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Post by Tomte »

easygenes wrote: post #441
tqi wrote: post #425

Its ironic, because this dude doesn't seem to care enough to even the slightest bit of research to understand why any of these problems he highlights are the way they are, and lazily attributes everything to OTHER people not caring. LEDs last longer, are more energy efficient, and also reduce light pollution because they are more directional[1]. Took me 30 seconds to google. There are enormous design standards for de…

It’s possible to install warm colored LEDs with very little blue light output though. You get all those benefits without giving up the more-suitable-for-night sodium light spectral benefits.

In the netherlands I have seen green street lights with motion sensors. Only on smaller streets and pedestrian paths, though.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by ragazzina »

>The McDonald's touch-screen self-order kiosk takes 27 clicks to get a meal. They try to up-sell you 3 times. Just let me pay for my fucking burger, Jesus Christ. The product manager, the programmer, the executives. None of these people care.

The author could stop eating at McDonald's and send a message to the company with his behaviour. But he does not care.

>The guy on the hiking trail is playing his shitty EDM on his bluetooth speaker, ruining nature for everyone else. He does not care.

The author could ask the guy to turn off the music and make the hiking trail more pleasurable for everyone. But he does not care.

Et cetera. He cares for views on his blog so he writes on his blog.

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Post by kmarc »

azeirah wrote: post #538
aaron695 wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

McDonald's touch-screen were only profitable because users ordered more. Possibly Covid and processes to get costs down have changed this, but not to begin. I feel like your comment falls under "Nobody cares" I love the touch screens and having the time to order what I want. I used to rush my order at the checkout and never got exactly what I wanted. If you did a start-up 'ethical ordering' you'd care, made money, an…

I was working so hard to change the internal culture for this. I did not succeed. It's ran by business people who want to make money. Not by philosophers.

Same here.

Also, TFA sounds like something I could've written.

Anyway, besides other anecdata, I don't have anything to add.

But I wanted to thank you, azeirah, that at least you tried

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Post by internet_points »

roland35 wrote: post #289
dgfitz wrote: post #232

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My spouse bought us kindles recently, and it popped in my head today that at some point e-books are going to have ads interspersed…

Kindles already can have ads on the sleep screen! Unless you paid for the ad free version.

i sent an email to have them removed. it was a thing some years ago at least (though I don't know if US-ians are allowed to do that or if it's just in the EU)

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Post by paulnpace »

tqi wrote: post #418
paulnpace wrote: post #354

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My primary care physician will only do video meetings or wait 6 months for in-person appointment. He does not care.

You think PCPs get to decide what their schedule looks like? Or do you think they have a specific patient load they are expected to meet, which dictates how many in-person vs remote slots they have in each day?

Even people posting comments don't care.

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Post by 0xfffafaCrash »

hoosier2gator wrote: post #344

As a physician who does care, I found it interesting that he chose to include doctors in this tirade but then patted himself on the back for squashing bugs quickly and feeling badly about having written buggy code. I know that there are outliers, but in meeting and working with literally hundreds of other physicians at this point in my career, I can count on one hand the doctors who truly do not care. And boy do we f…

Doctors are at the very top of my list of people who don’t care. Not necessarily that they got into the field not wanting to care, but that in practice they quickly get to the point of caring largely about getting through their day — maybe a few select patients stir them out of their bizarrely intense waking slumber where they go from patient to patient and immediately prescribe nearly the first thing that comes to mind for nearly the first diagnosis that comes to mind. Given the volumes of patients they are expected to churn through though it’s not surprising that they become desensitized and divorced from the ramifications of shoddy work with minimal research — for many (especially nonspecialists) it’s effectively impossible to do thoughtful work for every patient. I think overwork desensitizes many/most and few actually have the time or energy to do more research or think deeply about an individual patient, but ultimately decisions which consume minimal resources from them drastically affect the lives of patients.

Healthcare professionals know this to be true. This is why when their own loved ones are the patients they have such a strong tendency to become very actively involved —- it’s not necessarily that the person attending to their loved one is incompetent, but chances are that their loved ones will similarly be just another face that occupies another physician’s mind for a few minutes.

Artificially high barriers of entry in the field may lead to massive compensations but also to a huge ratio of patients to physicians — this takes a toll.

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Post by easygenes »

throwaway290 wrote: post #521
chgs wrote: post #503

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On the one hand you have your Anne site, on the other hand there’s decades of data.

And only one of them is directly pertinent. None of the "decades of data" takes into account correct exploitation. But all talks about leds are about perfect spherical cow in vacuum that doesn't exist for average consumer I am sure leds technically do live longer than bulbs. But the difference is not significant enough in real life.

Look up Dubai Philips LEDs. The problem with most consumer LEDs is that they are overdriven, so their life is short. In Dubai, the Sheikh basically mandated that the bulbs need to be underdriven, so the lifetime is about 25x that of incandescents. They only deliver about 1/4 the power to the individual “filament” that most similar Philips lamps would at the same light output.

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by Ekaros »

throwaway290 wrote: post #521
chgs wrote: post #503

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On the one hand you have your Anne site, on the other hand there’s decades of data.

And only one of them is directly pertinent. None of the "decades of data" takes into account correct exploitation. But all talks about leds are about perfect spherical cow in vacuum that doesn't exist for average consumer I am sure leds technically do live longer than bulbs. But the difference is not significant enough in real life.

Leds themselves are often fine for long time. It is the circuits they are powered by that are very often crap, poorly designed, specified, too cheap. So heat can kill it. Or like my last cheap powerful bulb in kitchen that flickers when I have certain controlled resistive loads on.

I wonder how many tests are run in actual enclosures for example. Which for example might not dissipate enough heat.

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Post by mike_hearn »

sien wrote: post #365
paulnpace wrote: post #354

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My primary care physician will only do video meetings or wait 6 months for in-person appointment. He does not care.

Why don't you change ? Is it not allowed ?

They might be living in the UK where most of the population has no private healthcare insurance and the nationalized GPs are frequently all overloaded like that.
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