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Tried this once as well with plastic filler material that said you should visit some website to find a place that takes it back for reuse, and the website referred me to ask the merchant instead

The merchant (who produces the product and fills the boxes from the same country as where I live) ended up finding an answer: the manufacturer does not yet do this in europe

How is this legal to print on your product if you don't offer the service anywhere on the continent...


You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration?

At family gatherings here it's a typical argument for why there's allegedly no point separating out plastics: the recycling bin allegedly also ends up there. Nobody ever has a source for me though so take that for what it's worth, but it seems to generally be a thing


TIL incineration can involve power generation. I am familiar with the term, but had assumed incineration was basically endothermic and wasteful.

If you just see a blurry image and nothing loads or happens, check the javascript console if it says "WebGL not supported"

Same, came to google after DDG failed to locate a string that I suspect would occur (error message on Factorio forums). Google then gives me some LLM hallucinations about what the error might indicate, also when you specifically don't click the "use AI mode" button (that the search button automatically turns into) but the "search" button. You don't get any search results whatsoever. After it started wasting energy on hallucinations, you're allowed to click "all", meaning "web search, please" (should be obvious to anyone)

Why in the world would it specifically do this for site:https://example.org "exact string" queries?! I know what I'm looking for and where it can be found!

It's like redirecting my phone call from ISP support to a librarian because maybe the library contains the answer to a dysfunctional SIM card they've sent me


Or it was too little because it still spread easily?

I'm on the border of three countries and you'd always see symptom reports go up in a region, sewage analyses go up, hospitalizations go up, and finally shortly before mortality started to show an increase (several weeks' lag from the moment of infection) they'd decide "guys, here's the statistics, we have to lock down now". Yeah great, now that everyone caught it they have to pretend being on the ball. And people still literally rioted against lockdowns. Or the masking thing, the resistance against filtering your breath... at this "too strong" level in your opinion, I don't see that the outcome was significantly different from "yolo protect yourself as much as you like but don't expect anyone else to be mindful"


> 4. (This is the big one) [...] People with the flu tend to self-isolate showing symptoms.

Even if optimistically 80% of people do that (in western europe I'd guess it's more like 45%+/-20, might be better elsewhere), if the spreading ability is high (points 1 and 2), you get a bus full of people infected by the two out of ten individuals that decide calling in sick isn't worth it

Technically you can only call in sick when you are literally not able to do your job, and that's not the case if you're just coughing and feel cold or so. Even if your employer might prefer that you don't take the whole team down with you, people's judgement seems to very much be on the "it'll be fine" side. Idk that this is 'the big one' outside of a 2-out-of-100 years pandemic situation where people are exceedingly careful and paranoid


Pigs can grow wings too. Is there a particular small set of mutations that you're referring to that we're actually worried about, or just wildly speculating of what could happen in a one-in-a-quadrillion event?

If pigs reproduced and mutated as rapidly as viruses then yeah, we would probably need to plan around the eventuality that they would develop wings and escape their pens.

Not answering the question. Is there some small gene change that we're specifically worried about here or was GP wildly speculating?

> reproduced and mutated as rapidly as viruses

HIV spreads in similar ways afaik (some fluids, I don't know the details of Ebola but it's not respiratory), yet that hasn't gone airborne in decades. I'm well aware that pigs don't get a million offspring each, but it doesn't seem like a common event for viruses to completely change their mechanism overnight either. Hence the quadrillion odds I mentioned, I was indeed referencing that they mutate so much, and yet...


> Is there some small gene change that we're specifically worried about here

Yes. A single gene change allows for airborne Ebola transmission. This gene change has occurred in the Reston strain, which luckily does not cause symptoms in humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston_virus


Where does that article say Reston (or a mutant strain of Reston) is airborne?

Somehow I'm still in the mode where I'm surprised where it is, rather than when it isn't, but yeah it's annoyingly often. Do you come across it so much that it's your default expectation now?

I was so confused by the word factorial in the first example for a language, but decided to click it and just see what it means

Turns out, Futhark != https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futhark (runes, old germanic alphabet)

That's like calling your programming language Latin?! The title could use some disambiguation...


> That's like calling your programming language Latin?!

More accurately it would be like calling it Alphabet, since that takes its name from Alpha Beta (AB) just like the Futhark takes its name from the first letters in it.


Eh. Words get overloaded all the time and this is a website focusing on programming after all. Would you consider "Python by example" or "C by example" to need disambiguation because they're not about snakes or about the third letter of the alphabet?

Also the very first line on that page is "The Futhark Programming Language" so if you were still confused after that I think it's on you.


If Python were the language spoken in Fictionastan then yes, and C is indeed even more terrible than something like Golang but that predates the internet so it's pretty searchable after all

> if you were still confused after that I think it's on you

Generally the point of a title (if the domain name doesn't already do it) is to help you understand what it's about so you know whether to click. If it takes a click to read the explanation before you can know whether you're interested, all links on the HN homepage might as well have no string at all and just be "click here to find out what the link is about"


It is a pretty confusing name. Personally I'm waiting for someone to name a programming language Womble. Underground, overground, you're free to use it as long as you work as a team and are tidy and clean.

There is no comment of yours when I click the "parent" link until the root post. What exactly were we supposed to read before fortran77's comment?

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