AFFF is used in far more than just military bases. Outside of the USA, AFFF extinguishers, small vehicle/building hazard suppression systems, etc. are much more common.
AFFF is being/has been phased out pretty much everywhere in the first world. There is still plenty of it around though - disposing of, and then filling with fluorine free foam can be an expensive process.
Personally, it’s about $10/litre to dispose of. Regardless of concentration. So properly rinsing out old equipment is expensive. But I know the situation differs by country, and what’s deemed “acceptable” varies too.
Powder doesn’t contain fluorinated compounds, at least to my knowledge. The role of fluorosurfactants is in increased wetting and emulsifying with hydrocarbons. Not really applicable to a dry agent.
Many oil filters these days are accessible from the top of the engine, and IME it’s possible to get under many SUVs/CUVs/trucks far enough to remove the filter/bung without lifting anyway.
A set of drive-on ramps makes it kind of a non issue either way
If I had to guess, Alpine is a very popular choice for building container images in Docker/Kubernetes/whatever the new hotness is since I last worked with containers. Mostly because the aforementioned small size and low overhead add up if you’re at any sort of scale (even one instance on top of your desktop OS).
If you’re wanting to containerise the program, maybe it’s less resource intensive to add those things to Alpine than to run another distro with more support? Obviously only speculation
Espressif has also capitalised on this trend with the ESP32, having cheap (~$10) official dev boards available at or before the launch of a new Esp32 model
I found it’s a form of jargon, and once you know more about the field, it becomes much clearer.
Before I started working out at all, I found it really hard to follow any workout instructions (even videos). I couldn’t tell if what I was doing felt right or if my form was off in some important way.
After a few sessions with a personal trainer/physical therapist, and just getting comfortable with the sensations and movements, I found it much easier to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing from an instruction. I had more of the building blocks that I knew were correct already.
Text is still inherently a difficult way to instruct movements though.
You’ll be missing out on some experiences for sure. Would it be a net positive? Probably not. But you really can’t quite comprehend the feelings you’re missing out on.
There might be tangential things you don’t experience too, places you’ll never go, and people you’ll never meet.
This infuriates me. I know the video exists, that’s why it’s on my watch later.
It’s like adding an item to your cart, and then having an ad for it at the top of every search result.
Another thing I hate is if you watch a video from a playlist (or the “podcasts” tab on a channel), and go into your watch history to continue the video, you can’t. It just shows a link to the entire playlist
I’m curious if the chi-fi market will take over headphones in the coming years.
IEMs are a bit easier to be competitive at, not having to worry about acoustic effects of ear/head shape, ergonomics/comfort is much simpler with IEMs, etc.
But clearly good headphones are still working on a massive margin.
I’m far more addicted to scrolling on reddit than instagram. As good as modern social media algorithms are, my curated feed of niche interests and communities I’m a part of, is just a lot more addictive to me.
The format of mostly text based content (even if it’s an image on reddit, I’m mostly there for the discussion below) is a lot easier to open and look at for a few seconds than the mostly-video instagram/TikTok feed.
Is this not a thing in the USA/world? Here there is a government/school system website for careers. Listing educational requirements, average salaries and high/low end ranges, how much demand there is for the career, working conditions, and often interviews with people in industry.
> I think it's so much harder now for developers to develop "mechanical sympathy"
This has always been something that’s fascinated me, how some people don’t have this feeling of “mechanical sympathy”.
Feeling “bad” (not the exact right term but I don’t know how best to describe this very intangible feeling) for a high-revving engine, or a CPU wasting cycles, or a structural component being under too much stress. Even if all of those things are within spec.
It feels like the drive to avoid that feeling ends up creating better solutions: more efficient code, a better distribution of stress across a structure, etc.
But I wonder if it’s something learned, or something that people just “have” to a certain degree.
Not trying to pathologise everything, but it feels like the sort of thing that would be correlated with ASD
FWIW, I'm sick and am currently looking at a bottle of Robitussin Dry Cough Forte, and the only active ingredients are DXM. But yes, if you're wanting to do high doses, tablets are gonna be the least unpleasant option
But yes Phos-check isn’t that