a potential work around? I’m a simple man who just wants a runny breakfast sandwich, without the frustration of my top bun sliding away from my bottom bun. Please help, Reddit. | gyq8hlt | gys21fa | 1,621,449,504 | 1,621,479,974 | 11 | 14 | Puffy baked mochi slit open with poached egg inside? | I'm surprised to hear this. In the NYC/LI area, a bacon egg and cheese sandwich is about as stable a sandwich as you can get. It's two fried eggs, a few strips of bacon (enough to make a good layer), melted cheese (usually American), salt, pepper, sometimes ketchup or hot sauce. Some people add avocado, potato, sausage, whatever they want really. It's built on a nice sized kaiser roll then wrapped in parchment paper at the deli. I think having the ingredients steam together for a bit is a key element of the deli BEC. I would seek out some fresh, fluffy, gently crisp on the outside but fluffy on the inside, kaiser rolls. Make sure you liberally butter both the top and bottom of the roll's interior before adding your ingredients. Cooking the eggs in butter is a good idea too. | 0 | 30,470 | 1.272727 |
4lksle | legaladvice_test | 0.87 | My ten year old daughter has lived with me her whole life. If I formally establish legal custody and/or obtain child support, does that "open the door" to the father getting visitation rights? I have a ten-year old daughter who has lived with me and my parents for her entire life. Her father moved out shortly after she was born. He wasn't making any money at the time and thankfully my parents were able to take care of her, so we informally settled custody such that she would stay with me for the long-term - this was never "agreed upon" but it worked out that way. We never formally established that I had legal custody. I never asked for child support, and he has made no attempt to visit her. I have not spoken to him for almost ten years. I recently learned that he is financially stable and is getting married to someone else. I would like to establish legal custody so I can take my daughter overseas. If I were to do this, does this "open the door" to him potentially getting visitation rights? My family and I have raised her on our own and have gotten comfortable, and we would rather not give him an opening to interact with him and/or establish visitation. Does it become more likely that he will get visitation rights if I also ask for child support? (San Francisco, CA) | d3ogrdc | d3o7i47 | 1,464,558,942 | 1,464,543,027 | 22 | 8 | Hey, I just got certified as a passport agent, so this is relevant to me! Here is a scan of the paper we give out regarding minors under 16, as well as a scan of the form you can get your daughter's father to fill out. There is also another form you can fill out if you cannot get in contact with him. If you have more questions re: the passport process I can try to answer them! | If he isn't on the birth certificate, you are the sole legal parent, and you don't need permission to get her a passport. If you're asking if he's more likely to seek visitation if you seek support... maybe, we can't really know because we can't read his mind. But if all that's been stopping him is the hassle of opening up a court case, then sure. If he hopes to reduce the amount of support by getting a percentage of parenting time, then yes. It's also not uncommon for new girlfriends to encourage fathers to exercise their right to spend time with their children. If he hasn't seen her in 10 years, he isn't going to immediately get 50/50 custody. But if you live reasonably near each other, he could certainly get some kind of visitation, progressing to overnights. | 1 | 15,915 | 2.75 |
q9lhvq | askengineers_test | 0.94 | I was asked in an interview why am I applying for a manufacturing engineering position as a mech major It was weird seeing how confrontative the question was framed like I’m not supposed to that as a mechanical engineering major. Is this role me selling myself short due to lacking in technicality? | hgzlz9t | hh0177t | 1,634,481,614 | 1,634,488,286 | 3 | 6 | I think it's a good question if asked in a non condescending way. It would help them clarify what your goals are and if they fit the role. When I studied there was no Manufacturing Engineering so to me they are one in the same. It just depends on what you want to focus on. | Manufacturing engineering does not entail as much "design" or "engineering" as you would think. Manufacturing engineers are basically responsible for the bridge between what the engineers design and a finished part. This can be anything in the middle - such as tooling, packaging, determining assembly flow, supporting machining of the products, etc. It's really important you understand the role manufacturing engineers have vs. mechanical (design) engineers. | 0 | 6,672 | 2 |
ro19hw | askbaking_test | 0.93 | Is it possible to overcream butter + sugar? I understanding overmixing cake batter causes gluten development, leading to the dense, gummy cakes we hate. However, is it possible to overcream butter + sugar? I always feel so scared of overcreaming that I believe lately I have actually been undercreaming instead. | hpwyea3 | hpwt5nx | 1,640,439,357 | 1,640,435,257 | 42 | 14 | There are two schools of thought when it comes to creaming butter and sugar. Some people say tou should cream just long enough for the butter and sugar to be well combined. In this school of thought the sugar has started to dissolve into the butter but you won't be able to see the dissolving and the mixture will still be grainy. The second school of thought is that you should cream butter and sugar until the mixture lightens in color. This approach incorporates more air and results in more airy baked goods. I personally fall into the first camp, and I call the second school of thought whipping (not creaming). If you use older recipes, they make the same creaming/whipping distinction that I do. But, many modern bloggers default to whipping their butter and calling it creaming. For cookies (since this is cookie season), extra air in the butter will mean a more cake like cookie. Some people love cake like cookies, and you should definitely cream your butter and sugar until lightened if you want cake like cookies. If you're like me and you want a cookie that's nice and chewy, keep the creaming to a minimum. If you bake cookies for people who want a nice crispy cookie (maybe you're making nice snappy ginger snaps), the creaming should also be kept to a minimum. | It depends. The degree of creaming-just creamed vs. light and fluffy changes the texture, especially with cookies. If you are using a heavy stand mixer you can actually start melting the butter if it beats too long [little incident with a screaming infant while making a cake]. And many older cookie or cake recipes assumed you were creaming with just a spoon so the end product isn't going to be the same. | 1 | 4,100 | 3 |
msshic | askculinary_test | 0.98 | Seeking Technical Books on Cooking I've read Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat as well as Food Lab and enjoyed both immensely for their exploration on the fundamental techniques behind cooking and recipe development. Does anyone have any recommendations on other similar books that focus on the techniques and science behind cooking rather than the typical collection of recipes cook book? Any and all suggestions appreciated! | guvja3y | guvkgan | 1,618,679,521 | 1,618,680,106 | 6 | 29 | Try this site https://archive.org/details/cbk?&sort=-downloads&page=7 | the flavor bible hasnt been mentioned. I find it to be a great resource and keep my copy in reach of my spice cabinet. say you are using celery and parsley or whatever, you can reference the specific items and use your existing know how of flavor combinations to see a list and discern what else may pair with what you already have planned but hadnt considered quite yet. it bolds high synergy items, some items it will list flavor affinities/profiles to build with or consider in the decision making process. it's the only book I touch consistently after I had the light bulb to keep it where I can reach it on the fly | 0 | 585 | 4.833333 |
er3pfo | askengineers_test | 0.92 | How do you respond to "You are an engineer? You must be really smart" I'm not a fan of the remark. Yes I did well in university, yes I work for a big company and do some math every once in a while, yes I'm getting my masters, but personally, I would never say that I'm smart. I believe it's all situational. I could talk to a welder,plumber, machinest, or anybody who picked going for a trade instead of a degree and get schooled by their knowledge regarding their profession. The list is long... I'm not an accountant, I suck at writing, I cant rymn, I'm not great at sports analysis, and good lord I suck understanding the stock market. Basically, if there is only one thing I've learned in my time in engineering is how much I dont know about how anything works, regarding things in my profession or outside of it. Therefore, currently my response to "you must be smart", is "we all are in some way". I dont like that answer and I need a better one. So engineers, how do you respond? | ff1r3rb | ff1shyx | 1,579,484,333 | 1,579,485,195 | 29 | 201 | Awkward laughter | What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my Engineering class, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret projects on SpaceX, and I have over 3.9 confirmed GPA. I am trained in Bridge Building Competition and I’m the top Calculus student in the entire US Engineering forces. You are nothing to me but just another Business grad. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision of over 20 significant figures, mark my fucking words. But you couldn’t get into Engineering, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn Business grad. I will shit fury my six-figure salary over you and you will envy it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo. | 0 | 862 | 6.931034 |
tyo2s0 | askbaking_test | 0.98 | What was the best cake flavour you've ever eaten or created? I've been asked to make a cake for my friend's business' one year anniversary. Anything flavour I want it just has to be neutral and like boho style. So I was wondering what your favorite flavour of cake you've ever had was. I was thinking twix. But I have been having trouble with my caramel lately and my confidence is shook. I'm searching for inspiration. | i3tk3hw | i3uc5os | 1,649,369,493 | 1,649,381,556 | 8 | 17 | Imagine a Boston Cream cake, but with orange flavored cake and a creamy dark chocolate pudding center. | One of my favourites that I experimented with was a stout gingerbread cake with browned butter buttercream. It had wonderful depth and is still a go to for me. | 0 | 12,063 | 2.125 |
lhhc0p | askacademia_test | 1 | Do you get to do much/any technical work as a tenured professor? Or is it all just project management, admin, and supervision? I recently got tenure (or the rough equivalent, as I am in Europe). It is a big relief to finally have a secure position, but I have been feeling less satisfied with my job lately and it seems like it is only going to get worse as I get more senior. I love research and also enjoy teaching, so it has always felt like academia is a good fit for me, but now I am seriously considering moving to industry instead. The main reason for this is that I am doing less and less technical work myself: programming, building testbeds, running experiments, analysing data, writing papers. I am spending more and more time in meetings, supervising PhD students, applying for grants, writing project reports, and doing service work. I like supervising students, but don't want that to be all I do, and most of the rest of it I don't like doing. I can accept that it's a part of the job and needs to be, but if there is no more time for anything creative or technical I don't think I would enjoy my job overall anymore. I miss solving problems, the feeling of "flow", and the satisfaction of creating something myself. For those of you who are tenured, especially more senior (e.g. full professor), do you get time for your own creative or technical work? How do you spend your time and do you feel like you have a good balance between the different parts of your job? Is it all email, spreadsheets, and meetings from here on out if I stay in academia? | gmynivo | gn1fvr8 | 1,613,065,787 | 1,613,118,762 | 2 | 5 | I am still at the postdoc level,so I do not have direct experience. I have seen tenured staff handling their time quite differently. At my current institute, the tenured people are actually working on research projects. This was quite a surprise for me because that was pretty different from my PhD experience, where people were more teaching/service oriented. I think one of the challenges is time management, especially with regard to teaching and meetings. I have several days that are not completely filled up, but I have maybe an hour or so between meetings. This is usually not enough for me to really get into 'research mode'. So I spend those in between hours reading papers, or doing miscellaneous stuff. I try to schedule all my meetings on the same day or I try to create continuous blocks of meetings/service work. Is something like that possible for you? You could try to block off 1 day or a certain set of hours each week (e.g. Tuesday morning). I try to keep Wednesday free from anything other than research. Then you can use that time to scratch your research itch. | In the end, at least for me, it came down to cost effectiveness. Where am I adding value to the lab? Any decent student can do the experiments as well as I could (or honestly, often better!) so my time spent on the bench is not cost effective. On the flip side that student cannot do grants/reports/papers as well as I can, which is where I am adding value to the lab. The other way looking at it is that i can do one set of experiments, a lab full of students can do dozens of MY experiments. | 0 | 52,975 | 2.5 |
jh37e3 | askengineers_test | 0.93 | Current engineers, did getting all A's in those classes made you a better engineer? I want to know if grades should be something I should really spend all my energy on. I am in my second year going on third in mechanical engineering. My first year of uni really did take a hit on my grades but my second year has definitely gotten better as I've learned how to study better. However, most if not all my time is just spent finishing lab reports and assignments and meeting those deadlines that I barely have any time to do anything else. Can anyone tell me if what I'm doing is good or should I somehow try to do more projects? | g9wdctq | g9xtxc1 | 1,603,541,095 | 1,603,566,336 | 3 | 4 | I think the question is backwards, as a result of learning to become a better engineer I started getting all A's. When I started helping others in my class I learned how to be a better communicator and how to explain things differently so that others (and not just myself) would understand them. If you think you're good at a subject try teaching someone who is struggling, then you'll really find out how good you are. Even if you're good in a class joining a study group or going to after class help sessions is very valuable. | NO. You can get shit below average grades and still be the finest engineer in the field. How? PROJECTS (Experience) Have an understanding of the concepts behind the material and apply them to real life projects. Build something - literally. You learn through practice. When it comes to applying to jobs, they don’t give a flying fuck if you got an A in fluids. They want to know WHAT HAVE YOU DONE PROJECT WISE. Those number crunchers who cruise through A’s are not great engineers. They just memorize facts and punch numbers. A real engineer is someone who understands the concepts and is able to apply them to actual work. Look. You’re not doing anything wrong. Do you best in your courses but don’t kill yourself over it. Your busy schedule sounds like a normal engineering course load. That’s fine. BUT please get involved in as many projects as possible. BUILD THAT CV. Trust me. | 0 | 25,241 | 1.333333 |
jm227n | askculinary_test | 0.79 | Why is my curry so bitter??? I've half made a curry and I'm not sure whether to bin it now because it tastes so bitter. I started with mustard seeds and coriander seeds and cooked them off in some coconut oil. Then added 3 onions, a thumb of ginger, 6 cloves of garlic and two handfuls of Padron chillis all blitzed up in the blender. I cooked them all off for 5 minutes and then added 2 tsp of garam masala, 1 tsp of cumin and 1tsp of tumeric and cooked for another 5 mins. I then added some stock and had a taste and it tastes bad vv bad. What have done that was so wrong??? Please help! Any advice welcome! I love cooking and normally just make it up as I go along and it tastes good but can't get my head around what happened this time that made it so bad? | gasv59t | gasv63n | 1,604,246,095 | 1,604,246,108 | 2 | 8 | Did you leave the skin on the ginger? Add some vinegar. It will counteract the bitterness! Or lime juice. Anything sufficiently acidic really. Lime juice is more curry style. | Did you burn any of the spices or aromatics? | 0 | 13 | 4 |
u63hbz | askculinary_test | 0.88 | Is cooking wine a sin against humanity or what? I'm a recovering alcoholic so I never have any bottled wines in the house. However I'm fine with having cooking wine, that's not exactly something I'm worried about pouring a glass of. And I'm fine cooking with it because most of the alcohol is getting cooked out, i primarily use it for deglazing or a small amounts in sauces/braising. I've read/watched a lot about this and gotten very mixed responses. I've heard over and over "only cook with something you would drink" countless times, which I completely get the logic, but you can obviously see the issue with that for me. There is also a real air of pretentiousness about this topic that I'm not a huge fan of. So what I want to know is: Am I better off not using cooking wine, and if so what are some good substitutes? OR is this just standard food culture being uptight about rules and it's not a big deal? It's frustrating to me to lose that extra depth of flavor just because I don't drink. But anyways please let me know your thoughts! | i56jwdt | i56vieh | 1,650,265,904 | 1,650,275,824 | 9 | 11 | Coming up on a year friend I too cook with wine and incidentally I’m a chef. Cook with what you drink really only applies if it’s the major flavoring ingredient. Like a red wine reduction sauce. A: I wouldn’t make that B: if I did I would only get it and use it all that day with full accountability to my wife. So keep using the cheap shit. That said I used to chug my wife’s vanilla extract when I ran out late at night so don’t underestimate the monsters brain am I right? No half measures, keep coming back. | When I went to culinary school they had a huge case of boxed wine with salt in it to stop students from “drinking” it instead of cooking. But for certain recipes we would use a nicer wine, but for the vast majority we would use the cooking wine. I think you’re good with the cooking one. I live somewhere where wine is hard to come by and quite expensive when found. I’ve replaced all my wine portions of recipes with a nonalcoholic version I’ve found or a combo of apple cider vinegar and broth. It has a taste difference obviously but still produces desirable results. | 0 | 9,920 | 1.222222 |
d1z5uy | askhr_test | 0.98 | HR wants proof of my other job offer. Is this legal? NYC media conglomerate. TLDR: would you take this deal? Sounds fishy to me So they said they only way to expedite my promotion is to become a flight risk. Strange and unfair I thought but fine. I got an offer that pays $22k more than my current salary with a $16k signing bonus, plus all sorts of other lucrative perks. I’m proud of myself! Let my current employer know, and now suddenly they’re offering me the promotion I’d been promised for 3 years. The catch is a) they want proof of my offer b) they don’t have a timeline (yet) as to when it is official Is asking for proof legal? I feel like this is confidential info. What should I say in my mtg tomorrow with my leadership team? | ezrw9bf | ezs82vb | 1,568,079,653 | 1,568,084,557 | 6 | 10 | I suppose it might be legal in the same way companies used to be able to ask for a paycheck stub from a prior employer to verify salary. But as more states make it illegal to ask candidates for their current salary, I’m guessing this won’t be permissible either. And I think NY is one of the states where you can’t ask salary info. I’ll also say to you what I’d say about to an HR colleague asking me about an employee with a questionable past. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. So don’t act surprised when they do the same thing. Your current company has promised you a promotion for years. What makes you think they’d follow through this time. My question is, why would you even consider staying at a place that has made false promises for years and only delivers (maybe) when you have another offer. | Why do you care? Don't take it. They've just shown you they won't pay you what you're worth until after they absolutely have to, and they've consistently treated you like an asshole. You don't have to show them anything. | 0 | 4,904 | 1.666667 |
zdokw5 | changemyview_test | 0.91 | CMV: Spiderman wouldn't work in any city but New York Now, I say this purely as someone who grew up watching the Sam Raimi films like it was a religious doctrine (I'm not joking I can recite these movies by heart I've seen them so many times) Aside from the Sam Raimi trilogy, I've seen the Amazing Spiderman movies maybe 4 times each and the MCU Spiderman films once each (I don't like mcu Spiderman but that is not relevant to this cmv) Because of the skyline in New York, Spiderman is able to swing from heights safely, but it's only because there's so many tall buildings in New York. Spiderman wouldn't be able to work if he was say in my city (won't say where for privacy reasons but the tallest building in the city is I believe has 14 floors and because of a certain bylaw no building is allowed to be taller than this one) because the buildings simply are not tall enough to properly swing. I'd love to have my view changed on this, considering in Amazing Spiderman Peter even considers going to London with Gwen. Would he even be able to operate in any city but New York? | iz2ipji | iz2iju8 | 1,670,284,863 | 1,670,284,793 | 67 | 56 | I present to you "Spiderman drift" in Tokyo. Spin offs including but not limited to. Yokohama Nagoya Osaka Hiroshima Hong Kong (NYC+) Those cities have so much more verticality and density then NYC. | Chicago, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai all have very tall buildings in close proximity to each other, which seems to be your only criteria. | 1 | 70 | 1.196429 |
6yfrok | askengineers_test | 0.86 | Would a jet engine be efficient in space if the plane carried liquid oxygen? If a jet engine was modified so that it could work in space by carrying liquid oxygen while stil using jet fuel, would it be efficient? Or would the fuel be too heavy? | dmn3519 | dmn80ow | 1,504,710,705 | 1,504,716,148 | 7 | 29 | That is essentially what a rocket is. Most of a jet engine is designed for pulling in and compressing air to burn with the fuel. That's what the whole turbine and compressor arangment is for. If you're using LOX you don't need that which leaves you with combustion chamber and a nozzle, a rocket. | Not in the slightest. The exaust velocity of a turbofan is around 300 m/s and that of a good rocket is around 3,000 m/s. In space the mass efficiency, how much propellant you have to expel to change your spaceship's velocity by a given amount, is entirely a factor of the exhaust velocity. The reason that a jet engine is so efficient on the ground is that very little of the propellant that comes out of the engine is fuel that has to be carried by the airplane. Mostly it's atmospheric nitrogen with the water and CO2 combustion products of the fuel combustion mixed in. Since the fuel that has to be carried is such a small fraction of the exhaust stream a jet operating in the atmosphere is as efficient as if it was expelling the fuel at 30,000 m/s. Having an unlimited amount of gas you can stuff into your engine is useful! There are engines called turborockets that use the energy from the rocket to drive a turbofan that adds atmospheric gases to the exhaust to increase the rocket efficiency. Not as much as with a jet engine since the rocket brings its own oxidizer but quite a bit. And you still get most of the great thrust to weight ratio a rocket gives you. Mostly those are used in air to air missiles but some people are thinking about using them in the first stage of orbital rockets. | 0 | 5,443 | 4.142857 |
80ddb7 | askacademia_test | 0.98 | Academics: Do you or did you have a topic that you wanted to write about that you saved for "after I get tenure?" As I understand it, the purpose of tenure was [at least originally] to allow academics the freedom to publish controversial research without fearing that their jobs were in jeopardy. I was wondering if this ever actually happens today. I'd be interested in either topics you are/were avoiding publishing on, or just whether you have an idea of how common this is. I imagine this is more relevant in the Social Sciences and Humanities, but I'd be interested in responses from anyone. | duuowyv | duuvno9 | 1,519,655,745 | 1,519,662,904 | 13 | 36 | No, although I hope to condense and synthesize the work I did for my dissertation (and work I've done on the topic since) into a book. The most controversial thing I work on is paleoclimate (via archaeology) and climate change. At the university level, those things are not controversial. Where they *are* controversial, unfortunately, is in how funding is awarded. So tenure will not measurably improve / change how I approach those topics. | Sure do--I have two in fact, both monographs in process--but neither is because of controversy here in the US (although they may provoke some abroad). Each involves multi-country archival digs and fieldwork, and the clearances alone would never have fit into a six-year clock, much less the writing. Now, with tenure, I publish articles on bits from the ongoing research that are tangential, and I can guide this Africa-wide decade-plus project without existential fear or insecurity. Local universities in those countries as well as granting agencies are also more eager to partner with someone who is permanent and stable. So tenure hasn't altered my high level of comfort with subjects, but it has opened up big important consequential project paths. So the controversy for me involves an extended period with limited output by the almighty impact metric, then a big whomp when the whole finished book lands. [edit: So I'm in year five of waiting for clearance to Sudan...] | 0 | 7,159 | 2.769231 |
197cr3 | askculinary_test | 0.86 | How long do fresh oysters stay good? I bought fresh ones to BBQ yesterday but the day turned out differently than I planned, are they still worth it today or should I toss them? | c8ligjo | c8lj6u9 | 1,361,824,449 | 1,361,826,363 | 2 | 9 | If you're worried they won't be up to your standards by the time your event rolls around, you could smoke them off now and serve them cold. That way you don't lose any product. Also delicious and will keep longer. If your menu is set for grilled oysters or oysters on the half-shell and it's in your budget, I'd pick up some more; fresh is best. But if we're only talking about a couple days they should be fine if properly stored. | Besides all the other advice, if you can catch a wiff of ammonia off them then they're going bad. As long as they smell like ocean they're usually fine. | 0 | 1,914 | 4.5 |
rtgbcj | changemyview_test | 0.81 | CMV: Elon Musk is not a hero. He refuses to pay taxes, he insults people he dislikes on twitter, he exploits the vulnerability of young people by adopting "meme culture", he didn't actually contribute to any of his "inventions" himself, he constantly makes false promises, is anti-union and tries to paint himself as a self-made man when his parents owned an emerald mine in south africa. This man is absolutely not worthy of whorship in any way. It makes me sick to see his boot getting licked all over reddit. You should know better. | hqskz2d | hqsk1ik | 1,641,033,186 | 1,641,032,352 | 576 | 229 | >He refuses to pay taxes He avoids them like any other person would, well until this year. He purposefully sold stock and is set to pay the most taxes as an individual in history at about 11 billion dollars >tries to paint himself as a self-made man when his parents owned an emerald mine in south africa. This is just a false narrative spun out of control. His family did not own a mine, his dad just had a deal with an owner of one, and the money made from it was not given to Elon, as he and his father had a poor relationship. Read here | >He refuses to pay taxes All this "Elon Misk has 300 billion dollar" you see are his shares. He doesn't have the money in a bank account. And rising shares aren't taxable income, they are just shares at that point. So no, he isn't refusing to pay taxes, he just doesn't have to pay taxes on most of his networth. >he didn't actually contribute to any of his "inventions" That's just straight up wrong. | 1 | 834 | 2.515284 |
etbtwu | asksciencefiction_test | 0.97 | [Star Wars] If a Force user's precognition fails them, i.e. they die, is this the will of the Force? Or is it due to a lack of skill from the user? Force precognition is fallible; however, is this due to the user not being skilled enough? Or, is it the Force/fate etc. deciding that the user has to die? | fffvt8w | fffis8b | 1,579,892,895 | 1,579,884,862 | 4 | 3 | The Force is an amazing ability... In concept. In a lot of media there are some Force users that show ridiculous levels of power (or control) The Force Unleashed series is a good example. In that game an unskilled Padawan is able to bring a Star Destroyer out of low orbit and crash it in under 1 minute. In the Animated Clone Wars series Mace Windu takes an entire battalion and a warship out by himself. In different comic books and novels Force user show amazing abilities that never show up in the movies. The closest exception is Luke's fight with Kylo Ren at the end of The Last Jedi. I think if a Jedi dies and it wasn't in the fashion of Obi-Wan or Yoda then it was their fault for not being attuned to the Force enough. | "All is as the force wills it." We're all puppets on the end of cosmic strings | 1 | 8,033 | 1.333333 |
3qbtd0 | legaladvice_test | 0.95 | Got a notice that I'm being sued for child support...I definitely don't have a child Last friday I received a notice in the mail that I am being sued for child support. I most definitely do not have a child. I don't know who the person suing me is. I really don't have the money to take time off work and travel (out of state) to defend myself. Is there any good way to get out of this? | cwdt6gx | cwe2tjo | 1,445,893,334 | 1,445,908,605 | 159 | 176 | (1) Is this a state you've ever been to? (2) It sounds like you're a woman -- correct? (3) Do you have a name that could be used by a man? (4) Is this the state suing you or an individual? You might call up the attorney representing the other side (should be on the notice) and say "You know, I'm a woman. I've never given birth. I've never adopted a child. I think this is a case of mistaken identity." and see what he/she says. That might work. Because, if you do go show up and the lawyer thinks they're suing a man and a woman shows up, they're going to look awfully foolish. And, lawyers don't like to look foolish. | I live in Philly and I'm so entertained by the concept of this that if you end up needing to appear in NYC, I'll drive you up in exchange for being able to watch the circus unfold in the courtroom. | 0 | 15,271 | 1.106918 |
yobwkf | changemyview_test | 0.58 | CMV: People need to stop freaking out about twitter The reason I’m making this post is cause I see people freaking out over Elon buying twitter and I can’t figure out why. He had enough money to buy the company and he did, if he runs it into the ground someone else will start a replacement. While it seems that twitter as a business isn’t doing so well that’s just how life goes. People on the right side of the political spectrum are celebrating because they can make posts on anything they want now. People on the left are freaking out because people on the right can post what ever they want. People in the middle realize that Twitter is a service they can just not use. Just stop using the app the app if you don’t what’s being done to it, stop posting about it so I can get back to my regular Reddit experience. Also if you really don’t like it make an alternative, people on the right have been using rumble because they didn’t like the main stream services. | ivdqk67 | ivdlv3z | 1,667,798,292 | 1,667,795,523 | 4 | 3 | As someone who does not have, nor have I ever had, a twitter account, this whole thing is hilarious to me. From the offer and all that hoopla, to the sink, to the people freaking out on all sides of it. The only thing not directly hilarious is the layoffs. But even that is a little entertaining because I can only imagine the kind of douche-bros that work there. Yeah, I know, not all of them are. | When you let the crazy conservatives back, the simpletons that are easily brainwashed get weaponized. That’s how we got January 6th. | 1 | 2,769 | 1.333333 |
4dx429 | askculinary_test | 0.87 | How do I add richness to a vegetarian pho broth? I really want to add that subtle richness to my broth. I know that in authentic pho recipes, beef bones are cooked and simmered for hours, adding that richness. However, that's not an option for me. My usual suspects for the broth are the dry-roasted spices (star anise, cinnamon stick, cloves, coriander seeds, peppercorns), charred ginger and onion, carrots, a double handful of shittake mushroom stems, vegetarian beef broth, and some soy sauce. Usually it tastes good, but I'm really looking for that umami quality. I know it might not be possible, but I thought I might as well ask. Thanks in advance? | d1v9wm5 | d1v2o4m | 1,460,141,754 | 1,460,132,426 | 8 | 6 | How about some miso paste? I'd say that or a sprinkle of MSG! | Serious eats has an article on a vegan ramen broth. Maybe that will offer some inspiration. | 1 | 9,328 | 1.333333 |
roegli | askengineers_test | 0.98 | Why did you change fields? Mainly for all the engineers that changed fields/disciplines. What drove the change and was it worth it? Happy Holidays! | hpy0loy | hpy0mv5 | 1,640,460,659 | 1,640,460,676 | 5 | 21 | Currently thinking of doing this myself. Working as a mech e in med device right now, wanting to switch to comp sci. I found that I really enjoy coding through the process of finishing up my degree, and would love to do that more. I’ve always been more drawn to the theoretical and mathematical side of engineering than the practical side- unfortunately in industry it’s all practical stuff. I write code for automating things at work right now and use creative problem solving skills doing that far more than I do with my ‘actual’ projects. This is just med device specific but the project timelines are mind-numbingly long. I’d prefer to work on something with faster turn around, just my personality type. CS seems to pay quite a bit better as well. | Civil working as Electrical & Energy Managment consulting, going to change to a project management PMO position soon. Engineers in my country are just glorified technician (not being appreciated properly, sadly). | 0 | 17 | 4.2 |
z05ktx | askculinary_test | 0.92 | What would be a good appetizer to serve ahead of an entree of white fish with beurre blanc, potatoes, and broccolini? Wondering what would be a good seasonal appetizer (I'm in the U.S., if that helps in terms of produce). Maybe a warmly spiced butternut squash soup? Or some kind of salad? Also -- would plating some wild rice with the fish with beurre blanc and veggies be overkill or would that go nicely together? | ix4pio1 | ix3takw | 1,668,971,064 | 1,668,957,851 | 15 | 5 | Salad: Arugula, roasted beet, goat cheese, candied pecans. Lemon vinaigrette | Those make sense, but you can never go wrong with a blue cheese, bacon wrapped date. These are a winner every time. | 1 | 13,213 | 3 |
eceq98 | askculinary_test | 0.97 | Am I insane or does almond extract taste nothing like almonds? I have eaten a lot of almonds in my day, roasted and raw, and the flavor of almond extract is absolutely nowhere to be found in any almond I have ever eaten. Am I missing something here? I mean, i love the flavor but to me it's far more fruity and floral than anything I've ever tasted or smelled in an almond or almond flour or almond butter. | fbaznq0 | fbayq7k | 1,576,690,218 | 1,576,689,649 | 13 | 11 | Lol. This conversation comes up every few months. You might appreciate some details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/comments/btc0dy/why_doesnt_almond_butter_taste_like_almond_paste/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Edit: corrected link | You know until I got Italian almonds from an organic supplier I would say the same thing. I will get the occasional almond that actually tastes like almond extract, but it's still rare. makes me feel happy when I do though. Maybe the freshness matters? | 1 | 569 | 1.181818 |
cww2ef | changemyview_test | 0.88 | CMV: The logic that beastiality is wrong because "animals cannot consent to sex" makes no sense at all. We should just admit it's illegal because it's disgusting. Gross post warning I'm not sure if it's even in the law that it's illegal because "animals can't consent," but I often hear people say that's why it's wrong. But it seems a little ridiculous to claim animals can't consent. Here's an example. Let's say a silverback gorilla forces a human to have sex with it, against the human's will. The gorilla rapes the human. But what happens if suddenly, the human changes their mind and consents. Is the human suddenly raping the gorilla, because the gorilla cannot consent? If the human came back a week later and the same event occured, but the human consents at the begining this time, did the human rape the gorilla? I think beastiality should be illegal ONLY because it disgusts me, as ridiculous as that sounds. No ethical or moral basis to it. And to protect animals from *actually* getting raped by humans, which certainly happens unfortunately. | eyfsv49 | eyfs4um | 1,567,054,398 | 1,567,054,028 | 796 | 28 | In species with high sexual dimorphism, it is common for the weaker side to not consent. This is a part of nature, so in terms of animals, whether there is consent doesn't really matter in that context, since it happens anyway. However, I would say having beastality is wrong because it highly contradicts common human values and could largely disrupt society as a whole, and not because it is necessarily disgusting. | If a kid let's say like 6 tries to force themselves on you and you have sex with them is that wrong on your part? | 1 | 370 | 28.428571 |
zdokw5 | changemyview_test | 0.91 | CMV: Spiderman wouldn't work in any city but New York Now, I say this purely as someone who grew up watching the Sam Raimi films like it was a religious doctrine (I'm not joking I can recite these movies by heart I've seen them so many times) Aside from the Sam Raimi trilogy, I've seen the Amazing Spiderman movies maybe 4 times each and the MCU Spiderman films once each (I don't like mcu Spiderman but that is not relevant to this cmv) Because of the skyline in New York, Spiderman is able to swing from heights safely, but it's only because there's so many tall buildings in New York. Spiderman wouldn't be able to work if he was say in my city (won't say where for privacy reasons but the tallest building in the city is I believe has 14 floors and because of a certain bylaw no building is allowed to be taller than this one) because the buildings simply are not tall enough to properly swing. I'd love to have my view changed on this, considering in Amazing Spiderman Peter even considers going to London with Gwen. Would he even be able to operate in any city but New York? | iz2izm7 | iz2ivmc | 1,670,284,990 | 1,670,284,940 | 213 | 5 | In the second MCU film he does just fine in the European city as Night Monkey. New York afords him the ability to do long swings, but I think that would also be true of any sky scrapered city. In a "shorter" city he'd have to rely on more sling shot type effects, but he'd be fine. In the comics during the identity crisis run he took on 4 different identities with different locomotion styles. So even if SPIDERMAN doesn't necessarily work, Peter Parker could still be a hero. | This looks like a pretty good skyline to swing from. Plenty of tall buildings, huge, steep hills, big bridges, etc. As an added bonus, not that far from the city there are huge redwood groves to swing around. | 1 | 50 | 42.6 |
nhfbam | askengineers_test | 0.89 | What has been your experience working at an engineering services company? My last job was for an engineering services company and I didn't like it at all. Very short projects, managers on both sides expecting faster results, very disorganized... So, what has your experience been working at an engineering services company? Is it just the name of the game? | gyxm6rt | gyw717e | 1,621,598,029 | 1,621,560,389 | 4 | 2 | I just joined a client after working in engineering services after 10 years. I joined to see full cycle of project execution and realize more career growth. Engineering services experience allow you to see many different varieties of projects and methodologies which makes you a better engineer for future projects. It did start to get old after a while but I can always go back if I get tired of client-side dysfunction. | What kind of engineering services are you referring to? | 1 | 37,640 | 2 |
z4vytf | askphysics_test | 0.89 | why don't we see stars as long streaks? if a telescope such as Hubble is looking at a 5 billion year old Star why doesn't it also see that same star as 4 billion years old, 3 billion years old, etc, making it look like a streak of all the various ages? I assume as the sart ages it also moves in respect to our view of it, and since a telescope is just a way to look back in time we should be able to see the full life time of at least some stars!? | ixt2aty | ixt9ckb | 1,669,431,739 | 1,669,435,631 | 8 | 23 | Only the light at one age will be equal to the distance in light years from the Earth. The effect of the distance on the wavelength of the light can be described with Hubble's law. If a star is 5 billion light years from Earth we will only see it as it was 5 billion years ago. Older light would have already been absorbed by the Earth, and newer light has not hit the Earth yet. | The telescope,no matter how powerful, is just seeing the light that's hitting the Earth right now. | 0 | 3,892 | 2.875 |
602mxq | askengineers_test | 0.87 | Engineers with just a BS in Biomedical Engineering, what is your current job? | df38pjg | df3ibgq | 1,489,840,603 | 1,489,856,512 | 3 | 9 | Lowly Biomed technician - mainly tech work. But any engineering in Aus is kinda hard to find atm. | MS/BS in BME, and I work as a process engineer in the biotech industry. Truth be told, a Chemical Engineering degree would have been much more useful than a BME degree, but I was at least able to get my foot in the door. I did really need to sell myself though; some colleagues who interviewed me later mentioned that they were initially skeptical of hiring me due to my BME degree. | 0 | 15,909 | 3 |
xxf6ab | askacademia_test | 0.95 | Would it be appropriate to thank my therapist in my MA thesis acknowledgements? My therapist has a background in my field, before they switched to psychology, and has been an amazing sounding board for some of my ideas over the past couple years. They've genuinely helped me to recontextualize some ideas and open up new doors I hadn't considered before in my research, and given some great advice on how to keep my enthusiasm for my topic going. That's on top of the more typical stuff like helping me to manage my impostor syndrome and ADHD. Basically I wouldn't even be in grad school without them and I'd like to be able to thank them in my MA thesis' acknowledgements section (once I finish the damn thing... getting there). Just by name alongside friends and colleagues, not necessarily giving details on who they are. I'm quite open about being in therapy and not concerned about people knowing, but more worried that it would be inappropriate in the therapist-patient relationship, or that it might have repercussions for me or them that I haven't forseen. Anyone have experience with this? | irbrru0 | irbsf7o | 1,665,088,340 | 1,665,088,620 | 12 | 80 | Sure it is! The acknowledgements section is for you to thank anybody whom you feel helped you during your MsC. If you are not sure your therapist would appreciate, maybe ask them? | Are you forced to tell that person is your therapist in the thesis ? Just thank him/her by name, without naming the profession (that's what I did in mine). And ask the person first, of course ! | 0 | 280 | 6.666667 |
kfo857 | askphilosophy_test | 0.95 | Is it morally justified to commit suicide? Now, this discussion question is partly a response to Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”. (For those who are unfamiliar) Here, Camus essentially tries to answer one of the most fundamental philosophical questions: Should I commit suicide? Or in other words: Is life worth living? His answer goes something like this: Yes, life is worth living, but it is your responsibility to find meaning in life, and from that meaning it is your responsibility to find happiness (please refute me if you disagree with this summary). Now, don’t get me wrong, this single philosophical work has changed my life—it is my Bible. However, I disagree that he answers the question on whether life is worth living. I understand that Camus is partly meaning “philosophical suicide”; this distinction allows his argument and allegory to be sound. But in the beginning, he specifically meant literally ending your life. Since Sisyphus (a man condemned to push a Boulder up a hill for eternity, only for it to fall back down every day) has no option to commit suicide, his only logical option is to simply enjoy his suffering, thus tricking the gods for eternity. But what if Sisyphus COULD choose to commit suicide (in the Atheist sense) and therefore cease to exist? Would this option disallow—or make it more difficult for—Sisyphus to find meaning and happiness in his suffering? Additionally, in a practice sense: Do I own my body? If so, why can’t I commit suicide without any moral consequences? Since suicide is illegal, doesn’t that mean that the State owns my body? Furthermore, doesn’t the idea that suicide is selfish even more so indicate that the collective owns my body? | gg9qqd5 | gg9jizg | 1,608,312,292 | 1,608,309,251 | 84 | 31 | I think Camus was saying that if one commits suicide, it would mean that the person answered the question of life’s meaning, because only then can you rationally decide whether the meaning is worth it or not. But Camus says that it is impossible to answer this question because of the absurdity of life which he compares to Sisyphus’s task. I think you’re a little confused in the sense that you think of Sisyphus’s act as “suffering”. As far as I understand Camus, he is in fact suggesting that it is impossible to know whether Sisyphus’s task is truly even suffering or not, but it is surely absurd. Acknowledging this fact and the fate of it conquers it and therefore you can live in content acceptance. | >Do I own my body? I think only Libertarians take this line. >If so, why can’t I commit suicide without any moral consequences? But even if you own something it doesn't mean you don't have duties of care towards it, we might think the reverse actually, that we have the greatest duties to care for things we own. > Since suicide is illegal, doesn’t that mean that the State owns my body? Suicide is legal in all western countries, but even if it wasn't I don't think this would imply the state 'owns your body', anymore than the state punishing you for committing murder indicates that they own the person's body who you murdered. >Furthermore, doesn’t the idea that suicide is selfish even more so indicate that the collective owns my body? Conventionally the problem for Philosophers with suicide is not what happens to others but what happens to the person who commits suicide. | 1 | 3,041 | 2.709677 |
9zpp4f | askphilosophy_test | 0.95 | Good philosophy movies? Do any of you know if there are any good movies or tv series I could watch? I'm thinking more of something that is explicitly about philosophy rather than something having a philosophical meaning behind it | eab8mzl | eab6cgt | 1,542,997,054 | 1,542,995,339 | 42 | 41 | *The Good Place* has been recommended to me a lot. Bryan Magee’s old BBC interviews with philosophers are great, and are on YouTube. *The Matrix* is heavily influenced by Baudrillard. | https://mubi.com/lists/essential-movies-for-a-student-of-philosophy | 1 | 1,715 | 1.02439 |
6adydn | askanthropology_test | 0.95 | Anthropologists what do you do as a job? I am studying anthropology in my university and I was wondering what are some of the jobs you guys been doing after you graduated it? I want to hear some ideas that can suggest me in the types of jobs and research I want to partake in. :) | dhe8wql | dhee899 | 1,494,454,758 | 1,494,461,736 | 3 | 6 | IT Management in Higher Education. | MA in anthropology (archaeology) here: I'm a Park Ranger. Love my career and so happy that anthropology gave me the skills to succeed at it. | 0 | 6,978 | 2 |
y4958a | changemyview_test | 0.87 | CMV: Time travel is never going to happen If Hawking throwing a party for time travelers and no one showing up doesn't prove it, I don't know what will. Plus as he also stated, there's no evidence of hoards of time traveling tourists (which undoubtedly, if time travel ever were possible, there absolutely would be). I know the theories by Einstein and others that seem to prove it could be possible, but lots of things could theoretically occur, that doesn't mean there is any likelihood that they ever will. When it comes to time travel (at the very least traveling to the past), I think the proof is in the pudding. Thousands of years without a single substantiated case of anyone ever having done it seems proof enough to me. I don't even mean someone would have invented it by now, I literally mean if anyone solved the space-time equation EVER there would be evidence of it at some point in the last couple thousand years. But there's not. So I really don't think it's ever going to happen. | isd0q1i | iscyrcm | 1,665,794,966 | 1,665,794,019 | 175 | 150 | Sending someone back to an earlier point in human history wouldn't just take a time machine but also have to be a space ship since the earth is constantly moving. What if the current spot the earth is in the universe at this time is too much of a hassle for these voyages and time travel technology is only ever able to let people travel to the recent past do to limitations of space travel? | > EVER there would be evidence of it at some point in the last couple thousand years Simple answer: time-travel solves all paradoxes by creating new timelines with each travel, our is just the first timeline where nobody travelled back from the future yet (or if anyone did the evidence of their travel was well hidden). But if in some point time travel becomes common enough for evidence for it becoming too impossible to be kept hidden that evidence is (was) happening in a different timeline than our own. | 1 | 947 | 1.166667 |
zgmdtq | askculinary_test | 0.94 | Can you add a roux at the end instead of the beginning? When you are making something like a soup or stew, can you add the roux at the end instead of the beginning? Like just cook the flour off in melted butter in a separate pot and then just add it as if you were using a corn starch slurry? Just wondering because sometimes if I'm making a really large batch of something it is kind of hard to tell exactly how much flour/butter to use and it could come out to thin, thanks. | izhmpu4 | izhpvvx | 1,670,559,102 | 1,670,560,666 | 46 | 137 | Yes, but also no. roux needs to be cooked out within the dish. So you brown the roux to it’s desired point, but then after it needs to simmer for some amount of time to cook off the rest of the raw flour taste. Like, if you’ve ever made a gumbo and tasted it right after adding stock you’ll think it’s ruined, then after an hour or so of simmering you’ve got a totally different flavor. Also, the consistency changes over time, so you need that simmering time for it to settle in to the final consistency. That said, if you’re asking can you add more roux to a liquid dish, or can you add roux bit by bit to achieve a certain consistency then sure, so long as it’s towards the beginning of the process and you’re gonna simmer it for at least 45 mins to an hour after. | Absolutely. I do it with clam chowder. Just make sure you cook it a bit before and after you add it so it doesn’t taste like raw flour. | 0 | 1,564 | 2.978261 |
705uu9 | askengineers_test | 0.95 | HS physics teacher, was given an extra class of "engineering" bc the teacher quit. I have free reign to design the course however I want to. What types of projects/skills should I be teaching my kids. I was thinking about making it a very hands on class. Perhaps have students build drone or something of the sort. Of course, that may be a tad advanced for the beginning of the school year. Any suggestions? A simple soldering project that leads into something bigger? I honestly want to make the class like the youtube channel Hak5, if youve ever seen it | dn1c91a | dn0rku8 | 1,505,473,750 | 1,505,435,606 | 3 | 2 | In my son's high school Engineering class the focus was on learning to think like an Engineer. They learned, among other things, how to keep an engineering notebook, how to determine requirements, how to go from requirements to design, how to go from design to a final product, etc. I was a nice change of focus from math, physics, etc. | I know this isn't the sexiest idea, but I'd suggest giving them a prompt (e.g. a hand powered drill press) and have them complete a full design, including a full assembly drawing, bill of materials, component drawings, cost (maybe with quotes if some machine shop is amenable), and lead time. Maybe some simple analysis like how fast they expect the drill to turn or how much torque it could generate. I like this idea bc it's very close to what I do as an engineer on a daily basis, and it doesn't require any extra tools or equipment that the school has to buy. Details are important in this type of design and getting practice early helps a lot. This part is just my opinion, but penmanship should count on a hand drawing. If one of my colleagues handed something to me that was in any way less than clear, it would be handed back to them. If you'd actually like to do this project and would like some help on picking a prompt, or what I look for in drawings, etc, pm me. | 1 | 38,144 | 1.5 |
kqyn5r | askhr_test | 0.95 | Received vag pills from co worker for Christmas, among other uncomfortable things. (NJ) At my wife's secret Santa exchange she received, from a male co worker, a box of probiotics thats 1st claim was "improve vaginal health", written boldly on the front, and more pills for eye health in women 50+. She is no where near that age. These gifts were opened in a communal setting, in front of everyone. I can't help but to read a mean prank in this, "haha, here's something for you, old bitch, and your pussy probably stinks!" , hidden behind a facade of "oh, i didn't realize. Don't be so sensitive " Later that day, her cunty male svp asked her team how was the exchange (wife wasn't present for this meeting). They told him what happened with my wife. His response was, "thats unfortunate ". After the meeting, he called my wife, at her desk and asked if the "gifter" was around and could she see if he was at his desk. My wife is not a secretary, she is a director. The gifted is in a totally different dept, with his own team. I read this as a cruel joke to make her interact with the guy that obviously she was disturbed by. When svp held another meeting later that day he again asked, how was the exchange, with a chuckle, to the same group as the last meeting with the only difference being that my wife was there this time. I don't expect a lawsuit, but what is her recourse to expect changes? She is the only black woman in a leadership position in a gigantic Korean company and is consistently treated differently. I.e Her svp just asked her to do a presentation with bullets to bring to her 1 year review of how her years production went. No one else was asked this. Help before I let my hands and feet explain to them that this isn't ok. Thanks | gi6sr1f | gi6uxih | 1,609,861,460 | 1,609,862,511 | 2 | 6 | Documentation is key because she will have to prove a pattern of discrimination. I also agree with another poster ab speaking with an employment attorney before doing anything else. | The first thing that comes to mind is that your wife is lucky to have your support at home. I've seen other women get gaslighted by their husbands when they get home and complain about toxic male behavior. (although I'm presuming you're a male from your post) This situation sounds terrible to work in. I'm often treated like a secretary as well at a director level and it's so infuriating. As someone who wears the HR hat, I recommend getting this in writing. Start an email chain lodging a complaint. It can be a casual email of she doesn't want to rock the boat. But if things escalate or they continue to have a disrespectful environment she's got a paper trail. | 0 | 1,051 | 3 |
u6ermg | askphilosophy_test | 0.98 | Is there a “Muslim Nietzsche”? That is, a philosopher who grew up in a Muslim society and criticized Muslim values like Nietzsche criticized Christian values? | i58hohb | i57rj0h | 1,650,304,362 | 1,650,293,846 | 15 | 7 | Iqbal, the "Philosopher-Poet" who is regarded as a founding father of Pakistan--and also wrote the unofficial national anthem of India(!)--was directly influenced by Nietzsche and was looked at askance by orthodox *ulema* for his advocacy of reform may be someone in that vein: https://onemanovisionpakistan.blogspot.com/2010/05/iqbal-on-nietzsche.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reconstruction_of_Religious_Thought_in_Islam | Or a "Jewish Nietzsche" | 1 | 10,516 | 2.142857 |
khltz1 | askbaking_test | 0.99 | My new bundt pan says “oven safe to 400F (204C).” How strict is this? I have a shitty oven that always overheats. As it says. My new bundt pan is heavy cast aluminum. Dash of That brand. There’s a Caution label that says “Oven safe to 400F.” However, my oven is shitty and literally always overheats by at least 100 degrees. (Like, if I want to preheat to 350, I set the dial to 200.) What happens if I exceed 400F? Will it make my monkey bread unsafe to eat?? | ggmbvem | ggmb7v7 | 1,608,582,220 | 1,608,581,894 | 28 | 16 | The only dangerous thing I can think of happening is if the nonstick coating starts coming off as a gas, but as far as I've heard they're all good to at least like 550F. So yeah, I think the only risk is your pan will deform - not a terrible problem, and something you can see. | I'm pretty sure they adverstise this at least 20 degree under the real limit, but after that things might start to deform... You're bread will be safe probably, if you have paper in between the bread and the pan. | 1 | 326 | 1.75 |
vewdej | askculinary_test | 0.96 | When setting up a breading station, is it better to season the flour or panko? For example when you're breading proteins such as chicken or pork, do you season the flour or the panko? I've always just seasoned the flour but was curious to hear what other people do. | icsml5f | icsyoh6 | 1,655,523,475 | 1,655,531,822 | 6 | 42 | I season both! :) | 100% read this as "breeding station". Looked at subs name. Asked myself what the fuck was wrong with people. Reread the title. Whats wrong with people is that some of us can't read. As to your question. I do both, though they are usually lightly seasoned. | 0 | 8,347 | 7 |
yvv4rq | askscience_test | 0.92 | AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Jonathan Blutinger, a postdoctoral researcher in the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, developing a "digital chef" that can 3D print and laser cook edible items. Ask me anything about the process! Hello all, after my MSc in Integrated Product Design at the University of Pennsylvania and a year stint in industry designing pick-and-place robots, I started working as a Ph.D. researcher (Mechanical Engineering) at Hod Lipson's (He co-launched the world's first open-source 3D printer which could be used for food) Creative Machines Lab where I tinker with digital cooking techniques using food printers and lasers. We've experimented with dough, meats, vegetables, sweets, made a seven-ingredient slice of cheesecake, and printed chicken samples which were then cooked by lasers. Currently, we are focusing on building robust software and hardware to incorporate more functionality to print food of different consistencies and multi-ingredient combinations to fully showcase this tech's potential. In August 2022, my work was featured in Interesting Engineering, and the publication helped organize this AMA session. Ask me anything about the technology behind 3D-printed food, the how-tos on printing food, how lasers can cook food, how 3D-printed food can be inventive, nutritious, and customized for each individual. I will be replying to messages with the username "IntEngineering" at noon ET (17 UT), AMA! | iwg8vke | iwgeg5k | 1,668,515,264 | 1,668,518,514 | 4 | 38 | Will the food price point be around the same as "conventional" food, or will it probably be more expensive or cheaper? | I can see this being extremely useful in situations that could require a consistent food supply with limited storage, I.E. space travel. Is there any markets in particular that is motivating this R&D? | 0 | 3,250 | 9.5 |
a7bce5 | askengineers_test | 0.81 | Could you easily do most of the problem sets you were assigned to do that were given in your introductory physics(ie classical mechanics and classical E&M) again without reviewing the material over again or would most of the material be forgotten if you did not review it? | ec1m0t3 | ec1xri6 | 1,545,142,363 | 1,545,152,162 | 2 | 22 | With the exception of fluid mechanics (which I just finished recording a series of video lectures), i'd have to skim through my textbooks before doing anything too rigorous | Anyone else find posts like this a bit ridiculous? To me this screams "reassure me that it's okay to not fully understand the material (ie. do poor) in this core class because practicing engineers don't remember it either". | 0 | 9,799 | 11 |
qit3tf | askculinary_test | 0.94 | Why does a lot of Chinese restaurant pork taste so "porky"? I've noticed a lot of time when I order pork dishes from Chinese restaurants, the meat has an especially strong, robust pork flavor, which I love. Of all the pork I've ever bought in a grocery store, or pork dishes I've had from other types of restaurants, most of it is fairly bland and doesn't taste like much other than the seasoning or marinade/sauce it's cooked with. I don't think this flavor is based on any particular seasoning, or a specific cut, because I've noticed it in everything ranging from pork belly to char siu to ground pork. I eat a lot of Chinese food and I'd say about 75% of the time the pork has some amount of this flavor, and it's stronger and more likely in very traditional and high-end restaurants. For instance, the other day I got some ma po tofu from a somewhat upscale, pricy Szechuan restaurant and the pork in it was incredible. Another place where the chef prides himself on doing thing in a very traditional way has this great flavor in all their pork. I really have no idea what it is. A specific breed of pork? Some method of preparation before cooking? Aging? I'm at a loss. The couple times I've asked, they either don't understand what I'm asking due to language barrier, or just tell me they get their pork from a restaurant supplier, which doesn't help much since other restaurant pork doesn't have this flavor. If anyone has experience in Chinese restaurants and may be able to shed some light on this, that'd be great. | himcvj9 | himkdkd | 1,635,582,211 | 1,635,588,409 | 18 | 188 | This conversation was had about a year ago and someone recommended a Chinese brand of pork seasoning which I found and it really amped the the pork stir fry dishes I was making. The brand escapes me but I wondered through 3 asian grocery stores and it was just labelled pork seasoning in a 30g (ounce) packet. I’ll get tomorrow, it’s such a game changer and share again. | I live in Asia here and I want to tell you: we have these cheap marinade powder for pork that goes for like 15 cents (usd) a pack per 500g of pork. Very common, sold in every fresh market, makes pork tastes divine with that bouncy texture you'd probably familiar from Chinese restaurant. And no one I talked to have any idea what the powder was made of. Tho the texture is similar when you marinate with baking soda. | 0 | 6,198 | 10.444444 |
k6kewo | askculinary_test | 0.97 | Cast iron Hi guys, So I have been making burger these past weeks and all my friends love it. But I have a problem with my cast iron. After making the 3rd burger the cast iron builds some kind of soggy Burnt layer that can’t be scraped of with my spatula, it makes the burgers after not that crispy anymore and less hot because they don’t look like the previous ones that was smashed. So my question is , does a cast iron only handle 3 burgers pattys before it builds some burnt layer or am I doing something wrong ? | gelk8b4 | geli2hy | 1,607,092,719 | 1,607,091,486 | 29 | 16 | Are you using a metal spatula? Those are a must with cast iron and really help to scrape things up. | A couple of things come to mind. Use a metal spatula - which will help scrape the crud off the skillet between batches. If it's really bad, you may want to add a small bit of water (like less then a 1/4 cup) to help "deglaze" the pan, then pour it out and give it a good scrub with a paper towel. After that, let it come back up to temperature before adding the next patties. | 1 | 1,233 | 1.8125 |
khltz1 | askbaking_test | 0.99 | My new bundt pan says “oven safe to 400F (204C).” How strict is this? I have a shitty oven that always overheats. As it says. My new bundt pan is heavy cast aluminum. Dash of That brand. There’s a Caution label that says “Oven safe to 400F.” However, my oven is shitty and literally always overheats by at least 100 degrees. (Like, if I want to preheat to 350, I set the dial to 200.) What happens if I exceed 400F? Will it make my monkey bread unsafe to eat?? | ggmbvem | ggm0gkp | 1,608,582,220 | 1,608,576,573 | 28 | 20 | The only dangerous thing I can think of happening is if the nonstick coating starts coming off as a gas, but as far as I've heard they're all good to at least like 550F. So yeah, I think the only risk is your pan will deform - not a terrible problem, and something you can see. | I lived through shitty oven (though mine was only off by 50-60 degrees), so I feel this whole post lol. Do you have an oven thermometer? If so, you can check the temp before it goes in and try to clock in low enough that it wont spike over 400F. If it has a coating of any kind (and it probably does), it might damage it? Either way it's probably going to be a slow kind of damage you can't easily see. I agree that it's a really stupid baking pan. | 1 | 5,647 | 1.4 |
y3kk0v | changemyview_test | 0.6 | CMV: Social Welfare Needs to be Increased I think the current system is 100% broken. Handing out cash based on household headcount or disability does work. It doesn’t improve the lives of those on welfare/disability and it doesn’t stimulate the economy. I think a new, larger system needs to be put in place. 1) If you qualify for welfare or disability, you automatically receive free state-run childcare. 2) You must be employed or actively in classes/training to receive benefits (unless your disability truly precludes you from any industry). 6 weeks without employment or job training/classes - you are out of the program. 3) Those on welfare (with experience or after job training/education) are given priority hiring for jobs paid for (partially or in full) by the State. Any job that exists, that receive money from tax payers: - state funded childcare/medical clinics/road crews, - janitorial/admin/support staff roles at state colleges/universities/elementary/middle/high schools, - sanitation workers, meter maids, - police force admin/janitorial/maintenance shops/uniformed officers. 3.1… Advanced Job training, higher education toward any of these state funded jobs should be available free of charge for anyone on welfare/disability. (Electrician training and apprenticeship for state employees electricians, etc) In the end: Welfare or disability should be a tool, to help an individual or family to transition to a fully self sufficient earner. Only individuals/families with true medical inabilities to participate in the workforce should be on life long benefits. Increases to childcare availability and state funded jobs, should be where the money goes - not to individuals for their entire lives, with no option/incentive to become self-sufficient. | isake9t | isa8qlv | 1,665,757,939 | 1,665,752,892 | 3 | 2 | >It doesn’t improve the lives of those on welfare/disability and it doesn’t stimulate the economy. It absolutely does, not starving is way better then starving. | Instead of a system to support only those in poor financial situations we should switch to a universal support system. The government should supply childcare to everyone, everyone should receive a basic income generated through taxes on the top 1% of earners and large corporations, healthcare of all forms should be free of charge to everyone, the government should institute policies to prevent homes from remaining empty. This would remove any disincentive to improving one's situation and possibly missing out on benefits. It would remove the argument that it is unfair to middle class earners to give these benefits only to the lowest class. It would create a system to ensure that every person is fed, housed and able to receive care. And don't let anyone tell you we can't afford this or it would hurt the middle class. This could all be accomplished with a tax on the 1% and closing all the bullshit loopholes they use to avoid taxes. | 1 | 5,047 | 1.5 |
msshic | askculinary_test | 0.98 | Seeking Technical Books on Cooking I've read Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat as well as Food Lab and enjoyed both immensely for their exploration on the fundamental techniques behind cooking and recipe development. Does anyone have any recommendations on other similar books that focus on the techniques and science behind cooking rather than the typical collection of recipes cook book? Any and all suggestions appreciated! | guvb1c7 | guvkgan | 1,618,676,333 | 1,618,680,106 | 9 | 29 | Alton Brown I'm just here for the food and I'm just here for more food. He has books from the good eats shows as well | the flavor bible hasnt been mentioned. I find it to be a great resource and keep my copy in reach of my spice cabinet. say you are using celery and parsley or whatever, you can reference the specific items and use your existing know how of flavor combinations to see a list and discern what else may pair with what you already have planned but hadnt considered quite yet. it bolds high synergy items, some items it will list flavor affinities/profiles to build with or consider in the decision making process. it's the only book I touch consistently after I had the light bulb to keep it where I can reach it on the fly | 0 | 3,773 | 3.222222 |
c0ir5e | askscience_test | 0.93 | AskScience AMA Series: We're Sarah Stellwagen (UMBC) and Rebecca Renberg (ARL), authors of a G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics article on sequencing spider glue genes. They're massive - the largest has a coding sequence over 42,000 bases long, and could lead to exciting advances in biomaterials. AUA! Hello, Reddit. We are Sarah Stellwagen, a biology postdoc at UMBC, and Rebecca Renberg, a research scientist at the United States Army Research Laboratory. We're excited to share how we figured out how to sequence two incredibly challenging spider glue genes for the first time, and the possibilities this opens up for science. Spider glue is a modified version of spider silk that keeps a spider's prey stuck in its web. Unlike silk, it's a liquid both inside and outside of the spider. Because of this, spider glue might be easier to produce in the lab than silk, which could lead to major advances in biomaterials. There are so many potential applications to explore in the future, such as using it to protect crops from pests instead of using insecticides. We'll be here to answer your questions at 11:30 a.m. EDT / 8:30 a.m. PDT Learn more about this work at umbc.edu/go/spider-glue Read the study at https://www.g3journal.org/content/9/6/1909 | er59557 | er5cacj | 1,560,520,916 | 1,560,522,990 | 3 | 4 | Congrats on the cool paper. Could you talk a bit about your experience with the MinION? What kind of read length do you get, and is the error rate really so bad that you can't reliably overcome it by increasing the coverage? I'm wondering when we'll be able to sequence long repetitive regions with the MinION alone, without using short read sequencing for error correction... Also, why did you use Illumina sequencing of mRNA, rather than genomic DNA? As for the proteins themselves, as a biochemist who knows nothing about spider silk, I have to wonder: have you tried using the sequence for some kind of structural prediction? Or are these megadalton-monsters entirely unstructured? And can you speculate why they are so big to begin with? If I understand correctly, they are thought to polymerize mostly through hydrophobic interactions; do you think that a huge protein with lots of repeats forms a stronger elastic material than a smaller protein would with stronger inter-monomer bonding? | Go UMBC! It is a fantastic school for research and I’m glad more findings are originating from my college! | 0 | 2,074 | 1.333333 |
yca3n3 | askacademia_test | 0.93 | Idea: Is reading papers on mobile in high demand? Researchers, scholars, PhDs, graduate students, bachelors, and students: Does anyone like to read papers when commuting on mobile? If I am planning to make a new product to read in a lightweight way, would you like to use that? | ito8sn0 | itnzc4b | 1,666,664,520 | 1,666,660,383 | 3 | 2 | I use my iPad to read on transit. Works well. I use the notability app. | Every time I try read papers on my phone I'm distracted by notifications from other apps and texts. Maybe have a DND feature that silences that shit but still lets calls through? Other problem I've found is referencing style. Having small numerical superscript ref numbers is fine, but long lines of parenthetical refs are a damn nightmare. i.e. (Abc et al. 2012, Def et al. 2014) etc | 1 | 4,137 | 1.5 |
f41bwq | legaladvice_test | 0.96 | [Massachusetts] Neighbor's and their friends are trespassing on my property to get to lake via my private dock, what liability am I looking at? I recently purchased a lakefront cabin with a private dock. The cabin is located at the end of a peninsula. This Sunday, I visited it and discovered about 10 people on the frozen lake and a giant pickup truck parked on my property. As I was getting out of my car, the neighbor (whom I never met) walked passed me with her two dogs and a pizza and approached my dock. I saw a guy from the group of ten meet her on my dock and she gave him the pizza. I told them they were on private property and that they were trespassing (even though there's signs saying so) and the guy seemed understanding, but the neighbor replied "I've been doing this for 8 years." At which point, I replied, personally I didn't care, but what I didn't want was the liability of someone possibly getting hurt. They didn't reply and I left it at that. They did move the truck but I left so I don't know if they moved anything back or continued to use my dock. What kind of liability and I looking at here? How should I best protect myself? Also, in Massachusetts, the Attorney General has decided not to prosecute some crimes, trespassing being one of them. I don't know what bearing, if any, this may have. Thank you. | fho0mtd | fhnzg3e | 1,581,737,710 | 1,581,736,676 | 2,163 | 18 | You did the right thing op, almost exactly what you should have done. You told them they were tresspassing and didn't give them the OK even after they claimed to have been doing it for years (even though no tresspassing signs are up). ALWAYS opt to be the asshole neighbor in these situations ESPECIALLY because you have a major hazard on the property that they came with the intention of using. A dock is a major hazard that you absolutely would be held liable if you were deemed negligent. They are slippery, wet, surrounded by water, elevated, and a potential attractive nuisance. Ensure you always have liability insurance on the property, always be the asshole neighbor, and always have no tresspassing signs up. Your neighbors dont have to sue you if they slip and hurt thenselves while tresspassing, their insurance **WILL** | Trespassing is criminal offense? Call the police? | 1 | 1,034 | 120.166667 |
x3jht9 | askculinary_test | 0.75 | How to store opened wine? Basically, I'd like to start cooking with wine (red and white) but don't know how to store the bottles and for how long they'll be usable, as I would have to cook at least 4 times with a bottle to finish it. How do you store them? | impt9ey | imq37tk | 1,662,068,902 | 1,662,073,047 | 4 | 10 | You can store white in the fridge for a few weeks. You can store red on the counter for about a week. Why don’t you have a glass of the same wine you cooked with along with your meal? | Tbh I keep a Bota Box in the fridge for cooking and occasional drinking. It stays good for about a month because no (or at most minimal) oxygen is getting into the wine. | 0 | 4,145 | 2.5 |
705uu9 | askengineers_test | 0.95 | HS physics teacher, was given an extra class of "engineering" bc the teacher quit. I have free reign to design the course however I want to. What types of projects/skills should I be teaching my kids. I was thinking about making it a very hands on class. Perhaps have students build drone or something of the sort. Of course, that may be a tad advanced for the beginning of the school year. Any suggestions? A simple soldering project that leads into something bigger? I honestly want to make the class like the youtube channel Hak5, if youve ever seen it | dn0s819 | dn0u3ul | 1,505,436,425 | 1,505,438,735 | 8 | 14 | I use to teach fundementals of mfg eng to non-engineering types. My curriculum was for a 16 week course, but often taught accelerated during the summer. It worked out that we could only spend 1 week on materials. 1 week on design. 1 week on all maching concepts. 1 week on electrical. Obviously anything that brief barely scrapes the surface. I used Fundamentals of Manufacturing 2nd Edition by Philip Rufe. It's thorough enough to cover materials to processes to acad to dimensioning to whatever. My goal was to make accountants vaguely familiar with what engineers did. I think your goal trying to get this kids interest is a cool career. | I was a big fan of the mousetrap car we did in one of my undergrad freshman engineering classes. Give them a standard mousetrap and a budget of $20 - they build a car powered by the mousetrap and then race them down a long hallway! | 0 | 2,310 | 1.75 |
3lb28x | askanthropology_test | 0.96 | "If there is no biological basis for race, how can forensic anthropologists distinguish the remains of a person of one race from those of another?" xpost AskScience A friend of mine posted pictures of her professors holding up signs in support of the BlackLivesMatter movement, and one of the signs said "Anthropologists know there is no biological basis for race, but that racism is real." Someone commented and asked, "If there is no biological basis for race, how can forensic anthropologists distinguish the remains of a person of one race from those of another?" It has had me curious ever since, so I'd like to get some opinions on it. Is there actually a biological basis for race? If so, what is that basis? If not, how can those remains be identified? | cv53uj3 | cv53w9u | 1,442,522,500 | 1,442,522,575 | 4 | 7 | Honestly? It's pretty clunky and not all anthropologists are thrilled with how casually forensic anthropologists use racial terms. Here's a discussion. Many forensic anthropologists still use the terms Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid. That's a red flag that the subfield could use more scientific self-examination. | Racial categories, as we talk about them in the general public, are defined by the way people look. We see particular skin colors, facial features, and body shapes and use that information to place people in a racial category. It follows that you can then backwards map that information onto a skeleton you're analyzing. If we use nose shape as one was to define a black person (ex. A very light skinned person with African features is still categorized as black), we can use the presence of that nose shape in a skeleton to assume the skeleton was a black person, by our categories. These osteological phenotypes can be useful in, say, a missing persons case on an individual level, but really, when you get down to it scientifically, the phenotype only works as a diagnostic tool at a *population* level. Why? Because humans are so very similar that all morphologies present in all "races," just at varying rates. | 0 | 75 | 1.75 |
z7s45h | askscience_test | 0.94 | AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Gretchen Benedix, a cosmic mineralogist and astrogeologist, and I study space rocks! Currently a Professor at Curtin University, I use the chemistry, mineralogy, and spectroscopy of meteorites to understand the formation and evolution of asteroids and planets. AMA! Hello all, I've been deeply interested in Planetary Sciences and the early evolution of the solar system. I'm also the lead on the initial Mineralogy/Petrology of the meteorites found by the Australian Desert Fireball Network (DFN), an interdisciplinary research group that is working to uncover the mysteries surrounding solar system formation. Digital observatories, part of the DFN, monitor a third of Australian skies, all night. The DFN images and studies the paths of fireballs in the sky, their trajectories, and orbits using intelligent imaging systems. As a geologist, I want to know where rocks come from, along with their composition and distribution. Trying to mesh those two is kind of the holy grail in figuring out what the solar system is really like. In 2006, an asteroid was named after me - Asteroid 6579 - for my contributions to planetary science. In August 2022, my work was featured in Interesting Engineering, and the publication helped organize this AMA session. Ask me anything about asteroids, meteorites, planetary science, and my work with the Desert Fireball Network. I'll be on 5 PM (November 29th US ET / 22 UT / November 30th 6 AM in Perth (GMT+8)) to answer your questions, AMA! Username: /u/IntEngineering | iy89t3a | iy84bci | 1,669,731,911 | 1,669,729,140 | 7 | 5 | What is the next big thing you expect us to discover? With improved tools and methods, we have to be on the verge of finding something different or proving a theory...etc. | Are there any good ways for a lay person to determine if a rock they found is a meteorite? | 1 | 2,771 | 1.4 |
qqd7kr | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.94 | [eli5] Why do you have to clean ships underbelly from barnacles? | hjzraw8 | hjzot2x | 1,636,496,543 | 1,636,495,513 | 204 | 28 | Drag your hand across your phone's screen after you've cleaned it really well. Pretty easy? Drag your hand across a piece of sandpaper. More effort needed? Both look like they're flat, but one takes way more work. | In addition to fouling increasing drag which also increased fuel usage, large ships are required to go through a full inspection every 5 years. To properly inspect the hull it needs to be clean. Also Ultrasonic Thickness gauging is done to determine how thick the steel is. Steel hulls in saltwater degrade over time, even when coated. Thousands of points on a ship's hull are measured with an ultrasonic thickness gauge to make sure it hasn't corroded beyond it's safe limits and to get accurate measurements the hull needs to be cleaned. | 1 | 1,030 | 7.285714 |
j2o2qe | askengineers_test | 0.94 | How often do you use/consider vibrations in your work? I'm a mechanical engineering student and one of my classes this semester is about vibrations. My professor is terrible and I feel like I am not learning anything from his class. I don't plan on blowing off this class, but I just want to know if I need to stress about this as much as I have. I just want to know how often this stuff is really used out in the world. | g76rnxk | g774blz | 1,601,483,907 | 1,601,488,926 | 3 | 9 | It's pretty necessary if you want something to move. Translations are just low frequency high amplitude vibrations. I use the actual math pretty rarely, but the concepts are pretty handy for dynamics in general. Get familiar with spring mass damper systems and different types of damping, and you can model a shocking amount of stuff. | It depends on the field. If you go the plumbing and hvac route, you'll probably never consider it once in your career. If you're designing consumer products, likely minimal, but who knows, it depends on the type of products. If you're designing parts for automotive or aerospace, probably going to consider it a lot and depending on where you fall in that industry, it might be your entire job. If you're designing for robotics, absolutely all the time, even for stationary robotics. | 0 | 5,019 | 3 |
pito1a | askhr_test | 0.92 | My Co-worker makes 30% more than me for the same job. [CAN] Hello, Recently and by accident, I knew how much my co-worker is making for the exact same job as me. We are only two employees doing this job in this company, and both started almost at the same time, more than two years ago. And now I don't know how to handle it with my boss, if tell him and ask for a raise, find another job, or what to do. Any idea will be really appreciated! | hbt7dqo | hbsa0h3 | 1,630,938,014 | 1,630,914,166 | 16 | 4 | Started a new job 2.5 years ago. I came in with 5 years experience, already licensed, ready to go. Everyone else hired at the same time had to be trained, AND licensed. I had another job offer on the table when I accepted this one and they knew it. Guess who's the highest paid non management employee in my department? One guess. Long story short, there could be good reasons why they make more. | Maybe he does it much better than you. You can ask for the raise but be prepared to potentially face some unpleasant realities. | 1 | 23,848 | 4 |
zw4rf8 | askculinary_test | 0.78 | Rinsing Chicken? When making chicken noodle soup, my mom always used to hold the whole, raw chicken under the faucet and rinse the inside and outside with cool water before adding it to a pot of water to make stock. Is it standard procedure to ‘rinse’ chicken before cooking it? If so- is this typically done with all cuts of chicken, or just the whole bird? | j1ubwof | j1u9b7a | 1,672,148,009 | 1,672,146,461 | 20 | 3 | I read many of the responses, and not a pro cook, but I HAVE to rinse sometimes, as where I live they don't come perfectly clean. It's normal to have some leftover feathers near the wings, sometimes some flaky yellow skin in some parts, and almost always a brown slimy residue as if it was dirty/dusty. Mostly leftovers from processing I guess. I do take care to not cross-contaminate, and when I cook chicken I mostly do potatoes and onions that go with the chicken (so no salad or anything eaten raw), but washing is kinda required. | In my mom's day, this was commonly accepted practice. Since that time, we've discovered that rinsing the chicken with water does nothing other than splash bacteria all over the place anywhere near the sink and actually does more potential harm than good. Just use the chicken straight out of the package, no rinsing is necessary. | 1 | 1,548 | 6.666667 |
ej9ovp | asksciencefiction_test | 0.87 | [Star Wars/The Mandalorian] Why does no one know about the force? In the Mandalorian, it seems that no one is aware about the force/ jedis. How is this possible if Jedi were so prominent in the republic? | fcwh28z | fcyx5hu | 1,578,025,431 | 1,578,089,026 | 2 | 5 | Think about it this way: how much do you know about various religions around the world? And how many, if any, do you believe in? I know a lot of them have miracles and crazy strange events, that's not too different than people not knowing much, if anything, about Jedi or the force. (The obvious difference is that we're shown the force stuff so we know in the movie's fiction it's "real." That's much harder to do in real life.) | I think in part it depended where you lived. Jedi were likely common on Coruscant and some of their enclave worlds, but for people in the wider galaxy, it was unlikely they dealt with Jedi more than a time or two in their lifetime if at all. And it's not like the Jedi they did run into would be spending all their time pushing starships around and playing magician for the crowds, but instead would likely keep a low profile, do what they were there to do and be gone. Put that up next to all the other crazy shit in the galaxy, and it wouldn't be too hard to explain it away. Just a legend that got trumped up in a thousand retellings. They can't mess with peoples minds, they're just lucky or gifted at negotiation. And if they could really move starships telekinetically, how could they possibly be wiped out by a bunch of clones. Just good fighting monks is all they were. | 0 | 63,595 | 2.5 |
pt0vrk | askengineers_test | 0.97 | When there's a problem stuck in your head, how do you shut down the part of your brain that's working on it when you are trying to relax? | hdtrapi | hdtqa4j | 1,632,304,427 | 1,632,303,484 | 20 | 11 | .... Engineers relax???? I usually replace it with other problems, or exercise | With moderation… drugs. | 1 | 943 | 1.818182 |
z0a6jj | asksciencefiction_test | 0.9 | [RDR2] If Arthur Morgan invested all his money and went to the best hospital that he could get, could he possibly have survived? | ix5t470 | ix4cyhw | 1,668,987,346 | 1,668,966,103 | 12 | 3 | If he’d quit the life and moved to a dry place he could’ve possible lived a few more years, maybe even a decade. But it would’ve killed him eventually. | **Reminders for Commenters:** * All responses must be A) sincere, B) polite, and C) strictly watsonian in nature. If "watsonian" or "doylist" is new to you, please review the full rules here. * No edition wars or gripings about creators/owners of works. Doylist griping about Star Wars in particular is subject to **permanent ban on first offense**. * We are not here to discuss or complain about the real world. * Questions about who would prevail in a conflict/competition (not just combat) fit better on r/whowouldwin. Questions about very open-ended hypotheticals fit better on r/whatiffiction. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AskScienceFiction) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 21,243 | 4 |
swska0 | askengineers_test | 0.91 | Should I quit my current engineering job at a startup? This is my first job out of college and although I love the culture and stuff I do I don’t enjoy the pay. I think certain fast food places pay as much as I’m being paid currently. I recently reached a year with the company and asked for an 8k raise. My boss said that the company doesn’t have enough money to bump me to 50k even though they just received a large amount of non-diluted funding which they used to bring in a senior engineer for 120k (well within the market price for him). He said the best they can do is adjust for inflation, about 7%. I currently have a buffer building out a solidworks curriculum which can support me for a month and I have connections to do construction which would pay me more than I make now until I find another engineering position. So should I put in my two weeks now or suck it up until I find an offer? | hxort6s | hxo0guc | 1,645,351,113 | 1,645,331,604 | 6 | 5 | They have the money, they just chose not to spend it on you and rather hired a Sr Engineer instead. That’s their clear priority Now you have to decide what your priority is. | I would ask for a stake in the company as compensation to make the difference. A successful start up can make you retire way earlier than you thought you would, but don't let them fuck you over. They may be honest that they can't afford to pay you well and accomplish their goals, but there are other forms of compensation that don't immediately cost them anything. | 1 | 19,509 | 1.2 |
9h6ial | changemyview_test | 0.83 | CMV: there are no positives about the Confederate Flag. It is fundamentally racist Okay, I REALLY want my view changed on this one because I am writing a play and a very important part is where someone argues that supporting the confederate flag is not necessarily racist or whatever. I've seen a lot of stuff on websites like Reddit that seem to say having anything to do with the flag is racist/extreme right. People on /r/beholdthemasterrace declare anyone supporting it as a racist. For what it's worth, I'm a Brit, so I have no idea about what it might mean for local cultures. I would love to have someone from the south USA explain why it's okay to support the confederate flag. Thanks! _____ > *This is a footnote from the CMV moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please* ***read through our rules***. *If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which,* ***downvotes don't change views****! Any questions or concerns? Feel free to* ***message us***. *Happy CMVing!* | e69itgk | e69iv39 | 1,537,375,532 | 1,537,375,567 | 14 | 151 | I don't think there are any positives from flying it, but there are definitely positives for displaying it in museums or similar places as it has tremendous historical significance for the United States. | How about if you enjoyed The Dukes of Hazzard? Edit: I just noticed you're a Brit. The Dukes of Hazzard is an American TV comedy from the early 80's about a pair of brothers (the Dukes) who are moonshiners and general scofflaws in Hazzard county which is run by corrupt officials. Their car, the General Lee, is an orange Dodge Charger with the confederate flag covering the entire roof and is featured prominently in pretty much every episode. The show itself touched very little on racism if at all. So if someone had no clue about American history, but watched the Dukes of Hazzard they could be inclined to want to fly or hang the confederate flag. | 0 | 35 | 10.785714 |
tlodg | askengineers_test | 0.81 | To professional (especially chemical) engineers: was there ever a time in college where you felt like you weren't smart enough to be an engineer? To those who have completed their engineering degree and are working as an engineer, was there ever a time when you thought you weren't smart enough to "make it"? I'm starting my junior year at college in chemical engineering, and I feel sometimes like I'm just not smart enough to finish my degree. Is it true that once you get through the math and organic chemistry, the rest is a lot better? I'm honestly worried sometimes that I just won't be able to pass the upper level classes and complete my degree because my peers don't seem to have to work nearly as hard as I do. I'm seeing people breeze through classes that I've struggled with and I know I'm smart, but I'm starting to think that you have to be really, really very smart to actually be good enough. Is it just a dedication thing? When did you know that you could do this? Thanks, Reddit. I guess I should specify that I feel like I'm smart enough to complete all the "lower level" courses, but I feel like it is just going to keep getting harder and I don't know how much more I can make this work before I won't be smart enough to keep going. Does that make sense? | c4ntuhv | c4ny8nf | 1,336,994,699 | 1,337,020,043 | 2 | 3 | Everybody goes through this. It's like an anxiety/panic attack thing when your brain starts some serious rewiring. Your existing safe assumptions become threatened and you feel loss of control. It's very normal. Just keep at it and put those thoughts aside. | Every day of my life. | 0 | 25,344 | 1.5 |
kqup7p | changemyview_test | 0.89 | CMV: They say a relationship won’t solve any of your problems but literally every single person I know had a ‘glow up’ after finding a girlfriend and their lives all seem to be much better now. My view is that finding a significant other DOES, in fact, solve many of life’s problems. I think I’ve said it all in the title, but yeah. If people shouldn’t “focus on getting a significant other, it won’t fix your life” then how come there are so many so-called ‘losers’ whose lives miraculously seem to get so much better once they have a significant other? I’ve seen people go from practically looking like bums all the time to suddenly dressing well, moving into new apartments, getting better jobs, and just overall becoming happier, more well-rounded, more interesting and positive people AFTER getting into a relationship. I think a lot of people would, in fact, benefit immensely from someone falling in love with them, caring for them and sharing some of life’s burdens with them. When you feel seen and someone is cheering you on and supporting you, your life DOES get better and I don’t know why there are so many people pretending like it won’t. | gi5ypsj | gi5ymlf | 1,609,839,329 | 1,609,839,238 | 4 | 3 | Both sides of the spectrum have a bit of truth in them. Having people around you that you care for and that care for you is quite a healthy thing to have in life. On the other hand, many people fall into the trap of making their happiness dependant on others, when we all know that people are flaky, unreliable and difficult to read without an appropriate cue. If perhaps you were to consider the internal state of someone who is focussing on getting a significant other, you couldn't possibly say that it is healthy. | >When you feel seen and someone is cheering you on and supporting you, your life DOES get better Well this seems to be the crux of the problem. If you need validation and attention to the point that you can't live fine without it, then why wouldn't you be happier when you get it. But, to make a crude methaphor, so does an addict when he satisfies his addiction. If you can only be happy in a relationship, when one ends you will be looking franticly for next one and that may lead, in a worst case, very abusive relationships. I would never deny that romantic relationships are beneficial, but there is a point at which you must ask yourself, "if I only strive for success and take care of myself when it's for someone else, why can't I do it for myself?". | 1 | 91 | 1.333333 |
fh36kn | askengineers_test | 0.92 | Are there any simple industry-standard protocols for triggering events in a factory automation setting? I'm working on a device that is ordinarily controlled over USB, but it may see some use in a factory automation setting. Basically, once configured, it could be fed a simple trigger pulse to begin a measurement and respond with a similar pulse when it's done. In the simplest case, I'm picturing a microswitch or beam-break to begin measurements in time with a conveyor belt or whatever. Anyway, are there any industry-standards for this kind of connection? I don't need anything complicated like a CAN bus. I'm considering using a simple phono plug with an opto-isolator, but I'd like to conform to a standard if one exists. | fk9epw3 | fk8pi1w | 1,583,974,572 | 1,583,960,431 | 7 | 3 | The industry standard is a field bus, such as ethernet IP, DeviceNET, EtherCAT, etc, or dry contacts. ​ An output for your device would be two provided terminals on a relay. Your device opens/closes the relay by controlling the coil of the relay. ​ An input for your device would be two wires that are expected to be connected to a switch/relay that is controlled by something else. Your conveyor prox or conveyor PLC would control the relay coil, you would use the switched contacts. Its the industrial version of opto isolating. The beauty is that it allows for essentially any signal voltage, and signal voltage mismatches. Customer wants to use a 3.3 volt input signal and 120v AC output signal? All they need is a relay with a 120v coil and you are good to go. | The ultimate, bare bones, simplest way to do it is a relay. It costs $10. You could also use a transistor. Both technologies are older than your grandparents. For a relay, when you send power to the coil (control side), it closes a circuit for the contact (the thingy you're powering up). There are no direct connections, it's an electromagnet. You commonly use 24V DC current, 120V AC current, or less commonly almost anything you can think of. | 1 | 14,141 | 2.333333 |
o0f1ic | askengineers_test | 0.94 | How do I find "billable time" when work is slow and budgets are spent?!? Background: I'm a water resources engineer with a P.E. license. Around 5 years experience. The most stressful part of my job is filling out my timesheet. I'm always being pressured to find billable hours but it's difficult most weeks. Project managers are very wary of overspending their budgets or they don't want to take the time to explain what they need help on. This week has been better so far because of some water main work that came up but that's not going to last me very long. I have projects coming up but my past few weeks have been very stressful. I've used my vacation time to fill in the gaps but now I've used most of that. Is this something that everyone deals with? | h1waib0 | h1v0pw3 | 1,623,792,803 | 1,623,773,073 | 3 | 2 | When this happened to me (many years ago) I would walk around the office and ask every PM whether they needed any help on anything. It put pressure on my manager because he would hear from his colleagues about he wasn't keeping his staff busy. Sometimes, I'd get interesting assignments (I once wrote and got approved a FEMA LOMR for a floodplain revision on the first try having never done it before - I had no idea it wasn't usually easy) and got to learn new things outside the scope of my usual work (traffic engineering.) | Yikes | 1 | 19,730 | 1.5 |
6hzpw1 | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.87 | Explain like I'm five years old: In the song "Taxman" the Beatles complain about the then 95% tax rate for top earners in the UK. Why was the tax rate so high back then, and was the rate sustainable? | dj2iu2j | dj2hif1 | 1,497,802,879 | 1,497,801,051 | 14,486 | 6,976 | Why were taxes so high? World War II. All the military equipment, all the soldiers' pay, all the medical expenses, all the expenses had to be paid, somehow. That somehow was with debt. Debt that had to be paid off by the government over the next 20-30 years. So, during WWII, the British government (and ALL governments, actually), sold massive amounts of debt (war bonds) to everybody and anybody. Years later, that debt had to be paid off. With interest. To raise the amount of money needed to pay off that debt, the tax rates had to be ridiculously high, especially on high earners. Remember, England was VERY hard hit by the war. Rationing did not end until the mid 1950's. Even the US had tax rates around 90% on top earners, in order to pay off the US war debt, pay for the rebuilding of Europe, and maintain the military at war footing for the first couple decades of the Cold War. And, during that time, the US (and the UK) paid DOWN their massive deficits to more sustainable levels. So, the whole debt crisis thing we keep talking about today, we KNOW how to reduce the debt. We just don't wanna. Were taxes that high sustainable? Short term,yes. Long term, there wasn't a NEED to maintain the tax rates that high, once the hump of paying down the War Debt was gone. | Its important to note that not all the income of a top earner was taxed at 95%. Income taxes usually work by brackets. Example with made up figures: Your first $18,000 is taxed at 10%, then $18,001 to $75,000 is taxed at 15%, etc. In the U.S., the highest bracket currently is ~39% starting at ~$418k, so only income above 418k actually gets taxed at the highest rate. I assume it works/worked like that in the U.K. too, where only income above a certain amount was taxed at 95%. I wanted to point out tax brackets because I've run into so many people who don't realize that they're a thing. As far as if it was sustainable...¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ I have a feeling political ideology will drive the answers in here because economics is hard and confusing and usually doesn't give clear cut answers. edit: fixed some typos. Rushed this answer then jumped in the shower so I didn't do any proofreading. | 1 | 1,828 | 2.076548 |
yvv4rq | askscience_test | 0.92 | AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Jonathan Blutinger, a postdoctoral researcher in the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, developing a "digital chef" that can 3D print and laser cook edible items. Ask me anything about the process! Hello all, after my MSc in Integrated Product Design at the University of Pennsylvania and a year stint in industry designing pick-and-place robots, I started working as a Ph.D. researcher (Mechanical Engineering) at Hod Lipson's (He co-launched the world's first open-source 3D printer which could be used for food) Creative Machines Lab where I tinker with digital cooking techniques using food printers and lasers. We've experimented with dough, meats, vegetables, sweets, made a seven-ingredient slice of cheesecake, and printed chicken samples which were then cooked by lasers. Currently, we are focusing on building robust software and hardware to incorporate more functionality to print food of different consistencies and multi-ingredient combinations to fully showcase this tech's potential. In August 2022, my work was featured in Interesting Engineering, and the publication helped organize this AMA session. Ask me anything about the technology behind 3D-printed food, the how-tos on printing food, how lasers can cook food, how 3D-printed food can be inventive, nutritious, and customized for each individual. I will be replying to messages with the username "IntEngineering" at noon ET (17 UT), AMA! | iwgw1zm | iwh3i43 | 1,668,526,598 | 1,668,529,558 | 5 | 75 | Any safeguards set in or is this mainly going to be sold as a THC/whatever infuser? | Tea, earl grey, hot. | 0 | 2,960 | 15 |
rjdi2l | askculinary_test | 0.95 | Can you help us help others in Christmas Day? For the last eight years, /r/AskCulinary has had pretty successful live culinary holiday hotline posts to help folks who run into last minute cooking troubles. This year's Thanksgiving hotline was on the slow side, but early indicators is that lots of folks are looking for help with their Christmas cooking. We need volunteers to be by their computers to answer questions. If you know a thing or two about traditional holiday meals and would like to help, please comment here to let us know what hours you can cover. Starting early proved to be helpful last month, so we'd like to begin around 9 eastern time and go until 4-ish. If we can get a couple folks helping each hour, it should go well. Thanks! | hp5u7dl | hp4wy7y | 1,639,917,247 | 1,639,891,301 | 3 | 2 | I can help any time over the day. I’m a pastry chef with a lot of savory experience. And traditional meals are just fun. | 1pm to 3pm mountain. I do our big dinner on Christmas Eve so I'm free when most people will be starting to cooking. High Altitude baking, smoking, gravy, fixing mistakes. | 1 | 25,946 | 1.5 |
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This is the filtered version of SHP dataset, which was used to train MMPO, as introduced in the paper below:
Margin Matching Preference Optimization: Enhanced Model Alignment with Granular Feedback
Kyuyoung Kim*, Ah Jeong Seo*, Hao Liu, Jinwoo Shin, Kimin Lee
In EMNLP 2024 Findings
Dataset Description
The original SHP dataset consists of 385k collective human preferences over responses to questions/instructions in 18 different subject areas, from cooking to legal advice. To create SHP filtered dataset to train MMPO, we extracted a subset of size 55k, following Ethayarajh et al. (2022) and Sun et al. (2023).
However, we sampled uniformly across score differences to evaluate the methods over a wide range of quality margins, which is different from prior works that trained only on preferences with significant score differences. Upon analyzing the distribution of score differences in the SHP dataset, we found that 50% of the data had relatively small differences. Therefore, to check if the model can be optimized effectively with datasets containing many preferences with low confidence, we employed a method of sampling proportional to the score difference distribution of the original SHP.
More details can be found in the paper referenced above. Additionally, you can find more filtering details about the SHP dataset in the official code.
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