CompactFlax

@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting serious now⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a seedling starter mat. I tend to brew when it’s cold enough that I sort of don’t need the fridge (but it would help) and it keeps it about 3-4°C above ambient no problem, even after fermentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I was hired on the recommendation of friends, and more lately had a manager who looked past it and saw my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  HR screening dumps resumes without a school unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not critical, but it keeps things clean, keeps salt/snow off in winter, and contributes to fuel economy and ride quality.

  Stretching an oil change is a bigger concern, especially if the oil change interval is a long one. Learn to do it yourself, it’s really simple and depending on the car you may be able to do it without ramps or a jack if you’re creative in parking eg over a dip or one wheel (securely) on a curb. Ensure you don’t spill oil into a drain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow I read it as your brother having schizophrenia and got really confused.

  Continue to involve authorities, but u fortunately mental health funding keeps getting slashed. There may be a social worker centre you could reach out to for more information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPv6 for self hosters⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still haven’t figured out how to make a firewall rule with slaac on pfsense, with an ISP that hands out addresses at random. It’s my understanding’s slaac is the “right” way to do things, not dhcp and reservations.

  Granted, it’s been a minute since I tried so I don’t remember the issues, but as I recall, when ipv6 prefix changes, device gets new IP (and it seems not just the prefix part. I can get the firewall to register IPs into DNS and use a dns based firewall rule, but unbound restarts and blows out its cache when a device joins the network. And there another part to it but it’s all gone fuzzy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the new right-click menu is also part of this “improvement”, because it too is slow. Actually, a lot of stuff that used to be really fast in Explorer is now not nearly as fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it needs to be tight, Robertson or Torx is the only way. The benefit of Robertson over Torx is that it is pretty much immediately clear if the bit fits properly or not. I have stripped too many Torx that were in a place that required a human with an extra elbow and a second wrist to reach, that I thought were t20 but were t25, for example. I keep thinking I’ve learned my lesson.

  I keep meaning to buy sets of Phillips, Pozi, and JIS, but never manage to time a stripped screw with a sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connect Mini Split to Air Circulator system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are ducted mini split systems that may be useful to you.

  Pushing (or pulling) air from an existing duct system is not a great path forward, as balancing the flow is challenging and critical. For example, if you could plumb the mini split into your circulator, what happens if they’re both on at the same time? The mini split could frost over. And if the circulator isn’t on, you could be back-flowing the air intake of the circulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this like the Apple car?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or slinky catsuits. I bet they’re comfy, if perhaps stinky with the polyester/elastane combo. I remember reading that the TNG outfits were not at all comfortable, but that was 1980s tech. We have lululemon now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Realtek, don’t they have issues with drivers in FreeBSD? Or am I horribly out of date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because explorer is already so performant in windows 10+.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a moderately competent lawyer would be able to build a case. Of course, it would get tied up in court for a while, but protecting IP is a big part of IP law (more on trademark I think, but IANAL). The C&D should have been sent a long time ago. It’s possible that this is a department that’s “moving fast and breaking things” and higher-ups said no to the license. In no way should that be considered to excuse the behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fixed my air conditioner!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep the real challenge is understanding when it’s fucked vs when it’s slightly off kilter and a professional can give it a stern look and fix it, but with most things these days it’s always a “well, we can get you a new module, but it’s on back order; it’ll take 6 weeks to come in, maybe buy a new widget”.

  In lieu of nothing, there’s UV lights for drinking water that might fit the need that are reasonably reliable… or maybe just a binge of bigclive opening things up might give the key for cracking that UV light. good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fixed my air conditioner!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s already fucked, might as well try” is some advice I heard many years ago and stuck with me. An educated guess is better than just giving up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After they laid off the senior people a couple years ago, AI’s terrible ideas are indistinguishable from the terrible ideas their junior senior PMs come up with. That, and MS is trying very, very hard to make AI a thing, because they totally missed mobile, invested insane amounts into OpenAI, and don’t have any other ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the nature of bathtubs and how they can invisibly leak until it’s moderately catastrophic, I would lean towards outright replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This depends entirely on what you want to run. A pihole needs vastly different resources than for example offering jellyfin to 20 simultaneous users. Both can be hosted at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's brewing in May?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someday I’m gonna do a spruce tip Sahti but I missed the window. I’ve been busy, and I’ve got a backlog of beer. Either it’s too much or too little somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some of lionization may have roots in the need to recognize and legitimize those professions as a prerequisite for unionization, and to recognize post hoc the men and women who struggled to unionize and get respect in the form of reasonable working conditions and pay.

  Coal mining has almost never been enough to support a family, though it was regular work. Regular work is a thing of the past in Appalachia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Gemstones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently set up some solar panels. Turned them on very close to noon. Well, look at that! So much power! Four hours later, i was getting 10 percent of that number.

  I know that solar power levels change throughout the day. But when it’s put into concrete terms like “I can run my refrigerator on this … oh, only for 2 hours a day” it helped me really understand.

  So to answer your question - we use fossil fuels in the grid to as a disposable battery to handle changes in demand and times when renewables aren’t available.

  As for EVs - many train routes aren’t electrified. EV trucks are impractical for long-haul, and the infrastructure is nowhere to be seen. Even in EV friendly areas, it’s hard to find a charger that is easy to reach with a heavy-haul truck. That’s before we talk about whether there’s trucks to drive, and the cost of the truck. For individuals, an EV is simply beyond the finances of many people. Road trips are an edge case, but some people travel a lot for work and can’t afford to stop every 3 hrs for 30-60 min, if the charger is available, and twice as often in winter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the same lane-keeping that Full-Self-Drives into concrete barriers? cnn.com/…/tesla-trial-wrongful-death-walter-huang

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they can, because they’re suffering so much from the rectal-cranial inversion that Musk started with his FSD.

  Muskrat insists on using computer vision entirely, and building it in-house. Tesla (probably EM) as I recall also insulted MobilEye so they refuse to do business with them. Mind you, I think lane keeping is generally a computer vision problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s absolutely pitiful that they can’t figure out lane-keeping when a cars a fraction of the price have it.

  It’s also a huge red flag that they are shipping “self driving” but can’t do lane keep assist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say “teach the kids to count calories”. I said “teach the kids to understand where the calories come from”. It needs to be a constructive conversation about, like you said, diversifying the food they eat and fuelling their bodies appropriately. Understanding things like when iced coffees have the calories of a cheeseburger.

  There’s certainly a lot of psychological factors that go into deciding whether a client can handle calorie counting, but refusing to provide this information as part of a nutrition class enables charlatans to take advantage of ignorance, leading down a path of repeated failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand your point and I think it’s a difficult subject to navigate with teens. Science-based education is important to offset misinformation .

  I think it’s tremendously valuable to understand what macros and calories mean, and where they come from in the diet. There’s a global obesity epidemic and there’s significant incentives for people in the health/fitness/weight management industry to muddy the waters with crash, fad, or various unhealthy diets, “cleanses”, and “supplements”. And that’s before we get to the food product industry of Nestle et al.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, I resemble this comment. I need to wear more PPE around the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this is probably a better use of the land than growing lettuce in a freaking desert.