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Toxic PFAS absorbed through skin at levels higher than previously thought
  • We should be stopping it wherever we can. It doesn't need to be one before another. Being conscious about where you can get more of it is helpful.

    Water - we distill our water, and you can also use other types of filters which remove it. Absorbing through skin - we know we should be wary about what products use it now, so can do some research and be careful about touching stuff.

    This is similar to global warming. The biggest issue is large corporations. That doesn't mean consumers shouldn't stop worrying about littering or driving gas cars until corporations stop.

  • Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
  • Disagree. Even if we could, from what I understand, large, solid pieces of plastic are better than extremely small, thin, fragile pieces since those are going to turn into microplastics and get everywhere. I'd rather have them in one big chunk.

  • If your Proton password is your encryption key, why couldn't Proton theoretically use it to decrypt your data?

    AFAIK when you log in to Proton, you send them your password, they do the standard hashing and checking against the hash stored in their database, and if it matches them they let you log in by sending you a token of some sort.

    If the your password is your encryption key, and if at some point Proton needs your plaintext password in order for you to log in, then doesn't that mean they still have a way to access your data? They could take the plaintext password and decrypt everything in your account without you knowing, right?

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    Do bike tires increase pressure in summer?

    I know bike tires will lose pressure in colder seasons because the air temp causes the pressure to drop, but is the inverse true? Does bike tire pressure go up in summer due to heat?

    If so, do I need to deflate the tires a bit in summer? Do bike tires ever explode because of a temperature change?

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    I'm disappointed with Third Wave Water

    Not with their end product - the powder itself is excellent. But every little packet is plastic, and doesn't have to be. The world has such a serious problem with plastics, and for a lot of products it's kind of necessary, but this is not one of them.

    Restaurants have had the same size single serving packets for sugar, salt, and pepper for decades now and those are paper, which is much more environmentally friendly. It's even better for usability! With paper, I don't need to go find my scissors like I do for TWW's plastic packets.

    I asked TWW if they would consider using paper instead, but got a generic reply that they'll bring it up, but evidently nothing has been done about this.

    Is anyone else as disappointed as I am with their use of plastic packets? I care a lot about having clean water for my coffee, and I care just as much about not polluting the rest of the world because of it.

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    Is it really a breaking change if a method changes output after an update?

    This might seem obviously "yes" at first, but consider a method like foo.debugRepr() which outputs the string FOO and has documentation which says it is meant only to be used for logging / debugging. Then you make a new release of your library and want to update the debug representation to be **FOO**.

    Based on the semantics of debugRepr() I would argue that this is NOT a breaking change even though it is returning a different value, because it should only affect logging. However, if someone relies on this and uses it the wrong way, it will break their code.

    What do you think? Is this a breaking change or not?

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    Question about FOMO in Baldur's Gate 3

    I haven't played any Baldur's Gate games before but I've heard so much about this game that I'm going to buy it.

    However, before I start, I always wonder about this: some games allow you to unlock any weapon at some point in the game, and if you miss one in some quest you can always go back. If you accidentally sell one you can buy it back or forge a new one again, or have it respawn. If you want some other class you can switch later.

    Other games are not like that, and if you screw up or aren't aware of [full in the blank] then you can't unlock something.

    What's the story with BG3? Do I need to be careful and plan before going on missions?

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