@sxan@midwest.social
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

sxan

@sxan@midwest.social 

<span style="color:#323232;">       🅸 🅰🅼 🆃🅷🅴 🅻🅰🆆. 
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍 
</span>

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

The thing I think is the most irreconcilable, incompromisable, consistently demonstrated behavior of The Right in America is the blatant hypocrisy about nearly all of their planks. It’s the thing that, when the next civil war comes, will allow me to pull the trigger on anyone wearing a red baseball cap with little remorse.

  • Everyone needs guns to defend themselves from The State, because 2A! (Except for black people defending themselves from no-knock entry cops who got the address wrong)
  • The government shouldn’t be allowed to tell us how to live! (Except for LGBTQ* people, women’s choices about their own bodies, or homeless people)
  • The Constitution is sacrosanct! (Except for the part about separation of church and state, we just ignore that part)

It’s the same for their every. Single. Position. It makes me weary, and furious, depressed and pessimistic.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I feel alternately sad and disbelieving when I see this one. The poster is either fake, or obviously lacking in a basic education. This goes beyond stupidity, and speaks rather to someone who wasn’t given any schooling, and is spelling entirely by sound. The latter just makes me sad.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Maybe. But if you image someone with a deep accent, only fundamental reading skills, spelling words by sound… if you read it out loud it almost sounds rural Kentucky, or Tennessee.

Although, I don’t know how they came up with “gledding,” unless that’s how they learned it by hearing it. It’s consistently wrong, and no amount of accent accounts for it.

Ooo! I now what it sounds like! Have you ever seen the parody YouTube series “Precious Plum?” It reads like someone with that accent spelling by how they say the words.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

What’s the issue? It is a window conditioner, and it is in a window. Looks totally legit to me.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

That is the most soothing blue.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Man, the good news just keeps coming in today.

May 30, 2024. A very good day.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

But, for once, the big news items have been mostly good. It’s a nice change in Lemmy, which - and I’m a lot happier here than on Reddit as the culture is less toxic - is inundated with mostly negative news. There are occasional good news posts, but they’re rarely national or world level impacts.

So two really big, globally impacting, effective (vs, e.g. ICC issues sternly worded letter saying it doesn’t like something) good news items in one day is great.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Really? Because of anybody could benefit from some years in prison, it would be Trump.

OTOH, Hitler spent time in prison, and look how he turned out.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I can’t stop giggling at the thought: 34 counts, each with a maximum 4 year penalty.

I know, I know… no judge is going to issue the maximum penalty on each of those counts, especially in this case. But a man can dream.

136 years. happy sigh

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Finally.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Put. Engineers. Back. In. Charge.

All of the C-suite, except maybe the CFO, should be aerospace engineers. That’s how it was back when Boeing made great planes; how to fix the company isn’t rocket science. Just get rid off all the MBAs.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Sad thing is, McDonnell Douglas was also founded by an engineer, but they’re the ones who screwed up Boeing.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Maybe because not every system is Debian, and Plasma has to work on systems that either don’t have /usr/share/i18n/supported or put is somewhere else?

I manage a project that encounters this sort of thing regularly; my biggest problem is terminfo entries. Not all distributions contain all of the same terminfos. It is one of the biggest source of bug reports my project gets. I’ve been considering just embedding all of the terminfos in my project, just so I know they’ll all be there on every system it’s installed.

I don’t know this is Plasma’s reason for including their own list, but it could easily be. It could also be because those are the locales Plasma supports, and it may not support every locale that might be in the distro system list.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Attributed (but debated) to Samuel Clemens.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I vote post titles must be prefixed with “[GAMENAME]”. Many of these posts are just noise in my feed, without context.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Who’s your manager? I want to speak to them.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Problem is, you have to play all of them to get all the specialized terminology, and it sometimes overlaps between games.

I’ll bet I’ve played at least one game you haven’t. I know there are dozens of games I haven’t played, and even if I had time and wanted to dedicate all of my free time to RPGs, I doubt I could play then all enough to learn them well enough to recognize each from a half-dozen words in a meme.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I didn’t realize I have the same question as OP, and I don’t think you answered it. The question is: how do the gene selections happen? What process decides?

Not every combination is being tried in the egg during fertilization, right? You describe the outcome, but not how the gene combination selection process happens, and what decides which genes are used.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Basic K12 biology didn’t go into deep details; OP is asking, I think, what decides which genes are combined. You can only get at most half of each from the parents - you don’t get all of each - so what exactly selects which genes from each are combined?

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Imagine being in a jury with Willem Dafoe and disagreeing with him during deliberations.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

What, the device, or the coffee?

They’d have to seal the coffee in a near complete vacuum, or ensure all air in the packaging is replaced with an inert gas; once ground, coffee oxidizes rapidly, and this is what ruins the flavor. Even whole beans oxidize, just more slowly. This is why it’s recommended you ground at the last minute, and buy beans that were roasted within the past couple of weeks.

Of all the pretentiousness in coffee culture, this is probably the one most true, most important factors to coffee quality: the impact of oxidization on roasted beans. It’s why Nespresso pods make actually decent coffee: the air in the pods is replaced with nitrogen, preventing oxidation of the grounds. If Nespresso wasn’t owned by the completely amoral Nesté, and if the pods weren’t such a terrible impact on the environmental, I’d probably give up my current process and just drink Nespresso.

However, my point is that any packaging this company could do to preserve the product would probably be as horrid for the environment as Nespresso pods. They’d have to sell grounds, because of the process; bags would be the least impactful, but how fast can you drink a pound of ground coffee? Because the grounds will be oxidized and ruined within days of opening the bag - you’ll only get great coffee the first day after opening; OK coffee the second, and shit coffee the rest. So it’d have to be pods, and now we’re back to plastic waste.

The one way I can think of this working is for cold-brew folks, because you’re brewing one big batch at a time, and using 12 or 16 oz of grounds at once. Open a bag of inert-gas vacuum-sealed grounds, dump it in, fill with water, and let brew for 12 hours.

IME, cold brew makes good coffee, in that it eliminates most of what can make coffee harsh, but it’s also the most forgiving of bean quality in that it also removes a lot of other, desirable, subtlety in the result. Cold brew is the one coffee I’ll buy from Starbucks, because their shit-quality beans don’t affect the cup much.

And, @almar_quigley, I’m keying off your response, but I am not assuming you don’t already know all of this - I’m writing for non-coffee nerds.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Oh! Good point! Selling the extracted product would be viable. I can’t see any reason they couldn’t sell boxes of brewed coffee.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Yup, agreed. Better than those damned pods, though.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

The rules say you only have to include one ingredient, so this one counts!

Looks good, too; I’ll have to try this one. I love drinks with egg whites; they’re so… mellow.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

You know the best way to analyze a submission to the OCCC? Compile it, then run the result through a disassembler. You get back far more readable code than the source.

But you’re right; reading code isn’t easy; I meant relatively. If you have government-level resources and can hire a bunch of experienced software developers to review source code, armed with a bunch if static analysis tools (<cough>NSA), you have a decent chance of finding malicious code in software. I know of no similar tools (and the automated software analysis tools are the important factor) for finding backdoors in hardware.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • InstantRegret
  • mdbf
  • ngwrru68w68
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • khanakhh
  • osvaldo12
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • Durango
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • JUstTest
  • tacticalgear
  • ethstaker
  • provamag3
  • cisconetworking
  • tester
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cubers
  • everett
  • modclub
  • megavids
  • normalnudes
  • Leos
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •