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In the recent years there’s been a boom in kids using skin care - often products though that aren’t meant for them. And with kids I mean pre-teens. Some have even become influencers themselves.

However, there’s also been a rise in reports in kids damaging their skin by using these products in the first place or using them wrongly (vitamin A and AHA are amazing but they are very tricky to handle and can easily lead to chemical burns / retinol burns …).

I don’t think there’s any good reason to let kids handle those on their own. And stuff like retinol is starting to get regulated for “everyone” anyway.

Google (Books) yields this: https://books.google.de/books?id=6fJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA...

An Eulerian Square of order 10.

I had the same issue but switching to reader view “fixed it“ :)

The nice thing about those standards is that you can choose which one you want to use.

The website works fine for me - searching e.g. Céline shows 126 products.

Question out of curiosity: I’m German so I don’t know the US law that well but don’t you for example have laws that forbid being noisy after a certain hour of the day?

If my neighbours were throwing a loud party past 10pm I could simply call the police/ Ordnungsamt (police light) and they’d tell them to quiet down.

AFAIK Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t have any public social media accounts either.

Even though it’s a German word it is also used in English: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schadenfreude . I don’t see any problem with OP using this word in their comment.

“While nearly all such publi- cations detail their system’s impressive scalability, few directly evaluate their absolute performance against reasonable benchmarks. To what degree are these systems truly improving performance, as opposed to parallelizing overheads that they themselves introduce?”

That’s one of the things that stuck with me after haven taken a class in high performance computing. What matters is the absolute performance, less the speed up one achieves by parallelisation.

Reminds me of this talk: Spiegel Mining at the C3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YpwsdRKt8Q

Kleidermacher is in my understanding the (current) male version which was historically the gender/ sex inclusive word. Interestingly Bäcker (the male term) used to be inclusive too (a long time ago) because the ending -er simply implied that there‘s a person who does something. For Bäcker that means that that’s someone who bakes.

As far as I understand people have already looked into that idea. To quote [1]: “Another, longer-run, approach seeks to improve individual evaluation of the quality of information sources through education. There has been a proliferation of efforts to inject training of critical-information skills into primary and secondary schools (12). However, it is uncertain whether such ef- forts improve assessments of information credibility or if any such effects will persist over time. An emphasis on fake news might also have the unintended consequence of reducing the perceived credibility of real- news outlets. There is a great need for rigorous program evaluation of different educational interventions.” [1] The science of fake news - http://pike.psu.edu/classes/ucas/2018-summer/p/science-fake-...

Because it works seamlessly on all of my devices and has done so for years. Never encountered any issues and syncing happens within seconds.

I’d like to add that this also sometimes goes along with either being in denial of having experienced trauma or convincing oneself that the experience “was not that bad after all”.

To chime in here and elaborate a bit further:

Generally we have 2 “traditional” choices for menstruation products: tampons and sanitary pads. Reusable options for both are the menstruation cups (as already mentioned) and washable thus reusable sanitary pads. As far as I know there are also reusable tampons but I don’t know anyone who uses them and they aren’t that widespread.

Menstruation cups are - especially when starting to use them - a bit messy. One has to empty them when they are full and ideally you should at least rinse it after every use. This is a bit uncomfortable and bloody in public bathrooms. Secondly, finding the correct size can be quite tricky especially since the cups are a bit more pricey. Thirdly, when a woman gets an IUD doctors generally recommend against using cups in the first few weeks/ months after insertion. And lastly, they’re simply not comfortable to wear for everyone.

Reusable sanitary pads are a bit different but in my experience don’t replace the traditional pads. Particularly during heavy flow days those simply don’t have the capacity to “catch everything”. Further, if you have to change the pad in public you will have to carry around the used one.

So yes, I agree with you, there are simpler ways to start taking care of one’s rubbish production :)

Yeah, me too.

Yes, it was essentially a love letter ending with “please call me“.

I actually did text him - since he included his phone number and I wanted to know who he was - but I “ghosted“ him after some months when he kept asking me to come to his home (he was twentysomething so several years older than me).

Afterward, I received one more postcard from him telling me how much he misses me and how he wished I was there with him (he was travelling at that time) but then it stopped.

That reminds me when I was still in high school and got to school by bus.

I was around 16 and used to carry a binder with my full name on its back in my hand because it was a bit too large for my backpack.

One day, I got a letter by a guy whose name I didn’t know. He saw me on the bus and thought I was cute, so he decided to look me up and somehow found out my current address. He couldn’t have used the phone boom because my family wasn’t listed, so he must’ve googled me. Luckily, the guy didn’t have any bad intentions but it was very scary nevertheless.

I’m aware and that’s how they are usually introduced. However, there’s also the model of such that have a further restricted set of instructions and only have limited memory.

Actually, I thought you don’t even need unbounded memory because it’s proven that the register machine [0] with limited memory is still Turing complete.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_machine

I can’t answer your question but maybe you’ll find this paper interesting [0]. TLDR: social bots are highly responsible for spreading misinformation - and for such also conspiracy theories. By tagging people with a lot of followers and tweeting the information multiple times they attempt to make it go viral. Keep in mind that this paper concerns the 2016 elections.

[0] http://cs.furman.edu/~tallen/csc271/source/viralBot.pdf

That’s the thing with media portraying violence (and I’m saying this without judgement) it is always glorifying violence (“gewaltverherrlichend” in German) since one doesn’t experience the violence itself.

Even if (war) video games were to be made “gorier”, bloodier, more brutal one still doesn’t experience losing someone, re-building a life in a country that has been bombed to ruins, or dealing with the aftermath such as physical wounds or mental trauma.

As someone who started learning Rust a few days ago I find its compiler errors incredibly helpful!

I don’t quite understand the author‘s complaint either - the error message in the example (like most others) does state quite precisely what went wrong and how to fix it (By default, variables in Rust are immutable. To fix this error, add the keyword `mut` after the keyword `let` when declaring the variable.).

I wonder what the author is wishing for?

On a similar note, when anxious I ask myself, “What am I afraid of right now?”. It helps me to take more control over my anxiety.

Just a short side note there is a capital esszet (ẞ).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ẞ

I think so, too! Sometimes we should re-evaluate our expectations and think about what we really want and why we want it. Furthermore, I think it’s important to realise that others might have other motivations such as money, success, curiosity, altruism and so forth so there really is little need to compare ourselves to them.

Most of us don’t have the energy to be productive all the time. It took a lot of work (ironically) for me to be okay with that and to allow myself to do nothing at times. Procrastination for me was the result of constant pressure which sucked so much energy that I just couldn’t BE productive anymore. Funnily enough when I allowed myself to slack around or fall a bit behind I ended up greatly improving my grades.

In the end for me it’s a tale of starting to live in the moment (as cliche as that might sound) instead of failing to meet one’s own impossible expectations.

Especially when English isn’t your first language

Also when it comes to applying what one learned by solving exercises or doing proofs feedback is so crucial and helpful. Firstly, one sees the parts one didn’t fully understand yet and secondly your way might be correct even if it isn’t the same way the provided solution approached the problem.

At the university I worked at we were still using punched cards (both punched and non-punched) to take written notes. When I left last year there was still a room full of those. Crazy that to think that at some point people took the decision to order huge amounts of these cards - maybe in the hopes that this technology will last for quite a long time.

What I don’t quite understand is why array was used here in the first place instead of equation* or similar.

Anyway interesting post I wouldn’t have guessed that carries onto the next array. Why does it only affect the first cell (or first part of the first row) though instead of the whole row?

While I agree that exercises etc. are the way to deeply understand the subject I disagree with your take that math lectures are senseless. I admittedly always struggled when I skipped lectures and attending them helped me to see the “bigger connections” and actually understand proofs given I was taking notes throughout the lecture.

In philosophy however - which for me this semester is entirely online without any video chat whatever interaction - the in person lectures were highly valuable to me due to their nature on heavily relying on discussion. While I do have a paper here and there to write my understanding mostly comes from attending the lectures.