What are you referring to, specifically?

The only thing that comes to mind are the homeless population, but then again you could say the same problem (and at arguably larger scale) afflicts San Francisco or New York.

Sao Paulo is not even particularly violent, too

Made me realize there are still big chunks of the world where you can't take basic literacy for granted in 2023, even of people in their 30s.

> dumb Joe that keeps erasing the codes out of the radio by turning on the truck without putting it on standby

Oh man, I have nightmares about comms. Juggling frequencies while traversing areas of operation, trying to get satcom working in mountainous terrain with jammers, and depending on the finicky windows-tablet encryption device, was not a fun time.

"Water evaporative coolers are very effective in Sudan because of the dry weather and they consume little energy and also use ceiling fans for cooling and other things like split units but I'm not planning to turn that power hungry device those days."

It's actually pretty cool - it's very flexible and convenient.

It's difficult to solder and impossible to crimp though (so we use these factory-made), and I would not use PoE with it (the gauge - 32AWG - also means that it is really thin, and as it's steel, the resistance must be terrible. But for data, it works good.)

Ha! That made my day. Stack Overflow in a nutshell, with analogy converted to js frameworks.

And no, you will only find similar stuff at Rio de Janeiro. Fortaleza and Recife have small areas that come close, but the real bad of urban violence is on the southeast.

But it seems like you can indeed block the reaction from occuring by saturating the surface with enough electrons (i.e. by applying an appropriate amount of current) that it makes oxidation impossible from an electrochemical standpoint.

https://www.corrosionpedia.com/definition/1237/impressed-cur...

(In addition to the more common, passive bolt-on-a-sacrifical-cathode method)

When you then add on top of it "engagement" metrics, scale up the number of questions per day by orders of magnitude without the corresponding scaling up of the community involvement and (to an extent) try to remove the ability for the community to moderate and curate the content then the tools that are left to the community are the social ones (as they can be used beyond the limited number of down, close, and delete votes that one has in a day).

And then you're left with "the way to handle questions where the person didn't even put the title into Google to search first is to be rude to them." It's not a good thing, but without the barriers to entry being implemented in code they are erected by reputation and social forces instead.

It isn't a good thing - and it would probably be much better if those barriers were put in place through some other means... but as long as engagement is the measured metric and ad impressions are the income, having company's developers implement it is a non-starter and you're left with the community using rudeness as the moderation tool of last resort.

From A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27706413 )

> Four Things to Design For

> ...

> 3.) Three, you need some barriers to participation, however small. This is one of the things that killed Usenet, because there was almost no barrier to posting, leading to both generic system failures like spam, and also specific failures, like constant misogynist attacks in any group related to feminism, or racist attacks in any group related to African-Americans. You have to have some cost to either join or participate, if not at the lowest level, then at higher levels. There needs to be some kind of segmentation of capabilities.

> ...

> 4.) Finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conversations require dense two-way conversations. In conversational contexts, Metcalfe’s Law— the number of connections grows with the square of the number of nodes—is a drag. Since the number of potential two-way conversations in a group grows so much faster than the size of the group itself, the density of conversation falls off very fast as the system scales up even a little bit. You have to have some way to let users hang onto the “less is more” pattern, in order to keep associated with one another.

As there are many fewer people answering questions compared to the rate of questions being asked the overall "is stack overflow rude or not" is a "yes." But engagement numbers are up as people keep asking them.

Which is specifically why I mentioned rosin. Though any acid could likely be used so citric acid or something that could work as well.

To me it reads like you didn't know the local language but they're the illiterate ones for not knowing your language? Or did I completely misunderstood your story?

I assume you didn't mean to imply that "basic literacy" == "knowing English", but your post does somewhat come across that way.

And also, assuming it's wrapped but not encased to cabling standards (e.g. there's oxygen between the insulator and wire, but the insulator itself is contiguous and airtight), oxidation would eventually deplete the available oxygen "inside" the cable, right?

Having an option to use other energy sources is great, because if you're out of power, you still have gas and vice-versa... if you're artificially limited to just one source, and you're suddenly out of that, you're basically screwed.

20+ years ago, rewiring buildings for 1000baseT the Cisco switches (3650s maybe? 3750s? I know they had IPv6 multicast acceleration in the switch fabric because that's why we had them) would do this for any circuit on command, OK, 18 metres from here there's a fault, pace, pace, pace, I reckon it'll be up on this cable tray... yup, some fool tried to "repair" a broken Cat5 cable, we'll just rip it out, meanwhile patch to a different circuit.

And specifically, to make that choice for them?

Caveat hacker.

Or in books, for that matter.

I don't know about the specific green fuel bans you are talking about, but I do know that this issue is often used by politicians and companies to throw the blame on something else when it is their fault.

Gonna have to guess that you've never had to replace a car exhaust :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIwvLuNzliI

I’d think that charge would create a faster rusting.

If you go through "newest questions" there are often questions there that can't be reasonably answered without more work to figure out what the problem is.

As I write this, there's a question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76123197/is-it-possible-... which is apparently a Java and Kotlin question

> Is it possible to achieve Color gradient overlay like Resso app

> It's really going to be interesting (big inline image)

And... is that worth clicking answering in that form? How much time should you spend trying to make it a better question that someone else can answer? Or just down vote it and move on? Would you ask "how does this related to Java?" or "could you explain a bit more about what you've done so far and what problems you've encountered?" - and is that considered rude?

The corresponding part of it is that people who have their question down voted without any information may find it rude. Or if someone suggests a change to the question... they may find that rude too.

And some people find not getting a response at all to their question on a site that is billed as the place to get your questions answered rather frustrating.

In order to make it easier for people who want to answer questions to find questions to answer a lot of questions don't show up. Poke at the triage review queue and consider the additional difficulty of finding a question to answer if those were also present in browsing.

Note also that there are no professional moderators on SO. Everyone there is a volunteer... and thus they're burning out a bit too. While it may be easy to say "well, then they should take a break" - they do... and more questions of questionable quality show up in the feed.

The best way to find good questions to answer is to look at recently asked the up voted questions (and avoid the down voted ones)... but down voting is considered to be rude.

And if you want to help a question by asking a clarifying comment in there for this one that might be interesting... and that one... and that one... and do it for ten questions or so you've spent half an hour... and those comments trying to get some information about how you should answer are seen as rude. How much time do you want to spend asking clarifying questions in comments?

Ultimately, SO is suffering from issues of scale without the corresponding tooling to enable people who are trying to answer to find interesting questions more easily. That's not an issue on smaller sites where you can read all of a day's questions over lunch.

Adding that barrier to participation would in turn drive down engagement and advertisement impressions.

From the corporate standpoint, doing that (or anything like it) translates into a loss of revenue.

The GP is concerned that Tmobile allows hackers to impersonate you/your wife on the phone.

You're concerned that even after providing all possible account details - password, PIN, last four of her SSN, last bill amount, anything else they might want to ask that's not literally a live biometric scan - they can't distinguish the two of you just because you don't sound like a woman.

Perfection is unattainable.

Many others clearly did too as many of the questions they removed or tried to remove were massively upvoted.

So... is your understanding that Russia's been "forced" to invade because the US was arming Ukraine to eventually invade Russia?

I guess this is not an original argument to get into, but do we want to agree on some basic facts before we start:

1. Putin is corrupt. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0 . Sure the people making the video are people who want to see him be taken down and a Pro-Putin take could be that these guys are liars funded by "foreign states" to make propaganda to make Putin look bad, but there's tons of other evidence of his corruption.

2. The person ousted in the "coup" (Viktor Yanukovych) was also deeply corrupt. E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/rebels-toured-...

If we can agree that these 2 things are true, then I think there's an argument I can make that the Ukranian people's wish to be closer to the west is genuine and is not a Western-manufactured thing. Because the alternative is for a corrupt Ukranian leader that would've moved to be even more in bed with a corrupt Russian leader and for the citizenry to be robbed of their prosperity and welfare.

The argument that Putin did it to stop NATO's growing sphere of influence is a curious reversal of roles of the bad and good guys. Of course it's hard to argue the US/EU are the super clean good guys, hey there's corruption in these 2 institutions as well... but the way I see it, to say that Putin is the better guy against US/EU/NATO requires a lot of self-deception. Or am I the one being deluded?

More importantly, the population doesn't enjoy genocide and torture that comes with "being under Russia's boot". The specific goals and ways with which Russia wages this conquest makes them unequivocally "bad guys" and Americans who help Ukrainians "good guys", even if this simplicity offends your cynical tastes.

i.e. recognize that you are privileged, since others paid the price on your behalf.

Yes, and benefiting from that -- without having had to fight in those conflicts -- is a privilege.

Why is it not privilege? What is privilege?

Some carriers in the US have you set a PIN number for phone porting. Although, people still forget them.

> The best way to not have them ask a second question is to completely ignore their question...

Leaving aside the issues of interpreting that data[1], and taking your conclusion at face value:

I get the sense that you imply this is a bad thing. But is it?

I agree that if the ultimate goal is "boost engagement metrics," then it's a bad thing. I suppose I just don't agree with that being the ultimate goal. And I sure wouldn't mind if other people in the community de-prioritized that goal, too. My opinion here applies to much about the modern internet landscape, to be fair (:

[1] eg: was their choice to ask a second question caused by a particular interaction? Or maybe users that ask second questions are more likely to ask a good first question, or other explanations and confounding factors? By another reading of it, we could say users who got their first question closed were 2x as likely to leave permanently than those who had no interaction (and this applies to over 2x as many users, so is even bigger in absolute terms). It's rather muddy.

"I'm in a war zone."

"Oh yeah, which one?"

At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Any other active wars going on[1]? Maybe Myanmar..

[1] Result for "active wars in 2023" gives me a page of potential conflicts: https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023

Ignorants perhaps. Several other active conflicts predate Ukraine's war[0]. It's just that nobody cared much, maybe as the people dying weren't white?

Wanna have fun? Pair the Wikipedia link about armed conflicts with the stats about the major arms exporters[1].

.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

.1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...

Has there ever been a point in at least the last 2500 years where there weren't multiple active warzones in the world?

Probably lower class people have a lot more latent trauma passed through generations.

If both of my grandfathers fought in WWII and neither of yours did, my parents are likely to have picked up a lot of latent trauma that yours did not.

I believe the lower classes in this country are less “privileged” for their freedom , on average.

Of course, the more time passes, the smaller this effect.

Really? They needed to? And if these individuals needed to destroy their country in order to save it, that is also the West's fault for providing the population some encouragement to overthrow the last warlord?

(Never mind what Chiang Kai-Shek was doing to the citizens under his government-in-exile. Never mind that killing some 200k people in a nuclear conflagration in Japan was already known to be unnecessary, and that those people died as a simple show of force against the USSR. Never mind that the Korean War that devastated that country didn't have to ever be fought in the first place. The Bad Communists™ must be fought.)

Usually, the investments don't have those happy endings--I don't think anyone who frequents this site could be completely blind to the abysmal record US interventions have for world stability and economic development, that three relative successes in that mass of bloody failure counts as barely a drop in the bucket.

Finally, I think taking statements about the CIA or NED or the Open Society Foundation or Radio Free Asia or VOC (etc, etc, etc) doing the work they do as statements that "remove local agency" misunderstand how the "West" works: Nobody in the countries that color revolutions happen in has to be given orders from the CIA to make their own country a horrible place to live, the investment is always structured as finding the people _most_ willing to seek an extreme solution and amplifying their voice and reach further than it would get on its own, if left to itself in the local context. We always propagandize this as "supporting democracy", but we absolutely know that a reverse effort of a theoretical CPC-affiliated NGO funding some adventurist Commie group with millions in ad funding and logistical support would be treated as an enemy attack against our government, and that that treatment would _be correct_.