rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on Smart option 4 days ago:
Make bigger coins. Toonies are still useful.
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 5 days ago:
Sometimes! Lactose is not easily fermentable, so it leaves residual sugars and a unique silky feel. Mostly in darker beers, like milk stouts or chocolate porters.
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 6 days ago:
Lactose has a specific mouthfeel in beers, so I buy it would change cheeses dramatically.
- Comment on mood 1 week ago:
Could be a sour fruit beer. Or a radler.
The beer category containeth multitudes.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
Oh, that is interesting.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
Pretty much, though I use a lot of jq these days and many tools support json output and input. I’d love to see that paradigm expanded for more Unix tools. Maybe a new kind of pipe symbol for shells that implies strict json objects.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
Looks like they wanted ‘roundish’ numbers.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
Even crazier that it’s a logarithmic graph.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
That is not what I’m saying. And I’m done trying. Good luck.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Well, we’re having different discussions then. Good luck.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
You keep focusing on capitalism, but I’m working a little more generally than that. Any system that has markets would have the same issue, even anarchist ones. There has to be some feedback mechanism to reduce negative externalities on the commons. A centrally planned economy would struggle with it, as well as a fully distributed one.
We shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We can do a lot of good with well thought-through taxes and regulations, and while it may not be ideal, it gets us toward a better world, a more sustainable world. We live in a highly dynamic system, and perfection is likely impossible and must take into account human irrationality.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a problem. Our society is only sustainable to the extent to which we capture externalities through regulation and taxes, and efforts to undermine that entire concept is infuriating.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
I agree that capitalism (as distinguished from straight markets) is the problem, yeah. Especially the part where the accumulation of capital influences the future accumulation of capital via the political process and externalizes cost to the commons.
Markets only work to the extent that they capture all costs in some form. If something is cheaper than the actual cost to society, you end up with problems.
So if (for an impractical example) oil producers had to pay to capture and sequester all the CO2 and methane implied by their oil and gas extraction, as well as repair all the direct damage their wells do, etc, the market might sort itself out. The “true” cost of oil might be $1000/barrel, and society would adjust accordingly. Of course, the time between point A and point B would involve a lot of misery with our current society.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Under capitalism, it would be difficult, but we’ll regulated markets should be able to. The problem is that the negative externalities of meat are not being adequately captured, and meat producers are abusing the general Commons without recompense. That needs to be fixed with taxes or regulations. Then the market can balance around the true cost of providing meat, which would be much higher.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 weeks ago:
Ngl my partner put a dishwasher position on the counter the other day and I genuinely thought it was candy for an uncomfortably long second or so.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
Amen. About the only thing that unites Quebec with the rest of Canada is a mutual distaste for the French.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
The Anglo-Dutch wars. William of Orange landed troops in London in 1688 and took the throne with Mary II. It’s more complicated than that, but it was a whole Thing. Charles II died, leaving James II in charge, but Catholicism was on the way out, and conveniently, William of Orange, a Protestant, was married to Mary II.
The undercurrent of anti-Dutch sentiment started back then still has remnants in the language. See “going Dutch” “Dutch courage” “Dutch treat” “Dutch uncle”. :)
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
Have to capture the Dutch-Canadian.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
Fun game. Hmm. Hans Van der Windmill.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t buy 400m either.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
Speaking from a university perspective - we’ve been scaling back our computer labs a fair bit, as there’s a lot of people with personal laptops and tablets now. Almost half our former workstations are now eliminated or BYOD.
So a lot of Windows machines are just gone.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 4 weeks ago:
Do you run a BBS?
- Comment on It is what it is 4 weeks ago:
It’s great for testing a site when you’re not sure whether the issue is because you’re logged in or there’s some cached data.
- Comment on It burns! 1 month ago:
Thank you! I love it
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 month ago:
Dandelion leaves (blanched) are good in salads and pestos.
- Comment on fake keepass repo on github 2 months ago:
Thank goodness for distro repositories with somewhat-vetted software.
- Comment on Minecraft will finally let you craft saddles instead of hunting for them 2 months ago:
Yeah. I’ve had a craftable recipe for saddles since a couple days after they came out on my minecraft server. Recipes that make players generate square kilometres of useless terrain chunks searching for items drive me batty.
- Comment on Five fishermen who survived 55 days adrift by drinking rain and parboiling passing fish arrive in Galapagos 2 months ago:
Saving fuel, perhaps. Or maybe they used a solar cooker. Jerry rigged even. Boiling water is hard but heating it to fish-safe temperature would be much easier.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
Yeah, no kidding. I bought several so they’re usually nearby. If I chew on them, it’s game over, angry red swelling for a few days. I can usually hold off pong enough to get to the clippers. Usually.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
Sure. That works preventatively. Once you have the peeling, best to clip and sanitize.