rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 3 hours ago:
I can’t dive into tvtropes right now, but I’ve got dollar on someone having coined a term already.
- Comment on Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike 2 days ago:
Feels like a decade, dang. Who can keep track.
Anyway…
- Comment on Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike 2 days ago:
article about Canadian strikes
Americans in the comments making it about themselves and relitigating a decade old squabble
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 3 days ago:
No visible mold. I’d pour off the hooch, put it through a couple feeding cycles, and see how it smells.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 1 week ago:
The Long Dark. Nothing will change. Death is only a matter of time.
- Comment on Uncovering the Deceptive Logic That Exposes Jordan Peterson - YouTube 1 week ago:
It really is as short as it could have been.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
A raid6 array across a collection of separate disks might do it.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
Not difficult, or even expensive, to find a working 20 year old machine with a 3.5" FDD. Also I work at a library and we keep a couple of well bagged USB floppy drives around for profs who occasionally need data retrieval. Hasn’t happened in a couple years though. We also have an old Dell for 5.25".
- Comment on Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments 1 week ago:
Gotta hire a robopsychologist. Dr. Susan Calvin may be available?
- Comment on Yeasty 2 weeks ago:
If you let it fully ferment it’ll turn into a flat goo
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 2 weeks ago:
There are some native clovers but otherwise yes
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I have one but I do find it a bit difficult. Maybe the fine chain ones would work better for me.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Trying to avoid microplastics. I have yet to find a scrub brush that isn’t plastic bristles. So i use dishcloths.
- Comment on In racoon we trust 4 weeks ago:
I am more or less neutral on most recycling. Separating metals us a good idea, glass pretty neutral (it’s basically a rock and expensive to crush and recycle - much better to reuse). Separating plastics is probably worse than useless.
Separating organics, however, has immediate benefits. It’s so nice having trash that doesn’t stink to high heaven, and it almost eliminates the raccoon and rat problem. Municipal compost is one of the best public investments imo. Yes, it can be gross, but it concentrates the gross and makes it much simpler to deal with.
- Comment on Smart option 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Lactose has a specific mouthfeel in beers, so I buy it would change cheeses dramatically.
- Comment on Anon wants robux 4 weeks ago:
Mitchell & Webb. Sketch show.
- Comment on mood 4 weeks ago:
Could be a sour fruit beer. Or a radler.
The beer category containeth multitudes.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 5 weeks ago:
Neither do I, but I am vindictive and someone in Paris was rude to me once!
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 5 weeks ago:
Would that be true for Parisians?
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 1 month ago:
If someone drive a truck full of money up to my house, I’d be hard pressed to say no. See Notch and Minecraft.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
Have to capture the Dutch-Canadian.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 1 month ago:
Fun game. Hmm. Hans Van der Windmill.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 month ago:
That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin’ cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn’t really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 month ago:
One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn’t depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 30C.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 month ago:
Subjectively? I only really think there are like six temperatures. Fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fucking cold. My clothing choices change at each stage of that scale.
Just because F encapsulates that in a positive integer 1-100 scale doesn’t really make it appeal to me. C feels much more natural, more human, because you’re not dealing with ludicrously small increments that don’t matter for day to day use, and the 0-30 captures almost all temperatures you’re going to actually see day to day.
It irks me that people are trying to turn their personal prejudices and habits into like, objective universal laws.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 month ago:
There are very few places that experience -17C and 40C for that to be really useful. And I don’t get it at all. 0 is cold, 30 is hot. Not a difficult concept.