rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on Must have apps 1 week ago:
Interesting. Worrying, even.
- Comment on Must have apps 1 week ago:
This is new to me, I can’t find a reference. Can you share?
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
A “school bus” can be a local mini that’s like 8-10?m long, or a medium like 15-metre one. A “school bus” (as it would be near me) can also be an articulated main route bus that has three high schools and a major university on both ends of the corridor, at like 30 metres long.
Ditto pizzas. A “large” is such an arbitrary measurement.
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
And yet I still have no idea how big the squid is. Buses range in size dramatically.
- Comment on Real or not bitch? 1 month ago:
What are fake pickles in this context? Lacto vs vinegar ferment?
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
Doesn’t change how great high-quality butter is. :)
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
It’s not super difficult to make. Basically eggnog.
My stepmother make advocaat with (shudder) vanilla pudding mix and gin. It’s an abomination, but it’ll get you plastered pretty fast and it has the right consistency.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
You can take my dropjes out of my cold, dead fingers. :D
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
So many people don’t appreciate how good high-quality butter is!
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
I do love (quality) sprinkles on straight-up white bread, but I will usually toast the bread first and put on a thin layer of peanut butter instead of butter.
Dollar-store generic sprinkles are AWFUL. De Ruijter or bust.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
Funny story, we were in the Netherlands around the holidays last year and COULD NOT find advocaat. :( It definitely seems to be an old-person drink.
Comes of being a second-generation Canadian. I grew up with advocaat but I guess it’s a snapshot of ye olde times.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
My culture has this one food that takes a lifetime to learn to like, that nobody else seems to appreciate. We will aggressively push it on you every dinner, partly to watch your reaction!
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
I get mushy peas on Australian style meat pies a lot. It’s really good, especially with a shittonne of gravy.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
The best Dutch food owes a lot to the occupation of Indonesia.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
On the other hand… Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, spekkoek, speculaas, advocaat…
- Comment on No fear! 1 month ago:
Many didn’t.
- Comment on {!]&|{@} 1 month ago:
Ngl tho bifocals are pretty great
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
fair enough. I was just making a note for anyone who might follow it as written.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d clarify (heh) the broth- you want two tablespoons of broth concentrate or powder. I’d just say half a litre of broth, and leave it up to the cook to decide whether to use it from concentrate or from a carton.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 months ago:
Oh, I think I just replied to the wrong comment by accident. My bad.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 months ago:
You’d be surprised how common it is to put toilet paper in provided bins instead of flushing! Lots of places in eastern Europe and South America, in my experience.
- Comment on Happy 3.14 Day 2 months ago:
If you don’t want to make a universe, store-bought is fine.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 2 months ago:
Saaaame. Dude would 100% support loading me into a train to the camps in the right circumstances.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 2 months ago:
The mob boss: it’s not how you kill, it’s who you kill.
Like that old joke about the technician. $5 for the hammer. $1995 for knowing what to hit.
- Comment on What's "email"? 2 months ago:
Tally sticks, I believe.
- Comment on Those differences that are rooted deep in our DNA 2 months ago:
I got a coupla these a while back. Very comfy. www.bn3th.ca
Little bit of maplewashing going on there but hey.
- Comment on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet 2 months ago:
I’ve been told that the LLMs are reaching pretty hard diminishing returns, in that you need exponentially increasing amounts of compute for linear returns in model performance. The cost of marginal improvements is bumping into theoretical limits.
It can’t turn into general AI, that’s not how LLMs work. So they’re uselessly throwing money after nothing.
- Comment on Bean thinking of you, Lemmy 3 months ago:
That’s definitely it. And it’s pretty self-aware, I think.
- Comment on Adulting is hard 3 months ago:
Like, how many elderly men can’t do laundry?
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 3 months ago:
I’m told that trying a cloth around the neck of a molotov cocktail is as effective and much safer. It will break and ignite as easily.