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umgtsg | Basically a question on self sufficiency! | Most states would be fucked in this context. The US is reliant on cross-border travel for just about everything | 4,380 | AskAnAmerican |
umgtsg | Basically a question on self sufficiency! | I feel like most states would struggle for a while if this happened. We would have serious water issues to deal with. | 3,970 | AskAnAmerican |
umgtsg | Basically a question on self sufficiency! | Extremely. A lot of people won't be able to get to work or home. Even using public transit to travel within the state will become impossible. | 3,760 | AskAnAmerican |
umhb2t | With the symptoms being so close to the common cold or a flu, wouldn't most doctors have simply assumed that the first patients were suffering from one of those instead? What made us suspect it was a new virus, and not an existing one? | The symptoms were nothing like the cold or flu, thousands were dying in Asia. Virus samples are frequently DNA sequenced worldwide as part of a monitoring program. A new sequence was correlated with high death rates or need for ventilators.
A better question is once we knew for certain we had a new and deadly varian... | 28,150 | AskScience |
umhb2t | With the symptoms being so close to the common cold or a flu, wouldn't most doctors have simply assumed that the first patients were suffering from one of those instead? What made us suspect it was a new virus, and not an existing one? | I work in Healthcare. Let me tell you, COVID is nothing like the cold or flu. We had people coming into the hospital being so sick and not recovering no matter what we did for them. We immediately knew something was wrong and that a ton of people were developing this illness, we just didn't know what it was right away.... | 3,640 | AskScience |
umhb2t | With the symptoms being so close to the common cold or a flu, wouldn't most doctors have simply assumed that the first patients were suffering from one of those instead? What made us suspect it was a new virus, and not an existing one? | It was not really that close to the common cold or the flu. People seem to forget how serious COVID-19 was when it first broke out. Our current situation with the Delta and Omicron, which have a lot lower mortality, has changed our perception of COVID.
Serious cases of COVID required ventilators, which the cold and fl... | 2,000 | AskScience |
umhioy | Mine were Betty Rubble (*The Flintstones*), Mary Ann Summers (*Gilligan's Island*), and Jeannie (*I Dream of Jeannie*).
Edit: I just remembered another early TV crush, Agent 99 on *Get Smart*. | The original Batgirl, Yvonne Craig (from the Adam West Batman). | 400 | AskOldPeople |
umhioy | Mine were Betty Rubble (*The Flintstones*), Mary Ann Summers (*Gilligan's Island*), and Jeannie (*I Dream of Jeannie*).
Edit: I just remembered another early TV crush, Agent 99 on *Get Smart*. | The 3 girls skinny dipping in the water tower at the beginning of Petticoat Junction. | 370 | AskOldPeople |
umhioy | Mine were Betty Rubble (*The Flintstones*), Mary Ann Summers (*Gilligan's Island*), and Jeannie (*I Dream of Jeannie*).
Edit: I just remembered another early TV crush, Agent 99 on *Get Smart*. | Keith Partridge (David Cassidy) from ‘The Partridge Family’ 😍❤️ | 360 | AskOldPeople |
umhwwc | I'm currently writing a novel and trying to find (semi-)plausible reasons for how and why future rich people are able to change fundamental characteristics of their own bodies. Those changes would range from eye- or haircolor to changes in hormone production or even changing which parts of the body are able to regenera... | Not with our technological level.
Color change might be possible in future, eg. by gene editing therapy(eg. Imprinting gene code with virus), assuming that method will be faster than organism autocorrection mechanisms. Even then- it will take time, enough time for old cells to die off specifically speaking
Regenerat... | 80 | AskScience |
umhwwc | I'm currently writing a novel and trying to find (semi-)plausible reasons for how and why future rich people are able to change fundamental characteristics of their own bodies. Those changes would range from eye- or haircolor to changes in hormone production or even changing which parts of the body are able to regenera... | I can imagine an engineered virus with a crispr protein specifically tailored to the target person's genes to change a trait like that. If normal biology would not replace the cells fast enough I'm sure there's a hormone cocktail that could be locally administered to help. Maybe this is a taxing operation, or maybe the... | 80 | AskScience |
umhwwc | I'm currently writing a novel and trying to find (semi-)plausible reasons for how and why future rich people are able to change fundamental characteristics of their own bodies. Those changes would range from eye- or haircolor to changes in hormone production or even changing which parts of the body are able to regenera... | [removed] | 60 | AskScience |
umhysk | What facts about the United States do foreigners not believe until they come to America? | I've encountered many people who underestimate how big it is. I know some folks from South Korea, whose country is functionally an island (ocean on three sides and a closed border on the fourth). They can drive from one end of the country to the other in a matter of hours.
They intellectually knew America was very l... | 12,290 | AskAnAmerican |
umhysk | What facts about the United States do foreigners not believe until they come to America? | This might be better addressed to non-Americans. But visitors I've met had a hard time understanding the size of the country, the distances Americans routinely drive, and the lack of good alternatives to driving or flying. | 8,950 | AskAnAmerican |
umhysk | What facts about the United States do foreigners not believe until they come to America? | My dad was an immigrant from Britain in the 60s. All his family is still over there. So I'll share some things that have mystified my relatives over the years, when they visited.
The spread-out nature of things, obviously. Intersections of two four-lane streets seem like parking lots to them.
Insect life. My cous... | 8,870 | AskAnAmerican |
umik09 | Why is there no tick prevention for humans? You can buy prevention for dogs that lasts for months without reapplication, but for humans the best we can do is a bug spray that sometimes works. | There is a project underway to develop a 'vaccine' to ticks. Normally we don't notice ticks as their bites don't cause an immune reaction. If we can prime the immune system to react to tick bites, then the resulting inflammation and itching would let us know it was there, and allow removal before it had a chance to pro... | 45,350 | AskScience |
umik09 | Why is there no tick prevention for humans? You can buy prevention for dogs that lasts for months without reapplication, but for humans the best we can do is a bug spray that sometimes works. | [removed] | 31,750 | AskScience |
umik09 | Why is there no tick prevention for humans? You can buy prevention for dogs that lasts for months without reapplication, but for humans the best we can do is a bug spray that sometimes works. | The main thing only touched upon is simply: Humans regularly bathe. The dogs get the chemical into them and it settles on their skin, and that’s that. It will say right on the application notes that any regular swimming or bathing will necessitate earlier reapplication. Imagine bathing every 0.5-2 days for the entire m... | 12,750 | AskScience |
umkpaf | When did you realize that Lily Tomlin was married to a lady? | I didn’t notice.
And now that I know I still don’t care. | 250 | AskOldPeople |
umkpaf | When did you realize that Lily Tomlin was married to a lady? | Just now, from you, OP. Now I have another irrelevant, unsurprising factoid cluttering up my brain. Thanks. | 180 | AskOldPeople |
umkpaf | When did you realize that Lily Tomlin was married to a lady? | Apparently today. | 140 | AskOldPeople |
uml7ef | What facts do Americans usually not believe about the rest of the world, until they see or experience it for themselves? | I wouldn't have guessed that Quebec has a French-language version of American pop country music. But then I strayed into the upper range of the SiriusXM dial. | 3,980 | AskAnAmerican |
uml7ef | What facts do Americans usually not believe about the rest of the world, until they see or experience it for themselves? | I didn’t think the Swiss were so crazily rules oriented until I went there and saw a sign with a high heel shoe with a circle and slash through it.
This was on a mountain ridge trail in the high alps. They felt the need to make sure no one was trying to hike that trail in high heels.
Another trail had a sign that ask... | 3,140 | AskAnAmerican |
uml7ef | What facts do Americans usually not believe about the rest of the world, until they see or experience it for themselves? | The US isn't the most -ist or -phobe country by a long shot.
It's just one of the countries that actually shine a light on it. | 3,010 | AskAnAmerican |
umlyj7 | First love. 1967, Ford Galaxy Police Tin Cruiser. What was yours? | 1960 Karmann Ghia | 30 | AskOldPeople |
umnbhx | What star was closest to the Sun 305 million years ago? Is it even possible to predict their positions that far back? | Sun [orbits Milky Way every 230 million years. ](https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2020/07/in-which-direction-does-the-sun-move-through-the-milky-way) 305 million / 230 million = 1.3 orbits in the past.
305 million years ago the Sun was surrounded by a group of stars, one of which would have been the closest... | 90 | AskScience |
umnbhx | What star was closest to the Sun 305 million years ago? Is it even possible to predict their positions that far back? | It's currently impossible to know what the closest star to the Sun was 305 million years ago. It may be possible in many decades, but currently our best information can only tell us the closest stars +/- about 2-3 million years from now. | 40 | AskScience |
umnmhb | I am working on the following problem regarding RTL notation.
What is the effect of the following sequence of RTL instructions? Describe each one individually and state the overall effect of these operations. Note that the notation \[x\] means the contents of memory location x.
a. \[5\] ← 2
b. \[6\] ← 12
c. \[7\] ←... | > Is it saying place the contents of memory location 5 are being added to the contents of memory location 4 and stored back into 5?
No, that would be [5] ← [5] + [4].
You can analyze expressions like this by looking at them "inside-out". That is:
* What does it mean to evaluate the expression [5]? You're given t... | 40 | AskComputerScience |
umnmhb | I am working on the following problem regarding RTL notation.
What is the effect of the following sequence of RTL instructions? Describe each one individually and state the overall effect of these operations. Note that the notation \[x\] means the contents of memory location x.
a. \[5\] ← 2
b. \[6\] ← 12
c. \[7\] ←... | Brackets are denoting memory location.
c is saying that the contents of memory address 7 will contain the result of adding the contents of memory address 5 with the contents of memory address 6.
d is saying that the contents of memory address 6 will contain the result of adding the contents of memory address 7 with t... | 30 | AskComputerScience |
umnpdc | So recently I learned that there are about 1 million people of romani gypsy descent in the U.S. Do they face discrimination like in Europe? Are most people cool with them?
I am just an European and thought it was interesting to know because here racism against them is Jim Crow era style.
Thanks for all the replies in... | Not in any real sense.
The word "gypsy" itself has little real meaning in the United States. | 15,180 | AskAnAmerican |
umnpdc | So recently I learned that there are about 1 million people of romani gypsy descent in the U.S. Do they face discrimination like in Europe? Are most people cool with them?
I am just an European and thought it was interesting to know because here racism against them is Jim Crow era style.
Thanks for all the replies in... | Americans largely don't have a concept of "gypsies." In America, "traveler" means something different and is definitely not an ethnic/racial group - it generally means people of all backgrounds who are some type of homeless, and go from place to place. Perhaps some proportion of the roma population in America are "trav... | 6,790 | AskAnAmerican |
umnpdc | So recently I learned that there are about 1 million people of romani gypsy descent in the U.S. Do they face discrimination like in Europe? Are most people cool with them?
I am just an European and thought it was interesting to know because here racism against them is Jim Crow era style.
Thanks for all the replies in... | I didn't learn that Gypsy was considered a slur (or even what it actually meant) until I was in my 20s. it's widely used to mean, like, someone who is a free spirit/hippie type (and not in a negative way).
there's a Lady Gaga song called gypsy that basically refers to "gypsy life" as having no plans and being free or... | 5,680 | AskAnAmerican |
umo52o | I’m starting to wonder if there’s any evidence of humans beings purposefully eradicating another species, purely for the benefit of our survival. I know we’ve already made efforts to eliminate the Guinea worm and are pretty close on that end, but I’m wondering if there are other species that used to exist but we had to... | The smallpox virus is as good as extinct.
There are still some samples of it [kept in Russian and USA labs for research purposes.](https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/smallpox)
We are working on making polio extinct.
My vote goes to making bedbugs extinct next!
Edit: … and pubic lice are becoming rar... | 90 | AskScience |
umo52o | I’m starting to wonder if there’s any evidence of humans beings purposefully eradicating another species, purely for the benefit of our survival. I know we’ve already made efforts to eliminate the Guinea worm and are pretty close on that end, but I’m wondering if there are other species that used to exist but we had to... | This isn’t a proper answer because the species has survived, but it’s my impression that we almost did this to the American bison.
I remember learning in social studies classes ages ago that the company or companies that built the transcontinental railroad hired hunters to slaughter as many of them possible. (“Buffal... | 50 | AskScience |
umo52o | I’m starting to wonder if there’s any evidence of humans beings purposefully eradicating another species, purely for the benefit of our survival. I know we’ve already made efforts to eliminate the Guinea worm and are pretty close on that end, but I’m wondering if there are other species that used to exist but we had to... | [removed] | 50 | AskScience |
umostn | As the title explains I'm looking for a plotting library for C++ that is simple to use and that can be compiled on windows with the MinGW g++ compiler. I have been looking for a while but can't find anything that compiles correctly. Are there any go-to libraries that you guys use that are simple to start using? | > Are there any go-to libraries that you guys use that are simple to start using?
Python and matplotlib.
I write my simulation code in C++, write out datafiles, load them in python and then plot there.
Do you really need plotting capability in C++?
Usually you write C++ because you need the speed and usually y... | 110 | cpp_questions |
umostn | As the title explains I'm looking for a plotting library for C++ that is simple to use and that can be compiled on windows with the MinGW g++ compiler. I have been looking for a while but can't find anything that compiles correctly. Are there any go-to libraries that you guys use that are simple to start using? | Maybe Matplot++ is the solution. You can check more info in https://github.com/alandefreitas/matplotplusplus | 50 | cpp_questions |
umostn | As the title explains I'm looking for a plotting library for C++ that is simple to use and that can be compiled on windows with the MinGW g++ compiler. I have been looking for a while but can't find anything that compiles correctly. Are there any go-to libraries that you guys use that are simple to start using? | I'd recommend just writing the data out to file and using gnuplot. Its scripting language is a little quirky but since it's a domain-specific language designed for plotting it'll feel more natural than anything else. Plus with some tweaking the output looks really good. | 30 | cpp_questions |
umpirv | Context: I'm a software engineer with about 10 years of experience, all in higher-level languages (C#, Scala, Python, Typescript). I learned enough C to wrap my head around the C memory model. But parts of C++ memory management are still throwing me for a loop. Specifically, I'm finding it *very* hard to figure out whe... | First note that all of this also applies to the distinction between copy- and move-assignment operators.
> how to move constructors work,
Depends entirely how you define them. There is nothing in C++ that forces you to define a move constructor. You can get away with just a copy constructor (and maybe a copy assig... | 60 | cpp_questions |
umpirv | Context: I'm a software engineer with about 10 years of experience, all in higher-level languages (C#, Scala, Python, Typescript). I learned enough C to wrap my head around the C memory model. But parts of C++ memory management are still throwing me for a loop. Specifically, I'm finding it *very* hard to figure out whe... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt3zcJZIalk | 40 | cpp_questions |
umqweo | For a template class `A`I can do template instantiation like this `template class MyClass<int>` and put into a cpp file. How would do this if I have templated function `A::foo` as shown below?
void A {
template<typename T>
//edit: made typo and didn't include arguments
... | template void A::foo<int>();
After your edit, as you deduced
template A::foo(int);
or
template A::foo<int>(int); | 30 | cpp_questions |
umrg1y | Wikipedia says that it's pending, and that there are a bit of divergence on wether or not to declare it extinct. Why is that? | Congaree National Park is a vast area near where I live that is presumed to be one place the Ivory-Billed woodpecker might be. Friends of mine that are interested in the champion trees of the park talk about four-day expeditions through the swampland, and say that it could very well exist there, but it’s so hard to nav... | 50 | AskScience |
umrg1y | Wikipedia says that it's pending, and that there are a bit of divergence on wether or not to declare it extinct. Why is that? | US Fish and Wildlife declared it extinct last fall.
However.
There is a [pre-published journal article](https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-paper-suggests-that-ivory-billed-woodpeckers-still-live-on/) floating around, recently, that claims to have video evidence of Ivory-Billed in a remote Louisiana forest. We ... | 50 | AskScience |
ums6bd | The [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73uATsa8y5Y).
Also, do you, as natives, have some problems with understanding some specific dialects/accents? | I definitely couldn't figure out all the words, but it's partially because I'm not really used to listening to Scottish accents. I've found that the more I hear someone speaking with a particular accent, the easier it is for me to understand other people with the same accent. | 490 | AskAnAmerican |
ums6bd | The [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73uATsa8y5Y).
Also, do you, as natives, have some problems with understanding some specific dialects/accents? | Here's what I got with the first 30 seconds or so, with no captions (Scout's honor):
("Kevin, what's your name?") "My name's Kevin Patterson, and I'm a guide at \[Something something\]. We're standing here, down in the Borders, and we're just outside of Melrose, which is a famous town. Over to the back of us here, we ... | 370 | AskAnAmerican |
ums6bd | The [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73uATsa8y5Y).
Also, do you, as natives, have some problems with understanding some specific dialects/accents? | He speaks a bit fast, but I can understand him. His accent isn't the problem, it's the speed and enunciation.
Is the interviewer Southern? The guy asking the questions sounds like he could be from Tennessee. | 280 | AskAnAmerican |
ums8uw | Can anyone correct my understanding of the two. From what I can see associated functions are functions that don't have self as a parameter and methods are the ones which do? Is that correct or
all functions defined within an imp block are associated functions even the methods with self parameter?? | Your second definition is correct. See the [relevant section](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch05-03-method-syntax.html#associated-functions) of the rust book. All functions defined on a type in an `impl` block are associated functions as they are associated with a specific type. Methods are simply associated functions... | 70 | LearnRust |
umsfya | no i do not have obsession with modern c++, BUT i have a project where i have to use every possible way to make it as modern as it can get.
i worked with old c like apis, and i worked with std::11 supported systems, but not with "ultra modern"
example:
\- no raw pointer, only smart ones.
\- lambdas everywhere
\-... | Using features for the same of it can lead to pretty bad code.
There is nothing wrong with a raw pointer (as long as its not owning and couldnt be a reference instead).
There is nothing wrong with plain functions (even though a lambda might enable better optimizations).
For a list of new and old features as well as ... | 240 | cpp_questions |
umsfya | no i do not have obsession with modern c++, BUT i have a project where i have to use every possible way to make it as modern as it can get.
i worked with old c like apis, and i worked with std::11 supported systems, but not with "ultra modern"
example:
\- no raw pointer, only smart ones.
\- lambdas everywhere
\-... | Lambdas and smart pointers are 20 years old. Hardly "modern". Also, depending what you mean with "lambdas everywhere", that's not modern, that's just a bad idea.
This is weird request, but what you probably want is to go to C++23 draft, check what's implemented and then go back using the highlights. The `const(init,e... | 190 | cpp_questions |
umsfya | no i do not have obsession with modern c++, BUT i have a project where i have to use every possible way to make it as modern as it can get.
i worked with old c like apis, and i worked with std::11 supported systems, but not with "ultra modern"
example:
\- no raw pointer, only smart ones.
\- lambdas everywhere
\-... | Make the entire library constexpr.
Never take an exact type as a parameter, template every constructor and function argument and use concepts to constrain them.
Make sure that a noexcept version of every function, constructor, operator, etc is possible so that you don't have to pay for what you don't want to use.
Em... | 110 | cpp_questions |
umsvcb | Did you cohabitate before marriage? | Born in 67. Never thought about it. Lived with both my ex wives before marriage. Apparently I'm a shitty husband or ignore red flags. My guess is both.
My parents were born in the late 30's. They both lived with partners after they were divorced. I think it's been pretty normal since the late sixties unless you gr... | 770 | AskOldPeople |
umsvcb | Did you cohabitate before marriage? | I wouldn't marry someone I hadn't lived with for at least two years I also wouldn't live with someone unless marriage was in the future. You learn a lot about someone when you live with them.
When I was growing up, I'm 55, it was fairly common to cohabitate before marriage. | 540 | AskOldPeople |
umsvcb | Did you cohabitate before marriage? | You’re dumb if you don’t. Bought our first house before we were married, lived together a while before that. Never knew anyone that really frowned on it | 480 | AskOldPeople |
umtasc | Is Computer Science considered Engineering even though there isn't technically a governing body for it? | Computer Science (especially theoretical computer science) is sometimes classified more as a branch of mathematics.
Makes more sense to talk about engineering in terms of software development. A lot of software developers hold a computer science degree, which I think is where the overlap is. In many places, they're co... | 60 | AskComputerScience |
umtasc | Is Computer Science considered Engineering even though there isn't technically a governing body for it? | It started in Mathematics. | 40 | AskComputerScience |
umvae3 | Hi there! I'm a software engineer (25 years old), developing apps using Flutter. I like it, there are many cool aspects but a great piece of my heart is C++ lover and I try to keep studying it. I bought "The C++ programming language" by Stroustrup, I'm half way right now and it explains a lot of things but I think I ne... | Do some projects, try some code challenges in c++, try fixing a bug in some open source software. | 40 | cpp_questions |
umvae3 | Hi there! I'm a software engineer (25 years old), developing apps using Flutter. I like it, there are many cool aspects but a great piece of my heart is C++ lover and I try to keep studying it. I bought "The C++ programming language" by Stroustrup, I'm half way right now and it explains a lot of things but I think I ne... | Just code. Build a desktop music file organizer. Or build a http server, or build a messaging app. Just code. | 40 | cpp_questions |
umvjq4 | Right now I'm riding on "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" | Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room! | 200 | AskOldPeople |
umvjq4 | Right now I'm riding on "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" | "What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law." | 100 | AskOldPeople |
umvjq4 | Right now I'm riding on "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" | ["could be raining"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC4VflOayBw)
*Young Frankenstein (1974)* | 90 | AskOldPeople |
umvkle | I've been on diets since I was 12. I understand the importance of being at a healthy weight, but for hell's sake it's getting harder and harder to lose weight as I age (I'm female). Did you give up or do you continue to work at being your best self instead of eating all of the things? | Never decided *that*.
I watched my dad and my uncle and my mom all get fat when they hit their 40s. I vowed not to let that happen and so far so good. Portion sizes, what you bring into the house (they were avid pop, ice cream, chips kind of people) and what you use as cooking oil are important. Also movement and act... | 600 | AskOldPeople |
umvkle | I've been on diets since I was 12. I understand the importance of being at a healthy weight, but for hell's sake it's getting harder and harder to lose weight as I age (I'm female). Did you give up or do you continue to work at being your best self instead of eating all of the things? | I'm the opposite. I've been fat most of my life and never put priority on getting into shape, but getting closer to retirement made me kick things into gear. What's the point of all the retirement money I've been saving if I'm not healthy enough to enjoy it, y'know? I'm in my late forties and lost 50 pounds in the p... | 390 | AskOldPeople |
umvkle | I've been on diets since I was 12. I understand the importance of being at a healthy weight, but for hell's sake it's getting harder and harder to lose weight as I age (I'm female). Did you give up or do you continue to work at being your best self instead of eating all of the things? | Eat all the things. Gave up this year. 52. | 340 | AskOldPeople |
umvm1o | can someone help me with some <graphics.h> fonctions in c++ ,thank you | `<graphics.h>` is a museum piece now. How about something non-ancient like SFML. | 110 | cpp_questions |
umvyo9 | Background: I've got an abscessed tooth right now, and in addition to antibiotics, my dentist prescribed T3s for pain management.
It suddenly occurred to me that across two countries, three cities, five dentists, and ~50 years, I have NEVER been given any other painkiller prescription.
For non-dental surgery I've had... | I am in dental school and we were just talking about this today. Atleast in the USA, 10 or so years ago dentists were among the the highest over prescribers on narcotics aka opium derived pain killers such as hydrocodone. Dentists were an easy target for narcotic seekers, especially young dentists who just graduated ... | 240 | AskScience |
umvyo9 | Background: I've got an abscessed tooth right now, and in addition to antibiotics, my dentist prescribed T3s for pain management.
It suddenly occurred to me that across two countries, three cities, five dentists, and ~50 years, I have NEVER been given any other painkiller prescription.
For non-dental surgery I've had... | Alternating acetaminophen and ibuprofen every three hours is commonly advised for dental pain at the dental school clinic in my area. I'd expect them to be on top of best practices.
https://www.ada.org/resources/research/science-and-research-institute/oral-health-topics/oral-analgesics-for-acute-dental-pain
>A re... | 70 | AskScience |
umvyo9 | Background: I've got an abscessed tooth right now, and in addition to antibiotics, my dentist prescribed T3s for pain management.
It suddenly occurred to me that across two countries, three cities, five dentists, and ~50 years, I have NEVER been given any other painkiller prescription.
For non-dental surgery I've had... | Studies (Moore et al.) show that staggering ibuprofen and Tylenol is actually the most effective course for dental pain, such as after an extraction. If you’re in pain because of an infection - which is very often the case, an antibiotic is often what will actually manage the pain much more effectively, as it is actual... | 40 | AskScience |
umvzho | Did anyone ride a motorcycle during those years and if so what year, make and model? I had a friend who had a restored Triumph Tiger and it was a cool bike. | I rode a Tiger a few times. Liked it. I was heavy into MC between about 63 and 68. Road raced up and down the West Coast, traveled with a Suzuki dealership that also sold Triumphs, and whoa, did we ever like the Suzuki better. Japanese bikes were still pretty much disposable at the time, but they were getting as fast a... | 60 | AskOldPeople |
umvzho | Did anyone ride a motorcycle during those years and if so what year, make and model? I had a friend who had a restored Triumph Tiger and it was a cool bike. | I am woman and I used to ride motorcycles but not until 1998. I'm disabled now mentally and physically and will never ride again, but I used to say that riding a MC was like being on a carnival ride for hours at a time. My license plate frame says, "Live to ride." | 60 | AskOldPeople |
umvzho | Did anyone ride a motorcycle during those years and if so what year, make and model? I had a friend who had a restored Triumph Tiger and it was a cool bike. | I had a 1963 Honda 150 ([CA95](https://www.bike-urious.com/baby-dream-1964-honda-ca95-benly/)) in high school (1970). | 50 | AskOldPeople |
umw3ig | Hi team,
As the title, any good lightweight c++ local socket library recommendation for embedded Linux for inter process communication?
thanks guys! | ZeroMQ for the win!
https://zeromq.org/
They recently introduced new thread safe patterns of scatter/gather and client/server, in addition to the many previous other patterns. (By thread-safe they mean more than one thread can read/write to the same socket.)
It is ultra-high performance (it was selected as the proto... | 60 | cpp_questions |
umw3ig | Hi team,
As the title, any good lightweight c++ local socket library recommendation for embedded Linux for inter process communication?
thanks guys! | I've found NNG to be high quality, also has less restrictive license. https://nng.nanomsg.org/
ZeroMQ is another one. | 30 | cpp_questions |
umw3ig | Hi team,
As the title, any good lightweight c++ local socket library recommendation for embedded Linux for inter process communication?
thanks guys! | I'd look for some shared memory libraries. Lower overhead than sockets. | 30 | cpp_questions |
umw5mv | Hi all. I found that on [this webstite](https://www.digitalwelt.org/en/digital-subcultures/scam-baiting-hacking/) there are some words that won't show anything on Google if I copy-paste them ("Vayne-RaT" for instance).
[Webpage section with unsearchable words](https://preview.redd.it/rxl4m32qhqy81.png?width=823&f... | Looks like he's replacing characters in the strings with ones which look very similar (or identical) in Unicode (vs plain ascii).
For example:
`CrunchRAT` typed out manually == `43 72 75 6e 63 68 52 41 54`
https://cyberchef.org/#recipe=To_Hex('Space',0)&input=Q3J1bmNoUkFU
&nbsp;
`СrunсhRАΤ` copied from hi... | 100 | AskComputerScience |
umw5mv | Hi all. I found that on [this webstite](https://www.digitalwelt.org/en/digital-subcultures/scam-baiting-hacking/) there are some words that won't show anything on Google if I copy-paste them ("Vayne-RaT" for instance).
[Webpage section with unsearchable words](https://preview.redd.it/rxl4m32qhqy81.png?width=823&f... | The way the author did it isn't difficult, etagawesome
has a great explanation.
The thing I wonder is *why* the author would do it. It seems like strange wannabe hacker tactics; anyone reading the article could obviously search for the terms, but why would they want to prevent people from searching it in the first p... | 60 | AskComputerScience |
umw5mv | Hi all. I found that on [this webstite](https://www.digitalwelt.org/en/digital-subcultures/scam-baiting-hacking/) there are some words that won't show anything on Google if I copy-paste them ("Vayne-RaT" for instance).
[Webpage section with unsearchable words](https://preview.redd.it/rxl4m32qhqy81.png?width=823&f... | whatever technique he used, it doesnt work in firefox, nothing is obfuscated, copy-pasting vayne-rat works
edit:
Feature Policy: Skipping unsupported feature name “accelerometer”. www-widgetapi.js:961:251
Feature Policy: Skipping unsupported feature name “autoplay”. www-widgetapi.js:961:251
Feature ... | 50 | AskComputerScience |
umwxey | When you make a root beer float, do you put in the ice cream or soda first? | Ice cream then soda. If you put the ice cream in after it'll splash. | 1,440 | AskAnAmerican |
umwxey | When you make a root beer float, do you put in the ice cream or soda first? | ice cream! | 1,340 | AskAnAmerican |
umwxey | When you make a root beer float, do you put in the ice cream or soda first? | Ice cream. Fill the glass. The root beer fills the cracks, and partially solidifies, coating the scoops of ice cream with sweet goodness. | 420 | AskAnAmerican |
umxe7i | Mine is Sicilian & Eskimo cultures. | Yeast. Very versitile. Very underappreciated even among biologists. | 1,290 | AskAnAmerican |
umxe7i | Mine is Sicilian & Eskimo cultures. | Kefir. Yogurt cultures get a lot of attention for promoting gut health, but kefir is the top notch probiotic option. | 490 | AskAnAmerican |
umxe7i | Mine is Sicilian & Eskimo cultures. | They all have some good little thing going for them.
But as a whole, Western Civilization, obviously, whatever its imperfections. There's just no contest. | 230 | AskAnAmerican |
umxgx4 | I am very new to C++ and programming in general. I don't understand why this is happening. Thank you in advance for any help. I feel very lost.
The error messages look like this:
`Error C2039 'print': is not a member of 'std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char>>'`
I get an... |
string* classRosterArray[amountOfStudents];
classRosterArray is an array of pointers to string
classRosterArray[i]->print();
std:: string doesn't have a member called `print` | 40 | cpp_questions |
umyimx | You know how people especially some young people say the dislike modern music/society/style. Were there people who felt the same or because they didn't have internet to compare it to anything they never really felt to complain about it. | Interesting question.
I was a kid in the 70s
Adolescent in the 80s
College in the 90s
Looking back it never occurred to me the living in the 90s was a blessing and a great time to be alive. At the same time, I was also too young to know if the 80s and 70s were good or bad. I was a kid…you just rode your skateboa... | 180 | AskOldPeople |
umyimx | You know how people especially some young people say the dislike modern music/society/style. Were there people who felt the same or because they didn't have internet to compare it to anything they never really felt to complain about it. | In the 80s I and all my peers thought America, and specifically its youth culture, was as shallow and dumb as it could possibly get. We looked back on the 60s with nostalgia. | 180 | AskOldPeople |
umyimx | You know how people especially some young people say the dislike modern music/society/style. Were there people who felt the same or because they didn't have internet to compare it to anything they never really felt to complain about it. | There was plenty to dislike about both decades, but particularly the 1970s, what with Vietnam, Watergate, stagflation, the oil crisis, high unemployment, high inflation, cities cutting services, high crime -- it was bad. The early 1980s was more of the same, then the economy recovered but we still had the crack epidemi... | 110 | AskOldPeople |
umyxn9 | When traveling internationally, when do you decide to exchange your money? Before your trip or after arriving at your destination? | In my case, always after arrival.
Get a Schwab high yield checking account. Use it to withdraw cash at the ATM in your destination country. Schwab will reimburse most ATM and conversion fees. So much more cost-effective than getting foreign money from your bank stateside, or at a foreign currency exchange abroad.
... | 990 | AskAnAmerican |
umyxn9 | When traveling internationally, when do you decide to exchange your money? Before your trip or after arriving at your destination? | I get the local currency from an ATM there. Pulling directly from the ATM gives you the best exchange rate
Edit: a few more tips
-exchange desks/kiosks will always have a worse conversion rate than the ATM so they can make money, ATMs will use the true rate
-get a debit card that reimburses ATM fees, mine does $20 a... | 780 | AskAnAmerican |
umyxn9 | When traveling internationally, when do you decide to exchange your money? Before your trip or after arriving at your destination? | [deleted] | 610 | AskAnAmerican |
un1nhe | https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1064629/
Picture that has people already racing to conclusions about Aliens. | This looks like a chunk of rock has weathered/fallen out between the intersection of two [joints](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_%28geology%29), i.e., two Mode I (extensional) fractures. If you look at the point at the top of the "door" and then beyond onto the outcrop surface above it, you can see the continuatio... | 750 | AskScience |
un21dy | I really look forward to that. | Some time after it is implemented in the three most common compilers. | 290 | cpp_questions |
un21dy | I really look forward to that. | When the STL is standardized as a module so probably sometime after C++23 | 170 | cpp_questions |
un21dy | I really look forward to that. | Don't know but I really like them, I hope they become more popular soon. | 30 | cpp_questions |
un40af | How does fruit bats actually transmit diseases to us ? Because we won't know whether the fruits in our supermarkets are bitten by bats, but we still eat them carelessly. But whether there is a nipah outbreak people in some communities blame nearby bats and start killing bats. Can we really blame bats or is deforestatio... | It’s a little bit of all these things. Nipah is naturally found in fruit bats, they’re the reservoir species. It could potentially spread to pigs if a pig were to eat fruit that an infected bat had bitten or had other body fluids on. From there it could spread to other pigs and people. Deforestation brings wildlife int... | 110 | AskScience |
un4pau | Hey guys I am a big fan of multilingual learning and I am willing to become a translator in the U.S cuz I heard translator is not paid badly there.(btw I am computer science student) If everything goes well I will choose writer/cartoonist as my avocation also. | You will do best in the medical field, but you will have to do a bit of schooling for it. You have to learn a lot of medical terms in both languages and take tests, but I'm sure it's a rewarding job. I loved working with the translators. | 140 | AskAnAmerican |
un4pau | Hey guys I am a big fan of multilingual learning and I am willing to become a translator in the U.S cuz I heard translator is not paid badly there.(btw I am computer science student) If everything goes well I will choose writer/cartoonist as my avocation also. | Translation pay is directly tied to your qualifications. For example, translating legal contracts, patents, medical research, etc. pays one hell of a lot more than virtually everything else (entertainment, packaging, instruction manuals, and the like).
To get translation jobs in such fields, however, you generally ne... | 70 | AskAnAmerican |
un4pau | Hey guys I am a big fan of multilingual learning and I am willing to become a translator in the U.S cuz I heard translator is not paid badly there.(btw I am computer science student) If everything goes well I will choose writer/cartoonist as my avocation also. | I literally have no context for how the translation field works, how well translators get paid, or how much demand there is for English to Mandarin translation. | 30 | AskAnAmerican |
un4qt1 | I’m currently Uk based, and am open to the idea of moving abroad to expand my life and work horizons.
I have been warned by my colleagues that the work/life balance is terrible for my counter parts in in America.
At the moment, I work 38 hour weeks, and I am not expected to work overtime. I have 30 paid vacation day... | "STEM" is such a wide range of careers it's impossible to answer on that basis. My wife and I both work in STEM fields and our jobs are extremely different.
The only thing I notice is that you have a few more vacation days. I have 15 days PTO, 5 sick days, plus our 11 federal holidays off. My wife has been with her co... | 150 | AskAnAmerican |
un4qt1 | I’m currently Uk based, and am open to the idea of moving abroad to expand my life and work horizons.
I have been warned by my colleagues that the work/life balance is terrible for my counter parts in in America.
At the moment, I work 38 hour weeks, and I am not expected to work overtime. I have 30 paid vacation day... | In general the work life balance is better in the UK but our pay is higher.
It's largely going to be dependent on your job and where you work though. | 100 | AskAnAmerican |
un4qt1 | I’m currently Uk based, and am open to the idea of moving abroad to expand my life and work horizons.
I have been warned by my colleagues that the work/life balance is terrible for my counter parts in in America.
At the moment, I work 38 hour weeks, and I am not expected to work overtime. I have 30 paid vacation day... | You're not going to notice any major differences. Did your colleagues see that in a movie? I don't know where people get this stuff. As long as you're not working somewhere for the glamour of it and you have the ability to separate yourself from your work, you'll be fine. You're probably not going to get 30 days + 1 we... | 90 | AskAnAmerican |
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