stsquad
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FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
- Comment on Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure 2 weeks ago:
Plastics, waxes, solvents, synthetic fibres and even pharmaceuticals. There are second order products from cracking like hydrogen which are important for things like fertilizer but that is rather carbon intensive.
You can use organic oils for some of these. However organic oils are more complex so need to be broken down into simpler building blocks which all takes energy and processing. Of course you also need to grow oil bearing plants which also tend to require a lot of fertilizer.
- Comment on Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure 2 weeks ago:
My first year Chemistry dissertation was about this. Of all the useful things you can do with hydrocarbons burning them is the most wasteful.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is “just know”.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. Are they related? I don’t understand any Asian languages myself but I do recognise difference in for example the Korean symbols and Japanese ones. But Japanese and Chinese ideograms look very similar to my ignorant eyes.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 3 weeks ago:
It’s super common if it’s any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.
IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.
I’m sure I’ve seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.
- Comment on Why do Britain get to send three teams to the World Cup? 3 weeks ago:
They have their own flags, languages, laws and legislative assemblies.
- Comment on Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been on one recently in Wales but that last local train I got was a new one so I think they are being replaced.
- Comment on Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets 3 weeks ago:
Most trains have toilets on them. The only ones that don’t tend to be the local 2-3 carriage bus on tracks style ones.
- Comment on No rent control for you 4 weeks ago:
The evidence on rent controls is mixed. I’d much rather councils built more good quality social housing to compete with the shoddy priced private sector.
Then hopefully the bad houses can be returned to the market for renovation and those looking to get on the housing ladder.
- Comment on Selective judgement 4 weeks ago:
It’s a UN organisation which the USA are famously not a signatory of.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 5 weeks ago:
Quite, I think her long career in genre films was one of the reasons Tarantino was so keen to work with her.
- Comment on Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be 5 weeks ago:
Could anyone explain what a “hypervisor crack” is in this context? I’m very familiar with hypervisors but less so in relation to gaming.
Is this just using a hypervisor to virtualise system services the DRM uses to assure it it’s not being monitored or interfered with at the OS/kernel level? Do you have to intercept networking as well?
- Comment on Can I Live Off-Grid Using Littered Vapes & Solar? | Chris Doel 5 weeks ago:
To be fair to him he certainly seems to have tried to be careful. I have no idea if he’s actually a qualified sparky.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 1 month ago:
I thought Episode IV was in the initial crawl text.
- Comment on NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services 1 month ago:
AI used to cover a wide field of study, nowadays it seems to be all about the generative models. Oh how we’ve moved on since that original summer symposium.
- Comment on British police tries to arrest suspect 1 month ago:
They got him didn’t they?
- Comment on Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better 1 month ago:
Bless Polly’s optimism, hopefully not copium. Labour’s problem hasn’t been an uncharismatic leader but the very tight constraints they have set themselves for government. I’m not sure Burnham is willing to venture outside of them and start freestyling with the manifesto.
Hopefully he’s given this a lot of thought. I haven’t lived in Manchester for years but the mates I still have up there seem to think he’s alright. Mayor’s certainly can make a difference that local voters can feel. Hopefully he can replicate that in the top job.
- Comment on Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh 1 month ago:
Well the mail and telegraph are shitty papers, I was confused because the article linked was a BBC one and their reporting at least tries to stick to impartial reporting guidelines.
- Comment on Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh 1 month ago:
Who’s the usual lot? The BBC usually sticks to reporting the facts which will be how the police designate it. You’ll notice they don’t say terrorism for the Golders Green knife attack but just report what the suspect is charged with, even though the police declared it a potential terrorist incident at the time.
- Comment on Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh 1 month ago:
Who do you want to declare it’s terrorism and how soon after the event?
The article says anti- terrorism police are involved in the investigation but I suspect the police will be saying as little as they can until they have all the facts. It’s only fairly recently they have started saying anything because of how quickly rumours about incidents spread on social media.
- Comment on Trick question 2 months ago:
Good luck with that - but entirely unrealistic. You have to deal with the demographics as they are and not with them at some arbitrary point in the past.
After you’ve solved Palistine are you going to have a crack at unwinding the effects of colonialism around the rest of the world?
- Comment on Steam Key Giveaway 2 months ago:
Rouge Waters looks like it might tickle my turn based and piratical interests.
- Comment on 'I've given up eating hot meals to pay for equipment to keep my son alive' 2 months ago:
Currently ~26-30p per kWh. Depending on your tariff night time can go down to 7p per kWh.
- Comment on The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders 3 months ago:
I think Labour and Reform are also being crap here. However Zack has been riding the protest vote wave and as he gains popularity he gets more scrutiny. You might say it’s all the biased media’s fault but a politician complaining about scrutiny is a poor look.
He certainly spends a lot of time on social media happily clicking away. He should spend more time learning the basics of economics so he doesn’t complain about being ambushed on understanding the debt and the deficit.
- Comment on The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders 3 months ago:
He’s making it easy by saying or doing stupid things.
- Comment on Is there a fast way to tell what episode of a series a video file is? 4 months ago:
If you are using MakeMKV when ripping you can override the filename template. So I name them for example “Show s01e04+” based on the disc I’m ripping. Then once encoded it’s relatively quick to rename the files with the full episode number. I personally use dired in Emacs because a macro makes short work of the renaming but I’m sure other solutions are possible.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 4 months ago:
I didn’t say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 4 months ago:
I’m not arguing about the designation, that’s up to the government. However the people that been arrested for holding up the signs knew exactly what they where doing and had been warned before their arrests. They were protesting the proscription of Palistine Action rather than generally supporting Palistine.
We will find out how it all plays out once the appeals process is completed.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 4 months ago:
They’ll arrest you for supporting Palestine Action which has been designated a terrorist group by the government. You wouldn’t be arrested for peacefully protesting and supporting the Palistinian cause.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 4 months ago:
