emuspawn
@emuspawn@orbiting.observer
I’m David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds Maybe the monkey can be a little less of a dick, for science?!
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty good question. I 💯 agree that it can fall into authoritarian colonial bullshit, and in fact that’s probably what I was thinking of in terms of ‘defining’ vs ‘advancing’. I’ll invoke the case of the ‘Sad Puppies’, a bunch of lame ass white men who were super mad that the Hugos were overwhelmingly going to ‘not white men’ (read: interesting BIPOC voices everyone loves and gasp…women?!).
I would probably claim the Sad Puppies tried to define culture.
The rest of the attendees advanced it by telling them to fuck right off.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 3 weeks ago:
Pumpkins Georg, who lives in spooky bog & disposes of over 15 million pumpkins every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 weeks ago:
Is defining culture the same as advancing culture?
- Comment on Learning Botany 3 weeks ago:
kale is a delicious vegetable
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KALE DOESN’T EXIST IT’S CABBAGE ALL THE WAY DOWN
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^AND^ ^NEITHER^ ^DO^ ^VEGETABLES^
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- Comment on mmm baklava 3 weeks ago:
geologists get hot and bothered about balacmagma
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 4 weeks ago:
try pfizer/poppy-lrud-normal-128, run it straight offff your neural chip and feed it 1 GB RAM you’ll be gud2go
- Comment on Fallout 4 is a great game with big flaws 5 weeks ago:
I’m on Team Crosspost, although duplicates marginally annoy me too. Because of the low content volume and the potentially fractured nature of Lemmy means more people will see it in the event of blocked instances. Although, I hope crosspost combining becomes a thing like alex@lemmy.ml mentioned.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 1 month ago:
- Comment on I think Sims is a dead franchise now 1 month ago:
Will Wright! We need you, now more than ever! We need simulation games! We need llamas! We need a great vision of weird fun you can have! Will Wright is…Will Wright is apparently busy with an AI powered game that looks extremely vaporware. ~Nooooo…~
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
The children yearn for the mines
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
When there is a total solar eclipse, the temperature does drop dramatically. But it might not be detectable on the other side right away for sure.
- Comment on Sad 5 months ago:
Don’t worry, I’m sure we can come up with a way to explode the sun much sooner than that.
- Comment on Eurekadumpite 7 months ago:
- Comment on space 7 months ago:
I mean, it’s the space-time continuum, it’s connected! As the documentary Stargate SG-1 shows, we’re well acquainted with spatial and chronological drift over interstellar distances.
- Comment on self-defence deez nuts 7 months ago:
The Botany of Desire is a fantastic book and also documentary that discusses, in some part, plants being desirable to humans as a selective force. Plant species that humans value have a higher likelihood of surviving because we use them for agriculture, ensuring their ongoing existence. Everything from tea to teonanácatl!
- Comment on ah, conservation 7 months ago:
Unfortunately so. They are an Eastern US species that has been moving ever westward. And they are, in bird law terms, ‘huge dicks’. They’ve been systematically kicking Spotted Owls out of their traditional roosting spots for about a decade now. Spotted Owls are pushovers, so they’ve been losing breeding ground. And barred owls are not just dicks to other birds, they don’t like humans much either.
- Comment on Bartender Qualifications 9 months ago:
It’s fairly known in the Enterprise IT world; like others say, it does induce drinking.
- Comment on OCB 11 months ago:
C’mon man, don’t be a square.
- Comment on How on earth do you water your plants in macrame hangers? 1 year ago:
Some people put ice cubes straight in the pot, so it’s a slower absorption. You could also just have a ‘watering towel’ that you can throw on the floor under the plants if you water them in place? Finally, if you can get them to the sink easily, maybe you could use a glass watering globe to slide through the plant matter?
- Comment on My Home Server software stack 1 year ago:
ABSOLUTELY.
Never use one source for critical data! One backup is no backups! No backups is playing with the entropic forces of the universe!
- Have at least three copies of your data - primary, backup, and offsite backup.
- Store the copies on at least two different media types.
- Keep at least one of those copies offsite - what if your house or datacenter burned down?
If you don’t care about recovering your photos, by all means use an actively changing project as your sole means of data storage!
- Comment on Anyone here Garden? 1 year ago:
I like the concept, here’s a few questions!
- What’s the form factor of your project?
- Will it be waterproof or just a housing for the electronics?
- Is it wall powered or battery?
I’ve been looking at setting up soil monitors for my garden, although I’m wanting them to report to Home Assistant. I’d prefer a Zigbee or Z-Wave monitor, but it seems bluetooth or rolling your own seems to be the way to go right now.
- Comment on WEEKLY DISCUSSION OCT 2-8 History of Medicine 1 year ago:
Penicillin is arguably the most helpful medical discovery of the 20th century. It was discovered in 1928 as the active agent in a mould that can destroy and inhibit bacteria. Humans wind up with so many nasty bacterial infections like pneumonia that previously might just kill you, now were treatable! Not only did we discover (and eventually, mass produce) this particular drug, but it also kick started a whole new family of antibiotics for treating diseases.
Of course, we do eventually wind up some issues with antibiotic resistances of bacteria and some people wind up allergic, but at the time of discovery it must have truly seemed a panacea. Note that the Penicillium genus was known to be doing something against infections since the late 1880’s, but the exact mechanism had not been identified.
- Comment on 20+ hours in and my ADHD ass STILL can't figure out how the hell I'm supposed to repair my ship. The "REPAIR" icon is always greyed-out. Help! 1 year ago:
Do you have Ship Parts in your cargo hold? Pushing 0 should let you repair. Also a Ship Services Technician will gladly take 1000 credits to repair as well
- Comment on Fediverse Disaster Recovery 1 year ago:
And if the power in your area sucks, the power conditioning even a good small UPS provides is invaluable.
- Comment on My first sunflower and my first lemmy post :) 1 year ago:
Lovely! Did you plant it or did it show up by itself?