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My comparison is based on people I knew working out, because we would have a weigh in and open discussion of people's weight, a setting that removes any guesswork on people's weight. This tended to include two groups of people, those ~15-30 lbs overweight, and those much closer to 100 lb overweight. At the same time I have some relatives that are really into running and attending big events, yet end up with a body shape outside of "normal," despite hitting healthy numbers. I don't think there is much more that can be said, and too much might have already been said as part of the problem is trying to make assumptions based on looks.
And I don't think reminding people that one can be overweight and still look like a normal person is encouraging unhealthy behavior. A big issue seems to be that discussions and thoughts about being overweight is 90+% not about health, but about a whole lot of other baggage based on people's assumptions or judgements. While people come in a continuum, a lot of things, like clothing, creates a divide, sometimes quite artificially. This destroys people's ability to approach it as a health problem, and instead focuses on a bunch of other fickle stuff that can make it much harder.
I also have people I care about that deal with being overweight, and I've watched the accumulation of psychological damage that has thrown up additional barriers. I've watched people make changes that would have big, positive impact on their health, only to have others tell them, sometimes quite explicitly, that they've changed nothing and wasted effort. Unfortunately, a lot of it stems from making assumptions, much like arguing over the weight of people from a picture...
And I don't think reminding people that one can be overweight and still look like a normal person is encouraging unhealthy behavior. A big issue seems to be that discussions and thoughts about being overweight is 90+% not about health, but about a whole lot of other baggage based on people's assumptions or judgements. While people come in a continuum, a lot of things, like clothing, creates a divide, sometimes quite artificially. This destroys people's ability to approach it as a health problem, and instead focuses on a bunch of other fickle stuff that can make it much harder.
I also have people I care about that deal with being overweight, and I've watched the accumulation of psychological damage that has thrown up additional barriers. I've watched people make changes that would have big, positive impact on their health, only to have others tell them, sometimes quite explicitly, that they've changed nothing and wasted effort. Unfortunately, a lot of it stems from making assumptions, much like arguing over the weight of people from a picture...
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Tried this one the other day and made a bit of a mess, along with trying another suggestion I've seen that should let you kind of just squeeze out the egg from inside the shell.
I think the missing piece is it can depend on how you cook the eggs too. The method I've used for the last couple years is the cold water method: putting eggs in cold water and heating to near boiling, etc. The yolks come out perfect, but the white sticks to the shell slightly. Some people suggest using a warm water method will make the shell come off better, although others swear the cold water method works better in that regard too.
How you hard boil an egg seems to be a deeply personal and religious affair, with plenty of proselytizing. In the meantime, I limit myself to about an egg a day, so trying out a different methods involves a bit of delay.
I think the missing piece is it can depend on how you cook the eggs too. The method I've used for the last couple years is the cold water method: putting eggs in cold water and heating to near boiling, etc. The yolks come out perfect, but the white sticks to the shell slightly. Some people suggest using a warm water method will make the shell come off better, although others swear the cold water method works better in that regard too.
How you hard boil an egg seems to be a deeply personal and religious affair, with plenty of proselytizing. In the meantime, I limit myself to about an egg a day, so trying out a different methods involves a bit of delay.
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I'm sorry, but none of those look anywhere even close to 100+ pounds overweight.
I'm not the greatest at estimating a person's weight, but from the people I've worked out with in the past, a woman even ~40 lb overweight would have trouble looking like a person in the photo unless they were contorting themselves and holding their breath. At the same time, I've know some woman that were quite active, were clearly within the healthy weight range, and still had trouble finding decent selection of clothes.
I think too many people don't even have an idea of what is a reasonable weight from looks.
I'm not the greatest at estimating a person's weight, but from the people I've worked out with in the past, a woman even ~40 lb overweight would have trouble looking like a person in the photo unless they were contorting themselves and holding their breath. At the same time, I've know some woman that were quite active, were clearly within the healthy weight range, and still had trouble finding decent selection of clothes.
I think too many people don't even have an idea of what is a reasonable weight from looks.
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I never really mastered any of the quick ways to peel eggs, so I dread the amount of work needed to make deviled eggs. I don't think I've made them since grad school. Back then, there would be up to a dozen people around the shared house on the day of big holiday meals. Whoever was making the deviled eggs could basically say, "You all ate deviled eggs last time, therefore you're going to help peel them this time," and end up with an army of people to peel eggs with no (audible) complaints.
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Not sure what they tried to write for the CFC entry:
that threatens to wipe oxygen off the face of the Earth... However, now we know that the compounds released by gasoline engines designed to turn oxygen atoms into chlorofluorocarbons may very well lead to the total depletion of the ozone layer.
CFCs can contribute to ozone (O3) turning into regular oxygen (O2), but I don't know what that has to do with removing oxygen from the face of the Earth, or how a compound released from an engine can turn oxygen into a CFC which contains no oxygen.
that threatens to wipe oxygen off the face of the Earth... However, now we know that the compounds released by gasoline engines designed to turn oxygen atoms into chlorofluorocarbons may very well lead to the total depletion of the ozone layer.
CFCs can contribute to ozone (O3) turning into regular oxygen (O2), but I don't know what that has to do with removing oxygen from the face of the Earth, or how a compound released from an engine can turn oxygen into a CFC which contains no oxygen.
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1,771,561
If that is not believable, send 1,771,562, and the extra one will be placed on the headboard.
If that is not believable, send 1,771,562, and the extra one will be placed on the headboard.
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At first I thought it was made only of gummy bears, but it is just covered in gummy bears. A rough estimate suggests you would need ~1 million of those gummy bears to make a mattress out of just gummy (or cheat using some of those giant, several pound ones).
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There are plenty of ways the human body can exceed the limits of what people would typically expect, both in situations that require training, and in a lot of situations that don't require training. Some of the things in the video, or variations of the same principles, end up being done by ordinary people in confidence building workshops (or in physics demonstrations), and just need some guidance on how to do it. Other stuff it is very difficult to gauge what, it any, limits are being pushed. There have been a few too many examples of martial arts masters claiming to be impervious to weapons getting hurt when tested by someone other than one of their students. Turns out students can be good at pulling their punches when risking hurting someone they look up to.
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The question of whether people think the Earth is less than 10,000 years old is not simple to address, and along with other topics related to evolution, depends heavily on how you word questions. One commonly cited survey puts that at ~40%, but has a lot of baggage in the question, with those ~40% choosing, "God created humans beings in pretty much their present form at one time within the last 10000 years." The other two options involve evolution of some sort. Another survey directly asking if a person thinks the Earth is less than 10,000 years old found only ~20% agreement and ~10% unsures. If asking do they agree with the idea that continents have been moving for millions of years, only ~10% disagree with another 10% unsure.
You can ask the same things to the same people worded slightly different ways, and still get rather different results. For example, changing a question from asking did humans develop other animals to did animals and plants develop from other species can give a large difference, or explicitly including God in a question about a process will change the results compared to asking about the same thing without naming God.
People are kind of fickle when it comes to asking questions, even without all of the religious and political baggage that comes up in such surveys. A project researching how to teach basic physics once found, for basic homework questions, asking a person a question, then asking them "What answer would a smart student give?" caused some people to change their answer...
You can ask the same things to the same people worded slightly different ways, and still get rather different results. For example, changing a question from asking did humans develop other animals to did animals and plants develop from other species can give a large difference, or explicitly including God in a question about a process will change the results compared to asking about the same thing without naming God.
People are kind of fickle when it comes to asking questions, even without all of the religious and political baggage that comes up in such surveys. A project researching how to teach basic physics once found, for basic homework questions, asking a person a question, then asking them "What answer would a smart student give?" caused some people to change their answer...
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"They are made for people with no computer knowledge who believe the marketing hype. "
But still work quite well for people with a fair bit of computer knowledge, as they seem to be popular with people who want a *NIX environment but don't want to deal with particular short comings of Linux.
" with fewer software options"
I can instantly download and install same open source software I have on a Linux machine, use various commercial software not available on Linux, and run Windows programs within a virtual machine. About the only missing software option are Windows only games that can't run within a virtual machine.
These days just about any of the major OSes can fulfill most common computer uses, and it is a matter of preferences, difference in headaches each offers, and any particular niche uses you have.
But still work quite well for people with a fair bit of computer knowledge, as they seem to be popular with people who want a *NIX environment but don't want to deal with particular short comings of Linux.
" with fewer software options"
I can instantly download and install same open source software I have on a Linux machine, use various commercial software not available on Linux, and run Windows programs within a virtual machine. About the only missing software option are Windows only games that can't run within a virtual machine.
These days just about any of the major OSes can fulfill most common computer uses, and it is a matter of preferences, difference in headaches each offers, and any particular niche uses you have.
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Plugging those numbers in gives a value of 774 GeV/c^2 for the mass, when the actual mass is around 125 GeV/c^2.
If I remember the timing of things, by the late 90s there was already evidence that the Higgs boson would be heavier than ~90 GeV/c^2, and some expectation, that if it existed, it would be below 1000, and possibly in the 100-200 range.
It looks like some writer just too the Planck mass (the stuff under the square root), a "natural" unit of mass, and multiplied it by other constants until getting something within an order of magnitude of what was known at the time. It would have been closer if they dropped the pi, and just stuck with the fine structure constant (which is almost 1/137).
If I remember the timing of things, by the late 90s there was already evidence that the Higgs boson would be heavier than ~90 GeV/c^2, and some expectation, that if it existed, it would be below 1000, and possibly in the 100-200 range.
It looks like some writer just too the Planck mass (the stuff under the square root), a "natural" unit of mass, and multiplied it by other constants until getting something within an order of magnitude of what was known at the time. It would have been closer if they dropped the pi, and just stuck with the fine structure constant (which is almost 1/137).
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I still think what I said applies, that because it is difficult to judge the lighting in the situation and to tell how much of the lighting in the background is also on the dress, you have to make assumptions about the lighting to talk about white balance. You also have to make assumptions about different fluorescent vs. continuum lighting sources. While clothing seems to usually do a good job of not using colors that change drastically under such lighting, I've seen some clothing that goes from black to various colors depending on what kind of lighting you are using.
And as far as the who different between purple and violet, that is was exactly what I was referring to but I left out the explanation because the comment was already pretty long. This isn't even getting into how various people define "white" because a lot of various light tints get lumped in with white, so you end up with a "white" that is yellowish or blueish, etc.
And as far as the who different between purple and violet, that is was exactly what I was referring to but I left out the explanation because the comment was already pretty long. This isn't even getting into how various people define "white" because a lot of various light tints get lumped in with white, so you end up with a "white" that is yellowish or blueish, etc.
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Accurate color reproduction in photographs is hard. Even skillful photography can be more about a interesting image than accuracy. Whereas something like this, you have lost so much information that there is no way to get an exact answer, without making non-unique assumptions about lighting. There are plenty of materials that will look very different to the eye in person (I have a piece of Nd glass that looks dull blue or grey in some lighting, and vivid, bright purple in sunlight), and then cameras add an extra layer. I've seen a few cameras that take a purple and violet that look that same to the eye and make them look quite different in the photo.
And people wonder why there are so many false color images in science, even when images are taken in visible wavelengths. A few too many times I've people seen become almost indignant, "Why don't you just take a 'normal'/'real' photo?"
And people wonder why there are so many false color images in science, even when images are taken in visible wavelengths. A few too many times I've people seen become almost indignant, "Why don't you just take a 'normal'/'real' photo?"
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It is nice to see hobbies produce something both useful and aesthetic. So far, my limited experiences with woodworking have found it only useful for producing more woodworking tools and wood shavings.
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Although their aside about energy density of steam vs. water was kind of irrelevant, as that is the per mass energy density and the eggs are in contact with much more water by mass than steam. The near constant temperature due to quick return to boiling is much more appropriate description.