Ephera
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- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 2 days ago:
Yeah, I figured, once I actually thought about it. 😅
- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 2 days ago:
I’m now imagining you going to the grocery store, pretending to be your twin, to get the employee discount. 🙃
- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 2 days ago:
Would love to know, too. To my European eyes, it looks like onions, potatoes, apples and tomatoes, but surely they have some different produce there. Whatever is in the bottom-left does look unfamiliar, at least…
- Comment on The past was not that cute 1 week ago:
I think, she’s just showing an example of the aesthetic that we would now call “cottagecore”, even though it would not have been called that back then. Lots of trends did not have a name when they were their most popular…
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 week ago:
A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.
So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can’t even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:
And yeah, I’ve got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.
And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don’t even need an SD card in my case.) - Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 2 weeks ago:
Presumably, that ampersand needs to be replaced with
&… - Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 2 weeks ago:
If you enjoy pinball, this one is decent: f-droid.org/…/com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 2 weeks ago:
Legend has it that he does have his own store already, so I’m really not sure why he’s saying anything at all.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
Ah yeah, it does auto-save regularly, too. But I don’t think, I’ve ever seen it crash without me doing some out-of-game fuckery. 🙃
Well, and of course, losing progress is baked into the gameplay of a roguelike, so whether your savegame corrupts or you die yet another stupid death, you just start another run and you’re right back into the action.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
I also think ANY game should have a “full potato” mode capable of running in older computers with NONE of the fancy graphics stuff that we have access to today, despite having a decent computer now.
Problem is that the fancy graphics stuff isn’t just additive.
For example, raytracing is actually relatively simple to implement, since you just make light behave like it does in real-world physics, according to a couple relatively straightforward rules and material properties.
Lighting without raytracing involves tons ofsmokes and mirrorshacks and workarounds. For example, mirrors were often faked by building the same room behind the wall, with everything inverted, including the player character’s animations.
So, making a game with potato graphics typically requires building a second version of the game.Of course, there can be a mode that does just turn off the additive stuff, so only that which does not require changing the game implementation. But that can just be one of the graphics presets…
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
There’s a roguelike I play, which combats save-scumming by only giving one save slot per character. And so the only reason to save the game, is when you’re done playing. So, you hit Ctrl+S to save, and it instantly quits as well. 🙃
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I just thought that’s called “dry shampoo”, but not sure where I got that idea from. Might’ve just been a brainfart. 😅
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 2 weeks ago:
Huh, I thought, dry shampoo is a bar soap with additives. Sounds like it’s pretty much the polar opposite…
- Comment on Feeling that groove 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, we just have two ear canals. Stereo is basically all your brain will get.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 weeks ago:
Then those indigenous people need to figure out their morals. Chances are, they are embedded in a context where this is a lot easier, because they don’t have factory farming. They are part of the food network and take only as much as nature can recover.
You want me to be the arbiter of all morals? Well, there’s my take. Indigenous people hunting are not the problem. Other parts of the hivemind might have a different view on that, though, and I’m not gonna apologize for their take.
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the complaint isn’t so much that we should be talking about rape all the time, but rather that we should stop shaming consensual sex.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 weeks ago:
Well, I hope you are happy with the answers you already got, because my answer is that I personally don’t care to keep these items, so I don’t have much of an opinion on it. 😎
That’s kind of the point I was trying to make up there, that I don’t have to be the arbiter of all morals, just my own morals…
But if you want to keep such trinkets and you feel like you’ve informed yourself enough to know that no harm is done to these animals, and that makes you decide that it is moral, I will gladly accept your decision.
If I learn that it does harm in some way, I would let you know, though. Not to attack you, but because I would assume that you want to do no evil. And that you don’t subscribe to thehorseshitbelief that your own ignorance of evil makes it moral.I feel like I really need to drive home that veganism is when you care, but you’re also lazy. I don’t want to have to inform myself about every supply chain for my food and every possible moral effect that my actions might have. So, I just nope the fuck out of a large chunk of that by not dealing with animal-sourced products.
Like, yeah, if a bird drops a feather in front of you, the supply chain is quite obvious and I would hope you don’t set off a trend of enough people wanting feathers in their homes for there to emerge an industry.
So, it’s almost certainly fine. But if I myself don’t actually want a feather, you can bet your ass that I will gladly stop thinking right then and there.
If these were not just random examples and rather genuine questions, then I would try to help you reason through it, but ultimately the decision is yours…
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 3 weeks ago:
I guess, they might not be talking about individuals, but rather humanity as a whole. So, if a person rapes someone and this becomes publicly known, they will generally be shamed more than a woman having consensual sex (even though some rapists also get to be president, I guess).
But across the board, we have insults that every kid knows, which equate to “woman having (consensual) sex bad”, as well as gossip of the like, and even men being shamed for going out with a woman who has sex.
Compared to that, rape is a rarely talked about… - Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 weeks ago:
Veganism isn’t a hivemind. We’re all individuals that came to similar conclusions. And we will have different opinions on the details.
Some folks will say consuming those that died naturally is a-ok. Others will argue that it incentivizes creating conditions under which animals die “naturally” to harvest them.
Personally, I’m part of the group that is probably the largest by a long shot, whose opinion is: Why are we even thinking about that?The vast majority of vegans find corpses gross, much like anything you might derive from corpses.
It also seriously does not happen often, that animals drop dead in front of you. And there’s nothing on an animal’s body that you can’t find a different alternative for. So, it really just is not a relevant question in our lives… - Comment on Linus Torvalds is surprisingly optimistic about vibe coding - except for this one 'horrible' use 3 weeks ago:
I am still wondering whether vibe coding will really get folks excited about programming. It is a way to create stuff, so I can see folks getting excited about vibe coding by itself. But making the jump from there to programming seems like it would be frustrating, since you would need to start over with small projects to have any chance at learning the basics.
And yeah, for now I do not believe that vibe coding will displace programming, because natural language is in many ways just a worse way to formulate logic.
It’s like going through a translator to talk to someone in another language. It works for simple instructions and to some degree, you can have the translator explain a more general concept, like how to get to a specific place, without you needing provide every detail, but:- You can only guess what instructions the translator actually provides.
- If the result isn’t as expected, e.g. the person doesn’t show up at the described place, then it is nigh impossible to find out which part of the instructions were wrong. Both because you don’t understand the instructions, but because you might not know the way either.
- And it is just a less efficient way to communicate than when you know the other person’s language.
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 3 weeks ago:
Ah, I thought that “they” referred to ad corporations…
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 3 weeks ago:
Auto-clicking ads to fuck up metrics is already a thing: adnauseam.io
- Comment on Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, most errors occur somewhere in a library that you use (because libraries typically do the actual heavy lifting) and in the vast majority of cases, it will give you a (English) string describing what went wrong.
If you can just slap that string into the final error message (or at least into logging), that is so much easier and more helpful than pretending you could possibly assign an error code to each such error case.
- Comment on Save us!!! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my immediate thought was “Why would anyone voluntarily listen to this song?” and it had nothing to do with the quality of the song.
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 5 weeks ago:
I’m saying spray-mop the floor once a week and you’ll take most of the dust out of that room before it settles on harder-to-clean surfaces, which reduces how often you need to clean shelves, plants etc…
Most dust in a typical household is from shed skin cells, from either humans or pets. And I do imagine that most shed skin cells just fall onto the floor at first and can be collected there.
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve found that regularly wiping the floors helps quite a bit. You don’t have to be super thorough, just reduce the amount of dust in the room.
Not sure, if vacuuming would work similarly well, since it kicks dust into the air, which can settle on surfaces again…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 5 weeks ago:
Alright, yeah, we’re talking about a pH value of around 8 for alkaline water. That’s also the pH value for eggs, sea water or blood. So, I do imagine our mouth+esophagus can deal with that. At the very least, alkaline water should be food-safe.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 5 weeks ago:
The body doesn’t care much about alkaline water, since the stomach acid is so acidic that it will easily overpower it…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 5 weeks ago:
She did the math (with some assumptions), but basically 0.25 mL of lemon juice will turn 500 mL of alkaline water into neutral water:
Image This is in the video at 13:16.
The reason is that pH is a logarithmic scale. Alkaline water has a pH of about 8, whereas lemon acid is at 2. That means lemon acid has 1,000,000 times more hydrogen atoms.
Lemon juice isn’t pure lemon acid, so that’s why you do still need 0.25 mL (rather than just a millionth of 500 mL). - Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 5 weeks ago:
