It’s kinda hard to raise your body’s resistance a ton outside of not making good contact (e.g. wearing rubber boots/gloves). Things like your skin being moist lower resistance, but I’m not sure it’s really that much of a safety factor when dealing with high voltage.

I think people just don’t understand ohm’s law. They seem to think voltage and current are unrelated to each other.

All PhDs are doctors of philosophy. That’s what the Ph stands for. Doesn’t mean they majored in philosophy. So you can have a doctorate of philosophy in engineering or English or even medicine and be one of those crazy MD-PhDs.

Yeah, I think the premise is actually “What did people say 20 years ago that they don’t now.”

I think people write Americas because when just writing America too many people assume the US.

I think it’s more y=5x and then y=3x, so you’re still increasing, but the rate of increase has decreased. Versus y=-x where the function is now decreasing.

It would be pretty crappy to never give a description of a painting to a blind person though. Like could you imagine if we never described the Mona Lisa to a blind person and they just to guess what it was a picture of.

Is it because of the kids or the admin/parents/political activists/gun violence/low pay?

Maybe the people complaining drown out everyone else. But people like David Hogg and Greta Thunberg are Gen Z and out doing more than most to fix the problems they see. Like maybe people complain that Gen Z has no idea what files on a computer are, but that seems like a different thing than helplessness.

I think it might be easier just to do the division.

Considering we’re trying to find lengths, shouldn’t we be doing absolute value squared?

This in reply to a person who took more effort to write a program that wrote out the steps for inverting a matrix so they didn’t have to do the busy work of inverting a silly number of them? Kinda sounds like they prefer really understanding and challenging work to busy work is all.

My dog hates being carried and fights it. She’s only 50 lbs, but I would not want to try to carry her up a flight of stairs.

The Windows is not free. The OEMs pay a license fee and that cost is passed on to people buying those computers.

I think absent bowel sounds generally means no shitting. Bowels are apparently pretty noisy when they’re digesting.

You can want it all you want. It’s just not reality. And pretending like it is isn’t helpful to people trying to learn the language.

The aid is definitely for the audience. Otherwise, the presenter would just have some notes.

The slides don’t need to be a book. But I struggle to think of a technical topic that doesn’t have some visuals that would make talking about it easier to follow.

Edit: and I think it’s presenters thinking the aid is for them that leads to such awful slides.

Maybe for something non-technical that would be reasonable. But if you’re talking to a single slide for ~30 minutes, it’s unlikely to be an adequate aid for most people. Either the content is really complex and would benefit from additional slides that focus on each relevant part. Or a lot of what you’re talking about isn’t really represented, and people are likely to get lost without something to show what it is you’re describing.

Dogs kill about twice as many people per year as cows in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12024-024-00786-8

What’s your definition of language?