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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Authors say that, in the United States, 99% of fire deaths occur in buildings without sprinklers, making that the key component of a safe building over multiple exits.

Article doesn’t mention that but it does mention that the vast majority of deaths come from buildings without sprinklers, most likely buildings built before a lot of modern building code.

Sprinklers + properly fitted fire doors are probably good enough for such small buildings to provide both suppression and spread prevention.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Looks like it’s pretty easy to add assuming the instance adheres to the policy documented in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/blob/main/src/features/auth/login/data/README.md

Edit: looks likes ToU and Privacy Policy needs to be added to https://vegantheoryclub.org/legal at the bare minimum. Probably worth pinging the instance owner to verify the criteria are met and submit a PR.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I’ve seen a few of these on the road over the past week and was quite confused given their legal status. They are a good sight to see next to the monster SUVs and pickups I see all the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Maybe they will start to realize the persistent election cycle is not a good thing. I would love to see a ban on all election campaigning until 90 days before said election but that wouldn’t get past a 1st amendment challenge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not surprised, my basement is 58-64F (~14-18C) year round, no matter how hot or cold it is outside.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s cheaper if you don’t have constant load as you are only paying for resources you are actively using. Once you have constant load, you are paying a premium for flexibility you don’t need.

For example, I did a cost estimate of porting one of our high volume, high compute services to an event-driven, serverless architecture and it would be literally millions of dollars a month vs $10,000s a month rolling our own solution with EC2 or ECS instances.

Of course, self hosting in our own data center is even cheaper, where we can buy and run new hardware that we can run for years for a fraction of the cost of even the most cost-effective cloud solutions, as long as you have the people to maintain it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They are both considered populists but with radically different policies targeting different “enemies of the people.” It just so happens that one side thinks the enemy is anyone who is not a white straight Christian male.

Some people don’t actually care what the policies are, they just want someone to blame and follow whoever they think is fighting for them. It’s nuts but large number of American’s don’t do any basic political research and vote by gut feeling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A large segment of the US population is still extremely anti-Muslim and think they are all terrorists, especially those at the center and center-right. I’ve met numerous supposed “centrist democrats” that think we should turn every Muslim country to glass.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There was most likely a closet or other crawl space storage area there. My house has closets like that but luckily full height entries to them so we can actually step in. I’ve seen other houses with 1/2 or 1/3 height doors leading to under-roof crawl spaces for storage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had a family member go through 3 doctors and many months of unbearable pain in their leg, all saying it was a simple sports injury that’ll go away on its own, before someone realized they had a pool noodle sized tumor in their leg. I blame this incompetence for their death.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As someone who had a dog and a family member go through chemo at basically the same time, the dosages are much lower compared to humans for those very reasons. While nausea can still be an issue, they really don’t experience much of the other discomforts that people undergo. I’ll always be thankful for the extra couple years of quality life it gave him.

As our oncologist said, people are able to tell us how they feel so they tend to get far higher dosages and back off if it becomes too much or take other measures as necessary.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

The attempted robbery of the Hyde Museum

Two guys, one of whom pretending to be a Vanderbilt, attempted to rob a museum but were foiled by getting stuck in holiday traffic in their stolen delivery van.

One of the guys was a suspect in the Isabella Stewart Gardner robbery about a decade later.

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