alvvayson
@alvvayson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why did they move the comments to the right 8 months ago:
As a mobile user, I’m just stuck with the stock YouTube app.
I do miss Vanced :-(
- Comment on MFA 8 months ago:
Yubikey also has usb-c versions with compliant plugs.
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 8 months ago:
Of course, generations of humans cooked without thermometers or thermostats. You could cook with the Rankine scale if you get used to it .
But let me just say, I don’t think it’s an accident France is both the originator of the Metric system and haute cuisine.
Advanced cooking is as much engineering as it is art.
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 8 months ago:
As a metric person, I can confirm.
Indoor temperatures are basically 18-22 for most people most of the time. 15-25 covers the whole range of indoor temperatures that people with functioning heat or A/C would see.
For temperatures outside we commonly round to the nearest five: -5 and below: very cold winter weather 0 cold winter weather 5 mild winter weather 10 autumn weather 15 spring weather 20 summer weather 25 beach weather 30 heatwave 35 and higher heatwave in the Sahara
The only thing I admire of the Fahrenheit scale is that they can round to the nearest 10 and still be a little bit more precise than we are with the nearest 5. And when discussing fever temperatures, we need half degrees and Fahrenheit does not.
But it’s an absolutely awful scale for cooking.
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 11 months ago:
Heating the past few decades (or even century) was simply too cheap. Cheaper than insulating on the short term.
In cold countries, they didn’t have this option. they had to insulate.
Proper insulation is best done when building a house. Afterwards, it’s a little bit more complex.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 11 months ago:
Wow, air to air even?
But do you know what the COP is at -30?
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 11 months ago:
Interesting.
At these temperatures, I can’t imagine air source heat pumps being very efficient.
I would probably have a spare gas, oil or wood based heater and use that for days like this.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 11 months ago:
Do most Finnish people pay spot prices for electricity?
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 11 months ago:
It’s basically the flu vaccine in my opinion.
People at risk stand to beneffit most, but it doesn’t need to be mandated .
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 11 months ago:
Yes, you could argue that, but it would be an extraordinary claim.
I might still get indigestion from that taco I ate in 1999.
But it’s really unlikely, since that Taco cleared my system way back then.
mRNA also clears the body quite quickly.
So to have side-effects after so many years, one would need to explain a mechanism.
Otherwise it’s really just very speculative. Might as well believe 5G causes cancer. After all, it’s new technology.
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 11 months ago:
So how many years does it take to no longer be new?
The Polio vaccines are also new compared to the Smallpox vaccines.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t have sufficient data on their safety and effectiveness. And we have comparable levels of data on the mRNA covid vaccines.
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 11 months ago:
Is your friend stuck in 2021?
The covid vaccines are three years old now. Millions of people have had 3 or 4 shots. In what world are they “new”.
- Comment on Why do all the new TVs expect me to have a platform AS WIDE as the fucking thing?? Fucking shit!! God awful absolutely dumb thoughtless design choice 1 year ago:
This right here.
The TV comes with the cheapest removable feet, because VESA mounts exist.
- Comment on Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"? 1 year ago:
Are you implying that Roe v Wade is religious? Cause you aren’t making much sense.
- Comment on Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"? 1 year ago:
One could also argue that legally allowing unrestricted abortions past 24 weeks is counterproductive, since it galvanizes the pro-life movement. Look at any rally and most protestors are showing pictures of very late term abortions. I remember being in school as a teenager and the pro-life activists coming to our classroom to graphically describe partial-birth abortions that suck out the brains of babies. I was pro-life for the next ten years or so.
Obviously, that’s not representative at all of what a normal abortion looks like. But it’s much less galvanizing to show a 6-8 week old bunch of unrecognizable bodily fluids, which is much more representative of the average abortion.
A clear timeline also puts a healthy pressure on pregnant women to make a difficult decision earlier, when everything is easier, less impactful and less risky, instead of postponing it.
I’m not an expert, but the happy balance seems to be with easy accessibility up to 12 weeks and progressive restrictions after that.
- Comment on Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"? 1 year ago:
Once you assign rights to the unborn, you very quickly end up in an “no abortion except to save the life or health of the mother or prevent unnecessary suffering of a non-viable fetus”.
And this is exactly why most jurisdictions have limits on abortion.
In my country, elective abortions are only legally allowed up to 24 weeks of gestation and the doctors only perform it up to 22 weeks.
Above that, there needs to be a serious medical situation that falls in the exceptional categories.
- Comment on Circle of life 1 year ago:
With humanity, it’s always two steps forward, one step back.
The USA ended slavery, then introduced segregation and share cropping.
They ended segregation, then started the war on drugs to imprison minorities.
They elected a black man, then a fascist.
Similar things can be seen in other countries. Russia got rid of communism, then elected Putin. China opened up, now they have a dictator.
But, in general, the direction is forward.
- Comment on Circle of life 1 year ago:
Yeah, but that’s not because of generational progress.
Many civil rights in the USA weren’t properly arranged for through democratic laws, but by Supreme Court decisions.
They were always at risk. Once you achieve the same level of progress through electoral majorities, they are much more stable and secure.
As for workers rights and inequality, there is a similar story. Between the great depression and globalization there was a time of great progress, but it was never sustainable.
It only occurred because two world wars and a great depression left the world in tatters and destroyed the power of the wealthy, while the Western world still fully enjoyed the fruits of colonialism. Western Middle classes suddenly had all the power for a brief moment in time.
Now, we will have to figure out how to create real equality, without exploiting other countries and without relying on war and depression to break the power of the rich.
- Comment on Circle of life 1 year ago:
I, too, thought a lot about this.
Having kids now and reflecting on my childhood, it’s extremely obvious that my parents truly had the best intentions and tried their best.
But they, too, are fallible and made mistakes.
Some of those mistakes were due to a lack of knowledge or bad advice they received. I think that nowadays, thanks to the internet, it’s quite feasible to get much better advice. On the other hand, there is also a lot of disinformation.
I am optimistic that each generation will get better, because knowledge tends to accumulate and humanity tends to improve over time.
But perfection is still far away in a distant future.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You don’t need to support either side. I don’t.
You just need to not be hypocritical and value all human lives and human rights equally. You need to stop supporting apartheid perpetuated by Israel.
The Palestinians don’t really need support from the West. They just need to not be blockaded and terrorized by Israel. And their land and water not stolen. All they need is equal protection under international law.
The Arab and Muslim countries and humanitarian organizations are more than willing and able to support them. Your support is not needed.
In the American context, such a stance will be characterized as being anti-semitic and supporting Hamas. But it isn’t. It’s just being consistent and impartial.
Many Israelis actually also have a similar stance. And they get accused of being traitors.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 1 year ago:
It’s a thing, but even the creationists debunk it.
The summary is that, ancient people did conceive of the sky to be solid, but the Bible itself never says so in unequivocal language.
One could interpret the word used for “firmament” as being synonymous with the atmosphere and interstellar space and the texts still make sense.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
Not much.
We can easily solve climate change. We have the technological capability to do it.
Once it gets bad enough, we will solve it.
Probably with cooling stratospheric aerosols for a few years to buy some extra time to make up for the lost time of the last three decades.
- Comment on Would eating raw human brains make you high? 1 year ago:
I think melatonin is more the exception than the rule.
Testosterone needs to be injected and has a very short half life.
A quick Google shows Dopamine also needs to be injected and has a half life of one minute, so is only used as an IV drip.
- Comment on Would eating raw human brains make you high? 1 year ago:
Tinanseer the first one:
My understanding is that it’s basically impossible to get these hormones through oral pathways.
Mostly because they break down in stomach acid or can’t cross the blood brain barrier.
And finally, if all that were solved, these hormones are typically short lived and are quickly lost.
Which is why, say you are low on dopamine. We don’t give people dopamine pills, but instead some other medicine that promotes higher levels of dopamine.
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
It actually started with WW1 when Britain promised both Jews and Palestinians their own state if they overthrew the Ottomans.
Before that, Ottoman rule was oppressive to both groups relatively equally for a few hundred years.
WW2 and the whole holocaust thing just turned it from a small problem into a big problem, as millions of European Jews sought a safe haven outside of Europe, leading to the creation of a religious ethnostate in 1948.
So yeah, Europeans definitely are to blame, but Arabs and Palestinians aren’t innocent either. They rejected a perfectly adequate solution by the UN in 1947.
- Comment on Simple, right? 1 year ago:
It’s reasonably insulated - above average for my location, but it does get cold in the winter.
Obviously, I’m only saving this heating fuel on the colder winter days.
- Comment on Simple, right? 1 year ago:
Yes, I do. It saves easily 50 kWh of natural gas consumption per day.
On the days nobody will be home, we just let the thermostaat on 13 degrees Celsius for the whole day. When we are home it’s 18 degrees during the day.
- Comment on Simple, right? 1 year ago:
This is the answer, I work in a corporate office that is heated regardless of whether I am present or not.
- Comment on Simple, right? 1 year ago:
In the winter, I emit more when I WFH.
At the office, I don’t need to heat my house. And my bike+train commute emits very little.
- Comment on I would like to enjoy Zelda BOTW but … 1 year ago:
This. I also remember being overwhelmed at the Great plateau, but I’m hindsight, it’s just a simple tutorial…
It just kind of sucks because there isn’t really any guidance. The key is to talk to the old man and read the book in his hut.
At the risk of almost spoiling it… they are trying to teach you the cooking mechanism, which is quite important in the game, but has quite a learning curve.
Once you get out of the great plateau, then the game really starts and boy is it big. Just enjoy the scenery and don’t get too focussed on quickly completing it.
I kind of regret rushing the game the first play through.
Eventually I played through it multiple times. It’s really, really good. But it does take a lot of time!